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A AERIAL Ropeway for Colliery—-we Coal, &c.» Kent Colliery

 Aerial Ropeway for Passenger Traffic up Mount
   Hood, Near Portland, Oregon, 355
 AERONAUTICS :

Aerial Survey by Seaplanes of Chittagong Hill Tract, 159 Aeroplane, D.H. Moth, Production Increase Would Reduce Price More than 50 Per Cont., 603 Aeroplane Engine Supercharger Submitted to Government Testa in Military Machines, 657 Air-cooled Aeroplane Engine, New', The “ Wright Cyclone,” United States Navy’s Successful Tests, 45

   Aircraft Apprentices, Vacancies, 137
   Aircraft Budding in Spain. 657
   Air Transport Between Tasmania and

Australian Mainland, Company’s Equipment, 551 AERONAUTICS {continued) : Royal Aero Club Sending Racing Seaplanes to Compete in Italian Waters, 241 AMERICAN Engineering Colleges and Engineering Research, 495 Ammonia, Synthetic, Plant of Lazote Inc., Projected Considerable Enlargement, 101 Ammonia, Synthetic Production of, in Various Countries, Comparison of Statistics, 101 Ammonium Compounds Accidental Explosion, Investigation into Fundamental Conditions Causing Such to Arise, 101 Andalusit, Mineral for Production of Heat- resisting Refractories, 327 Antwerp Port Equipment Greatly Increased, 495 Antwerp, Tenders for Three New Graving Docks, Proposed, 355 Arc Welding, Best Papers on. Money Given for Awards, 441 Argentina’s Projected Outlay on Now Port of Buenos Aires and other Works, 299 Artificial Silk not to be Manufactured in Japan, 129 Asbestos Mining and Kurunian Natives, 185 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES: ASSOCIATION or CONSULTING ENGINEERS : Annual Dinner, 225 ASSOCIATION OF DIESEL ENGINE USERS : February Meeting, Growth of the Association, 197 ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, BELFAST : Latest. Two-cycle Double-acting Oil Engine, J. Burdon, 370 ASSOCIATION OF SUPERVISING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS : W. E. Highfleld Shield, Competition Awards, 535

 INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :

Borough Council's Demand to Inspect Private Laboratory Illegal, 15 Forty-ninth Annual General Meeting, Supply of Chemists Exceeding Demand, 200 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES

    (continued) :
  INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
   Annual General Meeting, 140. 428

Autumn Meeting to ho Held at Glasgow, 311

   Invitation to Visit Spain in 1928, 522
   Annual Dinner, 140
   Carnegie Fund Grants, 140
   Programme of Proceedings, 428
   Bessemer Gold Medal Awards, 311
  INSTITUTE OF METALS :
   Annual Dinner, 283

Annual General Meeting in London and Autumn Meeting in Derby, Date Fixtures, 45 “Trade Alloys,” Compilation of Full List of, 365 INSTITUTE, ROYAL, OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS • Royal Gold Medal Award, 453

  INSTITUTION OF ('HEMICAL ENGINEERS :

Examinations for Associate Membership, 225 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

  INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
   Annual Dinner, 370

Annual General Meeting, Awards for Papers, 517

   Election of Officers and Council, 559

Heat Engine Trials Committee, Meeting, 611

  INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
   A.M.I.E.E. Examination, 32
   Award for Papers, 535

Electro-pneumatic Lamp, German, Very Old. 299

   Faraday Medal, Sixth Annual Award, 116

I. E.E. Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings. 697 Null Methods of Measuring Ratio and Phase Displacement of Two Alternating Voltages, 13. C. Chureher, 469 Summer Meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 481 Wireless Section Committee, 1927-28, Nominations to the Committee, 586 Wireless Works Laboratory, P. K. Turner, 629 INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS-IN-CHARGE : Twenty-seventh Annual Dinner, 397 INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIP - BUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :

   Joint Summer Meeting in Glasgow, 379

INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS :

   Summer Meetings at Bournemouth, 611
  INSTITUTION. JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
     Annual Dinner. 481
     Case Hardening. Percy J. Haler, 44

Iron Foundry Cupola, Efficiency of, Mr. Wolstenholme, 299

     J.	I.E. “ Old Brigade ” Meeting, 283
     Scientific Apparatus Exhibition, 213

Shock Absorber Units, Design and Construction. C. D. Holland, 469

     Unusual Gathering, 200

INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS : North-Western Branch : Machine Tools for Wheel and Axle Production, E. W. Tipple, 166

  INSTITUTION OF MINING ENGINEERS :
     Summer Meeting at Newcastle, 228, 697
  INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY :
     Annual Dinner, 222
     sXnmial General Meeting. 222
     Awards for Papers, &<x, 361

INSTITUTION OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS : YORKSHIRE DISTRICT :

     Competition and Prizes Offered. 240
  INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
     Annual General Meeting. 140
     Annual Dinner, 140

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

   Joint Summer Meeting in Glasgow. 370

INSTITUTION OF PUBLIC LIGHTING ENGINEERS :

   Conference to bo Hehl at Brighton, 370
  INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGI -
         NEERS:
Annual Meeting. Elections and Report, 168 Signalling System, New, at Charing Cross, Cannon-street and London Bridge, W. J. Thorowgood, 577
  INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
     Annual Meeting, 507

General Meetings and Elections, 174, 535, 671

     Reports and Elections, 507
  INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS :
     Annual Dinner. 559

Rrenforce Travelling Scholarship, 311 Examinations for Graduateship and Associate Membership, 674 Scholarship and Medals Awards for Competitive Design, 684

  SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :

Phenol-Aldehyde Resin, Product Possibilities and Difficulties, 327

  SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
     Premiums for Technical Papers, 684
  SOCIETY. ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING :
     Novel Form of Discussion, 327
  SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL :

Alteration of Rule for Chairman's Term of Office ; Re-election of Colonel the Master of Sempill, 547

  SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :

Competition of Industrial Designs, 1927, 463

  SOCIETY. ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL :

Wireless Transmission and the Upper Atmosphere, Dr. E. V. Appleton, 577 AUSTRALIAN Commonwealth Lighthouse Service, 45 Austrian State Highways, Reconstruction Planned. 441 Automatic Telephone Conversion, This Year’s Programme for London and Provinces. 269 Automatic Telephone Exchanges for Brisbane.

  To be Supplied by British Firm, 129 Automobiles, Output in Canada, 469

B BARRAGE on the Moldau near Prague, Preliminary Work, 15 Beet Production. Increase Necessary if the Industry is to become Successful, 159 Beet Sugar Corporation Factory at Cupar, Anglo-Scottish. Acreage Planned for Beet Growing. 331 Beet Sugar Factory for Lincolnshire. 159 Beet Sugar Factory Proposed for Bedfordshire, 657 Beira Harbour. East Africa. Dredging and Improvement, 413 Belfast Association of Engineers, Electrically Operated Ship’s Deck Machinery, W. E. Porter, 155 Belfast Harbour, Improvement of Quays, 469 Belgian Rails for South Africa, Reporter Rejection of More than 25 per cent, or Account of Defects. 269 Bengal and Need of Irrigation for Cultivatior of Land and Reduction of Malaria, 15 Billingham Works of Synthetic Ammonia am Nitrates. Extension Work Delayed by Coa Stoppage, 24 Birmingham Decides Against Acquiring Canals 241 Bituminous Sands of Northern Alberta to b< Used for Road Surfacing, 15 Blast-furnace (las and Recovery of Crude Cyanide. 269 Blasting Under Mining Conditions, Study am Investigation by U.S. Bureau of Mines. 101 Board of Trade and Ministry of Transport Rumours as to Work Readjustment, 79 Boiler Failures, Statistics and Boiler Insurance 101 Boiler Plates, Embrittlement of, Remedy Dis covered by Experiments, 551 Boiler Scale Formation, Report, 577 Boiler, Vertical, Failure, Official Report, 629 Boilers on Ships, Stopper Rods and Washers

 Board of Trade Warning. 45

Boron Oro Discovery in Majave Desert, Cali fornia, 327 Brazilian Factory for Chemical Treatment ol National Fibres, Manufacture of Rope, &c. Concession Asked for. 45 Brick Factory at East Beauport, Quebec Projected. 413 Brick-making Plant for 150,000 Bricks foi

