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ACCIDENTS in Mines and Quarries, Increase, 163

Accidents in the United Kingdom, Reduction in Number, 383

Acetic Acid from Cocoanut Shells, 471

Acetic Acid Production from Bagasse, Sugar Factories’ Potentialities, 273

AERONAUTICS! Aero Engines, More than Forty Different Types Now being Manufactured in United Kingdom, 97

Aero Engines, Types in Most General Use, 253

Aircraft Construction Asked for in Ireland, but Negatived, 141

Aircraft Factory in Ireland, 31

Crossing the Sahara by Aeroplane, 361

Electrically-heated Clothes for Airmen, 73

French Government Aerial Postal Service, 361

German Airships, Aluminium Alloy Used in, 253

Gotha Aeroplane, Particulars of Weight, Rising and Carrying Powers, 295

Landings by Aeroplanes in Small Patches of Level Ground, 53

Liberty Motors, Great Success, 253

Materials Used in Building a Simple Type of Aeroplane, 361

Overhead Valve Aero Engines, 491

Propeller Manufacture, in Germany, Satisfactory ; Use of Cheaper Woods Laminated Together, 73

Shop, Aeroplane, in America, a Quarter of a Mile in Length, 73

Sound Audibility at Various Balloon Heights, 163

Tension of Aeroplane Guys, 152

Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, Outstanding Problems in Aeronautics, Dr. W. F. Durand, 480

World's Flying Height Record Made by Italian, 97

AGRICULTURAL Implements and Machines, Exports from the United States, 231

Agricultural Work, Statistics of Horses and Tractors Employed, 273

Agriculture, Tropical, Aeration and Irrigation, 491

Air Compressor, Two-stage Steam-driven Volumetric Efficiency, 557

Air Compressors and Ammonia Compressors Driven by Synchronous Motors, 361

Air-lift Pump Efficiency ; Increase in Proportion to Heat of Liquid Pumped, 31

Air-lift Pump, Novel Application of, 449

Air-lift Pumping and Submergence Conditions, 427

Air and Similar Gaseous Pressures, Unit for Measurement, 339

Air Supply, Minimum, for Divers, 535

Alcohol from Garbage, 30

Alloy, American, as a Substitute for German Silver, 317

Alloys, Iron, in Acid Manufacture, Ferrochrome and Silicon Iron, 31

Aluminium and Aluminium Alloys Plated with Nickel, Copper, &c., 541

Aluminium Alloyed with Calcium, Superior Metal Results, 427

Aluminium Company’s Endeavour to Get Water Supply from Loch Treig, 31

Aluminium, Electrolytic, Production of the World, 471

Aluminium Industry Development Since Outbreak of War, 557

Aluminium Scrap, Fluxes for Melting, 119

Ambulance Fund, Captain Dennis Bayley, 330

American Motor Car, Projected Year’s Production of One Type, 339

American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, New York Meeting, 434

Ammonia Production in Germany by Synthetic Process, 53

Aniline Colours, Exports from the United States Double the Pre-war Value, 73

Antimony from China; Trade in Japanese Hands, 207

Antimony, Use of, in Ammunition Manufacture, 361

Architects for Workmen’s Cottages ; Government’s Scanty Pay for Designs, 9

Area and Rainfall, Comparison between Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 449

Argentine, Potential Wealth Due to Climate and Minerals, 185

Arsenal, Projected, at the United States Military Base in France, 53

Asbestos Deposits of Rhodesia, Development, 163

Asbestos Output of the United States, 141

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES : Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen :

Merseyside Branch :

Meeting, 109

Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical :

Future of Electric Power Supply, S. J. Watson, 193

Association, Scottish Engineering, Shipbuilding and Metallurgical Research :

Formation, 72

Institute of Chemistry :

Annual Meeting, 242

Institute, Iron and Steel :

Annual and Autumn Meetings, 127

Institute of Metals :

Annual Autumn Meeting, 546

Annual General Meeting and Programme, 105, 193

Formation of Diamonds, The Hon. Sir C. Parsons, 328

Institute, North of England, of Mining and Mechanical Engineers :

Ambulance Fund. Captain Dennis Bayley, 330

Institution of Automobile Engineers : Examination into Causes of Failure of

Lorry Parts on War Service, Lieut.-Col.

R. K. Bagnall-Wild, 418

Meeting ; Awards for Papers, 176

Tank Engines, Geo. W. Watson, 418

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued): Institution of Automobile Engineers (continued) :

Utilisation of the Data of the Automobile Industry through Bureaux of Information, E. A. Savage, 176

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Advantage of Vertical Gas Retort, Alwyne Meade, 295

Gas Manufacture as Costly Now as Thirty Years Ago, Alwyne Meade, 231

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

Election of New Members of Council, 466

Gas-firing Boilers, T. M. Hunter, 181

Overseas Distribution of Engineering Appliances, L. Andrews, 317

Wiring Rules Committee, Recommendation of, 317

Institution, Junior, of Engineers : Gustave Canet Lecture on the Stokes Gun, Sir W. Stokes, 427, 513, 568

Institution of Locomotive Engineers :

Leeds and North of England Centre :

Formation and Appointment of Officials, 383

Institution of Mechanical Engineers :

Employment of Women in Munition Factories, Miss Monkhouse, 361

Sir Robert Hadfield’s Prize for Hardness of Metals Determination Method, 339

War Work of Women on Munition Production in Engineering Shops, B. H. Morgan, 361

Institution of Naval Architects :

Annual Meetings, 62

Institution of Petroleum Technologists:

A New British Oil Industry, Joint Paper, 141

Institution, Royal :

Annual Meeting ; Report ; Election of Officers and Members, 418

Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, Large Endowment Fund Paid, 130

General Meeting ; Elections, &c., 499

Internal Ballistics, Lieut.-Col. A. G.

Hadcock, 455

Lectures after Easter, 284

Poetry and Modern Life, Lawrence Binyon, 455

Romance of Petroleum, Sir Boverton Redwood, 455

Society, Chemical :

Mr. J. S. S. Braino on Action on Lead of Green Oak, Mortars and Concrete, 383

Society of Engineers :

Crystal Palace Engineering Society :

Papers and Awards, 352

Society, Optical :

Cementing Optical Parts, Use of Canada Balsam, J. W. French, 361

Spherometer of Precision, Mr. J. Guild’s Design, 53

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

Society, Rontgen :

Silvanus Thompson Memorial Lecture, Professor Sir E. Rutherford, 239

Society, Royal, of Arts :

Silver Medal Awards for Papers, 557

Tata Iron and Steel Works, H. M. Surtees Tuckwell, 163

Society, Royal Meteorological :

Audibility of Gunfire on the Continent. Mr. Miller Christy, 557

Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution Dr. J. S. Owens, 280

Summer Thunderstorms, Conditions Precedent to Occurrence, J. Fairgrieve, 347 Variations of Underground Water Level Near a Tidal Tiver, E. G. Bilham, 347

ATMOSPHERIC Nitrogen for Munitions and Fertilisers ; Water-Power Plant in Alabama, 231

Australia, Losses by Strikes in 1917, 449

B BALSA, New Wood, Its Properties, 197 Banks in Norway, New Temporary Law, 339 Bauxite Discoveries in British Guiana, British

Government to Retain First Call, 53

Bearing Metal, Alloy Patented in America, 339 Belgium, Economical Reconstruction of, 395

Bevel Gearing, Supposed Inventor and Date, 295

Board of Education Examinations in Science and Technology to be Discontinued, 119

Boiler Efficiency and Velocity, T. M. Hunter, 181

Boiler Explosions in United Kingdom and

United States, Comparison, 534

Boiler Heating with Stripped Coal, 31

Boiler Heating Surface, Loss of Heat Conductivity Due to Soot, 339

Boy Artificers for the Royal Navy,-Nominations, 557

Boy Welfare in the B.S.A. Works, 130

Boys’ Welfare Association, 449

Brickmaking Industry on the Kolar Goldfield, 339

Bridge, Simple Truss, Largest Span in the World, 231

Bridge, Tongabuddra, India, Particulars of, 295

Bridges in New South Wales, Old and New, 207 British Empire Producers’ Organisation, 517 British Engineers’ Association :

Annual Meeting ; Dr. Addison’s Address, 239 British Industries Fairs in London and Glasgow, 31, 242—see also Miscellaneous Index

