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ABERDEEN, Robert Gordon’s Colleges, Proposed Courses of Instruction, 555

Acoustic Design of Musical Practice Rooms, Changes Needed to Benefit by Sound-proof Walls, 185

Aerial Ropeway in Colombia, Preliminary Survey for, and Details of Scheme, 45

AERONAUTICS :

Air Defence of Great Britain, 525

Aircraft Apprentices, Vacancies for, 223

Airship, Five Million Cubic Feet, for Egypt and India Service, 75

Belfast to Gretna or Carlisle, Daily Aeroplane

Service Projected, 265

Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 200

Circumnavigation of the World by Air, Conclusions to Reckon With, 351

Hangar, Aeroplane at Mukden, Largest in Asia, 555

Helicopter Inventor’s New Record and Prize, 351

Imperial Airways Monthly Traffic Returns, June and July, 274

Light Aeroplane Competitions, Lecture by Major J. S. Buchanan, 555

Napier-Blackburn Torpedo-carrying Aeroplanes, 1000 Horse-power, Launch of the First, 211

R 38 Memorial Prize, Award for 1924, 628

Seaplane for Transport of Fever Patients in British Guiana, 465

World’s Gliding Record Broken by Lieutenant Thoret, St. Remy, 265

World’s Largest Passenger Flying Bout, 585

AGRICULTURAL Fortnightly Bulletin to be Broadcasted from London, 185

Alien-Liversedge, Limited, Staff Dinner, 512

Alloys Aging Effect and Increased Room Temperature, 525

Aluminium Alloy Road Wheel, Satisfactory

Results of Experiments, 159

American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical

Engineers, 130th Meeting, 252

American Stone Quarries Workers, Shifts and

Accident Statistics, 613

Anodes for Brine Electrolysis, 437

Apprentice Scholarships, “ D. B. Morison,”

Engineering, 449

Asbestos Exports from Canada, 13, 237

Asbestos Mills, Montreal, Two New, 295

Asbestos Mino near Barberton, Formation of

Minerals, 613

Asphalt, Liquid and Solid, Throughout the whole of Cuba, 105

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:

Association, Diesel Engine Users’ :

Significance of Exhaust .Temperature, P. H. Smith, 408

Institute of Transport :

Gold Medal Awards for Railwaymen’s Papers, 381

Institution of Automobile Engineers :

Annual Dinner, 593

Medal Awards for Papers and Service, 584

Pneumatic Tires, A. Healey, 669

Institution of Chemical Engineers :

Self-balancing Centrifugals, Eustace A. Alliott, 133

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Awards for Papers, 396

Joint Meeting with other Associations :

Results of Heat Engine and Boiler Trials, 625

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

A.M.I.E. E. Examination, 145

Annual Conversazione, 27

Award of Premiums to Students, 62

New Wiring Regulations, F. C. Raphael, 725

Sir Oliver Lodge, Honorary Member, 555

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

North Wales (Liverpool) Centre :

Art of Communication Engineering, Address by H. H. Harrison, 525 Informal Section :

“ Walk Round Pretoria Power Station,” Lecture, G. M. Clark, 697

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :

Janies Watt Annual Dinner, 625

Institution of Gas Engineers :

Annual Meeting in 1925, 507

Presidential Election , 185

Storage of Silica Refractories, Lecture, W. J. Rees, 13

. Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers :

Awards for Competition to Encourage Education in the Industry, 335

Prizes Offered for Papers, 696

Institution, Junior, of Engineers : Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and

Apparatus, 640

Institution of Mechanical Engineers :

H.R.H. Prince of AV ales to Attend Annual Dinner, 555

Institution of Naval Architects :

Scholarships Offered for 1925, 612

Scholarships and Prize Awards, 304, 479

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

Girders in Ships, J. Foster King, 585

1 nstitution of Petroleum Technologists : Award of Institution Scholarship, 605 Awards of Medals and Scholarships, 479

Institution of Production Engineers : Annual Dinner, 322

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

Institution of Railway Signal Engineers :

“Proceedings”; Survey of Indian Signalling,” 2k. C. Rose, 437

Signalling on the London Underground Railways, W. S. Every, 613

Three-position Signalling, 724

Institution, Royal :

Before-Easter Lecture Arrangements, 640, 696

General Meeting ; Christinas Lectures, &c., 539

Institution of Water Engineers :

Annual Mee.ing and List of Papers, 609

Society of Engineers :

Awards for Papers, 712

Plumbago, A verage Annual Export of, from Ceylon, T. G. Hunter, 351

Society, Faraday :

Annual General Meeting, 117

Report, 117

Society, Illuminating Engineering :

Paper by Mr. G. L. Jennings, 185

Society, Optical :

Extraordinary General Meeting ; Student Members, Rules, 649

Filpi Picture Production, Optical and Mechanical Problems of, H. Dennis Taylor, 436

Society, Royal, of Arts :

Award of Medals for Papers, 62

ASTURIAS Mines and Factories to bo Controlled by Krupps, 641

Atlas Works, Sheffield, 129

Atomic Energy, Freeing, At Present an Elusive Secret, Dr. Wall’s Quest, 525

Auckland (New Zealand), New Works and Improvements by Harbour Board, 725

Australia, Proposed Enlargement of Hume

Reservoir on the Murray River, 351

Australian Engineers in Government Service, Question of Increase of Pay, 45

Australian Imports, Quarter’s Analysis, 105

Australian Sea Carriage of Goods Act, 725

Australia’s Rich Radium Deposits, 697

Avery, W. and T., Limited, Recognition of

Long Service, 27

Avonmouth Spelter Works, Feared Closing after Heavy Expenditure, 185

Avonmouth Spelter Works, Postponement of Closing Down, 323 ■

B BALL Bearings Made of Stainless Steel, Carrying Capacity of, Axel Hultgren, 351

Barranquilla, Colombia, Contract by London Syndicate for Construction of Streets, Tramways and Waterworks, 669

Bath, Rapid Steam Plant Erection at, 678

Beet Sugar Factory in Alberta, Proposed, 669

Beet Sugar Factory on the Wissey River, Another Projected, 351

Belgian Congo, Cobalt Ore in Various Places ' with Manganese, 265

Valuable Recent Discovery, 409

Belgian Congo, List of Recently Discovered I Minerals, 211

Birmingham Post Office, .Alterations for Accommodation of Automatic Telephone, 725 i

Blast-furnaces—see Iron and Steel

Blue Finish to Handles of Pliers, &c., New ’

Method for Applying, 323 ,

Boiler Explosion in Small Steamer, Some Peculiar Features, 641

Boiler Explosions, Report for 1923, 525

Bombay, Back Bay Reclamation Progress, 437 I

Bradford Engineering Society, Programme of I

Lectures, 365

Bradshaw, Eighty-fifth Anniversary of, 469

Brazilian Government Outlay on Port Improvements, 351

Bridge Across the Tees at Newport, Scheme Opposed, 323

Bridge,’ Hooghly, Proposed New, at Howrah, Committee Suggestions, 697

Bridge, Newcastle and Gateshead, Tender Accepted, 725

Bridge Over the Ouse at Boothferry, 75

Bridge Over Richmond River, New South Wales, 697

Bridge Span Too Much Expanded by Sun to be Reclosed, 409

British and American Mining Departments, Exchange of Information, Tests of British Explosives, 555

British Columbia, The Third Industrial Province in Canada, 237

British Engineering Standards Association :

Acceptance of Invitation from German Standards Committee, 641

Automobile Steels, Publications on, 99

Coal Mining and Industrial Standardisation, Address to be Given in Four Centres by Secretary of the Association, 418

Glossary of Electrical Engineering Terms, 117

Standard Keys, Keyways and Keybars, Publication Regarding, 709

Standard Specifications :

Cast Iron Piston Rings, 479

Conductors for Overhead Power Transmission, 609

Copper, Raw, Five Specifications Issued, 310

Fuel Oils, Four Grades, 572

Magnetos for Internal Combustion Engines, 105

Metallic Resistance Materials, 507

Metallic Resistance Materials Specification Revision, 613

Solders, Silver, Tin-lead and Brazing; Brasses, Special, for Ingots for Castings, for Actual Castings, 89

Spanners, Dimensions of, 593

British Foundrymen, Institution of :

Birmingham Branch :

Lecture on “ The Iron Age,” Presidential, 555

Pure Aluminium Unsuitable for Castings, C. Dickens’ Lecture, 641

Scottish Branch :

Bulk Electricity Supply, Schemes in connection with Foundry Operations, James A Week, 461

c CADMIUM, Inhalation of Fumes and Resulting Accident, 45

Canada, Crude Petroleum Production Statistics, 465

Canada, Reclamation of Waterless and Waterlogged Areas in, 494

Canada’s Sulphide Ores Abundance and Variety, 437

Canada and the United States, New Railway

Bridge at Niagara Falls, 555

Canadian Copper Output for 1922 and 1923, 323

Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto,

World’s Record Building for Cost and Size, 409

Canadian Natural Gas Light, Heat and Power

Company, Big Well’s Output, 211

Canadian Patent Law, New, 533

Canadian Trent Canal, Completion Urged on the Government, 105

Cape Copper Smelting Works in South Wales Bought, 381

Carbon Black, Its Manifold Uses, 21 I.

