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ABRASIVE Manufacturing Plant, Large, at Quebec, 207

Acetone for Production of Synthetic Rubber, 97

Aerial Wire with the Key-Morse Apparatus : Length Limitations, 119

AERONAUTICS : Aerodromes or Flying Fields, 55

Aero Engines and Parts, Urgent Demand for, 163

Aeroplanes in America, Difficulties with Four-bladed Propellers, 119

American Inventor’s Aeroplane to End the War in Sixty Days, 141

Aviation Engine Development, E. H. Sher-bondy, 541

“ Borrodising” as Preventive of Corrosion,315

Fireproof Varnish for Aeroplanes, 407

Horse-power in Relation to Weight, Greatly

Increased Proportion in Modern Aeroplanes, 497

Long Distance Aeroplane Record by Italian Captain, J. Laurenti, 229

Motors, Aeroplane, 10,000 Orders Taken by One American Firm, 229

Planes of Flying Machines, Experiments in America, 547

Postal Service by Aeroplane, 190

Radiators, Aeroplane, Standardisation of, 234

Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, 552

Seaplane for Training Purposes in the United States, Lieut. G. D. Murray, U.S.N., 519

United States Aeroplane Makers and Metric Measurements, 229

United States Airplane, Vacuum Chamber for Testing Engines, 541

United States Aviation Engine, Advantages, 361

Warning of Air Raids, Tests of Various Methods, 55

AFRICAN “Da” Fibre for Rope Making, 519

Agricultural Machinery for Ministry of Munitions, 77

Agricultural Machines for France after the War, Government Action, 229

Agriculture by Mechanical Aids, Great Increase Expected, 119

Alcohol, Denatured, and Anti-freezing Precautions, 473

Alcohol and Petrol, Power from, 315

Alcohol, Synthetic, Manufacture on Commercial

Scale in Switzerland, 207

Alloy, Copper and Zinc, Proportions and Use, 541

Alloy, New Anti-friction Type, 497

Alloy for Ships’ Propellers, 249

Alloy Steel Castings for Dies in America, 163

Alloys, Iron-Aluminium and Iron-Silicon for

Electro-Magnetic Uses, 77

Alloys, Iron-Silicon, Acid Resisting Properties of, 163

Aluminium Output from Foyers and Kinloch -leven, 73 i

Aluminium Pistons for Internal Combustion

Engines, J. Leopold, 55

Aluminium, Possible Extraction from Staffordshire Clay, 293

Aluminium Scrap, Fluxes for Melting, 473

Aluminium Scrap, Methods of Melting, 185

Aluminium Works in Hungary, 497

American Co-ordinating Committee on Exportation, 518

American Society of Civil Engineers Abandons

Convention for 1917 owing to War Work Demands, 15

Amethyst Colour Development in Glass, 271

Ammonia Production in Germany, 76

Ammonia, Sulphate of, United States Production, 315 J

Anthracite—see Coal

Anti-Submarine Net at a Cost of Twenty

Millions Sterling, A Suggestion, 293

Antofagasta Port Improvements, Tenders in London Called for, 163

Artesian Basin of Australia, Largest Known in the World, 385

Artesian Wells in Perth, Failure of Attempt to Utilise, 519

Artificial Colouring Matter in the United States, Large Capital Invested, 293

Artificial “ Tides ” Utilised for Coal Transportation on the Ohio River, 293

Asbestos Industry of the United States, 229

Asphalt, Paraffin, &c., “ Natural,” Produced in the United States, 163

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &

societies:

Association of Engineering and Ship* building Draughtsmen :

Hartlepools Section :

(Tees-side and Hartlepools Branch)

Second Annual General Meeting, 484

London Branch :

Annual General Meeting : Reorganisation of the Association, 357

Institute, Iron and Steel :

Autumn Meeting ; List of Papers, 198, 239

Institute of Metals :

Autumn Meeting, 24

Diamond Formation, Lecture by Sir Charles Parsons, 497

Memberships Question : Extra Election, 24

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Awards for Papers, 440

Dublin Section :

Inquiry as to Available Hydro-electric Power in Ireland, 270

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

Electric Steel Furnaces, E. Kilburn Scott, 55

Non-Ferrous Metals Bill, 552

Institution, Junior, of Engineers :

Cadet Associate Membership, 207

Institution of Mechanical Engineers :

Proposals for Compulsory Adoption of Metric System, 177

Institution, Royal :

Before Easter Programme, 531

Before Easter Friday Programme, 570

Christmas Lectures, 464

.Donations for Experimental Research, 413

Meetings and Elections, 24, 509

Society of Engineers :

Goods Clearing House System and Machinery Explained, Paper and Demonstration, A. W. Gattie, 39

Society, Faraday :

Pyrometers and Pyrometry, 323

Society, Optical :

Optical Stores Captured from the Enemy, Lieut.-Col. A. C. Williams, 437

Society, Royal, of Arts :

Albert Medal Awarded to Mr. Orville Wright for Aeronautical Work, 11

Awards of Medals, 11

Howard Lecture by Mr. W. G. Fearnsides, Favourable Prospect for Iron and Steel Manufacturers in Eastern England, 361

Society, Royal Meteorological :

Abnormal Temperature, &c.; Daily Temperature at Greenwich, W\ W\ Brvant. 486 .

Computation of Wind Velocity from Pilot Balloon Observations, P. Bolton, 570

Twelve-hourly Barometer Oscillation, Dr. G. C. Simpson, 486

Use of Monthly Mean Values in Climatological Analysis, E. G. Bilham, 570

ASTRONOMICAL Error in 1 B.C., 247

Atlantic Cable Used for Thames Bridge, 118

Australian Defence Department, Proposed

Plant for Benzene and Toluene Production, 59

B “ BALSA,” Valuable New Tropical Wood, 541

Bangkok, Siam, Use of Electric Vehicles, Independent of Coal Supply by Use of Rice Husks, 429

Barrow, Record Amount of House-building, 337

Basic Slag for Agricultural Purposes, 385

Belt Transmission, Thickness Fallacy, 561

Bennis and Co., Lantern Slides, 384

Benzene and Toluene Production in Australia, 59

Benzol Production by Gas Authorities Unprofitable at Present Price, 293

Benzol Production and Use After the War, 451

Bequest to University of Liverpool, 541

Birmingham Gas, Analysis of Use during Year, 141

Birmingham House Shortage and Town Planning, 97

Blackpool Cliff Protection, 315

Board of Trade Commercial Intelligence Department and New Industrial Developments in United Kingdom, 207

Boiler Corrosion Preventive, 271

Boiler Furnace Excess Air, CO2 Percentage Measurement, 519

Boiler House Operations, &c., Comparison between Steam Turbine’s and Boilers, Messrs. Otley and Pickles, 519

Bombs Dropped by Aircraft, Necessary Precautions, 55

Bonuses for Female Workers in France, 547

Boracic Acid in Arc Lamps, 97

Brass Melting by Electric Furnace, Investigation at Cornell University, 249

Bridge in California, Concrete Arch Span Settling Without Cracking, 55

Bridge Design, Economies of, Dr. J. A. L. Waddell, 497

Bridge Designs, Standard, for Ontario, 97

Bridge Erecting Methods, A Forward Step, 271

Bridge Piers Obstruction to Flow of Water, Forthcoming Paper by Floyd A. Nathan, 11

Brinell Hardness Test of Metals, Monsieur Guillery, 429

British-built Magneto on French Designs, 293

British Empire Food and Raw Material

Resources, Imperfectly Utilised, 473

British Engineers’ Association, Annual Meeting, 105

British Industries Fair in 1918, 407

Building Cost to be Doubled for Many Years to Come, 141

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CALCUTTA’S Motor Vehicles, 97

