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ABELL, Professor T. B.. Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies, 149
ABELL, Professor T. B.. Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies, 149
Acetylene Breakdown Equipment, Allen- Liver- sidge, Ltd., vii
 
Acetylene Breakdown Equipment, Allen- Liver-sidge, Ltd., vii
 
Adjustable Cabin Ventilating Fitting, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422
Adjustable Cabin Ventilating Fitting, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422
AERONAUTICS :
AERONAUTICS :
    See al*o Annua) Articles
See al*o Annua) Articles
  Aero-engines—aee Engines
 
Aero-engines—aee Engines
 
Cardington Airship Shed and Mooring Tower, 230, 242, 258, 270, 288. 300 ; (Addendum). 586
Cardington Airship Shed and Mooring Tower, 230, 242, 258, 270, 288. 300 ; (Addendum). 586
  French Air Services, 659
 
  French Trans-atlantic Flights, 554
French Air Services, 659
  International Register of Aircraft, 244
 
French Trans-atlantic Flights, 554
 
International Register of Aircraft, 244
 
AGRICULTURAL Engineering, 104
AGRICULTURAL Engineering, 104
Air Compressor, 4| H.P., Blackstone and Co..
Air Compressor, 4| H.P., Blackstone and Co..
  Ltd., 217
 
Ltd., 217
 
Air Filter for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559
Air Filter for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559
Air Pollution in English and Scotch Towns and Cities, John B. C. Kershaw, 203
Air Pollution in English and Scotch Towns and Cities, John B. C. Kershaw, 203
Alloys, Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in, R. Genders, 323
Alloys, Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in, R. Genders, 323
Alloys—#ee alao Electrical Matters
Alloys—#ee alao Electrical Matters
Aluminium, Soldering and Welding, Some Practical Notes on, A. Eyles, 121
Aluminium, Soldering and Welding, Some Practical Notes on, A. Eyles, 121
Ambrose, E.. Electrical Osmosis, 412
Ambrose, E.. Electrical Osmosis, 412
America and Groat Britain, 415
America and Groat Britain, 415
America—see alto Ships, Naval Matters. alto Railways
America—see alto Ships, Naval Matters. alto Railways
AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS ;
AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS ;
    468, 610, 638
468, 610, 638
  Burning Wood Waste, 638
 
  High-pressure Locomotive, Another, 610
Burning Wood Waste, 638
  High-speed Oil Engines, 638
 
  Improvements in Pointsand Crossings, 610
High-pressure Locomotive, Another, 610
  New Port, 611
 
  Permanent Way Recording Car, 468
High-speed Oil Engines, 638
  Pipe Lines for Oil, 468
 
  Power in the /American Steel Industry, 610
Improvements in Pointsand Crossings, 610
  Proportioning Concrete by Weight, 638
 
  Remote Control Mine Haulage, 610
New Port, 611
  Track Brakes for Gravity Yards, 468
 
  Track Shifting Machine, 610
Permanent Way Recording Car, 468
  Ventilation of the Oakland Tunnel, 610
 
.ANGLE Bender, Heywood and Porteus, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Pipe Lines for Oil, 468
Anglo-French Submarine Telephone (’able. New. Siemens Brothers and Co., 336
 
Annealing Temperatures—«ee Iron and Steel
Power in the /American Steel Industry, 610
ANNUAL ARTICLES :
 
  AERONAUTICS IN 1926, 19, 34
Proportioning Concrete by Weight, 638
  (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Aircraft Engines—see Engines Some Typical British Aeroplanes, 19
 
Remote Control Mine Haulage, 610
 
Track Brakes for Gravity Yards, 468
 
Track Shifting Machine, 610
 
Ventilation of the Oakland Tunnel, 610
 
.ANGLE Bender, Heywood and Porteus, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv
 
Anglo-French Submarine Telephone (’able. New. Siemens Brothers and Co., 336
 
Annealing Temperatures—«ee Iron and Steel
 
ANNUAL ARTICLES :
Aeronautics in 1926, 19, 34
 
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Aircraft Engines—see Engines Some Typical British Aeroplanes, 19
 
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft. Ltd.:
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft. Ltd.:
All-steel Siskin III., A Single-seater Fighter. 37
All-steel Siskin III., A Single-seater Fighter. 37
•* Argosy ” Twenty-seater Three-engined Air Liner, 36, 37
•* Argosy ” Twenty-seater Three-engined Air Liner, 36, 37
Aeroplanes for Aerodynamic Research, 37
Aeroplanes for Aerodynamic Research, 37
    A. V. Roe and Co.. Ltd.:
 
A. V. Roe and Co.. Ltd.:
 
Avro “ Avenger ” Single-seater Scout, 35
Avro “ Avenger ” Single-seater Scout, 35
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued)
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued)
  AERONAUTICS IN 1926 (continued):
 
Aeronautics in 1926 (continued):
 
Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd.:
Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd.:
      “ Ripon ” Torpedo Aeroplane. 37
 
“ Sprat ” Two-seater Ail-purpose Training Machine with 275 H.P. Rolls- Royce Falcon Engine. 37
“ Ripon ” Torpedo Aeroplane. 37
 
“ Sprat ” Two-seater Ail-purpose Training Machine with 275 H.P. Rolls-Royce Falcon Engine. 37
 
“ Iris ” Triple-engined Reconnaissance Flying Boat, 36, 37
“ Iris ” Triple-engined Reconnaissance Flying Boat, 36, 37
Boulton and Paul, Ltd., Work During the Year, 35
Boulton and Paul, Ltd., Work During the Year, 35
    Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.:
 
Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.:
 
Bristol “ Badminton ” Single-seater Racing Machine, 35, 36
Bristol “ Badminton ” Single-seater Racing Machine, 35, 36
Bristol “ Berkeley ” Day Bomber, 34 Bristol “ Boarhound ” Two-seater Military Machine, 34
Bristol “ Berkeley ” Day Bomber, 34 Bristol “ Boarhound ” Two-seater Military Machine, 34
Work for Foreign Countries as Well as Home Ministry, 34
Work for Foreign Countries as Well as Home Ministry, 34
    Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd.:
 
Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd.:
 
'fhe “ Fawn,” “ Flycatcher ” and “ Fox” Machines, 35
'fhe “ Fawn,” “ Flycatcher ” and “ Fox” Machines, 35
    Gloster Aircraft Company. Ltd.;
 
Gloster Aircraft Company. Ltd.;
 
Wooden Aeroplanes Re-designed in Steel, Two New Two-seater Fighting Machines, 37
Wooden Aeroplanes Re-designed in Steel, Two New Two-seater Fighting Machines, 37
      “ Coral ” All-steel Aeroplane, 37
 
“ Coral ” All-steel Aeroplane, 37
 
“Gambet” Single-seater Deck-landing Scout, with Bristol Jupiter Mark VI. Engine, 36, 37
“Gambet” Single-seater Deck-landing Scout, with Bristol Jupiter Mark VI. Engine, 36, 37
    Handley Page, Ltd.:
 
Handley Page, Ltd.:
 
“ Hendon ” Slotted Wing Torpedo Carrier, Two-seater Military Machine, 16, 19
“ Hendon ” Slotted Wing Torpedo Carrier, Two-seater Military Machine, 16, 19
“ Hamlet ” Five-seater Three-engined Slotted Wing Monoplane, 19 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927)
“ Hamlet ” Five-seater Three-engined Slotted Wing Monoplane, 19 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927)
    Hawker Engineering Co.. Ltd.:
 
Hawker Engineering Co.. Ltd.:
 
“ Danecock ” Single-seater Fighter, 21 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927)
“ Danecock ” Single-seater Fighter, 21 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927)
65(1 H.P. “ Horn bill ” Single-seater Fighter, 16, 21
65(1 H.P. “ Horn bill ” Single-seater Fighter, 16, 21
    Short Brothers, Ltd.:
 
      All-metal “ Calcutta ” Flying Boat, 20
Short Brothers, Ltd.:
 
All-metal “ Calcutta ” Flying Boat, 20
 
Duralumin Propeller with Detachable Blades, 20
Duralumin Propeller with Detachable Blades, 20
“ Mussel ” All-metal Seaplane, 20 (Sup piemen t, January 1th, 1927)
“ Mussel ” All-metal Seaplane, 20 (Sup piemen t, January 1th, 1927)
    Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd.:
 
Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd.:
 
“ Southampton ” Flying Boat, 19 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
“ Southampton ” Flying Boat, 19 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
    Vickers Ltd.:
 
Vickers Ltd.:
 
“ Vendace ” Two-seater Training Machine, “Vespa” Army Co-operation Two-seater Aeroplane, 16, 21
“ Vendace ” Two-seater Training Machine, “Vespa” Army Co-operation Two-seater Aeroplane, 16, 21
Viekers-Wibault All-metal Monoplane Scout, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Viekers-Wibault All-metal Monoplane Scout, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
    Westland Aircraft Works, Ltd.:
 
Westland Aircraft Works, Ltd.:
 
Captain G. T. R. Hill’s “ Pterodactyl ” or Tailless Aeroplane, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Captain G. T. R. Hill’s “ Pterodactyl ” or Tailless Aeroplane, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
  BRIDGES IN 1926, 7
 
      (Supplement, January 1th, \Wl)
Bridges in 1926, 7
 
(Supplement, January 1th, \Wl)
 
Berwick Bridge, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Berwick Bridge, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Caversham Bridge, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Caversham Bridge, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Floating Roadway, New, at Seacoin he Ferry, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Lea Marshes Viaduct, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Floating Roadway, New, at Seacoin he Ferry, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Lea Marshes Viaduct, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
ANNUAL ARTICLES (cow/viued) :
ANNUAL ARTICLES (cow/viued) :
  BRIDGES IN 1926 (continued):
Bridges in 1926 (continued):
 
Railway Drawbridge at Keadby, 7 (Supplement, .January 1th, 1927)
Railway Drawbridge at Keadby, 7 (Supplement, .January 1th, 1927)
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1926, 25. 43 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) Converters. Automatic Sub-station, Soho- square. 25 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927)
 
    Electric Traction, 43
Electrical Engineering in 1926, 25. 43 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) Converters. Automatic Sub-station, Soho-square. 25 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927)
      50-Cycle Single-phase Locomotive, Fried.
 
        Krupp, 43, 44
Electric Traction, 43
 
50-Cycle Single-phase Locomotive, Fried.
 
Krupp, 43, 44
 
Electricity in Agriculture. 26 Hydro-electric Plant. 25 Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, Hewittic Electric Company, Ltd., 43
Electricity in Agriculture. 26 Hydro-electric Plant. 25 Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, Hewittic Electric Company, Ltd., 43
      Miscellaneous, 44
 
      Research, 25
Miscellaneous, 44
      Telephones, 44
 
      Television, 26
Research, 25
      The Baird Televisor. 26
 
Telephones, 44
 
Television, 26
 
The Baird Televisor. 26
 
Transatlantic Wireless Telephony, Stations at Rugby and Wroughton. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Turbo-generator Sets, 43
Transatlantic Wireless Telephony, Stations at Rugby and Wroughton. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Turbo-generator Sets, 43
      High-pressure Alternator Windings, C. A.
 
        Parsons and Co., Ltd., 43
High-pressure Alternator Windings, C. A.
 
Parsons and Co., Ltd., 43
 
Wireless Communication, 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Wireless Communication, 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
    Photo-radiogram Receiver and Transmitter, Marconi Company, London, 26 Transmitting Station at Bodmin, Receiving Station Near Bridge water. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) HARBOURS AND WATERWAYS IN 1926, 38 The United Kingdom, 38
 
Photo-radiogram Receiver and Transmitter, Marconi Company, London, 26 Transmitting Station at Bodmin, Receiving Station Near Bridge water. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Harbours and Waterways in 1926, 38 The United Kingdom, 38
 
British Waterways, 38 London, Port of, 38 Mersey, The, and Manchester Ship Canal, 38
British Waterways, 38 London, Port of, 38 Mersey, The, and Manchester Ship Canal, 38
Floating Roadway at Seacombe Ferry, 38 (Supplement. January 1th. 1927)— ttee Bridges (Annual Articles) Naval Dockyards, 38
Floating Roadway at Seacombe Ferry, 38 (Supplement. January 1th. 1927)— ttee Bridges (Annual Articles) Naval Dockyards, 38
Nort h-East Coast and Humber Ports, 38 I Other Ports, 38 Scotland, 38
Nort h-East Coast and Humber Ports, 38 I Other Ports, 38 Scotland, 38
      Southampton, 38
 
    Africa, 39
Southampton, 38
    Australasia, 39
 
Africa, 39
 
Australasia, 39
 
Canada, New Dry Dock at Esquimalt, 39 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) East. The, 39
Canada, New Dry Dock at Esquimalt, 39 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) East. The, 39
    European Ports and Waterways, 38
 
    North and South America, 39
European Ports and Waterways, 38
IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTION IN 1926, 84 LOCOMOTIVES OF 1926, 3
 
      (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
North and South America, 39
Lj angstrom Turbine Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd., 3, 6 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
 
Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84 Locomotives of 1926, 3
 
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
 
Lj angstrom Turbine Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd., 3, 6 (Supplement, January llh, 1927)
 
Reid-MacLeod Turbine Locomotive, L. and N.E.R., Attached to Special Train, 4, 6 Great Western Railway, New Type of Tender for “ Castle ’* Class Engines, 4 5 London. Midland and Scottish, Mixed Traffic Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Reid-MacLeod Turbine Locomotive, L. and N.E.R., Attached to Special Train, 4, 6 Great Western Railway, New Type of Tender for “ Castle ’* Class Engines, 4 5 London. Midland and Scottish, Mixed Traffic Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
London anti North-Eastern Railway, 5 Booster Addition Proved of Great Value, 5, 6
London anti North-Eastern Railway, 5 Booster Addition Proved of Great Value, 5, 6
      Lentz Valve Gear Adopted, 5
 
      New Standard Goods Engine, Extended
Lentz Valve Gear Adopted, 5
          Use of, 5
 
New Standard Goods Engine, Extended
 
Use of, 5
 
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) :
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) :
  LOCOMOTIVES IN 1926 (continued):
 
    Southern Railway. 4
Locomotives in 1926 (continued):
 
Southern Railway. 4
 
Lord Nelson, 3, 4 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
Lord Nelson, 3, 4 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
    Locomotive Industry, 6
 
Locomotive Industry, 6
 
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co,, Ltd.. Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Three-cylinder Oil Fuel Engines, &c., 7
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co,, Ltd.. Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Three-cylinder Oil Fuel Engines, &c., 7
Beyer, Peacock Locomotives, Additional, Garratt Engine for Rhodesia. Central Argentine Railway Eight- coupled Cross Compound Engine, 6, 7
 
Beyer, Peacock Locomotives, Additional, Garratt Engine for Rhodesia. Central Argentine Railway Eight-coupled Cross Compound Engine, 6, 7
 
Kitson and Co., Ltd.. Midland Railway of Western Australia, Locomotives, «. 7
Kitson and Co., Ltd.. Midland Railway of Western Australia, Locomotives, «. 7
North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., Rhodesian Railway Locomotive with Lentz Valves, 6 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., Rhodesian Railway Locomotive with Lentz Valves, 6 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway Six-coupled Three-cylinder Engine, Ac., 7
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway Six-coupled Three-cylinder Engine, Ac., 7
    Light Locomotives, 7
 
Light Locomotives, 7
 
Fowler, John, and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Narrow-gauge Locomotive for 60 cm. Railway for Agricultural Use, 7
Fowler, John, and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Narrow-gauge Locomotive for 60 cm. Railway for Agricultural Use, 7
Puckett and Sons, Ltd., Special Light Engines for Quarry Use, 7
Puckett and Sons, Ltd., Special Light Engines for Quarry Use, 7
MOTOR VESSELS AND MARINE On. ENGINES IN 1926, 8
 
      (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)
Motor Vessels and Marine On. Engines in 1926, 8
    Double-acting Engines, 8
 
        Richardsons, Westgarth and Co.. Ltd..
(Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)
          8. 10
 
Double-acting Engines, 8
 
Richardsons, Westgarth and Co.. Ltd..
 
8. 10
 
Elder Dempster Motor Liners Accra and A papa, with Twin-screw Double-acting Engines, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 8, 9
Elder Dempster Motor Liners Accra and A papa, with Twin-screw Double-acting Engines, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 8, 9
      Opposed-piston Engines, 11
 
  Dox ford Four-cylinder Opposed-piston Airless Injection Oil Engine, 10. 11 Plenty-Still Oil Engine, 10, 11 Progress in Europe and America, 11
Opposed-piston Engines, 11
Rotor Ship Barbara with Two Weser- M.A.N. Engines, 11, 12
 
Dox ford Four-cylinder Opposed-piston Airless Injection Oil Engine, 10. 11 Plenty-Still Oil Engine, 10, 11 Progress in Europe and America, 11
 
Rotor Ship Barbara with Two Weser-M.A.N. Engines, 11, 12
 
Silver Line Motor Cargo Ship Silverash with Opposed-piston Engine. 10, 11 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) Single-acting Four-cycle Engines, 8
Silver Line Motor Cargo Ship Silverash with Opposed-piston Engine. 10, 11 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) Single-acting Four-cycle Engines, 8
        Dolores do Urquiza, A. and J. Inglis.
 
Dolores do Urquiza, A. and J. Inglis.
 
Ltd., 9 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)
Ltd., 9 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)
      Single-acting Two-cycle Engines, 9
 
Single-acting Two-cycle Engines, 9
 
Some Large Motor Passenger Liners, Union Castle Liner Carnarvon Castle, Harland and WolfT, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
Some Large Motor Passenger Liners, Union Castle Liner Carnarvon Castle, Harland and WolfT, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
      Smaller Marine Motors, 11
 
      Some New Directions of Development, II
Smaller Marine Motors, 11
 
Some New Directions of Development, II
 
Ten-cylinder Sulzer Engine for the Christiaan Huygens, 11, 12
Ten-cylinder Sulzer Engine for the Christiaan Huygens, 11, 12
NAVAL CONSTRUCTION IN 1926, 2 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
 
      British Empire, 2
Naval Construction in 1926, 2 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
      France, 3
 
British Empire, 2
 
France, 3
 
French Cruiser Duguay-Trouin, 3 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)
French Cruiser Duguay-Trouin, 3 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)
      Italy, 3
 
      Japan, 3
Italy, 3
      Japanese Cruiser Furutaka, 3
 
Japan, 3
 
Japanese Cruiser Furutaka, 3
 
Japanese Minelaying Submarine, 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
Japanese Minelaying Submarine, 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued):
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued):
  NAVAL CONSTRUCTION IN 1926 (continued) :
 
    United States, 2
Naval Construction in 1926 (continued) :
    Minor Navies, 3
 
  RAILWAYS IN 1926, 42
United States, 2
    Great Western, 42
 
    London, Midland and Scottish, 42
Minor Navies, 3
 
Railways in 1926, 42
 
Great Western, 42
 
London, Midland and Scottish, 42
 
London and North-Eastern. Drawbridge at Keadby, 42 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)’
London and North-Eastern. Drawbridge at Keadby, 42 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)’
    Metropolitan, 43
 
    Southern, 42
Metropolitan, 43
    Underground. 43
 
  SANITARY ENGINEERING IN 1926. 55
Southern, 42
    General, 55
 
    Bradford. 55
Underground. 43
    Leeds, 55
 
    Leicester, 55
Sanitary Engineering in 1926. 55
    London Main Drainage, 55
 
    Manchester, 55
General, 55
      Main Drainage, 55
 
      Outfall Works, 55
Bradford. 55
    Portobello (Edinburgh), 55
 
    West Kent Main Sewerage Board. 55
Leeds, 55
    Works in Progress or in Contemplation. 55
 
    France, 55
Leicester, 55
    Other Works Abroad, 56
 
STEAMSHIPS AND STEAM MARINE ENGINEERING IN 1926, 22
London Main Drainage, 55
      (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
 
Higher Steam Pressures and Temperatures, 22
Manchester, 55
 
Main Drainage, 55
 
Outfall Works, 55
 
Portobello (Edinburgh), 55
 
West Kent Main Sewerage Board. 55
 
Works in Progress or in Contemplation. 55
 
France, 55
 
Other Works Abroad, 56
 
Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering in 1926, 22
 
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
 
Higher Steam Pressures and Temperatures, 22
 
High-pressure Geared Turbine Clyde Steamer King George V., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
High-pressure Geared Turbine Clyde Steamer King George V., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
      Some Notable Ships of the Year, 22
 
Some Notable Ships of the Year, 22
 
Blue Star Liner Almeda, Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Blue Star Liner Almeda, Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Cable-laying Steamer Dominia, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., 22
Cable-laying Steamer Dominia, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., 22
Orient. Liner, 20,000-Ton Otranto, Vickers Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Orient. Liner, 20,000-Ton Otranto, Vickers Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Union-Castle Liner Llandaff Castle, Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., 22
Union-Castle Liner Llandaff Castle, Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., 22
      Repairs and Reconditioning, 22
 
Repairs and Reconditioning, 22
 
(3an Macnaughten Improvised Stern Frame, 22
(3an Macnaughten Improvised Stern Frame, 22
High Elastic Limit Steels for Shipbuilding 23
High Elastic Limit Steels for Shipbuilding 23
      Improved Marine Engine Efficiency, 23
 
Improved Marine Engine Efficiency, 23
 
Bauer - Wnch Turbine - Reciprocating Engine, 24
Bauer - Wnch Turbine - Reciprocating Engine, 24
Large Liners Launched and Built Abroad. 23
Large Liners Launched and Built Abroad. 23
      Salvage Operations and Shipbreaking, 23
 
      Some Dredgers of 1926, 23
Salvage Operations and Shipbreaking, 23
 
Some Dredgers of 1926, 23
 
Drag and Suction Dredger Vizagapatam, Wm. Simons and Co.. Ltd., 23
Drag and Suction Dredger Vizagapatam, Wm. Simons and Co.. Ltd., 23
L.N.E.R. Bucket Dredger Telford, Lobnitz and Co., Ltd., 23
L.N.E.R. Bucket Dredger Telford, Lobnitz and Co., Ltd., 23
      Conclusion, 24
 
    WATER SUPPLY IN 1926, 24
Conclusion, 24
        (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
 
