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AERONAUTICS, 119

Airships and Aeroplanes, Large, 215

Anglo-Swedish Train Ferry, Proposed, 420

Atlantic Flight, 549

Aviation, Civil, A Controller of, 216

B BRITISH Airships R 33 and R 34, 317

British Water Power Resources, 317

c CHANNEL Tunnel, 317 Civil Aerial Transport, I Coal Problem, 550 Commercial Airships, 119

E EIGHT-HOUR Day for Railwaymen, 2

Electric Supply, Views on, 1

Electricity Supply, Another Report on, 419

FINANCIAL Aid to Industry, 1

Financial Facilities for Trade, 120

French Mercantile Marine, 549

French Working Hours, 419

G GAS and Electricity, 317

Grand Fleet, 419

INDUSTRIAL Fatigue, 2

Industrial League, 419

Industries Fairs, 317

L LABOUR, 317

Labour Conference, 215, 419

Labour Questions on the Continent, 420

Labour Troubles, 119, 215

Lloyd’s Shipbuilding Returns, Resumption of, 1

L.C.C. Tramway Accounts, 317

London Iron and Steel Exchange, 120

London’s New Water Engineer, 317

London Traffic Inquiry, Another, 549

N NATIONAL Electric Supply, 119 New Industries for the Engineer, 119

o OIL in Derbyshire, 550

p PORT Developments, 550

R RAILWAY Accident Reports, Four, 31

Railway Accident Reports, Two, 119

Railway Annual Meetings, 210

Railway Nationalisation, 2

Railway Retirements, Some, 2

Railway Strike, 215

Railwaymen s Demands, 215, 317

Railway Working during the War, 549

Road Locomotives and Heavy Motor Cars, 120 —see p. 189

STATE Monopolies, 549

T TARRANT Triplane Disaster, 549

Transport, 120

Transport Bill, 419

u UNIVERSITY of Technology for London, 119

WAR, From, to Peace, 1

Ways and Communications Bill, 317, 549

Ways and Communications, Ministry of, 215

Women as Naval Architects, 419

ACCIDENTS in Factories, Large Proportion of Preventable Cases, .129

Acetic Acid from Cocoanut Shells, 559

Acetylene and Electric Welding, 546

AERONAUTICS : Aeronautical Engineering Professorship at Cambridge, 277

Aeroplane Government Service for South Africa, 249

Aeroplane-making : Is it Engineering ?

Wolverhampton’s Decision, 532

Airship Capable of Going to New York and Back without Stopping, 177

British Aeroplane’s Record Flight in Spain, 429

British Airship R 34, 533

Chilian Air Service Started with British Naval Aeroplanes, 57

Costs of Aerial Transport per Ton-mile, 559

Dominions Governments’ Priority Claim in Allotment of Aeroplanes, 249

Farman Aeroplane for Paris-London Service.

Details of Capabilities, 105

Italian Biplane’s Reported Speed of 162 Miles per Hour, 193

Liberty Aero Engines, Large Number Built in America, 1 1

Lighter-than-Air Machines ami Cheaper Helium Gas, 81

Meteorological Expedition to Test Atmosphere over the Atlantic, 329

Norway, Aeroplane Exhibition at the Kjeller Aerodrome, 57

Transport of Material by Aeroplane to the Interior of China, 105

Visibility of Aeroplanes. Experiments in U.S.A., 455

AFRICAN Baobab Tree, Finest Paper-making Material, 533

Air Filters in Germany, Iron Replaces Wool, 11

Alcohol, Industrial, Manufacture from Waste

Sulphite Liquors of Pulp Mills in Canada, 225

Alcohol in Mixtures as Fuel, Need of Research before Use, Dr. W. Ormandy, 11

Alcohol Motor Fuel, Research Programme, 292

Alginic Acid and its Manifold Uses, 153

Alloy of Aluminium with Calcium Superior to Aluminium, 105

Alloy, Metal Magnesium for Automobile and Aeroplane Construction, 57

Alloys, Cost as an Estimate of Value, V. G. Stevens, 429

Aluminium, Experiments on Purification of, 225

Aluminium Overhead Lines Chart—see Electrical Matters

Aluminium from Stone in Norway Hitherto Looked on as Worthless, 201

Aluminium Time Ball for Greenwich Obser-vatorv, Erected after Five Years’ Waiting, 631

Amalgamation of the Federation of British Industries and the British Manufacturers' Corporation, 190

Amalgamation of Harland and Wolff with David Colville and Sons, 129

Amalgamation of Important Electrical Companies, 47

American Catalogues and Booklet*, Two

Standard Sizes Adopted, 129

Amsterdam, Aircraft Exhibition, 533

Antimony and Stibnite Deposts on Burma-Siam Frontier, 81

Apprenticeship Scheme for South Africa, 277

Aqueduct Suspension Span in Wyoming, Twice Rebuilt in Six Weeks, 129

Argentina’s Great Falls at Igazu, Power Plant Erection to Solve Fuel Problem, 11

Asbestos in the Lydenburg, Transvaal, 205

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES: Association of Consulting Engineers :

Meeting for Formation of Association, 379, 566

Successful Dinner, 566

Association of Engineers, Manchester :

Design of Jigs and Tools, Effect on Rapid Production, G. H. Hey, 201

Gold Medal Offered by Past-President, 355 Power Stations of the Future. S. L. Pearce, 201

Association, Incorporated Municipal :

Annual Convention at Felixstowe, 303

Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical :

Objections to Control of Electrical Supply by Proposed Ministry of Ways and Communications, 303

Institute, Concrete

Recommendations to Inspectors, &c., concerning the Execution of Concrete Works, Pamphlet and Specimen Diary, 249

Sands for Concrete Making, P. G. H. Boswell, 583

Structure Theories and General Stability, A. S. Spencer, 631

Institute, Iron and Steel:

Annual and Autumn Meetings, 164

Institute of Metals :

Annual Meetings, Date, Report and Programme, 214

Autumn Meeting at Sheffield, 413

Radio-activity, Annual May Lecture, Professor F. Soddy, 413

Birmingham’ Section :

Scientific Factory Management, Lectures on, 177

Institute, Royal Sanitary :

Conference on Post-war Developments relating to Public Health, Subjects and Speakers, 153, 248

Proposed Congress at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 302, 546

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

Agreement with other Motor Societies as to Future Handling of Motor Industry Matters, 329

Information for Parents as to Openings in the Motor Industry, 328

Mr. Thomas Clarkson Elected President, 201

Olympia Motor Show, Special Session of the Institution, 481

Two-stroke Engines for Motor Cycles, E. Tilston, 507

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Election of Honorary Members, Awards for Papers and Premiums, 450

Election of War Leaders as Honorary Members, 129

Yarrow and William .Lindley Scholarships Re-opened, 559

Institution of Electrical Engineers:

Conversazione and Uniform, 583

Electrical Appointments Board, Register of Applicants for Employment, 214

National Proving-house for the Electrical Trade, Proposed Establishment, 455

Use of High-pressure and High-temperature Steam in Large Power Stations, J. H. Shaw, 105

Dublin Section :

Water Power Development in Ireland, G. Marshall Harriss, 260

Institution of Engineers, Junior :

Commercial Testing of Railway Materials, T. H. Sanders, 481

Improved Notation and Simplified Precision Instrument for Measuring British Binary Inch Fractions, A. Watkins, 559 Midland Section :

Heat Waste in United Kingdom, Small Electric Stations Advocated, A. E. A. Edwards, 355

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :

Air Supply to Boiler-rooms, R. W. Allen’s Reply to Discussion, 153

Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers :

Durability of Heating Apparatus, Sectional and Saddle Boilers, C. R. Honiball, 201

Institution of Locomotive Engineers :

Train Heating, Average Daily Coal Supply for, J. Carlier, 249

Leeds Centre :

Locomotive Stays, Improved Method of Production by the North-Eastern Railway, 201

Manchester Centre :

Formation, 429

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued)'. Institution of Mechanical Engineers :

Indian Members to Organise a Society of Indian Mechanical Engineers, 1 53

Projected Visit to French War Area, 516, 619

Sir Robert Hadfield Prize, 316

Institution of Naval Architects:

Annual Meeting, 118

Awards of Annual Gold Medal and of Premium, 300

Dinner Given to Secretary of the United States Navy and Officers of Mission in England, 455

Programme, 260

Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :

Comparison of Deadweight in Steel and in Reinforced Concrete Ships, T. J. Querette, 225

Women’s Admission to Membership, 607

Institution of Petroleum Technologists :

Alcohol in Mixtures as Fuel, Research Necessary before Use, Dr. W. Ormandy, 11

Capital Invested in Oil Enterprises, Montagu Summers, 201

Oil, Natural, World’s Production, Dr. Moll wo Perkin, 72

Institution of Railway Signal Engineers :

Renovation of Leclanche Porous Pots, &c., W. J. Thorrowgood, 455

Institution, Royal :

Explosion Time Calculations ; Use of Electrified Crystal, Sir J. J. Thomson, 403

Listening Under Water and Submarine Terror, Professor Bragg, 559

Meetings and Elections, 142, 231, 366, 470 Postponement of Professor Hele-Shaw’s Lecture on “ Clutches,” 232

Programme of Lectures, 390, 413

Two Lectures on “ Clutches,” Dr. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 413

Society of Chemical Engineering :

Liverpool Section :

Pulverised Fuel, Lecture by Mr. A. Grounds, 329

Society of Chemical Industry :

Inaugural Meeting of Chemical Engineering Group, 302

Society of Engineers :

Association with Engineering Societies, 607

Bearing Power of Piles Driven in Clay Soil, A. S. E. Ackermann, 303

Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 413

Modern Explosives, Professor J. Young, 481

Officers Desiring Engineering Appointments ; Permission Given for Use of Rooms and Attendance at Meetings, 455

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

Society of Engineers, Sheffield :

Heat Treatment of Steel, C. O. Bannister, 583

Powdered Fuel, J. S. Atkinson, 507

Societies, Faraday and Rontgen :

Examination of Materials by X-rays, General Discussion, Papers, &c., 416

Society, Junior Mining Engineers’ :

First Meeting, 507

Society, Liverpool Engineering :

Boiler Mountings : An Unbreakable Water Gauge, J. Purves, 355

Refrigerating Machinery, Single Rather than Double-acting Compressors Preferable, B. Rathmell, 355

Seay Ammonia Absorption Refrigerating Plant, B. Rathmell, 379

Society, Midland Junior Mining Engineers :

Formation and Elections, 495

Society, Optical :

