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ACCOUNTANTS, Cost and Works, Institute of, 314

Acetone from Bassia Flowers in India, War and Peace Uses of, 446

Advertising, Lectures on, Captain O. A. Minns, 439

Aeronautical Design, American Investigation of Gorman Instruments for, 559

Aeronautics, Department of, Imperial College of Science and Technology, 462

Aeroplanes, American Military, with Air Propeller Driven Generators for Wireless Installation, 637

Aeroplanes for Railway Survey, 453

Africa, South-West Protectorate, Active Waterboring Operations, 453

A.G.E. Smithfield Dinner, 597

Agricultural Machine Manufacture Begun in Australia, 507

Agricultural Tractor Trials at Lincoln, 135

Airships, British “ S.S.” .Dirigible, for Ice

Observation in Seal Fishing, 427

Airships Presented to Canada by Imperial Government, 661

Air Velocity in Small Tubes, Experiments, 35

Alaska’s First Pulp and Paper Mill, 157

Alcobronze, New Alloy, 611

Alcohol Fuel Patents, 248

Alcohol, Industrial, from Bassia Flowers, 446

Alcohol Motor Fuel, 214

Alcohol, Power, Supplies, 106

Alloy, New Magnetic, 277

Alloys Discovered in France, 111

Alloys, Pyrophoric, of Cerium and Iron, A.

Hirch, 661

Aluminium Alloy Casting, Proper Temperature, 585

Aluminium and its Alloys, Protection from Corrosion, 111, 203

Aluminium, Process for Nickelling, 611

Aluminium from Switzerland, 585

American Engineering Societies. Federated, Joined by American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 277

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Election Machinery Improvement, 403

Ammonia—see Synthetic

Annealing Polished Metals, German Process for Protection from Tarnishing, 533

Apprentices, Engineering, Shield for, 74

Apprentices of Two Firms, University Scholarships Offered, 377

Asbestos with 3ft. long Fibres at Luzon. 61

Asphalt Production in United States, 178

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES : Institute, Royal, of British Architects :

War Memorial, 545

Institute, Royal Sanitary :

Henry Saxon Snell Prize, Conditions for 1921, 597

Institute, Textile :

Noise in Weaving Sheds, Causes and Suggested Remedies, Committee’s Report, 533

Institution of Automobile Engineers

Annual Dinner, 548

Arrangements for Meetings, 74

Combustion of Naphthalene Solutions in Internal Combustion Engines, L. S. Palmer, 603

Repair of Worn Motor Parts by Electro deposited Iron, B. H. Thomas, 61

Steel Research Report, 106

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Annual Dinner Not to be Held, 309

Awards for Papers, 491

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

Benevolent Fund, Conditional Offer of Donation, 647

Postponement of Meetings, 494

Subscription Rates Increase Proposal, 453

North Midland Centre :

Quasi-arc Welding lor Bombs and Submarine Mines, C. J. Jewell, 611

Institution of Gas Engineers :

Electricity Supply by Gas Companies, J. Fisher, 30

Institution of Locomotive Engineers (London):

Buenos Aires, Local Centre Opened, 170

Scottish Centre :

Inaugural Meeting, 465

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy :

Gold Modal Awards, 506

Institution of Municipal and County Engineers :

Economies in Road Maintenance, J. Lanf, 179

Gas in relation to the Housing Problem;

F. W. Goodenough, 403

Institution, Royal :

Christmas Juvenile Lecture Programme..

Professor J. A. Thomson, 619

Society of Chemical Industry :

Birmingham and Midland Section :

Corrosion in Copper and Brass, Dr. O. F. Hudson, 611

Society of Engineers :

Appeal for Increase of Membership, 85

Awards for Papers, 623

Concrete, Compressive Strength of, Comparison between Sea Water and Fresh, Professor E. R. Matthews, 35

Crystal Palace Engineering Society :

“Wilson Premium” Award, 647

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

Society, Faraday :

Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Discussion by Four Societies, 340

Society, Physical :

Annual Joint Exhibition with Optical Society, 650

Meetings for the Session, 203

AUSTRALIA, Electrolytic Smelting Industry, Future Possibilities, 453

Australian Grant for Buildings in Future Capital of Canberra, 327

Australian Proposal for Protection of New Industries and Joint Production of Tools by British Firms, 637

Automobile Association and Motor Union Report, 157

Aviation, Civil, Air Ministry’s Report, 661

B BALDWIN’S Toronto Plant Ceases Work for

Lack of Hydro-electric Power, 85

Bearings, White Metals for, 637

Belgium, Industrial Situation Analysed, 403

Belt Drive Tables, Buck and Hickman, 502

Belting, Method of Eliminating Static Electricity, C. M. Green, 403

Bengal Engineering College, Future of, 61

Bilbao, Crane-buying Difficulties, 322

Blast-furnace Gas, Beneficial Effect of, on

Plants, 611

Blast-furnaces—see Iron

Boiler Explosion and Need of Control, 111

Boiler and Tubes, Longer Life with Coal than

Oil Burning, 661

Boilers and Engines, Repair by Welding, 100

Boilers, Standard Marine, 165

Bombay Engineering Congress, 106

Bonus Wage Payment Scheme of Lambourne and Co., Limited, 479

Brassfoundry, Measurement of Casting Temperatures, J. Arnott, 327

Brassey’s Annual, 502

Brazil* Government Subsidy to Promote

Chemical Study, 157

Brazilian Loan in the United States, Projected, 353

British Engineering Standards Association :

Specifications Adopted for Official Use in

South Afri^p, 453

Standardisation of Test Pieces for Notched

Bar Test, 231

British Standard Specification for Electrical

Cooking Ranges, 157

Brussels Ship Canal, 61

Buenos Aires Arrangement for Register of Traders, 585

c CABLE Dispute between the Western Telegraph Company and the United States, 661

Cadmium, Pre-war Production in Germany Outdone by the United States, 427

Calcutta, Inland Harbour at Manicktollah, and Canal System, 35

Camellaird-Full agar Engine, 439

Canada and Financial Self-preservation, 327

Canada and Government Control of Hydroelectric Power, 203—see also Hydro-electric Power

Canada, Graphite Report, 165

Canada, Public Ownership on Large Scale in, 585

Canada and the West Indies, Preferential Trade Agreement, 427 •

Canadian Trade in Fertilisers, 179

Canadian Trent Valley Canal Finished, 111

Canal Abandoned and Used for Bed for Hydroelectric Pipe Track, with Railway Above it, 307

Canal, New, in France, under Consideration, 661

Canal, Part of, Abandoned, 253

Canal Schemes, Two, in India, F. L. Milne, 203

Canals, Disused, as Ponds for Fish Culture, 605

Canals—see also Ministry of Transport

Cardiff and Smoke, 314

Cartagena, Project for Protection against Inundation, 299

Catalogues for Reval, 623

Celebration Dinner, 568

Celluloid for Knife Handles and Camphor Shortage, 327

Cement Jointing for Cast Iron Water Pipes, 377

Cement Recovery from Sacks, 61

Cement Tests in the United States Standards

Bureau, 152

Cerium Alloys from Gas Mantle Residues, 661

Ceylon’s Hydro-electric Possibilities, 85

Chemical Analysis by Use of the Electric Arc, W. R. Mott, 559

China and American Enterprise, 403

China and Marconi Company, Negotiations for Loan for Wireless Stations, 559

China, Tatung Mining Administration, 227

Chromium—see Iron and Steel

Clay Product Values in the United States, 348

(Jay, Researches into Physical Properties of, Grant in Aid of, 35

CO Detector, Professor C. R. Hoover, 179

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES : Air Required for Coal Combustion, Calculation of, 559

Australian Coal for Sweden, 507

Austria’s Low Coal Production, 377

Belgian Congo, Coal Deposits Discovery, 203 British Empire, Coal Resources of, 623 Canada and Expansion of Coal Output, 227

C°AL,^C°KE AND COLLIERIES {con- China the Sole Country with Increased Coal , Production, 301

Coal-loading Apparatus for Venezuelan Port, 61

Coal Prices and Costs, 74

Coke Supply Decrease in Belgium, 353

Coal and Iron Deposits Discovered,

Durham Colliery’s Experience of Increased Labour Force, Decreased Output and 1 rebled Wages Bill, 353

