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ACETYLENE and Coal Gas, Illuminating Power and Immunity from Risk, 135

Acetylene, Compressed, in a Porous Substance, Government Order, 53

AERONAUTICS: Aerodrome at Durban, Proposed Erection, 635

Aerodrome at Goregaon, Bombay, 539

Aeroplane Surplus Engine at Work in Factory, 85

American Offer for Aeroplanes and Engines from British Disposal Department, 154 Amsterdam Aircraft Exhibition, British

Section Delayed by Strikes, 157

Aviation Exhibition, Paris, 565

“ Bristol ” Fighter Biplane, Continuous Com-missionj 463

Dutch Aviation Routes to be Opened Next Year ; Services to England and Elsewhere, 572

Fiat B.R.F. Biplane, 635

Fire Patrols by Aeroplane over Californian Forest Reserves, 301

India, Aerodrome Construction near Bangalore, 85

Insect Hunting Surveys by Aeroplane, 635

Man-power Aeroplane Flight at Paris, G. Poulain, 157

Pan - American Aeronautic Convention, Colonel E. Lister Jones’ Address, 161

Rome to Turin Flight, Record Broken, 85

Semi-rigid Airship Purchased from Italy by U.S.A., 489

United States Airship Blown Up Owing to Sun Heat Expansion, 11

Wireless Telephony, Air Squadrons Fitted with during War, 157

AFFORESTATION Cost, Amount Allocated by

Government, 135

Agricultural Engineers’ Combination, 419

Agricultural Implements Imported into India, 11

Agricultural Tractors and Ploughs, Royal Agricultural Society Trials, 635

Alcohol, &c., from Coke-oven Gas, Process for

Commercial Development, E. Bury, 635

Alcohol as Fuel for High-speed Internal Combustion Engines, Benzol Admixture Necessary, 111

Alcohol from the Mahwa Tree, 85

Alcoholic Motor Spirit Factory in Natal, Output of, 157

Algeria’s Mineral Exports, 613

Alloy, Iron, Acid-proof, Italian’s Claim, 59

Alloys of the Duralumin Type, Heat Treatment of, 35

Aluminates of Lime, Value as Cement, 85

Aluminium Alloy with Calcium, 279

Aluminium and Alloys Coating Flux, S. O.

Cowper-Coles, 489

Aluminium in Germany, Output, and Need of Coal, 359

Aluminium, Prescription for Soldering, 11

Aluminium, Useful American Circular, 305

American Association of Engineers, Committee on Legislation, 35

American Concrete Institute, Recommendations, 135

American Lakes and Rivers, Plan for Control and Regulation of Discharge and Flow, 589

American Petroleum Export Statistics, 279

Architectural and Museum Studies, Prizes for

Drawings ; Conditions, 419

Armstrong College, Appointments of Principal and Registrar, 111

Armstrong College, Vacant Professorship of Engineering, 359

Asbestos Production in Rhodesia, 411

ASSOCIATIONS, I INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES : Association, British :

Statistics of War Transportation in France, Colonel Sir G. Beharrell, 279

Transport Policy, Mr. Acworth, 279

Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen :

Strike at Works of Kerr, Stuart and Co., Stoke-on-Trent, Supported by Association, 11

Sheffield Branch :

Winter Programme ; Projected Lectures. 613

Association of Engineers, Manchester : Scientific Management, H. W. Allingham, 613

Institute of Aeronautical Engineers :

Council Formation, 157

Institute, Iron and Steel :

Autumn Meeting in France, Proposed, 565 Bessemer Medal Award, 231

President for Next Year, Dr. J. E. Stead, 548

Institute of Metals :

Brass : Its Construction and Impurities, F. S. J. Pile, 635

Micro-mechanism of the Ageing of Duralumin, Dr. Zay Jeffries, 255

Institute of Mine Surveyors of Great Britain :

Scottish Branch :

Discussion of Objects of Institute ; Salaries Question, 359

Institution of Automobile Engineers :

Examination for Admission to Membership, 589

Meeting, 287

Presidential Address, Thos. Clarkson, 287

Reception, 478

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Fowls Lodged by Institution, 207

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

Liverpool Sub-centre to be Formed, 539 Water Power, Professor Magnus Maclean. 279

Institution of Engineers (India) :

Rapid Establishment and Predicted Usefulness of the Institution, 539

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :

Reoccupation of Old Premises Commandeered by Ministry of Munitions, 437 Special Steels and Aluminium Alloys, Importance in Motor Vehicles and Aircraft, Dr. T. Blackwood Murray, 589

Institution, Junior, of Engineers :

Members’ List, 359

Institution of Municipal and County Engineers :

Flags for Road Paving, Natural and Artificial, F. W. Bricknell, 359

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

Institution of Naval Architects :

Awards of Elgar Scholarship and Earl of Durham Prize, 181

Cammell Laird and Parsons Scholarships, Entries for, 181 ; Awards, 421

Martell Scholarship in Naval Architecture (1920), 597

Scholarships Offered, 24, 135

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

Joint Technical Institute for the North-East Coast Institution and the Cleveland Institution of Engineers, 181

Institution, Royal :

Christmas Juvenile Lectures : The World of Sound, Professor W. H. Bragg, 528

Election of Members and Honorary Members, 564

Meetings, 476, 564

Programme up to Easter, 1920, 564

Society, Ceramic :

Refractory Materials Section ; Arrange* ments for Meetings, 383

Society of Engineer's :

Award of Premiums for Papers, 646

New Scheme for Association of Engineering Societies, Offer of Annual Premium by Mr. Burnard Geen, 11

Crystal Palace Engineering Society :

Papers and Awards, 625

Society, Faraday :

Magnetic Hardness of Ferrous Metals, &c., L. A. Wild, 255

Society, Optical :

Spirit Level from Captured Zeiss Director, Liquids for Filling Levels, J. W. French, 135

Spirit Level, Requirements, Major E. O.

Henrici, 59

Society, Royal, of Arts :

Australian Growth in Industrial Manufacture, Sir J. McCall on, 59

Trueman Wood Lecture, Sir Oliver Lodge, 613

Use of Electricity in Agriculture, Dr. J. F.

Crowley, 489

Society of Technical Engineers :

Mass Meeting, 554, 601

ATHENS, Exhibition of British Manufactures, 207, 411, 489, 515, 565

Australia, Rapid Growth in Industrial Manufacture, 59

Automatic and Electric Furnaces, Limited, Loan of Magnetic Sclerometer for Demonstration, 315

B BALLOONS Used in Tree Fumigation, 515

Barcelona, Annual International Fair Instituted, 511

Beardmore and Co.’s Large Section Mill, 181

Bearing Metals and Modern Metallography, 279

Belgian Rolling Mills, Esperance Abandoned, New Works Projected at Hourpes, 489

Belgium, British Trade with, Catalogues at Lidge, 262

Bennis, Ed., and Co., Lantern Slides for Lectures, 526

Benzole and the Cinematograph, 22

Benzole, Increased Production and Further Possibilities as Substitute for Motor Spirit, 11

Benzole, “ National,” Test with a Sunbeam Car, 207, 255

Benzole Test on 10,000-Miles Run by Sunbeam Car, 589

Bill to Prevent “ Lightning Strikes,” 419

Birmingham, Big Scheme in Progress for Improvement of Hockley Brook, 85

Blowpipe Cutting of Scrap Metal, 181

Board of Trade, Certain Powers of, Transferred to Home-office, 539

Board of Trade Departments, New Addresses and Telephone Numbers, 502

Board of Trade, New Administrative Council, 305

Boiler Plates, Steel, in the Yangtze Valley, High Prices Paid, 35

Boiler Tube Explosion Report, 85

Boilers Heated by Electricity, 11

Bombay, New Companies Organised, 35

Borneo and Sumatra Waterfalls, Available Horse-power, 359

Bradford Engineering Society, Coming of Age, 392

Brazil Trade, Increased Imports and Exports, 463

Brewers’ Exhibition, 452, 476

Brick Chimney for Cleveland Electric Company, Dimensions of, 85

Bridge, Highway, in Ohio, Accident during Reconstruction, 565

British Chemical Manufacturers’ Association, Visit to Germany, 68

British East African Land, Government Condition for Leasing, 613

British Industries Fair, Birmingham’s Share, 146

British Science and Key Industries Exhibition at Glasgow, 157, 328

British Scientific Products Exhibition, 59

British Westinghouse Company, Change of Name, 181, 548

Brussels Commercial Fair, Proposed, 157

Buenos Aires, Proposed Underground System of Electric Tramways, 613

Building Materials’ Tenacity ; Observations in the War Area, Sir B. Fletcher, 359

Bullion Salved from the Wreck of the Laurentic at Entrance to Lough Swilly, 157

c CABLE Across the Pacific Ocean, 332

Calcutta Corporation and Question of Sanitary Dwellings, 411

Canada, Export Trade, Increase since 1914, 85

Canada and Street Cars, Decision Against Local Manufacture in Toronto, 111

Canadian Water Power Development, Professor J. C. McLennan, 305

Canal, Crinan, Position under Consideration by Ministry of Transport, 635

Canal, First, in Northern India, Proposed Celebration of Centenary, 59

Canal, Huningue to Strasburg, Proposed Hydro-electric Stations, 565

Canal, Ship, Proposed, at South-west of Long Island, U.S.A., 613

Canal System in Canada, Government Survey, 565

Canal System of South Yorkshire, Reorganisation under Consideration, 635

Canals’ Future as a Difficult Problem, 135

Canalising the Rhone, Power and Coal Saving, 255

Cape Copper Company Closes Mines, Large lieturns since 1863, 85

Casein Glues, Valuable Properties, 111

Casting Iron Pipes, Centrifugal System, 613

Cement, Waterproof, Sir G. K. Scott Moncrioff, 489

Census of Europeans in South Africa, 11

Chain Manufacturers, New Association, 124, 220, 359

Charcoal Briquettes in India ; Difficulty, 157

Chemical Employers and Motor Transport

Employers’ Federations, Alliance, 59

Chemical Engineer as a Liaison Officer, 181

Chemistry, Organic, Professorship at Armstrong College, Dr. S. Smiles Appointed, 157