California and Earthquakes, 256

California, Large Unmapped Area of Fertile

Territory, 185

Canada, Hydro-electric Power Possibilities, 429

Canada, Munitions and Supplies Purchased

from, in Three Years of War, 497

Canada, Return of Industrial Activity, 407

Canada’s Metal and Mineral Production, 271

Canadian Scientific and Industrial Research, 55

Capper, Major-General J. E., Director-General of the Tank Corps, 229

Carbon and Graphite Electrode Manufacture in Norway, 429

Carbon Monoxide in Mines, Simple Test for < Detecting even Minute Amount, 337

Cardiff, Election of Engineer and Surveyor, 541

Castings of Chromium-Copper Alloys, Method of Preparing, 315

Castings, Large and Small, Scrapping Economy, 22

Cellulose Acetate for Varnish Manufacture, 497

Cellulose Piping, Compressed, Satisfactory in

General Use, 141; as Substitute for Metal, 385

Cement for Fastening Metal Parts to Marble, 97

Cement Industry in Japan, 249

Cement Mill near Guatemala City, Large Capacity and Low Cost of Product, 11

Cemented Surface, Coating by the Nichol 1 Process, 33

Ceylon, New Port at Aragam Bay, East Coast, 163

Charcoal and Conservation of Timber in Sweden, 337

Chelmsford, Works’ Sports for Charity, 196

Chemical Industry in Switzerland, War Scarcity of Raw Material, 315

Chemists, Industrial, National Association of, Proposed, 109

Chicago Meat-canning Factory’s Great Increase in Steam Generating Plant, 141

Chimney, 570ft. High, in Japan, 185

China’s Use of Electricity and Neglect of Gas, 315

Chinese Export Trade and Government Assistance, 119

Chinese Factories, Details of Industries and Equipment, 497

Chinese Imitation of Foreign Trade-marks, British Complaints, 141

Chisel, Best Method to Harden and Temper, 337

Chlorine, Best Temperature for Electrolytic Production of, 229

Christmas Gifts for the Labour Battalion, 462

Chromite Production in the United States, A Record Year, 337

Clay-working Cinders, Value for Fuel, R. G. Lovell, 451

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES: Anthracite Coal, W. H. Booth, 33

Anthracite Discovery in the Alps, 337

Calorific Value of Coal, Deterioration Since

Outbreak of War, 271

China, Pinghsiang Collieries, 163

Coalfield Seams Burning in Large Area of the United States, 11

Coal Mines, Breathing Apparatus, Scientific Research Council Inquiry, 97

Coal Mining Regiments, Question of United States Raising them for France, 561

Coal Shortage in North-West America, Pro-hibition of Shipments to Canada, 337

Coal for Steam Production, Advantages of Welsh Anthracite, W. H. Booth, 33

Controller of Coal Mines, Address and Code of Directions, 11

French Output of Coal, 315

India, North and West, Disappointing Coal Supply, Suggested Substitution of Hydroelectric Power, 315

Indian Collieries and Use of Electricity, 11

Indian Minerals, Coal the Most Important, 293

Italian Coal Discovery, 97

Oklahoma and Kansas, Shallow Coal-beds Working, 293

South African Coal, High Percentage of Tar,

United States, Possible Shortage of Coal, and

Wood Fuel as Substitute, 185

COAL Gas for Motor Cars, 531

Cold Storage and Ice Making, Liverpool Experience, 429

Cold Storage Warehouses for United Kingdom Food Supply, 541

Commercial Alcohol from Damaged Potatoes 540

Commercial Motors, Annual Inspection of, Prizes, 552

Concrete, Best Colours for Colouring, 11

Concrete for Cheap Building, A House every Three Days, 407

Concrete Fence Posts and Attachment of Wire Fencing, 163

Concrete Fence, Reinforced, for Great Yarmouth, 385

Concrete, Reinforced, Action of Salt on, Professor H. J. M. Creighton, 572

Concrete, Reinforced, Examined by X-rays, 492

Concrete,- Reinforced, Injurious Action of Salt in the Philippine Islands, 561

Concrete Roads, Emulsified Asphalt for Maintaining, 229

Concrete Silos for Wheat Storage in Australia. 497

Concrete for Small Buildings, 385

Concrete as a Substitute for Timber, Bricks, Iron and Steel, 396

Copper and Lead of Serbia Exploited by Germans and Austrians, 229

Copper, World’s Production of, 197

Coral Carving, Japan Endeavouring to Replace Italian Production, 519

“ Corimite,” Insulating Material Made from Fish Offal, 451

Corrosion of Tinned Copper Sheets, 119

Cotton Spinning and Weaving Industry in Korea, 561

Crane, Floating, Largest Lifting Crane Built in United States, 407

Crane, 50-Ton Locomotive Jib, for Panama Canal Docks, Unusual Type, 119

Crinan Canal, Inadequacy of, and Suggested Replacement, 207

D DANUBE Navigation and Ports for Increased

Trade Development, 451

Death of Mr. W. J. Widdowson, 541

Decimal Coinage and Metric System of Weights and Measures, Opinions Invited, 361

Deoxidisation, Electrolytic Process Patented in the United States, 229

Diamond Drill Hole in New Jersey, Record

Depth, 271

Diamond Formation, Sir C. Parsons, 497

Diesel Engine Driven by Peat Gas, 519

Dock, Royal Edward, at Avonmouth, Pro

jected Enlargement, 519

Draughtsmen, Increased Pay, 413

Dry Rot in Timber, Drastic Action Necessary, 337

E EGGS, New Method for Safe Delivery, 473

ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Applications of Electricity, List of 3000 in Booklet, 77

Arc Lamps, Uses of Boracic Acid, 97

Arc Welding, Continuous Current Superior to Alternating, 541

Arc Welding, Suitable Electric Conditions for, H. L. Unland, 407

Armature Shafts on the Commutator End of

Motors, Novel Method of Repair, 77

Army Cooking by Electric Oven, 429

Belfast, Electricity Supply Possible from

Tidal Power of Strangford Lough, 163

Blast-furnace Tap-holes Opened by Electric Arc, 541

British and Metric Systems as Affecting British Electrical Trade, 451

Calcutta, Cheap Current for Cooking and Heating, 11

Capacity of Single Turbo-generator Units, Limitation in Size, 473

Cattle Driving by Electricity, 141

Cauvery Power Scheme in Mysore, Conveyance of Very Heavy Machinery, 119

Centralisation of Power and Profit from Byproducts, Enormous Gains Possible, H. Wilson-Fox, 429

Charging Plugs and Sockets for Electric Vehicles, 437

China’s Preference for Electricity, 315

Commercial Motor Vehicles, Electric, Projected Expenditure, 33

Committee on Electric Power, Chairman and Additional Members, 11

“ Continuously Loaded ” Paper—Core Cable for Underground Telephone, 97

Current Transformers and Possible Registration Errors, 497

Economy in Use of Electric Furnaces to Convert Steel Scrap into Castings, E. Kilburn Scott, 55

Electro-Chemical Industries at Shawinigan, Quebec, 561

Electro-Culture, Results of, on Garden Pro* duce, 407

French Production of Iron by Electric Furnaces, 11

Furnaces, Government Permit and British Steel Making, 249

Furnaces at Work-in Great Britain, Statistics of Increase and Type, 11

Generating Costs per Unit, J. Shepherd, 55

German Pocket Torch with Hand-driven Dynamo, 429

Harrogate, Proposed Installation of Byproduct Steam Boiler Plant for Electrical Supply, 163

Indian Collieries and Electrical Winding, 11

Indian Collieries, Electricity Replacing Steam, 11

Insulating Material from Fish Offal, 451

Japanese and the Australian Market for

Electrical Supplies, 497

Lamp Voltage, Standardisation of, 385

Leeds’ Increased Electricity Supply, 429

Morocco, Suggested Water Power Development and Electrification of Railways, &c,.

Niagara Falls, Cost of Power from, 293

Nickel Alloys Used for Centre Electrodes of Sparking Plugs, 451

Optical Pyrometer for Works Use, 249

Porcelain Insulators Made in the Transvaal, 519

Power Transmission Lines Nearly 700 Miles in Length, 293

Power Transmission Lines of Nevada, California Company’s System, Longest Yet Projected, 11

Quebracho, for Cleaning Electric Insulators. 141

Selenium Cell Produced by Californian Experimenter, Immensely Increased Sensitiveness, 33

Standard Voltages of Electric Supply in the United States, 249

Steel Mills, Rolling and Reversing, Advantages of Electric Motor Drive, 33

Street Cleansing Vehicles in Sheffield, Satisfactory Economy Effected, 141

Street Cleansing Vehicles ; Ten Years’ Life, 119

Swedish Output of Electric Furnaces, 519

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :

Tata Hydro-electric Power Supply, Great Success, 561

Taxicabs, Electric, in Detroit, 497

Transmission Line Over the St. Lawrence

River, Details of Erection, 77

Tungsten Wire Importation for Electric Lamps, 450

Turbo Alternator Development, History of, 519

United States Electric Furnaces, Large Increase, 451

Water Power and its Utilisation in France and Elsewhere, 561

Wellington, New Zealand, Storage Battery

Truck for Use on the Water Front, 361

ENERGY Required for Rain Production, J.