Eastern Siberia, Reported Coal Discovery, 559

France, Output of Coke in, Consumption, and Imports, 377

French Coal Consumption and Supply, Effect of War and War Treaty, 377

French Coal-mining Statistics, 559 Groundhog Coal Properties, British Columbia, 427

Japan, Estimate of Coal Deposits, 111

Lignite to Replace Coal in Westphalian Electrical Works, 301

. Malay Peninsula, Coal Discovery and Mining, 183

Malay Peninsula, Last Year’s Output of Coal, 301

Malay States, Successful Output of Coal at Cheap Rate, 585

Manchurian Coal Mines, Electric Plant Projected for, 533

Mines of Northern France, Clearing of the Dourges Pits, 479

Mines Reclamation at Lens, 301

Nigeria, Udi Coalfield Development, 135 Pulverised Coal for Firing Steel Furnaces, 301 Queensland Coal Statistics, 111 Ruhr Region Coal Production, 611 South African Coal Mines Waste, 507

South African Coal Output, Half in the Middelburg Area, fill

South Wales and Monmouthshire, New Course of Instruction in Coal Mining and Diploma, 179

Tucuman Province, Coal Deposit Discovery, 157 J

Upper Silesia, Reduced Output of Coal, 585 Workers’ Output, Averages of Various

Countries, 353

I COBALI Bloom Deposit Containing Amalite,

i Discovery in Manitoba, 11

Colloids and Industry, 100

Common Sense in Engineering, W. M. McFarland, 258

I Concrete Aggregate, Use of Slags, 430

( oncrete Consistency, Simple Apparatus for Determining, 11

| Concrete, Effects of Rodding and Tapping, 135 Concrete Floor Subsidence, Method of Repair 585 ’

Concrete Lining for Irrigation Canals, 637

Concrete Posts, Hollow, for Use as Mine “ Timbers,” 611

^°203ete Shipbuilding, Figures of its Failure,

Concrete Tanks, Sub-surface, Repair of, 327 Conveying Machinery, &c., Favourable Opportunity in Sweden for British Manufact urers, 179

Coolidge Wrought Tungsten Patent Controversy, 157

Copper Mine Reopened in Merionethshire. I 1 Copper Product of the World, 353

Cotton Industry, British, Research Association.

What it has Done, 377

Cotton-picking Machine in Texas, 403

County of London Royal Engineers Volunteers Disbandment and Funds Distribution. 519

Crane for Bilbao, Difficult Purchase, 322

Crane, Largest Hammer Head Type Fitting-out, 111 *

Crossed Threads, 522

Crystal Palace Engineering Feat, 203

Crystal Palace Engineering Society, ‘ Premium ” Award, 647

Cutlery Research Association, 85, 340

‘ Wilson i

D

Bricks Exchanged for United States Coal, 253

Death of Mr. W. H. Taylor, 6

Detection of Animate and Inanimate Objects

{ by Heat Radiation, 301

xreYar \ Challenge Trophy Awarded to

National Benzole Company, 479

Diesel Engines, Large Marine, Completed in Germany, 277

Divers’ Time Under Water, Chemical Sugges-

Pe1IiodO637nCreaSing Capacity for longer

Divining Rod, A. J. Ellis, 301

Dredging Projects and Plant in Argentina, 11

Drill Sizes and Equivalents, C. A. Hunton and

Sons, 532

Dry Dock for St. John, New Brunswick, 1 ] 1

Dry Rot,” 214

Duddell Memorial, 439

Dunlop Tires Destroyed in Paris Fire, 301

Duplicating Documents for Railroad Purposes

by Various Methods on Wholesale Scale, 185

Dutch Commercial Intelligence Oifice, 289

Dutch East Indies, Forestry Plant and Small

Hanways, 35

Dyes, Synthetic, Inadequate Supply, No

Revival of German Trade with Bombay, 277

E

ECDN0M1SER Wreckage by Explosion at

Hull, 11

Educational Innovation in America, 533

ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Accounts of the York, Taunton and Sunderland Electricity Departments, 327

Aluminium for Electric Installations, 507

American Electrical Appliances, Exploitation by Houseboat in China, 403

American Large Electrical Power Systems, Analysis of, 179

Auckland Electrical Plant Extension, 327

Austrian Power Station at Strubklamm undei Construction, 661

Birmingham Electric Trainways Statistics, 227

Bolton Electricity Works Additions, 135

Bradford Electricity Works, New Generating Plant, 507

Bridge River Power Site, Vancouver, Development Begun, 61

Burnley Loan for Generating Station Plant, 179

Canadian Government Reduces Licence for Export of Electrical Energy of Three Companies, 585

Cauvery Falls, Development of Power in Mysore, 35

Cauvery Falls, Proposed New Power Stations, 637

Ceylon, Hydro-electric Development in, 377

Charleroi Electrical Trade Improving, 179

Cooking Ranges, Electrical, British Standard Specification for, 157

Cracking in Built-up High-tension Insulators, 85

Eastbourne Electricity Finance, 135

Electricity Supply by Gas Companies, J. Fisher, 30

Ex-Officers Trained for General Electrical Company’s Work, 533

Fulham and Hammersmith Undertakings “ Linking Up,” 301

Furnaces Used for Manufacture of Potash and Phosphoric Acid, 35

Garlearini’s Rotating Arc Lamp, 301

Generating Plant for Manchurian Coal Mines, 533

Generators, Air Propeller Driven, in American War Aeroplanes, 637

George Montefiore Prize Offer, 157

German Electrical Company’s Increased Dividend, 533

German Electrical Industry Position, 179

Gigantic Power Scheme Proposed for Eastern

United States, 111

Glasgow Electrical Deficit, 227

Glass Insulator Tests, 479

Greenock as a Power Centre for Renfrewshire, 479

High Voltage by San Francisco Company, 533

Italian Consumption of Electrical Energy, 277

Japan Erecting Power Stations for Train Operation, 111

Japanese Electrical Enterprise Statistics, 479

Japanese Electric Industry and Water Power Rights, 533

Lamp, High-voltage, New Form of, 253

Linking-up Scattered Water Power Resources, Dr. Steinmetz, 203

London County Council Electrical Supply Statistics, 253

Loughborough Corporation Electricity Supply Extension, 135

Maps pf Electrical Districts in Request, 111

Melbourne Electric Company Orders Tramway Rails from America, 277

Motor Tricycles, Electric, for Swiss Posta Work, 510

Nationalisation of German Electrical Under takings, 533

Norwich, Proposed New Electricity Works, 453

Nottingham’s New Electric Power Station.

403 ; Additional Expenditure, 661

Oil Switches, Rating and Design of, 327

Photometer, Electric, New Device, 403

Portobello New’ Generating Station, Capacity, 327

Pretoria, Extensive New Power Scheme, 11

Punjab and Cheap Electric Power, F. L. Milne, 203

Refractories for Electric Furnaces, 507

Research Committee. Electrical, New Developments, 253

Research Licence—.see Scientific

Shanghai Municipal Electrical Undertaking, 111

Southampton Electricity Undertaking Revenue 427

South-East Lancashire Electric Development Schemes, 11

Spanish Extensive Electrical Installations under Construction, 157 -

Surveys for Water Power Electric Generating Plant in Vancouver, 11

Swedish Electrical Industries Demand Protective Import Duty, 533

Swiss Increase in Electricity Charges, 253

Tests on 3|-Ton “Orwell” Electric Vehicle, 111

“Thermalloy” and Necessary Precautions with Electrical Machinery, 427

Transmission of Electrical Energy, Limiting Voltage, 327

Transmission of Electric Power instead of

Coal from Belgium to Italy, Proposal, 301

Turbo-generator Failures and their Cause 135 Welding, Electro-percussive, D. F. Miner.