Chicago and the Atlantic, Improved Water Communication, 59

Chimney, Tall Reinforced Concrete, at Sagano-seki, Professor Omori’s Conclusions, 437, 463 Chimneys, Tall, Stresses by Wind Pressure and

Seismic Motion Compared, 437

China Clay Transport Difficulties and Settlement, 514

China, Local Materials Economically Used for Construction Work, D. F. McLeod, 181

Chinese Dockyard Improved to Carry Out American Contracts, 231

Cinematograph as Advocate for Benzole, 22

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES: Amount of Coal Required to Mill One Ton of Ore, 589

Anthracite Seam Struck at Glyn Neath, 231 Argentine Coal Discovery, its Great Value, 207

Belgian Blast-furnaces and Coke Scarcity, 333 British Columbia and Coalfields, 383

Calcium Carbide Manufacture and Byproduct Extraction from Coal and Shale at Natal Collieries, 565

Coal Discovery in Chili, 613

Coal Mining in Germany, Decreasing Output, Increasing Cost of Production, 85

Coal Transport by Rail, Suspended Restrictions, 279

Commercial Motor Users’ Association and Coal Permits, 74

Compressed Air Coal-cutting Machines, Tests, 589

Controller of Coal Mines, Change of Appointment, 437

Dutch East Indies, Increased Coal Consumption, 259

Electrical Charges Advance with Price of Coal, 135

Federated Malay States, Useful Discovery of Coal and Output, 539

Fire Extinction by Mud Jet, 135

Gasworks, Demand for Ash Guarantee, 315

High-priced Coal and Hydro-electric Power Extension, 7

India, Increased Output of Coal Mines, 59 Ireland, Stationary Output of Coal, 565 Kent Collieries during the Railway Strike, 411 |^ens and Lievin Mines Flooding ; Ten Years Required for Complete Restarting, 135

Lord Bute no Longer Colliery Proprietor, 59

Louren^o Marques, Coal Deposits Found, 157 Melbourne Harbour Coaling Plant, 515 Mines Unwatering, Need of Barriers, 515

Mines Water-logged in the Tipton District, 181

Mining in Formosa, Primitive Methods, 231

Natal, Coal and Bituminous Shale Development in, 4] 1

Natal Navigation Company’s New Coal Area, 515

Natal, Official Coal Trade Report, Decreasing Output, 383

Nationalisation of Mines, Mr. Justice Sankey’s Report, 23

New Zealand, Coal Discovery in, 157

New Zealand Coal Mines and Nationalisation, 312

Oil Fuel in France, Commission Urges its Use to Replace Coal, 565

Output of Coal in the United Kingdom during Four Weeks, 359

Output, Slight Improvement, 287

Powell Duffryn Company’s New Pit, 539

Pulverised Coal for Open-hearth Furnaces, N. C. Harrison, 539

Quick Work at a Colliery, 279

Seven-hour Day and the Output, 255

South Africa, Coal Development Company Formed, 383

South Africa, New Colliery, 157

Spitzbergen Coal Deposits, Scottish Syndicate to Prospect, 11

Spitzbergen, Coal Exports from, 613

Spitzbergen, Further Coal Discovery, 157

Storing Coal in Carbonic Acid Gas, 589

'Temperature of Coal Mines, Atmospheric Conditions, Ventilation and Health, 539

Tonkin Output from the Hongay Mines, 255 United States Coal Consumption Estimate, 57 Vienna Company’s Coke Supply Transferred t o Czechs with Change of Frontiers, 535

Wagon Shortage on Railways, Measures Taken on Behalf of Collieries, 135

Water in South Staffordshire Mines, 589

Western India, Trial Boring for Coal ; Heavy Cost of Coal at Bombay, 565

CONCRETE Caissons for Bridge Foundations, Best Method of Sinking, F. W. Sweeney, 35

Concrete and Fire Resistance, 135

Concrete Mooring Buoys Compared with Steel, 411

Concrete Pipe Failure in Arizona, Professor G. E. P. Smith, 181

Concrete Replaces Plain Steel for Cranes, 383

Concrete Setting Studied by Assistance of Camera, 111

Concrete Tanks for Fuel Oil Storage, 85

Copper in Ancient India, Mr. Panchanan Neogi, 515

Copper Conductors, 242

Copper Contact Bows of Electric Railways Replaced by Carbon, 515

Copper Mines in Norway, Cost of Production and Falling Prices, 411

Copper as a Protective Against Corrosion of Steel, 305

Cornish Mining in St. Ives District, 565

Corrosion in Boilers with Turbines and with

Reciprocating Engines ; Tests, 157

Corundum, Artificial, Cheap Manufacture of, Possible in England, C. J. Brockbank, 635

Cotton Mill in Central China ; British and

American Machinery, 255

Creosoted Piles, Long Life of, 255

Crystal Palace Engineering Society : Papers and Awards, 625

Crystal Palace School of Practical Engineering, Admiral Sir G. W. Moore on Future of Engineering, 122

D DAM Proposed Across Sutlej River, India, Highest in the World, 613

Dam, Proposed, for Irrigation Scheme in Idaho, Higher than Any Yet Built, 613

Dam in Tasmania, Cause of Failure, H. E.

Bellamy, 383

Davidson and Company’s War Work Booklet, 98

Daylight Saving in General Favour, 215

Death of Mr. T. P. Shonts : His Work on

Panama Canal Development and on New York Subways, 569

Decimal Currency, Increased Adoption, 411

Derrick Cranes with Reinforced Concrete

Replacing Plain Steel, 383

Diamond Getting by Use of a Diving Bell, 231

Diesel Engine Users’ Association : Applies for

Grant for Research, Complains of Household Fuel Order as Applied to Electrical Companies Using Oil, 59

Ding-Dong Mine Reopening, 411

Disabled Men Nearly AU Again at Work, 85

Dock, Largest in the World Projected at Vancouver Island, 234

Dolomite Deposits in the Peak District of Derbyshire, Scheme for Working, 35

Douglas Fir Timbers, Old and New, Results of Tests, 207

Dredging Bucket Weighing Nearly 20 Tons, 207

Drills, Small Twist, Device for Protection, 231

Duralumin, Ageing of, Dr. Zay Jeffries, 255

Duralumin and Kindred Alloys, Heat Treatment of, 35

Dutch East Indies, Road and Railway Construction Extended, 515

Dutch Margarine Makers’ Purchase of Oil Mills at Selby, 85

Dutch Section of the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 320

E EAST AFRICAN Mines Department and Geological Survey, 539

Eisteddford, Welsh, and Applied Science, 279

ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Accrington, Extensions of Generating Plant, 255

Agriculture, Use of Electricity in, Dr. J. F. Crowley, 489

Air from Turbo-generators as Forced Draught for Furnaces, 333

Alloy for Resistance Elements of Electrical Instruments, F. Weimar, 565

Austria’s Lost Coal to be Replaced by Electric Power, 535

Ayr, Proposed Loan for Electricity Supply, 207

Birmingham’s Electric Dust Carts, Batteries from America, 35

Bolton, Projected Expenditure on New Transformers, 207

Burma, Hydro-electric Plant for Mine, 207

Canadian Electrical Association : Bare and Covered Wires, 455

Canadian Electric Generating Plants, Statistics, 305

Castings for Switch-boxes, Replaced by Electric Welding, 463

Ceylon Hydro-electric Scheme, 489

Coal Prices and Electrical Charge Increase, 135

Copper Conductors, 242

Cracking of Rubber Insulation on High-tension Cables, F. B. Silsbe, 589

Denmark, Large Hydro-electric Works for Jutland, 279

Doncaster Corporation Loan for Generating Station, 635

Douglas Electric Light Supply, 181

Dundee Electricity Scheme, 181 ; Proposal for Extension by Use of Water from the Tummel Valley, 279

Furnace Installation, Electric, for Norway, from United States, 635

Generating Station Statistics in the United States, 85

German Output of Crucible and Electric Steel, Furnaces Employed, 111

Glasgow Electrical Finance, 333

Gwalior, India, Electricity Supply, 181

High-tension Electrical Power Transmission, Extension of Possibilities, 589

High-voltage Transmission, "Practicability, Southern Californian Successful Operations 493

Hull Electrical Plant Extensions, Loan Sanctioned, 135

Indian. Scheme for Electric Supply from Local Water Power in the Nilgiris, 539

Italy, Two Large New Hydro-electric Stations for Industrial Work, 279

Japanese Electrically Driven Steel Plant _ Coming from the United States, 635

Kelp for Insulation, in Australia, 333

London Electricity Supplies, Linking-up, 635

Manchester’s Proposed Loan for Generating Station, 279

Mercury Vapour Rectifiers for Transforming High-tension Current, 613

Niagara, Power Utilisation and Natural Beauty, 383

Ootacamund,_ Madras, Proposed Electric Supply from Sandy Nullah Waterfall, 59

Osaka Steam-driven Electrical Installation, Largest in the Far East, 437

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):