Moisture on Lenses in Optical Instruments, Mr. L. C. Martin and Mrs. C. H. Griffiths, 177

Society’s New Address at South Kensington, 201

Society, Physical :

Annual Meeting and Elections, 277

Lubrication, Paper by Principal S. Skinner, C. T. Thomsen, 177

Society, Royal :

Light Used for Transmission of Speech, Dr. A. (). Rankine’s Exhibit at Conversazione, 631

Society, Royal Agricultural :

Show to be held at Cardiff, 164, 507

Society, Royal, of Arts :

Albert Medal Awarded to Sir Oliver Lodge, 559

Gas and Electricity for Heating, Lighting, and Power Comparison, Sir Dugald Clerk, 329 ; (Letter), 399, 4.36

National Electricity Supply Scheme, W. A. Tookey, 249

Supply of Electricity, J. S. Highfield, 507 Transformation, Direct, of Radiant Energy into Chemical or Electrical Energy, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 35

Water Power Development, Professor A. H. Gibson, 429

Water Power Sites on the Saguenay River, Canada, Professor J. C. McLennan, 329

AUSTIN Motor Works Sale of Munitions Plant, Big Prices Secured, 249

Australia, Site of Reservoir for Regulating the Murray River, 481

Australian Engineering Standardisation Committee Proposed, 455

Australian Hard Woods for Sleepers, Preference Asked for and Refused, 603

B BANK, The British Overseas, Limited, for Promotion of Foreign Trade, 201

Barge Canal Bulletin Ceases Publication, 277

Basic Slag Manufacturers’ Proposed Association, 177

Bavarian Water Power, Proposed Utilisation, 429

Bayonet, New Rolled Type, United States Manufacture, 105

Belgian Blast-furnace, First Re-lighted After German Destruction, 583

Belgian Industries Reconstruction, British Special Commissioner Appointed to Assist, 455

Bengal Smoke Nuisance Commission, 129

Benzole, Annual Production of, 303

Benzole, Home-produced, Suspension of Tax, 57

Benzole Output of Gasworks and Great D< mand for Motor Spirit, 11

Benzole and Petrol, Economy in Use of Benzole for Motor Vehicles, Stenson Cooke, 607

Benzole as well as Petrol Available for Motor Fuel, 35

Birmingham Commercial Library, 340

Birmingham’s Projected Wide Roads and Tramways with Metals on Sleepers, 153

Birmingham Transport Communication, Question of Canal Navigation, 533

Blast-furnace Slags in Concrete, Dr. J. E. Stead, 481

Blind Men, Hoped-for Success in Teaching them to Make Cores, 129

Board of Trade Takes Over War Trade Department, 355

Boiler Compounds and Water Treatment, 580

Boiler Feed-water Purification System Described by J. P. Dijxhoom, 105

Boiler Scale and Heat Loss of Fuel, 379

Boiler Scale Removal by Graphite and Kerosene, 559

Boilers Costing £450 Realise £1350 to £1475, 249

Boilers, Salved from Wreck, Transported bv Rolling, 481

Boilers, Sectional and Saddle, Durability, C. R.

Honiball, 201

Borehole in Cornwall, Record Depth for United Kingdom, 379

Brass, Copper and Allied Industries Proposed Industrial Council, 355

Brazil and Federation of British Industries, 277

Brazil and Great Britain ; Federation of British Industries’ Invitation to Brazil Business Men 177

Brazil, Reafforestation Schemes to Overcome Fuel Shortage, 177

Brazil, Unused Water Power, 403 '

Brazilian Budget, Imports Free and Taxed. 403

Brickmaking in the Peterborough District, 583 Bricks from Crushed Slag, System of Hardening, 533

Bricks, Heat Conducting Properties of, Effect of Porosity, Dr. J. W. Mellor, 403

Bridge, Ohio River, New Simple Truss Span, Record Length and Weight, 583

Bridge, Proposed, at Minneapolis, Record

Length of Concrete Arch, 455

Bridge, Quebec, 164

Bristol University, B.Sc. Degree, Additional Subjects Required for Qualification, 329

British Association Fuel Economy Committee, Continued Investigations, 303

British Commercial Mission for Baltic Provinces, London Address, 63 1

British Industrial Exhibition for Athens, 390

British Industries Fair, Increased Number of Exhibitors, 201

British Industries Fair in 1920, to be Held in

Various Towns Simultaneously, 468

British Manufacturers1 Corporation, 190

British Motor and Allied Manufacturers’ Association. Investigation of Eastern Markets, 225

British Science Guild Journal, E'ghth Number Obtainable, 481

British Scientific Products Exhibition, King as President, 225

British Scientific Products Exhibition, Further Particulars, 379, 559

c CALIFORNIA, Combined Reclamation and Irr gation System, 533

Cambridge University Appointments Board ; Employment for Officer Graduates, 507

Cambridge University, Goldsmiths’ Company’s Gift to Department of Metallurgy, 583

Cameroons Mineral Resources, 403

Canadian Customs, Remission of Duty on Farm

Traction Engines, 378

Canadian Engineering Standards Association, Incorporation, 403

Canadian Mineral Output for 1918. Increase, 429

Canadian Reconstruction and Completion of the Welland Canal, 81 ; (Letter), 109

Canadian Roads Department, Originally Founded at Quebec by Champlain, 63 i

Canadian Timber in Order of Value, 403

Canal Committee’s Efforts to Facilitate Traffic

Conveyance, 631

Canal to Connect Cherson with Danzig or Konigsberg, Ukrainian Government Plans, 201

Canal Connecting Rivers at Different Levels, German Invention for Improved Transport of Vessel, 81 ; (Letter), 109

Canal Development, in the Midlands, Conference Suggested, to Ask for Government Assistance, 160

Canal, Proposed, to Connect Mediterranean with Persian Gulf, 435

Canals, New Handbook, with Map-;, 81

Caterpillar Tractors for Ore Haulage from Mine, 559

Caustic Soda and Hydro-chloric Acid Manufactured by Electrolysis of Common Salt, 201

Cement for Cast Iron Water Main Joints at Portland, Oregon, 481

Cement-making with Blast-furnace Slag, &c., Research with regard to Chemical Reactions Resulting, 11

Cement, Waterproofing by Oil,'201

Cements and Salts, Experiments, 81

Ceylon, Discovery of Monazite Sand, 559

Ceylon and Water Power Possibilities, 105

Charcoal Blast-furnace near Lake Windermere, Renewal of Working, 249

Chemistry, Pure, and Applied, Federal Council Formed, 153

Chemistry, Widespread Utility in War Material, 11

Chemists Discharged from the Army as Temporary Members of Chemical Industry Club, 201

Chimney Top Elevation over 1500ft. above Sea Level, 355

Chlorine in the Future, Probable Increase in Use, H. H. Hooker, 507

Christiania Port Authorities, Projected Improvements, 533

Chrysotile Beds in Natal to be Worked for Asbestos, 355

Cinematograph Film Development, New Portable Apparatus, 57

Cleveland Ironstone Slag, High Value for Concrete Making, 533

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES: Acting Controller of Coal Mines Appointed, 225

Alfreton, Derbyshire, Coalfield Sinking Schemes Stopped owing to Coal Trade Uncertainties, 533

Ash Content of Coal, 533

Boiler Water Softening and Coal Saving, 559

Bowen, North Queensland, and Dawson

Valley Coal Mines, 455

Bunker Coal Cargoes for the Baltic and Norway, Controller’s Orders, 631

By-product Recovery from Waste of Coal Mines in the Transvaal and Natal, 379

Coal Exports Committee, Dissolution, 225

Coal Mining under Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia, 57

Coal Resources of South Africa, 277

Coal Saving by Railway Electrification, E. W. Rice, 11

Coke Mixed with Coal for Water-tube Boilers, Economical Result, 129

Coke Ovens in New South Wales, Great Loss in By-products, 607

Coke Supplies of France, Suggested Further Demands upon Germany, 303

Controller of Coal Mines, Successor to Sir Guy Calthrop, 225

Deep Pits being Sunk near Doncaster, 329

Denmark, Coal Controller’s New Announcement, 57

Denmark and Coal Supply from United

Kingdom, Extension of Exemption from Surcharge, 129

Electrical Coal-cutting Machines, 81

Export of Coal, 516

Faversham Creek Improvement with View to Handling Kent Coal, 249

Investigation into Properties of Coal, Company Formed in Essen, 455

Italian Government and Coal Industry, 249

Mines Water-looged Between Tividale and Greets Green, 277

COAL. COKE, AND COLLIERIES (continued) :

Newport Docks New Coaling Hoist, 249

Nigeria, Coal of High Value being Mined by Government at Udi, 329

Pollington Colliery Closed on Account of Water Accumulation, 507

Pre-war Contracts and Export of Coal, 249

Pulverised Coal as Fuel, Good Results from Tests, 153

Rationing Coal, Gas and Electricity, 631

Russia, Coal Production in the Donetz District, 533

Saving of Coal and Efficiency of Industrial Works, 277

Skip-stop System, Great Coal Saving by, 11

Spelter Manufacturers’ Oppo<it on to Nationalisation of Coal Mines, 607

Spitzbergen Coal Output, 225

Sulphate of Ammonia and other By-products !of Coal, Production in South Africa, 355

Sumatra Coalfields and the Dutch Government, 583

Sweden, Coal Deposits Discovered near Bellinge, 303

Tanganyika and Zambesi Coal Areas, Extensive Opening Up, 631

Tyne Shipping of Coal and Coke, Statistics, 303

United States Coal Mine Fatalities, 582

United States Coal Shipment Figures, 249

Unwatering of Pits in the Kent Coalfield, 253

Vanadium in Swedish Coal, 607

Water-gas to Relieve Coal Shortage in Germany, 35

Water-logged Coal Mines in Tipton District, 379

Welsh Coal Compared with that from other Countries, Sir Thomas Watson, 277

COLD Storage in France, Government Outlay on, 429

Columbia Basin Reclamation Project, 559

Commercial Motor Users’ Association, Annual Luncheon, 355

Concrete Floors, Hardening Solution to Prevent Dusting, 631

Concrete, Monolithic, for House-building, W.

