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A ACCIDENTS in Witwatersrand Mines, 315

AERONAUTICS:

Aeroplanes for Bulgaria, British and French Contracts, 447

Chinese Aeroplane Service for Passengers and Goods, 661

Compass, Earth Inductor Type, for. Air Service, Satisfactory Results, 41

Hangars, Balloon, Method for Regulation of Temperature, 121

Non-stop Aeroplane, 2600 Miles, Across the

United States, 553

Royal Air Force Pageant, 553

Survey of Projected Electric Transmission

Line by Photographs from Aeroplane, 546 Transatlantic Aeroplane Service, London, vid Plymouth, Lisbon, &c., to New York, 579

Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, Dr. J. S.

Ames, 299

Zeebrugge Aeroplane Construction Industry, 367

AERIAL Ropeway for Boiler Ash Conveyance, 294

African Artists, Brass Castings at Benin and South-West Adamawa, 121

A-L Club’s Dinner, 8

Air Compressor, Need of Careful Supervision to Avoid Excessive Cost, 607

Air Heater Invention of Swedish Engineer, Technical Opinions on, 499

Alkalies Action on Boiler Plates, Investigations, 499

Alldays and Onions, Limited, Long-service Presentations, 129

Alloys Resistance to Corrosion, 330, 473

Aluminium-Iron, 15 Per Cent. Alloy, Good Results for Castings, 93

Aluminium Production in the United States, Exports and Imports, 473

Ammonia, Purity of, Rival Claims of America and Germany, Comparison with Great Britain, 661

Amsterdam to Construct Tunnel under the Y River, 121

Anti-dazzle Light Bill, 13

Apprentice Advancement Scheme, Presentation of Certificates at Central Marine Engine Works, 287

Arsenical Deposits Reported in British Columbia, 697

Asbestos Deposits in Western Australia, 315 Asbestos and Serpentine, Extensive Alternate Seams Discovered in the Transvaal, 231

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:

Association, Diesel Engine Users’ :

Avoidance of Scale Troubles, and Cooling Water Circulation, 607

Association of Drop Forgers and Stampers :

Lectures by Dr. Leslie Aitchison, 231, 367 Association of Engineers-in-Charge :

Annual Dinner, 387

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

Association of Engineers, Manchester : Lathe Tools Research Committee Investigations, 13

Institute of Chemistry :

Birmingham and Midlands Sections, Restoration after having Lapsed, 261

Institute of Cost and Works Accountants :

Standardisation in Costing, Conference, 239

Institute, Iron and Steel :

Annual Meeting and other Functions, 125

Carnegie Fund Grants in Aid of Research, Notice, 147

Institute of Metals :

Development of Membership Overseas, Formation of Local Sections, 41

Institute of Transport :

Election of Officers, 485

Fourth Dinner, 511

Third Annual Congress, 315, 579

Institution of Automobile Engineers :

Ball Bearings, New Departure in Discusion upon, 525

Summer Visit in Liverpool, Programme of, 133

Institution of Chemical Engineers :

Oxygen in Gas Making, 661

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Awards for Papers, 485

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

Annual Dinner, 151

Annual Meeting, Presentations to the Institution in Memory of Dr. Silvanus Thompson, 534

Faraday Medal Award to Sir C. A. Parsons, 211

Premium Awards for Papers, 1922-23, 622

Presentation to Mr. J. W. Meares by Indian Friends, 120

War Memorial Scholarships, 322

Wireless Section :

Radio Station Towers and Masts, Design of, C. F. Elwell, 367

Winding of High-frequency Inductances, Professor C. L. Fortescue, 588

Institution, Junior, of Engineers :

Dinner in Celebration of Foundation Anniversary, 537

Midland Section :

Neglect of Use of Specifications of the Engineering Standards Association, Dr. C. C. Garrard, 67

Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers :

Central Heating, Useful Information in, B. R. Wingfield, 121

Summer Meeting at Folkestone, Paper by Mr. J. Roger Preston, 676

Institution of Locomotive Engineers : Address of Hon. General Secretary, 116 Annual Dinner, 353

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued) :

Institution of Mechanical Engineers :

Meeting to Consider Formation of New Society, 41

William Henry Allen Grant Award, 619

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy :

Awards for Services, 299

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

Powdered Fuel and Lancashire Boilers, E. A. Leybourne, 473

Turbine Troubles and their Causes, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Mr. W. Kerr, 579

Institution of Petroleum Technologists :

Methods of Testing Physical Properties of Oils, 499

Institution of Production Engineers :

Depth of Drilling, L. C. Keen, 473

Institution of Railway Signal Engineers :

Annual Report, Membership, New President, 231

Grouping and the Institution’s Members, 41

Presidential Appointment, 175

“ Proceedings,” New Issue of, 689

Railway Accidents During 1901-1920,

George Holt, 447

Institution, Royal :

Annual Meeting, Report, Election of Officers, 514, 540, 622

Measurement of the Heating Value of Gas, C. V. Boys, 421

Meetings and Elections, 256, 540, 622

Institution of Rubber Industry :

Rubber and Paint Industries, Dr. D. F.

Twiss, 447

Manchester Section :

Volatile Solvents Recovery, J. H.

Mandelburg, 261

Institution of Structural Engineers :

New Title for Concrete Institute, 8

Visit to Gloucester, 669

Society of Chemical Industry :

Fuel Briquettes, Pitches Used in Manufacture, A. Grounds, 121

Birmingham and Midland Section :

Modern Electrolytic Methods, Alex. E.

Tucker, 13

Society, Faraday :

Alloys Resistant to Corrosion, J. F. Kayser, 473

Electronic Theory of Valency, Discussion at Cambridge, 594

Society, Optical :

Annual General Meeting, Election of Officers and Council, 269

Society, Physical :

Electrified Spheres Problem, Completion, Dr. Russell, 240

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued):

Society, Royal Aeronautical :

Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, Dr. J. S. Ames, 299

Society, Royal, of Arts :

Heat-resisting Glasses, Sir C. Parsons on Professor W. E. S. Turner’s Paper, 499

Paint Work, Rubbing Down, Damp Process and its Advantages, 0. A. Klein, 231

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Harbour Dredging Project, 525

Australian Customs Tariff Decisions, British Preferential Rates, 553

B BAUXITE in British Guiana, Extensive Deposits, 261

Beama (British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association) Dinner, 322

Beardmore News, 116

Belgian Congo Export Trade, Remarkable Increase, 341

Birmingham’s Scheme for Direct Outlet to the Sea, 689

Bitumen from Tar Sands for Surfacing Roadways, 67

Blast-furnaces—see Iron and Steel

Boiler Efficiency at 85 Per Cent., W. M. Selvey, 421

Boiler, Large, Fired with Powdered Coal, Tests of, 367

Boiler, Marine, Return-tube, Board of Trade Report on Failure, 473

Boilers, Effluent Tank Water for, Doubtful Resource, 689

Boilers, Water-tube Marine, Board of Trade Standard, 175

Bombay, Scheme for Reclamation of Back Bay, 499, 607

Brass and Copper, Association of Large Users of, 421, 463

Brass Furnace Practice in the United States, 67

Brass Melting in Electrical Furnaces, 93

Brass, Standard, Experiments on, with Regard to Zinc Removal, 93

Bridge, Concrete, Longest in the World, 175

Bridge, Nerbudda, at Akbarpur, Details of, 661 British Cast Iron, &c.—see Iron

British Columbia Log Output for 1922, 315

British Electrical Manufacturers—see Electrical Matters

British Engineering Standards Associations :

British Engineering Standards Specifications : Air Break Circuit Breakers, Air Break Knife Switches and Laminated Bush Switches, 421

Cast Iron and Enamelled Cast Iron, Steam-jacketed Pans, 602

Dimensions and Properties of British

Standard Rolled Steel Sections, &c., 704

Insulating Oils for Use in Transformers, 499 Piston Rings for Motor Car Engines, 169

British Engineers’ Association :

Ground Plan Showing Progress of Space Letting in the British Empire Exhibition, 421, 689 r

Shipbuilding, Marine and General Engineering Exhibits, Over 75 per cent, of Space Already Allotted by the Association, 633 British Motor Road Roller with Scarifier,

Advantage of, 41

British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association :

Communication of Investigation Results, 261

Polishing Metals, Investigation of Materials

Used, Dartrey Lewis, 287

Bronze Alloy, Coronium, Composition of, E.