Paris Electric Power Distribution, Large Outlay, 181

Pittsburgh, Large Power Plant, 255

Power in India, Increasing Demand for, 429

Power Project in Manitoba, 255

Bailway and Dock Generating Stations and

Lines Exempted from Transfer under Electricity Supply Bill, 135

Rapid Reversing Motor at Indiana Harbour, 157

Rhodesia and Available Electric Horsepower, 35

Rhone Development, Use of Power in Paris, P.L.M. Railway, &c., Government Outlay, 613

Rivets, Electrically Heated, G. M. Clark, 589

Rotherham Loans for Electricity Undertaking Bill to be Passed, 135

Sheffield Electrical Finance, 333

Spain, Utilisation of Water Power of the River Tort, 181

Suffolk Electricity Supply Company Obtains Exemption from the Household Fuel and Lighting Order, 437

Surplus Hydro-electric Power Developed in British Columbia, 642

Temperature of Electric Furnaces, Device to Regulate, Monsieur Lequex, 489

Towing, Electric, on the Canal de la Marne, 255

Transport, Ministry of, and New Powers under the Electricity Bill, 539

Trial Borings with View to Tunnel Under

Liffey for Electr.c Mains, 207

Whitley Council for the West Midland Electricity Supply Industry, 287

Wind Power as Source of Electrical Supply, Comparison with Gas, 59

York City Hydro-electric Scheme, 489

ELECTROL YTIC Zinc in Australia, 157

Ellesmere Port, New’ Wharves for Ocean-going

Steamers, 11

Engine, James Watt, 206, 213

Engineers’ Patience and Pay, 31

Engineering, The Future of, Admiral Sir G. W.

Moore, at the Crystal Palace School of Engineering, 122

Exhibition, All-British, Proposed at Singapore, 613

in Athens by Federation of British Industries, 207, 411

Aviation, in Paris, 565

at Barcelona, British Firms to Exhibit Mechanical Inventions, &c., 305

Brewers, 452, 476

of British Manufactures at Athens, 207, 411, 489, 515, 565

British Science and Key Industries, at Glasgow, 157, 328

International Motor Boat and Marine and Stationary Engine, 626

Mining, in South Africa, 534

Shipping, Engineering, and Machinery, at Olympia, 11, 181, 320

Union of Inventors of the Loire, 359 of Venezuela, First National, 437

Explosion of Economiser at Yorkshire Dye Works, 463

Explosion of Safety Valve Chest Due to Collision between Tug and Dredger, 111

Explosion at Scotswood Works, Official Report, 35

Explosions in War Factories, Low Rate of Fatalities, 231

Explosive Charges for Sea Depth Soundings, 463

I FACTORIES, Safety Pamphlet Issued by I

I Home-office, 620

Factory and Agricultural Labour, Suggested

1 Alternation of, 515

1 Federation of British Industries :

Change of Address, 59

Exhibition in Athens, 207, 411, 489, 515, 565

Finland’s Water Power Resources, 411

Instigates Government Continuance of Emergency Road Transport Service, 411

Sending Staff to Cologne, 111

Federation of Technical and Scientific Associations ;

Formation and Objects, 238

Meeting, Constitution Proposals, 290

Ferrous Metals—see Iron and Steel

Fertiliser Manufacture from Phospha tic Rock at Johannesburg, 35

Fibre from Eucalyptus Bark ; Factory Started in Australia, 589

File for Cleaning Contact Points of Sparking Plugs, Brown Brothers, Limited, 601

Files and Drills, Economical Use of, 463

Fire in Coal Stack, Extinguishing, 383

Fire Engine for Refilling Water Reservoir, 181

Fire Extinction by Mud Jet in Collieries, 135 Fire-grates, Economy in, 635

Fire Losses in this Country, Enormous Increase this Year, 231

Fire Losses Greater per Head in Canada than Elsewhere, 111

Fire Patrols, Aeroplane, Over Californian Forest Reserves, 301

Fires in Grain Elevator Caused by Wheat Dust Collecting on Electric Lamp, 111

Fish Scarcity at Billingsgate and the Railway Companies, 58

Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, Experiments Resumed, 489

Flag-pole, Reinforced Concrete, 157

Flux for Coating Aluminium and Alloys, S. O. Cowper-Coles, 489

Fog, Effect of, on Light Intensity, C. L. Utterback, 337

Foire de Paris, Variety of Exhibits, 383

Ford Tractor Factory at Cork, 255

Forest Area, Valuable, in Asia Minor, 538

“ France,” A Catalogue of French Industry, Exports, &©., 613

Franco-Polish Society Founded in Warsaws 589

French Docks Congestion, Measures to Relieve, 383

French Offer for Works near Saarbriicken, 463

French Purchase of Peat Bog in Ireland for Fuel Making, 85

French Reconstruction of Roads, Railways, Bridges, Tunnels, Telegraphs, and Telephones, 117

French Reconstructional Work ; Question of Contracts for British and American Firms, 4 37

French Unused Water Power for Relief of Coal Scarcity, Suggestion, 59

Fuel Economy Organisation Committee’s Report, Sir R. Hadfield on, 59

Fuel Economy in Power Production, W. T. Lane, 359

Fuel, French Commission Urges Use of Oil to Replace Coal, 565

Fuel for Internal Combustion Engines, Alcohol Requires Addition of Benzole, 111

Fuel Oil Tanks at Portland, 81

Fuel Research ; Government Station at Greenwich, 207, 305

G GADGETTS for Motorists, 522

Gas and Electricity Derived from Wind Power, Mr. F. Barrett on, 59

Gas as Fuel for Motor Vehicles, Uncertainties of Liquid Fuel, 135

Geological Survey and Museum, Transfer of Departments, 489

Goophone, Successful Experiment in Pennsylvania Coal Mine, 111

German Amalgamation of Big Electrical and other Firms, 589

German Union of Technical Societies, Petition for New Technical Library, 11

Germany Outbids other European Countries for Erection of Wireless Telegraphy Station, 255 Glass Globes and Window Glass, Factory for Manufacture of, to be Erected at Queenborough, 111

Glass-making in West Norfolk, 207

Glue Joints and Varnished Wood Surfaces, 437

Gold Mine, Deepest of any Metal Mine in the World, 383

Gold Mines, Low-grade, in South Africa, Serious Position, 207

Gold Ore Reserves of the Rand, 35

Gold Refinery for the Rand, Proposed, 411

Gold from the Transvaal, Effect on the Industry of a Free Market, 333

Government Car Used as Beehive, 111

Government Financial Help for Higher Education of Ex-Service Officers and Men, 181, 279 Government Sale of Cranes and Machine Tools, 181

Grantham and District Engineering Society, 411 Grantham, Special Engineering School for Boys, 613

Gravel as an Aggregate in Concrete, 135

Greenwich, Fuel Research Station at, 207

Gunpowder in Railway Workshops, 135

Gwalior State Project for Waterway Connection with Calcutta, 11

H HARDENING of Duralumin, 35

Health, New Ministry of, 11

Heat Economy in Chemical Works, Harold

Nielsen, 613

Hong-Kong’s Imports of Tin, 463

Hooghly River Bed Survey, 59

House-building, Comparison between Cost of

Brick and Concrete, 207

Hydraulic Works on the Rhone, 378, 383

Hydro-electric Plant in Burma, 207

Hydro-electric Power Extension in Sweden, 7

Hydro-electric Power, Surplus Developed in

British Columbia, 642

Hydro-electric Scheme, Ceylon, 489

Hydro-electric Scheme, York City, 489

Hydro-electric Schemes—see also Electrical

Matters

Hydrogen Peroxide, Experimental Plant for, by

Kynoch Limited, in Natal, 380

Hydrographic Surveys in the North Sea, ] 81

IMPERIAL Mineral Resources Bureau, Offices Moved, 231

India, Distillation of Wood and Production of Stockholm Tar, 85

India, Government and Private Service in, 406

India, Water Power Resources of, Report on, 437, 515 1

Indian Public W orks Department, Increased Pay for Members, 363

Indian Scheme for Dredging Ch ilka Lake to

Avoid Flooding, 411

Indians to have Training in Navigation, Bombay Scheme, 35

Industrial League Conference of Employers and Employed, 290

Industrial Life in America, President Wilson on, 383

Industrial Reconstruction Council 290^ ■kea£ue ’ Amalgamation ;

and Indus-New Title,

Insect Hunting Surveys by Aeroplane, 635 Institute Building for General Use of Technical Societies in South Africa, ] 35

International Electrotechnical Commission Meeting, 314

Ipswich Rails, British Tender Preferred to American, 157

ION AND STEEL: Acid-proof Iron Alloy, Claim by Italian, 59 Anzan Steel Works of South Manchuria Railway, Plant Extension and Output, 489

Austria-Hungary’s Steel Output in 1917 and 1318, 333

Bethlehem-Chile Iron Ore Dock at Cruze-Grande, 279

Blast-furnaces at Wellingborough Re-opened, 331

British Federation of Iron, Steel, Tin-plate and Metal Merchants, Meeting between Merchants and Manufacturers, 333

IRON AND STEEL (continued):

Castings, Iron, in America, Cost of, at Begin ning of Last Century, 437

Castings Replaced by Electric Welding of Steel Plates, 463 .