Calway, 225

Concrete Pipes Replace Wooden Piles in Wharf Construction in Tasmania, 607

Concrete Reinforcement with Wood, Needful

Precautions, 607

Concrete Ships—see Ships

Condenser Tubes, Novel Cleaning Method, 262

Consolidated Goldfields Working Costs, Increase, 153

Consulting Engineers, Naval Architects and

Marine Surveyors, Proposed Association, 379

Cooper, General A. S., New Appointment in

Peru, War Services and Previous Work, 54, 125, 153

Copper Company’s Precautions with Electric

Cables in Mine, 225

Copper Exports from Chili, Increase, 201

Copper from Katanga to Antwerp, 249

Copper Mines in Australia, Nearly all Closed

on Account of Accumulations, 481

Copper Output from Katanga Mines, 277

Cork Substitute from Acetylene Action on Copper and Nickel, 153, 403

Corn Yield Increased by Wolfryn Treatment, 559

Corrugated Iron Huts on Sale by Ministry of Munitions, 631

Corundum Production, South Africa the Lead

ing Country, 249

Cotton Production in Portuguese East Africa, Great Increase, 277

Coventry, .Proposed Technical Institute, 177

Coventry, Technical Institute and Instruction

Funds, 225

Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 413

Cutlery Supplies Remain Scanty Owing to Government Demands, 35

Cyanamide Factory Projected at Workington, 152

D DACCA Waterworks Improvements, 105

Dartmoor, Hydro-electric Scheme, 329

Dawson, Philip, Belgian Decoration Conferred for Services in Electrification of Belgian State Railways, 329

Depth Charge Invention, Rival British and American Claims, 303

De-tinning Works at Llanelly, 379

Detonator, New Type, Manufacture in Norwav 57

Diamond Dredging off South-west African Coast, 303

Diamond Pipe of Great Extent in Brazil, 559

Drainage Machine for Marsh Land Wanted, 626

Dredging on Large Scale at Sydney, 201 ’ *

Dry Dock, Large, Opened at Portsmouth

Virginia, 153

Dry Docks, Government Relinquishes Control 455

‘‘ Dry lock ” on the Neckar Danube Canal, German Invention, 81 ; (Letter), 109

Dust Extraction from Flue Gases in Sulphuric Acid Factory, 177

Dutch Coal Mines Output, 429

E ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Acetylene and Electric Welding, 546

Argentine’s Huge Falls, Possibilities of, to Relieve Fuel Scarcity in Electric Development, 11, 249 1

Birmingham Electrical Power Plant Load Christmas Day Comparison, 81

Birmingham New Power Station, Projected Completion, 81

Birmingham’s Proposed Purchase of Land for Power Plant Station, 277

Birmingham Sub-station at Bournville 403

Blackburn Corporation’s New Generating

Station at Whitebirk, 429 *

Bolton Corporation and Lancashire Electric Power Company, Inter-connection of Supply Systems, 35

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):

Bombay, Andhra Scheme for Electric Power Supply, 559

Bradford Electricity Output Increase, Proposed Extension of Works, 303

Bradford’s Proposed Expenditure on Elec trical Work, 177

I Bury Electrical Power Plant Extensions, 201 Canadian Electric Power Stations, Horse-Power Percentage from Water, 201

Coal-cuttting Machines Electrically Driven,81 Copper Company’s Precautions in Mine’in

Use of Electrical Cables, 225

Cost of Power in Relation to Electric Furnace Development, 81

Costs of Electric Lighting Installations, Present Day and Pre-war, 450

Croydon New Power Station Plant, Application for Loan, 455

Dartmoor Water Power, Suggested Utilisation for Cornwall Electricity Supply, 303

Devon Electrical Supply Schemes, 403

Dewsbury’s Proposed Power Plant Extensions Abandoned, 177

Dynamos Driven by Wind Power H (' Vogt, 57 ’ ’

East Grinstead’s Contemplated Elect r’c'tv Supply, 177 ' '

Edinburgh to Adopt Overbend Trolley System for Tramways, 481

Edinburgh’s New Power Station at Porto-bello, 153

Edinburgh Tramways Proposed Electrification, Committee to Report on London Con-duit System, 303

Electricity, Experiments in Effect of. Alternating more Dangerous than Continuous Current, 403

Explosion Calculations and Electricity Sir J. J. Thomson, 403

Extensions to Generating Stations and Plant Limitation of, 150

Fermoy and Electricity Proposals, 177

1 ?ii0Wier St?tl„ons> Suggested Use of Old Battleships, J. S. Highfield, 507

Generating Station, New, at Nechel'ls R’r minghain, 533

Gravesend’s New Generating Sets 153

Heat Shrinking instead of Press' Fitting tj ii s of Machines on to Shafts, 379 Holland New Company for Supplying Elec

trical Energy to Public Bodies, 481

Hydro-electric Schemes—,see also Hydro-electric J

lnm,d Ii?Wer SupP'y’ Bombay, Calcutta and lata Companies, 277

Insulators and All-porcelain Articles for 4? InCreased IlnI>ort Duty in

Ir PoS'^rt'lg’ EJeConiCal> Columbia, i o.^sibilities of, 303

Don and Zinc as Electrical Conductors 905

Japan s Electrical Undertakings, 631 ’

Leeds Electricity Plant Extensions, 177

X™tor,To3 15’°0°-Kil~ Turbo-

MBarCe631 NeW Generati‘1«  a*

MExtnenSiom°3r55 C°rP°ratiofl P™er Plant

Motor Culture Week, 164

Mysore State Electrical Power. Details of Ajnount, Cost, and Earning, in 1917-18,

National Electricity Sunnlv ~ ,

Control by Ministry ^f^Wa^ and munications, 303 y v m-

National Proving House for the Electrical N Trade, Proposed Establishment, 455

New Zealand Power Plant to be Used for °!f CtaUStJe Soda a”d Hydro

Chloric Acid, also for Steel Smelting 201 New Zealand Water Power Development

Schemes Cost and Coal Saving, 194

Niagara Falls, Control of the Power Situation y Amalgamation of Companies 11

Zay X mmil>OWer yti,isa“on for National gate, 3%"— Appointed to Invest!-

Ttio"' Additional Supply from Water of Cauvery River, Mysore 129

I ower Stations of the Future, Problems of Transmission, S. L. Pearce, 201

Record Motor at Stafford Works, 201 nateorrs?T79 rPOTatiOn NeW ^bo-alter-

ShAlfigIn- ®*eotrj?al Plant, Old and New 420 bhefheJWs New Electric Power Station 177" bb'Pbuiklmg, Great Saving in Cost by Elec-trie Welding instead of Riveting, 105

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Standards for Electricity Measurement torvri455n S at NationaI Physical Labora-

Static Transformer, German, for Stennimr nn from 6250 Volts to 110,000 Volts,^24 g 1

StMm aSd-i Elect,ric Railway Working StPpFF67 Ra,lway as an Example, 559

Steel Furnace, Electric, in Spain,’Particulars

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KdS'X1""'1A"”»™ °™-Su’fGe.?eratiou for Manufacture

of Aitificial Fertilisers, 583

Supply of Electricity, J. 8. Highfield 507 eignmouth Debating Question of Electricity versus Gas for Lighting, 481 “Xr35Shafting iU BerIin> ^Iculation

Tungsten Arc Light, Properties of, 129

559 8 8 Electricity Supply, Report on,

Wallasey Electric Power Plant Extension 153 Water Power in France, Project for TT^

of all Private Undertakings and Utili'°>" tion for Railway Electrification, 402 ” ^rndmi", High-speed, for Driving Electric

Generators, Monsieur P. Fayard7379

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :

Wolverhampton, Walsall and Electricity Supply, RivabSchemes, 277

ENGINE, The “ Still,” Lubrication Experiments, 607

Engineering Golfing Society, 117

Engineering Scholarships at Bristol for Sons of Officers Killed in the War, 249

Engineering Scholarships Offered to Armstrong College, 277

Engineers Fallen in the War, Westminster Abbey Service, 583, 607

English Manufacturer and Foreign Customer, Cecil Walton, 201

Exhibition—see British Scientific Products

Explosions, Relative Merits of Different Classes,

Professor J. Young, 455

Explosive, New, in South Africa, 153

Explosives Production, Organisation and Technical Training, by K. B. Quinan, 101

Explosives Supplied by Manchester, 35

F FAIR, British Industries, in 1920, to be held Simultaneously in Various Towns, 468

Fair, British Industries, Increased Number of Exhibitors, 201

Fall of 110ft. without Injury, 607

Federation of British Industries :

Anglo-French Conference in Paris, 236

Commissioner Appointed for East Coast of South America, 455

To Guard National Rolling Mill at Southampton from Foreign Acquisition, 329

National Conference on Ways and Communications Bill, 607

Representatives to Accompany Government Mission to Germany to Examine Engineering Developments, 329 —See also Brazil.

FERTILISER Factory at Johannesburg, 507

Fire Engineers, Proposed Formation of Institute, 35

Fire at North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company's Wallsend Works, 533

Fishing Industry Development, Lewis Island and Fleetwood, Lord Leverhulme’s Scheme, 630

Flooding in Somerset, Projected Scheme for Prevention, 379

Foochow, Improvements on the River Min, 403

Food Committee’s Report on Refrigerator Wagon Defects, 555

Ford Motor Company’s Assembling Plants in Spain and Denmark, 586

Ford Motor Company’s Change of President, 57

Forest Fires in U.S.A., Suggested Use of Aeroplanes for Detection and Transport of Fire Fighters, 607

Fouling of Gun Barrels, System of Overcoming, 533

Francois Method of Stopping Underground Water Flow, 57

French Crops and Unwanted Agricultural Machinery for Disposal, 583

Furnace Construction, Importance of Refractory Materials Employe'.!, W. J. Rees, 153