Hall Craggs, 473

Bureau of Standards, New Director, 689 By-product Coke Oven Plant, Large, Hamilton,

Ontario, 372, 661

CALORIFIC Value, W. B. Davidson, 553

Calorising ” of Metals, Description of Process, 367

Canada and Scrap Metals, Import Duty Urged,

Canadian Government Dry Dock at Esquimalt, Vancouver Island, Construction Delayed by Accident, 315

Canal, Proposed, in China between Chekian and Tientsin, 93

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Simplified Detection of, 661

Carrot River Valley, Canada, Reclamation, 287 Castings for Evaporators and Pans, 74 Catalogues for Kenya Colony, 282

Catalogues for New Zealand, 511

Cement Plant, Three-kiln, near Barry, Expected

Cost and Output, 315

Cement Works, Further Large, near Cardiff, 231 Central American Canal, Suggestion as to

Building a Second, 147

Chain-annealing and Safety of Workers, 175 Chilean Trade, Poor Supply of British Cata

logues in Comparison with other Countries, 67 Chimneys for Chemical Works, T. S. Clark, 371 China as a Market for British Machinery, 93 Chinese Government Chaos and Finances, 315 Chinese Houseboat as Electrical Showroom, 553 Clocks, Electric, Advantages of, 525

COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :

Anthracite in the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Proposed Utilisation of, 499

Brazil Coal-mining Industry, Inferiority of Native Coal, 689

Brodsworth Colliery, Doncaster, Record Week’s Output, 315

Bulgaria, Increased Coal Production in, 607

Cantor Lecture on Brown Coals and Lignites, Dr. W. A. Bone, 181

Chinese Coal Production in 1922, 607

Coal-loading on Board Ships, New Apparatus,

Coal Reserve, per Capita, of Principal Countries, 689

Coal Resources, Estimate of Principal Countries, Comparison, 261

Coke, De-sulphurisation of, by Steam, Laboratory Experiments, 447

Coke-oven, Stella, and By-product Plant at Pelton, 231

Coke Supply Shortage and Damping Down of Furnaces, 315

Colliers Great Increase in Use of Electric Safety Lamp, 231

“Colloidal Oil” as Dust-laying Material in Coal Mines, Experiments, Professor Henry Briggs, 261

Delagoa Bay, New Coaling Plant at, 661

Explosives, Ammonium Nitrate, for Use in Coal Mines, 633

Generating Plant of the Cardiff Collieries, Limited, Completed, 367

Hamburg Supplied with Coal and Coke by United Kingdom, 689

Hydraulic Stowing for Coal Mines, A. J. A. Orchard, 341

India, British, Coal Exports from, Prohibited, 58

Istria Coal Mine, Singular Natural Features of, 579

Japan’s Coal Consumption and Increasing Coal Imports, 689

Jubilee Celebrations of the Fife Coal Company, Bonus to Old Workers, 13

Malayan Collieries, Coal Output from, 67

Northern Natal, Engineer’s Coal Report, 689

Reheating Furnaces, Economy by Use of Powdered Coal, 579

Saghalien Coal Mining Company Suggested, 661

Transport of Coal, Report of Advisory Committee for Coal Industry, 71

Transvaal, Eastern, Large Scheme for Coal Shipping, 315

Tyrone Borings, Excellent Coal Finds, 367 World’s Coal Production in 1922, 499

COBALT to Replace Nickel for Electro plating, Results of Trial, 41

Concrete Mixing, Determination of Water Amount, 287

Concrete Reservoir Cracking and Remedy, 261 Concrete in Sea Water, Reported Failure as

Protection from Marine Borers, 341

Copper, New Vein Discovered in Anglesey, 341 Copper Protection by Cuprous Oxide Coating, 525

Copper and Protective Value of Verdigris, 525 Cornish Tin-mining Industry Improving, 499 Corrosion, Alloys Resistance to, 330

Corrosion of Boilers, J. R. McDermot, 393

Corrosion, Resistance of Alloys to, Symposium

at Sheffield University, 367

Coventry Libraries, 574

Crane, Overhead Travelling, Exceptionally

Powerful, 231

Creosoting Plant in Ontario for Treatment of Railway Sleepers, 393

Czecho-Slovakia’s Improved Trade in Coal and Coke, Pig Iron, Steel, &c., 447

DANISH Investigation of Submerged Peat-bog, Interesting Revelations of the Late-Glacial Period, 633

Death of Professor R. Carr-Harris, 607

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Deterioration of Stonework in Buildings, Committee Appointed to Report, 553

Devonport Dockyard Men, Fluctuating Work Affects Number Employed, 579

Diamond Fields of South-West Africa, Probable Life Limit of, 499

Diesel Engine Users’ Association, 8

Dockyard, Federal Government at Cockatoo Island, N.S.W., to be Reorganised, 560

Dolcoath Mine and Government Guarantee, 367

Dredging the River Bidyadhari, Calcutta, Very

Urgent Need of, to Avoid Disaster, 48

Drogden Canal to be Dredged for Additional Depth, 689

Drop Forging, Lecture by Mr. Leslie Aitchison, 231, 367

Drought Anxiety in Spain, 261

Durban Grain Elevator, Further Effort to be Made to Complete the Work, 689

Durban New Graving Dock, Progress of the Work, 367

E EARTH-CURRENTS, Study of, Researches on Magnetism, &c., Dr. S. J. Barnett, 447

ELECTRICAL MATTERS :

Accident at Oldham Corporation Station, 261

Alternating-current Operating at Low Power Factor, Losses by, 41

Arc Welding Job, Unusual and Advantageous, 231

Arc Welding for Joints of Big Gasholder, 473

Australia, Snowy River Scheme for Electric Generation, 661

Automatic Control Applied to Sub-stations, 147

Auto-transformer and Two-winding Transformer Compared, 553

British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Grant of Fees and Scholarships, 525, 553

British Empire Exhibition, Electrical Exhibits, 121

Chesterfield Scheme for Use of Electricity as Condition of Tenancy, 287

Chinese Houseboat as Electrical Showroom, 553

“ Circuit Breakers versus Fuses,” Lecture by J. Anderson, 175

Durban’s Extensive Use of Electricity, 231

Earthing Plate, Satisfactory Characteristics, 421

Electric Condenser, New Type, 421

Electric Drills in Mines, Investigation to Secure Safety in Explosive Atmosphere, 231