Chrome Iron Ore Discovery in Rhodesia, 157

Coating Iron Articles, Dr. C. Baskerville’s Method, 157

Copper as a Protective Against Steel Corrosion, 305

Corrosion of Iron Plot-water Pipes, Method of Prevention, 85

Ferrous Metals, Measuring Magnetic Hardness, &c., L. A. Wild, 255

First Cast of Steel at Coatbridge Works, 589

French Iron and Steel Companies Amalgamation, 279

French Tool Steel, “ Etiquette Rouge,” 305

German Iron and Steel Industries Proposed Combination, 411

Gorman Output of Crucible and Electric Steel in 1917, 111

German Prices of Pig Iron, Spiegel, and Merchant Bars, 489

Ingot Heating, Possible Injury by Great Speed, F. E. Bash, 589

Iron Oro Deposit Investigation by United States Geological Survey, 463

Lorraine Iron Ore for Export to Germany, French Price for, 463

Manganese Shortage : Additional Sources Indicated, 565

Ontario, Two New Steel Works being Built, 539

Pretoria Iron and Steel Industry, Proposed Extension, 565

Rusting of Steel having Copper Content, 85

Steel Boiler Plates in the Yangtze Valley, High Prices Paid, 35

Swedish Iron and Steel Industry, Low Output and Depression, 305

Swiss Steel Foundry, Electric Smelting of Scrap Iron, 437

Tata Steel Works, India : Renewed Contracts with Japan, 279

Titaniferous Iron Sauds of Now Zealand, V. W. Aubel, 565

Tunis Iron Exports to England, 231

Vancouver Company to Test Electric Smelting Process for Magnetite Ores, 383

IRRIGATION, Blue Nile Scheme, Bill for

Loan Passed by House of Commons, 135

Irrigation Reservoir in Ahmcdnagar District, Bombay, 635

Irrigation Scheme for Mexico, 463

Irrigation in South Africa from the Upper Modder River, 85

Irrigation in South Africa : Utilising the Kalahari Lake, 135

Italy, Investigation into Extent of Radioactive Substances, 85

J JAMAICA, Loan for Roads and Other Constructional Work, 157

Japan, Mineral Statistics of, 255

Japan, Submarine Tunnel to Replace Ferry between Railway Stations, 279

Japan as a Trade Competitor, E. F. Crowe, 111

Japan’s Foreign Trade, Great Increase, 135

Japanese New Monthly Journal, “The Transpacific,” 359

Japanese Population and Trade in India, Rapid Growth, 333

Java Fair at Bandoeng : British Section Inadvisable, 613

Java, Industrial Fair at, Important, 59

K KAPOK, Buoyancy of, Results of Experiments, 85

“ Kapok ” for Life-saving Appliances at Sea, 157

Kauri Forests in New Zealand, 35

Kelp, Wet, Plant for Dealing with, 565

Kinematograph Films Shown at the British Scientific Products Exhibition, 35

King’s College : Old Students’ Association, 68

King’s College War Memorial, 255

Korean Ores Largely Exploited by Japanese, 35

Krupp Works Locomotive Output, 411

Kwantung Factories for Sulphuric Acid, Soap, &c., 231

L LABOUR Costs and Mining Output Decline on the Rand, 181

Lantern Slides for Lectures, Bennis and Co., 526

Lantern Slides for Lectures, Marshall, Sons and Co., 548

Lead Factories in Belgium, German Treatment of, 383

Lead-Zinc-Iron Ores, Finely Disseminated, Difficulty in Making Clean Separation, 35

Lead and Zinc Mines in the Lake Country, Projected Developments, 207

Leaks in Masonry Wall of Canal, Method of Stopping, 383

Leather Belting : New Conditions of Sale, 147 Lectures and Concerts to Workmen, Palmers, Hebburn-on-Tyne, 578

Liffey, Proposed Tunnels Under, for Electric Mains and for Pedestrians, 207

Light Intensity, Effect of Fog on, C. L. Utterback, 337

Lighting in Factories and Workshops, Leon Gaster, 122

Lighting, Public and Private, Recent Developments in, W. C. Clinton, 421

“ Lightning Strikes,” Bill to Prevent, 419

Lignite Briquetting Factory in Canada, 613

Lille, Exposition Internationale, &c., for

Samples to Utilise in Reconstruction of Devastated Country, 613

Lithuania, Articles in Demand, 589

Liverpool to Provide Storage for Oil Fuel for Merchant Steamers, 237

Local Government Board, Passing of, 11

Lodge, Sir Oliver, Tidal Power versus Land Reclamation : Atomic Energy, Wasteful Use of, 613

Longitude of the World to be Determined by Wireless Telegraphy, 5’15

Lord Roberts’ Memorial Workshops, Some Results, 7

Lumber Production in United States, 11

Lysaght, John, Limited, New Australian Works, 539

M MACHINE Tools, Government Sale at High Prices, 34

Machine Tools, Suggestions for Common Standards in Certain Directions for Britain and America, 35

Machine Tools, Use of, for Mechanical Accuracy;

Egyptians, in 4700 b.c., were Beforehand with Whitworth, Professor W. M. F. Petrie, 47

Madagascar, Hydro-electric Installation at Tamatave, 635

Madras Engineering College Not Quite Ready, 231

Madras Government Orders Survey and Report on Various Ports, 59

Magnetic Sclerometer on Loan, 315

Magnetic Surveys at Irthlingborough and Melton Mowbray, Investigation and Important Conclusions, 11

Manganese—see Iron and Steel

Maps from Aero-photographs, Disadvantages, 161

Marshall, Sons and Co., Lantern Slides for Lectures, 548

Mechanical Transport Department’s Smart Work at Kempton Park, 11

Mexico City, Projected Exhibition of British Products, 231

Micro-mechanism of the Ageing of Duralumin, Dr. Zay Jeffries, 255

Microscope : Its Design, Construction, and Application : A Symposium, 588

Midland Laboratory Guild, 539

Milk Churns Brought to Paddington Daily, 383

Mills on the Thames for Extraction of Oil from Copra and Palm Nuts, 85

Milne Earthquake Observatory, Work to bo Carried on at Oxford, 231

Mine in Michigan, Deepest in the World, 333 ; (Letter), 409

Mino Timber, The Preservation of, N. T. Williams, 47, 463

Mineral Resources of the Empire : Monographs Committee of the Imperial Institute, 561

Mineral Wealth of St. Agnes, Cornwall, 489

Minerals Development, 597

Minors Conveyed to and from Work at Doncaster, 35

Minors’ Lamps, Home-office Invites Suggestions, 255

Mining Exhibition in South Africa, 534

Mining Explosion in Staffordshire : Gas and Coal Dust, 462

Mining, Non-ferrous, in the United Kingdom, Board of Trade Committee, 173, 383, 411, 437, 489, 565

Mining at St. Ives, Cornwall, 565

Motor Boat and Marine and Stationary Exhibition, International, 626

Motor Car Engines, Weight of, Compared with Aero-Engines, 359

Motor Car Weight Increase, Major F. Strickland, 207, 359

Motor Cars, Lorries, and Cycles, Output from Government Transport Depot at Slough, 539

Motor Cycle’s Mileage on a Gallon of Petrol, Ealing Trials, 255

Motor Omnibuses, Involuntary Stops, Small Proportion of, 515

Motor Spirit Replaced by Benzole and Alcohol, Captain Montgomery, 11

Motor Spirit from Sugar Cane : Works at Nairobi, 157

Moving a Big Gas Container, 11

N NANKING Experiments in Cultivation of American Cotton, 333

National Factories for Salo, 46

Nature, Jubilee of, 463

Naval History Chair for University of London, 135

Necessity Not the Mother of Invention, 635

New Zealand Coal Mines, Reported Nationalisation, 85

New Zealand Hydro-electric Works Acquired by Dominion Government, 515

News Letter for American Contractors’ Business, 111

Niagara Falls, Chemical Industries, Established and Prospective, 383

Niagara Falls Power Development Begun in 1842, 635

Nice, Reconstruction of Port, 463

Nitrate Deposits in South African District, Costs of Commercial Production, 589

Nitrate of Lime Factory in Norway, Largest Water Power Station in the World, 613

Nitrates from Overseas for British Explosives, Urgent Need for Construction of Factory in England, James Young, 85

Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Experiments in Fixation of, 489

Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Fixation of, Sale of

Incomplete Government Factory, 539

Nobel Prize Distribution Postponed till 1920, 85

Non-ferrous Mining, Board of Trade Committee, 173, 383, 411, 437, 489, 565

Norway’s Imports of Motor Cars, Lorries, &c., Small Proportion from Great Britain, 585

o OIL Depot at Belfast with View to Shipping and Electrical Requirements, 305

Oilfield in West Norfolk, Development Leads to Brick and Glass Making, 207

Oilfields of Athabaska, Wealth Confirmed by Old Records, 437

Oil Fuel Immensely Cheaper than Coal in Far Eastern Ports, 515

Oil Fuel Recommended in Substitution for

Coal in France, 565 * ,

Oil Fuel Storage at Liverpool, 237

Oil at the Hardstoft Well, Increased Flow, 437, 463

Oil in Midlothian, 359

Oil in Northern Rhodesia, 231

Oil Tanks for Naval Supply, 81

Oil Wells, Government, in Derbyshire, Progress

and Prospects, 463

Old Centralians, Address, &c., 196

Olympia, Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 11

Omnibus Fares Increasp Justified by Increased Costs, 10

Omnibuses, Overloaded : Factor of Safety, 539

p PAINT on Structural Steel, Quantities, 84

“ Painter ” in Water Off the Coast of Peru, 539 Paints for Bearings and Machinery, Research into Behaviour of Double Iodides of Mercury, &c., 305