      General, 24
Water Supply in 1926, 24
 
(Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
 
General, 24
 
Aberdeen Water Supply, Old and New Reservoirs at Invercannie, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Aberdeen Water Supply, Old and New Reservoirs at Invercannie, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
      Birmingham, 51
      Cardiff, 51
          Llwynon Reservoir, 52
        Roughing Filters, 52
        Taff Fawr Pipe Line, 52
          Wenallt Reservoir, 52
      Durham County Water Board. 52
      Glasgow, 53
      Liverpool. Vyrnwy Supply. 24
          Aber Tunnel, 24
          Vyrnwy Aqueduct, 24
      Londonderry, 52
      Manchester, 51
          H aweswat er Scheme, 5!
          Heaton Park Reservoir, 51
          Thirlmere, 51
          Thirlmere Aqueduct, 51
      Mechanical Filtration Plants, 53
          Bradford. 53
          Exeter, 53
          Mid-Sussex Joint Water Board, 53
      Metropolitan Water Board, 51
Supply from the Queen Mary Reservoir, 51
Walton-on-Thames Filtration Plant, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Works for the Improvement of Supply North of the Thames, 51
          Works for the Improvement of Supply
South of the Thames. 51
          Works at Hampton. 51
      Nottingham. 52
          Bore-holes at Burton Joyce, 52
          Colwick Hill Reservoir. 52
          East wood Filtration Plant, 52
        Plymouth, 52
        Preston, 52
      Taf Feehan, 53
        Wakefield. 52
        Bombay, 53
        France, 53
      Singapore, Water Supply from Johore, 53
        South Australia, 53
        Ot her Works Abroad, 53
        Irrigation, 54
  ARMOURING Machine—tee Electrical Matters
  ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
  Association, Diesel Engine Users' :
Consumers’ Oil Tests, Arthur F. Evans, 665 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans 504
High Revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday. 298
  Association of Engineers, Manchester :
      Annual Dinner, 71
      Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E.
        Windeler, 354
Junior Technical School and its Relation to Engineering, 8. Howden, 125
      Modern Developments in Steam Pressures.
        W. Bayliss, 280
Recent Developments in Machine Tools, Q. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:
  Annual Convention at Buxton, 607, 622
  Annual General Meeting, 624
  Dinner, 624
Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland with Special Reference to the Heating Question, H. H. Berry, 624
Methods and Capital Costs of Distribution Over an Extensive Area, W. C. Bexon, 607
Presidential Address, R. W. L. Phillips, 607 Recent Developments in Power Plant Design and their Effects on the Economy of Generation. T. Roles. 622
Institute, Iron and Steel:
  Annual Meeting, 502, 513, 541
  Annual Report, 513
  Annual Dinner, 516
ACj Range in Special Steels, Professor J. H. Andrew and H. A. Dickie, 543
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins, 541. 557 Experimental Inquiry into the Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, Professor W. A. Bone and Others, 514, 530
Four Other Papers Taken as Read, 544 Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield. 558 Influence of Annealing Temperatures on the Properties of Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543
Low-carbon Alloys of Iron and Manganese, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515, 516
Metal Manganese and its Properties, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515
Metallurgical Industry, The Heavy, of the East of France, M. J. Seigle, 514
Presidential Address, F. W. Harbord, 502, 514
Properties of Some Nickel-chromium-molyb- denum Steels, Professor Andrew and Others, 544
Some Notes on Cold-rolled Strip, Dr. T. Swinden and Mr. G. R. Bolsover, 543
The Alloys of Iron Research. Dr. Rosenhain and Others, 516
Theory of the Growth of Cast Iron Repeatedly Heated, Dr. C. Benedicks and M. H. Loquist, 543
Institute of Marine Engineers ;
Recovery and Utilisation of Heat from Exhaust Gases of Internal Combustion Engines, Thomas Clarkson, 411
Some Types of Marine Internal Combustion Engines. W. F. Rabbidge, 273
Institute of Metals :
Annual General Meeting, 184, 294, 322 Programme, 184
  Autumn Meeting, 184
Application of Strain Methods to the Investigation of the Structure of Eutectic Alloys, F. Hargreaves, 322
Crystallisation of the Lead-tin Eutectic, F. Hargreaves, 322
Attack of Molten Metals on Certain Nonferrous Metals and Alloys, Harold J. Hartley, 322
Penetration of Brass by Tin and Solder, H. J. Miller, 322
Penetration of Mild Steel by Brazing Solder and other Metals, R. Genders, 322
Brittleness in Arsenical Copper, Clement Blazey, 294
Effect of Arsenic on Copper, Effect of Arsenic and Arsenic plus Oxygen on Copper, Professor D. Hanson and Mr. C. B. Marryat, 294
Effect of Bismuth on Copper, Dr. Hanson and Miss Ford, 294
Electric Furnaces in Non-terrous Metallurgy, D. F. Campbell, 295
Hair Springs, Manufacture and Properties of, Moore and Beckinsale, 322
Influence of Calcium on Aluminium Containing Silicon, J. D. Grogan, 323
Magnesium-rich Magnesium-copper Alloys, Max Hansen, 323
Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in Alloys, R. Genders, 323
Seventh Maj* Lecture : Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527
Institution of Chemical Engineers :
  Annual Dinner, 326
  Annuel General Meeting, 326
  Conference, 193
    Programme, 193
Cross Cracking Process and Plant. F. Heron Rogers, 326
  Meeting, 302, 325
Effect of Temperature on Some nf the Properties of Metals, &c.. Professor F. C. Lea, 325
    Intensive Sulphuric Acid Manufacture :
    (1) Dr. H. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds,
    (2) W. G. Mills, 303
Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302
Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to Lead Burning. W. C. Freeman, 302
Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, B. D. Porritt, 325
Some Industrial Developments and the Chemical Engineer, Sir F. Nathan, 326
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Applications of Power on Gasworks, Harold C. Smith, 137
Conversazione, 662
  Three Lantern Lectures, 662
Exhibits : Yarrow-Hyde Bed. “ Rubber- phalte ” Road Blocks, &c., 662
James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering. Professor H. C. N. Carpenter, 490, 520
October Examinations. 1926, Pass List, 113 April Examinations, 1927, Pass List, Interim, 668
Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River. T. C. S. Haslam, 602
MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION :
    Sixth Annual Dinner, 181
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued) :
  Institution of Electrical Engineers ?
Alternating-current. Measuring Instruments, Recent Advances in, Lieut.-Colonel K. Edgcumbe and Mr. F. E. J. Oekenden, 208 Annual Dinner, 71, 193
Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, Professor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472
Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, Lieut.-Commander Haydn T. Harrison. 297
Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough, 221
Summer Meeting at North-Eastern Centre. 654. 680. 686 ; Programme. 354
Visits to Heaton Works (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.) and to Hebburn Works (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 654
Visits to Works of Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.. Works of (’onsett Iron Company, and North Tees Electric Power Station, 680. 686
What is Electricity ? Abstract of Faraday Lecture. Professor W. M. Thornton, 331
          WIRELESS SECTION :
Battery Eliminators, Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews. 412
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
Joint Meeting with North-East Coast Institution, 611, 693
    Programme, 611
Historical References to the Progress in Use of High-pressure Steam, James Mollison, 693
Machinery Installation of the Grosser Kur- furst, John S. Brown, 276
    Various Papers, Dinner, Visits, 693
  Institution, Junior, of Engineers:
    Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412
    Torsional Vibration, Investigation of, J.
      Calderwood, 336
  Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
    Annual General Meeting, 206
    Report, 206
    Conversazione, 208
Development of Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 332
Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses, &c., Professor F. C. I.ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter). 522
Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut. - Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 410, 415, 416, 445
Joint Meeting with Chemical Engineering Group, Lubrication. Dr. W. R. Onnandy. 358, 361, 393
Second Joint Meeting, Lubricating Oils— Laboratory' in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton. 376
    Summer Meeting, Birmingham, 240
    Provisional Programme, 240
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanbv and Professor William Kerr, 94, 107, 126, 166, 207 : (Erratum), 146
NORTH-WESTERN BRANCH :
    Annual General Meeting, 109
Joint Meeting, Discussion, of Professors Mellanby and Kerr’s Paper, 207
    Manchester Meeting, 208
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, 207, 208
Meeting in Manchester, Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.-Colonel Kitson Clark, 444
Small Turbine Units for Industrial Purposes, G. Arrowsmith, 109
Joint Meeting, Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 377
Mechanical Vehicles, Development of. for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 330
Recent Developments in Grinding Machines and Processes, H. H. Axbridge, 276
  Institution of Mining Engineers :
Eighty-sixth General Meeting, Programme, 638
  Institution of Municipal and County Engineers
Annual General Meeting and Conference. Programme, 531
  Institution of Naval Architects :
    Annual Dinner, 388
    Annual General Meeting, 387, 405, 434
    Report and Elections, 387
Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats, David Nieolson, 409
Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, H. .1. R. Biles, 435, 439
Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405
Notes on the Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 408
Oil Engine Energy Diagram and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dalby, 406, 420, 421
    l*rogramme of Meetings, 336
Propulsion of Ships Under Different Weather Conditions, J. L. Kent. 434
    Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors.
      Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408
Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436
Ship Wave Resistance, W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Summer Meeting in Cambridge, Programme, 336
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
Economy' of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion, G. S. Baker, 1 125
Joint Meeting—see Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery | on Land and Sea, Sir C. A. Parsons and Others, 69
Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth. 249
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institution of Structural Engineers :
Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, H. J. Gough, 474
Institution of Water Engineers •
Summer General Meeting, Programme and List of Papers, 450
Theory and Practice (from Presidential Address of Dr. Herbert Lapworth), 691
Society, Ceramic :
  Spring Meeting in Czechoslovakia, 437
Society of Chemical Industry :
Midland Section, Joint Meeting, 84 Measurement of Temperature in Technical
  Practice, Professor J. W. Hinchley, 84 Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, J. A. Hall, 84
Chemical Engineering Group, Joint Meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 358, 361, 393
Society, Faraday ;
Meeting for Presentation of Second Report to Atmospheric Corrosion Research Committee, by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon, 374
Theory of Strong Electrolytes, Programme of Papers and General Discussion at University Museum, Oxford, 392
Society, Liverpool Engineering :
  Annual Dinner. 155
Society, Newcomen :
  Meeting, 219
British Railways of 1825 as Seen by Marc Seguin, Ferdinand Achard and Laurent Seguin, 219
First British Locomotives of the St. Etienne- Lyon Railway, M. Achard. 219
  Summer Meeting, 576
Society, Royal :
Conversazione : Ultra-violet Radiation, Applications of and Apparatus for Generation of ; Specimens of Pure Metals ; Specimens Illustrating Metallography of Solid Mercury ; Magnetometer ; Model of Rotating Shaft; New Form of Thermostat ; Seldnyi’s Method of Observing the “ Cleanup ” in a Vacuum Lamp, &c., 522
Societies, Physical and Optical:
Exhibition, 12, 42, 72—For Details see Separate Heading, “ Physical and Optical Exhibits ”
ATKINS, E. A., Drawing Steel Wire, 541, 557 Australia and India, Wireless Communication with—see Wireless Telegraphy, Grimsby and Skegness Stations
Automatic Electro-plating Machine, Grinding Machinery, “ Minik ” Plating Apparatus, &c., W. Canning and Co., Ltd., 264, 265
B
BAILEY, Alex. D., High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, 635
Baker, G. S., Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion. 125
Baker, G. S., Skin Friction Resistance, 179
Balancing Gear—see Engines
Balancing Machine. Martin, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i, ii
Bars, Centrifugal Casting of, Leon Cammen, 574
Baulino Continuous Fuel Indicator, 157
Beam Engines—see Engines
Beet Sugar, New Method of Making, 431, 442, 444
Benedicks, Dr. C-, and M. H. Loquist. Growth of Cast Iron, 543
Berry, H. H., Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland, 624
Biles, H. J. R., Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, 435, 439
Boiler Drums, High-pressure. Manufacture of, Thyssen and Co., 246
Boiler, Exhaust Gas, Determination of the Efficiency of, Professor G. Cook, 403
Boiler, Experimental Critical Pressure, Siemens. Benson. 690
Boiler Fittings, Feed Pumps and Boiler-house Apparatus at Leipzig, 321
Boiler Mountings, Variety of Valves, &c., Hunt and Mitt on, 267
Boiler Tubes, Duty of, 580
Boiler, Vertical Tubular, Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
Boiler, Woodeson Water-tube, with Pulverised Coal Equipment. Clarke. Chapman and Co.. 681, 682
Boilers. Pulverised Fuel, at Birmingham, 363
Boilers. Lancashire and Water-tube, John Thompson, Ltd., vii
Bone, Professor W. A., and Others, Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, 514, 530
Books of Reference, 100, 152. 184, 220. 268, 364, 437. 584, 611
Borbera Valley Hydro-electric Installation, 222 Boring Machines—see Machine Tools
Brakes, Trains—see Railways
BRIDGES :
Bridges, Swing, Over the River Waveney at Beccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177
  Delaware River Suspension Bridge. U.S.A..
    202, 214, 231, 304. 305. 318. 345
  “ Iron Bridge ” at Plymouth. Centenary, 625
  Kafne Bridge, Lifting the, 478
Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Welded Repairs to, 419
BRITISH Engineers’ Association, Luncheon, Economic Conference at Geneva, Sir Arthur Balfour, 665
BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
Conference by Screw Threads Committee on Question of Width Across Flats of Nuts and Bolt Heads, 335
  Specifications :
Charcoal Iron Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, 212
Cold-drawn Wcldless Steel Tubes for Locomotive Boilers, 212
Contours for Locomotive Tires for British Railways, 440
Copper Conductors for Electric Power and Light, 308
    Electrical Protective Relays, 336
Flame-proof Enclosures for Electrical Apparatus, 84
Gear Wheels and Pinions for Electric Tramways, 394
Instrument Transformers and Recording Ammeters, Voltmeters and Wattmeters, 531
Iron or Steel Tubular Poles for Telegraph and Telephone Purposes. 582
    Oil Paints, 277
    Paints, Varnishes and Paint Ingredients, 44
    Piston Rings for Automobiles, 550
    Switchgear Cells and Cubicles, 193
    Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 692
    Water-tight Fittings for Incandescent
        Electric Lamps, 109
    Zinc Specifications, 171
BRITISH Foundrymen, Institute of, Annual Convention, Programme, 637
British Industries—«ec Exhibitions
British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Second Report to Corrosion Research Committee, 374
Bronze Founding, Sir John Dewrance, 274
Browne, A. W., Storage Buttery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268
Buenos Aires Port Works, 298
Burning—sec Coal
c
CABIN Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422
Cables—see Electrical Matters
Calder, J. Douglas, Notes on the Design of Coasters, 408
Calendars, Diaries, &c., 87, 109, 225
(Jammen, Leon, Centrifugal Casting of Bars, 574 Cardington—see Aeronautics
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering, 490, 520
Cast Iron Casing for Turbo Air Compressor, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654
Castings, Large, of High-conductivity Copper, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd., 611
Catalogues. 87, 109, 171, 197, 367. 425. 453, 477, 611, 641, 071, 697
Centenary, Railway—see Railways
Centenary, Waterworks—see Water Supply
Centrifugal Casting of Bars, Leon Cammen, 574 Chain Bending and Chain Welding Machines, Fin Stripper and Testing Machine, Holden and Hunt, B.l.F. Supplement, iii
Chain Pulling Jack, " Little Jack '* Engineering Company, Ltd., 694
Chemical Analysis, 216
China, The “ Red Menace “ in, 105
Chloronome—Water Softening
Ciment Fondu Concrete, 329; (Letter), 351 Circulating Water—sec Electrical Mutters Clarkson, Thomas, Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, 411
•‘Clear Space’ Pneumatic Power Hammer, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666
Clough, F. H., Stability of I.arge Power Systems, 221
COAL. COKE AND COLLIERIES :
  British Cool in Franco, 350
  Burning of Low-grade Coal, 162
Coal Ash and Probability. 48 ; (Letter), 449 Coal Pulverising Machine, Mayhew, Ramsay and Co., Ltd., 249
Pneumatic Coal and Ash Conveying Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160, 163
Pulverised Coal Plant at the Poplar Power Station, 466, 470
Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268
Stourport Power Station, Coal-handling Plant, 626. 663
COASTERS—see Ships
Coilers for Cold Strip Rolling Mills, C. E.
  Davies, 92, 123
Colombia, Port Improvements in, 692 Combiiation—see Engines
Compressor, CO2, Tandem-compound Steam- driven, for the Almcdu Liner, 379
Conference on Engineering Materials. 4 48 Conferences on Industrial Welfare, 477 Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, William Harvey, 568
Contracts. 59, 90, 113, 146, 174, 197, 225, 253, 283. 31 1, 339. 367, 397, 425. 453. 481, 507, 535, 566. 588, 618, 644. 674, 670
Conveyor, Genera) Purpose, New Conveyor Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Cook, Professor (L, Determination of the Efficiency of an Exhaust Gas Boiler, 403
Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215
Co-operative Industrial Research, 471
Copper,Arsenic and ; Copper. Arsenical ; Copper, Bismuth and ; Papera and Discussion at the Institute of Metals, 294
Copper Castings—see Castings
Copper Conductors, Hard-drawn, 463
Corrosion, Atmospheric, of Metal®—see British Non-ferrous Metals
Crane Girder Design—sec Economics of
Cross Cracking Process and Plant, F. Heron Rogers, 326 ; (Letter). 351
Cultivating Machinery—see Steam
Cultivator—see Tea Garden
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 30. 60, 88, 114. 144. 172, 198. 226. 254, 284, 312, 340, 368, 398. 426, 454, 4 82, 508, 536. 564, 590, 616, 642, 672. 698
Cylinder Piers for Dockyard Wharf, 527
DALBY, Professor W. E., Energy Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials. 406. 420. 421
Dam. Eguzon, on the River (Tense, 64, 76
Dam, Wilson Bhandardara Dam, Bombay, 317, 328
Dams, Continuous Nat ure of Decay in, William Harvey, 668
Davies, C. E., Coders for Cold Strip Rolling Mills. 02. 123
Deferrating Plant at. a Sussex Works. 98. 102
Delaware— .?.re Bridges
Demoulin, Maurice, Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518
Deptford—see Electrical Matters
Dewrance, Sir John, Bronze Founding. 274
Diamond Pool—see Longlands
Die Casting, Non-metallic Materials, 321
Diesel Engines—sec Engines
Digging and Loading Machine. Spencer (Mclk- shain), Ltd.. 393
Dock Extensions at Liverpool. 372. 373, 384
Double Dry Grinding Machine. Electrically Driven, B. R. Rowland and Co.. Ltd.. 667
Drawing-otlice Lighting, 205
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541, 557
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools
Drying Oven, Largo Vacuum, at Heaton Works, (’. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654
Dunsheath, Percy, 33,000-Volt Three-core Cables. 99
Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580
Dynamic Balancing Machine. W. and T.
  Avery, Ltd., 265
Dynamometer, Heenan-Highfield Electric, Heenan and Fronde, Ltd., 265
E
EARLY Modern Plough Design, G. E. Fussell. 233
Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, C. J. \\ barton, 278
Economics of Crane Girder Design, Edward G.
  Fiegehcn, 204
Economy of Tank Testing—see Ship Propulsion Research
Educational Intelligence, 54
Edwards, Professor C. A., and Mr. J. C. Jones, Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets. 543
Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
See also Annual Articles, also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits
Alternating-current Motor Starting Panel, Arc Welding Equipment. Gate End Starting Box, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 236
Armouring Electric Cables, Large Machine for, Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 552, 560
Automatic Control of Boilers Working with Powdered Fuel, Allgemeine Elektrieitiits Gesellschaft, 297
Automatic Sub-station in Copenhagen, Electrical Equipment, Metropolitan-Vickers Company, 584
Battery Eliminators. &c., Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews, 412
Binary Electric Converter, Mawdsley’s, Ltd., 238
Cables, 33,000-Volt Three-core, Percy Dunsheath, 99
Canada, Electric Power Position in, 233
  Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, 529
Circulating Water System, New, at Woolwich Electricity Station, 150
  CO, Recorder, Elect rofio Meters, Ltd.. 239
  Congella Power Station, Durban, 106
(’onset t Iron Company's Works, Electrical Equipment at, 682, 686
  Cubicle Switchgear, George Ellison, 532
Direct-current Controller with Pivoted Contact Finger, Unbreakable Resistance, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 237
Double-pole Switch, D. B. Minor, General Electric Company, 239
  Economic Production of Steam by Electricity,
    C. J. Wharton, 278
  Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76
  Electric Furnaces in Non-ferrous Metallurgy,
    D. F. Campbell, 295
  Electrical Industry, The, 437
  Electrical Instruments, 208
  Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412
  Electrical Research, 188
Electric Welding Machines, Siemens-Schuc- kert. 297
  Electrified Homes . . . the Heating
    Question, H. H. Berry, 624
Extensions at the Deptford Power Station, 598, 604
  French Electrification Developments, 250
High-frequency Currents, Kelvin Lecture, Profeasor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472
High-voltage Outdoor Transformers, Ferranti Ltd., 496. 503
Langerbrugge Power Station, Results Obtained with High-pressure Steam at, 550
Largo Transformers, Mctropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 135
Loading Reactances for Large Generators, Oerlikon Company, 694
Magnetic Alloys, Mumetal ami Rhome tai, Gutta Pore ha Company, 240
  Manchester Electricity Supply, 625
Models for Demonstrating Electrical Principles, Dr. F. W. Alexander, 547
  North Tecs Electric Power Stations, 680
  Outdoor Transformers at Stourport, 663
Parsons 20,000-Kilowatt Turbo-alternator at Rotterdam, 512. 524, 540 (Ttco-paye Supplement, May 1927)
Power Station, New, at Willow Holme, Carlisle, 573, 578
  Power Station at Poplar, A New. 466. 470
Pyromic, Nickel-Chromium Alloy, Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Ltd., 240
Recent Development in Power Plant Design, Ac., T. Roles, 622
Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, A. W. Browne, 268
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
Stourport Power Station. 626, 627, 663 Street Lighting, Haydn T. Harrison. 297 Switch, 400-Ampdre Oil-immersed Fuse, A.
    Reyrolle and Co., 236, 237
Switchgear, Cubicle Typo for 11,000*Volt Supply, George Ellison. 267
Switchgear Works. New, The Oerlikon Com pony. 404. 414
  Switching Plug, Stanton, Ltd., 207
Tapping Switch. Hackbridge Electric Construction Company, 238
Thornton and Clevelvy's Electricity Scheme, 008
Three-phase Circuit Breaker. 100,000-Volt, 297
Three-phase Oil Switch and Switchgear. Park Royal Engineering Company, 238, 239 Trafford Park Power Station, New Coalhandling Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160. 163
Transformer, Three-phase, Oil-cooled, Cort* Type Transformers : Single-phase. Radiid Type, Air-cooled Transformer, British Electric Transformer Company, 266
Treforcst Power Station, Extensions to, 500 Truck, Electric, Wingrove anil Rogers, Ltd., 237. 238
Truck Elevating Platform, Electricars, Ltd., 267
Turbo-alternator, 12,000-kW, Two Turbogenerator Sets at 20,000 kW, at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons anil Co., Ltd., 654
U Type Motors. Alternating and Direct Current, Squirrel Cage and Slip Ring Motors, Squirrel Cage Rotor, Brush Gear, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 266. 267