G GALENA in South Africa. Discovery of Rich Deposit, 533

Gas and Electricity, increased Allowances since Armistice, 35

Gas Light and Coke Company’s Share in Supply of War Material, 201

Gas Producer with Concrete Slabs instead of

Steel Casing, 74

Gas Producer Furnace, Richards, for Production of Realgar, 105

Gas Storage in Exhausted Natural Gas Wells Proposed, 153

Gas from Wheat Straw as Motor Car Fuel in British Columbia, 35

German Chemical and Dye Works Resuming Business, 105

German Machine Industry, Precarious Condition, 355

German Potash Industry and the Labour Question, 140

German Raw Materials no Longer to be Used for Military Purposes, 35

German Submarine Engines Landed in the United Kingdom, 533

German Works Closing Down in Luxemburg, 559

Germany’s Successful Discovery of Substitutes for Textile Requirements. 81

Glass from Paddy Husks, Experiments in Burma, 403

Glass Shortage in Europe, Various Substitutes, 140

Glasses for Protection of Eyes of Furnace Workers, 607

Glue, Proper Treatment for Joints, 358

Glued Joints, Tests of Strength with Various

Glues, 583

Gold Coast Palm Oil Tax, 105

Gold Deposits in the Belgian Congo, 455

Goldfields in Belgian Congo, Increased Output

Expected from New Plant, 277

Gold Mine at Modderfontein, New Shaft to be Sunk, 355

Gold Output of the Empire, Reduction in Recent Years, 35

Gold Output of the Klondyke, 379

Government Assistance for Housing, 340

Graphite Deposits, Valuable, in Siberia, 177

Graphite as a Lubricant for Air Compressor

Cylinders, and Otherwise, Its Great Advantage, 189

Grangemouth Reopened for Mercantile Shipping, 129

Greenwich Observatory, New Aluminium Time Ball, 631

Greenwich Record of Sunshine and Rainfall, 631

Greenwich Record of Temperature and Air Movement, 631

Gregory, Professor Richard, Knighted, 429

Groupe Inter-Universitaire Franco-Britannique, 494

Guatemala and Mineral Deposits, 607

Gyratory Stone Crusher, Large, in America, 583

H HARTLEPOOL andWest Hartlepool Boroughs, Proposed Amalgamation, 355

Health and Death-rate Statistics of England and Wales, 57

Heat Conducting Properties of Bricks and Effect of Porosity, Dr. J. W. Mellor, 403

Heat Insulating and Filtering Kieselguhr Found in Ireland, D. A. MacCullum, 153

Heat-insulating Material, Molera, Possible Use for Sound-proof Chambers, 11

Heating of Houses by Open Fires, Economy by Reducing Ventilation, 129

Heysham as a Port of the Midland Railway, 429

High Explosives, War Experiences with, Professor H. B. Dixon, 105

Hong-Kong Plantation of Eucalyptus and Camphor Trees, 153

House-building in Monolithic Concrete, W.

Cal way, 225

House-building with Wooden Lath Netting in Norway, 249

Hudson River Tunnel to Connect Manhattan with New Jersey, Large Money Vote, 249

Hydro-electric Possibilities in the Argentine, 11, 249

Hydro-electric Power Plant, Tavoy, Burma, 403

Hydro-electric Scheme for Dartmoor, 329

Hydro-electric Schemes in Ontario, 336

ICELAND’S Plan to Combine Salt Production, Iron Industry and Electric Power, 35

India, British, Statistics of Imports and Exports, Pre-war and Since, 631

Industrial Bank for South Africa, 403

Industrial Classes, Increase in Students, 80

Industrial Essay Competition, 546

Industrial Reconstruction Committee for Zinc and Spelter Industry, to Assist Government in Future, 507

Industrial Reconstruction Council, Fortnightly Conferences, 225

Industrial Reconstruction Council, Open-air Meetings for Advocation of Whitley Council Policy, 583

Inland Waterways Scheme to Cost £80,000,000, 249

Insulator, Heat and Cold, from Waste Paper, Mr. L. Edwards’ Production, 129

IRON AND STEEL: Australia, Western, Conference of Steel Users in view of Deficient Supplies from British Factories Owing to War Requirements, 329

Austrian Iron Industry, Lack of Coal and Iron Ore, 245

Barrow Hematite Steel Company Recommences Work, 507

Blast-furnace and Steel Works in Ontario, Disputed Scheme, 177

Blast-furnaces in United States, Reduced Iron Output, 303

Buenos Aires Ironworks Closed Down Because of Strike, 249

Celebes, Iron Ore in the Laron a District, 559 Coal Saving by Softening Boiler Water, 559 Converter Steel without the Use of Pig Iron,

Result of Experiments, 507

Drainage Pipes, Comparative Value of Cast Iron, Wrought Iron and Steel, W. P. Gerhard, 329

Economics in Hand Drill Steel, H. A. Read, 583

Electric Iron Smelting in British Columbia, Possibilities, 303

Electric Steel Furnace in Spain, Particulars of, 105

Electrode Consumption in Electric Steel Furnaces, Method of Reduction, 105

Growth of Cast Iron, Method of Prevention, 225

Indian Iron and Steel Company’s Excellent Iron Ore, 153

Iron Coating with Aluminium, German Method, 277

Iron Immersion Experiments and Discoveries, 507

Iron Ore in the Midlands for Blast-furnace Work, 277

Iron as Substitute for' Wool in German Air Filters/' 11

Iron and Zinc as Electrical Conductors, 225

Japan’s Enormous Increase in Production, Consumption and Price of Steel during the War, 189

London Iron and Steel Exchange, Opening, 11, 57

Malleable Castings Without Shrinkage, 11

Manganese Discoveries in Northern Brazil, 379

Manganese Orc on the Gold Coast, 379

Manganese Ore from Mines of San Antonio, Ecuador, 455

Manganese Ore, Native, in Use in Australia, 507

Mexico, Famous Iron Mountain may Pass to Japanese Syndicate, 533

Mild Steel Production Record for this Country, 481

Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, Scanty Interest Shown in Election of President, 11

Newfoundland Iron Mines Developments. 428 Newfoundland and Spanish Iron Orc, Comparison in Cost of Delivery to United Kingdom, 329

Norwegian Steel Works at Hardanger, 583

Ontario, Projected Steel Works at Goderich, 533

Painting Iron, Use of Sprayer, 429

Pig Iron Made at Pretoria, 11

Pretoria Ironworks, New Blast-furnace, 533

Prevention of Columnar Crystallisation in Steel Ingots, L. B. Lindemuth, 559

Queensland State Steel and Ironworks, Unsuccessful Search for Site, 631

Scheelite Ore Deposits in Canada, 429

Slag Wool and Rust on Steel, Tests by Dr.

J. E. Stead, 481

Solid and Liquid States of Steel, Cosmo Johns, 379

Spain, Iron Ore Deposits, 455

IRON AND STEEL {continued):

Stainless Steel Production, Increased Prices, 81

Steel Plate, Record Size, Rolled in U.S.A., 429

Steel Rods, Painted and Unpainted, for Reinforcement, 177

Tata Iron and Steel Works Extensions in India, Prospects, 379

Tests on Steel Ingot and Increase of Density, 153

Tungsten Deposits in Canada, 429

Tungsten Ore Exports from the Federated Malay States, 81

Ukraine Iron Orc Production, 533

Waratah, New South Wales, Steel Company’s Production of Railway Wheels, Tires, and Axles, 303

Wolfram Output, Great Increase Due to War, 533

ITALIAN Motor Car Exports, Falling-off, 105

Italian Need of Machine Tools, Replacement of

Former Supply from Germany, 140

Italian Public Works during Transition from War to Peace, 88

J JAPAN, Cable Tramway Across Mountains, 153

Japan, Improved Harbour at Muroran, 153

Japan, Two Portland Cement Factories to be

Set up at Kawasaki and Hokkaido, 129

Japanese Tin-plate for Switzerland, 631

Java, Engineering Congress Postponed, 607

Java, Forthcoming Engineering Congress Proceedings to be in both English and Dutch, 481

Jig and Tool Design, Effect on Rapid Production in Engineering Work, G. H. Hey, 201

Johannesburg Foundry, Moulders’ Work, 105

Joints Made with Joiners’ Glue, 358

K KAFFIR Pick as a Cattle Call, Cecil Walton, 201

Kamnassie Irrigation Scheme, 355

Kitson-Emp:re Lighting Company, Patriotism and Foreign Goods, 29

Krupp’s War-work Machines Used for Commercial Purposes, 481

L LADYBIRDS in Cold Storage for Greenfly Destruction, 129

Land Acquisition for-Public Purposes, 57

Lapland, Valuable Deposit of Iron Pyrites said to have been Discovered, 129

Lathe, All-geared, Prize Suggested, 105

Lead Discoveries near Loch Leven, 277

Lead Mines, Old, in Derbyshire to be Worked for Lead, Vanadium and Molybdenum, 303

Lead Mines, Old, in the Midlands, Re-opening, 379

Leather, Experiments on Wearing Qualities, 455 Light Used for Transmission of Speech, Dr. A. O.

Rankine, 631

Lignite Briquettes, Carbonised, Projected Canadian Industry, 105 : Delay of Scheme, 153

Lignite Mining and Yield of Oil, 507

Lille, Lamentable Condition Due to War British Chamber of Commerce Report, 105

Lloyd’s Register—see Ships

Lock-houses on the Thames, to be Rebuilt After 100 Years of Life, 631

Lodge, Sir Oliver, Resignation as Principal of Birmingham University, 225

London Cartage and Haulage Contractors’ Objection to Control of Roads and Railways by One Department, 303

i London Electrical Engineers, R.E. (T.F.), Dinner, 477

London, Port of, Report Against Bill for Wharf Construction at Canvey Island, 429

Lytham Wind Mill Burned Down, 225

M MACEDONIA, Abundant Deposits of Coal, 129

Machine Tool and Engineering Association,.

Dinner, 232

Madagascar, Mineral Wealth of, 403

Magnesia as Reagent for Neutralising Acid Mine Water, 105

Magnetos, British Firms’ Output, 35

Manchester Tramcar Building Expenditure, 249

Manchester’s Contribution of High Explosives, 35

Manganese—see Iron and Steel

Manila Seismic Record, 631 <

Mechanical Haulage, Experiments on Com para-tive Cost of Steam, Petrol, and Electrical Vehicles, 481

Mersey and Irwell Committee and Pollution of Rivers, 583

Meso-thorium as Substitute for Radium. 225

Metals Occluding both Oxygen and Hydrogen, 11

Metals in Possession of the Ministry of Munitions, Monthly List to be Published, 153

Metric System Enforced in Uruguay, 11

Metric System of Weights and Measures, Harry Allcock, 177

Michell Thrust Block, Patent Extension, 288

Middlesbrough Chapel Premises, Conversion into Technical Institute, 355

Mine Precautions by Copper Company in Use of Electric Cables, 225

Mine Rescue Apparatus, Nose Clips, Dr. Henry Briggs, 474

Mines, Non-ferrous, in the Lake Country, Relations with Government, 631

Mines Rescue Apparatus, Army Respirator and Eeds Helmet Useless as Protection, 583