British Institute of Social Service, Annual Meeting, 92

Browning Light Machine Gun Compared with the Lewis Gun, 339

c CALCIUM Carbide Production, Need of Cheap Raw Material and Cheap Power, 207

Calcium Carbide, Reduced Price, 9

Calcutta, Increased Tax on Motor Cars, 97

Canada, Demand for Power Greatly in Excess of Supply, 97

Canada in Khaki, 130

Canada, Municipal Expenditure, Comparison with English Methods, 96

Canada’s Development as shown by Increased Mails, 491

Canada’s Fuel Requirements, Solid and Liquid, 295

Canada’s Fuel Resources, Situation of Coal and of Peat Bogs, 295

Canada and United States, Use of Electric Furnaces and Output of Metals, 207

Canadian Government Purchase of Agricultural Motors for Farmers, 295

Canadian Imports and Exports, 404

Canadian Water Power Resources, Not One-tenth Developed, 317

Canal Projects, After the War, in France, 207

Canals, Board of Trade Handbook, 154

Carbide Production in Germany for Eventual Manufacture of Synthetic Rubber, 163

Carbon in Fuels, Method of Estimating, 339

Carborundum : Its Past History, 253

Car Design and Accessory Drives, 207

Cashew Nut, Valuable Properties of Nut and Tree, 491

Cattle Slaughter and the Jewish Religion, 69

Centrifugal Pumps : Question of Best Speed for

Driving, 535

Chadwick Public Lectures, H. T. Davidge, 239

Change Speed Gear-box, Permanent Mesh, New Type, F. Sabel, 557

Channel Tunnel Immediately After the War, 513

Charcoal Blast-furnace Experiment in Mysore, 163

“ Cheap Steam,” Ed. Bennis and Co., 97

Chemical Pulp Export from Norway, Distribution to Different Countries, 31

Chicago, Analysis of Vehicles, Horse-drawn and Self-propelled, 405

“ Chichopoxtle,” Valuable New Lubricant from, 513

China : Question of Gold Standard and Rise in Dollar Value, 73

Chinese Wood-oil Tree, Use of Oil in Varnish Manufacture, 31

Circular Tank, To Find the Capacity, 31

Civil Engineering, General Congress in Paris Projected, 97

Clutches, Friction, H. L. Towns, 68

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES : Boiler-house Waste of Coal Due to Lack of

Intelligence and Training, 163

By-product Coke-making in America, Statistics, 163

By-product Coke Manufacture, Weekly Reports in the United States, 383

Canada and the United States, Arrangements for Inter-export of Coal, 427

Coal Conservation, Comparison in Output between Great Britain and the United States, 141 •

Coal Cutting Methods and Wages, Changes of Two Centuries, 16

Coal, Iron, and Copper Discoveries in Algeria, 141

Coal Mining Development in Germany, 31 Coal, Stripped, for Heating Boilers, 31

Coal and Textile Clothing, Production per Head in United States and Great Britain, 141

Coal Transport Saving Scheme, 427

CokeFue] Instead of Oil for Omnibus Running,

Great Economy, 9

Coke Fuel for Steam Wagons, 273

Coke Oven Plants and Utilisation of Waste

Heat, F. E. Harris, 427

Coking Stokers an Absolute Preventative of Smoke, 273

Colliery Machinery, Safety and Signal Device, T. D. Watson, 253

Electric Display Devices in New York, Restrictions to Save Coal, 73

Electric Plants, Wasteful, Suggested Elimination of, to Economise Coal, 405

Electric Power Supply and Coal Conservation, 503

Gas Making and Unsuitable Coal, 207 Heating in Coal Stacks, Prevention of, 273 Natal and the Transvaal, Undeveloped Coal

Seams, 200

Power Production and Coal Consumption, 87

Power Supply and Coal Saving, 231

Sawdust and Wood as Coal Substitutes in Switzerland and France, 185

Spontaneous Ignition, Simple Test for Probability of, in Coal, 449

Storage, Effect on Bituminous Coals, Professor S. W. Parr, 82

Thawing Plants for Frozen Coal in Railway Cars, 382

Waste of Coal in the United States in Obsolete

Steam Engine Plant, 52

COD Liver and Other Fish Oils to Replace Vegetable Oils in Margarine Manufacture, 273

Cold Storage Little Used in France, 97

Columbia River, Great Variation in Flow, 53

Commercial Motor Users’ Association, First

Presidential Address, Colonel Crompton, 405 Concrete for Building Government Cottages, 31 Concrete Cargo 5000-Ton Steamship under

Construction in America, 231

Concrete Coaling Station for Locomotives on the Lehigh Valley, Notable Features, 535

Concrete Construction Specifications, 557 Concrete, Effect of Salts of Alkali Water, 427 Concrete Outfall Sewer on the Bottom of Lake

Erie, 491

Concrete, Reinforced, Action of Salt on, Necessary Precautions, Professior H. J. M. Creighton, 73 A

Concrete, Reinforced, Building with Floor Space of 24 Acres, 9

Concrete, Reinforced, in Machine Tools, 361

Concrete, Reinforced, Test to Ascertain “ Point of Destruction,” 557

Concrete, Resistance to Sea Water Affected by Workmanship, Experiments, 141

Concrete Roads in America, 50,000,000 Square Yards, 97

Contraction of Volume of Certain Substances After being Dissolved in Water in Increasing Quantities, 317

Conversion Tables, Hoffmann Manufacturing

’ Company, 416

Copper Articles, Black Finish for, 361

Copper, Colour Changes Due to Special Treatment, 141

Copper Melted for Castings, Need of Care, 9

Copper Mines in Queensland, Reopening, 97

Copper and Tin Mixture, Addition of Aluminium, 231

Copper Zinc Alloys, Influence of Cadmium on,

Leon Guilletr 474 }

Corliss Engines: Centenary of Inventor s Birth, 535

Cotton in Madras, Government Grown, Result of Experiments, 185

Crusher, New Type, for Coke and Coal, 427

Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and

Awards, 352

Cuprous Oxide, Formerly German Monopoly, Now Made in England, 339

Cutting Points on a Grinding Wheel, 491

D DAM, Arch-, Lightest Section, in the World, New South Wales, 405

Dam on the Cimarron River, New Mexico, Dimensions and Interesting Features, 383

Dam, Concrete, for Supply of Salt Lake City, Storage of 300,000,000 Gallons, 535

Dams, Multiple-arch Reinforced Concrete,

Growing in Number in America, 535

Daylight Saving in United States, 449

Death of Mr. Thomas Greenwood, 513

Death of Mr. H. J. Swindley, 73

Decimal Coinage Bill Pressed for, 339

Decimal Coinage Supported by the Federation of British Industries, 427

Diamonds, Formation of, Sir C. Parsons on, 328

Dock, New, for Barrow-in-Furness, Furness

Railway Company and Vickers, Limited, 185

Domestic Fat Trap, 369

Drill Hole Nearly 5000ft. Deep, 427

Dye Industry, British, and Railway Charges on Raw Chemical Material, 471

E EDUCATION in Aeronautical Technology and Aircraft Architecture, 491

ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Aberystwyth, Electro-Power Station for, 97

Alarm Signal Actuated by Sensitive Selenium Cell, 97

Argentine Republic, 238 Central Electricity Stations in, 163

Army Demand for Electricians and Equipment, 207

Association of British Electrical Engineers, Proposed Formation of, 303

Auto-transformer to Transform 12,000 Volts to 24,000 Volts, 163

Bar Mill, Electrically-driven, at Ohio Works, 185

Batteries, “ Storage,” or “ Reversible,” 231

Blind People’s New Occupation, 490

Boosting, Need of Provision for, in Design of

Charging Equipment for Electric Motor Vehicles, 53

Cable, Safe Working Internal Temperature of, 449

Canadian Water Powers, Advantageous Situation of, 449

Chadwick Public Lectures, H. T. Davidge, 239

Cheap Power near Strathpeffer, 460

Clothesj Electrically Heated, Some Anticipated Results, 73

Coal Conservation and Power Supply, 503

Coal and Electric Energy, Inter-export Arrangements between Canada and United States, 427

Commonwealth Edison Company Generating Station One of the Largest in the World, 513