Carbon Dioxide as Remedy for Carbon Monoxide Gas Poisoning, 725

(Carmichael, The House of, 132

Casablanca Port, Morocco, Approaching Completion, 323

Caustic Soda and Chlorine, Production by Electrolysis, 641

Cement Gun for Stone Dusting, Experiments in a Colliery, 295

Cements Manufactured from Sea Mud l-iine, French Experiments, 75

Chapeltown, Sheffield, Gas Lighting Scheme, 237

Chemical Industries, Tenth Exposition of, 249

Chilean Improvements at Port of Lebu, 211

China, Thirty Mining Areas Staked Out, 75

China, Two of Four Projected Trunk Highways Now Completed, 351 s '

Chinese Registration of Trade Marks Bureau, 13

CWorme Gas Correct Method of Detection of •i>eaRage, 381

Ci vicSteam-heating Plant at Winnipeg Opened,

Clyde Dredging to be Started, 323

| ° 30® Tunnel or Bridge, Question for Glasgow,

COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :

Argentina, Coal Importations from Great -Britain and Elsewhere, 723

Australian Brown Coal ‘from Morwell, Analysis of Grading, 381

Barnsley Seam at Thorne Colliery, Progress,

Barnsley Bed of Coal Reached by Shaft Started in 1909, 211 J

Binder from Seaweed for Coal Briquettes, New Industry in Orkney, 21]

Brown Coal Briquetting Plant Capacity, Victorian Electricity Commission, 45

Coal Discovery Reported Under a Staffordshire Farm, 409

Coalfield, Rich, Discovered near Madrid, 525 Coal Treated by Modern Scientific Methods.

Immense Possibilities Suggested by Mr. F Hodges, 437

Coal Working Under Sheffield, Application,

Colliery Shafts to be Sunk bv Freezing Process, 697 ‘ °

Consett Iron Company’s Estate Development, Coal Discoveries, 75

Decontrolling the Coal Trade in Czecho-1/8^a<ia’ P°ssibility under Consideration, 105

Franco-Belgian Frontier, Coal Discovery, 105 rrench Undertaking for Economic Utilisation and Conservation of Coal, 495

Great Britain’s Coal Output, Comparative Statistics, 295, 613, 725

Hatfield Moor, Doncaster, Coal Discovery, New Pit to be Sunk, 475

Increased Use of Coal-cutting Machines, 465

Interesting Week-end Work at Marehay

Colliery, 323 J

Manchuria Coal Mines Financed by Russia,

Natal Coal Mines, July Output, 437

Northern Ireland, 200,000,000 Tons Coal-field near Coalisland, 211

Nova Scotia’s New and Excellent Coal Seam at Maccan, 75

Nova Scotia’s Undersea Colliery, 75

, Pulverised Coal for Birmingham Electric Supply Boilers, 105

Pulverised Coal in Industrial Plants, Effect Similar to Coal Dust in Mines, 185

South Australian Brown Coal for Producer Gas Plant, Experiments, 641

Spanish Coal Problem, Proposed Grouping of Mines, 585

Transvaal Coal and Oil Company’s Valuable Coal, 585

Ulster Collieries, New, at Coalisland, Co Tyrone, 105

United States, Production of Bituminous Coal and Anthracite, 620

Unwatering Coal Mines, Investigation of Explosion Hazards, 585

Wellington, New Zealand, Important Coal Discovery, 237

COAST Erosion, Question in the House of

Commons, 45 I

Cobalt in Belgian Congo, 265 ; Valuable

Recent Discovery, 409

Cobalt, Canadian Smelter Output of, Statistics 465 ’

Cobalt Silver Mines Twenty Years’ Record, 691

Colombia, Projected Expenditure on Public

Works, 211

Colombo Harbour Berths, Four, Sufficient for

Present Use, 613

Complimentary Dinner, Yorkshire

Power Company, 734

Concrete Bridge Span Bodily Lifted placed, 133

Concrete Impregnated with Molten Sulphur, Great Increase in Strength Thereby, 409

Concrete, Liability to Heat and Advisable

< Precautionary Measures, 211

Concrete Mixing with Impure Water, 237

Concrete Work, Material for Filling Expansion

Joints, 381 ox

Copper Coins in China, Depreciation of, 137

Copper Company, Leading Producer in the

World, 555

Copper Cost in Germany, Search for Alloys, 323

Copper Ore Treatment Financed by Western

Australian Government, 265

Copper, Pure, Effect of Gradual Heating and

Cooling in an Electric Furnace, 525

Cottages, Steel, Lord Weir’s Type, 421

Crude Oil from Shale, Extracted by Retort at

Burma Pavilion, British Empire Exhibition 265

Crystal Palace School of Engineering, Distribution of Certificates, 709

Cutler, New Master and Mistress, 409

Electric

and Re-

D DAIREN’S Chinese-owned Engineering Works,

Dam Across the St. Lawrence Adovcated, 45

Dam Construction in Orange Free State, 437

Dams, Two Gigantic, in Province of Quebec Progress, 437

De-aoration of Boiler Feed Water in Special

Circumstances, Remarkable Process, 237

Death of Herr Carl Fridolf Carlson, 495 ’

Delaware River Bridge, Suspension Cables for, 381

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research :

First Report on Heat Insulators,‘555

Offers to Undertake Tests on Plant of Low Temperature Carbonisation, 265

Diesel Engine, Double-acting, New Type, Completed in New York, 351

Diesel Engine, 15,000 B.H.P. Stationary, Ordered by Hamburg Electric Light Company, 265

Dock, Appleton, at Melbourne, Details of Projected Construction, 351

Docks Delays Investigation Result, Responsibility Divided, 237

Drought and Salt Water Influx Resulting in Teredo Destruction on Pacific Coast- of America, 613

Dry Dock being Constructed in Calcutta, Will be Largest of its Kind in the World, 585

Dublin Dockyard Opened by Vickers (Ireland), Limited, 409

Dudley Erecting Steel Houses, 613

Dunston and Teams Bridge, Cost of Reconstruction, 105

Durban Large Graving Dock Opening, 669

Durban’s Projected Costly Public Works Programme, 295

E ELECTRICAL MATTERS :

Air Behaviour in High Voltage Transmission, 585

All-electric New Colliery, 495

Australia, Revised Electrical Wiring Rules, 133

Belgium, New Coal Pits Being Electrically Equipped, 525

Birmingham Schools Electric Lighting and the Unemployed, 525

Brundall and District Electricity Supply, Negotiations for, 211

Bursting of New Pipe Line Under Test for Welsh Power Station, 669

Canada’s Export of Electric Power to the United States, 54

Cape Province, Tenders Called for for Power Station Plant, 335

Cape Town Projected Power Station for Suburban Railways, Details of, 697

Cardiff, All-electric Exhibition at, 465

Chicago, Oldest Electric Truck in Active Service, 525

Chili Climate and Problems for Transmission Line Engineers, 13

Chinese Power Station Equipment with British Engines, 381

Conference Internationale des Grands Re-seaux Electriques, &c., Third Session, 185

Current and Voltage, Determination of Characteristic Curves for Loosely-touching Steel Spheres, Fraulein Sz6kely’s Experiments, 159

Direction Finder in Foggy Weather, Great Value of, 525

Distributing System for Current Supply in Italy, 641

Dominion Electric Installation Equipment in Canada, Code of Standardised Rules, to be Prepared and Adopted, 44