Panama Canal Negotiated by Dreadnoughts, 135

Paper Import Restrictions Removed, 255

Paris Institution for Centralisation of Trade Projected, 437

Patent-office Examiners, 242

Patent-office Library Hours, Petition for Lengthening, 613

Patent Owners and Manufacturers, Now Association, 11

Patents in Poland, 231

Patents Prolongation, British Chambers of Commerce Resolution, 59

Patents and Trade Marks in Enemy Countries, Board of Trade Authorisation of Fees, 35

Patents and Trade Marks : International Congress to Discuss Question, 111

Patentees, Imperial Institute of, 528

Peace Celebration Dinner, G. A. Harvey and Co., 110

Peat Resources of Irish Bogs, 539

Petrograd Engineering Factories Suffer from Bolshevist Rule, 463

Petrol Drums, Supposed Empty, Fatal Explosions, 207

Petrol Handling in France, 207

Petroleum, Boring for, at West Calder, 255

Petroleum Executive : Development of Oil Shale Industry in United Kingdom, 383

Petroleum Investigations in Mexico, 411, 463

Petroleum in Mexico, Output, Potential and Actual, 437

Petroleum in New Guinea as Possible Repayment for Australia’s War Outlay, 134

Phosphate Mines, Morocco, 565

Photographic Development, Process for Gum-bichromate Prints, 35

Photography Aided by Refrigeration, 157

Pipes, Casting Iron, by Centrifugal System, 613

Platinum Mining Improvement, Increased Russian Output Expected, 85

Poland to Obtain Certain Chemical Products from Czocho-Slovakia, 589

Poland’s Economic Resources, 539

Polish Government Loan in the United States, 589

Pontoons, Flexible, in Ship Salvage, Successful Experiments, 279

Port of Sagna, Cuba, Improvement by Dredging, 613

Portland Cement Factory in Buenos Aires District, 383

Portland Cement Factories and Potash Recovery, 411

Portuguese Proposed Purchase of British Wireless Installation at Madeira, 613

Power Costs at Rhodesian Gold Mine, Coal Cost, 231

Power,.Elec trie—see aZso Electrical Matters

Power Transmission by Steel Belts on Magnetised Pulleys, 35

Profit-sharing and Labour Co-partnership, Government Report, 111

Q QUEENSLAND’S Mineral Output, 411

Queensland State Iron and Steel Industry :

Suggested By-product Production, 437

Queensland University Lectureship, 268

R RADIUM Discoveries in Canada, 565

Radium Production in the United States, 305

Railless Electric Traction Service of Shanghai, 411

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS : Accident, Derailment on London and North-Western, 181

Accident, Fatal, on French Railway, 279

Accident Reports, Board of Trade, 437

Accidents, Fatal, to Passenger Trains, A Year’s Immunity from, 59

Accidents, Level Crossing, on Southern Pacific Railroad, 135

Allocation of Goods Traffic and Hardships of Traders, 85

Ambulance Train Traffic on the Great Western Railway, 207

American Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen : Proposed Cooperative Stores on Large Scale, 135

American Express Company, Packing Regulations, 359

American Locomotives, 150, for Italian

Railways, 35

American Railway Associations Convention : Depreciation in Freight Cars, 135

American Saw. Mills Supplying Sleepers for British and French Railways, 35, 85

American Troop Movement ; Railway Figures, 111

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Annual Reports of Railways, Statutory Form of Account to be Resumed, 111

Appointments and Staff Changes, 11, 85, 135, 207, 230, 255, 279, 437, 463, 515

Arabia, Narrow-gauge Railway, Aden to Lahej, 488

Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co., First Main Line Locomotive Built, Trial of, 437

Athens, Existing Travel Facilities, Overland to Mediterranean Ports and Thence by Steamer, 279

Baldwin Locomotive Works Change of Presi-dent, 35

Banbury Station Free Buffet War Work, 411

Blackpool Traffic “ Rationing,” 135

Blandford Railway, Net Cost, 231

Bolivia’s National Resources and Lack of Transport Facilities, 305

“ Bradshaw’s Continental Guido,” Death of Editor, 333

Brakesman’s Comfort on the El Paso and South -Western Railroad, 489

Brazil Commission on State Railway Standardisation, 515

Brighton Tramway Track Renewals Cost, 180

British Railway Companies’ Weekly Notices to Operating Staff, 565

Buonos Aires and Pacific Railway Finance, 539

Buenos Aires Railway, Oil Fuel Supply Cheaper than Coal, 515

“ Calling-on ” Signal on Different Railways’ 515

Canadian Government Acquisition of Grand Trunk and other Railways, Terms, 321, 333, 411

Canadian Government Railroad Commissioner as Finance Minister, 305

Canadian Pacific Railway, Reputation for Courtesy, 359

Canadian Pacific Railway, Transport of Returned Troops, Record Figures, 111

Canal Traffic Tonnage Statistics, 565

Carriages Turned into Living-rooms for Railway Workmen, 255

Cartage of Goods by Railways, When Remunerative and Otherwise, 59

Central London and London and South-Western, Suggested New Connection, 613

Ceylon Government Railways and Coal Economy, 359

Charing Cross Underground Station ; Quarter Million Passengers and Additional Stairways, 497

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, Track Kept Level by Adjustment of Pontoon Bridge, 35

Chicago Railway Services, Electrification, Agreement between City and Railway Company, 35

Chili State Railways, Electrification of 2300 Miles, 305

Clock, Electrical, Four-face, for Waterloo, 613 “ Closed ” Stations and Platform Tickets, Protest at Manchester, 589

Coal Bill of Railways with Six Shillings a Ton Increase, 85, 613

Coastwise Traffic Decline, Subsidy and Estimated Cost, 635

Coast Traffic—see also Sea-borne

Collision, Buffer Stop, at Cannon-street, 59, 359

Buffer Stop, at Crowe, 515, 565 ; Suggested Precaution for Bay Lines, 613

Buffer Stop, at Haver]fill, Great Eastern Railway, 589

at Cheshire Lincs Manchester Station, 463

Due to Gale, near Chesterfield, 635 Fatal, on the Caledonian Railway, 359

at Huddersfield, 359

at Hull, Report, 231

between London, Brighton and South Coast Train and Light Engine at Streatham, 463

on Midland Great Western Railway, 539

on the New York Central Railway, Supposed Caused by Tramp Stowaway, 231

at Preston Station, Report, 424

at Prestwick, Glasgow and South-Western Line, 539

at Selby between Great Eastern and Great Northern Trains, 463

Commercial Travellers’ Privileges, Certain Restrictions to be Retained, 539

Commercial Travellers’ Privileges Still Suspended, 59

Congestion of Railways and Docks as a War Consequence, 207

Congestion of Railways and Wagon Shortage ; High Sea Rates Cause Transference of Conveyance to Railways, 92, 207

Cork Railway Connections, Temporary, Request for Permanent Maintenance. 539

Corrugated Fire-box, New Type, in U.S.A., 255

Cycle Carriage on the District Railway, 207

Death of Mr. G. P. Culverwell, 489

Death of Mr. Charles Mattathias Jacobs, 359

Death of Mr. William Kirtley, 411

Death of Sir Joseph Lawrence, 489

Death of Mr. Frank Potter, Groat Western Railway Manager, 85, 111, 135

Death of Railway Commissioner to the Victorian Government, 207

Death of Lord Rathmore, 206

Death of Mr. H. Cuff Smart, 489

Derailment at Acton Bridge, Report Findings, Fire from Gas Cylinder, 305

Derailment on the District Railway, 255

Derailment, Fatal, in France, 207

Derailment, Fatal, on the Midland Railway, 359, 411, 489

Derailment Outrage in Ireland, 181, 359

Derbyshire Peak, Scheme for Railway, 635

Dover and Calais Service an?d Demobilisation, 383

Dublin Mail Boat Service, Changes, 255

East Indian Railway Company, Extension of Contract for Working under Consideration, 111

East Indian Railway Fatal Collision, 35

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

East Indian Railway Company, Government Contract Extension ; Conversion Rate for Rupee, 370

East Indian Railway Company, Increased Carriage of Coals and other Goods, 157

East Indian Railway, New Chief Engineer, 135

East London Railway Opening, Jubilee, 565

Edinburgh and Glasgow Traffic, Respective Routes, 515

Eight-hour Day Adoption and Difficulties, 11

Electric Lighting for Railways to Prevent Fires, 231

Electric Locomotives for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Tests, 589

Electricity Supply Bill, Railway Generating Stations and Main Transmission Lines Exempted from Transfer under Clause 7, 135

Electrification of Italian Railways by Italo-American Syndicate, 565

Electrification of Main Line Railroads, Statistics for U.S.A., W. B. Potter and S. T. Dodd, 85

Electrification on North-Eastern Main Line Section and on Loop Line, 463

Electrification and Rebuilding of French Railways, 117

Electrification Schemes on Various British Main Lines, 539

Engineers as General Managers, 255

Enginemen’s Equalised Pay and Unequalised Hours and Responsibility, 489

Enginemen to have Working Clothes Provided Free, 35

Engines, Robinson Design, Transferred from War-office to Various Railways, 135

Entre Rios Railway, Fuel Question, 411, 437

Entre Rios Railway, Record Growth in Receipts and Ton Mileage, 463

Eyesight of Drivers and Firemen, 35, 411

Eyesight Tost, 279

Fares and Freight Rates ; Question of Ending Subsidy to Railways, 181

Fares Revision on the London Underground Railways, 255

Federated Malay States Railways Engine, 383

Federated Malay States Railways Increased Maintenance Costs, 305

Fifty Years’ Work with One Company, 181

Films Showing Railway Work, 85

Fires on Railways ; Gas versus Electricity, 231, 305

Fish and the Railways, 58

Flag Decoration of Omnibuses, Trams, and Trains of London Electric Railways and Allied Companies to Celebrate Employees’ Return from the Army, 11