 British Columbia, Whittaker and Co., 576

Bricks Made of Calcium Phosphate, 269 Bricks. Standard Size Fixed by Canadian Association. 327 BRIDGES Bridge Replacement Across the Coleron River, India, 355 Buffalo and Fort Erie ami Peace Bridge Connecting Canada with U.S.A., Opened, 657 ('haring Cross, Proposed Double-decker Bridge, 657 Cologne and Millheim Bridge over the Rhine to bo Built by Krupps, 75, 185 Cologne and Millheim Now Bridge, Prize Design Condemned by Experts, 469 ; Final Decision in Favour of Suspension Bridge, 577

 Cologne, New Bridge Over the Rhine, 75

Concrete Arch Highway Bridge, Series of Load Tests to be Carried out on, 603 Concrete Bridge in Durban North, Longest Erected by Private Enterprise, 129 Concrete Highway Bridge, Largest Yet Undertaken in United States, 495 Double-deck Bridge Over Clarence River, New South Wales, Fresh Tenders to be Invited, 15 International Bridge Across the St. Lawrence River Projected, 45; Project Rejected by Dominion House of Commons, 441 Lions’ Gate at Vancouver, Bridge Across, Projected, 355 Murray River Bridge at Echuca, Strengthening Completed, 629

 Murray River, New Bridge Projected, 71
 Nerbuddo Bridge, India, 577
 New Bridge Over the Clyde at Finnieston, 523

Niagara Falls, Bill for Construction of Bridge Opposed as Likely to Spoil Beauty of the Falls, 355 Port of New York. Projected Bridge to Connect Bayonne, N.J., with Staten Island, 241

 Projected Bridge Across the Danube, 159

Reinforced Concrete Bridge Across Minnesota River, Claimed as Record, 101 Sydney Harbour Bridge, Fourth and Last Bearing Completed for, 629 Timber Trestle Bridge near Tacoma, Washington, 523 BRITISH Columbia, Greatest Water Power Unit Yet Discovered, Reserved by Government, 355 BRITISH ELECTRICAL AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES’ RESEARCH ASSOCIATION :

 Sixth Annual Report, 174

British Empire Overseas, Research Relating to, 75 BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION :

     Specifications :
 Bull-head Rails, 253

Drawn Steel Reinforcement Bars, Proposed New Specification, 674 British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Exhibition, 383 British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Seventh Annual General Meeting. 611 ; Report, 629 British Optical Science. 566 Buenaventura Harbour, Agreement for Improvements at, 685 Surma Oil Company’s Agreement with Bugti Tribe in Beluchistan, 577 Burma, Sal in (’anal System to be Remodelled.

 Also Singan Swamp to be Reclaimed, 551

>ABLE. New Electric. Laid Between Boulogne and Sandgate, 355 'admium Production at United States Plants, 75 Calcutta and Bombay Telephone Connection nearly 1800 Miles in Ixmgth, 129 Canada, Forest Fires Damage Lust Year, 523 'anada, the Main Source of M orld’s Supply of Cobalt. 129 'anada’s Diamond Jubilee Commemoration, 75 'anada’s First Air Mail Service, 550 Anada’s Forests, Campaign for Protection from Fires, 469 ‘anadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Calgary Branch Extension. 129 'anadian and Uni toil States Co-operation in 1 nve^tigations Affecting the Mineral Industry, 603 'anadinn Vickers Company’s Busy Season. 101 anal. Direct, in Belgian Territory, from Meuse to Antwerp, Proposed, 657 Caimi, Hoover Commission Reports in Favour of the St. Lawrence Route for Canal from Croat Lakes to the Atlantic, 15 Carbon Monoxide, Contamination of Tunnel

 Air, Tests Made in U.S.A., 299

Cardington Airship Mooring Tower, 586 Caustic Soda and Chlorine, Factory for Manufacture of. Near Sydney, Australia, 129 Cellulose Acetate, Industrial Use of, in France, 629 Cement in Great Britain, Largely Increased Output., 413 Central Marine Engine Works, 143 Cheap Power, Booklet, Ruston and Hornshy, Ltd., 146 Chilo Starting Factory for Copper Wire to Secure Independence of Foreign Markets, 603 Chimneys of Reinforced Concrete, Vastly Superior in Wind Resistance to Brick or Steel, 15 Coal Liquefaction Plant and Calcium Nitrate Plant in Germany, 129 COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES : Barnsley Seam Reached at the New Upton Colliery, Near Doncaster, 657 Battery of Twenty Coke Ovens to be Put Up Near Barnsley, 383 Bedlington Coal Company, Extensive Improvements Involve Suspension of Work, 629 Bergins Process of Treating Coal, Dr. J. A. Roelofsen, 185 Bituminous Coal. Second International Conference, 326 Brazilian Government and Coal Mining, 185

 British Coal-raising Record. 213

British Columbia Coal Production in 1926, Reduced Amount, 269 By-products Works to Experiment on Low- temperature Carbonisation, 441

 Canadian Improved Coal Output, 213

Chimney Stack Razed to the Ground and Path-Head Colliery Dismantled, 159

 Coal Analysis. Report on, 413

Coal, Modern Methods of Using as Fuel. 383, Coal Seam Discovery in Newfoundland, 523 Coal Seam Reported Struck at Crosby, Cumberland, 97

 Coal Shipments from the Tyne, 213

Coals and Temperature at which Decomposition Begins, General Investigation in Progress, 603 Colliery Company Reopening in Lancashire. 159

 Colliery Wharf on the River Ouse, 213

Czechoslovakia Hard Coal Production Statistics for 1926, 241 Durham and Northumberland Coalfields, Physical and Chemical Survey of, 441 English and German Coal Markets Position During and Since the English Strike, 495

 Formosa, Output of Cool from, 577

France, Output of Coal and Pig Iron in January and February, 469 Gas Supply Over Long Distances Direct from Coal Pits, Question Under Consideration, 83 Hungary’s Slump in Coal Demand, Coalgetting Restricted, 355 Kent Colliery and Aerial Ropeway, Probable Closing of Colliery, 327 ; Revival of Scheme, Favourable Result Hoped for, 657 Koppers Continuous Vertical Chamber Coke Ovens, First Installation in this Country, 383 Low-temperature Carbonisation of Cofel on Large Scale Proposed for Canada, 441

 National Coal Resources, 342

Oil Shale, Distilling, Fushun Colliery Plant for, 434 Oil Shale Laboratory Work and Further Developments at Fushun Collieries, 469 Output of Coal from Mines of Great Britain, 21 Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company, Ltd., Appointment of Managing Director, 45 Pulverised Coal for Scotch Marine Boilers, Favourable Result of Laboratory Tests, 653 Safety in Coal Mining. Problems, 629 Scam of Coal Found During Well Sinking, Near Leamington, 551 Seaharn Harbour, New Coal Pit Projected, 667 Sinking Progress at New Colliery at Upton, 213 South .African Coal Industry, Natal Sdbtion, Crippled for Lack of Railway Rolling Stock, 15 South Australia, Coal and Lignite Resources of. 213

 Soviet Union Sinking New Coal Shafts, 551

Union of South Africa’s Coal Output in November, 1926, 269 United States Statistics of Coal Mine Fatalities in 1926. 241 Weinyss Coal Company’s Shaft. Record Diameter. 629 COLD Storage Warehouse, Large. Projected Construction for Benefit of British Columbia Fruit Crop, 15 Collapse of Tank and Tower Duo to Removal of Rod Connections, 159 Colonial Scientific and Research Service. 685 Columns Having H-shaped Sections. Testing of Different Types of Construction, 101 Commercial Motor Users Association, Annual London Motor Parade, 228 Compressed Air System, Transmission Losses in, 657 Concrete Construction, Novel System for Houses at Cambridge, 383 Concrete, Result of Heat Test. Effects, 15 Concrete Slab Lowered by Means of Melting Ice Blocks. 523 Congo, Cataract Region of. to be Made Navigable for Large Steamers, 75 Congress on the Explosion Engine, 618 Congress of Gas Engineers, Coke Oven Managers anti Fuel Section of Society of Chemical Industry Postponed, 159 Continental New Steamship Route. French Steamers and L.M. and S. Railway, 441 Copper Mines, Allihies, Berehaven, Co. Cork, Work Resumed. 355 Copper Ore Raised by Union Mini ere du Haut Katanga, 129 Copper Pipe Explosion, Probable Cause of, 551 Corona Discharge During Cracking of Oils. 185 Corrosion, An Interesting Case of, in Adelaide, H. E. Bellamy. 45 Crane Accident, Unusual, 413 ude Petroleum Refining in Great Britain* 441 ystal Detectors. Rectifying Action of, 551 itting Speed of a Diamond Bit Used in Oilfields. 45 ’.echoslovak Projected Fund for Road Im provement on Large Scale, 299 AM Building in Record Time, but at Record Cost, 269 amming the Water of Three Lakes m Quebec. Plans Submitted. 45 »ead Sea Mineral Contents, Estimated Value of. 523 »eath of Colonel H. G. Prout, 241 letonation in an Engine Using Liquid Fuel. 185 liamonds, Black, and White or Borts* 15 ?iesol Engine Burning Whale Oil, 213 iiesel Engines versus Steam Turbines, Result of Costs Calculation, 185 lock Facilities, Possible Establishment of, on the River Tees, 694 loulton’s Manufacture of Stoneware Drainage Pipes Transferred from Lambeth to Erith, 577 >redger Breakdown at Bombay, Result of Investigation, 551 >urban Technical College Extensions, 327 AST London. South Africa. Projected Turning Basin 1000ft. Square, 551 lelipse of the Sun, Total, Lantern Lecture. 538 Idinburgh and Glasgow Section of New Arterial LECTRICAL MATTERS Alternating Voltages, Measuring Ratio and Phase Displacement, R. C. Churcher, 469 Assisted Wiring Scheme Increases Customers. 495 Atmosphere and the Variation in Electric- Field, 129 Auxiliary Hot-water Heating System in Electric Houses at Glasgow, 129 Basingstoke Electricity Works. 314 British Columbia's Electric Development, 185 British Electrical Development Association