Voltage Regplating Equipment for Transmission Lines, Newcastle • upon - Tyne Scheme, Motropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 556
What is Electricity ? Faraday Lecture, Professor W. M. Thornton. 331
ENERGY Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dolby, 406. 420. 421
ENGINES AND MOTORS
  <$’*•<• al«o Annual Articles
  Aircraft Engines :
Beardmore “ Typhoon ” Aero-engine, 97 Bristol Company’s “ Cherub.” “ Jupiter ’ and ” Lucifer ” Aeroplane Engines. 35 "Cirrus” Mark II. 75-8’1 H.P. Engine, "Nimbus” 300-330 H.P. Six-cylinder Engine. A.D.C. Aircraft, Ltd., 35. .
Aircraft Engines, Torsional Vibration with Particular Reference to, J. Calderwood, 336
Airless Injection, 1000 B.H.P. Marine Oil Engine, ” V.M.” Deutz Type. 528. 544
Automatic Steam Engine, Small, 392 ; (Letter), 448 ; (Correction), 507
Balancing Gear for a Four-cylinder 250 B.H.P. Oil Engine. W. H. Allen, Sons anil Co., Ltd., 692
Bearn Engines. Old—we Letters to the Edit or. 351, 449, 465, 025, 656, 684 ; (Correction), 400
Cold-starting Heavy Oil Engine, Clayton ami Shuttieworth, Ltd., 80
Combustion, A New Process of, for Highspeed Heavy Oil Engines, Dr.-Ing. R. Stribeck. 632
Compound Engine, 100 kW Two-crank, with Dynamo ; Turbine with Dynamo ; Heavy Oil Engine, 50 H.P. Two-cylinder ; Centrifugal Pump for Irrigation ; Mode! of Borehole Pump, W. H. Allen, Sons, and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi, vii
Crossley Premier Oil Engine, Four-cylinder, for Driving Pumps at Epsom Waterworks. 569
Diesel Engineer s Log, M. V. Tampa, 279 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans, 504
  Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 47
High-revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday, 298
Hopper-cooled Oil Engine, Crosslev Brothers, Ltd., 137
Internal Combustion Engines, Various. Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Fielding and Platt, Ltd., Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii
Marino Oil Engines -#rr alto Annual Articles (1) Motor Vessels, Ac.; (2) Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering
Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors. Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472. 486, 518
Oil Engine, Vertical, with New Form of Exhaust Valve Gear, Blackstone and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
Oil Engines, 70 H.P. Cold-starting Heavy Oil, and 96 H.P. Four-cylinder Vertical, Norris, Henty and Gardners, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii
Oil Engines and Governor Gear. Marshall, Sons and Co.. B.l.F. Supplement, ii
Oil Engines. Stationary, and 24 H.P. Twincylinder Marine, Fuel Pump Unit anil Spraying Jet, Petters, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
Some Tvpes of Marine Oil Engines, \V. F. Rubhidge, 273
Steam Engine, 75 B.H.P., for Export, E. S. Bindley and Sons, 335
Uniflow Marino Engine with Oil-operated Valve Gear, Sulzer Brothers, 676
Vertical Gas Engine, 31 B.H.P., National Gas Engine Company. Ltd., 217
Water Power Oil Engines in Bulgaria,
    97
Winch Engine and Equipment at Cardington. Babcock and Wilcox, 288. 300
ENGINEER and Client. 193
Engineering Conference at Manchester, 4 12
Engineering Materials, Conference on, 448
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on
  Manufacturing Costs. P. T. Wilkins, 188;
  (Letter), 240
Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir
  Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405
Exchange in Ideas, 579 ; (Letter), 625
Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, Thomas Clarkson,
  II I
  EXHIBITIONS:
  British Industries Fair, 217, 236, 264
  Leipzig Fair. 263. 296. 320
  Midland Building Trades’ Exhibition, 585
  Paris Fair, 572
Physical and Optical Societies* Exhibition. 12, 40, 72—For Exhibits, see Physical and Optical
  Prague Fair, 350
  EX PERT Evidence, 131
Extinguishing Oil Fires Afloat, Apparatus by Merry weather anti Sons, 612
Eyles, A., Notes on Soldering and Welding Aluminium, 121
F
FACTORIES, Safety in, 558
Failure of Some Steel Wires under Repeated Torsional Stresses. <&e.. Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522
Fairs—see Exhibitions
Fan—see also Mine
Fan, Induced Draught ; Fan, Centrifugal, with Dust Collecting Unit ; Fan, Propeller, for Cooling, Musgrave and Co., Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, vi
Fatigue of Metals, Some Modern Views on the, H. J. Gough, 474
Ferry, Largo Oil-engined Propelled Train, Danish, 610
Fiegehen, Edward G., Economics of Crane Girder Design, 204
Filter, Air, for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559
Filter, Experimental Mechanical. V. L. Hartley, 624
Firo Engine. 80 H.P. Turbine Pump Motor, Merry weather and Sons, Ltd., 638
Fires Afloat—see Extinguishing
Fleets. Fighting—sec Ships, Naval Matters
Floating Prismatic Bodies—see Stability
Flue Dust Collector, *’ Sirocco ” Fans, Davidson and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
Foreign Trade and Tariffs, 132
Forrester, R. Desmond, Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, 594
Forthcoming Engagements, 32, 62, 96, 116, 146, 174, 200. 228, 256. 286. 314, 342, 370. 400. 428. 456, 484, 510, 538. 566. 592. 618. 641. 674, 670
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES :
31. 61. 89, 115. 145, 173. 199, 227, 255. 285. 313, 341, 369. 399, 427, 455, 483, 509, 537, 565, 591, 617, 043. 673, 699
  .African Railways, 227
  Barrage Models, 537
  Battleship France, 173
  Bridge Enlargements, 285
  British Coal Trade Imperilled, 617
  British Trade, 399
  Cameroon Railways, 369
  Cham bon Barrage, 115
  Coal Import Licences, 673
  Coal Production. 199
  Coal Situation. 285, 341. 643
  Coal Trade, 565, 699
  Colonial Exhibition, 341
  Colonial Works, 31, 509
  Commercial Agreements, 427
  Commercial Aviation. 255
  Continuous Brakes. 369
  Cruiser Suffren. 537
  Engineering Trades. 483
  Export Trade, 89
  Flood Protection, 89
  Foreign Trade, 227, 591, 699
  Hydraulic Works, 115
  Hydro-electric Schemes, 455
  Import Duties, 255
  Industrial Agreements, 643
  Inland Navigation. 509
  Kembs Barrage, 369
  Languedoc Ship Canal, 483
  Manufacturing Costs, 61
  Marseilles Extensions, 313
  Midi Electrification, 483
  Mont Valerien Lighthouse. 565
  Motor Car Industry, 399, 565
  Motor Car Trade. 227
  Naval Construction, 369, 455
  New Cruiser Type, 173
  Novel Boat, 699
  Over-production, 537
  Paris Suburban Traffic, 427
  Paris Water Supply, 399. 455, 617
  Port of Strasburg, 341
  Production and Prices, 565
  Prospecting by Colours, 89
  Public Works, 61, 145
  Rail Motors, 173
  Railway Accident, 643
  Railway Centenary, 61
  Railway Electrification, 399
  Railway Standardisation, 31
  Rod Makers’ Agreement, 89
  Rove Tunnel, 483
  Russian Navy, 285
  Sales Organisations, 509
  Sewage Disposal, 617
  Shipbuilding, 145, 255
  South American Air Service, 199
  Steel and Concrete, 427
  Steel Industry. 145, 673
  Steel Pact, 3i.3
  Steel Trade, 455
  Steel Trade Depression, 699
  Steel Union, 61
  Tariff Bill, 591
  Tariffs and Coal. 643
  The “ He de France,” 673
  Tidal Power. 673
  Trade Depression. 145
  Trade Difficulties, 255
  Trade Organisation, 285
  Trade Outlook, 399
  Trade Ret urns, I 15
  Trade Situation, 115
  Trade Slump. 173
  Trade Stagnation. 369
  Trans-Saharnn Railway, 89
  Tunnelling the Vosges, 509
  Two Concrete Bridges', 673
  Underground Paris. 115
  Unemployment. 341
  Wages and Prices, 227
  Wages Reductions. 509
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES {continued) 1
  Wages and Work, 313
  Water Sterilisation, 399
  Weaker Prices, 31
  West African Railways, 427
  Work for Unemployed, 199
  Works in Indo-China, 537
FRENCH Oil Problem, 357
Fuel Pump—sec Pumps
Fuel Research. Report for 1925, 54
Furnace for Bright Annealing of Non-ferrous
Metals, Gibbons Brothers. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, ii
Furnaces, Electric—sec Electrical Matters
Fussell, G. E., Early Modern Plough Design, 233
G
GAS—aree also Suction Gas
Gas Boiler—see Boiler
Gas Engines—see Engines
Gas Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131
Gas Transmission, Long-distance. in Saxonv, 193, 240
Gases and Oro, Interactions of, in the Blast - furnace, Professor William A. Bone and Others, 514, 530
Gasworks, Applications of Power on. Harold C. Smith, 137
Gasworks, Scunthorpe, Cooling and ('leaning Plant at, 477
Gear-boxes. Infinitely Variable ; Open Motor Drive, P.l.V. Gear Syndicate, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii
Gear-cutting—see Machine Tools
Goar Wheels. Quiet-running, New Material for
  Making, “ Fenlin,” Alfred Wiseman, Ltd., 207
Geared Electric Motor at Leipzig Fair, 321
German Steel—see Iron
Gillingham, C. A., Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry, 067
Gladstone Dock—sec Dock Extensions
Gough, H. J., Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, 474
Government Certificate for Mining Engineers, 71
Gravel Washer and Screener, Hardy and Pud- more, Ltd., 478
Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools
Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527
H
HADFIELD, Sir Robert, Metal Manganese and its Properties, 515 ; Iron ami Manganese, Low Carbon .Alloys, 515, 516
Hair Springs, Moore and Beckinsale, 322
Hall, J. A., Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry. 84
Hammer, " Clear Space,” Pneumatic Power, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666
Harbord, F. W., Presidential Address, 502, 514 Hard-drawn Copper Conductors, 163
Hardness Testing Instrument, “ Duroscope,” 321
Harrison, Haydn T., Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, 297
Harvey, William, Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, 568
Haslam, T. ('. $., Timber Viaduct Over the Tunnyan River, 602
Hatfield, Dr. W. H., Heat-resisting Steels, 558
Helium in Canada, 465
Herbert, Edward G.. Work-hardening Properties of Metals, 138, 156, 180; (Letters), 277
Heteroptic Shutter : A Stroboscope Development, A. J. Ashdown, 82
High-conductivity Copper Castings, Large, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd.. 611
High-pressure Steam, Historical References to tke Progress in Use of, James Mollison, 693 High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, Alex. D. Bailey, 635
H orated Keynes—see Water Supply, Deferrat- ing
Howden, S., Junior Technical School ami its Relation to Engineering. 125
Hydraulic Formula, A New, F. W. Woods. 646
Hydraulic Press, Experimental, Tangyes Ltd., 217
Hydraulic Presses and Pumps, Hand-operated Press for Light Scrap, Rollings and Guest, Ltd., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Hydro-electric Installation, Borbcra Valley, 222 Hydro-electric Progress in Canada during 1926, 219
I
IDEA of Power for Nothing, 554
Ideas, Exchange of, 579; (Letter), 625
India, Vacuum Brake in. 462 ; (Letter), <184
Indicator, Continuous Fuel, The Baulino. 157
Indicator Gear, Werkspoor, 209
Industrial Bursaries in Metallurgy, 531
Industrial Welfare, Conferences on, 477
Industry—see Labour
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations Interactions—see Gases
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines ; also Railway Locomotives
International Congress for Testing Materials.
  184
International Discussion, 660
International Register of Aircraft. 244
Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 032
IRON AND STEEL
Alloys of Iron Research, Dr. Roscnhain and Others, 516
Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543
Cold Rolled Strip Steel, Dr. T. Swindon and Mr. J. R. Bolsover, 543
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541 German Steel Combination, 350
  Growth of Cast Iron, Dr. (’. Benedicks and
    M. H. Loquiat, 543
  Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 558
  IRON AND STEEL (continued):
Interactions of Gases and Oro in the Blast furnace. Professor W. A. Bone and Others 514. 530
    Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84
Iron and Steel in Sweden, New Methods o Production, 662
Low-carbon -Alloys of Iron and Manganese Metal Manganese and its Properties. Si Robert Hadfield, 515, 516
    Mikl Steel Penetration by Brazing Solder, &c.
      R. Genders, 322
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manu facturers, Dinner, 691
    Protective Effect of Metal Deposits on Iron
      S. Wornick, 582
    South Africa. Steel Industry in, 348
    Stainless Steel for Variety of Uses, at Leipzig
    Steel Cartel, 179
Steel Sections, Special. Janies Mills, Ltd. Stringer and Co., J no. Hy. Andrew ant Co.. Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, iv
J
  JACK—Chain Pulling
.lames Forrest Lecture. Some Recent Service) of Metallurgy to Engineering, Professo; II. C. H. Carpenter. 490. 520
K
KELVIN Lecture—sec Institution of Elect rica Engineers
Kent. J. L., Propulsion of Ships under Different Weather Conditions, 434
Kershaw, John B. C., Air Pollution in Brit is) and Scotch Towns and Cities, 203
Kershaw. John B. C., World’s Future Supply ol Liquid Fuels, 244, 261. 292, 316, 344
Kit son Clark. Lieut.-Colonel E., Internal Com bust ion Locomotives, 410, 415, 416
Kuhne, Captain C. H.. Mechanical Vehicles foi Load-carrying Duty in the Army, 291, 306 330. 332
  LABOUR MATTERS :
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, P. T. Wilkins, 188
    Goodwill in Industry, 440
Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike, 688
    Trades Unions Bill, 385
  LADDERS, Steel Tube, L. Nicklin. Ltd., B.LF.
    Supplement, iv
  Langerbruggo—sec Electrical Matters
  Lathes—nee Machine Tools
Launches and Trial Trips, 87, 113, 171, 225, 283, 311, 397, 453, 563. 589, 61 I. 641. 671, 697
Lea, Professor F. C., Effect of Temperature on Some of the Properties of Metals, &c., 325
Lea, Professor F. C.» and Mr. F. Heywood, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses. &c., 487 ; (Letter), 522
Lead Burning. Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to, W. C. Freeman, 302
Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302
  LEADERS
    1926—A Retrospect of. 17
      Electricity Supply, 18
      High Pressures. 18
      Locomotives, 18
      London Traffic, 18
      Metallurgy, 18
      Conclusion. 18
    Agricultural Engineering, 104
    America and the Cruiser Question. 103
    America and Great Britain, 415
    Armament of Capital Ships, 553
British Locomotive, The. and Foreign Inventors. 243
    Burning of Low-grade Coal. 161
    Chemical Analysis, 216
    Ci merit Fondu Concrete, 329
    Coal Ash and Probability, 48
    Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631
    Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215
    Co-operative Industrial Research, 471
    Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580
    Electrical Research, 188
    Exchange in Ideas, 579
    Expert Evidence, 131
    French Air Services, 659
    French Oil Problem, 354
    French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605
    French Transatlantic Flights, 553
    Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 4 7
    Gaa Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131
    Idea of Power for Nothing, 553
    Internal Combustion Locomotives, 415
    International Discussion, 660
    International Register of Aircraft. 214
    Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 632
    Kelvin Lecture, 472
    Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs, 497
    Marine Steam Turbine Progress. 77
    Metallurgists and Engineers, 525
    Naval Limitation Conference, 687
    Navy Estimates, 301
New Method of Manufacturing Beet Sugar, 444
    Old and New Atomic Theories. 606
    President Coolidge on Naval Armaments. 187
    Problem of High Superheats, 272
    Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, -M3
    Railways and Unfair Competition, 354
    Rating of Machinery, 161
    Reticence, 302
Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike. 688
    Steam Accumulators. 78
    Super-pressure Steam Plant a;. Bradford. 78
    Theoretical and Practical Lubrication. 386
    Torsional Fatigue, 526
    Trades Disputes Bill, 525
    Trades Unions Bill, 385
LEADERS (continued) :
  Trans-Saharan Railway, 497
  Trend of Fuel Injection Practice. 329
  World's Fighting Fleets, 271
LEIPZIG—see Exhibitions
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS :
England. North of, 28, 58. 86. 112. 142, 170. 196, 224. 252. 282, 3in. 338, 366. 396, 424. 452. 480, 506. 534. 562. 588, 614. 640. 670. 696
Lancashire. 27, 57, 85. 111. 141. 169. 195. 223. 251. 281. 30d, 337. 365. 395. 423. 451, 479. 505, 533. 561, 587. 613. 615. 639, 669. 695
Midlands and Staffordshire, 27, 56. 85. 111. 141, 169, 194. 223. 251. 281. 309. 337. 364. 395, 423, 451. 479, 505. 533, 561, 587, 613. 615, 639, 669, 695
Scotland, 29, 59. 86, 112, 143. 171. 197. 225. 253. 2b3. 311. 339, 367, 397. 425, 452, 481, 507. 534. 563. 589. 615. 640. 670. 696
Sheffield. 28. 58. 86. I 12. 142. 170, 19G. 224, 252. 282. 310, 338. 366, 396. 424. 452. 480. 506. 534. 562. 588. 1H4. 640, 670, 696
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 29. 59. 87. 113, 143, 171, 197, 225. 253. 283. 311. 339. 367. 397, 425, 453, 481, 507, 535. 563, 589. 615. 611, 671, 697
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :
Beam Engine. An Old, W. J. Barker. 351 ; W. Yates. 449 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 465 ; (Correction). 4011
  Beam Engine, The Last. EdgarC. Smith, 625 ;
H. Taylor, 656; Worthington-Simpson. Ltd.. 684
Brains in the Foundry, J. IL Jones, 133
British Columbia Electric Railway. J. Light - body. 559
British Steel and Research, John Brown and Co., Ltd.. 351
  Cast Iron, Horace J. Young, 82
  Ciinent Fondu, John G. Kay, 351
Coal Ash and Probability, Dr.-Ing. K. Daevos. 450
Dearth of Useful British Inventions, Athol G. Evans, 625
Direct Conversion of Low-pressure Superheats into Super-pressure, “ Astonished,” 44
Directory of Sources of Special Information. G. F. Barwick, 351
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, G. T. Wilkins, 240
Harvey Combe Locomotive, J. C. H. Warren. 44
  High Motor Speeds, I. Wonder, 392
High-pressure Reciprocating Engines, M.I. Meeh. E„ 656
Higher Pressure in Boilers and I.C. Engines,
    F. J. B. Magg?». 181
  “ Howlers,” H. E. Wimperis, 656
Industrial Welfare Society, Robert R. Hvde, 181
Internal Combustion Locomotives, James Clayton, 465
Largest Passenger Locomotive, Win. T. Hoecker. 133
Magnetisation of Dextrorsa! and Sinistrorse! Helices, Fredk. W. Alexander, 585
Men Who Do Things, S. P. Christie, 494
  Newton Bicentenary. R. de Villamil, 133
  Oldest Engineering Firm, Clydeside, 456
Railway Signal Engineer, A Railway Engineer, 83
Rcid-Maeleod Steam Turbine Locomotive, Ernest Moir, 181
Senate of the University of London. Roger T. Smith, 494
Small Automatic Steam Engine, Edwin W. Jones, 448
Smith. A. M., and Co., Ltd., Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., 83
Speed Record, Hugh H. Gregory. 240 ; F. Lindsay Lloyd. 277
Taxes on Transport, Edward S. Shrapnell- Sinith, 298
Three-cylinder Locomotives, Chas. W. Dauncy, 240 ; W. H. Thornbury, 298
  Torsional Fatigue. G. A. Hankins, 522
Unemployment—the Gateway to a New Life, Geo. W. Mullins. 133
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam. R. S. T. Collingham. 298
Vacuum Brake in India, Another Indian Railway Engineer, 684
  Work Hardening. IL Poliakoff, 277 ; Edward
    G. Herbert, 277 ; C. L. Sumpter, 277
LIFEBOAT Launching Tractor. Four-Wheel Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531
Lifting the Kafue Bridge, 478
Lifting Magnet, Bi-polar, Rapid Magnetting Machine Company. Ltd., B.l.F. Supplement, v, vi
Liquid Fuels, World’s Future Supply of, John B. C. Kershaw. 244. 261. 292
LITERATURE :
Reviews :
Atomic Theory : An Elementary Exposition, A. Haas, 245. 473
Beitrflge zur Geschichte dec Technik und Industrie, V.D.I. Year Book, Conrad Matehoss, 216
Chemistry of Cellulose and Wood. A. W. Sehorger, 133
Chemistry of the Oil Industries, J. E. South- combe, 74
Chronicles of Boulton’s Siding, A. R. Bennett. 105
Collected Papers of Sir James Dewar, Lady Dewar and Ot hers, 189. 350
Edison : The Man and His Work, G. S. Bryan. 105, 386
Electric Switch ami Controlling Gear, C. C. Garrard. 354. 660
Hydrous Oxides, The, Harry Boyer Weiser, 105
  Marketing Problem, E. T. El bourne. 526
  Masonry Structures, F. P. Spalding. 155, 445
  Natural History of a Savant. Professor C.
    Richet. 386
Reinforced Concrete Design. Introduction to, H. Sutherland and W. W. Clifford. 354, 498 Rotary Converters. E. P. Hill, 189. 473 Scientific Principles of Petroleum Technology, Dr. Leo Gurwitsch, 155
LITERATURE (continued):
Short Notices:
Ausldoidung von Druckstollen und Druck- schfichten, Dr.-Ing. Otto Walch, 71, 189
  Business Economics, Sir William Ashley. 155
  Capacities: and Properties of Steel Tubes, 189
Coal anti Allied Subjects, N. Simpkin and F. 8. Sinnott, 155
Controllers for Electric Motors, H. I). James, 354. 580
Design and Construction of Form Work for Concrete' Structures, A. E. Wynn, 216
Die Luft vorwilrrnung im DampfkcKselbetrich, Dipl.-Ing. W. (Jumz, 133
  Electric Trains, R. E. Dickinson, 189
  Field Astronomy, David Clark, 155
Use of Power in Colliery Working. John Kirsopp, 105
  Whitworth Book, The. 105
Books Received .
Abridged Callondnr Steam Tables : Fahrenheit Units, H. L. Callendar, 494
Activated Sludge Process, A. J. Martin, 660
Advertising, Printing and Art in Commerce, J. F. Preston and E. Arch. 689
  Aerial Cableways, G. Beret ti, 189
  Age of the Earth. A. Holmes. 277
  Allgemeino Energiewirthschaft, Hof rat Ing.
    Hans von JUptner, 277
  Aluminium anil its Alloys, M. G. Corson, 133
  Aluminium Facts and Figures. 105
American Society for Testing Materials. Proceedings of Meeting. 380
Amerikas Dainpfturbinenbau, Professor Dr.- Ing. E. A. Kraft, 354
  Annales des Ponta et Chausseos. 1926, 189
  Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, 585
Annali dei Lavori Pubblici (gia (liornale del Genio Civile). 354. 473, 585, 689
Annual Report of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, 660
Annual Report, 1924-25 of the Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service, Canada,105
  Anton Flettner : Story of the Rotor, 689
Architectural Design in Concrete, T. P. Bennett, 660
Art do ringdnieur ct Metallurgic, L. Descroix. 105
Artificial Fertilisers : Their Chemistry, Manufacture and Application, P. Parrish and A. Ogilvie, 277
Automatic Telephony, A Manual of, C. W. Wilman, 633
Bauxite : Treatise Discussing the Origin. Constitution, &c., of Bauxite, C. 8. Fox, 689
Bewegungsfugen im Belon- und Eisenbeton- bau. Professor Dr.-Ing. A. Kleinlogel, 445
  Blue Book. 1927. 155
British Railway Operation, T. Bernard Hare, 473
British Waterworks Year Book and Directory, &c.. G. P. Warner Terry. 133
Building Construction and Drawing, Part I., C. F. Mitchell, 585
Building Science, An Introduction to, F, L. Brady, 689
Bulletin of the British Cast Iron Research Association, No. 16, 585
Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, Vol. XXV., No. 1, 1927, 633
Bulletin de la Soci6t6 d* Encouragement pour rindustrie Nationale. 606, 633
Calvert’s Mechanics’ Almanack, 1927, F. Nasmith, 105
Capital for Labour. W. Francis Lloyd and Bertram Austin, 473
  Carbon Brushes and Brush Shunts, 633
  Carbon y Fierro, No. I., 633
  Carnegie Scholarship Memoirs, Vol. XV., 189
  Central Station Voltages and Charges
    Throughout the United Kingdom, 1927, 606
Chemical Engineering and Chemical Catalogue. 354
China Architects’ and Builders* Compendium, J. '1'. W. Brooke and R. W. Davis, 633
  China and the Nations, Wong Ching-Wai. 245
  Coal Carbonisation : High and Low Tern-
S
erature, J. Roberts, 633
    liery Manager's Pocket Book, 1927, 48
Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory, 1927, 386
  Concrete Year Book, 1927, 48
  Craft of Tracing, 417
  Cutters and Cutter Blocks. 8. Ransome, 417
  Cycling Manual, 155
Danube-Aegean Waterway Project, Prince Lazarovich - Hrebelianovich, 245
Der Bau des Dieselmotors, Ing. Kamillo Korner, 473
Der elastisch drehbar gestutzte Durchlauf- b al ken. Dr.-Ing. H. Craemar, 526
  Dielectric Phenomena, S. Whitehead. 494
Die rationelle Bewirtschaftuug des Batons, Dr.-Ing. A. Agatz, 105
Die Trockentechnic, Dipl.-Ing. M. Kirsch. 585
  Diesel Engines, A. H. Goldingham. 133
Directory of Contractors and Public Works Annual, 1927, 494
Directory of the Members, Subscribers, &c., of the Birmingham Exchange, 1927, 660
  Directory of Paper Makers, 1927, 386
  Directory of Shipowners. Ac., 1927. 189
Domestic Electric Heating. IL G. Solomon. 633
  Doubling our Coal Power, A. Allport, 277
  Draft und Capacity of Chimneys, J. G.
    Mingle, 633
  Drainage and Sanitation. E. H. Blake, 189
  Dredging and Dredging Appliances, P. M.
    Dekker. 633
Durehlaufende Eisen betonkon.strukt ionen in elastischer Verbindung mil den Zwischen- stiitzen, Baurat Dr.-Ing. F. Kann, 105
  Economic Basis of Fair Wages, J. D. Cox, 354
E. H.T. Switchgear and Breakers, G. L. E. Metz, 417
Ein Jahrhundert Deutscher Maschinenbau. Conrad Matsrhoss, 133
Electric Telpherage. G. W. UroaMnith, 48
Electricity Act. The Now. W. S. Kennedy. 189
Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926, J. C. Dalton. 354
Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926. E. J, Rimmer and G. Rend Alien, 354
  Empire Forestry Journal, Fraser Story, 245


LITERATURE (continued):
Birmingham, 51
Books Received (continued):
 
Empire Municipal Directory and Year Book, 192", 473
Cardiff, 51
Engine Service Testa of Interna! Combustion Engine Lubricating Oils, &c.» M. J. Cavin and G. Wade, 633
 
  Engineering Index, 1926, 689
Llwynon Reservoir, 52
English Clubs, A List of, 1927, E. C. Austen* Jxngh, 133
 
Erdstatische Berechnungen mit Reibung and KohAsion, &c., W. Fellenius, 277
Roughing Filters, 52
  Four-place Tables with Forced Decimals.
 