Composite Insulating Materialslnvestigation, 504

Cooking and Heating by Electricity, Greatly Increased Use of, 295

Domestic Appliances, Electric, Greatly Increased Sale of, in U.S.A., 253

Dry Cell Recuperation, C. F. Burgess, 73

Eel in the Pipe Line Shuts Down Electricity Supply, 39

Effects of War Conditions, on Cost and Quality of Electric Service, L. S. Goodman and W. B. Jackson, 185

Electrical Heating, Question of Development, 339

Electric Winding Engines, John F. Perry, 207

Factory for Electrodes in Norway, 489

Generating Station at Saint Barthelemy, 427

Generating Systems, Large, of America;

Outputs, Peak Loads and Load Factors Statistics, 383

German Electrical Plant, Widespread Failure in Working, 253

High Voltage Insulators; Deteriorating ' Effects of Corona, 119

Hot Water Supply from Electricity Stations, W. M. Selvey, 317

Hydro-electric Generating Station in Iowa, Complete Automatic Working, 52

Increasing Load, New Steam Plant for, Special Economisers Used, 207

Induction Meters’ Adaptation to Different

Frequencies, Difficulties, 405

Induction Motors on the Witwatersrand, 510

Insulating Material; Ingredients and Properties, 119

Insulating Properties of Fish Offal Byproduct, 535

Iron Piping for Bus-bars Replaces Copper in an American Central Station, 73

Japanese Electrical Industry, Statistics, 231

Japan’s Increased Use of Electricity in Steel Manufacture, 119

Lancaster Motor Omnibuses, Mileage and Finance, 317

Leek Linking-up Scheme, 273

Lifting Magnet in the United States, Immense

Saving of Labour by Use of, 273

Lighting Restrictions and Electricity Meters, C. H. W. Gerhardi, 557

Lightning Flash, Electric Quantities in, 471

Long Distance Electric Transport, Not Yet Called For, 317

Manchester, Future Standard for Transmission, 565

Mechanical Design of the Turbo-Alternator Rotor, S. F. Barclay, 317

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :

Methane Detector, Electric, for Use in Mines, 471

Motors, Return Ordered to be Made in Germany; Possible Connection with Copper Scarcity, 97

Motors for Textile Mills, Smaller Sizes in Favour, 185

Names of Men of Science to Denote Units, Objections to Practice, 73

Niagara Falls, Proposed Consolidation of Three Power Companies, 447

Niagara; Power Generation and Supply Comparison between Canada and United States, 513

North-West Station, U.S.A., Big New Electrical Installation, 361

Petrol Motor Cars and Electric Lighting and Starting; Double or Single Unit Question, 231

Power Factor of an Alternating Current Circuit, 513

Power Line 22,000 Volt in California, Reinforced Concrete Poles for Six Miles Length, 383

Power for Oilfields, in Baku and in Roumania, 527

Rand Mine, Second Electric Furnacelnstalled, 471

Record Output and Earnings from Sale of Electric Energy, 163

Restriction of Electric Display Devices in New York and Saving of Coal, 73

Saving of Coal by Elimination of Wasteful Electric Plants, 405

Shoe Factory, Entire Equipment Electrical, 273

Single-phase Transformers, Ordinary High Pressures for, in America, 231

Steam Pressure of 300 lb. per Square Inch in Central Generating Station, 273

Studs, Back Connection, for Switch Gear, Variations in Type of, 253

Technical Story of the Frequencies, B. G. Lamme, 163

Temperature Effects in Direct Current Meters, G. W. Stubbings, 253

Transmission of Power Across the St. Lawrence River, Submarine and Overhead Cables, 449

Trucks, Charging, Enormous Consumption of Power at Bush Terminal, New York, 535

Turbine Room Equipment of New Glasgow Power Station, 273

Units of Electricity to Melt a Ton of Steel, Figures, 405

Vaseline Replacing Air in a Cable Duct, Experiment, 383

Vereeniging^ S. Africa, Fourth Largest Power Station, 9

Voltaic Cell, New Form of, on French Railways, 471

War and Electricity Supply, 82

“ Will-o’-the-Wisps,” Perpetual Motion and the Ideal High-voltage Generator, 9

Wire Manufacture for Electrical Purposes, Big Preparations in America for After-War Trade, 383

ELECTROLYTIC Copper, Modulus of Elasticity, Working Conditions in Design of Transmission Lines, 9

Electrolytic Process of De-oxidisation, 152

Electroplating for Aluminium, New Process, 541

Embankment to Protect the City of Concepcion from Flooding of Bio Bio River, 9

Engineer and Engineering, Need of Legal Definition, 185

Engineering School at Portland, 243

Engineering Standards Committee Incorporated, 471

Engineering Student : Accusations of Apathy, 383

Engineering Students in the United States, Proportion Exempted from Military Service, 163

Engineering Trades (New Industries) Committee, 303

Engineers’ Club for the Midlands, 491

Engineers for War Service, Suggested Certificates, 427

Engines of Various Classes, Average Weights per Brake Horse-power, P. N. Everett, 253

English Weather, 503

Etching Brasses and Bronzes, 231

Ethyl Chloride Prepared by Grove’s Process, 231

Evaporation and Stefan’s Law, N. Thomas and

A. Ferguson. 427

Exhibition of Enemy Countries Products and

Appliances Now Produced in United Kingdom, 383

Exhibition of Products and Appliances Made at Home Formerly Imported from Enemy Countries, 535

Explosions, Dust Barriers for Prevention in Alberta, Canada, 97

Explosive from Liquid Oxygen, Experiments in United States, 295

F FARTHINGS, Great Increase in Issue of Coins, 9

Firebricks from Coal Ash, Value of New Process, 31

Fire Waste in Canada Greatest in the World, 299

Fires in New York Attributable to Defective Electrical Installations, Analysis, 535

Fish Freezing in Brine, Greatly Improved Method, 273

Flax Cultivation in Canada and India, 185

Flax Supply of the World Absorbed by Countries at War, 119

Fluxes for Melting Aluminium Scrap, ] 19

Foreign Technical Press, A Review of, 570

Foreign Trade, 264

Forged Axles, Hollow, Question of Strength, 471

Forgings, Cooling, by Compressed Air, 285;

(Correction), Sandberg’s Patent, 373

Forth and Clvde Ship Canal, Scheme Suspended, 557

Freezing, Permanent, Depth of, 317

Friction Clutches, H. L. Towns. 68

Fuel Consumption, Test and Record Motor

Cycle Run in California, 557

Fuel, “ Non pinking,” for Motor Cars, 73

Furnace, Martin, Heating with Wet Lignites, 535

G GAS, Absorbent, for Fighting Poisonous Gases, American Discovery, 535

Gas, Coal, Replacing Petrol for Commercial Vehicles, 231

Gas Manufacture as Costly Now as Thirty Years Ago, Alwyne Meade, 231

Gas for Motor Vehicles, Obtainable from all but Three Undertakings, 163

Gas for Motor Vehicles, Use Restricted, by Board of Trade, 31

Gas or Petrol for Motor Vehicles ; Different Aspects of the Question in United Kingdom and in Australia, 9

Gas Production from Sawdust or Wood Instead of Coal, 73

Gas-propelled Motor Car in Paris, 253

Gas Traction, Conversion of Commercial Motor

Vehicles, 141

Gas Traction in Manchester, 405

Gas Traction and Unsuitable Containers, 427

Gauge Work Tolerance, Tests in an_ American University, 471

Gear Standardisation and Uniformity of Commercial Practices in Marketing Gears, in America, 535

German Machine Tools, Increased Output, 449

Germany’s Agricultural Research Institutions, 295

Germany’s Engineering Debt to British Engineers, 53

Germany’s Large Purchases of Wool from South Africa before the War, 207

Gifts for the Labour Companies Overseas, 215

Glasgow, Fixed Bridge Over the Clyde, Erection Recommended, 361

Glasgow, Joint Catalogues of Technical Book in Various Libraries, 361

Glass Products in the United States, Excess of Imports in 1914 and Excess of Exports in 1917, 73

Glommen River, Norway, as Important Industrial Site, 53

Gold Mines, Precarious Position in South Africa, 9

Gold Production of the World, 273

Gold from Southern Rhodesia. 513

Gold, World’s Output, British Empire Proportion, 17

Greenwich Observatory, Magnet House Superseded, 491

Gun, The Stokes, Lecture by Sir Wilfrid Stokes, 427, 513, 568

H HAUGESUND, Norway, Projected Port Improvements, 9

Hankow, Increase .of Motor Vehicles and

Probable Road Improvements, 73

Hardness of Metals, Prize Fund Presented by Sir Robert Hadfield, 339

Heat, New Principle in the Flow of, Dr. C. Hering, 316

Heat Transmission of Building Materials, A. C.