Patterson, 473

Engineers’ Clubs in Manchester and in Philadelphia, 249

Engines, “ Uniflow,” World’s Records of

Efficiency, 141

Envelope-opener for Office Use, 119

Envelopes Placed in Typewriter by Machine,

American Device, 163

Explosives Output in the United States, 163

Exports Prohibited by Board of Trade, Lists of

Articles and Countries, 185

Eyesight of Workers, Offer by Institute of

Ophthalmic Opticians, 519

FALL of a Stone to Earth’s Centre, Calculations of Time Required, 561

Federation of British Industries, New President,

413

Feed-water for Boilers, Troubles Due to

Sodium Hydroxide, 77

Fiat Company’s Twenty-three Thousand Workpeople, 293

File-cutting Machines, First Recorded Use in this Country, 385

Fire-brick, Melting Points of Various Samples,

185

Fires in New York State, Large Proportion of

Preventable Loss, 55

Fishing Boat to Catch 60,000 lbs. of Fish an Hour, 229

Flour Waste in Iron Foundries, Wood and

Sawdust as Substitute, 141

Fluorine—see Water Supply

Food Production and Tractors ; Training

Drivers, 315

Foremen’s Mutual Benefit Society, 397

Fruit Centres for Pulping or Drying Surplus

Fruit, 180

Fuel, Alcohol, from Sugar Molasses in Australia, 337

Fuel Gas from Straw—see Straw

Furnace Design, Principles of, A. D. Williams, 293

G GAS and Industrial Efficiency, 497

Gas, Natural, 40,000 Bore-holes in the United States, 497

Gas Replacing Petrol for Commercial Vehicles, 97

Gas Supply of America and Toluol for High Explosives, 271

Gas Supply and Investigation by Fuel Research Board, 55

Gas Traction, Joint Committee on, 393

Gauges Tested for Ministry of Munitions by National Physical Laboratory, Ten Thousand a Week Average, 11

German Use of Yeast for Manufacture of

Buttons and Knife Handles, 97

Germans Dismantling Blast-furnace Plants for

Use in Munition Works, 451

Germany, Coal Prices and Gas Consumption, 319

Glass for Cooking Utensils, Chemical Product,

293

Glass from German Firms, 112

Glass Tubing of Large Diameter, Simple Method of Cutting, 361

Glass, Window, Working Temperature of, 411

Glycerine Industry, Japanese, Developments, 138

Government Changes, 55

Graphalloy, 497

Graphite, Flake, from Ceylon and Madagascar, 135

Graphite in Oils, &c., To Obtain Permanent Suspension of, C. H. Bierbaum, 361

Graphite for Scaling Boilers, 473

H HOLLAND, Blast-furnaces and Rolling Works in, Suggested Erection of, 77

“ Horse-power Race,” Professor A. E. Kennedy,

119

House Deficiency in this Country, Local

Government Board Inquiry, 519

Hungarian Aluminium Works for Exploiting

Bauxite Deposits, 271

Hydraulic Power Installation in South Africa, The Largest, 293

Hydrogen, Atmospheric, Proposed Works for

Production in Iceland, 519

Hydro-technical Laboratory in Italy, 4.15

I INDIA’S Disappointing Coal Supply ; Suggested Substitution of Hydro-electric Power, 315

India, Survey of, General Report, 293

Indian Agriculture, Mechanical Cultivation Progress, 249

Industrial Reconstruction Council, 530

Interest Chart, Marsden and Co., Limited, 162

Ireland, Inquiry as to Available Hydro-electric

Power, 270

Irish Canals Placed under Control of Committee,

Irish Joint Committee of Engineers to Consider Peat Utilisation, 33

Irish Water Power Schemes, Tidal Power oi

Strangford Lough, 163

IRON AND STEEL:

Alloy Steel Castings Used by American Drop

Forging Manufacturers, 163

Alloys, Iron Silicon, Acid-resisting Properties of, 163

American Production of Steel Ingots ana Castings, 11

Annealing Temperatures for Nickel Steel, 385

Atmospheric Effects on Sheet Iron, 315

Australian Company Erecting Works for

Home Supply of Spring Steel, Railway Wheels and Axles, &c., 207

Chilled Cast Iron Car Wheels ; Effect on American Railways, 407

Chilling of Cast Iron, An Accidental Discovery in the Eighteenth Century, 185

Chinese Pig Iron for United States Shipbuilding, 451

Corea, Output of Ore of Poor Quality but Abundant Quantity, 163

Corrosion and “ Borrodising,” 315

Electric Motor Drive in Steel Mill Service, Advantages of, 33

Electric Steel Furnaces, E. Kilburn Scott, 55

Electric Steel Making and Limitation oi Furnaces, 249

German High-speed Steel, New Type, 541

Hardening of Steel, Frenchmens Solution, 315 ' 1 1

Indian Pig Iron for San Francisco, 11

Iron-Aluminium Alloys, Messrs. Yensen and Gatward, 301 .

Japanese Steel Works Projected for Manufacture of Plates, Rails, Square and Bar Steel, &c., 33 . . .

Japan’s Use of Electricity m Steel Manufacture, 337

Lincolnshire, North, as Centre for Steel Manufacture, 337

Manganese in Fire-box Steel, Specified Percentage, 249

Manganese Shipped from China to Japan, 429

Molybdenite of Low Grade ; Cheap Process of Manufacture, 207

Molybdenite Shipments from Quebec, 163

Molybdenum Steel, Great Value of, as Gun Lining, 55

New South Wales Manufacture of Steel Wheels, 141

New South Wales Steel Works, Demand for Rails and Shipbuilding Plates, 249

Reagent in Steel Investigation, Messieurs Le Chatelier and E. L. Dupuy, 451

Resources and Production of Iron and Other Metalliferous Ores, 109

Steel Business Origin Claimed by an American, 541 T n

Steel Foundry in the Yangtze Valley, | Japanese and Chinese Agreement, 119

Steel Shortage in Canada ; Shipping and Railway Needs, 141

“ Swedish ” Iron and Hematite Supply, Favourable Prospect for East England Iron and Steel Manufacture, 361

Tungsten, Uses in Electricity, 207

United States Steel Castings, Percentages of Kinds of Steel and Methods of Productions,

Wrought Iron, Cost of, Compared with Steel, G. G. Roberts, 315

IRISH Production of Antimony and Lead, 4ol irrigated Lands in Australia and the Barren Jack Dam, 473

Italian Government Schemes for Hydraulic Development, 361 .

Italian Internal Waterways, Periodical to Deal with Question, 185

J

JAPAN Boating—see Ships

Japan Builds 9000-Ton Steamer for British

Owners in Less than Three Months, 207

Japan as Competitor in Incandescent Lamp

Trade, 361

Japanese Glycerine Industry Development, 407

Japanese Scientists Sent to United States to

Study Industrial Conditions, 385

Japanning Process, Double Operation, 337

Japan’s Copper Ore Output and Exports, 185

Java, Increased Sugar Production, 185

Jute Substitute in Russia, 77

K

KAISER and Czar in 1904, 207

L

LABOUR Accidents, Calendar of, 451

Lamp, Gas-filled Type, with Renewable

Filament, 561

Land under Plough in England and Wales,

Large Increase, 11

Lantern Slides, Bennis and Co., 384 I

Lead Mines in Flintshire to be Reopened, 97

Lead Production in Certain States of America,

385 . ,

Lead Trade Development in Derbyshire, 429 Leicester Town-planning Scheme for After the

War, 55

Lightning Flash, Length and Quantity of

Electricity, 229 i

Lignite, Distillation of, for Tars, 451

Lincoln Housing and Town-planning Schemes, 497

Liquid in Air, Method of Determining Surface Tension of, 541

Liquid Ammonia, Latent Heat of Vaporisation of, N. S. Osborne and M. S. Van Dusen, 451