637

Wellington, New Zealand, Loan for Power Plant Extension, 157

West Ham Electricity Report, J 79

Westphalian Electrical Works, Proposal to Use Lignite instead of Coal, 301

ELECTROLYTIC Smelting Industry in Australia, 453

Electro-magnetism, Centenary of Discovery by Oersted, 296

Empire Motor Fuels Committee, Inquiries into Use of Alcohol, 353

Empire Press Conference in Newfoundland, Telephonic Communication with England. 85 Engineering Standards Association—.see British and also Italy

Engines, Diesel, Limited to Small Sizes, 258

Exhibitions: Algiers, Agricultural Exhibition Project, 427 British Industries Fairs, JOO, 507

Civic Survey Diagrams Exhibition, 435, 545

Commercial Fair at Brussels, 647

Dominions Touring Exhibition, 146

French Products Exhibition in London, 61

International Agricultural Exhibition at Rovigo, Italy, 135

International Motor Show in the Dutch East Indies, 35

Luxemburg, Exhibition of Agricultural Machinery, 227

Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia, 61, 110

Paris International Aeronautical Exhibition. 227

Peruvian International Industrial Exhibition, 453

Physical and Optical Societies’ Annual Joint Exhibition, 650

Timber Grown in British Empire Exhibition.

11, 48

EX PLOSION of a Drying Cylinder, 478

Explosions and Value of Isolating Valves, 611 Explosives, Conveyance of, in Petrol-driven

Vehicles, 559

FACTORY Depart inent of Home Office, Reorganisation, 203

Fairs-—see Exhibitions

Federation of British Industries :

Meeting to Consider Question of Steam Ferry

Across the North Sea, 111, 277

Membership, Analysis of, 33

Packing in Wire Netting as Protection from Theft, 606

Fertiliser Manufacture near Cape Town, 559

Finnish Industries, Increasing Production, 327

Finsbury Technical College Defence Committee, 600

Fire Extinguishers, Danger of Carbon Tetrachloride in Confined Spaces, 479

Fire Retardent Paints Tried in United States for Forest Protection, 85

Fish Propagation in Ponds Formed from Old

Canals, 605

Fish Quarrel at Mevagissey, 253

Floating Dock, 10,000-Ton, for Schiedam, 106

Ford Cars, 4000 a Day Capacity Aimed at, 179

Ford Company’s Free Technical Institute, 277

Ford Company Motor Ploughs for Germany, 661

Ford Motor, Price Reductions, 327

Freezing of Leakage Water, Unexpected Effect,

French Arsenal at Lorient to be Handed Over to Private Industry, 111

French Cities, Rebuilding Changes, 636

French Colonies and France, Wireless Connection Projected, 157

French Explosives, Proposal for Storage at the Bottom of a Lake, 507

Fuel Research Board, Conclusions as to Power

Alcohol, <fcc., Ill

Furnaces, Electric—see Electrical Matters

Fused Quartz, Development ami Physical Properties, 427

G GAS Coke in relation io Cheap Power and Smoke Abatement, E. W. Nicol, 453

Gas at Is. 6d. per 1000 cubic feet, less Discount. 308

Gas, Electricity Supply by,’ J. Fisher, 30

Gas for Lighting and Heating Obtained from Wheat, 327, 637

Gas and Motor Fuel Production from Straw, 533

Gas and Valuable By-products from Wheat Straw, 637

George Montefiore Prize Re-offered, 157

German Conscription of Labour Proposed, 353

German Income Tax Closes Motor Car Works in Wurtemburg, 227

German Labour Cost and Output Statistics, 253

German Patents in Japan on Sale, 35

German Powerful Wireless Telegraph Company in Buenos Aires, 227

German Shipbuilding and Metal Industries, 403

Germany and United Kingdom. Imports and

Exports since the Armistice, 135

Germany’s Trade with China Reviving, 559

Graphical Representation of Variable Quantities, Professor Douglas, 35

Graphite in Canada, 165

Graphite Deposits, Extensive, in Western

Australia, 135

Graphite as Preventive of Scale in Boilers, 227

Greek Government Scheme for Improvement of Smyrna Ports, 479

Greek Industries and Hydraulic Energy, 403

Guatemala as Field for British Trade, 51 1

H HAITI, Proposed Wharf at Saint Marc, 203

Harbour at Bratislava on the Danube, 111

Harbour Improvement Scheme for Hamilton, Ontario, 61

Heat from Dust Destructor Utilised for Driving Compressors for Sewage, Colonel Prescott. 661

Helium Gas, Excessive Cost of Production, 92

Helium Gas, Possible Cheap Production at Calgary, 11

Horse-power in Water Power of Various Countries Compared, 403

House of Commons Committee on Smoke Abatement, 11, 22

House Refuse Collection Cost, 637

Howrah Bridge Reconstruction, 637

Hydraulic Machinery, 519

Hydro-electric Development in Ceylon, 377

Hydro-electric Development in Japan, 533

Hydro-electric Development Schemes, 403

Hydro-electrical Plants, Reduced Utility in

Drought and Severe Weather, French Experiences, 661

Hydro-electric Power Possibilities and Government Control, in Canada, 203, 507. 585

Hydro-electric Scheme, Lochaber, 507

Hydro-electric Works at Linton Locks, York, 403

I ICEBREAKER, Proposed Purchase by Sweden, 427

111 umination—see National

Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Aeronautics, 462

Indian Concession on Condition of Hydroelectric Irrigation Plant Erection, 203

Industrial Administration, Institute of:

Industrial Question, Address by Viscount Haldane, 416

Road Transport as an Aid to Industrial Management, R. Twelvetrees, 533 Industrial Alcohol from Bassia Flowers, 446 Industrial Centres and Water Power Remoteness, 403

Industrial Christian Fellowship, Labour’s Call, • Meeting, 479

Industrial League :

Dinner, 309

Week-end Conferences, 91

Industrial Nottingham, 235

Institutions—see Associations, &c.

Insurance Bicentenary, 48

International Communications Conference, Preliminary Meeting at Washington, 301

International Institute of Refrigeration, 24 International Patents Ofiice in Brussels, 507 Inventors and Inventions, State-aided, Committee to Consider Question of, J 1 1