Mineral Discoveries in Montenegro, 57

Moir, Sir Ernest, Presentation to him by Members of Ministry of Munitions, 236

“ Molera ” for Lagging Steam Pipes and Boilers,

11, 153

Montreal Harbour Improvement Scheme, 533

Mortar made Water-tight with Sugar, 481

Motor Car Engine’s Fuel, Petrol and Town Gas

Compared, 129

Motor Car Headlights and Proper Positioning of Filament, 81

Motor Car 500-Mile Race at Indianapolis, 639

Motor Car Prices, Probable Increase in, 133

Motor Cycles Sold by Government to Ex

Despatch Riders from Government Services, 607 « >

Motor Fuel, Alcohol, Research Programme, 292

Motor Haulage Vehicles and Government Sales, 277

Motor Industry Matters, Agreement between Institution of Automobile Engineers and Two other Societies, 329

Motor Industry, Proposed Import Duty on

Foreign Vehicles and Parts, 153

Motor Plough Manufacture in Austria, 105

Motor Users and Legislation for Road Reconstruction, 81

Motor Vehicles and Economy by Use of Benzole in Preference to Petrol, Stenson Cooke, 607

Mud Jet for Extinction of Underground Fires,

Monsieur Fayol’s Method, 177 ,

Munitions, Ministry’s Large Profits on Sale of

Electric Hoists and Motors, 634

Museum of Munitions to Facilitate Sale of Stores, 631

N

NATIONAL Factory at Willesden for Sale, 607

Natural Gas Borings in Hungary, 355

Natural Gas Supplants Oil as Fuel for Steam-driven Plant, 57

Newcastle’s Contemplated Wholesale Produc

tion from Conversion of Waste Products, 153

New Zealand Hydro-electric Scheme, 403

Niagara, New Water Power Plant, 81

Nickel, Over 77 per Cent, of World’s Supply

Mined in the British Empire, 277

Nitric Acid from the Atmosphere, Japanese

Factory, 57

Nitrogen Production in Germany Greatly Increased, 481

North Pole Storkerson Expedition Abandoned,

Erroneous Theory of Ocean Currents, 303

Norway, Factory for Erection of Cheap Wooden

Houses, 355

Norwegian Glycerine Refinery, 57

Nose-clips for Rescue Apparatus, Dr. Henry

| Briggs, 474 . .

I Nova Scotia Hydro-electric Commission, 631

O

1 OIL Drilling and Electrolysis Troubles, 559

Oil Extraction from Steam Engine Exhaust, 355

I Oilfields in Papua, Exploratory Work by Austra-

i lian Government, 379

I Oilfieldsand Rotary Drilling, 2

Oil from Kauri Gum, Production in New Zea-

, land, 607

Oil. Mineral, Deposits in Northern Transvaal,

1 379

Oil Prospects in Derbyshire, Favourable Indications, 177

Oil Prospects in Derbyshire, Pessimistic Prophecy, 153

Oil Refinery near Swansea, 481

Oil Well in California, Record Speed in Sinking,

2

Oil Wells in Galicia and Roumania, Flow

Restored by Electrical Heating, 355

Oils for Transformer Immersion, Comparison of Fixed and Straight Oils, 57

Omnibus Fares in London, Home Secretary’s

Inquiries, 481

Ontario, Hydro-electric Schemes, 336

Osaka Harbour, Japan, Cost of Improvements, 129 . ..

Oxy-acetylene Cutting of Cast Iron, Special

Precautions Necessary, 303

P

PAINTS for Floors, Useful Hints, 1 1

Palmer Shipbuilding Employees’ Shares. 481

Papermaking Experiments, Unsuitability of

Burma Rice Husks, 583

Paper Manufacture and the African Baobab

Tree, 533

Paper Pulp from Indian Bamboos and Grasses,

Great Possibilities, W. Raitt, 105

Papuan Oilfields, Imperial and Australian

Government Co-operation, 583

Patent Extension, Michell Thrust Block, 288

Patent Laws Revision in Japan, 559

Patent Office of India, New Type oi Journal, I

Patriotism and Foreign Goods, 29

Petrol Imports, British Increase in 1918, 10.)

Petrol Licences through the Royal Automobile

Club,225 .

Petrol Lorries’ Journey Across America, 1-3

Petroleum Discovery at Bahia Blanca, South

America, 129

Photometer, New Light Measurer. 37.)

Pigments from Various Minerals, 607

Pipes, Concrete, Replace Wooden Piles in (construction of Tasmanian Wharf, 907

Pitting, Abnormal, Observations of, Mr. O. 1.

Watts, 507 .

Platinum Discovered by Spain in berrana

Volcanic Mountains, 303

Ploughs, Motor, Manufacture in Austria, 10.)

Plymouth, Wembury Dock Scheme Revival,

Pneumatic Hammer of 65 lb. Weight, 4o5

Polish Trade, Export Directory of British

Firms in Course of Preparation, 303

Portland Cement Factory at Singapore, 586

Portland Cement Industry in Ceylon, Investigations, 481 .

Portuguese River Power Utilisation for wolfram Mines, 455 . . .

Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada, Statistics, 57

Pumping Plant, Novel Set, Installed at Cornwall, Ontario, 631

QUEBEC Bridge, 164

Queensland, Projected Deep-water Port and

Railway Connections, 403

R RADIUM. Meso-thorium as Substitute, 225 Rafts for Ocean Transport of Timber, 533

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS : Accident, Disastrous, on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad, 153

Accident Narrowly Averted on the Somerset and Dorset Line, 249

Accidents on April 1st Fewer than on other Dates, 455

Accidents Blue-book Unissued, Board of Trade Reports Still Available, 631

Accidents in February of Past Years, 153

Accidents in January of Various Years, 35

Accidents to Railway Servants, Committee of Inquiry, 201, 225

Accidents, Seven, Board of Trade Reports, 153

Ambulance Trains at Southampton Docks, Period of Greatest Stress, 559

American Managers for English Railways, Great Eastern Appointment Sequel, 554

American Railways Coal Saving, 607

American Soldiers on French Railways, Plain

Speaking as to Regard for Safety, 35

American War Locomotives and Cars, Huge Cost, 529

Appeal to Traders Poster by Railway Executive Committee, 11

Appointments and Staff Changes, 11, 57, 105. 125, 153, 201, 225, 277, 379, 402, 155, 501, 507, 515, 559, 583. 631

Assistant General Managers Appointed in View of Work Pressure, 276

Australian Hard Woods for Sleepers, Preference Asked for, 603

Automatic or Hand Couplers for British Railway Wagons, 611

Baghdad Railway Taurus Mountain Section, Good Condition but Deficient Rolling Stock, 379

Bain, Mr. D., Retirement, Great Services in Safety Measures, 402, 455, 559

Baldwin Locomotive Works, Fiftythousandth Engine, 390

Barry Railway General Manager, 225

Basingstoke and Alton Railway, Reopening Uncertain, 303

Belfast and County Down Railway, Loss nf Steamer Erin’s Isle, 355

Belfast Shipyard Men and Workmen's Tickets, 303

Belgian State Railways Electrification, Honour Conferred on Mr. Philip Dawson, 329

Birthday Honour for Mr. Church, 607

Board of Trade Replies to Questions on British Railway Matters, 379

Bombay Harbour, Proposed Railway Under, 201

Brazilian Railways Proposed Electrification, 583

British Building of Engines and Machinery, Cape Newspaper's Tribute to, 455

British Railway Locomotives and Wagons being Returned to England from France, 631

Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad, Terrible Smash of an Electric Train, 153

Burma, Proposed Coast Line to Connect with India, 403

Cabs Free Entry to Railway Stations, Question Unsettled. 396

Caledonian Railway Company’s Roll of Honour, 277

Caledonian Railway, Locomotive Repairs, New Rolling Stock Needed. 249

Cambrian Railway Locomotive Superintendent Retires, 11

Cambrian Railway’s Changes of Staff, 515

Canada’s Fast Transcontinental Service. 559

Canada’s Gift of Food and Railway Transport, 153

Canadian Forestry Corps’ Gratitude to Station Master, Woburn Sands, London and North-Western Railway. 177

Canadian Government Railways, Change of Control, 81

Canadian Government’s Big Order for Steel Rails, 631

Canal Training at Devizes, Sir Maurice Fitz-mauriee’s Evidence, 81

Canvey Island Scheme, Bill Rejected. 533

Cape to Cairo Railway Extension, 631

Capital and Revenue Returns for United

Kingdom Railways, Real and Fictitious, 57

Cheap Travelling Facilities Under Consideration, 225

Children's School Treats, Cheap Trains for, 507

Chinese Railways, Suggested Internationalisation, 105

Coal Saving by Railway Electrification, E. W. Rice, 11

Coastwise Steamer Trade and the Railways, 507, 583

Collision, Fatal, at Bamfurlong Junction, Report Recommends Track-circuiting, 129 Commercial Travellers and Week-end Facilities, 507

Common User. Additional Vehicles Included in Arrangement, 583

Concrete Rolling Stock in Holland, 559

Congo Nile Railway, Construction about to be Started, 631

Control of Railways during the War, Comparison between Our Own and American Methods. 105

Control of Railways in the Future, 146

Cooper, General A. S., 54, 125, 153

Cornish Railway, Burngullow to Falmouth, Projected, 524

Cost of Living and War Wages, 481

Craven Arms and Montgomery, New Railway Connection Wanted, 225

Crewe Works of London and North-Western Closed for a Week. 631

Cuffley and Stevenage Section of Enfield Loop Opened. 225

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con-tinued): Cumberland Coast, Suggested Railway to Connect Silloth, Solway Firth, with Mary-port, 105

Death of Mr. G. Murray Smith, Midland Railway Company, 403

Death of Sir George Armytage, 249

Death of Mr. W. E. Blake, Superintendent of London Tube and District Railways, 481

Death of Mr. W. H. Williams, Great Western Railway, 35

Death of Captain James Williamson. 277

Deaths of Dr. Angus Sinclair and Mr. Walter V. Turner, 153

Denbighshire Rural Railway Facilities Scheme. 201

Devon’s Desire for Railway from Okehamp-ton to More ton hampstead. 177

District Railway Broken Rail, Protection by Track Circuits, 105

District Railway Overcrowding, 355

Dividends of Certain Railways, Increase in, 160, 225

Dover and Folkestone Damaged Line, Proposed Temporary Replacement by Light Railway, 105

Druitt. Colonel E., Retirement of, from Railway Department. Board of Trade. 379

Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, Sea Encroachment and Talked-of Diversion of Line, 559

Durban. Railway V orkshops Extension. 355 East London Railway and Half-finished Tunnel Connection with Great Eastern, Completion bv Government Recommended, 201

Easter, Question of Movements of Troops and Holidaymakers. 355

Electrification of Mountain Sections of Californian Railways, 403

Empire Medal Award to Signalman, 105

Engine-driver’s Long Service on Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 35