Liquids in Capillary Tubes, Bigelow and

Hunter and Mr. W. D. Bancroft, 561

Locks on Canals, Comparison between England and Germany, 55 |

London County Council Training of Munition Workers, 127

MACHINE Shop for Ford Motor Company, Remarkable Construction, 407

Machine Telegraph Development, Anticipated Success, 429

McNicholl Process for Coating Freshly Cemented Surface, 33

Magnesia Bricks, Refractory Properties of, Messieurs H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitch, 451

Magnetic Separators for Minerals, Varying Strength, 97

Magneto Industry, British Developments, 97

Manchester Corporation Omnibuses, Statistics of Running, 11

Manufactures Formerly Obtained from Germany, Demand in England, 77

Megaphones for Submarine Detection, 519

Metal Cutting by Revolving Smooth Steel Discs, 541

Metal Economy, Discovery of Wasted Dies, 501

Metals, Boiling Points of, and Pyrometric Work,

C. R. Darling, 497

Metric System, Proposals for Compulsory Adoption, 77

Mid-Scotland Canal, Work for Demobilised Men after the War, 473

Milling Machines, C. Churchill and Co., 486

Mineral Wool, Pure White, Uses of, 385

Mines in the Transvaal and Kimberley, Prevention of Pneumonia in Natives, 293

Mining Plant in South Africa, 561

Mining Timber, Substitute for, Patented, E.

Seward, 119

Ministry of Health, 552

Molybdenum—see Iron and Steel

Monazite Discoveries and German Control, 249

Monazite in Mysore, Disappointing Result, 361

Monazite Sands for Gas Mantles, Discovery in

Ceylon, 249, 473

Motor Car Engines, Battery System of Ignition, 337

Motor Car Engines, Cracks in Water Jackets, 140

Motor Car Manufacture Replaced by Aircraft Motors, 519

Motor Car Weight and Improved Construction, 55

Motor Car’s Record Speed, 473

Motor Cars in America, Exhaust Cut-outs Discontinued, 361

Motor Industries, Technical Committee, Bodies Represented, 473

Motor Lorries for War Use Ordered in the United States, Large Orders, 293

Motor Lorry Accommodation, Better Utilisation of, 77

Motor Omnibuses, Taxation and Upkeep of Roads, 33

Motor Ploughing in England and Wales, Cost per Acre, 561

Motor Spirit, Standardisation of, Tests and Paper by Mr. Lomax, 429

Motor Taxation in France, New Formula for Determining, 337

Motor Tire Manufacture in America ; Own Mills and Own Cottonfields, 207

Motor Trucks and Automobiles for United States War Department, Standardisation and Large Output, 385

Motor Vehicles and Coal Gas, 315

Motor Vehicles, Gas-driven, 97

Motor Vehicles, Suspension System of Improved

Type, 315

Motor Vehicles, to Value of Over Six Millions

Sterling Ordered by the United States, 141

Motor Volunteers, City, and Invasion, 384

Mowra Flower, Important Raw Product in Hyderabad, 119

Municipal Engineering and Public Health, Effect of the War on, H. P. Boulnois, 328

Munition Workers’ Training under London County Council, 127

N NATIONAL Association of Industrial Chemists, Proposed, 109

Natural Gas Used for Lighting Pisa, 271

Negro Emigration from Southern States of America Discouraged, 11

New South Wales Imports and Exports, 407, 497

New South Wales Mineral Output, High Value in 1916, 185

New South Wales, Value of Mineral Exports, First Quarter, 1917, 229

New York State Barge Canal Completion, 97

New York, Weight of Traffic and Pavement Composition, 429

New Zealand, Discovery of Scheelite, 55

New Zealand Government and Factory Heating

Appliances, 473

New Zealand, Hydro-Electric Projects for the North Island, 97

New Zealand, Increased Cold - Storage since War Outbreak, 561

New Zealand ; Sulphuric Acid Works in Christchurch, 385

Niagara Falls and Shortage of Water Power both in Canada and United States, 271

Nickel-Copper Ore, Now Discovery in Ontario, 261

Nickel in Ontario, 80 per Cent, of World’s

Supply, 497

Nitrates, Synthetic, in the United States, 315

Nitric Acid by Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen Process, Comparison of Cost by Different Methods. 11, 77

Nitrogen Products Committee’s Report, 541

Nitro-Starch as Blasting Explosive, Advantages of, 33

Noise of Trucks on Concrete Floor, Method of Deadening, 33

Nottingham City Engineer, Mr. A. Brown’s Long Service, 541

o OIL for Burning, Advancing Price, 271

Oil-forming Conditions in the British Isles, W.

H. Dalton, 519

Oil Production of the United States, 561

Omnibuses Run on Coal Gas Instead of Petrol, Great Saving in Cost, 11

Ontario Government and Net Fishing, 271

Optical Glass: The Rea] Introducers of New

Materials, 473

Orange River Falls, South Africa, 407

Oven for Electric Cooking for Army Use, 385

P PAINT as a Rust Preventive, Experiments, 319

Panama Canal, Big Docks to be Built, 315

Panama Canal and Railroad, Improved Health of Employees, 185

Paper and Lectures for West of Scotland Institute, Difficulty in Obtaining, 229

Papyrus in North Zululand, Company Formed to Utilise, at Christiania, 207

Paraffin for Motor Tractors, Question of Lower Prices, 293

Paris, Flood Prevention and Navigation Improvement Works, 293

Paris Tramways, Increased Working Expenses, 293

Patents, Statistics of Applications, 33

Peat Gas for Driving Diesel Engine, 519

Petrol Consumption in France, Restrictions and Reserve Stock, 385

Petrol Extracted from Natural Gas in the United States, 337

Petrol Imports into United Kingdom, 97

Petrol Production in the United States, 271

Petrol Shortage, Problem in United States, 361

Petrol, Synthetic, from Kerosene or Paraffin at

Cost of |d. per Gallon, 163

Petrol Waste, Mr. W. Joynson-Hicks on, 97

Petroleum in Burma, Increased Output, 249

Petroleum, Natural Formation Secret not yet

Discovered, W. H. Dalton, 519

Piles of Steel Pipe with Concrete Lining, 337

Pistons for Internal Combustion Engines, J.

Leopold, 55

Platinum, Difficulty in Finding Alloy for, 271

Platinum Discovery in Southern Spain, 271

Platinum in Manitoba, 406

Platinum for Military Purposes, 229

Platinum Output of the World in 1916, 11

Platinum Substitute ; Alloy of Gold and Palladium, 119

Ploughing by Motor Traction, Forty Acres in Six Ten-hour Days, 497

Plymouth Harbour, Development of Catte-water Lower Reaches, 473

Pneumonia Among South African Native

Miners, Success of Inoculation, 185

Port Kembla, New South Wales, 385

Portugal and New Industries ; Large Iron and Steel Works, 229

Postal Services by Aeroplane, Established and Projected, 190

Potash from Feldspar, 229

Potash Salts Production in United States, 97

Potash Scarcity in Germany ; Trade Apprehensions, 473

Production Limit ; The Human Factor in Industry, G. E. Toogood, 537

Prohibited Exports from British Empire, 55, 77

Protected Occupations, Scrap Metal Collection, Dr. Addison, 38

Punch, Press Mud and the Ministry of Munitions, 271

Pyrometer, Optical, for Works Use, 249

Pyrometers and Pyrometry, Instruments Shown and General Discussion, 323

Q QUEBEC New Dry Dock, Largest in the World, 141

Queensland, Mineral Output of, 515

R RAGS of the British Army, High Prices Paid, 55

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS: Accident Due to Sleeping Engine Driver, 385 at Finchley-road Station, Need of

Automatic Signalling, 271

Scotch Express, 561

to Soldiers’ Train in Yorkshire, 271

Tramway, at Dover, 185, 429

Accidents, Prevention of, Harriman Medal Awarded to Illinois Central Railway Company, 6

Air Raid Shelter in Hitherto Unopened Railway Tunnels, 407

Air Raids and Ventilation of Tube Railways, 361

Alaskan Railway, Completion Hastened to Bring About Advantages of all Kinds, 163

Albert Medal for Life Saving, Award, 561

Ambulance Train of Sixteen Coaches Built in Fifteen Weeks by Midland Railway, 229