Electric Boilers as Load Equalisers, Poplar's Record for Low-priced Electric Power in London, 363

Electrical Transmission in Australia, Need of Research, 525

Electricity at Mines, Regulations as to Installation and Use of, New Edition, 409

Electrolytic Corrosion Test, Accelerated, Results, 380

Greenock Corporation’s Proposed Application to Electricity Commissioners for Extension of Supply Area, 133

Hackney Borough Council and Orders for Electric Vehicles, 525

Haulage, Electric, on French Canals, 465

High-tension Switchgear and Transformers, 250 Million Pounds’ Order, 697

High-voltage Corona and Protection Against Lightning, J. B. Whitehead’s Views, 495

Imports and Exports of Electrical Apparatus, The Hague Report, 74

Inductor Cylinder Dynamo, Development of, W. Brooks Sayers, 159

Industrial Use of Electric Power Extended in Auckland, 525

Instrument Current Transformer with Automatic Compensation Device, 613

Insulator, New Type, for High-pressure Systems, Professor H. B. Smith, 211

Johannesburg’s Future Supply of Electricity, Commissioners’ Second Report, 409 Johannesburg Power Station Installation, 45 Johannesburg Projected High-tension Underground Cable to Supply Light to Oaklands District, 437

King William’s Town, South Africa, New Up-to-date Power Station for, 437

Knaresborough Electricity Undertaking, 613 Leek Electricity Works, Prosperous Growth of Trade, 465

Margahao Electric Power Plant, Largest-Generating Station in New Zealand, 525

Mines Using Electricity, Loss of Life Due to, 555, 641

Motor-driven Air Compressor and Variation of Torque, 133

New York Edison Company, New Power Station, 185

Newton Abbott Electric Output, Application for Extension of Station, 725

Oil Circuit Breakers and Explosion Pots, Dr. Garrard, 13

Omnibuses, Electric, Question of Use in Sweden, 725

Ottawa River Power Company Progress, 613

Perfect Lighting near Chicago, 465

Plant Propagation, Forced Growth, by Use of Electric Lamps, 725

Portable Electric Plant for Use in Gaseous Mines, 159

Power-house Chimneys, Nechells, Gritcatching Apparatus for, 725

“ Power Factor ” Booklet, Electrical Apparatus, Limited, 569

Power Station Worked by Steam Projected in Ohio, 697

Queenston-Chippewa Power Plant at Niagara Falls, Progress, 323

Quinze River Power Plant, Growth of, 613

Relay Development in America, Special Features of, 133

Rural Electrification in France, Congress al Lyons, 265

Russian Electric Undertakings, Financing of, 381

Safeguarding Linesmen on Transmission Circuit Work, 495

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :

St. Maurice Power Company’s Hydro-electric Development, 555

Salt River, near Cape Town, Large Electric Power Station Projected, 13, 45

Sheffield Electricity Works Statistics, 211

Shock, Electric, Necessary Precautions after

Apparent Resuscitation, 725

South Africa, Union of, Great Growth of Electrical Power in, 613

Spalding Rural Council and Electricity Supply, 697

Spanish Electrical System Unification Question, 641

Static Condenser, Details of New Typo Developed by American General Electric Company, 74

Storage Batteries, Large, New System of Supporting Cells, 465

Storage Battery Locomotive, Largest Yet Built in the United States, 295

Storms, Distant, Detection Equipment Less Expensive than Supposed, 585

Suspension Type Insulator, New Type, Professor H. B. Smith, ] 3

Sydney, N.S.W., Overhead Transmission Lines to be Replaced by Underground Cables at Cost of £5,000,000, 437

Tokyo Electric Light Company’s Earthquake Damage Cost, 185

Transforming Alternating Current and Losses in Energy, 159

Walsall to Supply Electricity in Bulk to Lichfield, 669

West Wiltshire Electricity Scheme, 697

Weymouth Generating Station of Boston Company, Progress Towards Operation, 585

Witbank Power Station of Victoria Falls Company, Capacity and Details of Scheme, 45

Wolverhampton’s Electricity Department, Profit, 75

ELECTPvOLYTIC Corrosion Test, Accelerated, Results, 380

Elevators for South Africa, in Favour with

Farmers, 437

Engineering Standards—see British

Engineers’ Club for Birmingham, 409

England and Bombay, Comparison Between

Mean Dampness and Mean Temperature of the Two Climates, 185

EXHIBITIONS :

American Inventions Exhibition in New York, 105

Birmingham International Foundry Trades Exhibition, 295

British Empire Exhibition, Conference on Illumination, 142

British Industries Fair, Birmingham, in 1925, 525

Cardiff, All-electric Exhibition at, 465

Engineering Exhibition at Cardiff, 585

German Projected Exhibition of Railway

Material near Berlin, 295

Grenoble Forthcoming Exhibition, 625, 668

Lyons Fair, 625

Mining Industries Exhibition, Lima, Peru, 13

New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 641

Scientific Instruments and Apparatus, Exhibition, 640, 684

Third Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition, Board of Trade Announcement, 13

Wireless Exhibition in the Albert Hall, 75

EXPLOSION in a Dairy Steam-jacketed Pan, 585

Explosion, Unusual, in an Economiser, 555

Explosives Factory for Industrial Purposes

Projected at Shantung, 295

F FARADAY House Old Students’ Association, Annual Dinner, 449, 539

Ferrantians, The, Proposed Reunion, 449, 648

Fire-damp Detection Invention in Germanv, 613

Fire Engine, 160 Years’ Old, Still Used, 211

Fitting-up Bolts, T. L. E. Haug, 62

Flame Lamps being Succeeded by Electric

Lamps in American and British Mines, 159

Flax Yarn Production by New Process, Experiments, 697

Floating Dock Sunk on Entry of German Vessel at Dartmouth, Refloated after much Difficulty, 409

Floating Roadway for Goods Traffic at Sea-combe Ferry, 323

Flood Dangers in China, New Works Proposed, 641

Fluorspar Deposits Discovery in the Transvaal 613

Folkestone Road Improvement Scheme, 185

Food Cost and Rail Carriage, 563

Food Investigation Board, Engineering Committee’s Report, 704

French Government Law Pronounced a Snare, 585

Fuel Research Board, Third Report on British Coal Seams, 495

Fuel Research, French Company Formed for Carrying Out, 133

Fuels for Heavy Oil Engines, 572

GARAGE for 10,000 Cars, 105

Garcke’s Manual of Electrical Undertakings,

Gas Holder, Brick Disused, to he Converted into Garage in Berlin, 75

Gas, Natural, Large Flow Discovered in Ontario, 295

Gas Sold in Sheffield, Statistics for 1923, 323

Gas Undertakings of Groat Britain, Nominal

Capital, 669

Gauge Testing, National Physical Laboratory’s

Pamphlet, 709

Gelatine and Glue, Characteristics, 641

Germany’s Prices, Fall in, 13

Gladstone Dock, New Construction, Mersey

Docks and Harbour Board’s Plans, 351

Glasgow New Motor Omnibus Service, 669

Glass-making, A Century of, Chance Brothers and Co., Limited, 148

Glass, Substitute for,[in New Substance, 323

Glassware, Scientific, Millilitre to Supplant Cubic Centimetre, 295

Glycerine Water Solutions as Quenching

Medium, Investigation, 237

Gold Mine on the Rand, New Plant for, 13

Gold Mines of the Rand, Number of White Employees, 641

Gold Mining Congress and Exhibition Suggested for Johannesburg, 697

Goldfields, Transvaal, Output and Other

Records, 323

Gold Output of Ontario, 669

Government and Railway-owned Canal, 113

Grain Elevator with Capacity of 2,000,000

Bushels for Edmonton, Alberta, 105

Grain Growth in Metal, Lecture, Francis S. Dodd, 669

Graphite Deposit, Reported Discovery in Mexico, 323

Great Lakes Water Diversion for Chicago, Strong Protest Against, 697

Greenock Harbour Trust to Proceed with

Scheme for Extension of Graving Dock, 133

Grindstone Bursting, Factories Inspector’s Report, 45

Gypsum, High-grade, Discovery of Undeveloped Deposit in Nova Scotia, 585

H HAILSTONES on Christmas Day of Record Size and Weight, 409

Hankow, Tramway and also Railless Trams Services Projected, 265

Harbour Improvement at Kingston, Ontario, 105

Harland and Wolff, Limited, 142

Harwich-Zeebrugge Train Ferry Service, Its Value for Heavy Machinery Transport, 555