Willard and L. C. Lichty, 557

Heating and Domestic Engineers’ Programme, 273

Hong-Kong, Motor Road Round Island, 163

Horse-power, Steam Engine and Water, in the

United States, Estimated Quantity Undeveloped, 273

Hot Water from the Depths of the Earth, Temperature Increase in Proportion to Depth, 9

Houses for the Working Classes, Local Government Board Plans, 141

Housing and Town Planning, National, Subdivision of Houses, 317

Housing of Working Classes,‘Financing Private

Enterprise, Scheme for, 253

Hydro-electric Generating Station in Iowa Automatically Operated, 52

Hydrogen to Replace Petrol in Switzerland, 491

I ICELANDIC Trade, Chamber of Commerce for Promoting and Protecting, 119

India, Early Attempts to Establish Iron and Steel Industry, 185

Indian Munitions Board Shipbuilding Branch Started at Calcutta, 317

India’s Great Demand for Maps, 317

Industrial Reconstruction Council, 280

IRON AND STEEL: Annealing of Cold-hammered or Hardened Steels, Comparison, 339

Australian Steel Foundry Plants, Details of, 317

Brazil and Iron Ore, Rich Supplies, and Facilities for its Use, 231

Charcoal Blast-furnace Experiment in Mysore, 163

Cooling Forgings by Compressed Air, 285 ; (Correction), C. P. Sandberg’s Patent, 373

Crucible Steel Manufacture, Paper by Mr. F. B. Lounsberry, 557

Differential Dilatometer for Thermal Investi -gations on Steels, M. Pierre Chevenard, 53

Electricity Required to Melt a Ton of Steel, 405

Ferro-chrome and Silicon Iron as Alloys in Manufacture of Acids, 31

Ferro-manganese Production in Spain, 449

Furnace-charging Machines’ Long Life, 273

Iron Ore Deposits in India, Very Rich, 163

Japan, Steel Production in, 273

Japanese Gain Concession of Important Iron Mine, 541

Lincolnshire Ironstone Measures, Almost Inexhaustible, 273

Lloyd Wells Process for Steel Tubing Manufacture, 207

Magnetic Steel Band Drive, P. L. Weston, 339

Malleable Castings, Analyses of, 97

Malleable Castings and the Converter Method of Manufacture, 97

Malleable Castings, Output in Great Britain and United States, Comparison, 97

Manganese Imported by the United States, Appeal to Patriotism of the Steel Industry, 119

IRON AND STEEL (continued):

Manganese in Steel Manufacture, Method of

Testing for, T. F. Payne, 53

Mn Steel Experiments, M. A. Portevin, 53

Molybdenum in Ores, Method of Determining, 119 --

Molybdenum and Tungsten, Extensive

Deposits Found in Sonora, Mexico, 427 National Council on Trade Policy Projected, 513

Pig Iron, Salving of Barge Load of, from Tennessee River, 253

Protection of Cast Iron Against Rust, 273

Queensland, Ore with Higher Percentage of

Iron than Any in Great Britain, 222 Queensland, Suggested Iron and Steel Works, 427

Russian Government to Control Iron and

Steel Industry, 339

Sandberg Sorbitic Steel, 285, 373 I

Steel Puddling at £1500 a Year, 185

Steel Recovery from Old Tin Cans, 557

Steel Tube Manufacture, Proper Annealing, 513

Steel Wire and Corrosion ; A Question of

Copper Percentage, 231

Sulphur in Steel Castings, Changes in Raw Material and New Processes, 405

United States Output in Finished Steel, 426

Utilisation of Steel Scrap, Report by

Industries Committee of House of Representatives, 97

West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute, Proposed Change of Name, 306

ITALIAN Metallurgical and Mechanical Industry, Increase of Capital by the Ilva Company, 207

Italy, the Leading Motor Car Exporting Nation, 119

Italy’s Export of Motor Vehicles, 491

J JAPANESE Great Industrial Expansion, 207

Japan’s Proposed Increase of Spindles, Diffi

culties of Import, 53 .1

Japan’s Proposed Outlay on Road-making, 141 Jute Manufacture, India Most Important

Country for, 163

K KNITTING Machine Needles in South China Factories, Great Scarcity of, 253

Koenigsberg Canal and Harbour Enlargement, 557

L LABORATORIES, Government, London,

Report, 185

Labour Disputes and Stoppages of Work, 141

Labour Resettlement Committee, Employers’ Representative, 471

Laundry Industry, Expansion Anticipated,

Machinery Largely Imported from America, 53

Lead Exports from the United States, Consumption of Great Britain and Canada, 557

Leeds Automatic Telephone Exchange, Largest in Europe, 557

Lighthouses, Annual Report of the Commissioner, 163

Lighting and Heating, Central Stations and Isolated Plants, 471

Locomotive Boiler Explosion, Strange Result, 9 Lorries, 3-Ton,“ Machine ” for Assembling and

Total Completion of One per Half-hour, 295 Lubricating Material Substitutes in Germany, 535

Luncheon Meetings for Business Men, 517

M MAGNETOS, Large Output by the British Ignition Apparatus Association, 140

Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Metal

Merchants’ Suggestion, 198

Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 503

Maps in the American Army, Rapid Reproduction by Blue-printing and Lithography, 383

Marbles, Coloured, and Beautifully Grained from South-West Africa, 535

Marine Surveyors to the Board of Trade, 239

Mechanical Stoking in 1785, James Watt, Patentee, 97

Metal Production from Canadian Ores in 1917, 163

Meteorite Fragments in Scotland, 9

“ Methanephone ” for Methane Gas Detection, 432

Micromanometer and its Uses, 427

Military Motor Lorry, 3-Ton, Equipped for

Operation on Coal Gas, 141

Mine in Brazil, Deepest in the World, 295 Mineral Resources of Great Britain, 374

Minerals in the Siamese Malay States, Very

Rich Area, 141

Motor Car Engine of New Sleeve Valve Type, 361

Motor Car Export, Italy the Leading Nation, 119

Motor Car Industry in America, High Figures, 339

Motor Car Popularity in Canada, 405

Motor Car Suspension, Improvements, but Need of More, 258

Motor Car Taxation Assessment in Alberta, 295

Motor Cars in America, Reported Use of Three-cylinder Rotary Petrol Engine, 339

Motor Cars with Gas Container Trailers, Speed Limit Alteration, 163

Motor Car’s World’s Speed Record, 53

Motor Commercial Vehicle Chassis Built Upside

Down, 405

Motor Fuel in France after the War, Alcohol and Benzol Mixture, 449

Motor Gas Equipment, Standardisation of Filling Orifices, 163

Motor Tractors in Rubber Cultivation, Great Advance in Efficiency, 163

Motor Trucks for American Army in France, Huge Number Required, 405

Motor Vehicle Working on Natural Gas, Experiment, 423

Motor Vehicles, Commercial, Driven on Coal Gas instead of Petrol, 295

Motor Vehicles and Government Control, Differentiation between Petrol and Electricity, 231

Munitions in the London District, 449

N ALENE for Power Purposes, 53

Natalite, a Motor Spirit, 324

Natural Gas for Motor Vehicle, Working, 423

Natural Gas, Tests for Petrol, in the United States, 449

Naval Gun, Powerful and Durable, for American Battleships, 185

Newfoundland Fish Supplies Landed at Fleetwood, 53

New York Garbage Reduction Works, 568

Niagara Falls, Ten Millions a Year, or a View ? 449

Niagara—see czZ.se Electrical Matters

Nickel, World’s Production of, Enlarged by Six Times since 1900, 317

Nile Floods in Autumn of 1917, Abnormal, Anticipated Benefit, 119

Norway, Rolling Mill Plant and Government Loan,119

o OCCUPATIONS Available for Discharged Soldiers, 141

Oil-field Discovery near Los Angeles, 97

Oil for Lubrication, Most Important Properties, 491

Oil Seeds Production in India, 471

Oil, Valuable Lubricant from “ Chichopoxtle ” Fruit, 513

Oil Wells in America, Use of Electric Power for Drilling, Cleaning and Pumping, 535