    F. S. Cary and S. F. Grace, 660
Taff Fawr Pipe Line, 52
  Gas Meters, A. T. Gilbert, 364
 
Gottlob’s Technology of Rubber, J. J,. Rosenbaum. 417
Wenallt Reservoir, 52
Grundlagen des Aufzugsbaues, Dr. M. Paet- zold, 633
 
Handbibliothek fiir Bauingenieure : Eisen- bahnwesen und Stftdtebau, Oherbau und Glcisverbindungen. Dr.-Ing. Adolf Bloss, 386
Durham County Water Board. 52
  High Vacua, C. W. C. Kaye, 48
 
Helium in Canada. R. T. Elworthy, 633 H.M. Stationery Office Publications :
Glasgow, 53
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum : Electrical Engineering, F. St. A. Hartley, 633
 
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum, Land Transport : No. IV., Railway Construction and Working. E. A. Forward, 606
Liverpool. Vyrnwy Supply. 24
Gas Storage of Fruit, Franklin Kidd and Others, Special Report No. 30, 526 Inflammation of Coal Dusts : The Effect of the Chemical Composition of the Dust-,
 
      T. M. Mason and R. V. Wheeler. 585
Aber Tunnel, 24
Investigation of the Caking Power of Coal, 386
 
Low-temperature Carbonisation, 386
Vyrnwy Aqueduct, 24
Measurement of Mean Spherical Candlepower, 689
 
Primary Decomposition of Coal : I., The Temperature of Initial Decomposition, 585
Londonderry, 52
Report on the Economic Situation in Belgium, J. Pict on Bagge, 494
 
Report on the Industrial. Commercial and Financial Situation in Poland, R. E. Kimens, 585
Manchester, 51
Report on the Science Museum for the Year 1926, 633
 
History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Arnold Reymond, 155
H aweswat er Scheme, 5!
Hope of the Workers, Austin Hopkinson, 660 Hydro-electric Handbook, W. P. Creager and J. D. Justin, 585
 
    Indian Railways: Rates and Regulations.
Heaton Park Reservoir, 51
    N. B. Mehta, 633
 
Industrial Combination in England, P. Fitzgerald, 48
Thirlmere, 51
Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Comprehensive Treatise on, J. W. Mellor, 133 Institution of Structural Engineers’ Year Book. 1927, 473
 
International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, 473
Thirlmere Aqueduct, 51
Investigations in Ore Dressing and Metallurgy, 1925, 105 •
 
1st Gussbeton wirthschaftlich ? Dr.-Ing. L. Bauineister, 633
Mechanical Filtration Plants, 53
Jahrbuch der Brennkrafttechnischen Gesellschaft E.V.. 1926, 585
 
Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft. 1927, 189
Bradford. 53
* Journal of the Franklin Institute, May. 1927,
 
LITERATURE (continued):
Exeter, 53
Books Received (continued) :
 
Plastering. Plain and Decorative. W. Millar and G. P. Bankart. 633
Mid-Sussex Joint Water Board, 53
Port of Gothenburg Year Book, 1927, Sixten Prytz, 006
 
Practical Electricians' Pocket-book. 1927, 155
Metropolitan Water Board, 51
Pratique duCalcul du B6tonArm&,G. Magnel, 133
 
Principles of Irrigation, Roads and Buildings and of the Water Supply of Towns, W. L. Strange, 585
Supply from the Queen Mary Reservoir, 51
“ Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, April, 1927, 494
 
?* Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Part I., 1927, 585
Walton-on-Thames Filtration Plant, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
“ Proceedings” of the Chemical Engineering Group. 585
 
” Proceedings ” of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers. 585
Works for the Improvement of Supply North of the Thames, 51
” Proceedings ” of the Optical Convention,
 
    1926, Parts I. and IT.. 18
Works for the Improvement of Supply
“ Proceedings ” of the Rugby Engineering Society. Vol. XX.. 386
 
” Proceedings ” of the South Wales Institute of Engineers. 354, 473
South of the Thames. 51
Radio Communication, The Elements of,
 
    O. F. Brown. 133
Works at Hampton. 51
Railway and Commercial Gazetteer of England, Scotland and Wales, 1927, 155
 
  Railway Year Book, 1927, 585
Nottingham. 52
  Rainfall Atlas of the British Isles. 277
 
Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings, 689
Bore-holes at Burton Joyce, 52
Relation of Atmospheric Conditions to Working Capacity and Accident Rate of Coal Miners, H. M. Vernon and T. Bedford, 133
 
Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum,. 1926, 494
Colwick Hill Reservoir. 52
Running Maintenance of the Marine Diesel Engine, John Lamb. 277
 
  Safeguarding Workmen at Oil Derricks, H. C.
East wood Filtration Plant, 52
    Miller, 660
 
  Schnitte und Stanzen, Ernst Gohre, 105
Plymouth, 52
Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 1927, 245
 
  Sewage Works. F. C. Temple, 354
Preston, 52
Skandinaviska Kreditaktiebolaget-Gothen - burg, Stockholm, Malmo, Quarterly Report, 473
 
Some Considerations in the Design of Spur and Helical Gearing, H. Walker, 133
Taf Feehan, 53
Specification Writing, The Elements of, R. S. Kirby. 633
 
  Spectroscopy, Vol. I., E. C. C. Baly, 585
Wakefield. 52
  Standards Year Book, 1927, 585
 
Stresses in Space Frames. Dr. W. W. Pad- lield, 48
Bombay, 53
Study of Flame Movement, O. C. de C. Ellis, 445
 
Successful Asphalt Paving, P. J. M. Larra- naga, 386
France, 53
Support of Underground Workings in the East Midland Coalfield. 189
 
Theory of Machines, Louis Toft and A. J. J.
Singapore, Water Supply from Johore, 53
    Kersey, 633
 
Theory and Practice of Rolling Steel, Wilhelm Tafel. 689
South Australia, 53
To America in Thirty-nine Days, J. Biggs. 445 Towards Industrial Recovery, Hugh Quigley, 633
 
“ Transactions ” of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, 74
Ot her Works Abroad, 53
"Transactions” of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 245
 
“ Transactions ” of the Liverpool Engineering Society, F. W. Gaskin and A. M. Robb. 245
Irrigation, 54
Treatise on Thermodynamics, Dr. Max Planck, 105
 
Trials with Vacuum Brakes on Long Goods Trains, 1926, R. C. Case, 74
ARMOURING Machine—tee Electrical Matters
Twenty-sixth Financial and Economic Annual of Japan, 1926, 585
 
  Universal Directory of Railway Officials,
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
    1927, 660
 
WArmetechnische Grundlagen der Indus- triedfon, Professor Hans V. Juptner, 633
Association, Diesel Engine Users' :
Wasserdurchlassigkeit von Bet on, &c., Dr.- Ing. G. Merkle, 386
 
Water Power Practice, F. Johnstone-Taylor, 386
Consumers’ Oil Tests, Arthur F. Evans, 665 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans 504
Water Powers of Manitoba, C. H. Attwood, 494
 
Water Transport: IL, Merchant Steamers, Catalogue of Collections in the Science Museum, 526
High Revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday. 298
Wellington Harbour Board. Accounts. Ac., to September 30th. 1926, 689
 
Witness of the Great Pyramid, B. Stewart, 155
Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Working of Unstratified Mineral Deposits, G. J. Young, 277
 
Year Book of the Bermudas, the Bahamas, British Guiana, British Honduras, and the British West Indies, 1926-7, 74
Annual Dinner, 71
Year Book and Directory of the South African Mining and Engineering Journal, 1927, 417
 
  Zur Frage dos Shiffswiderstandos. Uh.
Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E.
    Doydre, 606
 
LIVENS. F. H., Rating and Valuation Act. 1925, 148
Windeler, 354
Lloyd’s Register—see Ships
 
Locomotive, Internal Combustion, 96
Junior Technical School and its Relation to Engineering, 8. Howden, 125
Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives. also Storage Battery Locomotives (Electrical Matters)
 
Long Distance Gas Transmission. 193. 240
Modern Developments in Steam Pressures.
Longlands Diamond Pool on the Vaal River, 277 Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton, 376
 
Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy. 358. 361, 393 —see also Theoretical Lubrication
W. Bayliss, 280
M
 
MACHINE TOOLS :
Recent Developments in Machine Tools, Q. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235
Raring Machine. Large Horizontal, for Turbine Cylinders, Schiess-Defrics, 297. 630. 635
 
  Centreless Grinders at Leipzig Fair. 320
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
Combination Machine Tool. Max Hopfen- glirtner A.G., 583
 
Crank Pin Turning and Grinding Machine, Jones, Burton and Co., Ltd., 110
Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:
MACHINE TOOLS (continued) :
 
Double-spindle Locomotive Connecting-rod Drilling Machine. George Swiff and Sons, Ltd., 106. 107
Annual Convention at Buxton, 607, 622
Drills, Milling Cutters. Reamers, Saws. Arc.. Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, viii, and 265
 
Flat-edge Trimming Machine, Press with Pneumatic Die Cushion. Taylor and Challen. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
Annual General Meeting, 624
Gear Hobbing Machine, Schuchardt and Schutte, 297
 
Grinding Machines and Processes, Recent Developments in. H. H. Asbridge, 277
Dinner, 624
  Hammer, Motor-driven Air. Record Size.
 
    Eumtico A.G., &c., 297
Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland with Special Reference to the Heating Question, H. H. Berry, 624
High-speed Planing Machine, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i
 
“ Hiloplane ” Planing Machine. .John Stick and Sons. Ltd.. 190. 19!
Methods and Capital Costs of Distribution Over an Extensive Area, W. C. Bexon, 607
Lathe. Heavy Double bed Centre, Schiesa* Defries, 297
 
Lat hes, Powerful Railway \\ heel. \\ ilheliii Hegenscheidt, 297
Presidential Address, R. W. L. Phillips, 607 Recent Developments in Power Plant Design and their Effects on the Economy of Generation. T. Roles. 622
  Maag Gear-cutting Machine. 320
 
Machine Toni Hall and German Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Exhibits. 297
Institute, Iron and Steel:
Milling Cutters, Drills, Chucks, &c.. Portable Cylinder Re-boring Tool, “ Floxtol.” Alfred Herbert. Ltd., 266
Annual Meeting, 502, 513, 541
  Recent Developments in Machine Tools,
 
    G. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235
Annual Report, 513
Rotary Milling Machines in a Motor Car Engine Works, Morris Motors, Ltd., anti Wm. Asquith, Ltd., 352, 356
 
  Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines, 463
Annual Dinner, 516
  Screwing Machine, Automatic, 3 horn as
 
    Chatwin, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
ACj Range in Special Steels, Professor J. H. Andrew and H. A. Dickie, 543
  Shearing Machine for Curves, 320
 
  Shearing Machine, Henry Pels. 297
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins, 541. 557 Experimental Inquiry into the Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, Professor W. A. Bone and Others, 514, 530
Shearing Machine, Open-ended, for Reinforcing Rods, Henry Pels, 280
 
Sheet Edge Grinding Machine, Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., 692
Four Other Papers Taken as Read, 544 Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield. 558 Influence of Annealing Temperatures on the Properties of Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543
MACHINERY—«« also Rating
 
Machinery, World’s Production and Trade in. 648
Low-carbon Alloys of Iron and Manganese, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515, 516
Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs. 497
 
Manufacture of High-pressure Boiler Drums, Thyssen and Co., 246
Metal Manganese and its Properties, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515
Marchant, Professor E. W., Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, 461. 472
 
Marine Engines—see Engines
Metallurgical Industry, The Heavy, of the East of France, M. J. Seigle, 514
Marine Steam Turbine Progress, 77
 
Marshall, A. G., and C. H. Barton, Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, 376
Presidential Address, F. W. Harbord, 502, 514
Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army. Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 330, 332
 
Mechanical—see also Tea Garden
Properties of Some Nickel-chromium-molyb-denum Steels, Professor Andrew and Others, 544
Mellanby, Professor A. L., and Professor W. Kerr, Use and Economy of High pressure Steam Plants. 94, 107, 126, 166, 207, 208; (Erratum), 146 ; (Letter), 298
 
Mersey Tunnel—see Pumps
Some Notes on Cold-rolled Strip, Dr. T. Swinden and Mr. G. R. Bolsover, 543
Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, The Heavy. M. J. Seigle, 514
 
Metallurgists and Engineers, 525
The Alloys of Iron Research. Dr. Rosenhain and Others, 516
Metallurgy, Industrial Bursaries in, 531
 
Metallurgy. Some Recent Services of. to Engineering, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 490, 520
Theory of the Growth of Cast Iron Repeatedly Heated, Dr. C. Benedicks and M. H. Loquist, 543
Metals—see also Associations, &c., Institute of Metals
 
Metals—sec also Work Hardening
Institute of Marine Engineers ;
Miers, Sir Henry A., Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, 527
Recovery and Utilisation of Heat from Exhaust Gases of Internal Combustion Engines, Thomas Clarkson, 411
Milling Machines—see Machine Tools
 
Mine Fan, Large, for Durban Navigation Collieries, Davidson and Co., Ltd., 548
Some Types of Marine Internal Combustion Engines. W. F. Rabbidge, 273
Mineral Wealth of Cornwall, 665
 
Mines—see Safety
Institute of Metals :
Mining Industry of Now South Wales, 209
Annual General Meeting, 184, 294, 322 Programme, 184
Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 71
 
Model Steam Power Station, 217
Autumn Meeting, 184
Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518
 
Monel Metal and Malleable Nickel, G. and J.
Application of Strain Methods to the Investigation of the Structure of Eutectic Alloys, F. Hargreaves, 322
  Weir, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii
 
Motor Car Engine Works, Milling Machines— see Machine Tools
Crystallisation of the Lead-tin Eutectic, F. Hargreaves, 322
Movement of Sand by Wind, Dr. J. S. Owens, 377
 
N
Attack of Molten Metals on Certain Nonferrous Metals and Alloys, Harold J. Hartley, 322
NAVAL Matters—see Ships
 
New Work Always Ready for Men who Do
Penetration of Brass by Tin and Solder, H. J. Miller, 322
  Things, Frank Richards. 467 ; (Letter). 494
 
Nicolson, David, Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats. 409
Penetration of Mild Steel by Brazing Solder and other Metals, R. Genders, 322
Nozzles—see Proportioning
 
OBITUARY :
Brittleness in Arsenical Copper, Clement Blazey, 294
  Anderson, Konrad. 389
 
  Boulnois, Henry Percy, 50
Effect of Arsenic on Copper, Effect of Arsenic and Arsenic plus Oxygen on Copper, Professor D. Hanson and Mr. C. B. Marryat, 294
  Culthrop. Everard R.. 354
 
  Campbell, Archibald W., 580
Effect of Bismuth on Copper, Dr. Hanson and Miss Ford, 294
  Chapman, Mr. H. T., 444
 
  Cowdray, Viscount (Portrait). 499
Electric Furnaces in Non-terrous Metallurgy, D. F. Campbell, 295
  D'Alton, Lieut.-Colonel Patrick Walter. 117
 
  Etchells, Ernest Fiander, 50
Hair Springs, Manufacture and Properties of, Moore and Beckinsale, 322
  Fox, Sir Francis (Portrait). 49
 
  Greenhill, Sir George, 189
Influence of Calcium on Aluminium Containing Silicon, J. D. Grogan, 323
  Haslam, Sir Alfred Seale. 50. 79
 
  Hill, Alfred John. 302
Magnesium-rich Magnesium-copper Alloys, Max Hansen, 323
  Hills, Arnold Frank. 273
 
  Hutchins, Thomas William Stainer, 602
Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in Alloys, R. Genders, 323
  Kearns, Henry Ward. 154
 
  Kemnal, Sir James (Portrait), 154
Seventh Maj* Lecture : Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527
  M’Cullough, F. W., 354
 
  Phipps. Frederick Reginald, 50
Institution of Chemical Engineers :
  Platt, John, 662
Annual Dinner, 326
  Samuelson, Ernest. 580
 
  Savage, E. A., 151
Annuel General Meeting, 326
  Stokes, Sir Wilfrid (Portrait ), 153
 
  Taylor, Godfred Midgley (Portrait), 661
Conference, 193
  Thomas, Qeorgo, 354
 
OIL Engines — nee Engines
Programme, 193
Oil Tests, Consumers’, Arthur F. Evans, 665
 
Old and New Atomic Theories. 606
Cross Cracking Process and Plant. F. Heron Rogers, 326
Ormandy, Dr. W. R.. Lubrication. 358. 361. 393
 
“ Osiso ” and its Modification." for Use as a
Meeting, 302, 325
  Phonoscope, Westinghouse Electric and
 
  Manufacturing Company. 135
Effect of Temperature on Some nf the Properties of Metals, &c.. Professor F. C. Lea, 325
Oscilloscope and Oxygen Apparatus — see
 
  Physical and Optical Exhibits
Intensive Sulphuric Acid Manufacture :
Owens. Dr. J. 8., Movement nf Sand bv Wind, 377
 
Oxygen Jet Metal Cutting Machine, Godfrey
(1) Dr. H. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds,
  Engineering Works. 267
 
P
(2) W. G. Mills, 303
PAINT-MAKING MACHINERY
 
    388. 418. 438. 464. 519
Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302
Paint. Mills and Mixers. Torrance and Sons, 388. 389. 418. 461. 519
 
  Ball Mill and Laboratory Ball Mill, Hind and
Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to Lead Burning. W. C. Freeman, 302
    Lund. 519, 520
 
  Mill, Single-roll Finishing, Sidney Smith and
Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, B. D. Porritt, 325
    Blyth. 464
 
Mills with Chain-driving Gear. Marchant Brothers, Ltd., 138. 439
Some Industrial Developments and the Chemical Engineer, Sir F. Nathan, 326
Mills with Helical Driving Gear. Cam Gear, Spring Adjusting Gear. Brinjes and Goodwin. 438
 
  Paint Mixer and Strainer. Marchant Brothers,
Institution of Civil Engineers :
    Ltd., 461
Applications of Power on Gasworks, Harold C. Smith, 137
PARSONS. Sir Charles, Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, 387, 390, 405
 
Parsons, Sir C. A., and Others, Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery, 69
Conversazione, 662
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS. BRITISH
 
  Aeronautics, 313
Three Lantern Lectures, 662
  Batteries and Accumulators, 537, 591, 617
 
  Building, 400
Exhibits : Yarrow-Hyde Bed. “ Rubber-phalte ” Road Blocks, &c., 662
Condensers and Feed-water Healers. 173. 199, 591
 
  Cranes and Conveyors, 61. 484. 510, 592
James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering. Professor H. C. N. Carpenter, 490, 520
Crushing and Grinding. 200. 700 Dynamos and Motors, 61. 227, 255, 34), 399, ‘427, 455, 565. 617, 643, 673, 699
 
Electrical Appliances, 89, 115, 199, 227 Engines, Internal Combustion, 31, 89. 145, 173, 227, 313, 369. 455, 483, 565, 591, 617
October Examinations. 1926, Pass List, 113 April Examinations, 1927, Pass List, Interim, 668
Furnaces, 89. 199, 228, 255, 427. 456, 510, 566, 643, 674
 
Gas Producers. 89
Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River. T. C. S. Haslam, 602
Lighting and Heating, 200, 313, 369, 566, 618 Locomotives, 510
 
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 32, 228, 342, 399, 510, 592, 618. 643, 674, 699
Manchester and District Association :
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 61, 199, 369, 509, 6£9
 
  Metallurgy, 285, 428. 456
Sixth Annual Dinner, 181
  Mining Machinery, 115, 145
 
Miscellaneous, 32, 62. 90, 116, 146, 174, 228, 255, 286, 313, 342, 369, 400, 428 484. 510, 538, 566, 592, 618, 644, 674 Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 484, 618, 670
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued) :
  Ordnance and Armour, 90
 
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 31, 285, 341, 483, 538, 618, 643 Ships and Boats, 62. 173, 566, 670 Steam Generators, 173, 285, 313, 427, 509, 565, 591
Institution of Electrical Engineers ■
Switchgear, 31. 61, 341, 399. 509. 537, 617, 643, 673
 
Telegraphs and Telephones, 31, 61. 89, 145, 341, 369, 399, 427. 456. 483, 509. 565, 592. 617. 673
Alternating-current. Measuring Instruments, Recent Advances in, Lieut.-Colonel K. Edgcumbe and Mr. F. E. J. Oekenden, 208 Annual Dinner, 71, 193
  Tramways and Railways, 115, 173
 
115.
Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, Professor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472
200, 450.
 
044.
Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, Lieut.-Commander Haydn T. Harrison. 297
115.
 