Heat Transmission Research in Canada, 237

Henderson, Mr. A., Factory Bill Changes of Definition, 437

Hotel-building Within Temporary Wooden Shell to Protect Workmen from Extreme Cold, 697

Houses, Concrete, Dutch System, for Liverpool, 550

Houses, Proposed New Typo of, 295

Hull Corporation and London and North-Eastern Railway, Suggested Pontoon and New Pier Construction, 409

Hull and Lincolnshire Traffic, New Pier and Pontoon Scheme, 13

Hydro-electric Generator, Tests of Hydraulic Efficiency, 555

Hydro-electric Plants in Norway, Results of Survey of, 381

Hydro-electric Power in Sweden, 112

Hydro-electric Station near Foot of Lake Windermere, 409

Hydro-electric Works Duplication in New Zealand, Tenders to be Called for, 641

INDIAN Importsand Exports, Statistics, 499,

Indian Mines, Report of Coal Dust Committee, 437

Industry and Trade, Meeting of Committee, 495

Information Bureaux and Special Libraries, 113

Institutes and Institutions—see Associations

International Roads Congress, 521

Iron Oxide Reduction by Carbon Monoxide, Experimental Work, 45

IRON AND STEEL :

Automobile Steels, Publications on, 99

Barberton District of South Africa, Discovery of Nickel Ore, 211

Blast-furnace in Canada, Record Output, 105

Blast-furnace Using Coke for Fuel, 13

Cast Iron Research Association :

Annual Meeting, 625

Development, 105, 133

Laboratories Taken Over, 133

Moulding Sands Investigation Arranged for, 351

Cleveland Blast-furnace Practice Defended, 585

Dudley, Iron Works at, Hope of Trade Revival and Re-starting, 295

Electrolytic Iron, Company Formed in Milan for Manufacture of, 133

Experimental Iron Blast-furnace at Minneapolis, 163

Explosions of Cast Iron Hot-plates, 381

Hanyang, China, Large Ironworks Financial Difficulties, 641

Hot-water Tanks, Steel, in America, Reduction in Number of Sizes Made, 13

Iron Ore, Compressive Strength of, Extensive Tests, 323

Manganese Deposits at Insuta, West Africa, Yearly Increase of Output, 613

“ Mechanically Perfect Electrolytic Nickel,” Charles P. Masden, 105

National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers :

Pig Iron and Steel Production in June, 105

Pig Iron and Steel Production in July, 237

Pig Iron and Steel Production in August, 351

Pig Iron and Steel Production in September, 437

Pig Iron and Steel Production in October, 585, 613

Pig Iron and Steel Production in November, 697

New* Steel, H. Rossell and Co., Limited, 512

Pig Iron Output of Canada, 608

Pig Iron in the United States, Reduced Output, 295

Redshortness in Wrought Ferrous Metals, 697

Richborough, New Blast-furnace, 613

Seamless Steel Tubing, Manufacture of, W. C. Chancellor, 381

“ Stabrite Silver Steel,” Thos. Firth and Sons, 381

Stainless Steel Ball Bearings, Tests Results, 465

IRON AND STEEL {continued):

Steel Cables for Delaware Bridge, 25,100

Miles of Wire Needed, 697

Steel Houses for Glasgow, Lord Weir’s Offer Accepted, 381

Steel Industry in India, Government Bounty Proposed, 641

Steel, Medium Carbon, with High Manganese Content, Report, J. A. Jones, 437

Steel Production, New Method Reducing Cost by Half, Invented by Swede, 525

Synthetic Cast Iron Making, Tests, 45

Tasmanian Ironworks Projected at Burnie, 105

Weatherproof Iron, Samuel Osborn and Co., Limited, 27

IRRIGATION Association, Western Canada, Annual Convention, 45

Italian Hydro-electric Companies, Prosperity of, in 1923, 381

J JAPAN, Completion of Orito Tunnel and Its Result, 13

Japanese Development at Hakata, Big American Contract Signed for Harbour, Docks, and other Works, 381

KINGSTON (Ontario), Reported Plans for

Very Large New Dry Dock, 211, 265

L LADLES, Bottom-Pour, New Design of Nozzle for, 105

Lanarkshire, Collapse of Old Bridge, 323

Lantern Slides, Offers of, for Lectures, Ed.

Bennis and Co., Limited, 554

Lead Mines in Derbyshire, Work Re-started at, 409

Lever Brothers’ Projected Dock at Bromborough, 265

Light Lorry, Typo Required under Subsidy by War Department, 105

Lightning, Possibilities and Probabilities of Stroke, 495

Locomotive, Storage Battery, Largest Yet Built in the United States, 295

Locusts in Argentina, Protection Against by Galvanised Steel Sheets, 721

Los Angeles Harbour Improvement, 585

Los Angeles Harbour, Improvements in Shipyards, 159

Low-temperature Distillation, H. Nielsen, 555

Lysaght, John, Limited, and Dominion Sheet

Metal Company, 437

M MAGNET Causes Noises to Issue from a Loud Speaker, 669

Manchester Geological and Mining Society, 17

Manchester Ship Canal Receipts, Decrease, 105

Manganese—see Iron and Steel

Manitoba Province, All the Pulp Wood Area for Sale by Dominion Government, 669

Mars under Observation to Settle Question as to Existence of Life on the Planet, 211

“ Mavor and Coulson,” Travelling Post-graduate Scholarship, 449

Melbourne Tramways Question, 75

Melbourne, Widening of Victoria Dock, 381

Mercury Vapour Turbine, Further Development, 105

Mersey Dock for Lever Brothers, Predicted Cost, 437

Metal Moulding Trade in New South Wales, Conditions of Apprenticeship, 75

Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company,

Limited, Important Contract, 504

Mexican Government’s Concession for Large Irrigation Dam and other Works, 351

Mica, Its Great Utility, India’s Large Production and Excessive Waste, 495

Mineral Production of Australia for 1922, 351

Mineral Resources of Canada, Dr. C. V. Corless, 211

Miners’ Flame Safety Lamps, Wire Gauze Experiments, 295

Mines Breathing Apparatus, German-made, has Passed Official Tests for British Use, 133

Mines Safety Research Board Report, 237

Mining Subsidence Damage in North Staffordshire, 725

Mining Subsidence, Royal Commission’s Inspection, 323

Minneapolis Methodist Church Displayed by Flood Lights at Night, 185

Montreal, New South Shore Bridge Across the St. Lawrence, 669

Motor Road Building Projects in China, 585

Motor Spirit, Important Now Discovery, 465

Motor Vehicles, Shock Absorber, Prize Competition for, 465

Museum of Engineering Industry, Projected for New York, 105

Mussoorie Improvement, Important Projects for, 555

Mysore Government Projects for Exploitation of State’s Natural Resources, 669

Mysore Survey for Utilising the Gairsoppa Falls, 613

N NAPLES, 200 Million Lire Allotted for Port Enlargement, 185

Natural Gas in Canada, 697

Netherlands East Indies, Deep Sea Harbour at Semarang, 641

Now Brunswick Surveys for Hydro Development Requirements at Grand Falls, 381

Newcastle, Bridge Strengthening to Cope with

Increased Weight of Traffic, 335

Newcastle and Gateshead, Progress of New Bridge Across the Tyne, 265

Newcomen Fire-grate Relic, 697

New Guinea Copper Mines Plans, 13

New South Wales, Details of Proposed Bridge Across the George’s River, 323

New South Wales New Cement-making Plant, 555

New South Wales and New Zealand, Tenders Asked for for Metal Work for Bridges, 304

New Zealand, Arapuni Hvdro-electric Scheme, 351

New Zealand, Hydro-electric Power and Projected Increase, 495

New Zealand, Proposed Harbour Works at Gisborne, 323

Niagara Falls Illumination by Night, Projected Joint Scheme, 555

Niagara Falls, Model to Demonstrate Scenic Effect, 105

Norway’s Solution of Unemployment Trouble, 525

Nottingham as a Port, 295

o OILFIELDS in Argentina, Campbell M. Hunter, 585

Oil-hardening Factories in Norway, 237

Oil Shale in Fushun, Concession Secured by South Manchuria Railway, 265

Oil Still Explosion, Official Report, 585

Oil Well Drilling, Comparison Between Rotary Drilling and Cable Tool Drilling, 323