Entre Rios Railways New Chief Engineer, 11 Euston to Watford New Railway, Construction Work Recommenced, 177

Fares Increase Likely to Continue at Present, 355

Fares Increase and the National Union of Railwaymen, 631

Fay, Sir Sam, Return from Government Post to Great Central Railway, 201

Federated Malay States, Locomotives Ordered from America at Lower Cost and Quicker Delivery than in Britain, 249, 403 Fish Docks at Grimsby, Reported Renewal of Extension Work by Great Central Railway, 81

Food Waste for Lack of Railway Collection and Delivery, 607

Forty-seven-hour Week in Great Eastern Railway Workshops, 277

Forty-seven Hours on Various Railways, 11, 35

French Railway Electrification, Proposed Schemes, 303

French Railways on American Lines, A Report, 11

Fuel Conservation Charts to Illustrate Waste in Irregular Firing of Locomotives, 455

Furness Railway, Departmental Co-ordination, 225

Furness Railway Purchases of Engines and Tenders, 303

Furness Railway Steamers, Sale of, 583

Furness Railway’s All-Blue Carriages, 507

Future of Railways, Government Questioned as to Cost and Losses, 201

Gauge Difficulty in Australia, Numerous Unacceptable Devices, 81

Geddes, Sir Eric, and the North-Eastern Railway, 177

Gibb, Sir George, and his Dual Activities, 631 Gibb, Sir George, and the Road Board, 583 Glasgow and South-Western Clyde Steamers

Still in Admiralty Employ, 277

Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Collision at Eldcrslie, Colonel Pringle’s Report, 225

Glasgow and South - Western Railway, Favourable Condition of Railway Material, 329

Goods Brake Vans, White Hand-rails for Use of Guards at Night. 403

Government Departments, Cost of Railway Service to, 507

Government and Railway Superannuation Funds, 303

Government Traffic Cost and Value, 303

Great Central Main Line Viaducts Strengthened, 277

Great Central Railway Locomotives, Mr. Robinson’s Design Chosen for Engines Ordered by War office, 303

Great Eastern Railway, General Manager’s Temporary Dual Functions at an End, 631

Great Eastern Railway Manager on English Railways, 554

Great Eastern Railway Orders for Engines and Tenders, 329

Great Eastern Railway Warehouses Destroyed by Fire, 35

Great Eastern Railway’s New Steamers, 262

Great Eastern Suburban Train Service, Improvement in Late Trains, 57

Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and Oilburning Locomotives, 355

Great Northern, Great Eastern and Great Central Railways’ Pooling of Cartage and Resulting Economy, 329

Great Northern Railway, Opening of Cuffley and Stevenage Section of Enfield Loop, 225

Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, Improved Service, 355

Great Northern of Ireland, Permanent Way Relaying ; also Orders for Wagons, 379

Great North of Scotland Educational Scheme as Wai’ Memorial, 329

Great North of Scotland Herring Fishery Traffic, 429

Great North of Scotland, Increase in Passengers and Revenue, 277

Great Southern and Western, Special Train for Irish Commander-in-Chief, 11

Great Western Railway :

Accident and Prompt Action of Driver and Signalman, 153

Coal Supply, 303

Engineering Department Changes, 583

Experiences, A Man and a Woman, 583

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Great Western Railway (continued):

Facilitates Exchanges of District between Members of Staff, 559

Goods Mileage and Receipts in 1900 and 1912, 429

Roll of Honour, 177

Signals, Accumulators for Track Circuits, .Vc., 153

and the Treasury, Settlement Effected, 429

War Bonus Cost, 303

War Record in Passenger Trains, 277

Working of Admiralty Coal Trains, 81

Works Manager, Mr. C. B. Collett, Promoted, 501

Highland Railway Expenditure and Need of Bank Loans Due to Government Traffic, Complaints, 303

Honours for Railway Men, 57, 455

Increased Cost of Horse’s Keep and of Coals on the Midland Railway, 559

Indian Coalfields, Bokharo and South Karanpura, Survey for Railway to Connect, 249

Indian Mails’ Renewed Transit Overland, 57

Indian Railway Board, Recognition of Patriotism of Staff, 379

Indian Railway Working, Proposed Inquiry with View to Changes, 379

Indian State Rail ways, Expenditure in 1917— 1918, 303

Indian State Railways, Net Working Profit in 1917-1918, 303

Institutions, Locomotive and Railway—see Associations, &c.

Irish Railway Shareholders’ Protection Association, 429

Isle of Wight Communication with the Mainland, Improvements Suggested, 559

Italian Railwaymen’s Eight-hours Day, 507

Jamaica’s Purchase of Railway Material in France, 11

Jubilee of First American Transcontinental Railway, 007

Labour Troubles on the Lancashire and Yorkshire and London, Brighton and South Coast Railways, 35

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Annual Report, 147

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway East Coast Fleet, Government Compensation for Vessels Lost in the War, 329

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Finance, Comparison between 1887 and 1913, 249

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Stockholders, 355

Laraiche-Alcazar Railway, Morocco, Tenders for Construction, 355

Lavatory Water Tanks on Railway Carriages, New System for Refilling, 402

Light Railway Commissioners Orders Applied for and Confirmed. 225, 631

Light Railway and Motor Services for Scotland. 355

Light Railways for Isle of Lewis Development, 81

Light Railways in the West of England, Various Proposals, 303

Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway Taken Over by Government to End Labour Troubles, 631

Locomotives, Latest, Very Large, on Virginia Railway, 277

Locomotives, Return from France, 355

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Comparison of Stockholders’ Income in 1913’and 1918, 329

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Expected Renewal of Newhaven and Dieppe Service, 249

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Failure of Tunnel at Oxted, 455

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Increased Traffic and Revenue, 329

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, War Memorial to Fallen Men, at Victoria and Elsewhere, 277

London, Chatham and Dover Railway’s Claim for Rent for Buildings Requisitioned by Government, 277

London, Chatham and Dover Railway’s Loss on Automatic Machine Rentals, 249

London Electric Railways, City and South London and Central London Railway Companies’ Working Arrangement, 177

London Electric Railway Season Tickets and the Strike, 201

London and North-Western Railway, Insurance Society. 429

London and North-Western Railway’s Marine Superintendent, 507

London and North-Western Railway Men’s Forty-seven-hour Week, 1 I

London and North-Western Railway, Narrow Escape of Serious Disaster, 639

London and North-Western Railway’s New Steamers for Irish Service, 105

London and North-Western Railway, Roll of Honour, 177

London and North -Western Railway, Steamer Run Down by American Destroyer, 303

London and Paris, New Daily Service, 129

London, Port of. Authority, Opposition to

Thames Ocean Wharf and Railway Bill, 533

London and South-Western Railway, Capital Expenditure in 1918, 303

London and South-Western Railway, Change of General Manager’s Assistant. 559

London and South-Western Railway. Signal and Telegraph Engineer Retires, 105

London and South-Western Suburban System Electrification, Passenger Increase, 583

London Suburban Stations Closed during War. Reopening Improbable at Present, 249

London Traffic Conditions and Difficulties, 481, 507, 533, 631

London Traffic and Supply of Rolling Stock, Priority Grant Unnecessary, 631

London Underground Traffic on Easter Monday, 129

Long-distance Trains, Some Few, being Restored, 105

Loss on Railway Working, Heavy Estimate, 355

Madrid and France. Cost of New Railway, Electric Traction Proposed, 455

Manchester Tramway Passengers, Proposi tion for Tube Railway, 177

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Mansfield Railway Connection with Colliery, Utility in War Service, 607

Mary port and Carlisle Railway Company, Adverse Conditions of Goods Engines Purchase, 533

Melbourne Electric Railways Opened, 455, 559

Memorial Services for Fallen Railway Men, 484

Mersey Railway, Comparison between Steam and Electric Working, 559

Metropolitan District Railway Company’s New Turbo-alternator at Lot’s-road, 303

Metropolitan District Railway’s War Difficulties and Overcrowding, 177

Metropolitan Railway Demobilisation Anticipations, Loss of Men Fallen in Service, 1 77

Metropolitan Railway’s Excellent Working, 607

Metropolitan Railway’s New Passenger Coaches, 507

Metropolitan Railway Non-strikers, Company’s Appreciation of Loyalty, 403

Metropolitan Railway War Memorial, 429

Mid-Flint Light Railways ►Scheme, 81

Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway,

Manager Appointed, 153

Midland Railway Appointments, 402

Midland Railway Employees in 1914 and Now, 303

Midland Railway Punctuality, 559

Midland Railway, Small Capital Expenditure. 355

Midland Rail wav Statistics in 1907 and 1913, 429

Midland and South-Western Junction Railway, Greatly Increased Cost of Working, 559

Motor Cars’ Competition with Railways in the United States, 559

Motor Vehicles as Railway Feeders in Italy. 403

National Union of Railwaymen and its President, 35

National Union of Railwaymen and Railway Executive Committee, 129, 277, 446, 631

Nationalisation of Railways, Minerals and Lands, No Official Estimate Prepared, 225

New Transport Company, Limited, Refusal of Permission for Capital Increase, 201

New Year’s Honours for Railwaymen, 11

New York Subway Extension System, Notable Electrical Railway Undertaking, 184

Now Zealand Government Railways Programme, 201

New Zealand Government Railways War Balance Sheet, 177

New Zealand State Railways in 1918, Financial Results of Working, 328

New Zealand State Railways, Interrupted Extensions and Lack of Facilities, 303

North-Eastern Railway General Manager, Reported Change, 57

North-Eastern Railway Passenger Increase, 391

North-Eastern Railway Policy?, War Record. 455

North-Eastern Railway and Sir Eric Geddes, 177

North London Electric Service 1 mprovement, 429

Norway’s Order for Locomotives and Rolling ►Stock Parts from U.S.A., 455

Nottingham, Congestion of Traffic at, 631

Nyassaland, Projected Government Railway, 129

Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Electric Railway, Benefit of Change in Trolley Wheels, 57

Oil Fuel Burning on Railways, Results of Tests of Various Systems, 403

Oil as Protection from Rust of Permanent

Way Angle Bars and Bolts, 559

Oxted Tunnel Closing, Temporary, 533

Paris Underground Faros Increase, 507

Passenger Facilities, Improvement not yet Expected. 105

Passenger Fares and Postage on Letters, Small Prospect of Return to Pre-war Rates, 249