Electric Generating Sets, 13

Electric Weld in Commercial Cast Iron, Results, 421

Electricity and Gas, Combined Undertaking for Supply of Both at Crowborough, 579

Electricity Supply in Unoccupied Areas, Lecture by A. Hugh Seabrook, 367

Farmers’ Electricity Supply, Difficulties of, 578

Fatal Accident from Electric Shock, Necessary Precautions, 121

France and General Electrification Problem, 147

Heating Devices, Electric, for Industrial Processes, 147

High-tension Transmission Line in Vancouver, 13

Industrial Depression and Reduction in Electrical Extensions, 13

Industries in the United States, Plan for Electrification of, 661

Japanese Electric Power Supply Concerns, 147

Johannesburg and its Power Problem Dilemma, Three Schemes, 67

Johnson-Rahbeck Effect, Rapid Writer for the Morse System, 473

Ka-Ka-Ka Falls in Canada to be Used for Power Development. 579

Medical Aspects of Electricity, Dr. W. Clow, 13

Methods of Charging for Electricity, Amendment of Legislative Provisions, 41

Moravia, Four Supply Companies Organised, 633

Newcastle-under-Lyme, Projected Extension of Electric Generating Plant, 525

New Power Station Equipment in Ohio, 393

Ootacamund Government Loan for Electric

Lighting, 341

Otago (N.Z.) District Power Scheme, 559

Power Companies’ Incorporation to Develop Falls on the Quinze River, Quebec, 633

Power-houses in Northern California, Second Chain About to be Begun, 421

Power Plant on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Suggested, 341

Power Plant Projected at New Waterford, Nova Scotia, 341

Quebec Power Project, Electrical Equipment Contract, 447

Shortage of Electric Power Crippling Mines in Northern Ontario, 473

Sydney Electricity Supply Interruption, 261

Testing Transmission of Speech Over High-tension Lines, 88

Thermionic Effects Caused by Alkali Vapours in Vacuum Tubes, Drs. Irving Langmuir and K. H. Kingdon, 147

Transmission Line Under Difficulties from Kashira to Moscow, 13

Turbine Power Plant in Saxony, Wide Range of its Supply System, 41

Victoria Falls Projected New Power Station, 633

Victoria and Power Supply, Government Electricity Commission and Local Opinion, 41

Water Power Limitations, Mr. Theodore Stevens, 499

Worthing Generating Plant, Proposed Extensions, 473

EMPIRE Trade, 701

Engine’s Three Days’ Test at the Parsons Motor Company’s Works, 525

Esquimalt Dry Dock, Resumption of Work, 119

Excavation and Erosion, Lecture by Dr. R. L.

Sherlock, 287

Explosion in Oxygen Compressor, G. Stevenson Taylor, 579

EXHIBITIONS :

British Empire Exhibition :

Electrical Exhibits at, 121

Grouping and Guidance for Visitors and Buyers, 175

Space Letting Progress, Ground Plan, 421, 689

British Industries Fair at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, 67

Buenos Aires, Rural Exhibition, Seed Wheats and Corn of all Kinds, Corn Mills and Cleaning Machinery, &c., 231

Cologne International Fair, 60

Foire de Paris, 459

Gothenburg Jubilee Exhibition, 130

International Foundry Trades’ Exhibition, 41

International Gas Exhibition at Amsterdam, 393

International Mining Exhibition :

Oil Conference, List of Papers 574

Safety in Mines Exhibit, 525

Jubilee Exhibition in Gothenburg, 701

Leipzig Fair, Poor Results of, 341

Proposed Madras Exhibition Abandoned, 607

F FAIRS—see Exhibitions

Faraday House Entrance Scholarships, 433

Federated Malay States Tin Stocks, Unfounded Rumour, 393

Files, Foreign-made, Collection by Overseas Trade Department, 315

Finsburians and Centralians, Combined Old

Students’ Dinner, 239

Foreign Trade of British India, 498

Forestry Planting in China, 661

“Foundryman’s Educator,” Arthur Greaves, 382

French National Credit Proposed for Development of Water Power, 681

French “ Trade Ship’s ” Voyage Round South America, 661

Fuel Economy Lectures at Sheffield, 67

Fuel Problem in Ontario, Use of Peat Beds Strongly Urged, 579

Fuel Supply, Causes of Great Britain’s Favourable Position, 261

Fuels, Moist and Fibrous, Heat Values of, 147

Furnaces for Burning Powdered Coal, Necessities of Design, 633

G GAS Masks and Respirators, Tests in American Tunnel, 553

Gas Supply and Lack of Coal in the War Period, Dr. H. Bunte, 633

Gas Undertakings in Germany, Herr Thyssen’s Ambitions, 499

German Blast-furnace Difficulties Due to Lack of Coke, 121

German Electrical Machinery Trade with Japan Disappears, 447

German Shipbreaking Industry Development, 553

Germany’s Large Use of Liquid Oxygen Plants in Mines, 553

Germany Underselling Japanese Cement Industry, 121

Glasgow Subway, 412

Glasgow Subway Railway Tunnel, Cementation to Prevent Leakage, 689

Glass-making Sand, Accidental Discovery of Silica in New Zealand, 231

Glass Melting by New Method, Alec Ferguson, 607

Gold Discovery, Recent, in Western Australia, 341

Gold Fields of British Columbia, Funds to be Raised for Development, 421

Gold Mines, Large, Comparison Between Two in West Australia and in Northern Ontario, 393

Gold Mines of the Witwatersrand, Duration of, Variously Estimated, 633

Gold Output of the Transvaal, 13, 490

Gold Rush to Labrador Predicted, 393

Grain Elevator at Durban, Further Efforts to be Made to Complete, 689

Grain Elevator Foundations at Durban, 499

Grain Elevator, 10,000,000-Bushel, for Montreal, Work on it to Begin at Once, 393

Grain Elevators, Port and Inland, for Capetown and Durban, 93

Grinding, A Useful Book, 79

H HARBOURS of South Africa, Development of Table Bay Harbour, Report and Scheme, 482 Heat Treatment of Metals and Alloys, Course of Lectures, Dr. O. F. Hudson, 405

Highway Bridge, Old Tension Bars Restored to Usefulness, 367

Hydraulic Press to Eliminate Hand-cut Dies in the Pressed Metal Industry, 67

Hydraulicing, Novel Form of, on the Vaal River Diamond Fields, 661

Hydro-electric Development, Big Scheme in Buffalo, 287

Hydro-electric Development in Quebec, Keno-gami Dam, 393

Hydro-electric Energy as Saving Coal Consumption in Canada, 93

Hydro-electric Facilities to be Increased at the Anyox Smelter, British Columbia, 93

Hydro-electric Power Lines Extension in Chihuahua, Republic of Mexico, 473

Hydro-electric Scheme on the Kootenay River, Big Tunnel and other Work Starting, 499

Hydro-electric Schemes in the Punjab, Indian Legislator’s Views, 447

Hydro-electric Supply in Bombay, Increased

Demand and Further Scheme, 341

I

IDLE Days in Coal Mining, Heavy American Loss, 173

India’s Raw Material and Need of Organisation, 553

Indian Science Congress, Lecture on Hydroelectric Problems, Lieut.-Colonel B. Battye, 154

Industrial Fuel Conference in Paris, 93

Institutions—see Associations, &c.

Internal Combustion Machinery for Ships Under Construction in Great Britain and Germany, 287

IRON AND STEEL :

Acid-resisting Irons, Analysis for Corrosion

Resistance Properties, 548

Alloy Steels, Etching Reagent for, 661

American Investigations and Hoped-for

Benefit to Iron and Steel Industry, 689

Autogenous Welding of Nickel and Alloys, 579

Blast-furnace at Asansol, India, Said to be the Largest in Asia, 67

Blast-furnace Coke Industry, 499

Blast-furnace in Ohio, World’s Record Output, 287

Blast-furnace and other New Plant at Renishaw Ironworks, 315

British Cast Iron Research Association, Work and Appointments, 13, 121

Investigations on Iron for Motor Car and Cycle Engine Cylinders, Report in Preparation, also Further Resumb, 552

Work of American Cast Iron Research, 174

Chromium in Iron and Steel Manufacture, Its Growing Importance, 499

Colombo, Iron Ore Deposits Near, 607, 661

Cutting Tools of Malleable Cast Iron, E. K.