Oil Wells Sinking in Angola and Near Loanda, 381

Old Tools Replace Binders in Harvesting After Bad Weather, 444

Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission,

Differences of Opinion, 725

Increased Capacity of Nipigon Plant, 323

Increasing Capacity of Cameron Falls Plant, 55

Proposal for Diversion of Waters from Two Rivers, 323

Ore Discovery, Valuable, in Johore, 211

Orc Transport in Mines, Cost and Efficiency of Different Methods, 403

Overhead Equipment, W. Nairn at Congress of Tramways and Light Railways Association, 75

Oxidation Test on Lubricating Oils, 75

p PAINT, Weather-proof, 105

Panama Canal Cargo, United States Ships’ Carrying Share More than Double the English, 13

Paper Making in Quebec, Tremendous Progress, 237

Paper Mill, Greatest in the World, at Quebec, 585

Paraffin Removal from Oil Wells by Use of Sodium Peroxide, Successful Use also for Cleansing Wells and Increasing Output, 409 Parker Hardened Drive Screws, Charles

Churchill and Co., Limited, 62

Permanent Paint, Reputed Many Virtues, 105 Petrol Imported to the Clyde, Products Store, 323

Petroleum Discovered in Department of Heravdt, 381

Platinising, New Process to Prevent Weather Affection of Metals, 525

Platinum, Alluvial, Discoveries in the Transvaal, 697

Platinum Deposits in Waterberg District of the Transvaal, 585

Platinum Exports from Colombia, 45

Platinum Mining in the Transvaal, 613

Platinum Output from Colombia, 409

Poplar, Great Demand for Electrolytic Fluid, 75 Port Construction and Equipment, Contracts

Between Russia and Franco-Polish Group, 75 Portland Cement, Inspection of, J. R. Dwyer and Roy N. Young, 523

Portland Cement, Its Widespread Empire Manufacture, 265

Portugal and South Africa, Agreement as to Lorenzo Marques, 48

Post Office Tube Railway Orders, 479

Power Alcohol from Beet, Committee to Deal with the Question, 409

Premier Diamond Mine, Statistics of Work and Value Realised, 641

Professor Risler’s Experiments with Gas-fdled Tubes at the Sorbonne Laboratory, 669

Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada, Analysis of Use of Water Power in, 159

Pulverised Fuel Utilisation, Quigley Process Rights Purchased, 159

Q QUARRIES in Great Britain and the Isle of Man, List of, 295

Quayside Work, Record Largo Wooden Dummy or Fender for Holding off Leviathan, 295

Quebec Development Company, Progress of Damming Work, 75

Quebec Harbour Improvement, Federal Government Loan, 159, 211

Queensland Government’s Projected Wharves on the Brisbane River, 555

R RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :

Accidents :

Accident at Lime-street Station, Liverpool, 495

Broken Coupling Rod, 237

Buffer Stop Collision at London-road Station, Manchester, 351

Collision near St. Helens, and Report, 159

Collision at Stalybridge, 517

Collision, Unusual, on Great Central Section, London and North-Eastern Line, 265

Derailment Caused by Cloudburst, 159

Derailment of East Coast Express Coaches, 13

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued):

Accidents {continued):

Derailment on the London, Midland and Scottish Line, Lieut.-Colonel Mount’s Report, 555

Derailment of Night Express at Buddon, Report, No Definite Cause Discovered, 525

Engine Tire Failure near Weedon, 437

Escape of Express Passenger Train, near Ay cliff e, 613

Fatal Accident at Haymarket Station, Edinburgh, 133, 211

Fatal Collision Outside Preston, 64!

Gravesend Accident, Workmen’s Ticket Accident Liabilities, 669

Inquiries into Railway Accidents and their Results, 265

Level Crossing Accident, but Crossing Owner’s Risk, 697

Lime-street Station, Liverpool, Slight Collision, 133

Lytham Disaster, Adjournment of Inquest, 585 ; Inquest Verdict, Accidental Death, 613

Ministry of Transport Inquiries, 45, 351

Minor Collision Causes Closing of Charing Cross Station, 323

Minor Mishaps on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 241

Montgomery-North-Western Railway of India, Ninety-five Passengers Killed in Collision, 265 ; Increase in Death Roll, 295

Previous Accidents Recalled, 105, 159, 185, 323

Report on Collision at Eastwood, 1 33

Report on Collision at New-street Station, Birmingham, 381

Report on Fatal Collision Outside Euston Station, 295

Reports on Throe Accidents, 668

September’s Bad Record for Railway Accidents, 323

Signalman’s Temporary Aberration of Mind Cause of Collision at Stoke Works Junction, 381

United States Accident Returns for 1923, 725

American Railway Centennial Invitation, 697

American Railway Labour in 1914 and 1924,

Result of Investigation of Wages, Hours, &c., 237

Annual Railway Reports, Statistics, of Ballast, Fencing, Rails and Sleepers, Used in 1923, 555

Appointments and Staff Changes, 45, 105, 185, 211, 465, 585, 669

Associated Society and the Railway Companies, 13

Australia, Northern and Southern Railway to be Built, 555

Australian Commonwealth Parliament, Bill for Construction of Ky ogle-South Brisbane Railway, 641

Australian Commonwealth’s Proposed Construction of Three Goods Lines, 265

Australian New Railway Schemes to be Presented to Federal Parliament, 409

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Centenary, 207 Belgian Congo Railway Electrification, 725 Bombay’s Proposed Underground Railway and Suburban Railway Electrification, 105

Bradshaw, New, Certain Changes Made, 133

British Columbia Electric Railway, Big

Power Tunnel for, 409

British Empire Exhibition and Increased Traffic, 211

British Tender Accepted for British Tramways, though Dearest of Three Offers, 133

Brussels, Metropolitan Railway’s New Planning, 323

Cairo-Suez Standard Gauge Electric Railway, Proposed, 237

Canada, Northern Railway Situation and Future Policy, 45

' Canadian National Railways, Programme, Rejected Bills, 159

C.P.R., New Branch Line, 105

Canal Schemes under Consideration, 113, 185

Capetown-Simonstown Suburban Line Electrification, 641, 697

Cargo Boats, Two New, for Weymouth and Channel Islands Service, 495

Central London Railway, Alteration of Signals and Additional Trains, 105

Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, Request for Tube Railway between South Kensington and South of Thames, 133

Chesterfield to Scrap Electric Tramways and Replace with Trackless Car Service, 669

City Railway, Reopened Section and First Train, 641

City and South London Railway, Reconstruction Approaching Completion, 585

Colombian Government’s Consent to Projected Funicular Railway, 323

Convention of Railway Engineers in Berlin, 279

Cost of Living Higher, but no Change in Wages, 437

Crow’s Nest Pass Railway Rates in Canada, 351

Death of Sir Arthur Anderson, 381

Death of Mr. August Belmont, 725

Death of Brigadier-General Sir Hugh Drummond, 159

Death of Mr. W. Garstang, 437

Death of Mr. F. E. Gobey, 409

Death of Mr. Richard Johnson, 323

Death of Mr. W. L. Meredith, 185

Death of Mr. W. Parker, 45

Death of Colonel H. M. Sinclair, 75

Death of Mr. W. H. Stanier, 45

Death of Mr. H. K. Woodward, 409

Deputation Ask as Work for Unemployed the Building of a Railway between Abergavenny and Talyllin, 133

Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, First Electric Locomotive for, 45, 105

District Railway’s New Cars, Great Improvements, 185

East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula Railways, Their Future, 13

East Indian Railway Transferred to the State at End of Current Year, 437

East London Railway, Bill for its Acquisition Deposited by the Southern Railway, 641

Electrical Apparatus, Successful Test on the South African Railways, 585

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

Electrification of Lines Between Manchester (Victoria), through Oldham, to Shaw, 585