Oil Wells in Galicia, Great Depths, 557

Oil Wells, Prolific, in Mexico, 535

Old Cloth Tracings and Tin-foil, 286

Onyx Discovery in Tampico, Mexico, 471

Order of the British Empire, 81-- see Miscellaneous Index

Oven Gas for Domestic and Other Uses, 383

Oxy-acetylene Welding, Remarkable Example, 185

p PAINT to Withstand Heat, 115

Paints, Temperature Sensitive, 405

Paints and White Lead Scarcity, 53

Paper Pulp from Blady Grass in Queensland, 427

Paper Pulp and Timber in Canada, 405

Paris Bombardment ; Reported Record on United States Seismographs, 535

Patent Claims in the United States, Recent Ruling, 317

Patent Office Library’s Photostat from Sir Robert Hadfield, 513

Pension Scheme in Canada, 289

Perishable Food Imports into the United Kingdom in Pre-war Times, 53

Petrol Motor Cars and Electric Lighting and Starting ; Double or Single Unit Question, 231

Petrol Price in America, 207

Petrol, Synthetic, Process for Production, L. B. Cherry, 449

Petrol from the United States, Increased Exports, 73

Petroleum in Mexico, Scantily Utilised owing to Lack of Transport Facilities, 491

Petroleum Spirit Refinery, Unsatisfactory Methods, 53

Petroleum from United States, A World’s Necessity, 53

Philadelphia’s Record Pumping Plant, 207

Photostat, Sir R. Hadfield’s Present to Patentoffice Library, 513

Pipe, Cast Iron, of all Sizes, Machine for Making, 253

Pipes, Compressed Cellulose, Satisfactory Except for Steam, 317

Pith, Sunflower and Sola, for Helmets, 491

Platinum, Result of Analyses, 339

Platinum in Russia Bought up by German Agents, 339

Platinum in Russia, First Record of Discovery, 317

Platinum Substitute for Electrical Purposes, 31 Platinum Substitute at One Half Cost, 273

Platinum Wire Fine Enough to Replace Spider’s Web in Telescopes, 339

Plymouth’s Lack of Cold Storage : Question of New Commercial Harbour, 53

Pneumatic Trench Mortar, French, Propelling Charge, 9

Pneumatic Tyres Inner Tube, German Method of Preserving Elasticity, 535

Polytechnic School of Engineering, Sir C. A. Parsons as President, 557

Portland Cement of Indian Manufacture, 471

Portland School of Engineering, 243

Potash Extracted from Cement Rock, Saving Effected by Use of Common Salt, 163

Power Supply in the United Kingdom, Need of Improvement in Methods, 231

Press Censor and the House that Jack Built, 119

“ Pseudo-Data,” Boiler Explosions in United Kingdom and United States, 534

Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada, Steady Growth, 31

Pumping Engine, Atmospheric, Still Used, 130 Years Old, 405

Q

QUEENSLAND Artesian Water Supply, 303

Queensland Grass for Paper Pulp, 427

Quicklime Expansion Under Moisture, Utilisation of this Force, 513

R RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS: Accident in Aberdeen Joint Station, 557

Accident Due to Broken Carriage Axle, 207

Accident Due to Falling Rock, 361

Accident at Penge Station, 557

Accidents Branch of Board of Trade, 141

Accidents, Pre-war and Now, Great Reduction in Board of Trade Enquiries, 53

Accidents and Road Level Crossings in United States, 513

Agricultural Produce and Railway Charges, 383

Alaska, Government Railway’s Delayed and Costly Progress, 535

Aliens’ Reported Exodus from London, 339

Aliens’ Use of Railways, 347

Ambulance Train for American Troops on the Continent, 185

Ambulance Trains Built at Stratford, 163

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued ) ;

Ambulance Trains for United States Troops Building at Swindon, 31, 207

American Railway in France, 130

American Railwaymen’s Report on Japanese Railways, 295

American Railway Passenger Rates, 449

American Railway Workmen in France, Brave Assistance in Repulsing German Attack, 73

Appointments and Staff Changes, 9, 31, 53, 97, 141, 253, 273, 295, 339, 361, 405

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Concrete Roadways in Shops and Stores Yards, 471

Australian Chief Railway Commissioner, 53 Australian Railway Construction Since 1850, 557

Ayr Harbour and Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company, 339

Baldwin Locomotives for France in Temporary Use on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, 97

Baltimore and Ohio Express Transference from New Jersey Terminus to New York City, 535

Belgian Locomotives for American Expeditionary Force, 73

Billinton, Mr. L., London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Return to England, 557

Birthday Honours for Railwaymen, 491, 513

Birthday Honours for Railwaymen in India, 513

Board of Trade Power of Control of Railways and Rolling Stock in War-time, 9

Bridge Over the Ohio River Built by the Paducah and Illinois Railroad, 97

Bridge, Pennsylvania, at Louisville, Badly Damaged by Fire, 535

Bristol Corporation and Great Western and Midland Railway Companies, Legal Decision, 339

British Railway Funds and the Dividend Question, 53

Caledonian Railway Passenger Train and North British Light Engine, Collision, 557

Canadian Government Taking Over Railways and Leasing Them, 449

Canadian Military Deeds Commemorated by Re-named Stations on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 53

Canadian Minister of Railways, A New Office, 361

Canadian Railroad Commission, Rates Increase Question, 273

Canadian Railway Equipment ; Financing Purchase, 361

Canadian Railways Increase in Rates for Passengers and Freight, 9

Canadian War Board and Labour Unions ; Resistance to Removal of Rails, 231

Canal Employees and War Bonus, Comparison with Railways, 273

Canal Traffic Between Bristol and Liverpool ; Possible Interference with London’s Seaborne Traffic, 231

Canals and Goods Traffic Congestion, 339

Canals Used to Relieve Congested Traffic on Railways, 119

Castlecomer Collieries, Transit Facilities, 141 Central of New Jersey Railroad Passes, 97 Charing Cross Bridge Strengthening,. Attitude of the Joint Committee, 207

Chicago—New York Twenty-hour Express Taken Off, 31

Chicago Track Elevation Work, Appeal to Patriotism, 427

Clydach, Pontardawe and Cwmgorse Railway, Construction Suspended, 207

Coal on American Locomotives, Immense Saving if Lines Electrified, 361

Coal Consumption on U.S. Railways, 535

Coal in the Neighbourhood of the Great Southern and Western Railway, Adverse Report by Irish Solicitor-General, 253

Coal for New Zealand Railway Locomotives, Increased Cost, 31

Coal Transport Saving Scheme in America, 427

Coal Transport Scheme ; Great Saving in Ton Mileage, Glasgow and S. Western Railway, 231

Collision on the Louisville and Nashville Railway, Unusual Action by the President of the Line, 97

Commercial Travellers’ Week-end Fares in Ireland Not Increased, 119

Concrete Ties Still in the Trial Stage, Difficulties, 53

Cork City Railway and Other Lines, Need for Further Connections, 141

Crewe Brotherhood, Mr. Winston Churchill’s Message, 53

Damaged Food and Foodstuffs on the Pere Marquette Railroad, 491

Danger in Walking on Railway Track, 405

Death of Mr. Joseph W. Taylor, 491

Delaware and Hudson Railroad Freight Locomotives: Increase in Engines and Train Loads, Statistics, 557

Derailment at Level Crossing in U.S.A., Due to Motor Car, 295

Directors’ First-class Free Passes, Suggested Withdrawal Refused, 141

Dividends of various Railways, 119

Doors of Railway Carriages, Device for Prevention of Accident, 253

Dublin and South-Eastern Company ; Grey* stones to Wicklow Line Strengthening, 317

Economy of Railway Electrification, Curious Comparisons, 31

Economy in Use of Oil Fuel, Decoration Mark for Best Record, 449

Eggs, Railway Conveyance of, 273

Egyptian State Railways, Increase in Fares and Freight Charges, 339

Electric Locomotives. 50 Ton : The First-Built at the South Manchuria Railroad Shops 361