Smith, 689

Ferro-titanium Manufacture, Important Deposits for Use in, 525

French Iron and Steel Production Decline, 393

High-speed Steels, Discovery of*New Constituents, 393

Iron from Lapland Ore, Question of, 661

Iron Ore Deposit Discoveries in Kursk, Russia, 553

Iron Ore (Hematite) Discovery in Johore, Malay, 393

Iron Ore Outcrops in Brazil, 421

Kent Coalfields Iron Development, 93

Malleable Iron Deterioration in Hot Dip Galvanising Process, Effect of Phosphorus and Silicon, 341

Mill Scale Influence on Iron, Controversy as to its Effect, 525

Mysore Distillation and Ironworks, 607

National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers :

Annual General Meeting and Elections, 367

Returns for December, 1922, 67

Returns for February, 1923, 287

Returns for March, 1923, 421

Returns for April, 1923, 525

Returns for May, 1923, 633

Newcastle, N.S.W., Reopening of Steel Works, 147

Nickel Steel, New, A Research Department Success, 553

Numbering of Forging, Casting and other Steels, American Engineering Standards Committee, 85

Pig Iron and Ingot Steel Production in Canada, Higher Costs Anticipated, 525

Pig Iron and Steel Output in the United States, 367

Powdered Coal as Fuel for Basic Steel Making in Open-hearth Furnaces, 633

Record Output of Iron Ore in Malay States, 147

Silicon Iron Demand in Japan, 147

South African Companies’ Iron and Steel Amalgamation, 121

Stainless Steel, J. H. G. Monypenny, 261

Stainless Steel for Metal Bath and Lavatory Fittings, 367

Steel of High Quality, Cheapest Method of Making, B. Stoughton, 688

Steel Structures, Painting, or Galvanising, Relative Merits, 607

Sulphide Ores on the Pacific Coast, Reduction Experiments, 341

Swedish Iron and Steel Industries, Report for 1922, 175

Titanium Alloy Steels, Experiments and Rumours, 121

Titanium Pigment, Experiments and Success, 315

ITALY’S Progress in Power Generation, 499

J JAPAN’S Scheme for Under-sea Railway Tunnel, 67

Japanese Trade with Great Britain, Good Openings, but Need of Expert Agents, 41

Johannesburg, New Power Station Advised, 684

Journal of Scientific Instruments, 633

K KAOLIN Discovery in Eastern Finland, 607

L LAKE Albert Nyanza and Lake Tana, Investigations with View to Construction of Reservoirs, 41

Lakes Huron and Michigan, Regulation of Levels, 661

Lamps in Mines, Oil-flame being Rapidly Replaced by Electricity, 468

Lava from Mount Vesuvius Used as Fertiliser, 393

Lead-cable Borer in California, R. G. Hartman and others, 447

Lighthouses, Two, Projected, in Republic of Colombia, 93

Lighting, Public, Cost of, H. A. Butler, 661

Lightning Flash, Voltage and Horse-power Estimate, 421

Lights, Anti-dazzle, on Vehicles, Regulations Required, 13

Lignite Basin, Alhama, Murcia, Exploration Results, 93

Lignite Briquetting Experiments in Saskatchewan, Reported Failure and New Measures, 341

Lime Sludge as Substitute for Whitewash, 287

Liquid Chlorine Plant in Ontario, 13

Liverpool University New Building, 315

Liverpool University Students to be Carried on White Star Liners for Educative Engineering Purposes, 633

Locks between Rouen and Paris, Number to be Reduced to Expedite Transport, 579

Loughborough College, Presentation Day, March 10th, 1923, 302

M MAGGIORE, Navigation on the Lake, Concession for, 231

Malarial Mosquitoes in Mississippi Valley, Efforts to Limit their Breeding, 341

Manchester Steam Users’ Association, Report, 315

Marble, Copper and other Minerals to be Worked in Malay, 340

Marble, Formation of, Igneous or Aqueous ?

Theory and Experiment, 633

Marine Diesel Engines for Japan Vessels, 93

Marine Engineering, Present and Future of, 393

Marine Wood-boring Insects, .Investigation into Poisonous Substances for Extermination, 231

Mechanical Stoking with Mechanical Draught for Marine Service, R. Clark, 447

Metal Mining and Railway Building in China, Chinese Promoter’s Plans, 75

Metals Used in Solders, Necessary Precautions with Aluminium, 689

Metric System of Weights and Measures Advocated for United States, 231

Mexican Government and Petroleum Gas Utilisation, 261

20,000 Miles Run in Official Road Trial of Crossley Car, 468

Milling Machinery for Italy, 282

Mine Regulations for Issue to Workmen, 607

Mines, Deep and Shallow, Winding Speed in, 607

Mineral Resources in Vancouver Island, Canadian Pacific Railway Survey, 93

Miners’ Lamps, Increase in Illumination, in Weight and in Efficient Output, 147

Minneapolis and St. Paul, Extensive Power Construction Schemes, 67

Motor Car Construction of the World, 421

Motor Car Exhaust Gases, Tests, 473

Motor Car Gears, Differences in Ratio, 287

Motor Cars, New Material for Coachwork, 315

Motor Cycle Converted for Use Over Snow, Successful Trials in Norway, 473

Motor Lifeboat at a Regatta, 633

Motor Lorries Sold at Home by Disposal Board, 287

Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Society, and Ship and Boat Builders’ Association, 473

Motor Omnibuses in China, Projected 150 Miles Government Service Run, 499

Motor Vehicle Taxation System, Great Fight, 147

Muscovite and Molybdenite said to Exist in South-West Africa, 579

N NATAL Port, Progress of Wharf, Coal Storage Scheme, Oil Tanks, &c., 689

Netherlands East Indies Personal Landing Tax, 231

Newcomen Society Secretary in United States, His Advice, 499

Newcomen Society, Summer Meeting Programme, 645

New South Wales, Great Cement Scheme Proposed, 175

New York and Environs, Plan of, under Consideration, 261

New Zealand, Suggested Power Scheme at Taranaki, 341

Niagara Falls Power Company’s Hydraulic

Pressure Tunnel, 393

Niagara River, New Bridge Projected, 315

Niagara River, Steel Arch Bridge to Replace

Present Cantilever Bridge, 121

Nitrogen, Fixed, Plant for Large Production at

Niagara Falls, 579

o OFFICE Ceilings Framework Electrically Welded in Place, 393

Oil Boring Abandoned at Roma, Australia, 92

Oil Can, New Type, Joseph Kaye and Sons, Limited, 269

Oil Conference—see Exhibitions, International Mining

Oil Deflectors, New System, Mitchell Bearings, Limited, 689

Oilfield Discovery at Limogue, France, 341

Oil Fuel Depots and Tank Vessels in Spanish Harbours, 689

Oil Recovery from Seeds by Use of Liquid Air, 525

Oil Separation from Bilge Water, New System, 689

Oil Shales in New South Wales, Extraction of

Oil Abandoned as Unprofitable, 579

Oil Stations at Dunkirk for Fuel Supply to French Industries, 121

Oil Wells in California the Deepest Rotary-drilled, 341

Omnibuses, Accumulator Electric, Experiments at Lyons, 231

Omnibuses for Long-distance Transportation in China, 661

Ontario Hydro-electric System, Chippewa Development, 473

Ontario Legislature Appropriations for Provincial Hydro-electric Power, 525

Oxidised Kerosenes, Superiority Over Straight

Kerosenes for Engine Use, 315

Oxy-acetylene Welding, Success Dependent on Filling Material, 147

Oxygen Breathing Apparatus, Pros and Cons, 421

p PAINT, White, and Aluminium, Respective Properties and Advantages, 121

Paints and Varnishes, Durability of, Importance of Oil Used, 393

Palm Oil as Engine Fuel, Experiments, 287

Paper Industry in Alaska from Forest Timber, 142

Paper Manufacture and Australian Wood Pulp, Experiments, 455

Paris Experiments with Underground Moving Pathway, 447

Patentees Institute, “ What’s Wanted ” Book, 499

Petrol versus Gas Oil for Motor Cars, Cost of Petrol Running Four Times that of Gas Oil, 175