Passenger Train and Heavy Goods Loads. 225

Passengers’ Roll of the London Electric

Railway Companies, 177

Perishable Goods. Design of Rail wav Wagons for, 351

Post-offices for Service between Queenstown and Kingstown Harbour, 11

Potteries Railway, Failure of Application to Reconstruct, 3 29

Preferential Treatment and Agri cultural Produce; 533

Pre-war Travelling Conditions, Gradual Efforts To wards Restoration, 303

Profit, Railway, and Otherwise, a, Vanishing Quantity, Mr. Lloyd George, ] 88

Proposal to Return Railways to Private Working with Guarantee of Minimum Rate of Return. 225

Queensland Commissioner of Railways, Retirement after Fifty Years’ Service. 277

Race Meetings and Increased Fares, 59]

Rails and Sleepers from Temporary Railways in France, Question of Disposal. 533

Railway Benevolent Institution. 225

Railway Benevolent Institution, Presidentelect, 81

Railway Clerks’ Association Recognised, on Conditions, 153

Railway Conditions as to Claims for Losses, as to Carriage, &c., 303

Railway Executive Committee and Privately-owned Wagons, 563

Railway Executive Committee, Offices and ►Staff from Railway Companies, No Cost to Board of Trade, 355

Railway Executive Committee. Poster Appeal, 11

Railwav Executive Committee and Railwaymen,‘129, 277, 446. 533. 631

Railway Material Exports Statistics, 57, 129, 455, 631

Railwaymen and the Eight-hour Day, 129

Railwaymen’s Two Unions, Their After-war Programme, 35

Railway Officials Resume Work on Retire- ' ment.from Government Positions, 455

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Railway Servants and War Wages, 201

Rates for Goods and Running Costs, 583

Rationing Holiday Traffic to and from Blackpool, 429

Refrigerator Wagons Delects, Report by Food Committee, 555

Restaurant Services Re-established on Great Northern Trains, 129

Rome and Constantinople, Proposed Direct Railway Communication, with Supplementary Ferry-boat Service, 195

Roosevelt, Late President, and the United States Railways, 81

Royal Agricultural Society’s Cardill Show, Railway Facilities, 507

Sack, Railway-owned> Shortage in Scotland, Farmers’ Troubles, 249

Safety First in the United States, 541, 583

Scottish Labour Members’ Fares, 506

Shropshire and Montgomery Light Railway Company, 201

Signalman’s Gallantry during Air Raid, 607

Signals, Coloured and Position, Comparison of, and Report on both Types, 451

Singapore and Malay States, Causeway Across Johore Straits to Replace Train Ferry Connection, 81

Skip-stop System for Street Railways, Fuel Economy of, 11

Sleeping Car Services between Paris and Alsace-Lorraine, 11

Snow Damage of Telegraph Wires and Much Delayed Trains, 35

South Africa Adopts Eight-hours Day in Railway and Harbour Department, 607

South African Passenger Fares and Goods Rates, Further Increase, 11

South African Railways Annual Reports, Change in Period Covered, 11

South Australian Government Railways Finance, 129

South Australian Locomotives, Largest yet Built in the Province, 129

South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Landslide and Empty Train Wreckage, 249

South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Land-

■ slip Repair, 277

South-Eastern and Chatham Railway’s New Steamer, 249

South-Eastern Railway Wagon Shops Burned Down, 583

South Manchuria Railway Improvements of Track and Rolling Stock, 201

Steam Locomotion and Wasted Fuel, 403

Steel Rails in the United States, Reduced

Output in 1918, 583

Straps on Railway Carriage Windows, 429

Sturrock’s Steam Tender, 81—see Miscellaneous Index

Summer Time Dates Fixed, 225

Superannuation Allowance to Retired Railway Officers, Question of Increase, 507

Taff Vale Railway, Co-operation between Employers and Employed, 429

Taff Vale Railway and the Eight Hours Day, 355

Taff Vale Railway, Questions of Joint General Manager and Common User of Wagons, 355

Taff Vale Railway Roll of Honour, 177

Thomas, Mr. J. H., Health Visit to America, 506

Traffic and Railw'ay Services, Further Increase Impossible, 481

Train Ferries on Entre Rios Railway as Precursor of the Richborough Cross-Channel Undertaking, 35

Train Service Improvement, 429

Train Service Improvements, Restaurant Cars Again Running, 225

Training,* Free, for Junior Clerical Staff of Underground Railways and Omnibus Company after War Service, 277

Transport Bill and New Works, 481

Transport Committee and London Traffic, 607

Transport in India and East Africa, Inquiry, 429

Transport of Troops and Munitions, Statement of Cost, 399

Tube Railway Fares, Concessions as to Wages and Hours, 403

Tube Railways, London, Financial Problems, 607

Tunnel to Connect Denmark and Sweden, 455

United States Railroad Administration :

Additional Precautions at Level Crossing?, 329

Armistice Stops Entrainment of 250,000 Men, Cancelled Arrangements and Efficient Handling, 403

Coal Contract Publicity, 533

Commissions on Contracts, Modification of Original Clause, 533

Congress ar.d Big Railway Deficit Vote, 607

Control of Railways, President Wilson’s Message, 507

Director-General, Mr. McAdoo Succeeded by Mr. Walker D. Hines, 153

Fuel Conservation Section’s Large Saving in Coal and Oil, 57

Fuel Zone System, Great Saving in Transport, 11

Future of American Railways, Question of Finance, 481

Increased Fares and Freight Rates Cause Reduction of Deficit, 57

Interstate Commerce Commission Report and Bureau of Railway Economics, 379 New Railw'ay ’Works Programme Shelved for Lack of Funds, 411

Routeing of Traffic on United States Railways, 481

Troops Traffic Statistics, 403

United States Railway System, Proposed New Federation Scheme, li

United States Societies, Clubs, <K c., Devoted to Railway Subjects, 328

Wages Statistics during Administration Control, 607

Wages, Trainsmen’s Further Advance of 65,000,000 Dollars, 379

Wages Increase of Miners, Railway and Transport Workers, 110 to 120 per Cent, since War Outbreak, 455

Wages Statistics, 583

Wagon Repairs and Labour Shortage. 429

Wagon Shortage and Delayed Ships, 583

Wagons, British Wooden, Life of, 533

Wagons on Indian Railways, Statistics, 35

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con-tinned):

War-office Orders for Locomotives to Design of Mr. J. G. Robinson, 303

Waterloo, Escalators between Main Line Station and. City Railway, 379

Waterloo Station Reconstruction Nearly Completed, 583

Waterloo Station, Slight Collision between Steam and Electric Trains, 303, 607

Water Power Utilisation in France for Electrification of Main Railways, 402

Ways and Communications :

Finance Questions, 249

Finance and Condition of Permanent Way and Rolling Stock, Sir F. Banbury, 379

Opposition. 225

Statement by Mr. Bonar Law, 201

Trade Associations not Represented, Delay Asked for, 481

Wagons, Privately Owned, Inquiry as to Steps Taken, 533

White Paper Initials on Railway Working, 507

Whit Monday Passengers on London Underground Lines, 631

Women Railway Workers, Donation on Discharge, 35

Women’s War Wages Advance, Arbitration Decision, 177

Woolwich, Kearney Railway of ,|-Mile Length and One Minute’s Journey, Projected, 129

RAINFALL in Australia, Records, 403

Reafforestation in Great Britain to Replace

Timber Cut Down during War, 240

Realgar, Successful Production with Richards Gas Producer Furnace, 105

Reunion of Ex-British ’Westinghouse Men, 190

Road Improvement, Government Grant of £10,000,000, 81, 480

Roads and Road Transport and also Railways, Opposition to Proposed Unification of Government Control, 81, 277

Roads and Transport Congress and Exhibition, 495

Rolling Mill at Southampton, Steps by Federation of British Industries to Guard it from Foreign Acquisition, 329

Rotary Engine, Isaac Smith’s, Working Drawing of, Placed in Science Museum, 201

Royal Automobile Club’s Opposition to Ways and Communications Bill, 225

Royal Automobile Club’s Services to Overseas Officers during the War, Sir A. Stanley, 559

Royal Dockyard Apprenticeship and Educational System, Successful Results, 277

Rubber Association of Singapore, Standard Qualities Fixe'’, 583

Rubber, Synthetic, German Factory, 105

Russia’s Abundant Supplies of Timber, 153

Russian Industrial Undertakings and Workmen in 1914, 533

Russia’s Introduction of Metric Weights and Measures, 55, 177

s SAFETY Precautions for Transmission Machinery, Home-office Report, 464

Salcoats, Borehole Projected to Search for Minerals, 481

Saturday Holiday, Five Days’ Work at a London Works, 403

Scheelite— -see Iron and Steel

Science, Application of, to Industry, C. M. Walter, 277

Scientific and Industrial Research, Expenditure, Sir F. Heath, 225

Segnite, New Explosive in South Africa, 153

Selenium and other Mineral- and Production of Pigments, 607

Serbia, Government and Industrial Mission, 225

Sewage Disposal and Pollution of Rivers, 583

Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Works near Bridgend, 428

Shaft-sinking in the Transvaal, World’s Record, 177

Shale Oil in Brazil, Larger Percentage than from Scotch Shale, 129

Sheep Losses by Blow-fly, Scientific Efforts at Prevention, 35

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : American Pestrover Built in Seventy Davs, 57

American Shipbuilder’s Offer to the Shipping Board, 429

American Shipping Board Orders Cancelled or Curtailed and Prices for Ships Lowered, 444

American Wooden Steamers Converted as Tow Barges, 355

Armistice, First British Concrete Steamship, Behaviour of, 177

Barnstaple Reinforced Concrete Shipbuilding Yard, Activities, 177

Battleship Design in the Future, H. C. By water, 329

Concrete Barges, Seaworthy Qualities Doubted, 303

Concrete Ferry-boat, Accident and Repair, 481

Concrete, Reinforced, and Steel Vessels, Comparison of Deadweight, T. J. Querette, 225

Cromarty, Closing of Naval Base, 533 Cunard’s New Service of Steamers, 455 Dutch Companies Repairing British Ships, 105

Electric Welding of Ship Joint®, Great Saving in Cost Compared with Riveting, 105

First Steamship to Cross the Atlantic, 533

Great Eastern Railway’s New Steamers, 262

H.M. Destroyer Zubian, One Ship Reconstructed from Two, 429

H.M.S. Truant, Ocean-going Torpedo-boat Destroyer. J. S. White and Co., 277

Japanese Mercantile Marine, Details, 249

Japanese New Cargo Boat Service from Yokohama to Calcutta, 607

Japanese Shipbuilding Programme. 249

Lloyd’s Register, Chairmen and Vice-chairman, Elections, 631

London and North-Western Steamer Rim Down by American Destroyer, 303

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued); Mauretania’s Record Trip from Halifax to New York, 533