455.
Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough, 221
691,
 
115,
Summer Meeting at North-Eastern Centre. 654. 680. 686 ; Programme. 354
537,
 
Transformers and Converters, 173, 455, 483, 509
Visits to Heaton Works (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.) and to Hebburn Works (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 654
Transmission of Power. 145. 199. 227. 255, 285, 399, 427. 537. 592, 643. 674, 699
 
    Turbine Machinery, 227. 313, 483, 537. 699
Visits to Works of Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.. Works of (’onsett Iron Company, and North Tees Electric Power Station, 680. 686
PERSONAL and Business Announcements, 29, 87. 116, 140, 174, 200, 225. 253, 286, 314, 342, 367, 400, 425, 456, 481, 510, 535, 563, 589. 615, 644, 671, 697
 
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES’ EXHIBITS :
What is Electricity ? Abstract of Faraday Lecture. Professor W. M. Thornton, 331
    12. 40, 72
 
1 Apparatus for Observing Flaws in Metal Surfaces and Comparing Conductivities of Metal Plates, Professor E. W. Marchant and Mr. J. L. Miller. 12
Wireless Section :
Apparatus, Research Departments of Various Firms and the National Physical Laboratory. 12
 
Automatic Voltage Regulator for Direct- current Generators, Isenthal and Co., Ltd., 74
Battery Eliminators, Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews. 412
Bridge Ohmmeter. Record Electrical Company, Ltd., 41
 
Carbon Dioxide Measuring Instrument, 72 CO2 Indicator and Recorder. 41 ; Dissolved
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
Oxygen Apparatus, 14 ; Surface Pyrometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, 41
Joint Meeting with North-East Coast Institution, 611, 693
      Dow Deposition Recorder, 72
 
Elverson Flashing Lamp Oscilloscope. 72 Guillet Vibrating-wiro Stroboscope, 73 Level, Tungsten Wire, General Electric
Programme, 611
        Company, 40, 41
 
Lighting, Internal, of Rooms by Daylight, Method of Measurement by Mode), 72
Historical References to the Progress in Use of High-pressure Steam, James Mollison, 693
Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of a Metal Rod, 72
 
Peak Voltage Measuring Instruments, L.M. Magneto Syndicate, Ltd., 12
Machinery Installation of the Grosser Kur-furst, John S. Brown, 276
Photo-electric Rating Machine for Lamps, General Electric Company, 40
 
Pin Jack Voltmeter, Weston Electrical Instrument Company. 42
Various Papers, Dinner, Visits, 693
Rotary Pump, The “ Geryk,” Pulsometer Company, Ltd., 74
 
Rotary Steam Meter. George Kent, Ltd.. 74 Schering Galvanometer. Cambridge Instrument Company. Ltd., 13
Institution, Junior, of Engineers:
Sparking Plug Thermo-couple Pyrometer. Foster Instrument. Company. 41, 42
Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412
S.P. 18 Amplifying Valve, Collection of Constituent Parts and other Exhibits. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company. 72
 
Standard Telephonic Frequencies Obtained through a Clock Pendulum, 72
Torsional Vibration, Investigation of, J.
Transformers, Portable Current, Everett, Edgoumbe and Co., Ltd., 74
 
      Venner-Shotter Water Flow Meter, 73
Calderwood, 336
 
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
Annual General Meeting, 206
 
Report, 206
 
Conversazione, 208
 
Development of Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 332
 
Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses, &c., Professor F. C. I.ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter). 522
 
Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut. -Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 410, 415, 416, 445
 
Joint Meeting with Chemical Engineering Group, Lubrication. Dr. W. R. Onnandy. 358, 361, 393
 
Second Joint Meeting, Lubricating Oils— Laboratory' in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton. 376
 
Summer Meeting, Birmingham, 240
 
Provisional Programme, 240
 
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanbv and Professor William Kerr, 94, 107, 126, 166, 207 : (Erratum), 146
 
North-Western Branch :
 
Annual General Meeting, 109
 
Joint Meeting, Discussion, of Professors Mellanby and Kerr’s Paper, 207
 
Manchester Meeting, 208
 
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, 207, 208
 
Meeting in Manchester, Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.-Colonel Kitson Clark, 444
 
Small Turbine Units for Industrial Purposes, G. Arrowsmith, 109
 
Joint Meeting, Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 377
 
Mechanical Vehicles, Development of. for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 330
 
Recent Developments in Grinding Machines and Processes, H. H. Axbridge, 276
 
Institution of Mining Engineers :
Eighty-sixth General Meeting, Programme, 638
 
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers
Annual General Meeting and Conference. Programme, 531
 
Institution of Naval Architects :
Annual Dinner, 388
 
Annual General Meeting, 387, 405, 434
 
Report and Elections, 387
 
Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats, David Nieolson, 409
 
Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, H. .1. R. Biles, 435, 439
 
Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405
 
Notes on the Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 408
 
Oil Engine Energy Diagram and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dalby, 406, 420, 421
 
l*rogramme of Meetings, 336
 
Propulsion of Ships Under Different Weather Conditions, J. L. Kent. 434
 
Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors.
 
Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408
 
Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436
 
Ship Wave Resistance, W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Summer Meeting in Cambridge, Programme, 336
 
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
Economy' of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion, G. S. Baker, 1 125
 
Joint Meeting—see Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
 
Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery | on Land and Sea, Sir C. A. Parsons and Others, 69
 
Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth. 249
 
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
 
Institution of Structural Engineers :
 
Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, H. J. Gough, 474
 
Institution of Water Engineers •
Summer General Meeting, Programme and List of Papers, 450
 
Theory and Practice (from Presidential Address of Dr. Herbert Lapworth), 691
 
Society, Ceramic :
Spring Meeting in Czechoslovakia, 437
 
Society of Chemical Industry :
Midland Section, Joint Meeting, 84 Measurement of Temperature in Technical
 
Practice, Professor J. W. Hinchley, 84 Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, J. A. Hall, 84
 
Chemical Engineering Group, Joint Meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 358, 361, 393
 
Society, Faraday ;
Meeting for Presentation of Second Report to Atmospheric Corrosion Research Committee, by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon, 374
 
Theory of Strong Electrolytes, Programme of Papers and General Discussion at University Museum, Oxford, 392
 
Society, Liverpool Engineering :
Annual Dinner. 155
 
Society, Newcomen :
Meeting, 219
 
British Railways of 1825 as Seen by Marc Seguin, Ferdinand Achard and Laurent Seguin, 219
 
First British Locomotives of the St. Etienne-Lyon Railway, M. Achard. 219
 
Summer Meeting, 576
 
Society, Royal :
Conversazione : Ultra-violet Radiation, Applications of and Apparatus for Generation of ; Specimens of Pure Metals ; Specimens Illustrating Metallography of Solid Mercury ; Magnetometer ; Model of Rotating Shaft; New Form of Thermostat ; Seldnyi’s Method of Observing the “ Cleanup ” in a Vacuum Lamp, &c., 522
 
Societies, Physical and Optical:
Exhibition, 12, 42, 72—For Details see Separate Heading, “ Physical and Optical Exhibits ”
 
ATKINS, E. A., Drawing Steel Wire, 541, 557 Australia and India, Wireless Communication with—see Wireless Telegraphy, Grimsby and Skegness Stations
 
Automatic Electro-plating Machine, Grinding Machinery, “ Minik ” Plating Apparatus, &c., W. Canning and Co., Ltd., 264, 265
 
B
BAILEY, Alex. D., High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, 635
 
Baker, G. S., Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion. 125
 
Baker, G. S., Skin Friction Resistance, 179
 
Balancing Gear—see Engines
 
Balancing Machine. Martin, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i, ii
 
Bars, Centrifugal Casting of, Leon Cammen, 574
 
Baulino Continuous Fuel Indicator, 157
 
Beam Engines—see Engines
 
Beet Sugar, New Method of Making, 431, 442, 444
 
Benedicks, Dr. C-, and M. H. Loquist. Growth of Cast Iron, 543
 
Berry, H. H., Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland, 624
 
Biles, H. J. R., Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, 435, 439
 
Boiler Drums, High-pressure. Manufacture of, Thyssen and Co., 246
 
Boiler, Exhaust Gas, Determination of the Efficiency of, Professor G. Cook, 403
 
Boiler, Experimental Critical Pressure, Siemens. Benson. 690
 
Boiler Fittings, Feed Pumps and Boiler-house Apparatus at Leipzig, 321
 
Boiler Mountings, Variety of Valves, &c., Hunt and Mitt on, 267
 
Boiler Tubes, Duty of, 580
 
Boiler, Vertical Tubular, Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
 
Boiler, Woodeson Water-tube, with Pulverised Coal Equipment. Clarke. Chapman and Co.. 681, 682
 
Boilers. Pulverised Fuel, at Birmingham, 363
 
Boilers. Lancashire and Water-tube, John Thompson, Ltd., vii
 
Bone, Professor W. A., and Others, Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, 514, 530
 
Books of Reference, 100, 152. 184, 220. 268, 364, 437. 584, 611
 
Borbera Valley Hydro-electric Installation, 222 Boring Machines—see Machine Tools
 
Brakes, Trains—see Railways
 
BRIDGES :
Bridges, Swing, Over the River Waveney at Beccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177
 
Delaware River Suspension Bridge. U.S.A..
 
202, 214, 231, 304. 305. 318. 345
 
“ Iron Bridge ” at Plymouth. Centenary, 625
 
Kafne Bridge, Lifting the, 478
 
Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Welded Repairs to, 419
 
BRITISH Engineers’ Association, Luncheon, Economic Conference at Geneva, Sir Arthur Balfour, 665
 
BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
Conference by Screw Threads Committee on Question of Width Across Flats of Nuts and Bolt Heads, 335
 
Specifications :
Charcoal Iron Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, 212
 
Cold-drawn Wcldless Steel Tubes for Locomotive Boilers, 212
 
Contours for Locomotive Tires for British Railways, 440
 
Copper Conductors for Electric Power and Light, 308
 
Electrical Protective Relays, 336
 
Flame-proof Enclosures for Electrical Apparatus, 84
 
Gear Wheels and Pinions for Electric Tramways, 394
 
Instrument Transformers and Recording Ammeters, Voltmeters and Wattmeters, 531
 
Iron or Steel Tubular Poles for Telegraph and Telephone Purposes. 582
 
Oil Paints, 277
 
Paints, Varnishes and Paint Ingredients, 44
 
Piston Rings for Automobiles, 550
 
Switchgear Cells and Cubicles, 193
 
Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 692
 
Water-tight Fittings for Incandescent
 
Electric Lamps, 109
 
Zinc Specifications, 171
 
BRITISH Foundrymen, Institute of, Annual Convention, Programme, 637
 
British Industries—«ec Exhibitions
 
British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Second Report to Corrosion Research Committee, 374
 
Bronze Founding, Sir John Dewrance, 274
 
Browne, A. W., Storage Buttery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268
 
Buenos Aires Port Works, 298
 
Burning—sec Coal
 
c
CABIN Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422
 
Cables—see Electrical Matters
 
Calder, J. Douglas, Notes on the Design of Coasters, 408
 
Calendars, Diaries, &c., 87, 109, 225
 
(Jammen, Leon, Centrifugal Casting of Bars, 574 Cardington—see Aeronautics
 
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering, 490, 520
 
Cast Iron Casing for Turbo Air Compressor, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654
 
Castings, Large, of High-conductivity Copper, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd., 611
 
Catalogues. 87, 109, 171, 197, 367. 425. 453, 477, 611, 641, 071, 697
 
Centenary, Railway—see Railways
 
Centenary, Waterworks—see Water Supply
 
Centrifugal Casting of Bars, Leon Cammen, 574 Chain Bending and Chain Welding Machines, Fin Stripper and Testing Machine, Holden and Hunt, B.l.F. Supplement, iii
 
Chain Pulling Jack, " Little Jack '* Engineering Company, Ltd., 694
 
Chemical Analysis, 216
 
China, The “ Red Menace “ in, 105
 
Chloronome—Water Softening
 
Ciment Fondu Concrete, 329; (Letter), 351 Circulating Water—sec Electrical Mutters Clarkson, Thomas, Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, 411
 
•‘Clear Space’ Pneumatic Power Hammer, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666
 
Clough, F. H., Stability of I.arge Power Systems, 221
 
COAL. COKE AND COLLIERIES :
British Cool in Franco, 350
 
Burning of Low-grade Coal, 162
 
Coal Ash and Probability. 48 ; (Letter), 449 Coal Pulverising Machine, Mayhew, Ramsay and Co., Ltd., 249
 
Pneumatic Coal and Ash Conveying Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160, 163
 
Pulverised Coal Plant at the Poplar Power Station, 466, 470
 
Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268
 
Stourport Power Station, Coal-handling Plant, 626. 663
 
COASTERS—see Ships
 
Coilers for Cold Strip Rolling Mills, C. E.
 
Davies, 92, 123
 
Colombia, Port Improvements in, 692 Combiiation—see Engines
 
Compressor, CO2, Tandem-compound Steam-driven, for the Almcdu Liner, 379
 
Conference on Engineering Materials. 4 48 Conferences on Industrial Welfare, 477 Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, William Harvey, 568
 
Contracts. 59, 90, 113, 146, 174, 197, 225, 253, 283. 31 1, 339. 367, 397, 425. 453. 481, 507, 535, 566. 588, 618, 644. 674, 670
 
Conveyor, Genera) Purpose, New Conveyor Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv
 
Cook, Professor (L, Determination of the Efficiency of an Exhaust Gas Boiler, 403
 
Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215
 
Co-operative Industrial Research, 471
 
Copper,Arsenic and ; Copper. Arsenical ; Copper, Bismuth and ; Papera and Discussion at the Institute of Metals, 294
 
Copper Castings—see Castings
 
Copper Conductors, Hard-drawn, 463
 
Corrosion, Atmospheric, of Metal®—see British Non-ferrous Metals
 
Crane Girder Design—sec Economics of
 
Cross Cracking Process and Plant, F. Heron Rogers, 326 ; (Letter). 351
 
Cultivating Machinery—see Steam
 
Cultivator—see Tea Garden
 
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 30. 60, 88, 114. 144. 172, 198. 226. 254, 284, 312, 340, 368, 398. 426, 454, 4 82, 508, 536. 564, 590, 616, 642, 672. 698
 
Cylinder Piers for Dockyard Wharf, 527
 
DALBY, Professor W. E., Energy Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials. 406. 420. 421
 
Dam. Eguzon, on the River (Tense, 64, 76
 
Dam, Wilson Bhandardara Dam, Bombay, 317, 328
 
Dams, Continuous Nat ure of Decay in, William Harvey, 668
 
Davies, C. E., Coders for Cold Strip Rolling Mills. 02. 123
 
Deferrating Plant at. a Sussex Works. 98. 102
 
Delaware— .■.re Bridges
 
Demoulin, Maurice, Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518
 
Deptford—see Electrical Matters
 
Dewrance, Sir John, Bronze Founding. 274
 
Diamond Pool—see Longlands
 
Die Casting, Non-metallic Materials, 321
 
Diesel Engines—sec Engines
 
Digging and Loading Machine. Spencer (Mclk-shain), Ltd.. 393
 
Dock Extensions at Liverpool. 372. 373, 384
 
Double Dry Grinding Machine. Electrically Driven, B. R. Rowland and Co.. Ltd.. 667
 
Drawing-otlice Lighting, 205
 
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541, 557
 
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools
 
Drying Oven, Largo Vacuum, at Heaton Works, (’. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654
 
Dunsheath, Percy, 33,000-Volt Three-core Cables. 99
 
Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580
 
Dynamic Balancing Machine. W. and T.
 
Avery, Ltd., 265
 
Dynamometer, Heenan-Highfield Electric, Heenan and Fronde, Ltd., 265
 
E
EARLY Modern Plough Design, G. E. Fussell. 233
 
Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, C. J. \\ barton, 278
 
Economics of Crane Girder Design, Edward G.
 
Fiegehcn, 204
 
Economy of Tank Testing—see Ship Propulsion Research
 
Educational Intelligence, 54
 
Edwards, Professor C. A., and Mr. J. C. Jones, Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets. 543
 
Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76
 
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
See also Annual Articles, also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits
 
Alternating-current Motor Starting Panel, Arc Welding Equipment. Gate End Starting Box, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 236
 
Armouring Electric Cables, Large Machine for, Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 552, 560
 
Automatic Control of Boilers Working with Powdered Fuel, Allgemeine Elektrieitiits Gesellschaft, 297
 
Automatic Sub-station in Copenhagen, Electrical Equipment, Metropolitan-Vickers Company, 584
 
Battery Eliminators. &c., Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews, 412
 
Binary Electric Converter, Mawdsley’s, Ltd., 238
 
Cables, 33,000-Volt Three-core, Percy Dunsheath, 99
 
Canada, Electric Power Position in, 233
 
Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, 529
 
Circulating Water System, New, at Woolwich Electricity Station, 150
 
CO, Recorder, Elect rofio Meters, Ltd.. 239
 
Congella Power Station, Durban, 106
 
(’onset t Iron Company's Works, Electrical Equipment at, 682, 686
 
Cubicle Switchgear, George Ellison, 532
 
Direct-current Controller with Pivoted Contact Finger, Unbreakable Resistance, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 237
 
Double-pole Switch, D. B. Minor, General Electric Company, 239
 
Economic Production of Steam by Electricity,
 
C. J. Wharton, 278
 
Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76
 
Electric Furnaces in Non-ferrous Metallurgy,
 
D. F. Campbell, 295
 
Electrical Industry, The, 437
 
Electrical Instruments, 208
 
Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412
 
Electrical Research, 188
 
Electric Welding Machines, Siemens-Schuc-kert. 297
 
Electrified Homes .  .  . the Heating
 
Question, H. H. Berry, 624
 
Extensions at the Deptford Power Station, 598, 604
 
French Electrification Developments, 250
 
High-frequency Currents, Kelvin Lecture, Profeasor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472
 
High-voltage Outdoor Transformers, Ferranti Ltd., 496. 503
 
Langerbrugge Power Station, Results Obtained with High-pressure Steam at, 550
 
Largo Transformers, Mctropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 135
 
Loading Reactances for Large Generators, Oerlikon Company, 694
 
Magnetic Alloys, Mumetal ami Rhome tai, Gutta Pore ha Company, 240
 
Manchester Electricity Supply, 625
 
Models for Demonstrating Electrical Principles, Dr. F. W. Alexander, 547
 
North Tecs Electric Power Stations, 680
 
Outdoor Transformers at Stourport, 663
 
Parsons 20,000-Kilowatt Turbo-alternator at Rotterdam, 512. 524, 540 (Ttco-paye Supplement, May 1927)
 
Power Station, New, at Willow Holme, Carlisle, 573, 578
 
Power Station at Poplar, A New. 466. 470
 
Pyromic, Nickel-Chromium Alloy, Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Ltd., 240
 
Recent Development in Power Plant Design, Ac., T. Roles, 622
 
Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, A. W. Browne, 268
 
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
 
Stourport Power Station. 626, 627, 663 Street Lighting, Haydn T. Harrison. 297 Switch, 400-Ampdre Oil-immersed Fuse, A.
 
Reyrolle and Co., 236, 237
 
Switchgear, Cubicle Typo for 11,000*Volt Supply, George Ellison. 267
 
Switchgear Works. New, The Oerlikon Com pony. 404. 414
 
Switching Plug, Stanton, Ltd., 207
 
Tapping Switch. Hackbridge Electric Construction Company, 238
 
Thornton and Clevelvy's Electricity Scheme, 008
 
Three-phase Circuit Breaker. 100,000-Volt, 297
 
Three-phase Oil Switch and Switchgear. Park Royal Engineering Company, 238, 239 Trafford Park Power Station, New Coalhandling Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160. 163
 
Transformer, Three-phase, Oil-cooled, Cort* Type Transformers : Single-phase. Radiid Type, Air-cooled Transformer, British Electric Transformer Company, 266
 
Treforcst Power Station, Extensions to, 500 Truck, Electric, Wingrove anil Rogers, Ltd., 237. 238
 
Truck Elevating Platform, Electricars, Ltd., 267
 
Turbo-alternator, 12,000-kW, Two Turbogenerator Sets at 20,000 kW, at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons anil Co., Ltd., 654
 
U Type Motors. Alternating and Direct Current, Squirrel Cage and Slip Ring Motors, Squirrel Cage Rotor, Brush Gear, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 266. 267
 
Voltage Regplating Equipment for Transmission Lines, Newcastle • upon - Tyne Scheme, Motropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 556
 
What is Electricity ? Faraday Lecture, Professor W. M. Thornton. 331
 
ENERGY Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dolby, 406. 420. 421
 
ENGINES AND MOTORS
<$’*•<• al«o Annual Articles
 
Aircraft Engines :
 
Beardmore “ Typhoon ” Aero-engine, 97 Bristol Company’s “ Cherub.” “ Jupiter ’ and ” Lucifer ” Aeroplane Engines. 35 "Cirrus” Mark II. 75-8’1 H.P. Engine, "Nimbus” 300-330 H.P. Six-cylinder Engine. A.D.C. Aircraft, Ltd., 35. .
 