Folkestone-Dover Line Closed since 1914 and now Reopened, 111

Foodstuffs, Perishable, Carriage Arrangements, 613

France, Railway Accidents in Three Months, 383

Freight Cars Depreciation in America, 135

Freight Rates on Railways and Sea-borne Goods, 157

French Flat-bottomed Rails Sold to South Africa, 111

French Officials Visit United States for Study of Electrification of Railways, 35

French Railways, Reconstruction and Electrification, 117

French State Railways Derailment, 207

Fuel Question on South American Railways, Oil Displacing Coal, 411, 437

Galway (Barna) Railway and Harbour Bill, 613

Gas on Railways as a Cause of Fire, 231, 305

Gattie System of Handling Goods, Committee of Inquiry, 35, 58, 157, 279, 333

Gauges on Railways, Three in All, 59

Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Eight Men with Company for Fifty Years, 181

Golf as an Aid to Railroad Working, 489

Goods and Passenger Traffic, Estimate of Revenue Asked for, 11

Government’s Offer to Railwaymen, 635

Government and Railwaymen’s Unions, 207, 383

Great Eastern Railway, Slight Collision with Buffer Stop, 333

Great Northern Expresses, Acceleration, 539

Great Northern Railway Extension, Change of Scheme, 635

Great Northern Railway, Retirement of Chief Traffic Manager, 135

Great Western Railway Divisional Engineer at Shrewsbury, 11

Great Western Railway General Manager, Death of Mr. Frank Potter ; New Appointment, 85, 111, 135

Great Western Railway, Mileage Increase of, 635

Hand-to-mouth Principle, Consignments Smaller and More Frequent than in Prewar Days, 35

Handling Goods and Traffic, Mr. A. W. Gattie’s Proposals, Board of Trade Committee to Investigate, 35, 58, 157

Hull Station and the Gattie System, 157

Improved Service between London, Birmingham, &c., and Wales, 383

India-office Negotiations on Locomotive Building, 565

Indian Railway Conference and Standardised Wagons, 231

Indian Railways and Home-made Wagons,

Irish Transport Director, Contemplated Appointment, 111

Jamaica Railways, Question of Conversion from Steam to Electrical Working, 11

Japan and Railway Electrification, Locomotives from Germany Compared with Home-made, 92

Krupp’s New Locomotive Works and Prussian State Railways, 333

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway “ Rationing,” 135

Letterkenny and Burtonport Railway, Improvements in Line and Working, 11*

Level Crossing Accidents on Southern Pacific Railroad, 135

Light Railway Commissioners: Orders Applied for and Confirmed, 135, 589

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Locomotive Building Design in America, Question of Standardisation or Otherwise, 35

Locomotive Building in India, 565

Locomotive Situation in France, 215

Locomotives from France, Cost of Fifty, 613

Locomotives for France from United States in War Time, 515

Locomotives, Mr. Robinson’s Design, Lying Idle ; Possible Explanation, 333, 613

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Sent Overseas during the War, 85

Locomotives for South Africa to be Built in Canada and United States instead of United Kingdom, 111

Locomotives and Wagons Built at Woolwich, 437

Locomotives and Wagons Stored in the Open, Question and Answer, 207

Lodging Allowance to Travelling Trainmen, Revision, 85

London and North-Western Coach Derailed, 181

London and North-Western’s Greenore Service New Steamers, 463

London and North-Western Railway Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Buffet, 207

London and North-Western Running Superintendent, Changes, 85

London and North-Western War Memorial, 463

London and Paris, Day Passenger Service Resumed by Brighton Railway Company, 35

London and Paris, Time-table of Connections, 437

London Railways and Extension of Electrification, 59

London, Railways Running Into, Present Percentage of Pre-war Services, 85

London and South-Western Suburban Services Improvements, 613

Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Manager Thanked for Assistance to Navy During War, 142

Lorries May be Adopted by Railways, But Not by the State, 635

Lorries, War-office, for Conveyance of Railway Goods, 111, 157, 635

Lorries—see also Transport, Ministry of

Madrid Metropolitan Electric Underground Railway Opened, 437

Manchester and Oldham Section of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 489

Marseilles Projected Underground Railway, 489

Mechanical Stokers on United States Locomotives, Increased Numbers, 157

Meeting Trains on United States Railways, A Fifty Years’ Old Rule, 589

Melbourne Suburban Railways, Electrification, 635

Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, Change of Manager, 437

Metropolitan District Railway : Consequences of Rails Scarcity, 85

Metropolitan District Railway’s New Cars, 59

Metropolitan Railway’s Increased Service, 11

Midland Great Western Railway—see Mullingar

Midland Railway Steamship Service between Heysham and Belfast, 565

Miners’ Demonstration at Blackpool, Special Trains and Numbers, 59

Motor Lorries Lent to Railways by Government, 255, 437—see also Lorries

Moving Platforms on the New York Subway, 463

Mullingar and Kells Railway : Projected Connection between West and North of Ireland, Avoiding Dublin, 569, 613

National Railroad Question of To-day, C. A. Morse, 94

National Union of Railwaymen, Administration Changes, 539

Nationalisation of Railways and Shareholders’ Interests, 59

North British Railway Locomotives Renamed After War Service Overseas, 565

North British Railway’s Locomotive Loss by Fire at Cowlairs, 11

North-Eastern Railway Collision at Hull, Report, 231

North-Eastern Railway, Electrification on 489

North-Eastern Railway Goods Traffic : Information for Gattie System Committee, 333

North-Eastern Railway, New Deputy Manager, 11

North-Eastern Railway’s Running Superintendent, 463

Nottingham Station Entrance of the Midland Railway, 207, 279, 489

Official Appointments of Sir Eric Geddes and Mr. H. G. Burgess, 207

Oil Fuel to Replace Coal and Wood on South American Railways, 411, 437

Omnibus Men’s Splendid Service on Outbreak of War, 411

Overcrowded London Trains and Electrification, 59

Parcel Loss on London and North-Western Railway, Case Lost by Railway on Appea 135

Parcels Rates Increase, 231

Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, Electrification between Clermont Ferrand and Nimes, 111

Paris Metropolitaine Finance, A Deficit, 305

Paris Metropolitaine, Great Increase in Tickets Issued, 231

Passengers’ Luggage, 100 lb. Limit Question, 169

Pennsylvania Railroad, New Mallet Engine. 255

Pensioned Railway Servants and Higher Cost of Living, 463

Piecework and Similar Systems on Railways, Fresh Agreement, 59

Plans and Tracings as Hospital Bandages, Historic Signatures, 305

Plumb Plan for Railway Operation, 231

Pontoon Swing Bridge" Adjusted with Rise and Fall of the Mississippi, to Keep Railway Track Level, 35

Port Congestion, Sir Auckland Geddes on, 181

Post-office (London) Railway, Completion of Running Tunnel, Delayed Opening, 11

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Queensland Government Railway and Automatic Signals, 489

Race Meetings and Train Services, 176

Railway Benevolent Institution, Record Receipts, 11

Railway Bills Deposited, Decreased Number, 613

Railway Clearing House, New Secretary, 613

Railway Companies Association Circular to Proprietors Explaining Government Connection and Future Prospects, 635

Railway Employees, Increased Numbers, 613

Railway Executive Committee :

Blandford Railway Handed Over to Executive Committee, 231

Collieries and Wagon Shortage, Measures Taken, 135

Continental Services, Efficiency Dependent on Government Requirements, 157

Foreign Goods and Coastwise Traffic and Charges, 207

Holidays and Pay of Clerks, Stationmasters, &c., New Scheme, 305

Sunday Duty Pay, 39

Wages Agreement between Government and Unions, 207

Railway Management and Ill-informed Criticism, 589

Railway Material Exports, Statistics, 11, 181, 231, 383, 589, 635

Railwaymen and Piecework Question, 59

Railwaymen’s Nine Hours Interval between Work, 94

Railwaymen’s Unions, Probable Amalgamation, 59

Railway Working Results to End of August, 437

Rates and Strikes, 515

“ Rationing ” Traffic to Blackpool, 135

Record Passenger Traffic on London and on

New York Local Railways, Comparison, 11

Richborough, Cost of Works at, and Future of the Port, 59

Rolling Stock Cost, Pre-war and Post-war Prices Compared, 489

Rolling Stock Deficiencies as a War Consequence, 565

Rolling Stock for War Service Abroad, Questions Arising, 157

Russia, South-East, and Turkestan, Railway, Communication Opened, 463

“ Safety First ” Movement, Originator in this Country, 255

Safety First ; Records of Immunity from Accident, 411

St. Just (Falmouth) Ocean Wharves and Railways Bill, 111

St. Paul Station, Second Largest in the United States, 359

Sea-borne Goods Charges and Railway Congestion, 92, 207

Season Tickets during the Strike, 463

Season Tickets, Enamelled, Proposal by the Metropolitan Railway Company, 279

Season Tickets, Monthly, Resumed, 255

Severn Tunnel, Goods Traffic Increase since

Pre-war Time, 635

Shanghai to Build its own Tramcars, 231

Shropshire, Two New Railways, Conferences on the Proposition, 589

Signals, Automatic and Block, in the United States, 333

Sinai Railway Built by Engineer Railwaymen, 207

Single-line Tokens and Starting Signals, Suggested Precaution, 613

Sleepers from United States for British and French Railways, 35, 85

Smoking in Hospitals, Railway Employees’ Pipe Renovation Work for Soldiers, 207

Snow Closes Transandine Railway for Five Months, 565

South African Locomotive Orders Lost to United Kingdom, 111

South African Railway Rates Increase, 565

South American Railways Fuel—see Fuel

South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Accident, Result of Inquiry, 157