Mercantile Marine Openings, Various, for Boys, 583

Merchant Shipping Act, Lifeboats and Rafts for all, 105

Newhaven and Dieppe Steamship Service, Expected Reopening, 249

Northumberland New Shipbuilding Combination, 201

Osaka Shosen Kaisha and Shipbuilding, 607 Reconstructed Vessels for Sale by Admiralty, 429

Repairs of Shipping, Announcement by Controller, 35

Salvage of the A. J. Fuller, Attempt to Raise the Ship, 177

Salvage of Ships after the Wig, A Great Harvest Expected from them, 11

Shipbuilding Yard at Ardencaple, 583

Ship Losses during the War, Twenty-five Times as many British as American Vessels, 429

Ship Plates for Australia, Cheaper from England than in Australia, 507

South-Eastern and Chatham’s New Steamer Maid of Orleans, 249

Steamer Wrecked in 1840, Remains Exposed by Dredging, 533

Steam Yacht Carnegie’s Long Voyages, 507

Submarines, and Under-water Listening, Professor Bragg, 559

Submerged Submarines, French Invention for Locating, 201

Swedish Mercantile Marine War Losses, 455

Tyne Shipping, Increase in Output of Ships, 303

United States Battleship Idaho and H.M.S. Dreadnought, Comparisons, 481

10,000-Ton Vessel Bisected to Pass through Locks on the Welland Canal, 403

War Vessels Launched on the Tyne during the War, 355

Whitshed, H.M.S., Ocean-going Torpedo-boat Destroyer Launched at Wallsend, 140

Wooden Ship, Sierra Nevada, Built in 1854 and Still Afloat, 429

Wooden Shipbuilding at Quebec, Good Record, 481

X-rays for Inspection of Concrete Ships, 403

Yarrow-built Destroyer’s Record Speed, 303

SIBERIA, Northern, Harbour and Handling Facilities at Mouth of River Ob, 403

Slag for Concrete-making, 533

Smoke Prevention, Condition of Sheffield, Sir R. Hadfield, 81

Soap-making from Petroleum in Germany, 429

Soda near Pretoria, Valuable Deposits, 277

Solar Eclipse on May 29th,. 1919, Experiments, 455

South African Gold Mine, New Shaft being Sunk, 379

South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, President, 249

South African Mineral Output and Working Cost Statistics, 355

South African Mining Improvements in Tube Mills, 379

South African Societies’ Combined Exhibition of Machinery and Appliances, 355

South Africa, Trade Conditions of, and Federation of British Industries, 277

Southampton’s Embarkation Work during the War, 249

Spain and Export of Machinery, 177

Spanish Industries, Government Concessions, 481

Spelter Manufacturers and Nationalisation of Coal Mines, 607

Spirit from Sulphite Waste of Pulp Mills, 583

Spitsbergen, A Departure of Workers for the

Northern Exploration Company, 507

Spitsbergen, A No Man’s Land, 455

Steam Engine Building in the Last Generation, Excellent Record, 177

Steel—‘fee Iron and Steel

Stephenson, George, Interesting Maps and Papers belonging to him Presented to Newcastle, 153

“ Still ” Engine and Lubrication Experiments, 607

Strike for Less Pay, 177

Submarine Mine Exploders, Thousands for

Sale by Disposal Board, 441

Sulphur Deposits in Texas, 455

Sulphur Waste in Fumes Round Nickel Mines in Ontario, 329

Superheating by Steam as Preventive of Rust in Iron, 355

Surplus Government Stores, Profitable Sales, 583, 607, 634

Swedish Factory Started for Manufacture of Mica Insulating Materials from Native Mines, 129

Swedish Industries Fair at Gothenburg, 607

Sweden, Removal of Restrictions on Exports to, 646

Swiss Trade Exhibition, 355

Sydney Harbour Dredging, Material Removed Last Year, 201

Sydney, Pyrmont Bridge Repaired Rapidly " by Oxy-acetylene Welding, 429

TAMPING Railway Sleepers in Canada, Advantage of Use of Pneumatic Tools, 533

“ Tanks ” Association, A New Society, 65

Tanks to be Broken Up, 81

Tasmania and Hydro-electric Development,

355, 481

Telephone between Cawnpore and Lucknow, 559

Telephone Cables in London, Quick Repair of

Extensive Damage, 153

Telephone Exchanges, London, Cost of Scheme for Conversion to Automatic System, 329

Telephone Statistics in United States, 355

Telephone System in Bolivia, Reputed to be the Highest in the World, 57

Telescope, Great Reflecting, near Victoria, B.C., Completed, 35

Ticker in Wireless Telegraphy, Other Applications Suggested, M. Goudet, 81

Tidal Wave and Atmospheric Pressure, 249

Timber of Canada, List of Trees Used, 403

Timber Growth, Experiments in India, 355

Timber Shortage Due to War and Reafforestation Scheme, 240

Timber Supplies, Rationing Abolished and Prices Reduced, 129

Timber Supply by Government at Reasonable Price, 507

Timber Transport by Rafting Across the Atlantic, 533

Time-keeping Accuracy of Country’s Principal Clocks, 631

Time Lost and Device for Prevention, 379

Tinfoil Manufacture in China, 129

Tin Mining in Cornwall, Question of Subsidising, 159

Tin Slimes Concentration, J. M. Buckland, 249

Tramcars on Elevated Line from Tokyo, Trial Run, 481

Tungsten—see Iron and Steel

Tunnel Below Sea at Moji, Japan. 481

Tunnel, Railway, to Connect Denmark and Sweden, 455

Turbine Design and Problems of Distortion, 57

Turbines, Steam, Most Economical Size of Unit for, 225

Turpentine Oil and Rosin, New Source of Supply of, Found in India, 533

Tyne Improvement Commission’s Plant, Proposed Purchase of New Dredgers, 333

u UNITED States and Need of Good Work, 212

Universities and British Industries, 541

Universities and Colleges Better Supported in the United States than in Great Britain, 481

University College and Hospital War Memorial, 594

University College, London, Annual Dinner, 570

University College, London, Annual Report, Decrease in Students and Revenue, 249

University Endowments in England and Wales, Analysis of Distribution, 481

VAN ADI UM. in Swedish Coal, 607

WALKER, James, and Co., New Arrangement

of Working Hours, 403

Walter Scott and Middleton, Presentation, 213

Wangduni, New Zealand, Port Development

Delayed, 429

War in its Dependence on Chemistry, 11

War “ Gases,” Serious Effects of Chloropicrin,

35

War Memorial, A. A. Jones and Shipman, Limited, 47

War Output of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth

and Co., 436

Warehouse Accommodation, Great Extension by Mersey Docks and Harbor r Board, 57

Water, Colour Improvement Caused by Storage, 129

Water Power Committee’s Report on Capacity of British and German New Guinea, 507

Water Power Development in Europe and

I Japan, 429

Water Power Schemes in the Ghats, in Province

| of Bombay, 559

Water Powers of the Ukraine, 533

WATER SUPPLY: 1 Birmingham. Proposed New Pipe from the Elan Valley, 329

Bombay Water Supply from Powai Lake, 631

Cohoes, New York, Water Consumption,

Pumps Cheaper than Water Meters. 429

Dacca Waterworks Improvement, 105

I Electrolytic Corrosion, New Resistance

| Device for Water Pipes, 153

Hyderabad Water Supply, Completion of Oosinan-Sagar Dam. 607

India, Waterworks Calk'd for at Chandpur, 403

Kawasaki, Cost of New Waterworks. 429

Manchester Corporation’s Water Bill, 303

Manchester, Greatly Increased Consumption

of Water, 129

Manchester’s Scheme for Water from West-

| morland, 607

Midnapore, India. Water Supply, Further

Grant Required for Cost, 129

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Water Supply, Alternative Schemes, 533, 631

South Australia, New Schemes for Water

Supply, 507

Sydney, New South Wales, Storage Incica.-.e, ‘484

Sydnev Water Supply, Cordeaux River Dam, 455

Uruguay, Projected Water Supply and

Sewerage Works, 533

Water Consumption in Great. Britain for Papermaking, Brewing, Railways, and Fire Extinction, 533

Water Filtration Plant at Detroit, 429

Water Filtration Plant Sludge Experiments, 455

Water Meter Test Results, F. B. Nelson, 403

WATER in Underground Fissures, Stoppage by

Injection of Liquid Cement, 57

Water-gas to Relieve Coal Shortage in Germany, 35

Waterproofing of Drawings and Tracings for

Use in Wet Places, 11

Waterways Lost and Regained by the British in Flanders in 1918, 129

Waygood-Otis Foremen’s Dinner, 248

Ways and Communications Bill, Mr. Bon ar *

Law on, 201 ; Opposition, 225 ; Finance

Questions, 249— -see als-j Railways

Ways and Means, Ernest Bonn, 288

Weights and Measures, Metric and English

Systems, Comparison of Use, Mr. Halsey, 507

I Welding, Acetylene and Electric, 546

Wheat and Beans, Suggested Mixture of Crop as Protection from Storms, 129

Wheels for Road Vehicles, Steel and Wood, Comparison of Advantages for Overseas Service, 321)

White Arsenic, Plant for Production to be Put Up in South Africa, 355

“ Whitley ” Plan as Applied to Brass and Copper Industries, 355

Wireless Communication by Telephone with Moving Omnibus, 559

Wolfram—>'cc Iron and Steel

Wolfryn Electro-chemical Treatment of Seeds, 559

Wolverhampton and Aeroplane Making, 532

| Wood as a Boiler Fuel, 533

1 Wood for Concrete Reinforcement, Precautions in Use, 607

Wood Distilling Works in Ontario, Growth in Twenty Years, 81

I Wool Scarcity in Germany, Use of Iron for Air Filters, 11

> Working Drawing of Isaac Smith’s Rotary

I Engine Placed in Science Museum, 201

X-RAY .Discussion at Faraday and Rontgen Societies’ Meeting, 416

X-Rays for Inspection of Concrete Ships, 403

Y YARROW and Company’s Output to Increase in Vancouver but Diminish on the Clyde, 129

Yellow Pine Shortage in United Kingdom, Government Measures for Supply and Price Regulation, 303, 507

z ZINC and Lead Pipes, Corrosion, and Methods of Protection from, 631

Zinc Production by Electrolytic Company of Australia, 201

Zirconium .Exports from Brazil, 559

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