Ireland, Utilisation of Water Power in Donegal, 174

IRON AND STEEL: Argentine Large New Ironworks, 157

Australia’s Beginnings of Large Steel Industry, 453

Bilbao Iron Industries and the Italian Market, 327

Boron in Steel Manufacture, 479

Brazil Iron Ore Deposits, I 35

British Columbia, Iron and Steel Industry, 479

British Columbia, Rolling Mills and Blastfurnaces for Steel Manufacture, 327

Broken Hill. Australia, New Steel Plant, 301

Canadian New Blast-furnaces on the Detroit River, 1 I 1

Cast Steel W heels for Railways, Japanese Experiments, 277

China, Blast-furnaces in, 403

Chinese Iron Ore and Pig Iron Production, 35

Congo, Coal and Iron Deposits Discovery, 427

Coolidge Wrought Tungsten Patent Dispute, 157

Copper Addition to Iron and Steel to Minimise Corrosion, 507

Electrolytic Iron. Liability to Defects, 61

Fricktal Iron Ore Deposits in Switzerland, Re-discovery, 585

German Shipbuilding Steel from the United States, 157

Hadfield Sink-head Ingots for Bail Manufacture, Tests in America, 661

High Chromium Steel Research Results, 135

Hoskins Iron and Steel Company’s Land Purchase, N.S.W., 611

Iceland Iron Ore Deposits, 1 35

Ironfoundries, Geographical Distribution in the United Kingdom, 353

Iron Ore Exports from France, Statistics, 301

Iron Ore Exports from Gaellivaro Orefields, 487

Iron Ore Reduction, Investigations by Professor Stansfield, 135

Iron and Steel Exports of this Country and America, Comparison, 479

Japan Thick Steel Plate Plant, 135, 179

Japanese Government Ironworks Undertakings, 453

Manganese Bronze Production, 1J1

Manganese Exports from India, 568

Manganese Export from Minas Geraes, New Law, 533

Newcastle, New South W’ales, Prediction of Great Future for, 427

New Zealand Iron Trade Development, 507

Nichrome, Metallic Alloy, 301

Nickel and Chromium Bearing Iron Ores in Dutch East Indies, 11

Nickel Deposits on Aluminium and its Alloys, Tests in France, 85

Nickelling Aluminium, Process for, 611

Notched Bar Test Pieces, Standardised, 231

Pig Iron and Steel Output in the United Kingdom, 85, 222, 479. 536, 611

Plate Mill, Reversing Universal, Installed in Ontario, 227

Queensland, State Iron and Steel W’orks, 253, 277

Railway Rates and Iron and Steel Trade, 203

Bio Manganese Ore Exports. Falling Off due to War and High Freights, 157

Seattle, U.S.A., New Steel W’orks under Construction, 142

Steel Furnaces Run with Pulverised Coal in Canada, 301

Steel Output—see Pig Iron

Steel Rail Imports into the United Kingdom,

■ 559

Steel Research Report, 106

Swedish Iron Ore Imports into Germany, 157

Swedish Iron Ore Exports, 253

Swedish Iron and Steel Output, Imports and Exports. 1914 and 1920, 301

Swiss Search for and Discovery of Iron Orc Deposits, 559

Tool Steel from Detinned Scrap, 227

Vancouver, Coast Range Steel Company, 558

Volcanic Iron Sand fdr Steel Manufacture, 474

IRRIGATION Canals, Lining with Concrete, 637

Irrigation in India, Glossary of Technical Terms, 533

Irrigation in Return for Concession to Indian

Prince, 203

Isolating Valves Value in Explosions, 611

Italian Automobile Importation, Government

Regulation 637

Italian Desire for British Machinery, 157

Italian Exemption from Customs Duty of

Certain Construction Materials, 611

Italian Motor Cars’ Severe Tests at Turin, 179

Italy to Adopt Idea of Engineering Standards

Committee, 157

J JAPAN, Labour Conditions in, 135

Japanese Government to Introduce Metric

System, 611

Japanese Harbour of Shimidzu, Largest Tea

Export Port, Reconstruction, 533

Japanese Successful Experiments on Timber for Termite Resistance, 227

Japan’s Share in Surrendered German Aircraft, 277

Jet of Water at High Pressure, New Uses of, 377

K KIL1ND1NI, East Africa, Government Wharf

Scheme for, 211, 227

King’s College Engineering Society Dinner, 502

King’s College Old Students’ Association, Luncheon, 462

Krupp Works Profit and its Disposal, 661

LA PLATA Port, Government Vote for Improvement, 157

La Rochelle Loan for Port Improvement at La Pollice, 253

Lathes, Handy Tool for Use with, 611

Launderers’ Research—see Scientific

Lead Brittleness by Contact with an Electrolyte, 85

Lead Poisoning and Women, 203

Lead, Remedy for Tendency to Sag or Creep, 157

Leather Manufacturers—see Scientific Research

Leeds University Appeal, 571, 637

Lifeboat Service and Lack of Support from

Shipping Firms, 277

Lightning Flash, The Origin and Energy of the, Dr. Steinmetz, 584

Lightning, and Soils Struck Most Frequently, Statistics, 35

Lignite Briquettes from Alberta, 85

Locomotive Turntable, 92ft. long, Lifting and

Removal, 35

London Assurance, 48

M MACHINE Tool Exhibition—see Exhibitions

Machine 'Tool Output in Great Britain in 1919, 35

Magnesia Cement for Coating Mine Timbers, 479

Magnetic Elements and Atomic Weight, 61

Manchester Housing Rapid Concrete Building, 353

Manganese—see Iron and Steel

Map to Aid Industrial Vehicle Road Transport, 192

Marine Engineers’ Bravery, 170

Melbourne’s Projected Large Gasworks, 327

Metal and Mineral Production of Canada.

Reduction in Estimate of Value, 85

Metals, Failure of, Under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Discussion by Four Societies, 340

Mica Discovery on Cape Breton Island, 377

Mine Sweeping in the Kattegat and in the North Sea, 135

Mine Timbers Replaced by Hollow Concrete Posts, 611

Mine Water Settlement Prior to Pumping, J. Whitehouse, 61

Mines Death-rate Statistics, Above and Below Sixteen Years of Age, 559

Mines, Stenches as Warning, 611

Miner’s Lamp, German Prize Offered, but No Award, 353

Mineral Production in South Africa, 377

Mining Law, Proposed Series of Volumes on, 353

Mining Record in U.S.A., 10

Ministry of Mines Bill, 100

Ministry of Munitions, Disposal Board Sales of Railway Rolling Stock, 17

Ministry of Munitions and Ministry of Shipping, Joint Memorandum on Finance, 611

Ministry of Transport :

—see also Railways

Canal, Part of, Abandoned, 253

Canal Undertakings and the Transport Act, 114

Inland Waterways Committee. New Member Appointed, 85 ; Beginning of Investigations, 135

Omnibus and Tramwavs Competition, 111, 143

Mombasa’s Big Schemes for Harbour and Railway Construction, 227

Mono-rail Tramway—see Railways

Monte Video Port. Cost of Additional Works, 227

Motor Car Imports into India Chiefly from the United States, 585

Motor Omnibuses for New York, Opposition to Establishment of, 277

Motor Show, International, in the Dutch East Indies, 41

Motor Transport Conference, Imperial, 252

Motor Tricycles, Electric, for Swiss Postal Work, 516

N NAPHTHALENE Solutions, L. S. Palmer, 603

National Illumination Committee of Great Britain, 22

Newcomen Society, First Meeting, Literature of Historical Engineering, E. W. Hulme, 403 News Transmission by Wireless Telephony and

Telegraphy, Post Office Experiments, 611

New’ Zealand Government Aid for Petroleum Prospecting, 637

Niagara Falls, Gigantic Dam Suggested, 585

Nickel—see also Iron and Steel

Nickelling Aluminium, Process for, 611

Nitrogen for France, Government Negotiations for Haber Process Patents, 179

Northampton Polytechnic'Institute, 545

Nottingham, Industrial, 235

OIL Depot Erection in Paris, 427

Oil Pipe Line of Mexico, Suggested Exclusion

of Foreign Powers and Warships, 585

Oil Pipe Mileage of Mexico, 353

Omnibus and Tramways Competition, 111, 143

Ontario New Water Power Plant, 135

Optical Instruments, Elements, Committee’s

Standardisation Report, 522

Origin and Energy of the Lightning Flash, Dr.

C. P. Steinmetz, 584

p PAINT, Bituminous, as the Best Rust Preventive, 277

Palm Oil and Kernels, Various Uses of, 661

Panama Canal Navigation Imperilled by Un -

usual Drought, 135

Panama. Canal Statistics, 408

Paris in Dummy Form, War Camouflage, 479

Patent Conference in Brussels, Office for Inter

national Patents, 507

Patent Office Applications Increase, 227

Patent Office Library, 288

Patent Specificat ions, Printing Changes, 61

Peat Deposits of Canada, Investigations, 253

Peat Output in Sweden, 637

Peat Production and Use by Swedish State Railways7", 157

Peat Values in Ireland, Professor P. F. Purcell, 507

Peruvian New Seaport in Bay of Maratani, 61 I

Petrol, Price of, 252

Petroleum Boring in Scotland, Delay at West

Calder, 377

Petroleum Boring in West Lothian, 301

Plate Mill—see Iron

Platinum Find of High Value in Cape Colony. 453

Platinum Group of Metals, Survey, A. I).