Engine Tire Failures not Uncommon, 437

Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, Royal

Engineers, Territorial Army, New Commander, 697

Enginemen’s Mileage Increase, Companies Offer, 641

Escalators at Shepherd’s Bush Station, Central London Railway, 525

Excursion Fares, Pre-war, and Present Time, 211, 351

Export Trade Depression Ascribed to Railway Charges, 465

Facing-points Operation by Low-voltage Electrical Mechanism, 585

Fish by Train Ferry, Scotland to Genoa, 555

Footbridges and Level Crossings, 13

French Colonies Development Scheme, 697

German New Railway Board and the Dawes

Report, Names of Four Foreign Members, 409

Glasgow Subway Improvements, 437

Great Eastern ' Train Ferries, Chairman’s

Hopeful Outlook, 295

G.I.P Railway Electrification, Rapid Progress, 409, 641

Great Indian Peninsula’s Successful Half Year, 45

Great Southern (Ireland) Railway Company as Amalgamation of all the Wholly Free State Railways, 725

Great Western Railway :

Birmingham District, New Trains for Suburban Traffic, 555

Caerphilly Castle, from the Exhibition, Back to Work, 585

Contracts, Important Constructional, for

Sheds at Stourbridge and Evesham, 211 Decrease in Traffic in Coal, Diminished

Receipts and Much-increased Wages Bill, 641

Devon and Cornwall Sections, Reconstruction Schemes, 697

Fast Timing on the Great Western, 495

Great Bear Re-named, 437

Great Bear Engine, Repair and Reconstruction, 105

Iver, New Station Opened, 641

Railway Servants, Low Average of Accidents to, 237

Record Speed by Mauretania Special to Paddington, 725

Saltney, near Chester, Projected Alterations at, 237

South Wales, Bad Trade Conditions and Effect on Railwaymen, 669

Swindon to Paddington Quick Run, 405 Unemployment Relief Work, 211

Wagons, Further Fifty, for Coal, Delivered, 409

Windsor Castle, with the King as Driver, Commemoration Plate, 585

Grouping, and Closing of Works, 13

Hull Corporation Tramways Rails, British, though Highest, Tender Accepted, 133

Hull Purchase of Tram Rails from Germany, A Saving of £3000, 211

India, Railway Board, Conference on Standardisation, 613

Indian Railways, A Serious Situation, 323 ;

Compromise Arrived at, 351

Institutes and Institutions, Railway and Transport—see Associations

Interim Dividends and their Signification, 133

International Railway Congress in 1925, 381

Inter-State Commerce Commission Orders for Automatic Train Control, 265

Irish Free State, Railway Tribunal Members, 409

Irish Free State Railway Unification Difficulties, 237, 265 ; New Appointment, 409

Irish Port for America, Blacksod or Galway, Distances to Dublin and Belfast, 377

Irish Railway Tribunal, Free State, Enforced Reduction of Rates for Passengers and Goods, 495

Irish Railways Amalgamation, The Great Southern Railway (Ireland), 613

Irish Trade Union Strike Ended, 323

Japanese Mount Fujiyama, Proposed Cable Railway for, 381

Level Railway Crossings, Proposed Abolition of Some, 185

Light Railway Orders—see Ministry of Transport

Light, A Third, for Railway Signals, Investigation by National Physical Laboratory, 264

Listowel and Ballybunion Railway Closed, 437

Living Link, The Only, with the World’s First Railway Engine, 75

Locomotive Construction in Russia, Soviet Programme, 351

Locomotive, Electric, First Built in Spain, 465

Locomotive Enginemen’s Threatened Strike, 613

Locomotive Repairs on British Railways in 1923, 525

Locomotives for China, Order Given to British Firm, 363

Locomotives of this Country, Their Coal and Oil Consumption in 1923, 525

Locomotives for Egypt, 649

London Electric Railways :

Hendon to Edgware Extension, 133, 159, 237,409

Improvements During the Past Year, 465 New Under-the-River Connection, Four Shafts Sunk, 323

London, Midland and Scottish Railway :

Bally castle Railway to be Taken Over by the Northern Counties System, 159

Caledonian Section, Strathaven and Darvel Branch, Question of Closing, 45

Census of Employees on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 409

Cinematograph Lectures for Instruction of Railwaymen, 585

Cost of Living and Superannuitants, 75

Crewe Railwaymen’s War Memorials, 613 Destructive Fire at Stoke-on-Trent Works, 105

RAILWAYS ANDJTRAMWAYS (continued) :

London, Midland and Scottish Railway (continued) :

“ Engine-drivers’ Hotel,” Camden Town Hostel, 697

Girders, Huge, Successfully Transported from Reddish to Chesterfield, 377

Glasgow Underground Electrification Question, 140

Government and Railway-owned Canal, 113, 185

Inverness Railway Shops, No Reduction at Present, 381

Kitchen Cars, Independent, New Type, Provided, 265

Long Service and Unbroken Records, 344

Lytham Accident and Grouping Changes, 622

Overcrowding on Trains Between Glasgow and London, 133

“ Prevention Better than Cure,” 159

Removal of Knott Spit Promontory to Improve Navigation of Fleetwood Boats, 261

St. Pancras and Nottingham, Fast Nonstop Train, 351

Signalling Changes on the Line, 381

Single Line Loop and Bridge Projected to Connect with Colliery, 295

Sleeping Car Train for Stranraer Starting from Euston Instead of St. Pancras, 356 Staff Changes, 211

Steel and Jarrah Non-inflammable Timber, Projected Use of, for Passenger Cars, 390 Track Circuits on London and North-Western Section, 390

Turbine Steamer Order for the Clyde, 185 Wolverton and Wagon Repair, 75

London and North-Eastern Railway :

Coaling and Sanding Electric Automatic Plant for Locomotives at Doncaster, 437 Eight Largest Locomotives to Test a Bridge, 613

Falling Reserves, Trade Depression and Weak Partners, 159

Hull and Barnsley’s Springhead Works to Close and Locomotive Work to Concentrate at Darlington, 13, 237

Locomotion No. I., 1825, and Flying Scotsman Exhibited at York, 613

Series of Appointments, 185, 669

Sheffield Pullman to Sleep at Sheffield Instead of in London, 13

Sir Ralph Wedgwood’s Appeal for Coal Economy, 159

Six-mile New Line and Nine New Bridges Required, 669

Standardisation of Equipment Used by Men, 525

Stockton and Darlington Railwaymen Still Living, Names Wanted, 641

Terminal Changes Consequent on Grouping, 528

Timber to be Replaced by Girder Bridge, 13

London to Peking in Sixteen Days, 669

London Underground Railway, Extension of Hampstead and Highgate Line from Hendon to Edgware, 158

Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, New Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Shops at Perarnbur, 237

Melbourne Goods Yard of the Victorian Government, 105

Melbourne’s New Railway Lines, 555

Metropolitan District Railway New Rolling Stock, 647

Metropolitan District Railway Time-saving by Faster Train Running, 265

Metropolitan Junction, London Bridge, Collision Resulting from Misread Signal, 351

Metropolitan Railway Bonus of 10 Per Cent, to Men of all Grades for Extra Work due to British Empire Exhibition, 39

Metropolitan Railway Rolling Stock, Lettering of Vehicles, 105

Ministry of Transport:

Ashover Light Railway Extension, &c., Inquiry, 105 ; Ministry Order Made, 265 Census of Railway Employees, 409

Facing Points Distance from Signal-boxes, Ministry’s Regulations, 495

Kingston Down (near Calstock) Light Railway Order, 185

Lancashire and Yorkshire Loop Line Order, Time Limit Extension Sought, 258

Statistics for April, 1924, 133

Statistics for June, Passenger and Freight, 211, 350, 381

Statistics for July, 474

Statistics for August, 697

Statistics for September, 725

Mornington-crescent Station Reopened, 45

Motor-rail Cars on Country Railway Lines in Australia, Successful Running and Introduction to be Tried in New Zealand, 351

National Union of Railwaymen :

Demands Placed in the Hands of the Railway Companies, 725

Forty-eight Hours’ Week ; Washington Convention Resolution, 75

Nationalisation of Railways, 75

Netherlands East Indies, New Electrification Schemes, 669

New South Wales, Proposed Railway Extension and Electrification, 105

New South Wales Railways, Report by Sir Sain Fay and Sir Vincent Raven, 437

New Zealand, Projected Railway Improvement Scheme, 409

New Zealand Railways’ Inquiry About to be Made, 265

Nidd Valley Light Railway, Proposed Electrification Economically Impracticable, 669