American Engineers and French Railways, 315

American Engineers’ Plans for Spanish Railways, 407

American Fatal Car Collision, 473

American Freight Car Efficiency and Car Builders’ Association Rules, 97

American Railroads and Coal, Analysis of Kinds Used, 249

American Railway Authorities ; Conference * to Reduce Clerical Work, 473

American Railways—see also United States Railways and Inter-State Commerce Commission

Ames, Oakes and Oliver, Constructors of First Transcontinental Railway Over the Rockies, 207

Appointments and Changes of Personnel on Various Railways, 11, 33, 55, 77, 97, 184, 249, 337, 361

Argentine Government and Railway Supply Questions, 77

Association of Private Owners of Railwav Rolling Stock, 73

Australian Commonwealth Railways Bill, Non-Political Control, 337

Australian East-West Railway, Cost, 451

Australian East-West Railway; Projected

Exhibition to Celebrate Opening, 229

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con- I i tinned) *

Australian East-West Transcontinental Rail" way ; Approaching Completion and Subsequent Train Service, 33, 77, 229, 337

Bacteriological Car Laboratory Presented to French Army, 473

Bakerloo to Watford, Lengthened Trains, 497

Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Employment of

Women, 42

Barrow-in-Furness, Deficiency of House Accommodation, Strain on Railways, 207

Beasley, Mr. A., Retirement from Taff Vale Managership and Appointment as Director, 33, 55, 97

Belgian Locomotives in France, 55, 77

Bombay, Baroda and Central India Company

Builds Ambulance Trains, 67

Brazilian Purchase of Locomotives to Expedite Food Supplies to Allies, 519

British Railway Administration, Mr. Lynch’s Questions, 451

Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Scrap, Economical Treatment of Castings, .2.2

Burma Railways Company’s Supplies for

War Purposes, 561

Business or Pleasure,Overcrowded Travelling, 455

Butterworth, Sir A. Kaye, General Manager of North-Eastern Railway to Visit America on Behalf of the Government, 163

Cab Penny Toll Dispute Settled, 561

Cabs and Taxis and Railway Stations, Tolls, 163

Cabs Use of Railway Stations, Position Defined, 163

Caledonian Railway, Collision at Newton Colliery, Result of Inquiry, 55

California and other States ; Level Crossing Regulations, 561

Cambrian Railway Company’s Prizes for

Well-kept Stations, 519

Canadian Dominion and the Maritime Provinces, Intercolonial Railway Completion, 33

Government Railways, New Rolling Stock, 229

Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railways’ Postponement of Adoption of Uniform Gauge, 330

Northern Railway, Petition Against Government Purchase, 207

Northern Railway Taken Over by Government—Question of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, 119

Pacific Railway’s Projected Doubledeck Bridge at Toronto, 33

Railway Association for National Defence, 519

Railway Combination and Removal of Rails to France, 119

Railway Commission, Cost of, 451

Railway Revenues, 141

. Canal Control Committee, Annual Cost, 541 Canal Transport for Coal and Heavy Goods

Traffic, to Relieve Railways, 361

Cape to Cairo Railway, Completion to Bukama on the Congo, 207

Cars Partly Loaded Only; Photographs Sent to Traders to Induce Economy in Use of Railway Facilities, 207, 249

Central Railroad of New Jersey, Economy in Card Passes, 473

Channel Tunnel Project, Government Support

Refused during War, 163

Charing Cross Bridge Strengthening, Bill Passed, 11

Chemin de Fer du Nord, Change of General Manager, 11, 77

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Accident, 385

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company, Saving of Fuel Due to Electrification, 459, 541

Chicago and North-Western Railway and “ Safety First ” Post Cards, 33

Children’s Home in Memory of South Indian Railway Engineer Killed in Action. 229

Clayton Aniline Company and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 271

Coal Consumption on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Pau! Railroad, 163

Control and the Coming Winter, 97, 315 for London, Rail-borne and Sea-borne in 1914 and 1917, 11

Mines in Ireland and Railway Facilities 429

Pooling in United States : Avoidance of, Delay in Shiploading, 337

Rate Differences, Anomalies of Transport, 451

Transport Reorganisation in the North-West of England, 429

Transport Scheme, Great Saving, 497, 519

Wagons to and from Collieries, Investigation of Delays, 497

Wagons and Private Ownership, 315

Collection and Distribution of Goods, Reform Needed, 497

Concrete Disintegration in Linings of Railway Tunnels in America, 163

Copenhagen, New Underground Railway

Stopped for Want of Material, 249

Crane Accident on Breakdown Work, 293

Death of Mr. William Smith, 361

Death of Old Engine-driver Due to Heat, 97

Death of Mr. W. R. Sykes, 293

Difficulties of Railwav Service in War-time, 361

Dividends, Interim, of Certain Railways, 141

/ Drivers’ and Guards’ Difficulty in Regard to Food and Lodgings When Away from Homes, 97

Eastern Bengal Railway Survey for Ferry Boat Service on Jamuna River, 191

Economies of Railway Operation in America, Committee Appointed, 18

Economy and Free Travelling of Conference Delegates, 407

Electric Headlights Replace Oil on Baltimore and Ohio Locomotives, 451

Electric Locomotive Built in Manchuria, 519

Electrification of 211 Miles of the Chicago, i Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, 271

Elmira Water, Light and Railroad Company and Repair of Armature Shafts, 77

Employers’ Liability, Trial Ends in Verdict for the Railway, 497

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Erie Railroad, Discontinuance of Numerous Passenger Trains, 77

Exhibition of Produce of Allotment Holders on the London and South-Western Railway, 229

Fares Increase on London Railways, 229

Fares Increase Unlikely to be Further Extended, 519

Federated Malay States Railways, Favourable Financial Position, 473

Fine for Letting Wagons on Hire Without Government Permit, 481

Fire Outbreak on Ammunition Train ;

Rewards foi Courageous Work of Staff, 337

Flashlights at Level Crossings on the Furness Railways, Source of Economy as well as Safety, 519

Flowers for Manchester Hospitals, Railway Arrangement for Delivery, 141

Fcod Instruction Trains in the United States, 271

France, Northern Railway Chief Engineer Resigning Post, 11

Free Travelling for Army ReServe Munition Workers, 385

Free Travelling for Merchant Seamen Discharged at Other than Usual Port, 337

Freight Train Loads on Eastern Railways of United States, 249

French Railways, Percentage of Expenditure to Receipts, 292

Fuel for Locomotives, Report of Committee on Powdered Coal to International Railway Fuel Association, 33

Fuel Scarcity and Utilisation of Russian Schist for Locomotive Boilers, 451

“ Full Crew ” Rule in New Jersey, 519

Geddes, Sir Eric, First Lord of the Admiralty, Continuance of Relations with North-Eastern Railway, 207

Genoa to Milan Line, Great Loss of Life Due to Derailment of Express Train, 163

German Increased Railway Fares and Demurrage Charges, 229

Goods Storage and Handling in United States, Threatened Troubles, 185

Goods Traffic Increase under Government Control, 141

Government Appointments for Railway Officials, 119

Great Eastern Company Gives Facilities for Coal Storage for Use with Farm Machinery, 97

Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Opening of Parsik Tunnel near Kalyan, 33

Great Northern (U.S.A.) and Northern Pacific . to Keep Posts for Enlisted Employees, 11

Guns versus Locomotive Manufacture, Beyer, Peacock and Co.’s Difficulties, 385

Haiderabad, Serious Railway Collision, 163

Harcourt-street Station, Dublin, Second

Accident to Engine on Same Spot, 207

Highland Railway, Late Chief Engineer as Divisional Food Commissioner for North Scotland, 185

Horse Transport, Controller Appointed, 473

Illinois Central Line Speed Reductions and Resulting Losses, 497

India, Defence of, Government and War Transport Railway Facilities, 315

India, Design and Inspection of Girder Bridges, 407

India, North-Western Railway to Use Oil Fuel, 293

Indian Railways Supplies to Mesopotamia, Unexplained Loss, 163

Indian Traffic Controller Appointed, 141

Indo-Ceylon Connection Working at a Loss, 451

Injury Claim Refused on Ground of Negligence, 11

Injury to Employees,- Notice to Men Seeking Employment, 11

Interavailability of Season and Traders’ Tickets, Restrictions Withdrawn, 361

Interborough Rapid Transit Company’s New York Traffic, 536

Inter-State Commerce Commission :