Lu mb, 637

Port of London Congestion, Situation Improving, 507

Potash Recovery from Cement Kiln Fume, Attempted, 157

Powder Factory in Santiago de Chili, 111

Power Alcohol Supplies, 106

Power Generation by Mercury Vapour, American Experiments, 479

Power Plant, Bridge River, British Columbia, 227

Power Supply for Toronto, 507

Presentation at Kilmarnock, 623

Presentation to Professor F. Bacon, 642

Professional Classes War Relief Council, 439

Professors Attend Lectures by Manufacturers, 533

Pulp Production from African Softwoods, 85

Punch Press Accidents, A Safety Device, 403

Q

QUEBEC Bridge Report and Illustrations, 24

Queensland’s Large Irrigation Scheme, 277

Queensland State Iron and Steel Works, 253, 277

R RADIO Research—see Scientific

Railless Trolley Car for Bradford, 507

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :

Accidents •• Buffer Stop Collision at Cambridge, 403

Buffer Stop Collision on the Great Western Railway, Report, 533

Buffer Stop Collision at Littlehampton, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, 157, 179

Buffer Stop Collision at Wimbledon, 403, 637

Caledonian Railway Collision Report, 277

Collision on the Barry Hailway, Report, 533

Collision at Hatfield, Great Northern Railway, 403

Collisions at Margate and in North Wales, 301

Derailment on the Metropolitan Railway due to Fog, 427

Derailment in the United Stated, 226

Fireman as Temporary Driver as the Cause of Accident, 157

French Railway Accident, Disastrous, 377, 427, 533

Heathfield Station, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Derailment, 34

Indian Train Accident less Disastrous than Supposed. 301

Inquiries into Accidents by Ministry of Transport, Suggested, 253

Lostock Junction Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Collision, 85, 111, 157

Madras and Bangalore Train Wilfully Derailed. Fatal Disaster, 433

Midland Railway Double Collision, 377

Missing Tail Lamp and Averted Accident, 377

Piston Valve Fracture on a Caledonian Engine Brake, 11

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued)

Accidents (continued):

Six Accidents, Reports, 135

Stourbridge, Unusual Accident at, 377

Air Brake, New, Adoption in America, 507

Air Brakes, German Type, for Swedish State Kai I ways, 179

Air Service of the United States to Undertake Railway Surveys, 453

Amalgamation of Railway Companies, 637

American Locomotives, Offices for Sale of, Established in Johannesburg, 585

Appointments and Staff Changes, 1 1, 68, 80, 179, 327, 403, 507, 559, 585, 637

Australia, Committee to Settle Railway Gauge Question, 327

Australian Railway Mileage and Gauge Uniformity, 403

Automatic Train Control, Committee Appointed, 507

Barcelona to Tarrasa, Electrification, 507

Belgian and Dutch Loan for Chinese Railway Construction, 559

Belgian Railways, Rolling Stock Purchases, 227

Belgian State Railways, Electrification; 215

Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company to Construct Harbour at Vizagapatam, 479

Bengal-Nagpur Railway, Survey for New Line, 585

Bicycles and Cloak-room Law, 135

Blackpool Corporation and Railway Negotiations, 453

Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Suburban Electrification, 27

Bombay Housing and the Bombay-Baroda Railway Wharf, Rival Need of Land, 1 I

Brakes—see Air Brakes

British Columbia Viaduct on the Pacific and

Great Eastern Railway, 111

Brixton, Loughborough Junction, Elephant and Castle and Ludgate Hill Communication Restored, 353

Brunei’s Timber Viaducts Exchanged for Steel, 559

Buenos Aires Railways, Oil-working Company, 537

Canadian Government to Become Owner of World’s Largest Railway System, 277

Canadian National Railway Mileage, 585

Canadian Pacific Railway Oil Shortage, Re-conversionof Oil-burning Locomotives and Steamships to Coal Burning, 661

Canadian Railway Finance, Twelve Years’ Statistics, 327

Canton-Hankow New Branch Line, 11

Central Argentine Railway, Fuel Question, 507

Central Argentine Railway, Projected Electrification, 227

Central of Brazil Railway Electrification, 611

Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Mistake, 637

Channel Tunnel Problem, 227

Char-a-bancs versus Railway Cost, 403

Charing Cross, Underground, Additional

Subways and Stairs, 135, 637

Chilean Railway Proposed from Antofagasta to Salta, Argentina, 353

Chilean State Railways, Projected Electrification, Bids Invited, 514

China Clay from Fowey (Cornwall) to United States, 585

China Clay Question and Railway in Cornwall, 377

Chinese State Railways, Standardisation under Consideration, 35

Christinas Holidays. Reduced Fares, 585

Clapham Common Station, Escalators Installed, 403

Cloak-room Law, 227

Compound Locomotives, Questions of Fuel

Economy and Engine Maintenance, 277

Corporation Tax and the Railways, 85

Czecho-Slovakia Building Locomotives and other Rolling Stock, 227

Death of Mr. H. G. Bell, North-Eastern

Railway, 403

Death of Lord Bessborough, 585

Death of Mr. W. 11. Macnamara, 301

Death of Mr. Neville Priestley, 611

Death of Mr. F. C. Tipler, 327

Deaths of Scottish Railway Veterans, 11

Doors on the Metropolitan Railway, 559

Dyke Branch, London and South-Western

Railway, Re-opening, 85

Ealing Broadway Station for Central London Railway Extension, 85

Early African Railways, Dates of Opening, 479

Eastern Bengal Railway, Survey for New Line, 585

Ecuador Government Concession and Proposed Railway, 301

Egyptian State Railways’ Finance, 203

Electric Locomotives, Swedish State Railways’ Order, 253

Employees’Suggestions for Railway Working, 69

Excursion Facilities Financially Justified, 485

Excursion Trains Resume Running, 157

Express Trains to the North, Changes, 17

Fares Increase, 111, 135

Fares Increase in London Area, 276

Federated Malay States Railways, Gross and Not Receipts in 1919, 327

Finance—see also Ministry of Transport

Fire at Crewe Signal Box, 277

Fire Destruction of Electric Passenger

Coaches on the North-Eastern Railway, 85

Fireless Shunting Engine, 352

First-clads Passengers, Percentage of their Accommodation and Payments,-227

Fish from Aberdeen, Accelerated Transit. 61

Fish Traffic by Rail Doubled since 1913, 11

Fish Traffic and Scarcity of Vans, 203

Freight Traffic Statistics, Great Britain, 198

French Goods Train, Continuous Brakes for, 427

French Railway Commissions on Railway Electrification, Estimate of Cost, 179

Fruit-pickers, Tickets Concession, 61

Furness Railway and Barrow Docks, Efforts at Port Development, 301

Furness Railway Exchanges Steamers for Motor Omnibuses, 559

Gattie System in America, 353

Gauge Question in Australia, Committee of

Experts to be Appointed, 327

German Firm Building Locomotives for the Soviet Government, 277

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Glasgow Corporation Tramways, Revenue Report, 85

Goods, Delay or Short Delivery, Legal Decision, 35 .

Government and the Railways, Mr. Lloyd George, 135, 157

Grand Trunk Railway Lines, Disposal Question, 227

Gratitude on an American Railway, 453

Great Eastern Railway Requests for Suggestions as to Improvements, 427

Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Suburban Electrification, 35, 85

Great Northern Railway Engines for Sale, 277

Great Northern Railway, Bogie-saving System, Mr. H. N. Grosley, 453

Great Northern Railway and Future of the Railways, 54

Great Northern Railway Shareholders, Meeting, 111

Great Western Company’s New Service, 227

Great Western Short Line in Cornwall, 111

Great Western Steamer St. David Under

Repair, 403

Grouping Railways no Economy, Sir A.

Pease, 637

Highland Railway News vid America, 453

Highland Railway and Slow Services, 85

Holyhead Inner Harbour Deepening Not

Yet Begun, 559

Holyhead Inner Harbour Deepening Scheme

Sanctioned by Ministry of Transport, 675

Hop Exchange Fire and South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 453

Hudson Bay Railway Construction, Prospect of Resumption of Work, 661

Hull and Barnsley Railway, Provisional

Amalgamation with theNorth-Eastern, 661

Hustler at Victoria, District, Station, 135

Indian Railway Administration, Committee

Not Yet Appointed, 157, 453

Indian Railways, Suggested Transference of Directorate from England to India, 35

Indian State Railways’ Earnings, 585

Irish Mails Conveyance, New Contract, 533, 559

Irish Railwaymen and Military Traffic, 637

Irish Railways Not to Come Under Proposed Legislation, 95

Jamaica, Proposed Railway Electrification, 111

Japanese Railway Department Erecting Power Stations, 111, 227

Japanese Ten Years’ Scheme for Railway Improvement, 111

Lancashire and Yorkshire Electrification, Proposed Extension, 215

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, First-class Day Excursion Tickets, 179