   Annual Dinner. 339

Calcutta Big Power Station, First of Three Turbines Started Up, 101 Capo Town Electricity Undertaking, Proposed Extensions, 519 ; and Expenditure on- 603 o Carolina Company Installing Electric Storage Batteries, each Weighing 100,000 1b., 15 Columbia Power Station Remarkable Operating Results, 469 County of London Electric Supply Company, New Engineer-in-Chief, 577 Design and Balancing of Three-phase, Low- tension Systems. W. Fordham Cooper, 603 Destructive Insects Destroyed by Electric Light, 241 Distributors of Too .Small Area, Needless Expense Caused by Replacement to Meet Increasing Demand, 523 Electrical Blasting from a Circuit. Needfu. Precautions, 159

 Electric Crucible Furnace, First
   Country, 355

Electrical Generating Plant Extension at Beckton Works, 213

 Electrical Industry in the U.S.A., 213

Electric Motor Breakdown. Interesting Case of. 495

 Electric Trolley Bus, 298

Electricity from Coke Oven Gas. Staveley Coaland Iron Company’s Progress, 15

 Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926. 113

Extra High-tension Systems. Fourth Conference on, 15 . French Regulations as to I se of Electrical Equipment Underground. 241 Fukien Province of China, Electricity Supply for Kulangsu, 15 German Use of Electricity. Report of the Industry, 629 Ghent, New Central Electricity Station Completed, 299 Hackney Electricity Committee. I roposed Extensions* 551 Heating. Electric, in Strasbourg. Great Increase in Consumption, 185

 House Heating by Electricity, 75

Hull. Quebec’, Ample Supply of Electric Energy for any Industry, 413 Industrial Electric Heating Load in I mted States, 495 Insulating Material. Valuable Discovery, Professor A. I. X offe* 269 International High-tension Transmission Congress, the Fourth, to bo held in Paris, 523

 Italy. Large Transformers in Use, 629

Kootenay River. British Columbia. New Generating Station, 383 Large Electric Generators for Southern California, Unusual Design, 241 Liverpool Power Station, Second Large Generating Sot to be Installed, 101 Low-tension Supply Appliances, 495 Melbourne Electrical Exhibition. 551 Mercury-Arc Rectifier, Automatic, Substation at Verdun, Quebec, 241 Mica, Chief Use in Electrical Industries 577 Moffatt Tunnel Rock Removal by Shot Fired by Electric Current at Washington, 277 Moscow Report on Electrification of the Donetz Biwin, 269 1200-Kdowatt Oil-driven Plant at Ashford, Position of Small Stations. 469 Power Plant, 50,000-Kilowatt. Proposed for Supply of Electricity to Canberra, Australia, 450 Power Transmission Line. High-voltage, between Montiers and Lyons. Underground Cable Installed for a High Section of the Line, 603 Pumps, Electrically Driven, for Irrigation, 43 Restaurant with all Heat. Light and Power Derived from Electricity. 80

  Safety Lamp, New Electric Type, 213

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) : Salmon River. Idaho. Horse-power Development Anticipated. 269 Secondary Batteries in Warships, Restricted Use of. 469

 Shannon Electricity Supply Bill, 299

Society Electricpie du Nord-Ouest, Prosperous Financial Year, 558 South Africa. Increase in Imports of Elec- . trical Machinery, 551 Southend Suggests Electricity Power Station Erection on Canvey Island, 269 Swellendam, South Africa, Electric Lighting Scheme for. 129

Tasmanian Hydro-electric Supply System. Great Increase in Number of Consumers, 101

Towers for Transmission Line from the Shannon to Dublin, 213 Turbo-alternator Set, 20,000-Kilowatt, Alternator for, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 87 Turbo-alternator Set, 25,000-Kilowatt, for Liverpool, Installation Followed by Order for Second Similar Set, 299 Victorian State Electricity Commission, Various Extensions and Undertakings, 261

 Welding Electrode, New Tpye, 495

West Midland Electricity Scheme for Area of 1095 Square Miles, 159 ELECTROLUX Works, Luton, 592 Electro platers* and Depositors* I'echoica! Society, Electro-deposited Coatings for Prevention of Corrosion, H. Sutton, 158 ; Electro-deposition of Iron, T. Jolmston, 256 Elevator for Canada. Largest Single-working Constructed in One Unit, 685 Empire Sugar, 428 " Engineer ” Degree to Involve Nine Years’ "Work, 45 Engineers’ League Challenge Shield for Rifle Shooting, 29 Excavation of Submarine Pipe Trench, 75 EXHIBITIONS : A.E.G. Transformer Works. Berlin, Plant for New Treatment of Oil, 657 British Industries Fair, 45 ; American Buyers to Obtain Remission of Feo on Passport Visa to Great Britain, 45 Como, Exhibition, Commemorative Centenary, 101 Exhibition of Results of Recent Research Work on Adhesives Application, 15 International Foundry Exhibition to be Organised in Paris, 657

  Melbourne Electrical Exhibition, 551
  Melbourne, Exhibition of British Goods, 181
  Milan Sample Fair. 228

Model Railway Club Annual Exhibition. 469 North-East Coast Industries Exhibition

    Postponed, 327
  Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 222
  Royal Dublin Society’s Spring Show at
    Ball's Bridge, 159
 Scientific Apparatus Exhibition. 213

Street Lighting Appliances Exhibition at Brighton, 197 Trade Exhibition at Manchester of Modern Power Efficiency Machinery, 241 EXPLOSION of Hot Plate and Needful Precautions, Board of Trade Comments. 15 Explosion of a Stenin Trap, 75 Explosion of Tube in Steam-heated Oven.

  Surveyor’s Report, 629

F FACTORY’, Crosse and Blackwell, to be Used for Artificial Silk Manufacture, 129 Failure of Old Gauge (Bass Fitting on Board a

  Steam Drifter, 15

Fairs—nee Exhibitions Faraday House Electrical Engineering College

  Entrance Scholarships, 425

Federated Malay States to Import Dredgers for

  Flood Prevention Work, 241

Federation of British Industries Meeting, 314 Fertiliser from Vegetable Refuse, Scheme for

  Production at Birmingham, 327

Furnish Manufacture of Gunpowder and Nitro-cellulose, 241 Fire in Chemical Works and Use of Ammonia Gas. 75 Fires. Carbon Bisulphide, Necessary Precaution in Use of Water for Extinction, 269 Fishing Industry. Recovery of By-products, 327 Flame Movement, The Study of, O. C. de C.

  Ellis. 469

Forest Products Research Laboratory. Paper on Movement of Moisture Through Wood. 15 Fracture of Quartz by Heat, Result of Laboratory Experiments, 241 France. Output of Coal and Pig Iron in January and February, 469 “ Frigorifico ” nt South Dock, Buenos Aires, Most Up-to-date Cold Storage, 327 Fruit in Cold Storage and Temperature Precautions, 213 Fruit Storage in Gas, Experiments. 523 Fuel Research ami By-products, 75 G GALVESTON Bay. Coast Submergence. 159 Garbage, Household, New Method for Recovery of Valuable Products from, 129 Gas Welding for Chromium Alloys, 555 Gasworks, Dawsholm, Glasgow, Projected Extension of, 129 Germany, Reported Projected Company to Study Problem of Long-distance Production of Gas from Lignite. 551 Gold Find, Very Rich, on Western Shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza, 355 Gold Output from South African Mines in 1926. 159. 185 Gold. Particles of, New Electrical Device for Reclaiming, 355 Gold Recovery from Cleaning Up of Old Plant in Abandoned South African Mine, 523 Gold Yield of New South Wales for 1926, 355 Gun-laying in Warships, Device for Reducing

 Effects of Rolling and Pitching. 355

H HAIFA and Baghdad. Transport Service Projected. 185 Harbour Works in Spain. 657 Heat Insulating Materia! with Cork as Basis. 355 Heat Transfer to Heavy Oils in Steam Heaters.