Aircraft Engines, Torsional Vibration with Particular Reference to, J. Calderwood, 336
 
Airless Injection, 1000 B.H.P. Marine Oil Engine, ” V.M.” Deutz Type. 528. 544
 
Automatic Steam Engine, Small, 392 ; (Letter), 448 ; (Correction), 507
 
Balancing Gear for a Four-cylinder 250 B.H.P. Oil Engine. W. H. Allen, Sons anil Co., Ltd., 692
 
Bearn Engines. Old—we Letters to the Edit or. 351, 449, 465, 025, 656, 684 ; (Correction), 400
 
Cold-starting Heavy Oil Engine, Clayton ami Shuttieworth, Ltd., 80


Combustion, A New Process of, for Highspeed Heavy Oil Engines, Dr.-Ing. R. Stribeck. 632


Compound Engine, 100 kW Two-crank, with Dynamo ; Turbine with Dynamo ; Heavy Oil Engine, 50 H.P. Two-cylinder ; Centrifugal Pump for Irrigation ; Mode! of Borehole Pump, W. H. Allen, Sons, and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi, vii


Crossley Premier Oil Engine, Four-cylinder, for Driving Pumps at Epsom Waterworks. 569


Diesel Engineer s Log, M. V. Tampa, 279 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans, 504


Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 47


High-revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday, 298


Hopper-cooled Oil Engine, Crosslev Brothers, Ltd., 137


Internal Combustion Engines, Various, Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Fielding and Platt, Ltd., Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii


Marino Oil Engines -#rr alto Annual Articles (1) Motor Vessels, Ac.; (2) Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering


Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors. Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472. 486, 518


Oil Engine, Vertical, with New Form of Exhaust Valve Gear, Blackstone and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v


Oil Engines, 70 H.P. Cold-starting Heavy Oil, and 96 H.P. Four-cylinder Vertical, Norris, Henty and Gardners, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii


Oil Engines and Governor Gear. Marshall, Sons and Co.. B.I.F. Supplement, ii


Oil Engines. Stationary, and 24 H.P. Twincylinder Marine, Fuel Pump Unit anil Spraying Jet, Petters, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v


Some Tvpes of Marine Oil Engines, \V. F. Rubhidge, 273


Steam Engine, 75 B.H.P., for Export, E. S. Hindley and Sons, 335


Uniflow Marino Engine with Oil-operated Valve Gear, Sulzer Brothers. 676


Vertical Gas Engine, 31 B.H.P., National Gas Engine Company. Ltd., 217


Water Power      Oil Engines in Bulgaria,


97


Winch Engine and Equipment at Cardington. Babcock and Wilcox, 288. 300


ENGINEER and Client. 193


Engineering Conference at Manchester, 4 12


Engineering Materials, Conference on, 448


Engineering Wages : Their Influence on


Manufacturing Costs. P. T. Wilkins, 188;


(Letter), 240


Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir


Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405


Exchange in Ideas, 579 ; (Letter), 625


Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, Thomas Clarkson,


II I


EXHIBITIONS:
British Industries Fair, 217, 236, 264


Leipzig Fair. 263. 296. 320


Midland Building Trades’ Exhibition, 585


Paris Fair, 572


Physical and Optical Societies* Exhibition. 12, 40, 72—For Exhibits, see Physical and Optical


Prague Fair, 350


EX PERT Evidence, 131


Extinguishing Oil Fires Afloat, Apparatus by Merry weather anti Sons, 612


Eyles, A., Notes on Soldering and Welding Aluminium, 121


F
FACTORIES, Safety in, 558


Failure of Some Steel Wires under Repeated Torsional Stresses. <&e.. Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522


Fairs—see Exhibitions


Fan—see also Mine


Fan, Induced Draught ; Fan, Centrifugal, with Dust Collecting Unit ; Fan, Propeller, for Cooling, Musgrave and Co., Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, vi


Fatigue of Metals, Some Modern Views on the, H. J. Gough, 474


Ferry. Largo Oil-engined Propelled Train, Danish, 610


Fiegehen, Edward G., Economics of Crane Girder Design, 204


Filter, Air, for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559


Filter, Experimental Mechanical. V. L. Hartley, 624


Firo Engine. 80 H.P. Turbine Pump Motor, Merry weather and Sons, Ltd., 638


Fires Afloat—see Extinguishing


Fleets. Fighting—sec Ships, Naval Matters


Floating Prismatic Bodies—see Stability


Flue Dust Collector, *’ Sirocco ” Fans, Davidson and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii


Foreign Trade and Tariffs, 132


Forrester, R. Desmond, Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, 594


Forthcoming Engagements, 32, 62, 96, 116, 146, 174, 200. 228, 256. 286. 314, 342, 370. 400. 428. 456, 484, 510, 538. 566. 592. 618. 641. 674, 670


FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES :
31. 61. 89, 115. 145, 173. 199, 227, 255. 285. 313, 341, 369. 399, 427, 455, 483, 509, 537, 565, 591, 617, 043. 673, 699


.African Railways, 227


Barrage Models, 537


Battleship France, 173


Bridge Enlargements, 285


British Coal Trade Imperilled, 617


British Trade, 399


Cameroon Railways, 369


Cham bon Barrage, 115


PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES' EX
Coal Import Licences, 673
    HIBITS (continued):
 
  Wireless Apparatus :
Coal Production. 199
Continuous Wave Transmitter, l| kW, Radio Communication Company, 40, 41 (lalletti's Radio Beam Transmitter, H.
 
      Tinsley and Co.,. 12
Coal Situation. 285, 341. 643
Mid worth Distant Repeater. Evershed end Vignoles, Ltd.. 13
 
Wireless Receiver, Seven Valve, Igranic Electric Company, 74
Coal Trade, 565, 699
PICCADILLY-CIRCUS-arc Railways
 
Pipe Covering, “ Kisol,’’ Wm. Kenyon and Sons, Ltd., 267
Colonial Exhibition, 341
Planing Machines—«rc Machine Tools
 
Poplar—*ec Electrical Matters
Colonial Works, 31, 509
Port Improvements in Colombia, 692
 
Potter, R. B.. Pulverised Fuel, 362
Commercial Agreements, 427
Poultney, E. Tests of a 2 8-4 Type Locomotive. 620
 
Power for Nothing, The Idea of, 554
Commercial Aviation. 255
Power Stations see Electrical Mutters
 
Prague—tuc Exhibitions
Continuous Brakes. 369
  President Coolidge on Naval Armaments, 187 Problem of High Superheats. 272 ,
 
Propelling Machinery of Canadian -Pacific Liner Empress of Australia. 649, 658, 692
Cruiser Suffren. 537
Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Tur bines, E. C. Wadlow, 600
 
Protective Effect—see Iron
Engineering Trades. 483
Pullman Cars—see Railways
 
Pulverised Fuel. R. B. Potter, 362
Export Trade, 89
PUMPS :
 
Deep Well Turbine Pump. Pulsometer Engineering Company. Ltd., 222
Flood Protection, 89
Fuel Pumping Equipment nt Cardington Airship Shed, Zwicky, Ltd.. 290
 
  H orated Keynes Pumping Station. 98, 102
Foreign Trade, 227, 591, 699
Mersey Tunnel Works. Submersible Pump* for. Drysdale and Co., Ltd.. 580
 
Oil Engine Driven Pumping Plant at Epson Waterworks. 569
Hydraulic Works, 115
Pumps, Centrifugal, Double Inlet ; Multi stage Turbine ; Reciprocating, Lee, How and Co., Ltd., B.l.F. Supplement, v
 
  Rotary Pump, A New. Mepstead and Co., 44(
Hydro-electric Schemes, 455
Rotary Pump. Ashwell and Nesbit-, Ltd., 69*1 Ten-stage Centrifugal Feed Pump, Holder and Brooke, Ltd.. 532 ; (Paragraph), 566
 
Q
Import Duties, 255
  QUARRY, Somerset. Resuscitating. 549 Quarrying—see Steam Shovel
 
R
Industrial Agreements, 643
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS
 
General:
Inland Navigation. 509
A Few Observations on Railways, 152 Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631 Railway Expenditure in relation tn Railway Receipts, 474
 
  Railways and Unfair Competition, 357
Kembs Barrage, 369
British, Colonial and Indian :
 
India, Vacuum Broke in. 462 ; (Letter), 684 Indian Railway Report. 235 Railway Projects in Africa, 450
Languedoc Ship Canal, 483
Railway and Urban Improvements at Piccadilly-circus, 458. 492, 493
 
Swing Bridges. London and North-Eastern Railway, at Boccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177
Manufacturing Costs, 61
Travelling Facilities in South-East London. 267
 
Foreign :
Marseilles Extensions, 313
Bolivian Railway Construction, 522 Centenary of the First Railway in France, J. CL H. Warren, 679
 
Electrification on the American Great Northern Railway, 107 rardot Railway, Colombia. Kitson-Meyer Locomotive. 360 (Two •page Supplement. April Ul, 1927)
Midi Electrification, 483
Paris-Orleans Railway Company. Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains. 134
 
Pullman Cars for the Continent. Leeds Forge Company, Ltd., 136
Mont Valerien Lighthouse. 565
  Railway Projects in Africa, 450
 
Right of Continental Railwaymen to Strike. 688
Motor Car Industry, 399, 565
Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains, Paris-Orleans Railway Company. 134
 
  Swedish Railway Memorial, 277
Motor Car Trade. 227
  Trans-Saharan Railway, 84. 197
 
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES
Naval Construction, 369, 455
  Sec also Annual Articles
 
General:
New Cruiser Type, 173
British Locomotive. The, anti Foreign Inventors, 243
 
  Internal Combustion Locomotive. 96
Novel Boat, 699
Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.* Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 419, 415, 416
 
Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E Windeler, 354
Over-production, 537
Light Steam Locomotive. (Jayton Wagons, Ltd., 381
 
Repairs to Locomotives of American Design, 67
Paris Suburban Traffic, 427
Tests of a 2-8-4 Type Locomotive. F. C. Poultney. 620
 
Tools for Locomotive Work—see Machine Tools
Paris Water Supply, 399. 455, 617
British, Colonial and Indian ;
 
Reid-MacLeod Steam Turbine Locomotive, North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 118. 130; (letter), 181
Port of Strasburg, 341
Foreign
 
Kitson-Meyer Locomotive for Colombia, 360 (Two-page Supplement, April Inf, 1927)
Production and Prices, 565
Single-pna.su Baldwin Westinghouse Electric Locomotive, 107
 
Prospecting by Colours, 89
 
Public Works, 61, 145
 
Rail Motors, 173
 
Railway Accident, 643
 
Railway Centenary, 61
 
Railway Electrification, 399
 
Railway Standardisation, 31
 
Rod Makers’ Agreement, 89
 
Rove Tunnel, 483
 
Russian Navy, 285
 
Sales Organisations, 509
 
Sewage Disposal, 617
 
Shipbuilding, 145, 255
 
South American Air Service, 199
 
Steel and Concrete, 427
 
Steel Industry. 145, 673
 
Steel Pact, 3i.3
 
Steel Trade, 455
 
Steel Trade Depression, 699
 
Steel Union, 61
 
Tariff Bill, 591
 
Tariffs and Coal. 643
 
The “ He de France,” 673
 
Tidal Power. 673
 
Trade Depression. 145
 
Trade Difficulties, 255
 
Trade Organisation, 285
 
Trade Outlook, 399
 
Trade Ret urns, I 15
 
Trade Situation, 115
 
Trade Slump. 173
 
Trade Stagnation. 369
 
Trans-Saharnn Railway, 89
 
Tunnelling the Vosges, 509
 
Two Concrete Bridges', 673
 
Underground Paris. 115
 
Unemployment. 341
 
Wages and Prices, 227
 
Wages Reductions. 509
 
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES {continued) 1
Wages and Work, 313
 
Water Sterilisation, 399
 
Weaker Prices, 31
 
West African Railways, 427
 
Work for Unemployed, 199
 
Works in Indo-China, 537
 
FRENCH Oil Problem, 357
 
Fuel Pump—sec Pumps
 
Fuel Research. Report for 1925, 54
 
Furnace for Bright Annealing of Non-ferrous
 
Metals, Gibbons Brothers. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, ii
 
Furnaces, Electric—sec Electrical Matters
 
Fussell, G. E., Early Modern Plough Design, 233
 
G
GAS—aree also Suction Gas
 
Gas Boiler—see Boiler
 
Gas Engines—see Engines
 
Gas Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131
 
Gas Transmission, Long-distance. in Saxonv, 193, 240
 
Gases and Oro, Interactions of, in the Blast -furnace, Professor William A. Bone and Others, 514, 530
 
Gasworks, Applications of Power on. Harold C. Smith, 137
 
Gasworks, Scunthorpe, Cooling and ('leaning Plant at, 477
 
Gear-boxes. Infinitely Variable ; Open Motor Drive, P.l.V. Gear Syndicate, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii
 
Gear-cutting—see Machine Tools
 
Goar Wheels. Quiet-running, New Material for
 
Making, “ Fenlin,” Alfred Wiseman, Ltd., 207
 
Geared Electric Motor at Leipzig Fair, 321
 
German Steel—see Iron
 
Gillingham, C. A., Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry, 067
 
Gladstone Dock—sec Dock Extensions
 
Gough, H. J., Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, 474
 
Government Certificate for Mining Engineers, 71
 
Gravel Washer and Screener, Hardy and Pud-more, Ltd., 478
 
Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools
 
Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527
 
H
HADFIELD, Sir Robert, Metal Manganese and its Properties, 515 ; Iron ami Manganese, Low Carbon .Alloys, 515, 516
 
Hair Springs, Moore and Beckinsale, 322
 
Hall, J. A., Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry. 84
 
Hammer, " Clear Space,” Pneumatic Power, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666
 
Harbord, F. W., Presidential Address, 502, 514 Hard-drawn Copper Conductors, 163
 
Hardness Testing Instrument, “ Duroscope,” 321
 
Harrison, Haydn T., Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, 297
 
Harvey, William, Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, 568
 
Haslam, T. ('. $., Timber Viaduct Over the Tunnyan River, 602
 
Hatfield, Dr. W. H., Heat-resisting Steels, 558
 
Helium in Canada, 465
 
Herbert, Edward G.. Work-hardening Properties of Metals, 138, 156, 180; (Letters), 277
 
Heteroptic Shutter : A Stroboscope Development, A. J. Ashdown, 82
 
High-conductivity Copper Castings, Large, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd.. 611
 
High-pressure Steam, Historical References to tke Progress in Use of, James Mollison, 693 High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, Alex. D. Bailey, 635
 
H orated Keynes—see Water Supply, Deferrat-ing
 
Howden, S., Junior Technical School ami its Relation to Engineering. 125
 
Hydraulic Formula, A New, F. W. Woods. 646
 
Hydraulic Press, Experimental, Tangyes Ltd., 217
 
Hydraulic Presses and Pumps, Hand-operated Press for Light Scrap, Rollings and Guest, Ltd., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
 
Hydro-electric Installation, Borbcra Valley, 222 Hydro-electric Progress in Canada during 1926, 219
 
I
IDEA of Power for Nothing, 554
 
Ideas, Exchange of, 579; (Letter), 625
 
India, Vacuum Brake in. 462 ; (Letter), <184
 
Indicator, Continuous Fuel, The Baulino. 157
 
Indicator Gear, Werkspoor, 209
 
Industrial Bursaries in Metallurgy, 531
 
Industrial Welfare, Conferences on, 477
 
Industry—see Labour
 
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations Interactions—see Gases
 
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines ; also Railway Locomotives
 
International Congress for Testing Materials.
 
184
 
International Discussion, 660
 
International Register of Aircraft. 244
 
Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 032
 
IRON AND STEEL
Alloys of Iron Research, Dr. Roscnhain and Others, 516
 
Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543
 
Cold Rolled Strip Steel, Dr. T. Swindon and Mr. J. R. Bolsover, 543
 
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541 German Steel Combination, 350
 
Growth of Cast Iron, Dr. (’. Benedicks and
 
M. H. Loquiat, 543
 
Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 558
 
IRON AND STEEL (continued):
 
Interactions of Gases and Oro in the Blast furnace. Professor W. A. Bone and Others 514. 530
 
Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84
 
Iron and Steel in Sweden, New Methods o Production, 662
 
Low-carbon -Alloys of Iron and Manganese Metal Manganese and its Properties. Si Robert Hadfield, 515, 516
 
Mikl Steel Penetration by Brazing Solder, &c.
 
R. Genders, 322
 
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manu facturers, Dinner, 691
 
Protective Effect of Metal Deposits on Iron
 
S. Wornick, 582
 
South Africa. Steel Industry in, 348
 
Stainless Steel for Variety of Uses, at Leipzig
 
Steel Cartel, 179
 
Steel Sections, Special. Janies Mills, Ltd. Stringer and Co., J no. Hy. Andrew ant Co.. Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, iv
 
J
JACK—Chain Pulling
 
.lames Forrest Lecture. Some Recent Service) of Metallurgy to Engineering, Professo; II. C. H. Carpenter. 490. 520
 
K
KELVIN Lecture—sec Institution of Elect rica Engineers
 
Kent. J. L., Propulsion of Ships under Different Weather Conditions, 434
 
Kershaw, John B. C., Air Pollution in Brit is) and Scotch Towns and Cities, 203
 
Kershaw. John B. C., World’s Future Supply ol Liquid Fuels, 244, 261. 292, 316, 344
 
Kit son Clark. Lieut.-Colonel E., Internal Com bust ion Locomotives, 410, 415, 416
 
Kuhne, Captain C. H.. Mechanical Vehicles foi Load-carrying Duty in the Army, 291, 306 330. 332
 
LABOUR MATTERS :
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, P. T. Wilkins, 188
 
Goodwill in Industry, 440
 
Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike, 688
 
Trades Unions Bill, 385
 
LADDERS, Steel Tube, L. Nicklin. Ltd., B.LF.
 
Supplement, iv
 
Langerbruggo—sec Electrical Matters
 
Lathes—nee Machine Tools
 
Launches and Trial Trips, 87, 113, 171, 225, 283, 311, 397, 453, 563. 589, 61 I. 641. 671, 697
 
Lea, Professor F. C., Effect of Temperature on Some of the Properties of Metals, &c., 325
 
Lea, Professor F. C.» and Mr. F. Heywood, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses. &c., 487 ; (Letter), 522
 
Lead Burning. Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to, W. C. Freeman, 302
 
Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302
 
LEADERS
1926—A Retrospect of. 17
 
Electricity Supply, 18
 
High Pressures. 18
 
Locomotives, 18
 
London Traffic, 18
 
Metallurgy, 18
 
Conclusion. 18
 
Agricultural Engineering, 104
 
America and the Cruiser Question. 103
 
America and Great Britain, 415
 
Armament of Capital Ships, 553
 
British Locomotive, The. and Foreign Inventors. 243
 
Burning of Low-grade Coal. 161
 
Chemical Analysis, 216
 
Ci merit Fondu Concrete, 329
 
Coal Ash and Probability, 48
 
Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631
 
Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215
 
Co-operative Industrial Research, 471
 
Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580
 
Electrical Research, 188
 
Exchange in Ideas, 579
 
Expert Evidence, 131
 
French Air Services, 659
 
French Oil Problem, 354
 
French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605
 
French Transatlantic Flights, 553
 
Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 4 7
 
Gaa Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131
 
Idea of Power for Nothing, 553
 
Internal Combustion Locomotives, 415
 
International Discussion, 660
 
International Register of Aircraft. 214
 
Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 632
 
Kelvin Lecture, 472
 
Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs, 497
 
Marine Steam Turbine Progress. 77
 
Metallurgists and Engineers, 525
 
Naval Limitation Conference, 687
 
Navy Estimates, 301
 
New Method of Manufacturing Beet Sugar, 444
 
Old and New Atomic Theories. 606
 
President Coolidge on Naval Armaments. 187
 
Problem of High Superheats, 272
 
Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, -M3
 
Railways and Unfair Competition, 354
 
Rating of Machinery, 161
 
Reticence, 302
 
Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike. 688
 
Steam Accumulators. 78
 
Super-pressure Steam Plant a;. Bradford. 78
 
Theoretical and Practical Lubrication. 386
 
Torsional Fatigue, 526
 
Trades Disputes Bill, 525
 
Trades Unions Bill, 385
 
LEADERS (continued) :
 
Trans-Saharan Railway, 497
 
Trend of Fuel Injection Practice. 329
 
World's Fighting Fleets, 271
 
LEIPZIG—see Exhibitions
 
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS :
England. North of, 28, 58. 86. 112. 142, 170. 196, 224. 252. 282, 3in. 338, 366. 396, 424. 452. 480, 506. 534. 562. 588, 614. 640. 670. 696
 
Lancashire. 27, 57, 85. 111. 141. 169. 195. 223. 251. 281. 30d, 337. 365. 395. 423. 451, 479. 505, 533. 561, 587. 613. 615. 639, 669. 695
 
Midlands and Staffordshire, 27, 56. 85. 111. 141, 169, 194. 223. 251. 281. 309. 337. 364. 395, 423, 451. 479, 505. 533, 561, 587, 613. 615, 639, 669, 695
 
Scotland, 29, 59. 86, 112, 143. 171. 197. 225. 253. 2b3. 311. 339, 367, 397. 425, 452, 481, 507. 534. 563. 589. 615. 640. 670. 696
 
Sheffield. 28. 58. 86. I 12. 142. 170, 19G. 224, 252. 282. 310, 338. 366, 396. 424. 452. 480. 506. 534. 562. 588. 1H4. 640, 670, 696
 
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 29. 59. 87. 113, 143, 171, 197, 225. 253. 283. 311. 339. 367. 397, 425, 453, 481, 507, 535. 563, 589. 615. 611, 671, 697
 
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :
Beam Engine. An Old, W. J. Barker. 351 ; W. Yates. 449 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 465 ; (Correction). 4011
 
Beam Engine, The Last. EdgarC. Smith, 625 ;
 
H. Taylor, 656; Worthington-Simpson. Ltd.. 684
 
Brains in the Foundry, J. IL Jones, 133
 
British Columbia Electric Railway. J. Light -body. 559
 
British Steel and Research, John Brown and Co., Ltd.. 351
 
Cast Iron, Horace J. Young, 82
 
Ciinent Fondu, John G. Kay, 351
 
Coal Ash and Probability, Dr.-Ing. K. Daevos. 450
 
Dearth of Useful British Inventions, Athol G. Evans, 625
 
Direct Conversion of Low-pressure Superheats into Super-pressure, “ Astonished,” 44
 
Directory of Sources of Special Information. G. F. Barwick, 351
 
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, G. T. Wilkins, 240
 
Harvey Combe Locomotive, J. C. H. Warren. 44
 
High Motor Speeds, I. Wonder, 392
 
High-pressure Reciprocating Engines, M.I. Meeh. E„ 656
 
Higher Pressure in Boilers and I.C. Engines,
 
F. J. B. Magg?». 181
 
“ Howlers,” H. E. Wimperis, 656
 
Industrial Welfare Society, Robert R. Hvde, 181
 
Internal Combustion Locomotives, James Clayton, 465
 
Largest Passenger Locomotive, Win. T. Hoecker. 133
 
Magnetisation of Dextrorsa! and Sinistrorse! Helices, Fredk. W. Alexander, 585
 
Men Who Do Things, S. P. Christie, 494
 
Newton Bicentenary. R. de Villamil, 133
 
Oldest Engineering Firm, Clydeside, 456
 
Railway Signal Engineer, A Railway Engineer, 83
 
Rcid-Maeleod Steam Turbine Locomotive, Ernest Moir, 181
 
Senate of the University of London. Roger T. Smith, 494
 
Small Automatic Steam Engine, Edwin W. Jones, 448
 
Smith. A. M., and Co., Ltd., Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., 83
 
Speed Record, Hugh H. Gregory. 240 ; F. Lindsay Lloyd. 277
 
Taxes on Transport, Edward S. Shrapnell-Sinith, 298
 
Three-cylinder Locomotives, Chas. W. Dauncy, 240 ; W. H. Thornbury, 298
 
Torsional Fatigue. G. A. Hankins, 522
 
Unemployment—the Gateway to a New Life, Geo. W. Mullins. 133
 
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam. R. S. T. Collingham. 298
 
Vacuum Brake in India, Another Indian Railway Engineer, 684
 
Work Hardening. IL Poliakoff, 277 ; Edward
 
G. Herbert, 277 ; C. L. Sumpter, 277
 
LIFEBOAT Launching Tractor. Four-Wheel Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531
 
Lifting the Kafue Bridge, 478
 
Lifting Magnet, Bi-polar, Rapid Magnetting Machine Company. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v, vi
 
Liquid Fuels, World’s Future Supply of, John B. C. Kershaw. 244. 261. 292
 
LITERATURE :
Reviews :
Atomic Theory : An Elementary Exposition, A. Haas, 245. 473
 
Beitrflge zur Geschichte dec Technik und Industrie, V.D.I. Year Book, Conrad Matehoss, 216
 
Chemistry of Cellulose and Wood. A. W. Sehorger, 133
 
Chemistry of the Oil Industries, J. E. South-combe, 74
 
Chronicles of Boulton’s Siding, A. R. Bennett. 105
 
Collected Papers of Sir James Dewar, Lady Dewar and Ot hers, 189. 350
 
Edison : The Man and His Work, G. S. Bryan. 105, 386
 
Electric Switch ami Controlling Gear, C. C. Garrard. 354. 660
 
Hydrous Oxides, The, Harry Boyer Weiser, 105
 
Marketing Problem, E. T. El bourne. 526
 
Masonry Structures, F. P. Spalding. 155, 445
 
Natural History of a Savant. Professor C.
 