Night Expresses to Scotland, Recent Addition, 105

Nord-Sud Trains in Paris, Loud Speakers Installed to Announce Stations, 105

North-South Transcontinental Railway, Australian Opinion Divided, 75

North of Spain Railway Electrification, 585

Old Pneumatic Tube Railway, Projected

Utilisation for Underground Trunk Telephone Cables, 525

One Man Tramcar, 578

Overcrowding in Long-distance Trains, 75

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Line, Contemplated New Line Shortening Journey between Paris and Marseilles, 669

Passengers and Mileage in July, 465

Pietermaritzburg, First Electric Locomotive Leaves for Glencoe Junction, 295

Pilfering, Railway, Action by the Men’s Unions, 233

Polish Railway Schemes, Large Electrical, 211

Post Office Tube Railway, Orders, 479

Power Signalling Apparatus and Tracks Alterations, Central Argentine Railway, Buenos Aires, 725

Rail Car for Paris Suburban Line, New Arrangement of Machinery, 437

Railroad Priority in America, 555

Railway Bills Deposited for Next Session by Various Lines, 641

Railway Centenary in September, 1925, Railway Companies’ Association’s Invitation to International Railway Congress, 13, 237

Railway Material Exports Statistics, 56, 236, 295, 437, 525, 669

Railwaymen in New Parliament, List of Names, 525

Railwaymen’s Unions, Size and Wealth, 45

Railwaymen’s Wages, 465

Railway Rates Tribunal, Standard Charges Question, 13, 185

Railway Returns for 1923, 189

Railway Servants Rating Figures, 45

Rolling Stock, British Railway, Analysis for 1923, 555

Rope-hauled Trains and the Regulations, 465

Santander and Calatayud, Railway Projected Between, 45

Seven Electric Locomotives, New Type, Ordered in America, 585

Shanghai-Nanking Railway, Increase in Passengers, 585

Shortened Funnels for Running on the North British System, 725

Shunting, Gravitational, German and American Devices, 665

Signal and Telegraph Branch of the Victorian Government Railways, 613

Signalling, Three-position, 724

Signalmen’s New Union, 105

South Africa Rolling Stock Order to Go Abroad, 193

South Africa, Union of, Minister of Railways Commission on Railway Workshops Question, 465

South Africa, Union of, Over 400 Miles of New Lines to be Opened Shortly, 295

South Australian Government Proposes Electrification in Adelaide Area, 351

Southern Railway :

Basingstoke and Alton Branch Line Reopened, 185

Brighton Section Electrification Progress ; also South-Eastern from Victoria to Orpington, 585

Brighton Section Vehicles Fitted with Vacuum Brake, 437

Cross-Channel Steamer, Company’s New, 585

Eastbourne Complaints and Company’s Promise, 585

Route of Trains from Waterloo to Portsmouth, 13

Sir Herbert Walker on Work of Staff and on Improved Revenue, 169

Ventnor, Projected Funicular Railway, 585

Spanish New Railway Policy, New Rolling Stock Orders, 495

Spanish Railway Electrification, Tenders Called for, 295

Steam and Electric Trains in Manchester Area, Comparison in Timing, 323

Strikes and Government’s Powers, 13

Suggested Land Purchase for Stone Quarry Extension, 669

Summer Train Services, 75

Sunderland Docks, Projected Railway Sidings Adjoining, 725

Sunderland Replaces Tramways by Motor Omnibuses, 465

Sweden, North, Rapid Railway Development, 295

Swedish State Railways’ Budget Demands, 351

Swiss Federal Railways Prohibit the Use of Gas-lighted Vehicles, 211

Swiss Railway Electrification, Locomotive Mechanical Parts, 17

Tasmanian Railways’ New Appointment, 159

Tattenham Corner Signal-box Completely Destroyed by Fire, 105

Timber Railway Viaducts Disappearing, 613

Toronto, Railway Viaduct and Union Termini Completion Projected, 101

Toronto’s Street Railway System, 706

Trackless Trams on Rotherham System, 697

Traffic Receipts of Four Grouped Companies, Decrease Due to Strikes, 45

Trams, Electric, Proposed Substitution of Trolley Omnibuses 697

Tube Railways, Doors of New Rolling Stock, 133

Tubes, Suggested New, but Unprofitable, 725

Turbo-condensing Locomotive’s Record Journey, 159

United States Defective Percentage of Rolling Stock and Violations of Safety Appliance Acts, 351

United States Representation at the International Railway Congress, 555

Victoria Railways, Proposed Change of Sites for Certain Works, 725

Wagons, Railway-owned, Annual Reports, 525

War-time Railways by British Engineers in France, Order for Preservation for Public Use, 437

Watford New Line, Remodelling of Station Yard of Metropolitan and London and North-Eastern Joint Railways, 495

Welsh Highland Railway and Passenger Traffic, 677

West Hartlepool Light Railways Orders, 697

West Somerset Mineral Railway Sold by Auction, 185

Wireless Telegraphy, Experiments in its Applications to Railways, 45

Woolwich Locomotives, Twenty Sold to Southern Railway, 465

RAND Record for Shaft-sinking, 555

Remington Typewriter Company Starting Plant in Toronto, 697

Resin from Oporto, Crude Distillation Methods, 265

Rhodesia, Mulungushi Falls Hydro-electric Scheme, 585

Rhodesian Museum, Bulawayo, Government

Grant for Geologist, 585

Rio de Janeiro Docks Improvement, Further Contracts for, 159

Road Congestion at Westminster, 495

Road Surfaces, Complaints of Slipperiness and

Investigation, 295

Roads Bill, New, Introduced, 105

Roads in Quebec, Steady Improvement Reported, 237

Roumanian Market for British Goods, 13

Royal Technical College, Glasgow, Amalgamation of Departments, 62

Royal Technical College, Glasgow, Electrical

Engineering Equipment, 363

Rubber Latex, Results of Tests on, 265

Rubber in Liquid Form, Increased Shipments of, to America, 409

Russian Geological Committee Reports Coal Discoveries in Petchora Region, 697

Russia’s First Steam Turbine Since the Revolution, 13

s .ST. LAWRENCE Waterways Project, Proposed Treaty between Canada and United States, 295

Sandalwood Oil Refineries at Bangalore and Mysore City, Prosperous Pioneer Industry, 211

San Francisco, Projected Water Front Extension, 295

Santa Fe, Reported New Dock Project at, 555

Sault St. Marie, Combined Traffic in Various Canal Systems at, 409

Scholarship, Entrance, University College, 220

Scholarships, “ D. B. Morison ” Engineering Apprentice, 449

Scholarships in Engineering, Awards by “ Beams,” 600

Scholarships, “ Mavor and Coulson ” Travelling Post-graduate, 449

Screws, Drive, Parker Hardened, Charles Churchill and Co., Limited, 62

Severn Barrage Scheme, Private Report, 75

Sewage Pump, Electrically Driven, for Calcutta, Tenders Invited, 641

Shanghai Automatic Telephones on Trial in View of Further Installations, 323

Sheffield’s Unemployment Relief, Projected Expenditure, 351

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :

Allentown, 8000-Ton Tanker, Conversion from Steam to Diesel-electric Propulsion, 159

Anchor Liner Ordered for Indian Service, ] 85 Australia’s Two New Cruisers, Plans for Floating Dock and Building Cruisers in England, 133 ; Tenders to be Called for from England and Australia, 295, 381

British Submarine’s Record Voyage, 185

Cable Ship, New, The Cable, for Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, 495

Clyde Tonnage Launched in August, and for Eight Months of Current Year, 265

Cruiser, New, Keel Laid, Vickers Limited, 464

Cruisers, First of the Five New, Started, 409

Cunard Liner Franconia’s Mishap, 133

Egremont Castle, Successful Salving of, After Fire and Explosion, 45

Electric Passenger Ship, Reputed Largest in the World, Under Construction, 105, 159 Gyro-compass Position on New Canadian Pacific Steamers, 465

H.M.S. Lion Broken Up, 555

Isle of Wight, Motor Lifeboat for, 542

Itchen, Ship and Yacht Building Yard at, 127

Largest Turbine-electrically Propelled Seagoing Liner, Projected Construction, 105, 159