Landslip on Midland Main Line, 377

Leeds City Trani ways’ Report, 161

Legion of Honour for English Railwav Official, 585

Level Crossings over Public Highways, 35

Light Railway Proposals Rejected, 11

Locomotive Bar Frames and Plate Frames,

G. G. Elliott, 637

Locomotive Fitted with Steam Turbine, 460

Locomotive Orders for Germany, 253

Locomotive Quick Cleaning on South African

Railways, 661

Locomotives Available for Work and in

Stock, Figures for Principal Railways, 353, 661

London, Brighton and South Coast Gasmaking Plant for Sale, 277

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Scheme for Electrification of the Whole Line, 585

London, Brighton and Sout h Coast Steamer’s

Quick Journeys to Brighton, 403

L.C.C. Tram Working Expenses, 61, 85

London Electric Railway Companies (Faros, &c.) Bill, 168, 203

London Electric Railways, Increased Fares and Increased Receipts, 377

London and South-Western, Guildford Electrification Scheme Postponed, 35

London and South-Western “ Trailer ” Cars, Number Increased, 301

London, Tilbury and Southend Section of the Midland Railway, 396

Lorain Surface Contact System or Overhead Lines, Pros and Cons, at Wolverhampton, 11 ‘

Manchester Tramways Report, 85

Mechanical Coaling Plants for Locomotives, 305

Metropolitan District Railway New Cars, 637

Metropolitan Railway Doors, A Change, 559

Metropolitan Railway Lectures, Dr. Henry

Chellew, 507

Miners’ Strike Turns Big Railway Surplus into Deficit, 585

Ministry of Transport :

Accident Reports—see Accidents

“Actual Fare,” Printing of Tickets, 179

Amalgamation of Hull and Barnsley and

. the North-Eastern Railways, Proposal,

Ambulance Trains Offered for Sale, 253

Anniversary of Ministry of Transport Bill,

Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, Reopening Debated, 585

Central Authority for London Traffic, Projected Bill. 35

Central Wages Board, Proposed Further Increase, 353—see also Wages

Claim Decision between Government and

North-Eastern Railway, 85

Coal Strike to Cost Taxpayers Two Millions or More a Week, 427, 479, 585

Committee on Railway Agreements, 507

Cost and Efficiency Figures Tabulated with View to Economy 533

Counsel Retained for Railway Companies before the Rates Advisory Committee, 157

Current and Arrear Maintenance, Forty

Millions Payable by Government, 507

Disposal Board Sales of Railway Stock, and Ministry of Transport, Mr. Bonar Law, 17

Economies n Railway Working Claimed by Ministry of Transport, 453

Excursion Trains and Railway Non Possumus, 135

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Ministry or Transport (continued):

Fares Refunding Question, 11 I

Fish Thrown Back to Sea, Unwarranted Criticism of Railway 253

Future Powers of the State in relation to Railways, 656

Gattie System, Containers in Cincinnati, 353

Grouping the Railways, Alternative Proposals, 611

Holyhead Harbour and the Ministry, 559, 675

Irish Ministry of Transport, Mr. Burgess’ New Appointment, 179

Iron and Steel Industry and Railway Rates, 203

Local Interests and Reduction in Railway Repairing Shops, 661

Locomotive Shortage due to Arrears of Repairs, 157

London, .Brighton and South Coast Meeting, Lord Bessborough on the Government Scheme, 533

L.C.C. Tramway Deficit, Deputation to Sir Eric Geddes, 61, 85

Mid-week Cheaper Ticket Proposal Rejected, 85

Northumberland, Proposals for Series of New Railways, 585

Obsolete Rolling Stock, Disposal of. 85

Railway Companies’ Association and Sir Eric Geddes, 479, 533

Railway Executive Committee Replaced by Railway Advisory Committee, 479

Railway Expenditure, Analysis, 585

Railway Expenditure, Mistake, 637

Railway Expenditure, Lord Colwyn’s Committee, 507, 559, 585

Railway Finance Statistics, 61, 203, 211, 277, 353, 559

Railway Operating Statistics, 17, 61, 111, 157, 253, 327, 353, 507, 533, 559, 670

Rates Advisory Committee, 35, 51, 111, 135, 157, 179, 231, 277, 301, 377, 381, 559, 611

Revaluation of Railways Impracticable at Present, 327

Scottish Railways and Government Management, Sir Eric Geddes, 84

Staff Concessions and Rates Increase, 203

Subsidiary Businesses of Railways, Wholesale Losses, 157

Suggested Inquiries into Accidents, 253 Sunday Travelling, Sir E. Geddes, 61, 157 Trade Disturbance and Self-supporting

Railways, 203

Traffic Increase by Rail and Road, Sir E. Geddes, 11

Traffic Regulation, Lancashire and Yorkshire Scheme, Proposed Adoption by London, 61

'Trams and Omnibuses, Competition, Committee to Consider, 111 : Conference, 143

Tramway and Light Railway, White Paper Statistics, 611

'Tramway Statistics of the United Kingdom, 187

'Tunnel under the Solent, Would it Pay ? 203

'Twenty-four-hour Notation System, 61

Unprofitable Branch Lines, Sir E. Geddes, 61

Wages Board Awards and Traffic Finance, 301, 353

Wagon Supply Shortage Remedied, 19

White Paper Railway Statistics, Statement Asked for, 61 I

Workmen’s Fares, New Scale and New Concession, 179

Mono-rail Electric 'Tramway Proposed for Tokyo, 1 I

Motor Vehicles and Taxation, 135

National Union of Railwaymen, Report, Cost of Strike, 30

Nationalisation of Railways and Mr. Churchill, 479

Nationalisation of Railways, Government Decision, 111

Netherlands East Indies State Railways and Tramways Development, 656

Netherlands Railway, Electrification Proposed, 301

Netherlands Railways, Control to be Transferred to the State, 637

New South Wales Railway Commissioners’ Annual Report, 533

New Zealand Electrification, English Contract for, 288

Now Zealand Railways, Government Report on Finances of, 665

New Zealand Rolling Stock Ordered from Great Britain, 427

North-Eastern Railway and the Railway Companies’ Association, 661

Northern Railway of France, War Traffic Facilitation, 427

Northern Railway of France, Wholesale War Damage and Rapid Process of Repair, 403 Nord-S nd Underground (Paris), Statistics, 227

North - Eastern Railway Electrification Scheme, Experiments, 1 I

Oil-burning Locomotives, Tests in Progress, 179

Oil Fuel for Locomotives, 304

Oil Locomotives Conversion to Coal Burners, in Texas, 203

Outer Circular Electric Railway for London, Proposal by Mr. Alex. Ross, 479

Paris-Orleans Locomotives, Fifty Ordered from America, 559

Passenger Statistics, Mistaken Figures, 377

Passenger Traffic.United Kingdom, Statistics, 203

Passenger 'Train Mileage for 1913 and 1920. 85, 203

Penzance Viaduct Replacement, 427

Piccadilly Tube New Cars Starting Arrangement, 611

Prague, Large Orders for Goods Wagons from the United States, 227

Presentation to Mr. J. H. Robinson, 227

“ Privilege Tickets ” Question, 210

Profits on Railway Refreshments in 1919, 85

Pullman Cars on the Great Eastern Railway, 533

Pulverised Coal, Italian Uocomotives Fitted for Burning, 11

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con-tinned):

Queensland Railway Locomotives, Tenders Invited, 559

Queensland Railways’ Development. Anticipated 4000 Miles Journey by Rail. 427

Railless Electric Traction, Possibilities of R. II. Wilkinson, 61

Railway Benevolent. Institution, No Annual Dinner, 35

Railway Expenses for Material, Pre-war and Present Prices, 253

Railway Material Exports Statistics, 35 253 327,479,611,661

Railway Operating Statistics—Ministry of Transport *

Railway Policy Discussion, 61

Railway Working, White Paper, 61

Rates Advisory Committee—see Ministry of Transport

Reservation of Compartments Again Allowed 253, and Price, 403

Rolling Stock—see Wagons, also Ministry of Transport, Operating Statistics

Russian Heavy Locomotive Shortage, 157

Salto-Rivera, South America, Proposed Railway, 209

Scottish Railways Opposition to White Paper Scheme, 72

Separation of Running Department from that of Chief Mechanical Engineer on Two Railways, 611