Richet. 386
 
Reinforced Concrete Design. Introduction to, H. Sutherland and W. W. Clifford. 354, 498 Rotary Converters. E. P. Hill, 189. 473 Scientific Principles of Petroleum Technology, Dr. Leo Gurwitsch, 155
 
LITERATURE (continued):
 
Short Notices:
 
Ausldoidung von Druckstollen und Druck-schfichten, Dr.-Ing. Otto Walch, 71, 189
 
Business Economics, Sir William Ashley. 155
 
Capacities: and Properties of Steel Tubes, 189
 
Coal anti Allied Subjects, N. Simpkin and F. 8. Sinnott, 155
 
Controllers for Electric Motors, H. I). James, 354. 580
 
Design and Construction of Form Work for Concrete' Structures, A. E. Wynn, 216
 
Die Luft vorwilrrnung im DampfkcKselbetrich, Dipl.-Ing. W. (Jumz, 133
 
Electric Trains, R. E. Dickinson, 189
 
Field Astronomy, David Clark, 155
 
Use of Power in Colliery Working. John Kirsopp, 105
 
Whitworth Book, The. 105
 
Books Received .
Abridged Callondnr Steam Tables : Fahrenheit Units, H. L. Callendar, 494
 
Activated Sludge Process, A. J. Martin, 660
 
Advertising, Printing and Art in Commerce, J. F. Preston and E. Arch. 689
 
Aerial Cableways, G. Beret ti, 189
 
Age of the Earth. A. Holmes. 277
 
Allgemeino Energiewirthschaft, Hof rat Ing.
 
Hans von JUptner, 277
 
Aluminium anil its Alloys, M. G. Corson, 133
 
Aluminium Facts and Figures. 105
 
American Society for Testing Materials. Proceedings of Meeting. 380
 
Amerikas Dainpfturbinenbau, Professor Dr.-Ing. E. A. Kraft, 354
 
Annales des Ponta et Chausseos. 1926, 189
 
Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, 585
 
Annali dei Lavori Pubblici (gia (liornale del Genio Civile). 354. 473, 585, 689
 
Annual Report of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, 660
 
Annual Report, 1924-25 of the Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service, Canada,105
 
Anton Flettner : Story of the Rotor, 689
 
Architectural Design in Concrete, T. P. Bennett, 660
 
Art do ringdnieur ct Metallurgic, L. Descroix. 105
 
Artificial Fertilisers : Their Chemistry, Manufacture and Application, P. Parrish and A. Ogilvie, 277
 
Automatic Telephony, A Manual of, C. W. Wilman, 633
 
Bauxite : Treatise Discussing the Origin. Constitution, &c., of Bauxite, C. 8. Fox, 689
 
Bewegungsfugen im Belon- und Eisenbeton-bau. Professor Dr.-Ing. A. Kleinlogel, 445
 
Blue Book. 1927. 155
 
British Railway Operation, T. Bernard Hare, 473
 
British Waterworks Year Book and Directory, &c.. G. P. Warner Terry. 133
 
Building Construction and Drawing, Part I., C. F. Mitchell, 585
 
Building Science, An Introduction to, F, L. Brady, 689
 
Bulletin of the British Cast Iron Research Association, No. 16, 585
 
Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, Vol. XXV., No. 1, 1927, 633
 
Bulletin de la Soci6t6 d* Encouragement pour rindustrie Nationale. 606, 633
 
Calvert’s Mechanics’ Almanack, 1927, F. Nasmith, 105
 
Capital for Labour. W. Francis Lloyd and Bertram Austin, 473
 
Carbon Brushes and Brush Shunts, 633
 
Carbon y Fierro, No. I., 633
 
Carnegie Scholarship Memoirs, Vol. XV., 189
 
Central Station Voltages and Charges
 
Throughout the United Kingdom, 1927, 606
 
Chemical Engineering and Chemical Catalogue. 354
 
China Architects’ and Builders* Compendium, J. '1'. W. Brooke and R. W. Davis, 633
 
China and the Nations, Wong Ching-Wai. 245
 
Coal Carbonisation : High and Low Tern-
 
Serature, J. Roberts, 633
 
liery Manager's Pocket Book, 1927, 48
 
Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory, 1927, 386
 
Concrete Year Book, 1927, 48
 
Craft of Tracing, 417
 
Cutters and Cutter Blocks. 8. Ransome, 417
 
Cycling Manual, 155
 
Danube-Aegean Waterway Project, Prince Lazarovich - Hrebelianovich, 245
 
Der Bau des Dieselmotors, Ing. Kamillo Korner, 473
 
Der elastisch drehbar gestutzte Durchlauf-b al ken. Dr.-Ing. H. Craemar, 526
 
Dielectric Phenomena, S. Whitehead. 494
 
Die rationelle Bewirtschaftuug des Batons, Dr.-Ing. A. Agatz, 105
 
Die Trockentechnic, Dipl.-Ing. M. Kirsch. 585
 
Diesel Engines, A. H. Goldingham. 133
 
Directory of Contractors and Public Works Annual, 1927, 494
 
Directory of the Members, Subscribers, &c., of the Birmingham Exchange, 1927, 660
 
Directory of Paper Makers, 1927, 386
 
Directory of Shipowners. Ac., 1927. 189
 
Domestic Electric Heating. IL G. Solomon. 633
 
Doubling our Coal Power, A. Allport, 277
 
Draft und Capacity of Chimneys, J. G.
 
Mingle, 633
 
Drainage and Sanitation. E. H. Blake, 189
 
Dredging and Dredging Appliances, P. M.
 
Dekker. 633
 
Durehlaufende Eisen betonkon.strukt ionen in elastischer Verbindung mil den Zwischen-stiitzen, Baurat Dr.-Ing. F. Kann, 105
 
Economic Basis of Fair Wages, J. D. Cox, 354
 
E.H.T. Switchgear and Breakers, G. L. E. Metz, 417
 
Ein Jahrhundert Deutscher Maschinenbau. Conrad Matsrhoss, 133
 
Electric Telpherage. G. W. UroaMnith, 48
 
Electricity Act. The Now. W. S. Kennedy. 189
 
Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926, J. C. Dalton. 354
 
Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926. E. J, Rimmer and G. Rend Alien, 354
 
Empire Forestry Journal, Fraser Story, 245
 
LITERATURE (continued):
 
Books Received (continued):
 
Empire Municipal Directory and Year Book, 192", 473
 
Engine Service Testa of Interna! Combustion Engine Lubricating Oils, &c.» M. J. Cavin and G. Wade, 633
 
Engineering Index, 1926, 689
 
English Clubs, A List of, 1927, E. C. Austen* Jxngh, 133
 
Erdstatische Berechnungen mit Reibung and KohAsion, &c., W. Fellenius, 277
 
Four-place Tables with Forced Decimals.
 
F. S. Cary and S. F. Grace, 660
 
Gas Meters, A. T. Gilbert, 364
 
Gottlob’s Technology of Rubber, J. J,. Rosenbaum. 417
 
Grundlagen des Aufzugsbaues, Dr. M. Paet-zold, 633
 
Handbibliothek fiir Bauingenieure : Eisen-bahnwesen und Stftdtebau, Oherbau und Glcisverbindungen. Dr.-Ing. Adolf Bloss, 386
 
High Vacua, C. W. C. Kaye, 48
 
Helium in Canada. R. T. Elworthy, 633 H.M. Stationery Office Publications :
 
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum : Electrical Engineering, F. St. A. Hartley, 633
 
Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum, Land Transport : No. IV., Railway Construction and Working. E. A. Forward, 606
 
Gas Storage of Fruit, Franklin Kidd and Others, Special Report No. 30, 526 Inflammation of Coal Dusts : The Effect of the Chemical Composition of the Dust-,
 
T. M. Mason and R. V. Wheeler. 585
 
Investigation of the Caking Power of Coal, 386
 
Low-temperature Carbonisation, 386
 
Measurement of Mean Spherical Candlepower, 689
 
Primary Decomposition of Coal : I., The Temperature of Initial Decomposition, 585
 
Report on the Economic Situation in Belgium, J. Pict on Bagge, 494
 
Report on the Industrial. Commercial and Financial Situation in Poland, R. E. Kimens, 585
 
Report on the Science Museum for the Year 1926, 633
 
History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Arnold Reymond, 155
 
Hope of the Workers, Austin Hopkinson, 660 Hydro-electric Handbook, W. P. Creager and J. D. Justin, 585
 
Indian Railways: Rates and Regulations.
 
N. B. Mehta, 633
 
Industrial Combination in England, P. Fitzgerald, 48
 
Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Comprehensive Treatise on, J. W. Mellor, 133 Institution of Structural Engineers’ Year Book. 1927, 473
 
International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, 473
 
Investigations in Ore Dressing and Metallurgy, 1925, 105              •
 
1st Gussbeton wirthschaftlich ? Dr.-Ing. L. Bauineister, 633
 
Jahrbuch der Brennkrafttechnischen Gesellschaft E.V.. 1926, 585
 
Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft. 1927, 189
 
* Journal of the Franklin Institute, May. 1927,
 
633                                      t ,
 
Journal of the Institute of Metals, ' ol.
 
XXXVI., 155
 
Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 189
 
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of
 
England, Vol. 87, 660
 
Kelly s Directory of the Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 1927, 633
 
La Machine Locomotive, E. Sauvage. 41 >
 
La Soci6t6 des Ingenieurs Civils de France : MSmoires et Coinpte Rendu des Travaux, 417
 
Large Uses of Steel in Small Ways. 689
 
Locomotive of To-day, 105                ,
 
L'Organisation Scientifique du Travail. (».
 
Bricard, 386
 
Lubrication in Colliery Practice, N. Simpkin and A. Dawe, 48
 
Lubrication and Lubricants, L. Archbutt and R. M. Deeley, 585
 
Machine Design. Construction and Drawing, H. J. Spooner. 354
 
Machine Tool Driving and Feed Gear-boxes, H. C. Town. 133
 
Magneto Manual. H. R. Langman. 633
 
Manuel des Laboratoires Sid6rurgiques : Methodes Analytiqucs Conventionnelles de la Cornmiinautc- Arbed Torres-Rouges. 417 Marine Diesel Engines, W. C. Macgibbon, 633 Mathematical Tables (Four Figures). C. V
 
Durell, 473              .                  .
 
Mechanical World Electrical Pocket-book. 1927. 133                      .
 
Mechanics Applied to Engineering, J. Good-
 
Mechanics. Text-book of. E. H- Wood. 133
 
MechanischeSchwingungen und ihre Messung, Dr -Ing. J* Geiger. 585
 
Metallurgists’ Manual. T. G. Bamford and H. Harris. 633                      _
 
Metallurgy of the Common Metals, L.
 
Austin. 155
 
Meteorological Report for the \ ear 19-1. 689
 
Modern Ignition. H. H. V. CroML 633
 
Modern Scientific Ideas. Sir ( liver Lodge. 2- < Modern Steelwork, E. Fiander Etchell... fi89 Motor Cycling Manual 105
 
Motor Shin Reference Bock for 1».7, 155
 
Movable Bridges : Vol. TI„ Machinery. O. I-..
 
Hovey, 606
 
National Physical Laboratory. Collected Researches, 1926, 245
 
Naval Engineering Review, I art XII., No. *0, 473
 
New* South Wales. Report of Metropolitan Water. Sewerage, &c.t 386
 
Notes on the Preparation of Railuaj I rejects, H. L. Glass. 606
 
Oil and Retortable Materials. G. W Haise.
 
Ordinary Differential Equations, E. L. Ince, 526
 
Petrol Engine, 4 7 3
 
LITERATURE (continued):
 
Books Received (continued) :
 
Plastering. Plain and Decorative. W. Millar and G. P. Bankart. 633
 
Port of Gothenburg Year Book, 1927, Sixten Prytz, 006
 
Practical Electricians' Pocket-book. 1927, 155
 
Pratique duCalcul du B6tonArm&,G. Magnel, 133
 
Principles of Irrigation, Roads and Buildings and of the Water Supply of Towns, W. L. Strange, 585
 
“ Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, April, 1927, 494
 
■* Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Part I., 1927, 585
 
“ Proceedings” of the Chemical Engineering Group. 585
 
” Proceedings ” of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers. 585
 
” Proceedings ” of the Optical Convention,
 
1926, Parts I. and IT.. 18
 
“ Proceedings ” of the Rugby Engineering Society. Vol. XX.. 386
 
” Proceedings ” of the South Wales Institute of Engineers. 354, 473
 
Radio Communication, The Elements of,
 
O. F. Brown. 133
 
Railway and Commercial Gazetteer of England, Scotland and Wales, 1927, 155
 
Railway Year Book, 1927, 585
 
Rainfall Atlas of the British Isles. 277
 
Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings, 689
 
Relation of Atmospheric Conditions to Working Capacity and Accident Rate of Coal Miners, H. M. Vernon and T. Bedford, 133
 
Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum,. 1926, 494
 
Running Maintenance of the Marine Diesel Engine, John Lamb. 277
 
Safeguarding Workmen at Oil Derricks, H. C.
 
Miller, 660
 
Schnitte und Stanzen, Ernst Gohre, 105
 
Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 1927, 245
 
Sewage Works. F. C. Temple, 354
 
Skandinaviska Kreditaktiebolaget-Gothen -burg, Stockholm, Malmo, Quarterly Report, 473
 
Some Considerations in the Design of Spur and Helical Gearing, H. Walker, 133
 
Specification Writing, The Elements of, R. S. Kirby. 633
 
Spectroscopy, Vol. I., E. C. C. Baly, 585
 
Standards Year Book, 1927, 585
 
Stresses in Space Frames. Dr. W. W. Pad-lield, 48
 
Study of Flame Movement, O. C. de C. Ellis, 445
 
Successful Asphalt Paving, P. J. M. Larra-naga, 386
 
Support of Underground Workings in the East Midland Coalfield. 189
 
Theory of Machines, Louis Toft and A. J. J.
 
Kersey, 633
 
Theory and Practice of Rolling Steel, Wilhelm Tafel. 689
 
To America in Thirty-nine Days, J. Biggs. 445 Towards Industrial Recovery, Hugh Quigley, 633
 
“ Transactions ” of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, 74
 
"Transactions” of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 245
 
“ Transactions ” of the Liverpool Engineering Society, F. W. Gaskin and A. M. Robb. 245
 
Treatise on Thermodynamics, Dr. Max Planck, 105
 
Trials with Vacuum Brakes on Long Goods Trains, 1926, R. C. Case, 74
 
Twenty-sixth Financial and Economic Annual of Japan, 1926, 585
 
Universal Directory of Railway Officials,
 
1927, 660
 
WArmetechnische Grundlagen der Indus-triedfon, Professor Hans V. Juptner, 633
 
Wasserdurchlassigkeit von Bet on, &c., Dr.-Ing. G. Merkle, 386
 
Water Power Practice, F. Johnstone-Taylor, 386
 
Water Powers of Manitoba, C. H. Attwood, 494
 
Water Transport: IL, Merchant Steamers, Catalogue of Collections in the Science Museum, 526
 
Wellington Harbour Board. Accounts. Ac., to September 30th. 1926, 689
 
Witness of the Great Pyramid, B. Stewart, 155
 
Working of Unstratified Mineral Deposits, G. J. Young, 277
 
Year Book of the Bermudas, the Bahamas, British Guiana, British Honduras, and the British West Indies, 1926-7, 74
 
Year Book and Directory of the South African Mining and Engineering Journal, 1927, 417
 
Zur Frage dos Shiffswiderstandos. Uh.
 
Doydre, 606
 
LIVENS. F. H., Rating and Valuation Act. 1925, 148
 
Lloyd’s Register—see Ships
 
Locomotive, Internal Combustion, 96
 
Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives. also Storage Battery Locomotives (Electrical Matters)
 
Long Distance Gas Transmission. 193. 240
 
Longlands Diamond Pool on the Vaal River, 277 Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton, 376
 
Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy. 358. 361, 393 —see also Theoretical Lubrication
 
M
MACHINE TOOLS :
Raring Machine. Large Horizontal, for Turbine Cylinders, Schiess-Defrics, 297. 630. 635
 
Centreless Grinders at Leipzig Fair. 320
 
Combination Machine Tool. Max Hopfen-glirtner A.G., 583
 
Crank Pin Turning and Grinding Machine, Jones, Burton and Co., Ltd., 110
 
MACHINE TOOLS (continued) :
 
Double-spindle Locomotive Connecting-rod Drilling Machine. George Swiff and Sons, Ltd., 106. 107
 
Drills, Milling Cutters. Reamers, Saws. Arc.. Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, viii, and 265
 
Flat-edge Trimming Machine, Press with Pneumatic Die Cushion. Taylor and Challen, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
 
Gear Hobbing Machine, Schuchardt and Schutte, 297
 
Grinding Machines and Processes, Recent Developments in. H. H. Asbridge, 277
 
Hammer, Motor-driven Air. Record Size.
 
Eumtico A.G., &c., 297
 
High-speed Planing Machine, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i
 
“ Hiloplane ” Planing Machine. .John Stick and Sons. Ltd.. 190. 19!
 
Lathe. Heavy Double bed Centre, Schiesa* Defries, 297
 
Lat hes, Powerful Railway \\ heel. \\ ilheliii Hegenscheidt, 297
 
Maag Gear-cutting Machine. 320
 
Machine Toni Hall and German Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Exhibits. 297
 
Milling Cutters, Drills, Chucks, &c.. Portable Cylinder Re-boring Tool, “ Floxtol.” Alfred Herbert. Ltd., 266
 
Recent Developments in Machine Tools,
 
G. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235
 
Rotary Milling Machines in a Motor Car Engine Works, Morris Motors, Ltd., anti Wm. Asquith, Ltd., 352, 356
 
Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines, 463
 
Screwing Machine, Automatic, 3 horn as
 
Chatwin, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
 
Shearing Machine for Curves, 320
 
Shearing Machine, Henry Pels. 297
 
Shearing Machine, Open-ended, for Reinforcing Rods, Henry Pels, 280
 
Sheet Edge Grinding Machine, Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., 692
 
MACHINERY—also Rating
 
Machinery, World’s Production and Trade in. 648
 
Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs. 497
 
Manufacture of High-pressure Boiler Drums, Thyssen and Co., 246
 
Marchant, Professor E. W., Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, 461. 472
 
Marine Engines—see Engines
 
Marine Steam Turbine Progress, 77
 
Marshall, A. G., and C. H. Barton, Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, 376
 
Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army. Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 330, 332
 
Mechanical—see also Tea Garden
 
Mellanby, Professor A. L., and Professor W. Kerr, Use and Economy of High pressure Steam Plants. 94, 107, 126, 166, 207, 208; (Erratum), 146 ; (Letter), 298
 
Mersey Tunnel—see Pumps
 
Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, The Heavy. M. J. Seigle, 514
 
Metallurgists and Engineers, 525
 
Metallurgy, Industrial Bursaries in, 531
 
Metallurgy. Some Recent Services of. to Engineering, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 490, 520
 
Metals—see also Associations, &c., Institute of Metals
 
Metals—sec also Work Hardening
 
Miers, Sir Henry A., Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, 527
 
Milling Machines—see Machine Tools
 
Mine Fan, Large, for Durban Navigation Collieries, Davidson and Co., Ltd., 548
 
Mineral Wealth of Cornwall, 665
 
Mines—see Safety
 
Mining Industry of Now South Wales, 209
 
Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 71
 
Model Steam Power Station, 217
 
Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518
 
Monel Metal and Malleable Nickel, G. and J.
 
Weir, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii
 
Motor Car Engine Works, Milling Machines— see Machine Tools
 
Movement of Sand by Wind, Dr. J. S. Owens, 377
 
N
NAVAL Matters—see Ships
 
New Work Always Ready for Men who Do
 
Things, Frank Richards. 467 ; (Letter). 494
 
Nicolson, David, Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats. 409
 
Nozzles—see Proportioning
 
OBITUARY :
Anderson, Konrad. 389
 
Boulnois, Henry Percy, 50
 
Culthrop. Everard R.. 354
 
Campbell, Archibald W., 580
 
Chapman, Mr. H. T., 444
 
Cowdray, Viscount (Portrait). 499
 
D'Alton, Lieut.-Colonel Patrick Walter. 117
 
Etchells, Ernest Fiander, 50
 
Fox, Sir Francis (Portrait). 49
 
Greenhill, Sir George, 189
 
Haslam, Sir Alfred Seale. 50. 79
 
Hill, Alfred John. 302
 
Hills, Arnold Frank. 273
 
Hutchins, Thomas William Stainer, 602
 
Kearns, Henry Ward. 154
 
Kemnal, Sir James (Portrait), 154
 
M’Cullough, F. W., 354
 
Phipps. Frederick Reginald, 50
 
Platt, John, 662
 
Samuelson, Ernest. 580
 
Savage, E. A., 151
 
Stokes, Sir Wilfrid (Portrait ), 153
 
Taylor, Godfred Midgley (Portrait), 661
 
Thomas, Qeorgo, 354
 
OIL Engines — nee Engines
 
Oil Tests, Consumers’, Arthur F. Evans, 665
 
Old and New Atomic Theories. 606
 
Ormandy, Dr. W. R.. Lubrication. 358. 361. 393
 
“ Osiso ” and its Modification." for Use as a
 
Phonoscope, Westinghouse Electric and
 
Manufacturing Company. 135
 
Oscilloscope and Oxygen Apparatus — see
 
Physical and Optical Exhibits
 
Owens. Dr. J. 8., Movement nf Sand bv Wind, 377
 
Oxygen Jet Metal Cutting Machine, Godfrey
 
Engineering Works. 267
 
115.
 
200, 450.
 
044.
 
115.
 
455.
 