 Result of Experiments, 577

Herne Bay Waterworks, Centrifugal Bore hole Pump, 15 High-speed Steel Hacksaw Blades. Sir W. G.

 Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., 253

Highway Engineering, Chair of, at London University, 685 Hull. Alexandra Dock Gates Reconstruction, 413 Hume Reservoir. Australia. Threatened with Extinction, Urgent Need of Improved Management, 603 Hydraulic Accumulators. Advantage of Using Air Pressure Instead of Dead Weight for Loading, 14 Hydro-electric Development of Canada, 129. 383 Hydro-electric Development of Switzerland, 629 Hydro-electric Installation on Batiscan River, Canada, Particulars of, 666 Hydro-electric Plant in California, 60in. Penstock for, 355 Hydro-electric Plants, Very Large, on Winnipeg River, 355, 413 Hydro-electric Power Plant Construction on the Saluda River. Platts by Lexington Water Power Company. Columbia. 355 Hydro-electric Power Station at Meso. Inauguration by Crown Prince of Italy. 657 Hydro-electric Scheme. Mandi, India, 'funnel Piercing to Begin. 523 Hydro-electric Scheme on Susquehanna River, Maryland. Progress of. 15 Hvdro-elert ric Schemes in Victoria. Australia. 551 Hydro-electric Schemes at Zurich, in the Enga- dine, and the Lower A are River, 211 I ICEBERGS, High Temperatures for Rapid Destruction of, 603 Ijinuiden, North Sea Port. Now Lock to he Largest in the World. 129 Impact of Light Effects and Value of Attention to them, 241 Indian Road and Transport Development Association, 280 India's Surfeit of Self-termed Engineers, 129 Industrial Liverpool. 531 Industry. New, tor Manufacture of Megans into

 Building Boards. AT.. 101

Ingot Mould. Huge Size of, 383 Institutes and Institutions—Associations International Commission on Illumination.

 Meeting at Bellagio, 586

International Conference on Large Electric High-tension Systems. 481 Irish Engineering and Foundry Firm Completes Ninety-six Years of Continuous Activity. 15 Irish Free State’s Road Grant, 269 IRON AND STEEL

 Ashton Mechanical Iron Puddling Process.
    635

Blast-furnaces, I<lle for \cars, Being Blown in. 383 Cast Steel, Alternating Stress Fatigue Tests. Professor H. F. Moore, 15

 Cobalt Steel Magnets, Super Cast, J. F.
    Kayser, 45
 Electrodeposition of Iron. T. Johnston, 256
 European Steel Cartel’s Output, 269

Foundry Moulds and Cores. Nitride .Application to Surface of, a great Advantage. F. Bickowsky, 45 Gamngara Manganese Corporation Formed in South Africa. 577 Gaseous Reduction of Iron Ore, Mr. Heihachi Kamura, 523 Heat Treatment of Steel. Recent Experiments. 657 Ilmenite-bearing Iron Ores. New Use for, 213 Indian Tariff Board Report and Steel Industry Protection. 185 Ingots of Basic Open-hearth Steel. Huge Size, 629 Iron Deposits Discovered in Mountains of County Leitrim. 159 Iron Oro from Hudson Bay Island to be Tested in England. 159

 Iron Smelting. New Electrical Process of, 383
 Iron and Steel Industry in Pretoria, 129
 Manganese Deposits in Kurutnan District.
    South Africa. 462

Manganese Ores Research in the United States, 523

 Manganese Steel Railway Crossings. 413

Maple Leaf Steel Mills, Development on Large Scale of Iron and Steel Manufacture, 15

 Molybdenum Used in Steel, New Method, 383

Mysore Ironworks, Scheme tn Utilise Byproducts, 685 National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Reports : Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 185 Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production in January. 185 Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in February. 299 Furnaces in Blast. Pig Iron and Stool Production, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in March, 413 Furnaces in Blast. Pig Iron and Steel Production, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in April, 577 Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Pro duction, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in May. 657 Orc Extraction from Mounds Near Cleveland Ironstone Mines, 213 Pig Iron Imports into the United States in 1925, 269 Pig Iron, New and Valuable Type in Norway. 129

 Record Steel Output, 213
 IRON AND STEEL (continued) :

South Africa, Sub-Continent. Major Occur- ences of Iron Ore. 419 South Australia, Production of Iron Ore, Statistics, 685 South Russian Steel Works Tube Mill and Steel Plant. 383 Steam Pipes, Cast Iron, for High Pressures, Need of Great Care to Secure Even Thickness of Metal, 503

   Steel, British and American, Compared, 45

Steel Pipes Manufacture in Factory Projected at Vereeniging, S.A.. 81 Steel Production by New Furnace at Cardiff. A British Record. 523 Steel Protection Bill in Indian Legislative Assembly, 129 Steel Sections, Arc-welded. Better than Cast Iron for Machine Parts* J. F. Lincoln, 603 Swedish Iron Industry, Government Measures for Support, 685 Swedish Ironworks Collaboration in Technical Research Work, Extension of, 685 Technological Laboratory in American Steel Industry, 495 United States Iron Ore Mining Statistics for 1926, 100 IRRIGATION Project Submitted to Mexican Government, 523

 Irrigation Pumps, Electrically Driven, 13

J JAPAN’S Total Disappearance into the Pacific

   Predicted if Earthquakes Continue, 413

Johannesburg Municipal Gasworks, 185 Jubilee of Service, 29 KAURI Timber Industry of New Zealand ami

  Use of Waste Wood, 495

L LANDSLIDES in South Wales, Professor G. Knox, 413 Lead and Copper Production in the United States in 1925 and 1926, 129 Lead Discoveries in Kiaochow and at Tsian, Fengtien Province, 241 Lead Mine, Derelict for Nearly Eighty Years, Reopened on Discovery of Rich Vein, 355 Lead Mine, Western Australia, New Treatment Plant Completed, 441 Lead Mines Near Harrogate Reopened, 159 Lead Mining Industry in Wales, Attempted Re vivid, 269 Lead Producing Field in South-West Africa, Hopeful Prospect from, 185 Lenham By-pass. Concrete Road, Officially Opened. 413 Liege-Antwerp Canal, Direct. Proposed. 685 Lime Whitewash for Brickwork of High Temperature Industrial Furnaces, E. P. Arthur and Others, 495 Limestone Removal by' Mining Superior to Quarrying. 383 Lincoln Cathedral Repairs. Fresh Defects Discovered, 327 Load Tests on a Concrete Arch Highway Bridge, 603 Loughborough College, British Empire Scholarships Awards. 592 Lubricants. Good, from Certain Crude Oils.

  Tests in .America. 441

Lubricants, G. W. Watson. 355 Lubrication Problems. 535 M MACHINE Tool Home Trade Slowly Recovering, 495 Machine Tool Trades' Association, Annual Dinner. 339 Madras Hydro-electric Schemes and Railway Electrification in South India. Government Committee to be Appointed, 159 Magnesite Beds in Manchuria. 75, 213 Magneto, The High-tension, with Tungsten Contacts. 441 Manchester’s Lark of Light and Excessive Deposit of Foreign Matter from Atmosphere. | Manhattan Island Excavation, Island's Value Now and 300 Years Ago. 450 Manitoba, Highway Construction Programme, 413 Marlow Lock Reopened After Reconstruction. 409 Measurement of Air Flow in Mines, 355 Merchandise Marks Act, 1926, 367, 400 Mercury Obtained in Distillation of Coal Tar. 413 Mercury, Selling Price of, Negotiations Between Spanish and Italian Governments, 269 Mersey Tunnel, Now. Settlement Reached as to Birkenhead Entrances, 469 Metallic Alloys, Reported Discovery of Three New, 523 Metrovick Carnival, 397 Mexico City and Acapulco, Highway Between, Extensive Scheme Planned. 603 Mino Ventilation Problems, C. F. Raney. 355 Mineralogical Analyses. Varieties in Chemical Investigation. 327 Mines Accidents Statistics for 1926, 213 Mining Prospects in Canada, Dr. Adam Shortt, 383 Molybdite, Two New Leaching Methods for Recovery of, 129 Montevideo Scheme for Construction of the Rambla Sud (South Sea Wall:. 241 Montreal, Port of. Further Expenditure on Development, 15 Monument to Eiffel Projected in Paris, 159 Motor Road Proposed Between Genoa, Milan and Hamburg, 101 Motor Transport Growth in Southern Rhodesia, 241 Motor Vehicle Increase in India and Ceylon, Creation of Central Road Board and other Measures Proposed, 101