Electric Railway between Tampico and Mexico, 471

Enemy Officer Prisoners’ Railway Accommodation, 427

Equipment, Railway, After the War, Anti cipated Large Demand, Dr. Addison, 92

Essex, Need of Light Railways, Government Appealed to, 317

Express Through Trolley Line between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, 535

Fares Increase on London Railways ; Controlled and Uncontrolled Lines, 251

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Farm Purchase by Great Eastern Railway, 207

Federated Malay Statesand Siamese Southern Railways, Linking up, Difficulty in Getting Railway Material, 97

First-class Privileges in War-time, 9, 491

First and Third-class Accommodation, Relative Amounts Required, 339

Fish Delay in Transit by Sea ; Railway Not to Blame, 163

Fish from Ireland, Withdrawal of Trains Question, 471

Fish Traffic, Special Trains and Trucks, Great North of Scotland Railway, 231

Fog in South-West London ; Fatal Railway Accidents, 119

Food Question ; Supplies for Trainmen when from Home, 141

Food Savings, Very Great, on United States . Restaurant Cars, 97

France, British Army Transport in, Large Increase in Dock Capacity and Railway Material of All Kinds, 53

French Language and Locomotive Driving, 253

French Railway Officials’ War Honours, 383

Frozen Fish, Railway Charges on, 535

Fuel and Transport Economy and the Celebration of Washington’s Birthday, 273

Furness Railway Company and Vickers, Limited, New Dock for Barrow, 185

Furness Railway Company’s Indebtedness for Assistance in Engine Power from Other Lines, 231 ■ . -

Furness Railway Company’s Need of Rolling Stock, 231

Furness Railway Staff Changes, 273

Galway Proposed as a Transatlantic Port, 317

Garden Crops on the Right-of-Way of Texas and Pacific Railroad Company, 53

Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Additional Capital Required, 31, 97

Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Future Position Uncertain, 73

Glasgow and South-Western Saving Due to Coal Transport Scheme, 231

Government Payments to Railways for War Expenses, 449

Gowdall to South Yorkshire Line Opened for Goods and Mineral Traffic, 163

Grain Silo at Hull, Hastening Completion, 163 Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, Suggestion of Unfair Treatment, 405

Great Central Railway Docks Engineer, 141

Great Central Railway Secretary Retires, Successor Appointed, 31

Great Central Railway 2-8-0 Type Engines for France, 339

Great Eastern Railway Discontinues Sea Water Carriage, 73

Great Eastern Railway Men with the Colours, Assistance to Men and their Dependants, 185

Great Eastern Railway and Post-office Tube, Arbitration Decision, 317, 427

Great Eastern Railway’s Purchase of Cargo Steamer, 185

Great Eastern Railway and Season Ticket Rate Increase, 513

Great Eastern Railway Timber Contracts in France, Timber Handed to British Government, 185

Great Eastern Railway’s War Traffic, Statistics, 163

Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Receipts and Expenditure, 97

Great Northern and also Midland Railway Stock ; Much Smaller Amounts Owned by Much Larger Number of Shareholders, 163

Great Northern Railway of Ireland, Changes in Passenger and Goods Traffic owing to the War, 253

• Great Northern Railway of Ireland, New Work on, 273

Great Northern Railway, U.S.A., Increased Protection Against Snow, 73

Great Southern and Western Railway, New Colliery Line from Athy, 317

Great Southern and Western Railway Traffic Increased by Government Action in Regard to Tillage and Prices, 295

Great Western Railway Ambulance Trains and Rolling Stock for Railways Overseas, 31, 207

Great Western Railway Luncheon Baskets Stopped, 207

Great Western Railway’s Largely Increased Traffic for War Purposes, 207

Great Western 1 rain’s Excess Speed at Slough, 295

Highgate-road Station Closed, 163

Highway Improvements in America to Relieve the Railroads, 513

Housing of Railway Servants, Steps Taken by North Staffordshire Railway, 253

Hungarian and Austrian Locomotive Factories, 535

Increased Fares Revenue, the Property of the State, 491

India, Absence of Primary Industries and Railway Difficulties, 513

Indian Coal, Great Increase in Rail-borne Amount Owing to the War, 317

Indian Railways, Three Accidents, 73

Indo-Burma Connection ; Alternative Routes, Survey, 343

Industrial League ; Labour Members’ Visit to America, 480

Inter-Colonial Railway Accident Statistics, 427

Interstate Commerce Commission—

Collisions and Derailments, Investigation by Safety Division, 73

Extension of Powers Sought, 73

Limitation of Period of U.S. Government

Control of Railways, 119

Locomotive Boiler Inspection Law ; Accident Statistics, 73

Report of the Division of Safety ; Preventable Accidents, 272

Suggested Alteration of Laws Regarding Trespass, 97

Ipswich Dock Facilities and Great Eastern Railway, 231

Irish Railways’ Train Service Curtailment and Coal Saving, 361

Irish and Scottish Railway Connections at Carlisle, 405

Iron Ore Within Reach of the Stratford-on-Avon and Midland Junction Railway, 253

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con-tinned}

Katanga Railway Completed to Bukama ; Congo Connected with Cape Town, 471

Kent Coal Carried by South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 253

King and Royal Train Driver on the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 491

Labour Law in United States as to Working Hours and Rest for Railwaymen, 141

Labour Resettlement Committee Men Connected with Railways, 295

Lancashire and Yorkshire Electric Train Services, 163

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway : Appointment, 405 ; Servants Disabled in War, 185

Level Crossings and Accidents on United States Railways, 513

Light Railway Orders Applications and Confirmation, 31, 253

Liverpool-street Station, Great Need of Extension, 317, 427

Locomotive Building at the Baldwin Works, 471

Locomotive. Coaling Plant, Automatic Electric, American, for N.S.W. Railways, 163

Locomotive Coaling Station, Concrete, on the Lehigh Valley, Notable Features, 535

Locomotive Repairs, Statistics, 557 Locomotive Valve Gear, 109 Locomotives Awaiting Repair, 481 Locomotives Built in U.S.A, for Use in Russia now in Use in U.S.A., 295

Locomotives Sent from Western States of America to Relieve Congestion in Eastern Districts, 141

London, Brighton and South Coast : Locomotive Superintendent, 253 ; Allotments, 427 ; Increased Load, Slower Travelling, 231

London and North-Western : Roll of Honour Poster, 405; Staff Rewards for Useful Improvements and Suggestions, 119; London and North-Western and London Electric Railway Companies Joint Rolling Stock, 185; Men Discharged from the Army and Reinstated on Railway, 207; Victoria Crosses, 339; Steamer’s Loss by Collision, 295

London and South-Western, Provision for Coal Traffic, 185

London and South-Western Servants’ Cultivation of Railway Land Plots, 185

Magazines, Railway Staff, Discontinuance Suggested, 471

Mansfield Railway Branch to Rufford Colliery, 207, 361

Mansfield Railway, New Curve, 361

Maryport and Carlisle Ry. Coal Traffic, 253 Melbourne, Victoria, Additional Lines Approaching Completion, 163

Metropolitan Railway’s Engineering Staff Efficiency in View of Heavy Traffic on the Line, 163

Midland Railway Horses’ Keep, 185

Midland and South-Western Junction Railway ; Employment of Boys to Release Men for the Colours, 253

Midland and South-Western Junction Railway ; Statistics of War Traffic, 249

Military Service and Railwaymen, Present Arrangements, 427

Missoula Belt 100ft. long Railway, 31

Mold and Denbigh Railway ; Closed Works

- and Unwatering of Mines, 383

■ Munition Workers’ Travelling Facilities, Cheap Week-end Tickets Withdrawn, 491 National Union of Railwaymen, Government’s Offer of Visit to Front, 31

National Union of Railwaymen, 513, 535 New Year’s Honours for Railwaymen, 31 New York Central Railroad Company, Opposition to Proposed Hudson Bridge, 447

North-Eastern Railway Accident Due to Broken Carriage Axle, 207

North-Eastern Railway Alterations in Passenger Train Service, 97

North Staffordshire Railway Signals Lighted by Electricity, 207

Owner’s Risk Rate, 9

Pacific Coast, New Railway to Open Up Mineral and Agricultural Districts, 471

Passenger Fares in Ireland, Increase from June 1st, 1918, 471

Passenger Traffic Restrictions, Deputation to Board of Trade, 557

Passengers’ Privileges, First-class, Claim Disallowed, 9, 491

Passengers, Season Ticket and Otherwise, No Present Record of Numbers, 491

Pennsylvania Company’s Stations in New York and Philadelphia, Comparison of Traffic, 31, 73

Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s Greatly Increased War Traffic, 317

Pennsylvania Railroad, Conversion to Electric Tratfion, 361

Pennsylvania RailroadExpress ; Car Derailed and Wrecked by Falling Rock, 361

Pennsylvania Railroad and Report of Discontinued Expresses, 73

Pooling Scottish Private Wagons, 248

Post-office (London) Railway After the War, 557

Punctuality of Great Eastern Train Arrivals at Liverpool street. 163

Punctuality on the Midland Railway, 185

Queensland State Railways, Ratepayers and the State, 53

Queue System for Tube Railways, 471 Quintinshill Accident Anniversary, 449 Rabbits, Carriage and Delivery 2d. each, 53 Rails for Canadian Railways, Measures to

Obtain Supplies, 449

Railway Accounts and Government Control, 513

Railway Advisory Panel, Question as to its Constitution, 119

Railway Executive Committee Recognises Railway Clerks’ Association, 449

Railway Material, Exports’ Statistics, 9, 97, 231, 273, 405, 471

Rhodesian Railway Administration, 471

Russian Government and Railway Equip-ment Ordered from the United States, 491 Russia’s Downfall and Deficient Railway Equipment, Alba B. Johnson, 471

Russo-British Chamber of Commerce, Secretary’s Address to Railwaymen at Brighton, 163

School Children and Railway Fares, 449

Scotch Coal for the Fleet to Relieve Strain on Railways from Wales, 185

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Scottish Railway Stockholders’ Protection Association, 43

Seamen in Railway-Owned Cross-Channel Steamers, Increased Pay, 119

Season, Return and Other Tickets ; New

Powers for Railways, 383, 513

Season Ticket Rates Unchanged on Controlled Railways, 231

Season Tickets and Discharged Soldiers’

Training, 513

Season Tickets, Great Increase, 535

Season Tickets and Railway Returns, 522

Ship Timbers by Express Train, 449

Shortest Railway in the World, 31

Sleepers from Canada in 1915 and 1916, 31

Sleepers, Old, Utilised as Fuel on Boston and

Maine Railroad Buildings, 449

Slips on Railways ; Statistics, 148

South Africa and Locomotive Shortage, 409

South Australian Government Expert to

Report on System, 185, 339

South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Increased Traffic in Industrial District, 207

Spanish Railway Combination for Home

Building of Locomotives, 141

Standard Freight Cars on the United States Railways, 361

Steamers on the Clyde, Effort to Stop Competition, 231

Steel Cars in America, Historical Notes, 295

Steel Plates for Shipbuilding and Difficulties of Transport, 491

Stratford-on-Avon and Midland Junction

Railway Receipts and Expenditure, 273

Summer Time, Further Considerations, 405

Summer Time and Workmen’s Train Lighting, 295

Superannuated Railway Servants and the

Cost of Living, 119

Surprise Tests on Southern Pacific Railway, Creditable Result, 231

Taff Vale Company’s Engines More Than Three Times Pre-War Price, 231

Tehuantepec National Railroad to be

Acquired by Mexican Government, 163

Timber Felling and Need of Afforestation ;

Cambrian Railway Concerned, 253

Timber, Large Sale of, on Forfeited Lands in

U.S.A., 361

Time-keeping and Inter-State Trains, 317

Track-circuiting, Few Failures in Locking

Signals, 449

Trade and Government Control After the

War ; Railways and Canals Position, 339

Tramway Services ; Suggested “ Staggering ” of Business Hours, 383

Tramways and Parcels Conveyance, 273

Transcontinental Railway of Australia,

Varieties of Gauge, 9

Transport Company, Proposed London Goods

Clearing House Scheme, 9

Transport Delays of Steel Hinder American Shipbuilding, 557

Underground Railway Women’s Club at

Earl’s Court, 427

United States Coal Transport Scheme, 427

United States Express Companies for Goods

Transport, Change to State Operation, 491

United States Federal Board of Mediation and Conciliation, 92

United States Government Control of Railways, 535

United States Government, Plea for Light

Taxation and Economy, 491

United States Government Payment for

Control of Railways, 119

United States Locomotives Out of Service, 361

United States, Nearly Two Million Troops

Moved by Rail up to December 2nd, 97

United States Officers and Scheduled Running of Trains, 231

United States Old Soldiers’ Reunion, Railroad Facilities, 317

United States Railroads’ Director-General on

Safety, Wages and Time Questions, 295

United States Railroads, Statistics of New

Rails, Used and Required, to be Sent to Director-General, 361

United States Railway Consumption of Petroleum. 557

United States Railway Transport Increase,

Statistics of Revenue and Rolling Stock, 9 United States Railways, Government Orders,

General Inventory to be Taken, 427

United States Railways Operated at a Loss in January, 449

United States Railways, Income, 557

United States Railways and Presidential

Control, 273

United States Railways, Rise in Wages and in Rates for Freight and Passengers, 471

United States Restricted Use of Private

Railway Cars, 381

United States Severe Weather and Railway

Running Repairs, 119

United States Steam Railway Freight and

Passenger Cars, Statistics, 409

United States War Warnings on Railroads, 273

Victorian Railways’ Diamond Jubilee, 361

Wages Advance ; Rates for Men, Women,

Boys and Girls, 383

Wagon, Coal, Unloading Regulations, 317

Wagon Derailment, South - Eastern and

Chatham Railway, 557

Wagon Repairing Difficulties, New Company

Formed, 185

Wagons Let on Hire Without Permit, 471

. Wagons, Privately-owned, Difficulties of General Scheme, 383

Wagons, Railway-owned, and Demurrage,

273 ; (Correction), 317

Walthamstow All-night Service Stoppage, 361, 383

War Wages of Railway Servants, 272

Waterloo Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Free Buffet,

London and South-Western Company’s

Co-operation, 207

Watford Services and Rolling Stock, 185

Women Employed on Railways, 253, 339

Women Employees on the Pennsylvania

Railroad, 513

Workmen’s Compensation Act, Appeal Case, 405

Workmen’s Tickets on Bank Holidays, 513

RAINFALL, Abnormal, in Mysore, 513

Ramsay Memorial Fund, 264

Raw Material Rationing, 513

Razors, Hollow-ground, Industry for Wounded Soldiers, 557

Recording Differential Dilatometer, 141 Reinforced Concrete—see Concrete

Reservoir, Masonry Dam in Quebec Nearing Completion, 9

Rice Crops of the World, Five-Sevenths from British Empire, Chiefly India, 185

Riveting Record Stopped by Trade Union, 471

Road Improvements in 1918-19, 231

Road Transport Committee, 119

Roads in Kent Used by Motor Omnibuses, 97 .

Roads in Soft Condition, Regulations for Heavy Traffic, 439

Royal Marine Corps, New, Conditions for Officers, 427

Rubber, Plantation, Equal to that from Brazil Forests, 185

Rust Prevention Process. 152

s “ SATOLITE,” an Incombustible Substitute for Celluloid, 53

Sawdust and Wood as Substitutes for Coal in

Gas Making, 73

Schneider-Creusot Works, Extent of Area and Equipment, 273

Scientific Men, Demand for, in the United States, 185

Scientific Regulation of Feed Water, R. W. Andrews, 361

Sea Water Densities, Determination of, on Board Ship, New Instrument for, A. L. Thomas, 269

Separating Materials of Different Specific Gravities, T. M. Chance, 535

Sewage Treatment, Five Processes Under Investigation, 97

Sheffield, New Factories, Buildings and Extensions, 53

Shell Casting in Germany, 531

Shell Ingots, Types Made in America, 185

Shipbuilding, Engineering and Steel Commercial Staffs Association, Foundation of, 20

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : American Marine, Very Large Addition in Progress, 97