Simplon Tunnel, Second, Progress of, 453

Sleeper, Substitute for Wooden One, 327, 507

Sleepers for British Railways, Twenty

Million Ordered from British Columbia, 507 “Smoking Forbidden ” Compartments, New

Regulation, 179

South Africa, Proposed New Important Railway, 611

South Africa and Railway Electrification, W. Ingham, 11

South African Government Electrification Schemes, 135

South American Railway Congress, Meeting,

South American Railways, British Control and American Goods, 301

Southern Pacific Railroad, Wholesale Duplication of Documents by a Variety of Methods, 185

Southwold and Mid-Suffolk Light Railways, Proposal for Amalgamation, 427

Soviet Government Locomotive Contracts 453

Spanish Rolling Stock Orders for Other Countries, 377

Standard Loading Gauge, Factor of Safetv

Tests, 301 y

Steel Rail Imports into United Kingdom, 559

Steel Wheels With and Without Separate Tires, 61

Stockholm-Gothenberg Railway, Government Grant for Electrification, 179

Stockholm Tramway Cars, Large Size. 327

Strike, Railway, Cost to Men’s Union, 30

Strike Settlement Anniversary, 351

Swaziland Railway, Extension Surveys Completed, 585

Swedish Railway Electrification, 611

Tank Locomotives for the Metropolitan Railway, 427

Time-table Alterations, 347

Time-tables, Resumption of Printing but Increase of Cost, 1 I I

I imber Trade Increase and Wagon Scarcity,

Ton-Mileage Statistics, 277

Traffic Finance—sec Railway Finance

Traffic, Goods, Four Weeks’ Ret urns, 479, 661

I rain Perry to Replace Bridge over Suez Canal, 61 I

'Trains, Certain Special, for War Use Now on Sale, 157

Trains—ace Railways, Ministry of Transport

I revithick’s Trams and Track (1804) in Berlin and America, 453

Truro-Falmouth Line, 'Timber Viaduct Removal, 559

'Tunnel under the Solent, Question of Cost and Revenue, 203 ; Train Ferry Suggested as Alternative, 277

'Turbo-alternator for Australian Suburban Railway Electrification, 372

'Two Up and Down Trains per Day and their Cost, 533

United States Railways :

Agencies to be Set Up in Europe to Encourage Immigration and Traffic to Western America, 84

Automatic Train Control, Decision in New York State, 661

“Booster” Auxiliary Steam Cylinder in America, 377

Claim by Western Railroad Company on Recent Federal Administration, 258

( oal Commandeered by Railways durin" Strike, 203

Coal Purchase and Stores Statist ics, 422

Coal, 1,000,000 Tons Undelivered by Rail ways, 203

Electrification of United States Railways.

Estimate of Coal Consumption Reduction, 179

Elevated Railway, Solid Floor Construction, 277

Eric Railroad and Norfolk and Western Railway, Adoption of New Air Brake, 507

federal Control to be Wound Up by Mr

J. B. Payne, 61 '

Government Guarantee Expiry, Railroads to be Self-supporting, 301

Illinois Central Railway Cars. D Question, 35

Labour Board Working and its Results 135, 157

Level Crossing Elimination Resumed, 61

Motor Cars and Trains Collisions, Big -Figures, 227 H

New York Central Engine’s Record Speed.

Engine Scrapped, 453 ; (Correction 559

I cnnsylvama Railroad Signalling Changes,

Railway Situation Easier, Increased Coal

Carriage and Rolling Stock Orders, 403

Railway Surveys by Aeroplane in the

United States, 453

Rate Paradoxes, Inter-State and Stat1 Control, 427

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued.)

United States Railways (continued) : Rates Increases as Affecting Prices of

Goods Carried on Southern Railway, 277 Roumanian Government, Large Purchase of

American Railway Equipment, Payment in Petroleum, 35

Sleepers, Experiments in Substitutes for Timber, 507

Southern Pacific Railroad’s “Safety”' Poster, 227

Ton-Miles Figures of Administration Disproved, 301

Traffic Statistics of United States Rail- ■ ways, 585

Transportation Act, Now Enactments, I I “ Wheel Burnt” and “ Snow Burnt ”

Rails, 226

Vancouver, Projected Twenty-car Freight Train Ferry, 301

Victoria, Australia, Plan to Meet Intestate Gauge Difficulty, I I I

Victoria, Continental Train Changes, I I

Victoria, N.S.W., Suburban Railway Electrification Cost Much Increased Owing to War, 533

Victoria, Underground, Footbridge, &c., 135

Wages Bill Increase, Estimate, 35

Wages and Increased Cost of Working, 61

Wagon Detention on the Increase, 179

Wagon and Locomotive Increase on British Railways, 661

Wagons, Bolster, Scarcity of, 227

Wagons, British, Still in France, 111 ; Much Diminished Number, 479

Wagons Built at Woolwich for the Great Western and North-Eastern Railways, 637

Wagons in Employ of Various Government Departments, 479

Wagons, New, Put into Traffic in Great Britain, Monthly Average, 111

Wagons, Railway-owned, in United Kingdom, Census Taken, 85

Weaver, Mr. Henry, Stationmaster at Paddington, 68

Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company, Amalgamation, 353

Wheels for Railways, Japanese Experiments with Cast Steel, 277

Workmen’s Fares, 51, 61

Workmen’s Tickets and Congestion, 135

RAINFALL Variations, Difficulties in Expression of, 35

Rainfall of the World, Statistics, 427

Rayleigh, Lord, Memorial in Westminster Abbey, 85

Refractories for Electric Furnaces, 507

Refrigeration, International Institute, 24

Reinforced Concrete, Risk of Fire and Suggested Remedy, 453

Research—see Scientific, also Electrical Matters

Rhine Water Power for French Mining District, 661

Rhone River Development from Geneva to the

Sea, Projected, 301

Riga Fishing Boats and Brit ish Petrol Engines, 479

Road Damage due to Railway Strike, 377

Road Transport, Map to Aid Commercial Vehicles, 192

Rock Drill. New Type, 253

Rock Salt Production in Poland, 479

Roman Road Discovered in Digging Manhole, 301

Roumanian Oil Industry, New Plans, 253

Rubber, New Source, in Arizona, 203

Rubber as Road Surfacing Material, Experiment in Southwark, 277

Rubber Trees, Uses of Seed Kernels, 35

Russian Plans for Hydro-electric Stations, 227

Russian Pre-war Industries, Extent and Value, 585

Russian Transport Problem, 157

Rust Preventive, Bituminous Paint the Best, 277

“ SAFETY First ” Convention, 214

St. Lawrence River, Question of Deepening, Divided Opinions, 479

Salt Exportation from Portugal, Falling-off in Trade Due to War, 179

Salt Mines in Greece, Increased Output and

Cessation of Imports, 585

Salt, Ocean, Volume of, in Terms of United

States Area, 272

Sand Removal from Welter in Hydro-electrie Work, 427

Science Museum, South Kensington, Additions to Collections, 35

Science Museum, South Kensington, Increased Number of Visitors for Instruction, 35

SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH : Departmental Staff Appointments and Changes, 35, 277, 585

Licences Issued to :

British Electrical and Allied Industries

Research Association, 364

British Motor Cycle and Cyclecar Research

Association, 453

Cutlery Industry, 85, 340

Launderers’ Association, 285

Leather Manufacturers, 235

Radio Research Board, Sub-committees

Appointed to Assist, 179

Research Associations, Approved List of, 203, 235

SEWAGE Sludge Utilisation, 427

Shield for Engineering Apprentices, 74

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : American Shipyards’ Output, 227