Car Service Division Formed to Deal with

Distribution Exchange and Return of Freight Cars, 163

Rates Increase, Application Renewed by Railway Companies, 385, 463

Trainload Statistics, 33

Irish Branch of the National Union of Railwaymen, 315

Collieries and Need of Railways, 97

Munition Workers and Christmas Travelling, 429

Permanent Way Men Returned from France to Ireland, 77

Railway Engineers’ Strike, 33

Railway Men’s War Bonus Increased to English Level, 229

Railways Claims in Respect of Rebellion of Easter, 1916, 519

Railways Exempt from 50 per Cent. Increase in Fares, 163

Railways, Wagon Demurrage Regulations, 206

Seaside Resorts and Limited Travelling, 55

Train’s Remarkable Speed. 315

Italian Coal Scarcity Involves Train Reduction, 497

Italian Government Increase in Railway Fares, 519

Italian Minister of Transportation, 11

Italian State Railways, Satisfactory Finance, 249

Japanese Mission to Study American Transport and Industrial Conditions, 519

Kentucky Coalfields and the Virginian Railway, Suggested Purchase by United States President, 207

Kobe’s Elevated Railway, 561

Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company and Government Control, 293

Lewis, J. T., S. Indian Rail way Engineer Killed in Action, Children’s Home in Memory of, 229

Light Railway Commission, Retirement of Colonel Boughey, 361

“ Limited Mail,”" Origin of Term, G. P. Neele, 229

Live Stock at Large on Texas and Pacific Railroad, 211

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued) : .

Live Stock Trespassing on American Railways, Action by all Companies, 249

Liverpool, Increase in Railway Haulage Charges, 271

Locomotive and Railway Material, Exports from the United States, 249

Locomotives for Burning Pulverised Fuel, 33

London and North-Western Hotel at Birmingham, Extensions, 193

London and North-Western Railway versus J. Sankey and Son, Carriage of Wheels, 55

London and North-Western Railway, War Casualties, 229

London and North-Western Railway, Decorations, 519

Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Western Union Telegraph Ccmpany’s Poles, United States Government Intervenes, 97 .

Madrid to Construct Electrical Underground Railway, 185

Manchester Train Service Changes, Midland Railway, 429

Mechanical Stokers on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 385

Melbourne, Railway Electrification in, 451

Meyrick Park, Bournemouth, Halt Closed,407

Midland Railway Collision at Derby, 407

Midland Railway, Derailment of Passenger Train, 271

Motor Cars and Unprotected Railway Crossings, Tennesee Law, 229

Moving Trains, Fatalities Caused by Entering and Leaving, 229

Munition Work in Indian Railway Shops, Increase of Employees, 229

National Union of Railwaymen :

Annual Report, 97

Air Raid Demands, 519 .

and Board of Trade, 293

Deaths in Action or from Wounds, 185

and Mr. J. H. Thomas, 293

Mr. J. H. Thomas’ Autobiography, 451

Newfoundland, Four Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of Discovery, 293

New Jersey and Discontinuance of Numerous Trains by Erie Railroad, 77

New Jersey Public Utilities Commission and Curtailment of Train Service, 168

Newport Light Railways Order, 419

New South Wales, Increased Railway and Tramway Rates. 356

New South Wales Railways, Increased Outlay, 451

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Reduction in Passenger Trains, 141

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Successful Financial Management and Retirement of President, 10

New York State, Rapid Transit System, 153

New Zealand Locomotive, Satisfactory New Type, 527

New Zealand, New Rolling Stock, 561

New Zealand Railways, Traffic Statistics, 385, 429

New Zealand, Trolley Accident in Tunnel, 141

North British Railway Company Increases Salaries and Pays Income Tax of Staff, 207 North-Eastern Railway Allotment Holders and Goat Keepers, 271

North-Eastern Railway, General Manager to Visit America, 163

Northern Pacific Railway Dining Car and the War, 42

Oil, Domestic Production, Broxburn Oil Company and the North British Railway, 11

Oil Shortage and Gas-lighted Railway Carriages, 397

Oil Substituted for Coal on the Western Indian Locomotives, 519

Open Cars for Transport of Goods, Use Forbidden Except for Public Service, 541

Overcrowding at Business Hours, Increased Train Service, 385, 455, 497

Overcrowding on Suburban Lines, 429

Oxted Tunnel Failure and Re-opening, 97

Panama, Projected Railway on Atlantic Coast, 55

Parcels Traffic and Stamp System, 508

Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads’ Reduction of Passenger Trains, 97

Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Suggested Electrification, 83

Pennsylvania Railroad, Men of Foreign Birth, Analysis ; Purchasers of Liberty Bonds, 473

Pennsylvania Railroad and Military Service, 315

Perishable Traffic in America, Wagons in Sidings, 407

Permanent Way, New Type, Demonstration at Townsville, Queensland, 561

Peru, American Locomotives Preferred by, 141

Peru, New Railway to be Financed in New York, 119

Porters’ Tips and Compensation Question, 519

Prosser, Mr. E. A., Manager of Taff Vale as well as of Cardiff and Rhymney Railways, 33

Queensland Government Railways, Investigation, 337

Queensland Government Railways Report, 561

Rails, Steel, Manufacture in Sputh Africa, Trade Impetus Due to War, 229

Railway Benevolent Institution :

Increased Income, 11

Prince of Wales as President, 77

Railway and Canal Commission Court, Trials Postponed to End of the War, 97 Clerks, Male and Female Wages Increase, 561

Clerks’ War Bonus and Superannuation, .271

Crossing Sign in South Carolina, Use as Advertisement Forbidden, 33

Engineer Regiments for France, Nine Called for in the United States, 15

Executive Committee’s Agreement with Men’s Union as to War Wages, 141

Material Exported from the United Kingdom, 11, 77, 185, 315, 385, 497

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) ;

Railwaymen’s Fifth Increase in Pay since War Began, 119

Men’s Further Advance in Pay, 473, 497

Men’s Pay and Government Agreement, 519

Officials Lent to Government but Paid by the Railways, 207

Purchase in the United Kingdom, 541

Returns for 1913, Last Published in Complete Form, 229

Shopmen’s War Bonus, 33, 119 Workers’ Wages, New Adjustment, 185

Railways, Future of, Under Consideration by Board of Trade, 429

Reduction in Train Services, 119

Reduction, Further, in Train Services Improbable, 519

Risk Rates and Companies’ Responsibility, 561

Road, Rail and Water Transport in France, 541

Russian Railway Improvements, 451

Russian Road-beds, Russian Railway Working Difficulties, 293

“ Safety First ” Competition for London Drivers, 249

St. Pancras Station, Wholesale Thefts from, 473

Sao Paulo and Boituba Lines, Conversion to Electric Traction, 429

School Holidays and Railway Travelling, 385

Season Ticket Irregularities ; Greater Strictness Enforced. 315

Season Ticket Price Increase and Government Control, 429, 519

Season Tickets to East London Stations, 77

Season Tickets Inter-Availability, 11, 361

Selous Siding, Rhodesian Railways, 55

Shire Highlands Railway, Survey for Extension from Blantyre to Lake Nyasa, 207

Signalling and Engine Head Lights Colour Confusion, 361

Signalling, Great Need for Automatic System to Prevent Accident, 271

Signals, Colour Experiments on Different Lines, 337

Skilled Railwaymen and War Services, 315

Soldiers’ Fatal Train Accident in Yorkshire, 249, 271

Soldiers’ Leave and Travelling by Train, 141

Soldiers’ Week-end Travelling, Regulations, 497

South African Finance, Increased Revenue from Railways and Harbours, 51

South African Government Order for Superheater Mountain Type Locomotives, 33

South African Railway Stores, Improved Methods. 407

South African Railways Engine Shortage and Traffic Restrictions, 429

South African Railways Signalling Installations, 407

South-Eastern and London, Dover and Chatham Companies’ Dividends, 97

South Indian Railway Company and Ceylon Government. 451

Soutnern Pacific, Cheap Transportation of Goods, 293

Southern Pacific Company’s Short Cut Across the Great Salt Lake, 541

Southern Railway Discourages Negro Emigration from Southern States, 11

Southern Railway Record of Safety, 163

Speed of Trains in United States, Evil Effect of Unnecessary Restrictions, 541

Stanley, Sir Albert, Presentation from Underground Companies to Former Managing Director, 53

State-owned Railways of the World Not One-third of Total, 55

Steel Substitution for Timber in Car Construction, Saving of Timber Effected, 541

Steel versus Wooden Coaches for United States Railways, 119

Stone Throwing at Trains, 315

Summer Train Services Abandoned, 54

Sweden’s Great Shortage of Rails, 451

Swedish Transport Bureau to Control Rolling Stock, 119

Switzerland, No More Passenger Trains on Sundays, 271 .