Petrol and Natural Gas, Large Quantities Obtainable from Illinois-Alberta Well, 421

Petrol and Paraffin Production in the United States, Record Increase in Petrol, 661

Petroleum and Gas Prospecting, Wasted Money,

Petroleum in Kuruman District, South Africa, 175

Platinum Borings in Malaya, Success of, 93

Pneumatic Machines and Boilermakers’ Union in New South Wales, 367

Polish Lack of Wire Rods, 13

Pollution of Harbour Water by Waste Oil, Baltimore Attacking the Problem, 231

Porosity of Wood and Protective Coatings, 579

Portland Cement Output in the United States, 315

Port Natal, Proposal for Extension of Deepwater Berthage, 661

Portuguese Dock and Canal Construction at Oporto, Foreign Tenders Invited, 30

Portuguese West African Government Orders

Track Material from England, 261

Presentation at Middlewich, 462

Pulp and Paper Mill, Most Modern in the World, 607

Pulp and Paper Plant, Large, in Vancouver, 13

Pyrometry, University Course in, 129

Q

QUEBEC Development Company’s Extensive Operations, 607

Quebec Port, Dredging the North Channel of the St. Lawrence, 689

Quebec Power Plant on the Saguenay River to be Manufactured in Canada, 393

Queensland Irrigation Scheme at Dawson River, 367

R RADIUM Factory Near Antwerp will be Able to Supply all the Doctors in the World, 341

Radium in Large Quantities Available from the Congo, 93

Radium Production from the Belgian Congo, 661

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :

Aberdeen-Penzance Sleeping Cars Through Service, 656

Aberystwyth Station to be Replaced by New One by the Great Western Railway, 41 ; Improvements at Aberystwyth and Barmouth, 661

Accidents :

Accidents to Railway Servants, Inquiries, 183

Australian Railway Accidents, Official Inquiries Called for, 41

Broken Connecting-rod, London and North-Western Section, 633

> Buffer-stop Collision, Another, at Liver -pool-street, 420

Cardiff, Great Western Railway, Collision Caused by Signalman, Colonel Mount’s Report, 553

Collision at Abbey Gates, Report, 203

Collision at Birkenhead Park Station, Report, 203

Collision in Carlisle Station between Edinburgh and Glasgow Trains, 661

Collision Outside Derby Station, Major Hall’s Report, 693

Collision Outside St. Enoch’s Station, Glasgow, Report, 121

Collision, in Fog, on London and South-Western, Colonel Pringle’s Report, 93, 287

Collision at New Cross, London, Brighton and South Coast Section, Southern Railway, Report, 341

Collision at Retford, Report, 67

Collision, Serious, at Duren, 242

Derailment Near Bray Head, Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, 473

Derailment in a Fog Near Croydon, Report, 121

Elevated Railway, Fatal Accident in New York, 689

Fish Wagons Derailment in Scotland, 41 ;

Major Hall’s Report, 315

Havre Boat Train from Southampton in Collision During Fog, 93, 287

London and North-Eastern Collision between Electric and Steam Trains, 13 ; Major Hall’s Report, 499

London and North-Western Express, Slight Derailment, Report, 121

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

Accidents (continued) :

Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway, Coaches Derailed by the Wind, 13

Mineral Train Out of Control, Collision at Forth Station, 93 ; Colonel Mount’s Report, 315

Ministry of Transport Inquiries—see also Ministry :

Fatal Collision at Retford Station, 175 ;

Report, 203, 525 ; (Letters), 198, 256 Report on Collision at Hornsey, Great

Northern Railway, 93

Reports for Quarter, July-September 30th, 1922, Thirty-three Inquiries, 367, 553

Three Accident Inquiries, 121

Rangoon Mail Fatal Accident, 553

Signalman’s Sudden Change and Resulting Accident at Pollockshaws, Colonel Mount’s Censure, 525

Swale Road and River Bridge Accident, 421 Tramway Accident Near Leeds, Fatal, 579

Amalgamation Tribunal:

Amalgamations Competition and Monopoly, The Chairman’s Views, 525

xApproval of Absorption of Three Companies by South-Eastern Railway, Nine Companies by Great Western Railway, 93 ; Seventeen Companies by London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 367

Caledonian Railway Amalgamation to be Arranged by the Tribunal, 231, 473, 499

Caledonian Railway’s Refusal of Amalgamation Terms, 231 ; Tribunal’s Decision, 525

Exeter, Forest of Dean, and Midland and South-Western Junction, Absorption by Great Western Unarranged and Left to the Amalgamation Tribunal, 287, 499

Railway Clearing House Grouping Scheme Approved, 13

Railway Companies’ Association Distribution Scheme Approved of, 147, 237

Subsidiary Companies Remaining to be Absorbed by Various Railways, List, 499 ; Cases Heard by Tribunal, 520

Appointments and Staff Changes, 13, 41, 67, 93, 261, 315, 341, 447, 499, 553, 579, 633, 661

Austrian Railways and Sir W. Acworth’s Appointment, 499

Automatic Locking of Railway Carriages, Disadvantages of, 607

Automatic Ticket-issuing Machines, New Device, 473

Automatic Train Control, Railway Committee Considering Departmental Report, 607

Automatic Vacuum Brake, 661

Bangor Station Reconstruction, 203 Basingstoke—see Southern Railway Belgian State Railways and Northern of

France Non-stop Train, 579

Berne Hotel Converted to Swiss Government Department, 607

Booster for Trailing Wheels of Locomotive, H. N. Gresley, 689

British Association Liverpool Meeting, Reduced Fares, 315

British Railway Wagon, Corrected Figures, 175

Calais and Boulogne to Basle, Pre-war, Laon, Route Reopened After Repair, 553

Canadian Minister’s Change of Appointment, 553

Channel Tunnel, Trial Tunnel Proposed, 689 Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Loop, Condemnation and Abandonment, 499, 633 Cheap Tickets on Certain Days, London and South-Western Section, 633

Chilean State Railways’ Locomotive Orders, 341

Chinese Government Railways’ Revenue, 661 City and South London Tube, Proposed Junction with Projected Wimbledon and Sutton Railway, 499

Coaches Transferred from Midland Railway to London-road (Manchester) and Euston Service, 175, 315

Coal, Coke, &c., Conveyance, Companies’ Proposals, 416

Coal Trains for London Worked by Midland Section Men and Rolling Stock, 315

Conference Scheme for Trading, Railway Representatives, 633

Contract for Construction of Metropolitan and Great Central Branch Line, 13

Cost of Living and Railwaymen’s Wages, 579 Cup Final Traffic, Immense Increase on Estimate and on Last Year’s Figures, 473 Darlington’s Celebration in 1925 of Centenary of Opening of Stockton and Darlington Railway, 525

Death of Mr. J. J. Brewer, 499

Death of Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, 441

Delaware and Hudson Railway Company, Centenary Celebrations, 447

Docks and Harbours and Railway Companies’ Association, General Agreement Reached, 147