South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Uses Twenty-four Hours’ Timing, 255

South Indian Railway Steamers Worked at a Loss, 515

South Wales and Wagon Delays, 635

Standardised Wagons for India, 231

Steamship, Railway, Services—see also Ships

Strike, Government Direct Cost, 437

Strike and Industrial Communications by Railway, 383

Strike, Parliamentary Debate Suggested, 437

Strike and Passenger Traffic, 383

Strike of Railway Shopmen in America, 355 383

Strike and Volunteer Assistance, Railway Companies’ Resolutions in Appreciation. 463

Subsidy to Railways and Question of Freight Rates, 181

Summer Time in America Causes an Hour’s Train Stoppage, 565

Swedish State Railway Electrification, Time and Cost Estimate, i ] 1

Swiss Surcharge on Tickets for France, Due to Exchange Rate, 613

Thomas, Mr. J. H., on Government Conciliation Scheme, 535

Tokyo, Projected Railway Electrification, Locomotive Difficulties, 92

Trades Unions and Railway Control, 539

Traffic Allocation to a Given Company, Inconveniences, 157

Traffic Difficulties, Offer of IVar-office Lorries 111, 157

Train and Omnibus, Increased Accommodation, 411

Transport Committee (Metropolitan Area) Progress, 59; Report, 181

Transport of Goods Delay, Suggested Remedy, 73

Transport, Ministry of •

Congestion at Terminals and Ports, Cause;, and Steps Taken to Remedy, 137

Definition of Word “ Possession,” 181

Electricity Bill, New Powers, and the

Ministry of Transport, 539

Goods Rates Increase, 279

Information Required from Railway and other Authorities, 333

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con-tinned):

Transport, Ministry of (continued)

Irish County Councils’ Request for Irish Committee for Transport in Ireland, 359

Irish Director-General of Transport, 489

Locomotives of Various Types Built in

Great Britain for Use in France, Allocated to British Railways, 539

London Traffic, Special Committee, 255, 359, 463

Minister’s Title Changed to Minister of Transport, 135

Motor Lorries Lent by Government, 255, 437

Number of Ministry Staff, 437

Powers of other Departments, Transference to Ministry of Transport, 279, 305

Return of Locomotives and Wagons Lent to France, 411, 437

Revision of Rates, &c., Committee to Advise before Action, 415, 437, 589

Rolling Stock Position ; Figures in Preparation by Ministry, 515

Royal Assent to Bill, 181

Sir Eric Geddes on Privately Owned Wagons, 85

Transport, Institute of, 489

Transport, Railway, Papers Read at the British Association Meeting, 279

Trucks at Avonmouth, 38 to Replace 482, 181

Tunnel Under the Solent ; Address to Ministry Suggested, 383

Wagon Building, Government and Private, 437

Wagon Ownership, Analysis, 539

Wagons, Privately Owned and Otherwise, Comparison of Tonnage Carried, 181

TRAVELLING Vouchers for Members of Parliament, Question of, 157, 181

Twenty-four Hours'’ Timing :

Home Secretary Appoints Committee to Consider the Question, 333

South - Eastern and Chatham Adopts System, 255

Uganda Government Railway, Proposed Increase of Fares, 489

“ Underground ” Posters to Explain Increase in Working Cost, 189

Underground Railway Window Posters, 515

Uniforms of Underground and Omnibus Employees, Huge Cost Increase, 181

United States Exports of Steel Rails, Fishplates, &c., to Various Countries, 515

United States Railways :

Agreement between Administration and Companies, Difficulties in Adjustment, 165

Appeal for Economy in Use of Fuel and Stores, 11

Demobilisation and Passenger Equipment, 383

Employees, Statistics, 613

Federal Control Removal from Railways, 489, 515

Freight Cars Orders Delayed, but Good Supply, 463

Inventory of Supplies and Material Prior to Return of Railways to Private Management, 383

Pennsylvania Company’s Fast Train Restored, 35

Railroad Bill, Senator Cummins as Promoter, 515

Railway Industry Shown in Diagram, E. B. Leigh, 111

Railway Operation and the Plumb Plan, 231

Railway Revenue and Expenditure, 305

Ratio of Expenditure to Recipts in 1913 and 1918, 85

Sleepers, 4,000,000, Ordered from Oregon and Washington Sawmills, 35, 85

Strike of Railway Shopmen, 355, 383

War Department Purchases for France Taken Over by Railroad Administration, 85

Women Employees on United States Railways, Increase up to Armistice, Reduction Since, 260

Victorian Government Railway Commissioners, An Appointment and a Death, 207

Wagon Building and Repair ; Compensation Question, 185

Wagon Delays in South Wales, 635

Wagon Detention in Excess of Time Allowed, Statistics, 635

Wagon, Railway, Ownership, Analysis, 539

Wagon Shortage and Colliery Stoppages, 135

Wagon Shortage, Relief by Government Motor Lorries, 111, 157

Wagons, Common User System, in this Country and in United States, 589

Wagons, Privately Owned and Otherwise, Census, 181, 589

Wagons Used in France Out of Gauge for English Railways, 613

Wagons from Woolwich Arsenal ; None Yet Delivered, 565

War Bonus of Officers, 279

War Lorries for Relief of Dock Congestion, Cost, 635

War Lorries for Relief of Dock Congestion Not a Success, 635

Ways and Communications Bill—see Transport

Willesden, Railway Property in, Rateable Value, 279

Women on Railway Work, Diminishing Number Pending Men’s Demobilisation, 565

Women on Railway Work, War Cabinet Committee, 72

Workmen’s Fares and Trains Still as in Pre-war Time, 59

York and Newcastle ; Main and Loop Lino Electrification on the North-Eastern Railway, 489

RAINFALL Data, British, 'Continuance of Publication, 85

Rainfall, Record, in Manila, 589

Rangefinders, Progress in, Dr. A. Barr, 111

Rangoon Dock Construction Postponed, Erosion Works Projected, 635

Ransome, Lewis, Accident, 382

Redmayne, Sir Richard, Returns to Post as Chief Inspector of Mines, 463

Refractory Materials Section of the Ceramic

Society ; Various Meetings, 383

Refrigerating Plant at Tientsin, 463

Refrigerating Plants, Small, Successful Manufacture of, iiTAu str alia, 463

Refrigeration to Reduce Glare in Photographing Metal, 157

Refrigerator Fleet for Italy, Mostly German, 489

Refuse Collecting and Separating Screen in Hampstead, 111

Reinforced Concrete Columns, Experiments with Various Forms of Protective Covering, W. A. Hull, 181

Reinforced Concrete Flag-pole, 157

Review of the Foreign Press, 528

Rhodesia Broken Hill Mines, Additional Pump, 157

Rhone Development—see Electrical Matters

Richborough, Cost of Works at, and Future of the Port, 59

Roads, Slippery Condition Due to Tar, &c., Committee of Investigation, 613

Rock Drilling Tests and Triumphs in South Africa, 181

Royal Agricultural Society, Trials of Ploughs and Tractors, 635

Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book, 452

s SAFETY in Factories, Home-office Pamphlet 620

Salvage Pumps and Submersible Salvage Units, Government Sale, 589

Sand Used in Concrete, Careful Investigation Absolutely Necessary, H. E. Bellamy, 383

Scarfed Leather Belts, Direction of Travel, 411

Scientific Lighting and Industrial Efficiency, Leon Gaster, 122

Scotland and Reinforced Concrete, 333

Scrap Metal Utilised by Blow-pipe Cutting, 181 Sea Depth Sounding by Explosive Charges, 463 Sewage Scheme for Fleet, Further Loan, 231 Shanghai, Anglo-Chinese Business Men’s Club, 463

Shanghai, Projected Port Improvements, Dredging and Damming Rivers, 59

Shearing Strength of Wooden Structures, Simple Device for Improvement, Professor C. Forssell, 35

Sheffield, Supply of Coke Oven Gas to, Mr. Laverick, 539

Shells, Commercial Possibilities of, 305

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS: American Transport’s Claim for Record Trip 59

Barrow and Belfast Steamship Services, Projected Re-opening, 539

Bideford’s First Steel Ship Begun, 565

Brussels, Captain Fryatt’s Steamship Salved at Zeebrugge, 207

Canadian Government Steel Steamers Building at Vancouver, 635

Canadian Mercantile Marine, New Ships Delivered, 515.