Taff Vale, Cardiff and Rhymney Railways under Joint Managership, 33, 55, 77, 97 *

Telephone Tests on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, 55

Theft of Goods in Transit, Railway Law, 337

Thefts of Goods from Railways, 249

Tie-plates Attachment to Sleepers, New Type of Plant, 11

Track and Bridge Reconstruction on South African Railways, 429

Track and Rolling Stock for Military Transportation in France, from United Kingdom, India, Australia and Canada. 11

Traffic between England and Wales and Scotland, No Choice of Routes, 519

Traffic Interchange between Furness and Other Railway Lines, 249

Train Overturned by Storm on Kohat Thai Railway, 77

Training of United States Troops, Assistance of the Long Island Railroad, 361

Trains and Railway Changes in October, 293 Tramcar, Fatal Derailment at Dover, J 85, 429 Tramway Receipts Increase in the United Kingdom, 185 ,

Trespassing on United States Railways : “ Disgraceful ” Neglect of the Law, 541 Military Control and Reduction of Accidents, 22

Underground Routes between Certain Stations, Eastbound or Westbound as Preferred, 229

Union Steel Corporation of South Africa, Steel Rail Manufacture, 229

United States Cars Rebuilding, Large Amount of Timber Employed, 561

Census of Railroad Employees of Military Age, 541

Expeditionary Force in France Director-General of Trans-, portation, 337

Government and Loans to Railways, 315

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

United States Government Supplies, Success of Transport Arrangements Due to Pooling of Cars, 337

Military Service and Railroad Labour Stress, 330, 385

National Defence, Rolling Stock or Additional Power and Terminals, 77

Passenger Train Economy, Results, 389

Passenger Train, Reduction and Coal Saving, 42, 77, 185, 389

Production of Rails, Greatly Increased Output, 185

Railway Dining Car Service and Food Saving, 541

Railway Employees Not Exempted, as a Class, from Military Service, 141

Railway Equipment and Supplies, Enquiry by Mr.

. H. C. Hoyle, 385

Railwaymen’s Wages Demand, Action by President Wilson, 451, 561

Railways Fiscal Year, 407

Railways, Mileage of Signalling and of Train Despatching by Telegraph and Telephone, 496

Traffic, Measures for Improvement and Coal Saving, 185

War Board’s Appeal for Railroad Concentration on the War, 219

Victoria, Increase of Railway Fares and Freight Charges, 207

Victorian Government Railways, Superheaters and Fuel Saving, 185

Victorian Railways Working, Mr. T. R.

Johnson Appointed as Commission, 33

Volunteers, Position of Railwaymen in the Event of Invasion, 473

Wagon Ropes, Railway, Pooled, 77

Wagons for Collieries : Board of Trade and Private Ownership, 300

Wagons for France Built in the United States, 451

Wardle, G. H., Rises from Clerk to Board of Trade Secretary, 185

War Gardens on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 315

War-office Department for Railway Control, Expenditure, 407

War Work Volunteers and Travelling Facilities, 429

Weight of Trains, Varying Methods of Calculation, 119

Western Australia, Railway Freight Shortage Due to Lack of Ships for Wheat Transport, 11

Western Australia Railway Wagons and the Vacuum Brake, 33

Western Australia, Traffic and Finance Statistics, 55

Women Employees for the Pennsylvania Railway, Preliminary Inquiry, 22

Women’s Labour in Transport Work, 229

Women of the Midland Railway and the Rifle Club, 337

Women at Military Hospitals, Reduced Fares for, 271

Women as Permanent Way Gang on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, 271

Women as Special Constables on the Great Eastern Railway, 271

Wooden Cars for Passenger Trains in the United States, Steady Withdrawal from Service, 119

Y.M.C.A. Work on United States Railway, Transport of Troops, 361

RAIN-MAKING Plant in Australia, 497

Refrigerating Stores Capacity in United Kingdom, 361

Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete

Research Work and Educational Scheme for Benefit of Cotton Industry, by Messrs. Tootal, Broadhurst, Lee and Co., 207

Resources of Iron—see Iron

Reversing Mill, Electrically-driven, Recently Installed, 77

Road Vehicles, Mechanically-propelled, Large Increase, 361

Roads and Tarspraying, Details of Labour and Material, 337

Rope Drive, Longest Known Life of, 519

Rope Drive, World’s Highest Velocity, 519

Rotary Flying Engines, American Want of Success in Production of, 519

Rubber, Synthetic, Manufacture by Germany, 97

Russian Cotton Seed Oil Industry, 185

Russian Exhibition, 118

Russian Oil Production, High Rate in Spite of Labour Shortage, 33

Russia’s Pre-war Industries, British Capital Employed, 33

s ST. PAUL’S Cathedral, Strengthening of Piers of Transept, 207

Salt Production in Russia, Analysis of, 163

Salt Roadway in Utah, Advantages of, 473

Sanitary Work in the Army, Major A. J. Martin, 328

Scientific and Industrial Research Department’s New Address, 77

Searchlight Improvements and Experiments in Germany, 77

Seine Improvements, to Check Floods and Aid Navigation, 141

Sewage Plant in America, Activated Sludge Compared with Percolating Filters, 561

Sheet Metal Industry, Employers’ Joint Committee Meeting, 420

Shell Forgings, Temperature Considerations, 249

Shell Output in America, 97

Shells, Immensely Increased Output, 33

Shells Used in Capture of Messines, Estimated Weight of Steel, 33

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : American Shipbuilding versus German U-boats, 234

American Steamers Converted to Diesel -engined Ships, 82

Cadiz, Abandoned Shipbuilding Yard to be Re-opened, 185

Canvas as Auxiliary in Steamships Not Required in Diesel-engined Vessels, 207

Charts, Serious Errors Discovered, 407

Concrete Ship Designed at San Francisco, 119 Concrete Ships, Advantages and Cost, 185

Diesel Engines for Submarines in the United States Navy, Attempt to Dispense with Air Starting Valves, 163

Durban, Electric Coaling Plant of New Design, 429

German Diesel-driven Motor Ship W’ilhelm A. Riedermann, 429

German Submarines, Size and Number Stated to be Much Exaggerated, 207

Hong-Kong Shipping Analysis, Increase of Vessels Using the Port, 185

Hulls of Sea-going Vessels, Composition for Dressing, 561

Italian Measures Against Submarine Attack and for Re-construction of Mercantile Marine, 225

Japan, Absence of Pleasure Boating and Small High Speed Petrol Motors, 55 ; (Letter), 384

Japanese Ports, Percentage of Japanese and Foreign Vessels, 140

Japanese Ships Built at Tsurumi, Japan, Warships as well as Merchantmen to be Home Built, 163