American Shipbuilding and Delays of Steel Transportation, 557

American Training Ships for Merchant Service, 427

Boats, Reinforced Concrete, Building in Spain, 313

British Columbia Shipbuilding Programme, 339

Canadian Production of Large Ships, 405

Challenge Shield and Prize for Rapid Shipbuilding, 405

Coaling Transatlantic Steamers at Tampico instead of Vera Cruz, 491

Diesel-driven Motor Ship Emanuel Nobel, Her Transatlantic Record, 9

Draughtsmen, Ship, Dearth of, and United States Proposal, 253

“ Fabricated ” Ships, in America, 295

Harland and Wolff’s Shipbuilding Record for

Oil Carrier, 535

Hostels for Shipyard Workers in the North of

England and in Scotland, 513

Hull, the Hunnewell, A New Type, 231

Licensing Voyages, Svstem Extended to all Ships, 163

Louvain, Steamship, formerly of the Great

Eastern Company, Sunk by Submarine, 119 Motor-driven Ships for Transatlantic Service,

Suggested Use of, to Baffle Submarines, 231

Naval Losses, British, for Past Year, 119

Refrigeration on Vessels Carrying Foodstuffs, Greatly Increased use of, 449

Rivet-driving in Shipbuilding, Weekly Averages in America, 31

Shipbuilding, Merchant, in the United Kingdom, Greatly Increased Output, 491

Ship Repairs, Great Increase in Vessels Returned to Service, 471

Ships on the Great Lakes to be Transferred to the Atlantic, 9

Shipyard, Hog Island, near Philadelphia, Ambitious Programme, 491

Steamers, Proposed Establishment of Line between La Paz and Topolobampo, 471

Steel, Comparison of Weights between Ferro • Concrete and Steel Ships, 449

Steel Decks, Wood Shortage and Sheathing Substitutes, 491

Submarine Menace, Its Failure, 412

Tank Steamers in America, In Use and Under Construction, 231

Tonnage per Head, Comparison between

British and Norwegian Shipping, 31

United States Battleship, New Mexico, 449

United States Large Naval Construction, 224

United States Navy’s Use of Oil Fuel, 53

United States Standard 10,000-Ton Oil Tankers, 317

Wooden Full-powered Motor Ships in United States, 449

Wooden Ships, An Unfortunate Failure, 30

Wooden Vessels Building in Norway, 339

SILO, Grain, Nearing Completion at Hull, 163

Solder, Softening Temperature, 9

Sound Penetration at Great Heights, 163

South African Gold Output, 207

South African Need of Disinfectant to Replace Permanganate of Potash, 405

Sparking Plug for Motor Cars, New Form, 97

Spindles, Round, Method of Centring, W.

Crowther, 253

Steam Turbine Disabled on the Boston Elevated

Railway, 339

Street Lighting Specifications, 239

Sucrose Recovery from “ Final Molasses,” 383

Sugar Beet Experiments, 189

Sugar Beet in the United States, 118

Sulphate of Ammonia, Production in Germany,

America and Japan, 361

Sulphur Deposits in Spain, 231

Sulphur Industry in Sicily, Italy the Sole Source of Supply to Allies, 207

Sulphuric Acid in Manufacture of Fertilisers, 361

Sulphuric Acid, Predicted Excess Production in

United Kingdom, 295

Sun, Successful Photographs of, at the Cape, 513

Swiss Demand for Machines for Food Products 449

Swiss Electro-Technical Industry, Report bv Dr. E. Tissot, 141

Swiss Trade and Industry, 361

Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners’Report,73

T TALC in New Zealand, 185

‘Tank,” Steam-driven, for U.S.A. Army, 491 Tar as a Fuel for Metallurgical Furnaces, W.

H. Blauvelt, 383

Tar as Fuel for Diesel Engines, 557

Telephone Exchanges, Automatic, 513, 557

Telephones, Automatic, in South Africa, 295

Temperature Conversion Table, 391

Temperature Variation in the Derwent Dam

Masonry, Thermophone Records, 535

Tests of Low Temperature Effect on Yield of Tar, 97

Textile Mills in the United States, Increased Use of Electric Power, 9

Tilting Furnaces in this Corm try, 141

Timber Acreage per 100 Tons of Newsprint,

Pulp and Paper, 405

Timbers, Relative Fuel Value of, 295

Timber from South Africa, Increasing Value, 405

Time Ball at Deal, Failures in 1917, 513

Time Signal, New Type, at Observatory in New

Zealand, 141

Tin Cans, Old, Birmingham’s Offer of 20s. per Ton for, 557

Tin, Electrolytical Recovery of, from Stannate Solutions, D. Currie, 405

Tin-plate Industry in Japan, 339

Tin-plate Manufacture in Germany, 557

Titanium Treatment of Cast Iron, 339

Toluol in the United States, Insufficient Supply for High Explosives, 73

Tools, Small, Protest Against Prohibition of Import of, 141

Torpedo Accuracy and Targets in Rapid Motion, 295

Towns, H. L., on Friction Clutches, 68

Tractor Ploughing Record in Surrey, 207

Tractors for Farm Work in France Lent by

United States Food Department, 53

Trade Marks, Opposition to New Bill, 207

Trade Reconstruction in Germany, 176

Training School at Iron Foundry, Luton, 535

Trinitro-toluol as a Commercial Explosive, 383

Tungsten Filament, New German Process, 295

Turbine Housing with Inspection Window,

Fried. Krupp, 471

Turbines, Large Hydraulic, 253

Turners and Fitters’ Handbook, Death of Mr.

T. Greenwood, 513

u UNITED STATES Army, 273

United States New Guns, 119

United States Petroleum Output, Estimated

Date of Exhaustion of Supplies, 557

United States Shell Production, 8

U.S.A. War Chassis of Light Motor Vans, 31

V VACUUM Flask versus Hot Water Bottle, 207

Vacuum Improvement and Steam-saving, 31

Valves for Motor Cars, Overhead and Side

Pocket, Comparison, 9

Vibration of Buildings due to Traffic, 471

Vienna’s Coal and Gas Consumption, 295

Volunteers, Motor, The Training of, 351

w WAGES in American Shipyards, Large Percentage of Contract Price, 31

War Memorial, Imperial War Museum Recommended by Committee, 361

War Wages Rise ; Statement by London Master Builders’ and Aircraft Industry Assoc., 383

Watches, Great Increase in Imports of Cheap

Types of, from U.S. 4., 141

Water Meters, Use of, in America, 412

Water Power Generated at Kinlochleven, Low

Cost of, 53

Waterproof Oil, New French, 317

WATER SUPPLY: Horse-power from Loch Treig, Aluminium Company’s Application, 31

New York Water Consumption, 273

Water Supplied to Train Passengers, Permissible Bacteria, 141

WATERWAYS, Thames and the Humber ; Mersey and the Severn, Main Routes Projected, 361

Wax for Candles, 405

Wax Recovery from Wasie in Sugar Extraction, Industry Started in Natal, 97

Welding Steel Tubes into Long Lengths for Gas

Main in Zurich, 141

Whale Meat, A New Industry, 295

White Metal Alloy, New Patent for, 253

Whitewash Mixture, United States Government, Fire-retarding Properties, 535

Whitley Committee’s Report on Relations between Employers and Employed, 513

Window Glass Industry in Sweden, Flourishing Condition of, 185

Wire Nails, Imported, Commandeered by Army Council, 211

Wolfram, Molybdenite and Bismuth in Queensland, 383

Wolfram, Tin Alluvium and Other Minerals

Found in Siamese Malay States, 141

Women’s Labour in the Gas Industry, 412

Women’s Superiority in Output in American

Gear-cuttingWorks, 535

Wood Distillation as an Indian Industry, Demand for, 317

Wood as Fuel, Value of Various Species Compared with Coal, 31

Wood, New, Its Properties, 197

Wood Pulp Fibre, “ Cellulon,” as Substitute for Jute, Cotton, &c., 383

Wood Pulp for Papermaking, Enormously

Increased Imports from Norway, 231

Wooden Pit Props, Round, and Quartered, 207

Woods Employed in Hydraulic Construction, German Tests, 383

Woolwich Arsenal, Chief Mechanical Engineer, 524

Workmen’s Insurance Societies in German Iron and Steel Industries, 31

X Y Z X-RAY, Maximum Frequency, 185

YARROW, Sir Alfred, on Shipbuilding after the War. Dinner to Employees, 513

ZINC from Australia, Agreement between British Government and Australian Co., 491

Zinc, Electrolytic Production in Tasmania, 141

Zinc Refining in Japan, Ore Supply Insufficient for Demand, 9

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