Laurentic’s Gold Salving Progress, 237

Mauretania’s Record Speed, 75

Mauretania’s Speed Record Beaten by Herself, 211

Notable Ship Reconstruction by Swedish Company, 323

Oil Tanker for New Zealand, 381

Orient Liner Oronsay Fitted with Duct Keel, 237

Rio Dorado’s Construction, Exceptional, Details, 13

Scapa Flow Sunken German Vessels, Progress of Salving, 237, 265, 295, 381, 437

Steam Trawler Fatal Accident Due to Stop Valve Failure, 555

Submarine L 53 to be Commissioned for Service, 669

Tees Much Increased Shipbuilding, 725

Thames Proposed Passenger Fleet, Sir George Hulme’s Views, 323

Thorny croft Motor Boat, 551

United States Naval Programme for Ships and Aircraft, 613

White Star Liner Arabic, Change of Service, 133

Wooden War-time Ships, American, to be Burnt at Sea, 351

Yarrow’s Designs for Dutch Destroyers Accepted, 265

SISAL Hemp Production in the Empire, 21

Slag Sand Used for Concrete, 409

Smoke Abatement Bill Deferred, 6 9

Societies—see Associations

Standards—see British

Steam Pipe, Copper, Fatal Failure of, 211

Steam Retort for Experimental Purposes, New Features, 323

Steam Turbines, Proposed Maximum Sizes, 75

Storage Dams on Quebec Rivers, Plans now under Review, 105

Subsidy Type Light Lorries, War Department Specification, 89

Subsoil Water Rising, Preventive Means, 697

Subway in Brussels, Surveys Started for, 525

Sugar Mill, Large, for Jamaica, Duncan

Stewart and Co., 347

Sugar and Motor Spirit Factory in Mysore, 697 Sulphur Content of Organic Substances, Method of Estimation of, 45

Sulphur Production Increase in Japan, 10

Sulphuric and Hydrochloric Acids, Commercial, Simultaneous Production of, Differing Processes Suggested, 265

Sweden’s Hydro-electric Power but Continued Need for Fuel, 133

Swedish Immense Hydro-electric Resources, Possibilities of Much Increased Use, 495

Swedish Telegraphs and Broadcasting, 237

Sydney, Two Automatic Telephone Exchanges for, 105

TANGANYIKA Mines, Copper Production, Great Expectations, 409

Tasmanian Proposed Canal at Ralph’s Bay Neck, 75

Telegram Despatch from Unattended Public Call Boxes in Birmingham, 265

Telephone Exchange, Automatic, for Berne, 185

Telephone Exchanges under Construction and

Projected, 295

Telephone Exchanges in India, Statistics of, 185

Telephone Subscribers in Paris, Administration’s Lesson in Patience, 159

Telephones in Durban, Conversion to Automatic Working, 159

Telephones in Italy, Cession to Private Industry, 381

Terrestrial Magnetism Department of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, Report of Work Done, 53

Testing Work by United States Bureau of Standards, 237

Thames Longitudinal Bridge Scheme Rejected, 669

Thames-Severn Canal, Projected Abandonment, 75

Tibet Seeks Engineering Instruction from England, 237

Tinfoil Manufacture in Chekiang, China, 465

Tokyo, Projected Construction of Subways, 265

Town Hall, New, for Nottingham, 641

Train Ferry at Grafton, Clarence River, New South Wales, 641

Train Ferry Service Between Harwich and Zeebrugge, Question of Winter Service, 133

Tramway from Southend to Eltham, Proposed to Apply for Authority for Construction, 133

Trelleborg, Sweden, Harbour Extension, 613

Tunnel, Pedestrian, Under the Liffey, 13

Tunnel, Shandaken, for New York Water Supply, Longest in the World and Quickest Excavated, 265

Turbine, Critical Vibrations and Speeds, 351

u ULTRA-VIOLET Rays Effect on Polished Metal, 211

Unemployment, Great Increase in, 133

United States Company’s Loan for Buenos

Aires Rebuilding and Development, 237

United States Metal Mining Industry Statistics, 669

University College Entrance Scholarship, 220

V VALVES, Steam or Water, Controlled by Electric Motors, 75

Vancouver, Port of, Shipping in and out of, Statistics, 45

Ventilating Fan for Gold Mines, South Africa, Largest in the World, 613

Vermilion Manufacture and Trade in Hong Kong, 295

Victoria Quay, Fremantle, W.A., Construction of, 327

w WAGON and other Wheels, Gears, &c., Constructed by Stroh Process, 75

War Department Subsidy Type Light Lorries Scheme, Enrolment of Vehicles, 185

Water Gauges for Marine Boiler Testing, Causes of Rise and Fall of Water in the Glass, 437

WATER SUPPLY :

Edmonton Supply from Pigeon Lake, 45

Lead Mine Furnishes Pure Water Supply, 525

New South Wales Water Supply Scheme, 613

New York Water Supply, New Tunnel of Record Length and Speed in Excavation, 265

New Zealand, Proposals for Auckland Water Supply, 495

Pumping Station Below Ground Level to Increase Water Supply in Chicago, 409

Rand Water Board’s Supply Scheme, 13

South Africa’s Various Schemes for Water Supply, 697

Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company’s Undertaking Sold, 13

Surface Water Supply of Canada, 380

Vernon Hooper Dam for Durban Water Supply, 45

WATER SUPPLY {continued) :

Victorian Rivers and Water Supply Commission. Great Storage Increase. 697

Worthing Proposes New Waterworks. 669 WATER-TUBE Boiler Explosion. Comparison of American and British-made Tubes. 641 Water-tube Boiler Explosion. Report, 697 Water Wheel Used Since 1847 Replaced by

Turbine, 725

Waygood-Otis Club. Annual Sports, 89

Weathering Properties of Building Stone, Tests and Results, 185

Well Sinking in China. Government Rewards Offered for, 555

Wembley Excursion from Presoot, Lancashire, 421

Western Australia, Mining Statistics of. 492 Westminster Bridge Deflection, Experiments, 211

Wharf to be Constructed Beside Cannonstreet Station, 351

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY:

Aerials and Lightning, Earthing Precautions, 237

Amateur Experimental Work, Need for Guidance, 1$5

Amplification of Received Wireless Signals, 245

Bombay, Butcher Island, Projected Direction Finder Installation for Ships, 555

British Broadcasting Company’s Chelmsford Station Heard on a Crystal at Algiers, 185

Broadcasting in England and America Compared, 555

Broadcasting at Sea, Specially Designed Apparatus for, 465

Crystal Set Experiments, Parts of Human Body Possible to Replace Crystal, 159

Farmer’s Home-made Wireless and an Electric Power Company, New Point in Law, 495

Greece, Wireless Telephony in, 465

High-tension Wireless Batteries, Hart Accumulator Company, Limited, 194

Johannesburg, Tests from New Broadcasting Station, 159

Lectures on Radio Telephony and Broadcasting, 465

Life-saving in Mines, Experiments in Progress, 133

Lighthouses, British Wireless Transmitting Apparatus for, 323

Marconi, Senatore, Return to London After Development of New Beam System, 525 Peking and Tientsin, Tientsin and Shanghai, German Wish to Install Wireless Telephones Between, 437

Post. Office and Radio Society of Great Britain, Difference of Opinion, 495

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY (continued) :

Post and Telegraph Department, South Africa, Rapid Growth of Telephones and Broadcasting, 613

Radio Bearings of Transmitting Stations, Observations of. 641

Radio Club for Poland, The First to be Founded, 641

Radio-telephonic Communication for Mersey Lightships, 725

Radio Transmission Important Results, Claimed from New Development, Dr. J. H. Hammond, jun., 133

Railways and Wireless, Experiments. 45

Regeneration by Inductive Feedback. C. B.

Jollife and Miss J. A. Rodman, 245

Seven Big Wireless Stations for Great Britain and the Continent for Direction of Aircraft Navigation, Reported Scheme for. 295

Ships’ Lifeboats’ Wireless Set, Successful Tests off Melbourne, 409

Transmitter Experiments Between Vienna and British Broadcasting Stations. 13

Wireless Frame Aerial. Reputed Largest in the World. Erected in Aldwych for United States Shipping Board. 75

Wireless Installation, Very Effective, for New Zeppelin, 159

WOOD Distillation in India. Modern Plant, 566

Wood Distillation Plant of Ford Motor Company, 613

Wood Pulp Industry, Large, for North-West Tasmania, 323

Wreckage Two and Half Centuries Old Dredged Up, 409

X-RAYS in Industry, J. F. Driver, 381

YALU Timber Company, New Mill Projected, 13

Yokohama Harbour, Further Enlargement Projected, 75

z

ZINC Mine in British Columbia, Said to bo World’s Largest, 641

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