Japan’s Shipbuilding Capacity, Great Extension of, 385

Merchant Ships Under Construction in American Shipyards, 361

Norwegian Iron and Concrete Ship Launched, The First, 163

Nova Scotia’s First Home Built Steel Oceangoing Steamer, 185

Panama Canal Terminals Supply Boats, 451

Russian 50-Ton Submarines, 175

Schooner Yacht America, Her Destination, 407

Shipbuilding Berth in Canada, Largest Enclosed for Canadian Vickers Limited, 361

Shipbuilding in the United States, Statistics, 55

Standard Ship, First Under War Conditions, Built at Chepstow, 541

Standard Steamers, Completed, Started and Sunk, 519

Standardised Ships of Cast Steel Constructed at Rate of More than One a Day, 207

Submarine Boat, First Recorded in 1640, 33 Submarine Chasers Ordered from United

States for British and Italian Governments, 385

Submarine Detection by Megaphone, 519

Submarines, Exchange of Periscopes for Lenses on Either Side of the Vessel, 141

U-Boat Dangers, Suggestion to Net the North Sea, 141

U-Boats Failure to Impede Military Operations, 407

United States Call for American Sailors for their New Merchant Marine, 141

United States Collier Jupiter, Safe Arrival with Wheat Cargo in France, 33

United States Emergency Fleet, Details of Contracts, 33

United States Motor-driven Superdreadnought Tennessee, 249

United States New Dreadnoughts, 407

Warship Losses, Causes of, Comparison between Gunfire, Submarines and Mines, 207

Whitby, Prospect of Shipbuilding, 541

Wooden Ships to be Built in Canada, Steam-driven, 141

Wooden Ships 100 Years Old, 229

Wooden Vessels, Best Metal for Screw Shafts, 229

SIAM, Projects for Systematic Irrigation, 207

Silica Bricks, Superiority over Fireclay, 315

Silver’s Increased Price, 293

Silvertown Works Fire, Exaggerated Report’ 163

Slide Rule, Pamphlet on “ Useful Engineers, Constants,” &c., J. A. Burns, 260

Smokeless Fuel for United States Navy, 385

Soap Substitutes in Germany, 119

Soldiers and Sailors, Disabled, to be Employed on Gramophone Manufacture, Works Opened, 361

South Wales Miners and Taxes, 311

South-Western Polytechnic Institute, 154

Spanish Telephone System, Projected Extension, 141

Spanish Works for Home Supply of Ships and War Material, 119

Sparking Plug, Lenoir the Original Inventor, 77

Sparking Plug, Better Insulation Needed, A. Champion, 407

Stainless Steel Cutlery, Use of Chromium Stopped, 271

Stanley, Sir Albert, Former Underground Managing Director, now President of Boaid of Trade, 53

Steam Pressure for Steam Turbines, Increase in America, 497

Stone Falling to Centre of the Earth, Calculation of Time, M. Sanger, 141

Straw for Motor Fuel Gas, Canadian Chemist’s Process, 385

Straw Pulp, Tested in Scottish Mills,. 429

Street Accidents, Wonderful American Invention, 473

Submarine Cable, Largest in the World, 229

Suction Gas Plant in South Africa, Largest in Existence, 293

Sugar or Bananas in Jamaica, 97

Sugar, Motor Spirit and other Products from Mowca Flower, 119

Sulphur Recovery from Smelter Fumes, “ Thiogen ” Process, 229

Sweden, Proposed Government Grant for Grain Storage, 293

Synthetic Indigo Manufacture at Ellesmere Port, Dr. G. T. Morgan, 24

TAXATION of Motor Spirit, Import Duty During tho War, 55

Taxes on Wages, South Wales Miners, 311

Tea-growing Increase in Nyasaland, 146

Tea Mixed with Iron and Steel Borings, 561

Telegram Round the World in 16| Minutes,

New York Times Message, 141

Telegraph and Telephone Mileage in the Federated Malay States, 556

Telegraph, Modern, Principles of, Professor J.

A. Fleming, 328

Telephone Exchange, The Work of, Professor J. A. Fleming, 328

Telephone Exchanges, Automatic, for Sydney, Cost of, 561

Telephone from Montreal to Vancouver, Record Length, 451

Telephone Signalling, Various Methods, 249

Telephone, Underground, “ Continuously

Loaded ” Paper Core, in Shropshire, 97

Telephone, Underground, from Washington to New York, 315

Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, Much the Largest in the World, 249

Textile Factories, Source of Electric Power, 385

Tilbury Dock Enlargement, Completion, 33

Timber in Victoria, Investigation of Development and Best Time for Cutting Mountain Ash, 55

Tin Included in War Material Regulations, 561

Tin Mining in Cornwall, Percentage of Loss of Tin and Wolfram, 519

Tin and Tungsten in Wolfram, Separation by New Process, 361

Tin from Zaaiplaats Smelting Works, South Africa, 428

Titanium, Properties and Uses of, 541

Town Planning After the War, Professor S. D. Adshead, 328

Tractors, Farm, Varieties in the United States, 497

Tractors for Farm Work, Good Ploughing Result, 361

Tractors for Farmers, Government Assistance in Ontario, 55

Tungsten—see Iron and Steel

Turbines, Very Large Geared Marine, Construction in America, 33

Turbo-blowing Plant to Replace Beam Engines After Seventy Years’ Constant Service, 337

U-BOATS With and Without Periscopes, 77

United States Army to Use Browning Automatic Rifle and the Lewis Gun, 163

United States Increased Output of Tractors, 249

United States Record Agricultural Programme,

United States Soldiers, Weight of Metal and

Other Equipment Carried, 519

United States Standard Water-tube Boilers for Emergency Fleet, 519

University College, London, Awards of Scholarships and Diplomas, 66

VEGETABLE Matter in Waterways, Cleared by Mowing Machines from a Launch, 429

Victoria and Storage Silos for Wheat, 249

Viscometers, Need of Standardisation, 271

w WAGONS, Steam, Smoke Nuisance in Sheffield, 33

War Conditions and New Industries, 561

War Truck, American, Details of, 561

Warehouse with Sixteen Acres of Floor Space, for New York Navy Yard, 451

Water Gas, Continuous Process, Aqvist and

Helsing, 293

Water Jackets of Motor Car Engines, Filling up Cracks, 140

WATER SUPPLY: Airdrie, Coatbridge and District Water Trust, Complaints of Deficient Supply, 361

Australia, Artesian Water Supply of, 385

Dartmoor to Plymouth, Success of New Water Main, 519

East London Water Supply from the Buffalo River, 141

Everett, Washington, Details of Scheme, 11

Filtered Water in the United States, Varieties of Filtration Plant, 407

Flow of Water in Wood-stave Pipe, F. C. Scobey, 271

Fluorine and Arsenic in Spring Waters, 385

Japan, Schemes for Water Supply at Tokio, 361

Lancaster’s New Scheme for Supply, 163

Montreal Public Supply Sterilisation, 119

Rand Water Board Report, Record Sale Year, 293

Reservoir Cost in England and America, 561

Winnipeg Water Supply from Artesian Wells, 271

Wood Pipe for Silty Water, Suitable Velocity, 33

Wood-stave Pipe for Water Conveyance, 11

WEATHER Forecasts in the United States, High Average Correctness, 33

Welfare Work, Home Secretary’s Proposals for Factories and Workshops, 97

Welland Ship Canal, Suspension of Work, 271

Westminster Bridge, Curiously Composite Structure, 119

Whale Steaks as Food on the Pacific Coast, 451

Wheat Storage in Silos, Victoria, 249

White Mineral Wool Manufacture from Basalt Rock near Melbourne, 271

Wire Rope Strain and Intelligent Lubrication, 77

Wire Ropes for Collieries, Factor of Safety, 271

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY: Detective Vessel for Wireless Spies and Hoaxers, 315

Japanese Station at Funabashi, Particulars of, 55

Lag in Wireless Time Signals, 429

Messages Picked up Over 11,000 Miles off, 229

Radio-telegraphy and Telephony, Medal of Honour Award, 77

Wireless Installations and “ Jamming,” 561

WOLFRAM from Burma, Increased Export, 293

Wood Block, Paving, Cost Before and Since the Outbreak of War, 55

Wood, New Tropical, Valuable for Heat Insulation, 541

Wood Paving, Latest Practice in, 337

Wool, Pure White Mineral, Uses of, 385

Workmen’s Clothing and Machinery, Numerous Fatalities, 33

Worms and Agricultural Land, 311

X-RAY Industry, British, Need of Capital and

Skill, 33

Y YEAST Used in Germany for Manufacture of Buttons, Knife Handles, &c., 97

Yokohama Pier Reconstruction, Completion,

337

z ZINC in “ Gun-Metals ” for Marine Engineering, 249

Zinc Works, Electrolytic, in Tasmania, 11

Zirconia, Raw and Purified, High Melting

Point of, and Other Properties, 77

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