   Mysore State Industries, Experiments, 685

N I NATAL Sugar Industry and Alcohol Production as Motor Spirit, 269

 | Natural Gas for Lifting Oil from Deep Oil Wells,
  Natural Graphite. Chief Uses of. 657

Newfoundland Mining Industry Revival Possible, 213 New Zealand Invites Tenders for Electric Locomotives, Machinery and Material from British Firms, 269 New Zealand’s Variety of Heavy Orders Placed in United Kingdom, 327 Newsprint Factory Projected at Port Arthur, Ontario, 355 Newsprint Factory at Winnipeg, Projected Increase, 356 Newsprint Mills at Bathurst. New Brunswick, 355

  Newsprint Production in Canada, 603

Nigeria’s Road and Railway Construction Programme, 327

  Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Government Aid in
   Brazil in Erection of Factory for Fixation, 75
  North /Australia Needs Works Engineer, 603
  Nova Scotia. Wealth in Gypsum Shipped to the
   United States, 441

o

 OIL from Alaska. Poor Prospect of, 185

Oil, Commercial Production of. by Hydrogenation of Brown Coal, 383

 Oil. Crude, Production in Tasmania, 159
 Oil Discovery Near Grand View, Canada. 129

Oil Drilling Operations. Analysing Underground Waters Encountered, 685 Oil Recovery in Large Quantities by the Bowie- Gavin Process, 159 Oil Removal from Steam Engine Condenser Water, Professor Dijkshoorn, 269 Oil Sand and “ Tar Spring ” Accessible Deposits in Canada and in California, 129

 Oil Shale. Valuable Discovery in Lomiuimav
   Valley, Chili, 523
 Oil Shale—aee alto Coal
 Oils and Lubricants, Specifications for India
   Stores Department. 185
 Oldest Engineering Firm. 312

Ontario Association of Professional Engineers, •Annual Meeting, 185 Ontario Road Construction Schemes, 383 Ontario’s Wealth in Valuable White ami Red Pine. 383 Oxygen, Percentage Necessary to Keep in Good Health, 299 P | PAINT Spraying Machines for Clyde Shin. 269^8' on Employers’ Proposals. Palestine’s Interest in Dead Sea Concession for Extraction of Potash, 495 Panama and Suez Canals Traffic Comparison. 185 Paper. High Quality. Successful Production from State Forests Bamboo. Bombay. 685 Paper Pulp Manufacture in Tasmania, Expert- mental Plant. 685 Paper Pulp Mill Projected on Vancouver Island, 185 Past and Present Crewe Pupils’ Thirty-seventh Annual Dinner. 618 Patent Prolongation of Five Years. 159 Pavement, Double, Type Being Used in Paris, 629 Petrol, Synthetic, and Other By-products from Spitzbergen Coal, Factory "for Production. 523 Petroleum Industry Losses Due to Formation of Water in Oil Emulsions, 15 Petroleum in Okla, U.S.A., Very Large Increase in Production by New Method, 45 Petroleum Operations at Infantas, Colombia, Success Results. 129 Petroleum Pipe Lines in the United States, 185 Petroleum Reserves of America, Deeper Drilling Believed to be Best Solution for Supply, 101 11 ? Phenolic. Products Removal from Effluent Liquors from Distillation of Gasworks Ammonia, 383 Platinum Concentrates in South Africa. Output of, 577 Platinum Discovery in Quebec. 657 Platinum and Palladium Recovery while Refining Nickel-copper Matte, 657 Platinum, Rich Deposit Discovered in Province of Quebec, 327 Plumbago Industry. Flagging, in Ceylon, 577 Portland Cement, British Rapid-hardening.

 for Re-paving of Broadway. New York. 523 Portuguese Government Plans for Good Roads, 502

Potash Salts Reserves. Russian Geological Mission Investigation Report, 523 Power Alcohol Manufacture on the Queensland Sugar Fields, 241 Power Alcohol Plant Near Mackay, Queensland, Large Capacity of, 355 Power Generation and Distribution. Commission of Inquiry Appointed by Saskatchewan Government, 4)3 Power Provision to Replace Diesel Plant bv , Harnessing Umtata Falls, South Africa, 355 Presentation to Professor Dempster Smith. 425 Prince Edward Island, Expenditure on Harbours and Rivers, 603 Printing Trades and Illumination Research Committee’s Report, 299 Professor D. A. Low, Complimentary Dinner to, Pulp and Paper Mill Plant Proposed for Erection on Vancouver Island, 657 Pulp and Paper Mill Projected for Prince George, British Columbia, 45 Pulp and Paper Production in Canada, Notable Industry, 189, 327 Pulpwood and Water Power Resources of Quebec, Development, 213 Q QUARRY Managers’ Institution, Annual Conference, 225 Quebec and Northern Ontario, Record Gold

 Production Anticipated, 413

Quebec Rivalling Ontario and British Columbia as a Metal-producing Province, 129 R RADIUM Recovery After Passing Through Destructor Fires, 269 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :

  Accidents ??

Accident Inquiries Affected by the Strike and Coal Stoppage in 1926, 213 Anniversary of General Strike and Serious Accidents, 523 Collision, Due to Fog, Between Light Engine and Passenger Train, Report and Recommendation, 101 Collision Between Freight Trains, Inquiry and Report, 684 Collision at Gale St. Halt, on Tilbury Section, Report on Causes, 603, 685

Collision Between Light Engine and Passenger Train Near Birmingham, 159 Collision with Light Engine at Penistone Station, 241, 269

Collision of Scottish Express with Light Engine, 551 Collision, Serious, on Bengal-Nagpur Railway, 327 Collision at Sheffield Station, Result of Inquiry. 629 Collision Between Train and Motor Car at Unprotected Level Crossing, Report on, 413 Derailment hut Little Damage on Express from Manchester to York, 101 Fatal Accident to Driver on the L. and N.E.R., Report, 411 Fiftieth Anniversary of Remarkable Accident, 355

    Finsbury Park Accident Report , 628

.Government- Inquiries into Accidents, 148 ’Hull Railway Disaster Inquiry, 213, 24 1. 327 Mishaps and Delayed Trains on the Southern and Metropolitan District Lines, 101 O< cupation Crossing Fatality Near Tottenham, 241 Past Years, Analysis of Accidents in the Present Century, 15 Report oit Accident at Roudhain, Ancient Regulations Still in Force, Bridge Recommended, 469 Report on Collision on the Southern Railway, 159 Report on Derailment Caused by Broken Brake Hanger, 218 Report on Derailment Outside Charing Cross Station After Re-signalling of Yard, 245

    Report on Rawmarsh Fatal Collision, 327

Royal Commission Railway Accidents Report Fifty Years Ago, 159 Runaway Carriages Derailed and Damaged on Rishworth Branch, 129 Thirty-third Anniversary of Bad Accident, 625 American Interstate Bureau of Safety, Exception to General Good Will, 184

  Anti-friction Clips for Switches, 159

Antioquia Railway, Projected Tunnel Between Santiago and Limon, 75 Appointments and Staff Changes, 75. 382, 523, 603, 662, 693 Australian Losses on Steam Tramways at Certain Centres to bj Abolished as Nonpaying Concerns, 101 Australian North-South Transcontinental Extension. First Sod Turned. 101 Automatic Signalling on the Great Northern Railway of America, Various Records of the Railway, 101 Automatic Train Control. New System on Reading—New Jersey—Railroad, 75 Automatic Train Control. Trial of New Switch to Cut Off Battery Automatically. 101 Avonmouth Light Railway Transferred from Private Ownership, 441 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Locomotives, Repainting and Re-naming, 469 Becontree Housing Scheme and Railway Extension Question, 185 Belgian Rails Supplied to South Africa, Considerable Proportion Rejected, South African Trade with the Empire, 299 Birthday Honours for Engineers and Industrialists, 629