Antwerp, Company Formed for Ship and

Marine Engine Building and Repair, 253

Brazilian Battleship Sao Paulo for Use of Belgian King and Queen, 203

British Ship Repair Work Going to Belgium and Holland, 203

Camellaird -Fullagar Engine, 439

Clyde Transatlantic Traffic Development, 377

Concrete Shipbuilding Failure, Cost as it is and as it might have been, 203

Denmark’s Shipping, 1914 and 1918, 353

Frauendorf, New Shipbuilding Firm at, 227

French Construction of Submarines, 253

French Merchant Fleet, Rapid Recovery since War Losses, 353

German Shipbuilders, Large Steel Orders from the United States, 157

German Shipbuilding and Metal Industries, Common Interest, 403

Gliding Boats Test on River Bermejo, Argentina, 85

Hog Island Shipyard Plant Still Unsold by America, 559

Hong-Kong Shipping Returns, 533

Irish Mails Conveyance, Holyhead and

Kingstown, New Contract, 533, 559

Japanese Navy Fuel Depot, 327

Japanese Shipping Lying Idle, 559

Kingston, Jamaica, Oil and Coaling Station for British Ships, 227

Merchant Tonnage Construction in the United Kingdom, 427

Motor Lifeboat for the Lizard, 528

New South Wales Projected Shipbuilding, 227

Oil-burning Steamship Orita Re-conditioned and in Service, 146

Port Navigation during Fog, Monsieur Loth’s Apparatus for, 427

Portuguese Sailing Barque under Conversion to Steam by W. Beardmore and Co., 559

St. David, G.W.R. Steamer, under Repair, 403

Seapa Flow, Compensation to be Paid by Germany, 453

Scottish Shipbuilding Figures, 353

Ship Stabilisers, Tests by United States

Naval Transport, 453

Ship Surveyor Examination, 442

Southern Belle’s Quick Journeys to Brighton, 403

Spain and Chile Steamship Service Negotiations, 157

Steel Steamships, 8100-Ton, Building at Victoria, B.C., 61

Swedish Shipbuilding Industry Suffering from Effect of Exchange, 327

Target Experiments, Unique, on American Battleship Iowa, 179

United States Shipbuilding Output, 253

Vaterland’s Three Complete Wireless Transmitters, 637

SHOWS—see Exhibitions

Singapore Harbour and Reclamation Work, 35

Sixty Years’ Service Celebration at Redpath,

Brown and Co.’s Works, 611

Slag By-products Recovery Begun at Barrow,

157

Slags for Concrete Aggregate, 430

Smoke Abatement, House of Commons Committee, 11, 22

Smoking at Work, Extension of Privilege, 35

Societies—see Associations

Soot Abatement by Use of Salt, 301

South Africa, Water-boring Plant for, 252

South African Association of British Manu-

• facturers, 11

South African Mineral Production Report, 377

South African Regulation of Drilling Blasting Holes, 157

South American Trade for European versus American Markets, 4.53

Spanish Hydro-electric Power Statistics, 453

Spanish Motor Works, New Establishments, 179

Spanish Power Generation from the River Deva, 135

Spanners, Danger of Great Length in, 479

Sparking Plug Cleaner, Brown Brothers, Limited, 392

Stamps, Inland Revenue, Royal Mint Processes of Production, 59

Standard—see also British Standard

Standard Marine Boilers, .1.65

Static Electricity, Method of Eliminating from Belting, C. M. Green, 403

Steam Ferry Across North Sea Proposed, Swedish Disbelief in Success of Scheme, 111, 277

Steel—see Iron

Stenches as Warning in Mines, 611

Stone Crusher, Largest in the World, 35

Storm Detector, 214

Straw Houses for France, 585

Straw as a Source of Gas, 327, 637

Subsidence in Concrete Floors, Method of Repairing, 585

Suez Canal Finances and the War, 281

Suez Canal Navigation and Kantara Opening Bridge, 430

Suez Canal War-time Bridge to be Dismantled, 585, 611

Suggestions from Workers, Proposed Scheme, 327

Sulphur Supply for South Africa, 85

Swedish Air Traffic, International and Home, 187

Swedish and German Aerial Mail Service, 157

Swiss Available Water Power, Statistics, 227

Switzerland as Source of Aluminium, 585

Sydney, Nova Scotia, Railway Employees ’

Ultimatum and Steel Company’s Reply, 533

Synthetic Ammonia and Nitrates, Limited, 11 Szechuan Trade, Commercial Museum to be

Established at Chungking, 227

TAR, Crude or Relined, for Road Surfacing, 277 Tar and Pitch from Gas and Coke Oven Works, Statistics, 157

Tar Spraying, Advantages of a New System, J. Lang, 179

Technical Students, Greatly Increased Numbers, 403

Telephone Extensions on Large Scale, I I I

Telephone Installations of Various Countries Per Cent, of Population, 179

Telephone System for Alagoas State, Brazil, 203

Telephones, Automatic, Proposed Exchanges in London, 11

Temperature of a Chimney at Various Depths, Instrument for Ascertaining, 661.

Teredos Attacks on Wet Wood, 61

Termite Attacks on Timber, Immunity of Certain Woods, 227

Thermalene as a Fuel, Karl Wolff, 585

“ Thermalloy ” Dangers and Electrical Machinery, 427

Thermometers Inaccurate through Ago. 353

Timber Consumption in France, 135

Timber Fence Production, Charring Discredited, 479

Timber Grown in British Empire, Exhibition 11, 48

Timber Piles and Teredo Attacks, 35

Timber Preservation Theories, Experiments, 559

Tin, Large Lode Discovered in Old Mine Working in Cornwall, 85

Tin Ore Discovery in South Africa, 61

Toronto’s Insufficient Hydro-electric Power, 85

Tractor Ploughing Prize. 637

Trade Propaganda and Foreign Students, 253

Trams—see Railways

Transport—see Motor, also Ministry of

Tropical Diseases Bulletin, 487

Tungsten—see Iron and Steel

Tunnel Under the Solent a Question of Cost and Revenue, 203 ; Train Ferry Suggested as Alternative, 277

Turbine, Steam, Fitted to Locomotive, 460

Turkish Concession for Hydro-electric Station in Asia Minor, 661

UNITED States Engineering Manufactures Increased Imports into South Africa, 35

United States Geological Survey, 178

University Finance, Foes and Endowments Considerably Below Expenditure, 277, 353, 403

University Training Offered to Apprentices, 377

V VANADIUM, World’s Principal Mino in Peru, Statistics of, 35

Vancouver, Question of Dam or Low Level

Bridge, ILL

Vancouver, Three Great Harbour Schemes, 203

Vizagapatam Harbour, Construction to be

Carried out by the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, 479

Vesper, Mr. H. E., Retirement of, 647

WAGE Increase and jOutput Decline, United

States Reports, 135

Water-boring Plant for South Africa, 252

Water Power Project in Califormia, 309

Water Power Resources, Scattered, How to

Link up, Dr. Steinmetz, 203

Water Power Stations on Cauvery Falls, New

Sites Proposed, 637

WATER SUPPLY : Bombay Water Supply from Lake Tansa, 61

Electrolysis of Pipes, Professor G. Alleman, 135

London Water, Increased Charges, 248

Pipes for Mandalay Water Scheme to be of Concrete by Hume Process, 85

Tunis, New Reservoir in Hamma-Siba, 35

Welwyn Garden City, Pumping Trials for

Water Supply Test, 61

Wuchow, China, Water Supply Scheme and Chinese Engineering, 203

WATERWAYS, Inland—see Ministry of Transport

Watt, James, Commemoration Scheme, 427

Welding, Repairs to Boilers and Engines, J 00

Wellington, New Zealand, Projected Extension 4 of Water Supply, 157

White Ants, Protection of Buildings from, 61

Wilbur Wright Memorial in France, 35

Wind Motor, Invention to Utilise,.427

Wind Pressure Coefficient for Cylinders, Tests, 637

Wine Transport by Pipe Line, 253

Wire Netting to Foil Parcel Thieves, 606

Wire Ropes, G. W. Westgarth, 453

Wireless* Direction Finder and Wireless Telephone, Great Value in Air Navigation, 661

Wireless Message from Bordeaux to Washington, 227

Wireless Service, Extensive, Projected for France and her Colonies, 157

Wireless Station at Tahiti, Further Survey Called for, 660

Wireless Telegraph Company in Buonos Aires, German, 227

Wireless Transmission Station, Most Powerful in the World, 637

Women’s Liability to Lead Poisoning, 203

YOKOH AMA Harbour Improvements, I 1

z ZINC Deposit on Galvanised Iron Apparatus for Determining Weight, 377

Zinc Production in the United States, 227

Zionist Society of Engineers, Plans for Water

Supply of the Holy Land, 427

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