Chicago to Liverpool, Voyage of Vessel of over 4000 Tons, 59

Coal Loading Record at Sunderland, 463

Curraghmore, London and North-Western Steamer, Lent to City of Dublin Steam Packet Company for Mail Service, 539

Dreadnought Fleet Passed through Panama Canal Locks, 135

i Dublin Mail Boat Service Changes, 255 Electrically Welded Ship, First Launched in France, 613

i First Steamer to be Built at Prince Rupert, British Columbia, 613

• Foreign Ships’ Charters Freed from Inter-| Allied Control, 59

! French Government Order, Last of Forty

i New Ships Launched at Victoria, B.C., 515 ! French Merchant Fleet Reconstruction, Rell port by Government Commission, 515

I Fuel for Ships, Immense Saving by Use of Oil, 515

i Gigantic Ocean Liners for Rapid Atlantic Crossing, 111

I Greece, Shipping Amalgamation in, 359 Hebburn-on-Tyne, New Shipyard at, 59, 539

I * Heysham and Belfast Passenger Service |, Unlikely to be Resumed, 565

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued); H.M. Destroyer Westminster in Collision, 157

Indo-Ceylon Steamers Worked at a Loss, 515

Irish Shipyard Purchase at Warrenpoint, 333

Japan and America; Relative Cost of Shipbuilding in the Two Countries, 333

Japanese New Steamship-Line, 157

Japanese Shipbuilding Profits, 411

Japanese Shipowners and Piers in Kobe Harbour, 255

Laurentic Wreck at Lough Swilly, Bullion Salved from, 157

Life-saving Appliances on Ships ; Use of “Kapok,” 157

London and North-Western Company’s

Steamers Renamed ; New Ones Built, 341

New Steamer Curraghmore, 463

Nova Scotia and Steel Shipbuilding Industry, 635

Olympic to be Reconditioned at Belfast, 157

Queenstown, Calling of Large Cunard and

White Star Steamers Suspended, 207

Refrigerator Fleet for Italy, Requisitions from Germany, 489

Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 11, 181, 320

Ship’s Position at Sea, Discovered by Depth Charges and Hydrophones, 181

Spain Prohibits Export of Certain Ships, 411

Steamers Sold to Foreigners this Year, 135

Towing, Electric, on the Canal de la Marne, 255

United States Shipbuilding versus British, 231

Yarrow Shipbuilding Programme at Scots-toun, 305

SHOWER Bath for Mules Used in Mines, 279

Silt Removal from Zuni Reservoir, New Mexico,

Suggested Method, 613

Singapore, Petrol Transport Service, 333

Sirocco—see Davidson

“ Skyscraper ” Born in Edinburgh in 1698, 11

Slate Quarry Waste Utilised in Wales, 515

Sound for Surveying Diamond Drill Holes ;

Accuracy of Listening Instruments, 565

South African Chamber of Mines Building, 539

South African Low-grade Gold Mines, Serious Position, 207

South African Post-office Revenue, 333

South African Technical Societies, Institute

Building for General Use, 135

Spirit Levels, Major E. O. Henrici, 59 ; J. W.

French, 135

Standardisation of Chains, New Association, 124, 220, 359

Statistics, Request for Parliamentary Committee by Royal Statistical Society, 85

Steam Turbines and Fuel Consumption, Professor F. Bacon on, 359

Steaming Gas Retorts, Mr, Riley, 539

Steel Wire Rope Tests in United States, 333

Stone Crushers, Gyratory, Largest Portable

Yet Built, 333

Strikes and the Community, A Warning, 333

Submarine Acoustics, F. Lloyd Hopwood, 181

Sugar Cane Mills in the Philippine Islands, 359

Sugar Factory from Locally Grown Beet near

Newark, 59

Sulphur Discovery in Java, 181

Summer Time Throughout the Year, Monsieur Pascalis, 374

Surplus Government Property, Successful Sales, 11, 59, 157, 181

Surplus, Numbers Published, Surplus Sales Results , 59, 589

Suspension Bridge, Proposed, at Philadelphia, Span Required, 11

TANK for Precipitation of Solids in Mine Water, 620

Tasmanian Government Power Scheme, 635

Telephone Boxes, Roadside, for Automobile Association Members, 107

Telephone Line between Allahabad and Luck now, 538

Testing of Anchors and Chain Cables by Lloyd’s Register, 489

Textile Materials, Tensile Strength and Atmospheric Humidity, 411

Thermalene, New Gas for Producing Higl Temperatures, 383

Thermit Weld, Unusually Large, 59

Tidal Power Schemes, English and French, 305

Tigris and Euphrates Estuary Bar, Need of Removal for Sake of Trade, 463

Timber Growing in South Africa, Advantages of Pine, 437.

Timber, Methods of Preserving, 489

Timber, Mine, Preservation of, N. T. Williams, 47, 463

Timber in New Zealand, Neglected Valuable Asset, 35

Timber Planting in the United Kingdom, Available Land and Need of Timber, 135

Timber, Seventy Million Feet from Britislv Columbia, 181

Timber Tests in United States ; Heartwood and Sapwood, 565

Tin Ore from British Sources, 565

Tin-plate Manufacture in Japan, 359

Tin and Silver Lead Output in New South Wales, Increased Value, 85

Tin in War Time, Cadmium Used as Substitute in Solder, 515

Tipping Dumping Wagons : Getting Barges over High Lock Sills, A Comparison, 596

Tractor Trials and Exhibition at Lincoln, 59

Trade Unionism Among Professional Associations, 181

Tram Accident at Burton, Suggestion to Check Running Backwards, 613

Trams versus Rubber-tired Vehicles, Dr. Blackwood Murray, 565

Tramways in Aberdeen and Glasgow, Profit with Low Fares, 305

Transport Committee (Metropolitan Area), Progress, 59 ; Report under Consideration, 181

TRANSPORT, MINISTRY OF: Canals’ Future as a Difficult Problem, 135— see also Board of Trade

Crinan Canal, Survey,What to Do with it, 635 Date of Transfer of Certain Powers from

Board of Trade and Ministry of Health, 279, 305

Electricity Bill, New Powers, and the Ministry of Transport, 539

Goods Rates, Railway, Increase, 279

London Traffic Question, 59, 181, 255, 359, 463

Minister’s Title Changed to Minister of Transport, 135

Revision of Rates, Fares, &c., Procedure

Before Taking Action, 415

Royal Assent to Bill, 181

Slippery Roads, Committee of Surveyors to Investigate, 613

Transport Service, Emergency Road, Continued by Government to Relieve Congestion after the Railway Strike, 411

TRANSVAAL Gold Mines, Coal Used by, 231

u UNIVERSITY of Bristol. Major Robertson Appointed Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 35

University of London, University College : Recent Developments in Public and Private

Lighting, W. C. Clinton, 421

Thermionic Detectors, Lectures by Professor J. A. Fleming, 382

University of Manchester, Increase of Funds Needed for Additional Students, 589

V VANCOUVER Island ; Projected Largest Dock in the World at Esquimault, 234

Venezuela, First National Exhibition, 437

Vickers Electrical Company, Limited, 181 Vickers to Occupy St. Ermin’s Hotel, 565 Vickers’ War Memorial Offer for Barrow, 463 Victoria, Vancouver Island, New Water Supply, 279

w WAGES in Japan, Male and Female Workers, 359

Wales, Use of Water Power of, for Welsh Industries, Prize Essay at Eisteddfod, 279

War Models Exhibition, Returns, 35

Washington International Labour Conference, London and North-Western Official Delegate, 489

Waterfall, Prehistoric, Immense, 635

Water-logged Pits in the Tipton District, 181

Water Power Available in Borneo and Sumatra, 359

Water Power, French, Suggested Use of, in Relief of Coal Scarcity, 59

Water Power in India, Potential Resources, 437, 515

Water Power, Insufficiently Utilised in Germany and Austria, 515

Water Power Resources in Brazil, 463

Water Power of the St. Lawrence, Development, 635

Water Power of the Yangtze River, Scheme for Utilisation, S. J. Powell, 613

Waterproof Cement, Sir G. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 489

WATER SUPPLY: British Columbia, Water Power Resources, 231

Dairen, Shahokoa, New Water Supply Appliances, 231

Fire Engine for Refilling Water Reservoir, 181

Greater Winnipeg Water Board and Shoal

Lake Aqueduct, 503

Jerusalem, New Water Supply for, 216

Lima, Peru, New Waterworks Projected, 635

Manchester Water Scheme Passed House of Lords, 610

Metropolitan Water Board Reorganisation Scheme Rejected, 359

Nuneaton, Further Water Supply Projected, 589

Osaka Water Supply Extensions 231

Winnipeg Supply from Lake in Ontario, Arduous Task, 157

Water Waste at Night, 207

WATT Engine and James Watt’s Cornish Experiences ; Centenary, 206, 213, 450

Ways and Communications Bill—see Transport —see also Railways

Weights and Mea ures, Mr. Halsey on the Decimal System, 255

Weld Requiring 1400 lb. of Thermit, 59

Welding of Cutter Bars at a Colliery, 359

Wells, Deepest, in the World, 359

Westinghouse, Ex-British, Association Dinner, 548

Wind Power for Production of Electricity, Proposed Windmills for Supply of St. Ives, 59

Winnipeg River Power Company, Equipment, 255

Wire Hawsers, Method of Attaching, to Sunken Vessels, 207

Wireless Shore Stations in U.S.A., 305

Wireless Telegraph Station at Warsaw, Germany’s Low Bid, 255

Wireless Telegraphic Stations in Mexico, Foreign Competition Refused, 463

Wireless Telegraphy for Determination of Longitude, 515

Wireless Telephony in Air Flight, 157

Wittet, G., Retirement from Bombay Government Service, 406

Wolfram Discoveries in Siberia. Ill

Wood Distillation in India, “ Stockholm ” Tar from Long-leaf Pine, 85

Wooden Piling in Water, Durability Question, 411

Wooden Structures, Shearing Strength of, Improvement Device, Professor C. Forssell, 35

Works, New, in the North of England, 539

YARROW Shipbuilding Programme, 305

Z ZEPPELINS, Proposed Line of, between Germany and Sweden, 463 _

Zinc, Electrolytic, Production in Australia, lo7 Zinc Ore Accumulation in China, 411

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