  Bridges—t>ec Separate Heading

Britain and Japan, Exchange of Courtesy, 685 British Columbia Electric Railway Plant, 185 ; (Letter), 559 British Railways Handicapped by Smallness of Goods Consignments. 413 Burmah Desires State Management of its Railways, 383 Buxton and Ashby Light Railway Closed Down. 241 Calais and Brussels. New Train to Connect with 11 a.m. Train from Victoria. 248 Canadian National Railways, Engineers’ Report on Proposed Route for New Line, 629 Canadian National Railways Improved Position. 383 Canadian National Railways, Programme for Construction of Branch Lines, 355 Canadian National Railway's Steady Financial Improvement, 15 Canadian Northern National Railways, Earnings in 1926, 185 Canal, Kennett and Avon, Question of its Future, 185 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): Central of New Jersey Railway New Bridge, 75, 677 Channel Tunnel Question, Scheme Opposed by all Parties, 603 Coal Stoppage and Wagon Supply Trouble, 213 Colombia, Survey on Section of the Puerto Witches Railway, 495 Compensation Money Paid to Railways. 269 Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 685 Cost of Living Figure and Extra Shilling for Railwaymen, 15 Court House Station. Changes of Ownership and Rolling Stock on Various Midland County Railways, 75

 Danger of Using Boards Left on a Roof, 15
 Death of Mr. George Deuchars, 441
 Death of Mr. W. T. Foxleo, 383
 Death of Mr. George A. Mountain, 327
 Death of Mr. J. H. E. Secretan, 45

Dividend Reduction and Withdrawals from Reserve Funds on all the Principal Railways, 213 Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway Sold to Tramways Company, 629 East London, Transit Accommodation in. Suggested Postponement of Further House Building. 101, 185 Egyptian Government Railways Now* All Standard Gauge, 657 Electric Railways in the Ruhr and Westphalian District, Doubtful Scheme, 577

 Finance Statistics of Four Great Lines. 657

Foreign Coal Contracts Necessitate Further Large Transferences from Reserved Funds, 213 Foreign Coal Imports and Shortage of Wagons 15 German Railway Students Touring English Railways, 495 Great Indian Peninsular Railway, Projected Independent Electric Power Station. 101 Great Northern Engine No. 1 Placed in York Museum, 383 Great Southern Railways of Ireland. Alterations in Signalling Operation at Killarncy .1unction, Kingstown. &c., 412

 Great Western Railway :

Junction, Old Oak Common, for Wycombe Line, Improvement. Projection. 495 Kennett and Avon Canal, Abandonment Decision Modified, 185 I,and Taken Over on Lease from G. W.R. by Patent Fuel Company. 277 Mineral Wagons, 20-Ton, Rebate of Charges to be Allowed for Use of Such, 129 Newton .Abbot Station Opened After Rebuilding, 441 Newton Abbot Station, Souvenir of Brunel, 577 Plymouth, Overseas Mails Arriving to be Handled by Belt Conveyor Instead of by Men. 495 Up and Down Lines for Engines and Empty Stock, 299

   Wages Bill of the Company, 629

Guaranteed Week for Railwaymen Being Gradually Restored, 213

 Harbin Electric Tramway Extension, 15

Heavy Outlay of Four Larger Companies Last Year on Engines and Rolling Stock, 383 Hudson Bay Railway Completion, Question of Choice of Termini, 469 Hull, Alexandra Dock Gates Reconstruction, 413 India, Class I. Railways. Locomotives and Rolling Stock Equipped with or Piped for Vacuum Brake, 15 Irish Mails between London and Belfast. Holyhead-Kingstown Route Restored, 469, 657 Irish Mails for Ulster. Suggested Change from Kingstown to Killough Harbour. County Down. 355 Irish National Wages Board, Chairman's Resignation. 629 Irish Railway Companies Financial Returns. 269 Italy, Increase in Length of Electrified Railways, 603 Johannesburg, Cost of New Railway Station Extensions, 327 Jointly Owned and also Light Railways.

   Exceptional Legislation for, 523

Largest Passenger Locomotive (Correction), 26 Level Crossings, Occupation, or Otherwise.

   Parties Responsible. 351

Locomotive for Mine Haulage. Most Powerful in the World, 657 Locomotives, High Power. ” Mountain “ Type Built by Spanish Firm. 657

 London Electric Railways Company :

Enlarged Station in Piccadilly Circus, Oneway Traffic Difficulties, 101 Lighting, Concealed. Experiment on Piccadilly Railway, 577 Liverpool Overhead Railway Supplied with Electric Power. 685 London Site Wanted by One Railway, but Bought by Another. 299

   Morden Terminus Motor Garage. 185

Unusual Incident Causes Holding-up of Trains, 213

 London. Midland and Scottish Railway :

Ancient History, Midland Company and Scottish Policy, 603 Automatic Signalling. Cause of Delay, 269 Belfast Steamship Service of the Company to be Transferred from Fleet wood and Centred Wholly on Heysham, 693 Caprotti Steam Valves Reported to be Adopted for Locomotives. 441 Coleraine-Port rush Deviation to Port- stewart, 523 Estimates of Expenditure on Capita! Account, 241 L.M. and 8. New Train and Steamship Service to the Continent end Tilbury and Dunkirk. 469

   Naming of Some Long-distance Trains, 68

New Administration by Four Vice-Presidents, 15 New All-steel Passenger Coaches and Projected New Locomotives, 101 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): London, Midland and Scottish Railway (continued) : Non-stop Run Between Euston and Scotland, 685 Passenger Brake Vans, New Type, 240 Railwaymen’s Investments in Railway Stock, 629 Rates Increase to be Imposed Cautiously, 355 Road, Motor and Railway Working, Appeal to the Government as to Adjustment of Expenses, 276 Seventy-five New’ Coaches for Service in London Area, 495 Sidings. Increased, for Handling Coal Traffic. 75 Suggestions Made by Staff, Bureau Started at Euston, 413 Water Troughs Laid Down in Scotland for Long Non-stop Runs, 15, 159 ; Change of Plans Projected, 551 ; Misconception and Explanation, 45

  London and North-Eastern Railway :

Bridge Collapse Interferes with Traffic. 299 Expenditure Charged to Capital, Varying Practice of Different Railways, 269 Foreign Coal Contracts as Provision Against Possible Railway Stoppage, 355 Future of British Railways, Sir Ralph

      Wedgwood, 441

Great Eastern Railway’s Goods Traffic, 495 Hull Roads, Level Crossings Over, Cost of

      Suggested Abolition, 577

King’s Cross to Newcastle at 1.15 a.in., 299 Lincoln, Level Crossing, Questions in House of Commons, 383 Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works AU on Full Time, 364 Locomotive Coaling Plant, New Mechanical, Its Cost, 327 Marshalling Yard Enlargement at White- moor, 129 ; Cost of Improvements, 327 Naworth Disaster, Recommendations to be Adopted, 299 Passenger Vehicles, Order for Additional Construction, 441 Potters Bar Complaint of Unpunctuality and its Result, 269 Report for 1926, Variation in Certificates, 269 Signalling System, Special Type, to he Introduced on L. and N.E. Railway, 213 Timing of Summer Trains as in Former Years. 657 Traffic Control Office at King's Cross, 551 Trains No Longer Running Between Mary* lebone and Watford, Metropolitan to Take Over Service, 129 Two Locomotive Items of Interest, 413 Walton-on-the-Nazc, Proposed Diversion to Avoid Erosion, 413 Mersey Railway Company Statistics fur 1926, 250 Metropolitan Railway Additional Expenditure of Capital on Rolling Stock, 213 Housing Scheme at Becontree, 185 Metropolitan Railway to Supply Additional Service from Watford to Replace L. and N.E.R., 129 Neasden Power-house Improved Equipment, 213

     Reduced Dividend, 159

Revenue from Letting Premises on Railway Stations, 355

   Ministry of Transport :
     Annual Railway Returns, 75

Inquiries into Serious Accidents, Statistics of. 448 Minister of Transport Congratulated by his Labour Predecessor, 551 New Standard Charges, Date for Operation to Begin, 551 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry, No Re-appointment to be Made, 213 Railway Statistics for October, 1926, 45 Railway Statistics for November, 185 Railway Statistics for December, 299 Railway Statistics for January, 1927, 441 Railway Statistics for February. 1927, 551 Railway Statistics for March, 1927, 685 Suggested Inquiry into Railway Organisation Declined, 269 Model Railway Club Exhibition, 469 Moscow's Growth, Scheme for Construction of Metropolitan Railway, 185 Natal Main Line Railway Electrification and Increased Capacity of Line, 603