Driver’s Illness and Fireman’s Prompt Help, 473

East Coast Services, Great Improvements to be Made, 670

Electric Fog Repeater Signals versus Hand Fog Signalling, 607

Electric Locomotives in France, Various Contracts for, 393

Electric Locomotives’ Tenacity Under Serious Strain, 3 41

Electrification of Former South-Eastern Railway, 287

Euston and Manchester, Train Timing Alterations, 287, 315

Fares Reduced to 50 Per Cent, above Prewar Rates, 13, 421, 447

Fay, Sir Sam, Director and Chairman of Beyer, Peacock and Co., 41

Ferry Service Removal from Southampton to Harwich, Dredging at Harwich, 633

Festiniog Railway Company Obtains Light Railway Order for Junction and New Station, 147

Finance Statistics, 421

Forth and Clyde Railway’s Changing Vicissitudes, 689

French Railways, General Electrification under Consideration, 198

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued):

French West African Railway Renewal and Repair, 287

Galway as a Transatlantic Port, 579

German Ruhr Coal Shortage and Railway Electrification, 553

Gleneagles Golf Course and Hotel, Benefit to the Caledonian Railway and to Railwaymen, Mr. J. H. Thomas, 525

Gold Coast Colony New Railway, 633

Golders Green, Record Train Service and Increased Size of Station, 147

Grand Trunk Absorbed by Canadian National Railways, 175

Great Central Outlay on Locomotives and Wagons, 261

Great Eastern Railway New Works in 1922, 121

Great Indian Peninsula and East Indian Railways, State Management Question, 315

Great Indian Peninsula Railway to Proceed with Bombay Suburban Electrification, 93; Electrification Contract Award, 341

Great Northern and City Railway to Loth-bury, House of Commons Committee on Bill, 473

Great Northern Railway Self-congratulation, 231

Great Western Railway:

Absorption of Nine Companies Approved by Amalgamation Tribunal, 93

Appeal to the Engineers for Fuel Economy, 447

Buckeye Coupling and other Improvements, 579

Dawlish and Teignmouth Section Blocked on Both Lines by Landslide and Trains Diverted at Exeter, 287

Federation of British Industries, Application with regard to the Great Western Railway, 660

Great Western’s Numerous Non-stop Runs, 661

Great Western Summer Service, Fast Cheltenham-Paddington Express, 661

Gwendraeth Valley Railway the Smallest Absorbed by the Great Western, 203

Halts for Access to Beauty Spots in Wales,

Men at the Swindon Works, 175

Oswestry, Two Railways’ Stations to be Combined, 447

Oxley and Kingswinford Junction Line Construction Resumed, 661

Proportion of Receipts for Wages and Dividends Respectively, 147

Prosperity of the Business and its Great Mutual Advantage to Company and Men, 41

Punctuality Record, 203

Quick Services, Two Additional, London to Bristol, 607

Record for Immunity from Fatal and other Accidents to Railway Servants Lowered in 1922, 442

Swansea Station, Projected Enlargement of, 261

Gresley, Mr. H. N., Removal of Office from Doncaster to King’s Cross, 533

Grouping—see also Railway Amalgamation Tribunal

Guatemalan Link of Pan-American Railroad System, 421

Highland Railway Directors Transfer Amount of Compensation Paid to Them to the Inverness Infirmary, 315

Honorary Degrees for Railwaymen Formerly Students of Owens College, 447

House of Commons Committee and Various London Railway Proposals, 499

Hudson’s Bay Railway Project to have Priority over other Schemes, Manitoba Legislature Urgent for Action, 287

Hudson River New Steamship and Railway Terminus, 315

Illumination of Four Underground Stations Greatly Increased, 240

India, Report by Lord Inchcape’s Committee on Railway Retrenchments, 447

Indian Commercial Bodies and Railway Management, 231

Indian Government Loan, Second, to be Floated in United Kingdom, 393

Indian Railways and Central Railway Advisory Councils, 147

Indian Railways and Recommendations of the Acworth Committee, 499

Indian State Railways’ Locomotive Orders, 633

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

Intensive Traffic Working, Address to Railway Students, H. E. O. Wheeler, 64

Investors and Railway Companies’ Earnings, 525

Ireland, North of, Resumption of Day Services vid Stranraer, 287

Irish Free State Railways Amalgamation, Joint Committee Appointed, 633

Irish Railwaymen and Pay Reduction, Arrangements by Northern and Southern Governments, and by Certain Companies, 41

Irish Railways’ Amalgamation, Great Northern Outstanding, 579

Irish Railways, Reported Amalgamation between Great Northern and Midland Great Western, 203

Isle of Sheppey and Mainland of Kent, Road Communication Restored, 231

Isle of Wight Railways Abolish Second Class, 67

Italian State Railways, Drastic Measures to Save the Railway Budget, 121

Life-saving from Asphyxiation in a Tunnel, 315

Lines Outside Compulsory Grouping Scheme, 261

Locomotive and Carriage Superintendents’ Committee, I.R.C.A., Annual Conference at Lucknow, 367

Locomotives, Government Built, and their Fate, 13, 393

Locomotives, Sixty, Put in Hand by Mr.

Hughes at Horwich and Crewe, 287

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

London, Midland and Scottish Railway :

Absorption of—

Charnwood Forest and Harborne Railways, Terms Agreed, 615

Maryport and Carlisle and the Mold and Denbigh Junction Companies, 67 Seventeen Other Companies, 367 Stratford and Avon and Midland Junction Railway, 41

Wirral Railway, Terms Agreed, 652 Appointments, 121, 315 Gift of Land to Abergele, 341

King’s Cross Train Arrangements, 341

Land and Estate Department Organised, 661

Question of Electrification between Broad Street and Poplar, 93

Temporary Alteration of Trains on Manchester, Victoria^Oldham Line, 447

Train from Southend to London, 13

Welfare Superintendent Appointed, 447

London and North-Eastern Railway :

Absorption of Humber Commercial Railway and Dock Company, 41

Absorption of Mansfield Company, 607

Engines and Rolling Stock Orders for Own Railway and Outside Firms, 499

Freight Rolling Stock, Central Control at York, 473

Labour-saving Plant and Machinery at Doncaster Wagon Shops, Greatly Increased Capacity, 525

Locomotive Workshops and also Carriage and Wagon Works, Both Managers at Darlington, 661

New Standard Colours for Engines and Coaches, 261

Staff Appointments and Changes, 13, 261, 341

Stores Department Appointments, 447 Viscount Grey and Economies, 261

London and North-Western Railway, Items of Capital Expenditure in 1922, 260

London and South-Western Railway, Final Meeting, Waterloo Reconstruction Cost, 203

London’s Tube and Omnibus Traffic Statistics, 231

Luxor and Assouan, Change from Narrow to Standard-gauge Railway, 231

Manchester - Liverpool Forty - minute Expresses Resumed, 367

Manchurian Communications, China’s Proposed Railway, but Japan Objects, 689

Maryport and Carlisle Pronounced the Senior British Railway, 203

Melbourne Railway Traffic Statistics, 553

Metropolitan District Railway Cars Unnamed, 382

Metropolitan Railway Station Near Wembley Stadium and Exhibition Grounds, 426 Mexican Railway Electrification, 121 Midland Railway Ball Programme, 175 Midland Railway Cost of Equipment in 1913 and Now, 261

Midland Railway Report, 203

Milan Central Station, New, Projected to Replace One Damaged by Fire, 154

Ministry of Transport:

Bishop’s Castle Railway, Negotiations for Absorption by the Great Western, 261

Figures of Coal Traffic in Relation to Coal Railway Rates Reduction, 41

Light Railway Orders Confirmed, 499

Members of Panels of the Tribunal for Current Year, Names Announced, 607

Runaway Catch Points, 175

Safeguard for Traders in the Railways Act, 175

Scottish Railways’ Headquarters and Orders for Material, Application to Ministry, 473

Secretary to the Ministry, Retirement and New Appointment, 147, 175

Standard Rates and Charges, Delay in Companies Presentation of, to the Ministry, 67