   National Union of Railwaymen

Levy of Threepence a Week to Replace Depletion of Funds, 45 National Wages Board. A Spirit of Forgiveness Both Ways, 45 New Year Honours, Solitary Railwayman, 15 Oil-burning Locomotives of the Southern Pacific Railway, Fuel Consumption. 185 Passenger Duty Question, 495 Privately Owned Wagon Question, Appointment of Standing Committee, 216 Punjab Railways, Two New Sections, 629 Rail Failures, Extraordinary Number of, on American Railroad. 523 Railroad Sleepers Made from Used Rails, 469 Railway Across Lake Titicaca (Bolivia) to Puno (Peru), Construotion Begun, 498 Railway Benevolent Institution Dinner, Mr. Bromley’s Speech. 577 Railway Construction in Kirin Province, Chinese and Japanese Organising Engineering Works to Secure Contracts. 577 Railway Material Exports Statistics. 45, 101. 185, 299. 383, 551. 657 Railwaymen as Presidents of Two Societies, 577

    Railway Rates, Increased. 75

Railway Rates Increase, Rail and Road Transport Question. Suggestion, 185

    Railway Rates Tribunal

Railway Sleepers Made Out of Old Flat- bottomed Rails, 551 Reversal of Tribunal's Judgment by Court of .Appeal. 241

      Standard Charges Judgment, 45

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): Record Upward Career of Railway Engineer, 159 Rhodesian Railways, Northern and Southern, Reorganisation, 500 Rome and Bari, Projected New Railway Between, 185 Sao Paulo Tramway. Light and Power Company, 185

 Sloane-square Station Modernisation, 129
 South African Railways Report, 129
 Southern Railway :

Brake, Westinghouse, Conversion to the Vacuum, on All Sections, 355

   Brighton Station to be Enlarged, 495

Coal Carrying Rate and Closing of Colliery, Favourable Result Hoped for, 327, 657

   Dover, Big Programme in Progress, 577
   Dover Priory Station Reconstruction.
     Removal of Locomotive Depot and
     Suggested Marine Walk at Dover, 129
   Further Electrification Details, 269

“ Gladstone,” Old Engine, to Go to Museum, 551

   Oil Fuel Too Costly for Locomotives, 355
   1000 Passengers Per Minute Detrain in
     Three Hours Daily, 437
   Railwaymen’s Investments in Railway
     Stock, 629
   Southern Railway New Line, 273

Victoria Boat Trains Improved Running, 299 Widening of Four Bridges Oyer Roads at Peckham, Parliamentary Bill. 299 Widening of Line Near Beckenham and Reconstruction of Bridge, 603 Wimbledon and Sutton Intended Railway, Time Extension for Land Purchase, 327 Spanish Government Concession for Now Railway. 685 Stationery Office Preliminary Railway Returns for 1926, 383 Survey by Bolivian and Peruvian Governments with View to Construction of Railway at Lofty Elevation. 249 Swiss Federal Railways, Electrification Progress, 665 Sydney, Progress of Central Station and City Railway, 45 Texas, 75-Mile Gap in Incompleted Radway to be Built, 523 Thorne Colliery, Withdrawal of Bill for Private Railway, 577 Ticket “Census” on the Underground, Explanation of its Cause. 213 Timiskaining and Northern Ontario Railway, Extension, 413 Traffic Returns for First Quarter of 1927, Figures Affected by Date of Good Friday, 413 Tramcar Equipment and Modern Speed Demand. 185 Tramway Fatal Derailment. Report and Recommendations, 45

 Turkestan—Siberian Railway to be Laid, 181
 Turkish Government’s Projected Railway
   Schemes, 15
 Twin-screw Steamers for Hey sham Belfast
   Service, 308, 355	*
 Underground Electric Railways Company

London's Increased Population and Relative Increase in Rail and Road Travellers, 441 Loud speaking Announcers of Stations in Trains Proposed, Unpopular Proposal, 441 New Morning Train, Edgware to Charing Cross, 694 Pooling Agreement Between Underground Railway, London General Omnibus Company, and London County Council for Tramways, 657 Underground Company Accepts Record Number of Suggestions Sent in by Staff, 129 Unfair Road Motor Competition, Deputation from Railways and Trades Unions to Chancellor of Exchequer, 355

  United States Transportation Act. 1920,
    Points of Difference from British Act, 629

Unpunctuality of Business Trains, Possible Explanation, 129 Victorian Government Railways, All-steel Restaurant Car, 657 Victorian Government Railways, Workshops.

    Clock Dial to Record Accidents, 377
  Victorian Government’s Choice of Local in
    Preference to English Firm’s Tender, 269

Weekly Traffic Returns Compared with 1925 as Well as with Coal Strike Period, 551 Welland Railway, Old Line in Canada. Ceases Operation. Service Taken Over by Electric Lines, 551 Welsh Highland Railway, Receiver Appointed, 272 ; Railway to Continue Working, 383 Western Canada, Great Activity in Railway Construction Predicted, 15

  Wireless Receiving Apparatus in Trains. 495
  Woolwich, Cost of Locomotives and Parts
    Provided at, 299

Rangoon, Improvement of Channel below, 355 Rangoon University, Presentation by Burmah Company for Establishment of College of Mining and Engineering, 657 Reaping Machine Invention Centenary, 657 Reclamation of Large Swamp Area Along the Kootenay River, British Columbia. 603 Reclamation Schemes in the Forth Estuary, Good Progress of, 577 Record in Long Service, Employees of J. and E.

   Hall. Ltd., 113

Refrigerating Plant. New. at Buenos Aires One of the Largest in the World. 45 Refrigeration, Development of New Form of, 269 Refrigerator. Household, New Swedish Type, 657

 Reinforced Concrete Bridges—wee Bridges

Reinforced Concrete, Mild tweus High-tensile

   Steel in. 566

Research and the Metal Industries Exhibition, 339 Research Scholarships in Technology, 5In Reservoir’s Plight—nee Hume Reservoir Reservoir Production Feat in Oregon, 523 Rcykiavik, Iceland, Scheme for Heating the Whole Town by Underground Hot Springs, 551 Rhodesia Broken Hill Mine, Large Amount of Vanadium Minerals, 603 Rio de Janeiro, State Concession for Port Works at Bay of Angra dos Reis, 685 Road-covering Substance, A New, Invented in Sweden by Mr. John Behmer, 523 Road Drills, Search for Less Noisy Type, 110 Road Motor Vehicles Statistics for 1926, 389 Road Watering in Sweden, Use of Sulphite

 Lye, 469

Roadway Over Quebec Bridge Projected, 657 Rolled Wire Rods, Home Production Reduced while Imported Rods Increase, 653 Rolling Mill, New Type, Carnegie Steel Company, 413 Romance of a Century, 559 Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 222 Royal Scholarships and Studentships in Science, 222 Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Annual Report, 589 Rubber Bearings Valuable where Exposed to Grit, 551 Rubber, Electro-deposition of, Difficulties, 159 Rubber in Industrial Occupations, 657 Rubber-lined Pipes, Astonishing Durability of, in Comparison with Lap-welded Mild Steel, 45 Rubber, Use of, for Wet and Dry Grinding, 185 Rubber Used for Tests on Skew Arches, 269 Russian Mica Industry Development, 327 Russian Nikit inski Mercury Mines to be Restarted, 45 s SAFEGUAR DING of Industries Act, Additional Articles Liable to Duty. 37 Saint Nazaire, Improvement of Port, 441 Salt River Power Station, South Africa, Further Extension of, 355 San Pablo Bay, California, Proposed Bridge Across, 413 Santo Domingo Port, Structural Improvements, 523 Scholarship, Brenforce Travelling, Competition, 400 Scholarships, British Empire, Engineering, at Loughborough College, Awards, 592 Scholarships, Charles R. E. Bell Fund, 397 Scholarships, Research, in Technology, 510 Science, Applied, Graduates of Toronto Finding

 Posts in United States, 603

Sea Wall, The Throndon, New Zealand, will be Largest in that Country, 45 Seville, Port to be Made Accessible to Large Vessels, 299 Shale Oil, Value of, and also Complexity of its Composition, 75 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : Agamemnon, Battleship, to be Broken Up and Replaced as Target Ship by the Centurion, 241

 Atlantic Liner and the Port of London, 697

Belfast Boats Transferred to Heysham from Fleetwood Route, 308, 355

 Blue Star Liner Andalucia, 253
 Blue Star Liner Arandora, Trials of, 629

Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd., to Erect New Docks at Toronto, 241 Cross-Channel Triple-screw Steamer to Run Between Vancouver and Nanaimo, 263 Deep-water Berths Projected at Durban. 129 Destroyers for Roumania, Design Order Given to J. I. Thonrycroft and Co., Ltd., 140 Dublin Bay, Measured Mile for Speed Trials of Sea-going Vessels, 355 Ferry Boat, Oil-engined, for Conveyance of i MotorCars, 185 Hamburg-American Motor Passenger Liner Ordered, 577 H.M.S. Berwick, Light Cruiser, Completed, 469 H.M.S. Nelson, Britain's Most Powerful Battleship, Completed, 441 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS {continued): Merchant Steamers at South Kensington Science Museum, 456 North German Lloyd Vessels to Call at Galway, 75