Statistics, Monthly, Necessity for their Continuance, 231

Statistics for October, 1922, 41, 67 Statistics for November, 1922, 175, 198 Statistics for November (Mineral Traffic), 203

Stretford Urban District Council and Light Railways in the Manchester Area, 67

'Transfer of Ministry to the Board of Trade, No Time Yet Fixed, 450

Mukden and Kirin Railway Construction, 367 Natal Railways Electrification, 261

National Union of Railwaymen and Suggestion to the Companies, 473

Newton Abbot Station, Projected Modernisation, 421

New Year Honours for Railway Officials, 13, 203

New York State Orders Electrification of Lines in New York City, 689

Non-inflammable Material in Rolling Stock, 315

“ Non-smoking ” Labels Abandoned, 633

North British Railway, Annual Meeting and Chairman’s Remarks, 341

North British Railway, Rates Reduction and Coal Prices, 261

Norwegian Rail Cars Ordered from Germany, 473

Orleans and Midi Railways’ Electrification Schemes, 561

Pennsylvania Railway Headquarters at Philadelphia, Fire at the Station, 661

Pneumatic Door Six-car Trains on the Piccadilly Line, 121

“ Pullman, Limited,” London to Leeds and Harrogate, 393, 421, 670

Pullman Vestibule and Buckeye Coupling, Advantage of, 579

Rail Motor Cars, Former History on the London and South-Western, 261

Rails Rolled in the United States, Tonnage Statistics, 633

Railway Benevolent Institution, Annual Dinner, 473, 525

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

Railway Companies, Chambers of Commerce and Federation of British Industries, 147

Railway Companies and Labour Unions, Chairman’s Rebuke to Outsiders, 525

Railway Companies and Press Criticism, 421

Railway Companies’ Representative and the

Unions, Progress, 421

Railway Dividends Improvement Since Decontrol, British and Irish, 147

Railway Expenditure, Authorised, Bill to Increase Amount, 473

Railway Fires Act Amendment, 393

Railway Material Exports Statistics, 67, 203, 231, 393, 579, 607

Railwaymen’s Wage Negotiations, 41, 393 Railwaymen’s Wages and Cost of Living, 689 Railway Purchase Offer and its Refusal, 13

Railway Rates Tribunal:

Annual Report, First, 1922, 393

Applications to the Tribunal, Colonel Ashley on Position, 499

Decision as to Tickets Subject to Statute, 382

Proposal to Set Up Local Joint Committees to Deal with Certain Matters and Make Representations to the Tribunal, 67, 121

Railway Shopmen’s War Bonus, 393, 447

Railways and their Men, British and United

States, 147, 231, 367

Rates and Railway Stockholders, 661

Rates—see also Railway Rates Tribunal, also F ares

Rotterdam-Amsterdam Railway Electrification, 382

Season Tickets at Half Rates for Juniors, 579

Season Tickets and Public Expectation, 614

Second-class on Railways, Suggested Abandonment, 341, 689

Shrewsbury and Welshpool Joint Line, 393

Southern Railway :

Basingstoke and Alton Railway not to be Abandoned, 666

Brighton Section of the Southern Railway, Sir William Forbes on, 121

Headquarters at Waterloo, 67

Premature Electrification Announcement, 147

Staff Appointments, 67, 661

South-Eastern Railway, Absorption of Three Companies Approved by Railways Amalgamation Tribunal, 93

South-Eastern Section Electrification Contracts, 382

South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Valedictory Meeting, Past History and Recent Improvements, 453

Staff Changes Consequent on Grouping, 93, 121, 261, 315—see also Appointments

Stockholm-Goteberg Railway, Single-phase System Adopted for Electrification, 287, 661

Stoke-on-Trent Improved Train Service from Euston, 382

Storage on English and Welsh Railways, Reduction in Charges, 231

Streatham Junction, Tooting and Merton-road Line, Possible Restoration of Service, 393

Swedish Appropriations for Railway Construction, 447

Swedish Locomotive Building, 261

Swiss Federal Council and Furka Railway Completion, 175

Swiss Locomotives, Conference between Federal Railways and Locomotive Factories, 184

Swiss State Railways, Earlier Completion of Electrification, 226

Telegraph Department of a Railway, Figures, E. J. Collier, 175

Temiskaming and Northern Ontario, Railway Electrification, Favourable Report on, 116 315

Temperance Among Railwaymen, 71

Third-class Sleeping Cars Not to be Started, 13

Thomas, Mr. J. H., New Year Message to Railwaymen on Wage Negotiations, 41

Traffic for the British Empire Exhibition and Sports Stadium at Wembley, Extensive Preparations by Companies, 67

Traffic—see Ministry of Transport, Statistics

Tram Extensions in Madras, Suggested Working by Gas Engines, 367

Transport of Coal, Report of Advisory Committee for Coal and the Coal Industry, 71

Tube Extension, Great Northern, Piccadilly and Bromp ton, or Great Northern and City, Question in Parliament, 231

Underground Electric Railways Company, Enormous Traffic by Road and Railway, 341

Underground Staff Suggestions Made and Adopted, 393

Unemployed Skilled Labour at Crewe Transferred to France, 607

United States Railways and their Men, Improved Relations, 147, 231

Venezuela, Report on Railway Concessions in, 287

Victoria (Australia), Holiday Trip of 1000 Miles, 13

Victorian Railway Electrification Extending, 553

Virginian Railway, Electrification of 215 Miles, 553

Waterloo Station, Reconstruction Cost, 203

Weather, Holidays, Men’s Unions and Railway Rates, 689

Week-end Tickets Concession, 473

Welsh Highlands Light Railways Progress, 203

Welsh Highlands Railway Opening, 579

West Somerset Mineral Railway Company Wound Up and Dissolved, 341

Wimbledon and Sutton Railway, Bill Passed Third Reading, 579

Woolwich Locomotives, Built and Partly Built, are Still Unsold, 13, 393

Workmen’s Tickets and Railway Liability, 607

RECORD Speed at a Pulp and Paper Mill, 632 Refractory Material to Withstand More Severe

Heat, Great Need in Metallurgy, 231

Reservoir, The Gouin, Quebec, One of Largest in the World, 607

Rhodesian-Congo Border Concession Company, 362

Rio Tinto Mine Worked by the Phoenicians over 1000 Years b.c., 473

Road Programme Cost in Quebec, 689

Road Transport Completes Ruin of Canals Begun by Railway Competition, 579

Roofing Materials, D. Anderson and Son, Limited, 645

Roumanian Engineer’s Plan to Keep Open in Winter the Channel of St. Lawrence River, 481

Rubber from Dutch Indies, Increased Export, 393

Rubber Industry, Institution, Papers—see Associations

Rubber-covered Roadway, Experimental, near Manchester, 402

Rubber as a Road Surface Dressing, Success in Ceylon, 41

Russian Manganese Ore Export Decline, 607

s SAFE Doors, Messrs. Chubb and Son’s Film Exhibition, 130

Salmon River, Idaho, and Water Power Projects, 473, 525

Salt Deposits in Nova Scotia, Development, 421

Sandpaper for Cleaning Off Paint, &c., while

Damp, Special Advantages, 633

Sanitary Science Research, Scholarship Offered for, 175

Saturated Air, Circumstances Producing Ill Effects from, 499

Sawdust Burning for Boiler Purposes, 147

Scholarships, Electrical—see Electrical Matters

Scientific Periodicals in Great Britain, Libraries where they can be Consulted, 121

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS:

Diesel-driven Ship Service between Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 147

Fires on American Ships Due to Spontaneous Combustion in Coal, 633

German Submarine Engines’ Light Weight, Dr. G. E. Lucke, 147

Hong Kong, Shipbuilding in, 8

Launch with Gas Engine and Producer for Hangchow, China, 661

Leviathan Overhauling at Newport News, Slow Progress, 147

Lifeboat, Motor, for Cromer, 574

Lifeboats’ Automatic Illumination on

Launching, 525

Mauretania’s Latest Type Direction Finder, 525

New Zealand Ship Rotorua, Largest Passenger Steamer on Panama Route, 341

Prize for Internal Ship Decoration Design, 607

Propelling a Cargo Boat, 565

Screw Propeller with Five Blades, 579

Shipbuilding in Canada at Very Low Ebb,393

Singapore, Projected Naval Base for Modern

Ships, 315

Three New 20,000-Ton Passenger Liners to be Built by Harland and Wolff, Limited, 689

Turbine-driven Ferry Boats for New York, 93

Wooden Steamers, War-time, from British Columbia, 287

SIEMENS and Halske and Siemens—Schuckert

Companies 80 per cent. Dividends, 261

Silvanus Thompson Memorial Lecture, Conversazione, &c., at Leonard-street Technical College, 50, 93, 101

Silver Discovery of Remarkable Value in Keeley Mine, Canada, 287

Societies—see Associations. &c;

South African Mint Coining, 661

Spanish Copper Companies’ Inter-agreement, 507

Speaking Flame, Talking Pictures and Broadcasting, Reported Invention, 525

Standardisation in Cost Accountancy, Verbatim Report, 341

Steam Boiler, the “ Atmos,” Test of New

Swedish Type, 341

Steam Temperatures, Difficulty of Control, 607

Submerged Bridge, Largest in India, 633

Suez Canal Improvements, Immediate Start, 175

Suez Canal Ore Traffic Figures, 67

Sugar Beet Factory Suggested in the Spalding Area, 341

Sukkur Barrage Scheme, Government Sanction

Given, 421

Summer Vacation Lectures at Grenoble, 704

Swiss Aluminium Industry Statistics, 13

Sydney Harbour New Bridge Tenders, 362

T TASMANIA, Projected Shipping Port at Cole Bay, and Railway from, 499

Tasmanian Tin-bearing Discovery, 147

Telegraphic Line Between Kilo, in the Congo, and British System, in Uganda, 175

Telephone Service, Need of Adequate Provision for, in Construction of Large Buildings, 367

Telephone System in New Delhi, Cables About to be Laid, 579

Telephones of Western Europe, Technical Administrators’ Meeting, 294

Testing Machine, Largest in the World, 175

Thornycroft’s Educational System, 645

Thornycroft Suction Gas Lorry, 568

Tidal Power Problem, Dr. Ing. Siemonsen, 261

Tiles and Brick from Castor Oil Beans, 287

Timber Consumption in Illinois Coal Mines, 499

Timber in Saskatchewan, Statistics, 689

Timber Seasoning, Opinion of Forest Research

Expert in India, 689

Tin Industry, Termination of Burma Government Scheme, 261

Fin-plates Imports into Netherlands East Indies, Nearly All from Great Britain, 231

Pin-plates, Peppery Blister in, Professor ’Edwards, 633

Pin Stocks and the Bandoeng Agreement, Arrangement Made, 473

ritanium—see Iron and Steel

Forbanite Discovery in South Africa, Expected Oil Yield, 499

Foronto Harbour, Increased Activity of, 447 Transmission, Electrical—see Electrical Matters F.N.T., Picric Acid and Tetryl, Specific Heats of, Determinations in American Laboratory, 553

Funnel Proposed for Diversion of the Salmon River for Development of Water Power, 473, 525

Furbines for Winnipeg Hydro, 315

u UNEMPLOYMENT Increase in Switzerland, 13

University of London, Four Lectures on the Control of the Speed and Power Factor of Induction Motors, Professor Miles Walker, 170

University of Sheffield, Symposium on Resistance of Alloys to Corrosion, 367

V VALPARAISO, Port of, Extension of the Mole and Harbour Works, 607

Vancouver Harbour Widening, 341

Vancouver and North Vancouver, First Bridge to Connect the Two, 93

Vizagapatam, Proposed Harbour, 315

Volcanic Islands Erupting oft Cochin China, 525

w WAGES Proposals Ballot in Railway Wagon Building and Repairing Trades, 447

Walsall, Proposed Establishment of Engineering Society, 341

Water Power Schemes for Canada Several

New, 341

WATER SUPPLY :

Chicago Water Supply, Enormous Daily Demand, 607

Metropolitan Water Board Scheme North of the Thames, 315

Ministry of Health Advisory Committee, 175

Montreal City Waterworks and its Cost, 315 Rio de Janeiro, Water Supply Extensions,

Projected by Brazilian Government, 261

Three Electrically Driven Pumps for Calcutta Water Supply, 473

WELDED Pressure Vessels, Results of Tests, 231

Welded River Crossings, N. E. Wagner, 579

Welland Ship Canal, Work on, 315

White Enamel Resistant to Acids, New Type, 447

Whitworth Society Dinner at Olympia in September, 421

Why Research is Necessary, 673

Winnipeg City Hydro-electric System to Install Steam Stand-by Plant, 689

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY :

American Radio Messages to Miinchentuch-see (Berne) Station, 673

Audibility of Wireless Signals, Experiments in Method of Increasing, 661

Basis of Wireless Communication, Sir Oliver Lodge, 93

Bibliography of Publications on Wireless, 13

Birmingham Broadcasting Station, 661

Broadcasting Stations in the United States, 553

Colombo Wireless Station Condemned as Out of Date, Projected Improvements, 367

Direction Finders, Wireless Newest Type on the Cunarder Mauretania, 525

Greece, Radio Stations being Established in Accordance with International Agreement, 421

Harbin, Manchuria, Wireless Station Redeemed from the Russians, 511

Madagascar, Powerful Station at Antananarivo, 315

New Non-interfering Detector, Harold P. Doule, 67

Norway and Wireless Stations, Concession Asked for from Government, 41

Nova Zembla, Wireless Station to be Erected at, by the Russians, 579

Radio Communication Between France and Poland, Paris and Beyrout, 121

Radiophone Experiments in Mine Life-saving, 121

Radio Society of Great Britain (Formerly Wireless Society of London), Successful Experiments in Transatlantic Telegraphy, 67

Radio-telegraphy Between Bulgaria and Moscow, 661

Siamese Government and Bangkok Station, Withdrawal of Communication Permission, 147

South African Union Government and the Marconi Company, 175

Static Interference in Reception of Radio Signals, Prevention of, 67

Study of Short Wave Lengths by Amateurs, French Offer of Prizes, 147

Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Bell Island, Newfoundland, Wireless Stations Projected at, 315

Wireless and Aircraft, Captain P. P. Eckersley, 41

Wireless in the Provinces to be Regulated Locally, 553

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY (continued) :

“ Wireless Town ” for England, Marconi Company’s Scheme, 392

WITWATERSRAND Mines Development Since 1910, 367

Workmen Sent Abroad, Agreement as to Wages Between Amalgamated Engineering

Union and Engineering Employers’ Federation, 147

World’s Coaling Record at Port Said, 315

Y YANGTZE Port, New, at Kiukiang, 661

Yarn, Specially Treated and Tested. Results, 579

Yukon Gold Mined by Dredgers on the Klon-dyke River, 114

Yunnan, China, Minerals Abundant, but Capital and Means of Communication Lacking, 287

Yunnan, China, Programme for Development, 287

ZINC Chloride as Wood Preservative, Necessary Precaution, 393

Zinc and Lead Concentration and other Plant to be Constructed for Mine in Quebec, 287

Zinc Works in Sardinia, Prospect of Italy’s Independence of Foreign Zinc Supplies, 393

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