 Rapid Work in Cargo Discharge, 136
 Refrigerator Motor Ship, A Large, 370

Repairing Accommodation, Additional for, Trawlers at the Port of Fleetwood, 657

 Secondary Batteries in Warships, 469

Sherard Osborn, Ex-Cable Ship, Fitted Out for Oil Extraction from Non-edible Fish. 159 Shipbuilding Industry Materials, Board of Trade Deputation, 154 Shipbuilding Industry Revival Reported from Moscow, 413

 Shipbuilding in Russia, 374
 Shipyard Reopening at Stockton, 213

Tonnage with Cargo and in Ballast at Ports of United Kingdom and to Other Countries, Statistics Show Reduction in Both for 1926, 299 Tonnage Under Construction for Great Britain and Ireland, 685 Tonnage of Vessels Entered into British India and Cleared Outwards with Cargoes, Analysis, 355 Trawler, First Steel Motor Twin-screw, in Shanghai, Launch of, 75 World Shipping, Improvement in Basic Conditions, 327 SHOWS— see Exhibitions Skew Arches, Interesting Test Arrangement for Experiments on, Professor G. E. Beggs, 269 Smokeless Fuel Plant at a Gasworks, Results

 Exceed Expectations, 269

Sodium Carbonate Solutions, Adverse Effects on Aluminium, 551 Solway Viaduct Closed as Dangerous, 303 Soviet Spinning Factory, First Opened in Russia, 159 Spanish Plans for Compulsory Expropriation for Hydro-electric Development, also for Construction of Road Exclusively for Motor Cars. 45 Speed Indicator, Vest Pocket, Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company, 286 Spirit Distilleries in Groat Britain, Census, 299 Spodumene Lithium Orc from Canada for

 German Experimental Use, 383

Steam Pipe, Flexible Metallic, Failure of, on an Engine Makers’ Test Bed, 523 Steam Road Vehicles and their Coal Consumption, 577 Steam Turbo-generators in Russia, Attempt to Extend Construction, 495 Steel—see Iron Stone Preservation, 566, 635 Storing Drawings for Reference, 566 Story of the Electric Detonator, 551 Suction Gas Power Plant Superseded by Steam Engine, 75 Sulphite Cellulose Process, Memory of its Discoverer to be Marked by Fund for Research, 355 Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Likely to Become the Largest Structure in the British Empire, 657 Sydney Harbour Bridge Bearings, Special Train Necessary for Transport of, 75 T TECHNICAL Teachers, Annual Conference, 342 Telegraph Offices Along Chinese Railway in Manchuria and Competition of Long-distance Telephones, 15 Telephone Cable to Belgium, Group of Lines Opened, 495 Telephone Kiosks, Large Number Erected and Increasing, 657 Telephone System’s Growth and Flourishing Condition Notwithstanding Coal Stoppage and General Strike in 1926, 299 Telephone Talk Between Great Britain and Certain American States at £5 4s. per Minute, 213 Television—see Wireless Tenders of Widely Varying Amounts, 327 Testing Machine, Largest and Most Powerful in

 Canada, 185

Tientsin and Tungchow, Proposal to Reopen Canal Between, 75 Tin-bearing Land in Queensland, Company

 Formed to Work it, 101

Tin Discovery at Largs, Ayrshire, 269 Tin Mine, Tambo, Northern Transvaal, Development of, 441 Tin Ore Deposit in the Northern Transvaal.

 Great Extent of, .355

Tin-plate Company Starting New Mills, 159 Tire Puncture on Four and Six-wheelers, F. A.

 Boyce, 169

Tires, Manufacture of Various Types, Pirelli, Ltd., 685 Toronto Bricklayers’ Increased Wage. 101 Toronto’s Harbour Project, Necessary Expenditure, 269 Transatlantic Conversation with Possibility of

 Seeing as Well as Hearing the Speaker, 15

Tristan da Cunha Receives First Steamer Visit

 for Twelve Months, 213

Tunnel Aqueduct, A Second, to Carry Water from the Catskills to New York, 413 Turbine, Fourneyron, Celebration of the Invention, 629 Turbine Pumps for Shanghai, Holden and

 Brooke, Ltd., 566

Tyneside Big Advertising Campaign. 495 Tyneside and Unemployment, 495 V VACUUM Cups to Replace Slings, 269 Vacuum Tube, Reputed World’s Largest, Now in Use in Radio Station, 551 Vanadium Properties, Opinions Differ, 413 Venezuelan Government Scheme for Widening

 Bay and Port Reconstruction, 75

Vickers Group Amateur Operatic Society, 222 Vizagapatam Harbour to Become Transhipment Port for Manganese Ore, 383 w WADE’S Tables. 113 War Office Large Contract for Hacksaw Blades, 602 Water Powers of Canada, Nelson River Capacity, 677 WATER SUPPLY : Australian Water Catchment Neglect, Proposal to Remove Control from Government Departments, 603 Brixton and Newton Ferrers, Scheme for Water Supnly, 125

 Chungking. China, Projected Supply, 629

Gatineau River, Quebec, Large Storage Reservoir, 685 Geelong, Victoria, District, Projected Increase of Stocks of Water, lol Groendal Water Scheme of Uitenhage Town Council, South Africa, 547 Metropolitan Water Board Electrically Driven Centrifugal Pumps, 685 Redruth Town’s Water Supply Augmentation, 495 Reservoir, Record, for Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, 441 South Australian Water Supplies, Hume Reservoir Threatened, 603 Sydney Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board Contract for New Pipe Line, 441 Sydney Water Supply Augmentation by Cordeaux Dam, 355 Water Conservation, Proposal to Dam the Lachlan River, New South Wales, 355 Water and Sewerage System of San Jos6, Costa Rica, Commission to Consider Extension, 75 Waterworks Pumping Plant, Centrifugal Type, Mather and Platt, Ltd., 228

 World’s Water Reservoirs’ Capacities, 159 WATER-TUBE Boiler Tube Failure, 523 Water Wheels in Power Plants in the United ?States, Capacity of, 577

Waterworks, Old Buildings, at Slough to bo Converted into Factory, 129 Winnington Chemical Works, Reconstruction Contemplated by Brunner, Mond and Co., 355 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY : Amazon River, Broadcasting Station to be Erected on, 327 Atmospherics. Range of Interference with Reception, 577 Birmingham Proposes By-laws for Control of Wireless Aerials, 629 British Broadcasting Corporation's Proposed Change, 657 Broadcasting Station, Large, at Zeesen. 685 Calcutta and Bombay Stations of Indian Broadcasting Company to Begin Work in August, 551 Characteristics of Wireless Waves Ten Miles Aloft, Test by French Scientists, 441 European Broadcasting Stations, Minor Adjustments in Wave Lengths Projected, 551 European Wireless Engineers’ Conference, 213 Federal Radio Commission Orders to Stations, 629 High-power Broadcast Station in Germany Audible All Over Europe, 441 Hull Trawlers Proceeding to Greenland Equipped with Wireless Telephone Apparatus, 685 Loud Speakers, Lecture and Demonstration, J. E. Roe, 577 Nanking. Wireless Station at Pehchikoh, 75

 Portable Radio Direction Finder, F. W.
   Dunmore, 233

Rumanian Company to Monopolise Broadcasting Manufacture of Radio Apparatus, &c„ 299 Ship’s Wireless Equipment, Simple Spark and Continuous Wave Telegraphy. 299 Sophia, Tenders for New Wireless Telegraphic and Telephonic Station from British, French and German Firms, 303 South Seas Wireless Stations Broadcast Copra Quotations, 213 Telephone Receiving Station, Transatlantic, in.Scotland, 3-Mile Long Aerials, 441 Television Between London and Glasgow, 629 Television Between New York and Washington, Successful Demonstration Over 250 Miles, 441 Transatlantic Wireless Telephony Receiving Station at Kern back, Near Cupar, 327 Wireless Communication Between Lighthouses on the Clyde, 657 Wireless Problems Discussion at Colonial Conference in London, 657 WOOD Preservers’ Association, American, Incising or Treating Timber, Tests on, 413 Wood Protection by Aluininium'Leaf Coating, 185 Workington Dock Opening. 629 World Motor Transport Congress, 327 YEAST-making Industry, New, Starting in

 Western Canada, 577

z ZEEBRUGGE Mole, Project to Replace, by One Built on Arches, 491 Zinc Reduction Plants, Production of Slab

 Zinc in U.S.A., 441

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