691,
 
115,
 
537,
 
P
PAINT-MAKING MACHINERY
388. 418. 438. 464. 519
 
Paint. Mills and Mixers. Torrance and Sons, 388. 389. 418. 461. 519
 
Ball Mill and Laboratory Ball Mill, Hind and
 
Lund. 519, 520
 
Mill, Single-roll Finishing, Sidney Smith and
 
Blyth. 464
 
Mills with Chain-driving Gear. Marchant Brothers, Ltd., 138. 439
 
Mills with Helical Driving Gear. Cam Gear, Spring Adjusting Gear. Brinjes and Goodwin. 438
 
Paint Mixer and Strainer. Marchant Brothers,
 
Ltd., 461
 
PARSONS. Sir Charles, Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, 387, 390, 405
 
Parsons, Sir C. A., and Others, Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery, 69
 
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS. BRITISH
Aeronautics, 313
 
Batteries and Accumulators, 537, 591, 617
 
Building, 400
 
Condensers and Feed-water Healers. 173. 199, 591
 
Cranes and Conveyors, 61. 484. 510, 592
 
Crushing and Grinding. 200. 700 Dynamos and Motors, 61. 227, 255, 34), 399, ‘427, 455, 565. 617, 643, 673, 699
 
Electrical Appliances, 89, 115, 199, 227 Engines, Internal Combustion, 31, 89. 145, 173, 227, 313, 369. 455, 483, 565, 591, 617
 
Furnaces, 89. 199, 228, 255, 427. 456, 510, 566, 643, 674
 
Gas Producers. 89
 
Lighting and Heating, 200, 313, 369, 566, 618 Locomotives, 510
 
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 32, 228, 342, 399, 510, 592, 618. 643, 674, 699
 
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 61, 199, 369, 509, 6£9
 
Metallurgy, 285, 428. 456
 
Mining Machinery, 115, 145
 
Miscellaneous, 32, 62. 90, 116, 146, 174, 228, 255, 286, 313, 342, 369, 400, 428 484. 510, 538, 566, 592, 618, 644, 674 Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 484, 618, 670
 
Ordnance and Armour, 90
 
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 31, 285, 341, 483, 538, 618, 643 Ships and Boats, 62. 173, 566, 670 Steam Generators, 173, 285, 313, 427, 509, 565, 591
 
Switchgear, 31. 61, 341, 399. 509. 537, 617, 643, 673
 
Telegraphs and Telephones, 31, 61. 89, 145, 341, 369, 399, 427. 456. 483, 509. 565, 592. 617. 673
 
Tramways and Railways, 115, 173
 
Transformers and Converters, 173, 455, 483, 509
 
Transmission of Power. 145. 199. 227. 255, 285, 399, 427. 537. 592, 643. 674, 699
 
Turbine Machinery, 227. 313, 483, 537. 699
 
PERSONAL and Business Announcements, 29, 87. 116, 140, 174, 200, 225. 253, 286, 314, 342, 367, 400, 425, 456, 481, 510, 535, 563, 589. 615, 644, 671, 697
 
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES’ EXHIBITS :
12. 40, 72
 
1 Apparatus for Observing Flaws in Metal Surfaces and Comparing Conductivities of Metal Plates, Professor E. W. Marchant and Mr. J. L. Miller. 12
 
Apparatus, Research Departments of Various Firms and the National Physical Laboratory. 12
 
Automatic Voltage Regulator for Direct-current Generators, Isenthal and Co., Ltd., 74
 
Bridge Ohmmeter. Record Electrical Company, Ltd., 41
 
Carbon Dioxide Measuring Instrument, 72 CO2 Indicator and Recorder. 41 ; Dissolved
 
Oxygen Apparatus, 14 ; Surface Pyrometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, 41
 
Dow Deposition Recorder, 72
 
Elverson Flashing Lamp Oscilloscope. 72 Guillet Vibrating-wiro Stroboscope, 73 Level, Tungsten Wire, General Electric
 
Company, 40, 41
 
Lighting, Internal, of Rooms by Daylight, Method of Measurement by Mode), 72
 
Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of a Metal Rod, 72
 
Peak Voltage Measuring Instruments, L.M. Magneto Syndicate, Ltd., 12
 
Photo-electric Rating Machine for Lamps, General Electric Company, 40
 
Pin Jack Voltmeter, Weston Electrical Instrument Company. 42
 
Rotary Pump, The “ Geryk,” Pulsometer Company, Ltd., 74
 
Rotary Steam Meter. George Kent, Ltd.. 74 Schering Galvanometer. Cambridge Instrument Company. Ltd., 13
 
Sparking Plug Thermo-couple Pyrometer. Foster Instrument. Company. 41, 42
 
S.P. 18 Amplifying Valve, Collection of Constituent Parts and other Exhibits. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company. 72
 
Standard Telephonic Frequencies Obtained through a Clock Pendulum, 72
 
Transformers, Portable Current, Everett, Edgoumbe and Co., Ltd., 74
 
Venner-Shotter Water Flow Meter, 73
 
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES' EX
HIBITS (continued):
 
Wireless Apparatus :
 
Continuous Wave Transmitter, l| kW, Radio Communication Company, 40, 41 (lalletti's Radio Beam Transmitter, H.
 
Tinsley and Co.,. 12
 
Mid worth Distant Repeater. Evershed end Vignoles, Ltd.. 13
 
Wireless Receiver, Seven Valve, Igranic Electric Company, 74
 
PICCADILLY-CIRCUS-arc Railways
 
Pipe Covering, “ Kisol,’’ Wm. Kenyon and Sons, Ltd., 267
 
Planing Machines—«rc Machine Tools
 
Poplar—*ec Electrical Matters
 
Port Improvements in Colombia, 692
 
Potter, R. B.. Pulverised Fuel, 362
 
Poultney, E. Tests of a 2 8-4 Type Locomotive. 620
 
Power for Nothing, The Idea of, 554
 
Power Stations see Electrical Mutters
 
Prague—tuc Exhibitions
 
President Coolidge on Naval Armaments, 187 Problem of High Superheats. 272        ,
 
Propelling Machinery of Canadian -Pacific Liner Empress of Australia. 649, 658, 692
 
Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Tur bines, E. C. Wadlow, 600
 
Protective Effect—see Iron
 
Pullman Cars—see Railways
 
Pulverised Fuel. R. B. Potter, 362
 
PUMPS :
Deep Well Turbine Pump. Pulsometer Engineering Company. Ltd., 222
 
Fuel Pumping Equipment nt Cardington Airship Shed, Zwicky, Ltd.. 290
 
H orated Keynes Pumping Station. 98, 102
 
Mersey Tunnel Works. Submersible Pump* for. Drysdale and Co., Ltd.. 580
 
Oil Engine Driven Pumping Plant at Epson Waterworks. 569
 
Pumps, Centrifugal, Double Inlet ; Multi stage Turbine ; Reciprocating, Lee, How and Co., Ltd., B.l.F. Supplement, v
 
Rotary Pump, A New. Mepstead and Co., 44(
 
Rotary Pump. Ashwell and Nesbit-, Ltd., 69*1 Ten-stage Centrifugal Feed Pump, Holder and Brooke, Ltd.. 532 ; (Paragraph), 566
 
Q
QUARRY, Somerset. Resuscitating. 549 Quarrying—see Steam Shovel
 
R
 
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS
General:
A Few Observations on Railways, 152 Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631 Railway Expenditure in relation tn Railway Receipts, 474
 
Railways and Unfair Competition, 357
 
British, Colonial and Indian :
India, Vacuum Broke in. 462 ; (Letter), 684 Indian Railway Report. 235 Railway Projects in Africa, 450
 
Railway and Urban Improvements at Piccadilly-circus, 458. 492, 493
 
Swing Bridges. London and North-Eastern Railway, at Boccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177
 
Travelling Facilities in South-East London. 267
 
Foreign :
Bolivian Railway Construction, 522 Centenary of the First Railway in France, J. CL H. Warren, 679
 
Electrification on the American Great Northern Railway, 107 rardot Railway, Colombia. Kitson-Meyer Locomotive. 360 (Two •page Supplement. April Ul, 1927)
 
Paris-Orleans Railway Company. Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains. 134
 
Pullman Cars for the Continent. Leeds Forge Company, Ltd., 136
 
Railway Projects in Africa, 450
 
Right of Continental Railwaymen to Strike. 688
 
Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains, Paris-Orleans Railway Company. 134
 
Swedish Railway Memorial, 277
 
Trans-Saharan Railway, 84. 197
 
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES
Sec also Annual Articles
 
General:
British Locomotive. The, anti Foreign Inventors, 243
 
Internal Combustion Locomotive. 96
 
Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.* Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 419, 415, 416
 
Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E Windeler, 354
 
Light Steam Locomotive. (Jayton Wagons, Ltd., 381
 
Repairs to Locomotives of American Design, 67
 
Tests of a 2-8-4 Type Locomotive. F. C. Poultney. 620
 
Tools for Locomotive Work—see Machine Tools
 
British, Colonial and Indian ;
Reid-MacLeod Steam Turbine Locomotive, North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 118. 130; (letter), 181
 
Foreign
Kitson-Meyer Locomotive for Colombia, 360 (Two-page Supplement, April Inf, 1927)
 
Single-pna.su Baldwin Westinghouse Electric Locomotive, 107
 
RATING of Machinery, 148, 161
 
Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, F. II. Liven#, 148
 
Rectifier, New Electronic, L. O. Grondahl and
 
P. H. Geiger, 364
 
“ Red Menace ” in China. 105
 
Refrigerating Machinery on the Blue Star Liner Almedu. Liverpool Refrigerating Coin pany, Ltd.. 378. 379. 380
 
Research, Co-operative Industrial, 472
 
Reservoirs—see Water Supply
 
Resuscitating a Somerset Quarry, 549
 
Reticence, 302
 
Richards. Frank. New Work Always Ready for the Men who Do Things, 467 ; (Letter), 491
 
Road Machinery, Various, at Leipzig, 321. 322
 
Road-making. Concrete, Machine, Joseph Viigelr, 296
 
Road Metal from Household Refuse, Plant nt Brighton, Millars’ Machinery Company, Ltd.. 504
 
Rogers, F. Heron, Cross Cracking Process and Plant. 326 ; (Letter). 351
 
Roles.'I’., Recent Development in Power Plant Design, &c., 622
 
Rolling Mills—see Cotters for
 
Rosenhain, Dr., and Others, The Alloys of Iron Research. 516
 
Rotoscope—see Heteropt ic Shutter
 
Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering. B. D. Porritt, 325
 
 
179
 
125
 
J. L.
 
8
 
SAFETY in Factories, 558
 
Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines. 463
 
Safety in Mines Research Station near Buxton, 651
 
Samuel Crompton Centenary, 665
 
Sand-mixing Machine, Pneulee, Ltd., 266 Sand—see Movement of Saws, Cold Disc, 321
 
Saws for Cutting Metal, both Hot and Cold.
 
Sanderson Brothers and Newhould, Ltd., 267 Schemes in Soviet Union, 14
 
Scientific Apparatus—see. al«o Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition.
 
Scientific, and Industrial Research, Report of Committee, 349
 
Screwing Machines—see Machine Tools Scunthorpe—see Gasworks
 
Seigle, M. J., The Heavy Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, 514
 
Self-cleaning Grate and Sprinkler Stoker. Crosthwaite Engineering and Furnace Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi
 
Shearing Machines—see Machine Tools
 
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING
See also Annual Articles
 
General Matters :
 
America and the Cruiser Question, 103
 
Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 4U8 Effect of Wind on Power and Speed. 11. J. R.
 
Biles. 435, 439
 
High-speed Motor Boats, Design and Con struct ion of, David Nicolson, 409
 
Lloyd’s Register :
 
Annual Summary, 81
 
Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 50, 412
 
M.V. Tampa, Return Voyage of, and Engineer’s Log, 279
 
Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors.
 
Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408
 
Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth, 249
 
Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436
 
Ship Wave Resistance. W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Skin Friction Resistance, G. S. Baker. Ship Propulsion Research. G. S. Baker. Weather and the Propulsion of Ships.
 
Kent. 434
 
Naval Matters :
Armament of Capital Ships. 553
 
Machinery Installation of the Grosser fiirst, John 8. Brown. 276
 
Naval Limitation Conference, 687
 
Navy Estimates. 301
 
President Coolidge on Naval Armament 187
 
Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, 443
 
World’s Fighting Fleets, 271
 
Foreign Navies:
 
French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605
 
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels
 
Blue Star Liner Alineda, Refrigerating Machinery on. 378. 379
 
Danish Motor Train Ferry Korsor, 610
 
Empress of Australia, Reconditioned Liner. | 649. 658. 692
 
Paddle-wheel Steamer Helvetic with Uniflow Engine ami Oil-operated Valve Gear, 676 Royal Mail Motor Liner Alcantara, Harland and Wolff. Ltd.. 210. 211
 
SIEMENS-BENSON Critical Pressure Boiler, 690
 
Sixty Years Ago. 14. 48. 83. 97. 137, 162. 184.
 
212. 249. 273. 393. 331. 351. 392. 417. 450.
 
463. 498. 527. 547, 585. 602. 633. 656. 693
 
Skin Friction—see Ships
 
Smith, Harold C., Applications of Power on Gasworks. 137
 
Societies—see Associations
 
Soldering and Welding—see Aluminium
 
South Africa, Steel Industry in. 348
 
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES
110, 128. 168, 191. 221. 250. 280. 336. 391.
 
422, 559. 585. 612. 666. 681
 
Accident Rate in Mines, 250
 
An Aerial Survey, 250
 
Automatic Rotary Sub-station, 169
 
Big Platinum Plant, 194
 
British Combine, 250
 
British Motor Industry, To Help. 280
 
Buluwayo Water Supply, 336
 
Cape Town Harbour Extensions. 392
 
Cape Town’s Floating Dock. 168
 
Cape Town’s Mountain (’ableway. 194
 
Capo Town Water Supply, 422
 
Carbide Factory at Wit bank, 684
 
Kur-
 
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES (continued):
Defective American Locomotives, 280 Developing Table Bay, 336 Dunswart Works Expanding, 606 Durban’s Grain Elevator, 194 Electric Lighting of Trains, 392 Electric Power from City Reservoir. 612 Electricity Undertakings, IBS Electrification Results, 612 Engineering in 1926. 221 Ermelo Torbanites, 250 Funicular Railway, 330 Huge Locomotives. Two. 221 Improved Mining Methods. 110 Industrial Enterprises Checked, OK I Industrial Expansion. 128 Iron Ore Deposits of the Union. 392 Johannesburg Gasworks, 422 Johannesburg’s New Gasworks, 25o Largest. Winding Hoist, 585 Lightning Causes Mine Fire, I 10 Manganese for America, 422 Mining at Broken Hill, 336 Now Cement Factories. 250 New Durban North Bridge. 191 New Plant for Rond Mine. 191 Oil Boring Operations, 250 Pipes, Large Order for, 684 Platinum Mining, 684 Platinum Production, 250 Port Elizabeth Harbour, 194 Potgietersrust Platinums, 391 Preference on British Goods, 559 Pretoria Railway Workshops. 128 Pretoria Steel Foundry, 666 Production of Oil, 168
 
Progress at Dunswart Works, 250
 
Quick Coaling at Durban, 128
 
Railway Construction, 110
 
Railway Repair Shops, 612
 
Rand Industrial Exhibition, 559
 
Rand's Latest Reduction Plant, 559
 
Results of Railway Electrification 280 Rhodesia's Copper Mines. 128 Road Mot or Services, 336 Rolling Stock Position, 559 Sabie Hydro-electric Scheme, 585 Sir William Hoy to Leave the S.A.R.. 666 South African Coal. 194
 
S.A. Market for Tools, 559
 
State-aided Steel Industry, 612
 
Steam Omnibus, 250
 
Steel Combine Formed, 221
 
Suburban Railway Electrification. 666
 
Table Bay Cooling Chambers, 684
 
Table Mountain Cableway, 221
 
Three-cylinder Locomotives, 422. 606
 
Tram Design, New, 585
 
Union Minidre Progress, 194
 
Union Rubber Industry, 168
 
Wankie Colliery Expansion, 110
 
Wankie Colliery Reconstruction. 612
 
SOUTH African Mining Prospects for 1927, 179 South Australia—see Water Supply
 
South-East London. Travelling Facilities in, 267 Springs—see also Manufacture
 
Springs, Fine, for Gun Makers, Northern Spring Company, 267
 
Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies of Simple Geometric Section, Professor T. B. Abell, 149
 
Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough. 221
 
Stationary Enginej—see Engines
 
Steam Accumulators, 78
 
Steam Boiler Wagons—see Railways
 
Steam Cultivating Machinery, Powerful, for Italy, John Fowler and Co., Ltd., 581
 
Steam Engines—see Engines
 
Steam Fittings, Venturi Typo Parallel Slide Valve, &c., Gummers, Ltd., 267
 
Steam Plant, Super-pressure, at Bradford, 78
 
Steam Plants, High-pressure, Use and Economy of, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Professor W. Kerr, 94, 107
 
Steam Pressures, Modern Developments in, W. Bayliss, 280
 
Steam Production—see Economic
 
750-kW Steam Turbine Coupled with Alternator, 290 B.H.P. High-speed Engine, Multijet Condensing Set. Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi.
 
Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, R. Desmond Forrester, 594
 
Steel—see Iron
 
Storage Batteries—see Electrical Matters
 
Stourport—see Electrical Matters
 
St resses. Repeated Torsional, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under. Professor F. (’. l-ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522
 
Stribeck, Professor, A Now Process of Combustion for High-speed Heavy Oil Engines, 632
 
Strikes — see Labour
 
Stroboscope—see Hetoroptic Shutter, also Physical and Optical »Societie«’ Exhibition
 
Suction Gas for Commercial Vehicles, 488, 516
 
Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, Intensive, (I)
 
Dr. II. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds ;
 
(2) W. G. Mills, 303
 
Swedish Railway Memorial, 277
 
Swinden, Dr. T., and Mr. G. R. Bnlsovor, Cold-rolled Strip Steel, 543
 
Switchgear —see Elect rival Mai i era
 
T
TEA Garden Cultivator, Mechanical. Win. Foster and Co.. Ltd., 468


    RATING of Machinery, 148, 161
Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, F. II. Liven#, 148
    Rectifier, New Electronic, L. O. Grondahl and
      P. H. Geiger, 364
    “ Red Menace ” in China. 105
Refrigerating Machinery on the Blue Star Liner Almedu. Liverpool Refrigerating Coin pany, Ltd.. 378. 379. 380
    Research, Co-operative Industrial, 472
    Reservoirs—see Water Supply
    Resuscitating a Somerset Quarry, 549
    Reticence, 302
Richards. Frank. New Work Always Ready for the Men who Do Things, 467 ; (Letter), 491
    Road Machinery, Various, at Leipzig, 321. 322
Road-making. Concrete, Machine, Joseph Viigelr, 296
Road Metal from Household Refuse, Plant nt Brighton, Millars’ Machinery Company, Ltd.. 504
Rogers, F. Heron, Cross Cracking Process and Plant. 326 ; (Letter). 351
Roles.'I’., Recent Development in Power Plant Design, &c., 622
    Rolling Mills—see Cotters for
Rosenhain, Dr., and Others, The Alloys of Iron Research. 516
    Rotoscope—see Heteropt ic Shutter
Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering. B. D. Porritt, 325
8
  SAFETY in Factories, 558
  Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines. 463
Safety in Mines Research Station near Buxton, 651
  Samuel Crompton Centenary, 665
Sand-mixing Machine, Pneulee, Ltd., 266 Sand—see Movement of Saws, Cold Disc, 321
  Saws for Cutting Metal, both Hot and Cold.
    Sanderson Brothers and Newhould, Ltd., 267 Schemes in Soviet Union, 14
Scientific Apparatus—see. al«o Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition.
Scientific, and Industrial Research, Report of Committee, 349
Screwing Machines—see Machine Tools Scunthorpe—see Gasworks
Seigle, M. J., The Heavy Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, 514
Self-cleaning Grate and Sprinkler Stoker. Crosthwaite Engineering and Furnace Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi
Shearing Machines—see Machine Tools
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING
See also Annual Articles
General Matters :
America and the Cruiser Question, 103
Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 4U8 Effect of Wind on Power and Speed. 11. J. R.
  Biles. 435, 439
High-speed Motor Boats, Design and Con struct ion of, David Nicolson, 409
Lloyd’s Register :
  Annual Summary, 81
  Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 50, 412
M.V. Tampa, Return Voyage of, and Engineer’s Log, 279
Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors.
  Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408
Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth, 249
Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436
Ship Wave Resistance, W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Skin Friction Resistance, G. S. Baker. Ship Propulsion Research. G. S. Baker. Weather and the Propulsion of Ships.
  Kent. 434
Naval Matters :
Armament of Capital Ships. 553
Machinery Installation of the Grosser fiirst, John 8. Brown. 276
Naval Limitation Conference, 687
Navy Estimates. 301
President Coolidge on Naval Armament 187
Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, 443
World’s Fighting Fleets, 271
Foreign Navies:
French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels
Blue Star Liner Alineda. Refrigerating Machinery on. 378. 379
Danish Motor Train Ferry Korsor, 610
Empress of Australia, Reconditioned Liner. | 649. 658. 692
Paddle-wheel Steamer Helvetic with Uniflow Engine ami Oil-operated Valve Gear, 676 Royal Mail Motor Liner Alcantara, Harland and Wolff. Ltd.. 210. 211
SIEMENS-BENSON Critical Pressure Boiler, 690
Sixty Years Ago. 14. 48. 83. 97. 137, 162. 184.
212. 249. 273. 393. 331. 351. 392. 417. 450.
463. 498. 527. 547, 585. 602. 633. 656. 693
Skin Friction—see Ships
Smith, Harold (•., Applications of Power on Gasworks. 137
Societies—see Associations
Soldering and Welding—see Aluminium
South Africa, Steel Industry in. 348
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES
110, 128. 168, 191. 221. 250. 280. 336. 391.
422, 559. 585. 612. 666. 681
Accident Rate in Mines, 250
An Aerial Survey, 250
Automatic Rotary Sub-station, 169
Big Platinum Plant, 194
British Combine, 250
British Motor Industry, To Help. 280
Buluwayo Water Supply, 336
Cape Town Harbour Extensions. 392
Cape Town’s Floating Dock. 168
Cape Town’s Mountain (’ableway. 194
Capo Town Water Supply, 422
Carbide Factory at Wit bank, 684
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES (continued):
Defective American Locomotives, 280 Developing Table Bay, 336 Dunswart Works Expanding, 606 Durban’s Grain Elevator, 194 Electric Lighting of Trains, 392 Electric Power from City Reservoir. 612 Electricity Undertakings, IBS Electrification Results, 612 Engineering in 1926. 221 Ermelo Torbanites, 250 Funicular Railway, 330 Huge Locomotives. Two. 221 Improved Mining Methods. 110 Industrial Enterprises Checked, OK I Industrial Expansion. 128 Iron Ore Deposits of the Union. 392 Johannesburg Gasworks, 422 Johannesburg’s New Gasworks, 25o Largest. Winding Hoist, 585 Lightning Causes Mine Fire, I 10 Manganese for America, 422 Mining at Broken Hill, 336 Now Cement Factories. 250 New Durban North Bridge. 191 New Plant for Rond Mine. 191 Oil Boring Operations, 250 Pipes, Large Order for, 684 Platinum Mining, 684 Platinum Production, 250 Port Elizabeth Harbour, 194 Potgietersrust Platinums, 391 Preference on British Goods, 559 Pretoria Railway Workshops. 128 Pretoria Steel Foundry, 666 Production of Oil, 168
      Progress at Dunswart Works, 250
      Quick Coaling at Durban, 128
      Railway Construction, 110
      Railway Repair Shops, 612
      Rand Industrial Exhibition, 559
      Rand's Latest Reduction Plant, 559
Results of Railway Electrification 280 Rhodesia's Copper Mines. 128 Road Mot or Services, 336 Rolling Stock Position, 559 Sabie Hydro-electric Scheme, 585 Sir William Hoy to Leave the S.A.R.. 666 South African Coal. 194
    S.A. Market for Tools, 559
    State-aided Steel Industry, 612
    Steam Omnibus, 250
    Steel Combine Formed, 221
    Suburban Railway Electrification. 666
    Table Bay Cooling Chambers, 684
    Table Mountain Cableway, 221
    Three-cylinder Locomotives, 422. 606
    Tram Design, New, 585
    Union Minidre Progress, 194
    Union Rubber Industry, 168
    Wankie Colliery Expansion, 110
    Wankie Colliery Reconstruction. 612
SOUTH African Mining Prospects for 1927, 179 South Australia—see Water Supply
South-East London. Travelling Facilities in, 267 Springs—see also Manufacture
Springs, Fine, for Gun Makers, Northern Spring Company, 267
Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies of Simple Geometric Section, Professor T. B. Abell, 149
Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough. 221
Stationary Enginej—see Engines
Steam Accumulators, 78
  Steam Boiler Wagons—see Railways
Steam Cultivating Machinery, Powerful, for Italy, John Fowler and Co., Ltd., 581
  Steam Engines—see Engines
Steam Fittings, Venturi Typo Parallel Slide Valve, &c., Gummers, Ltd., 267
  Steam Plant, Super-pressure, at Bradford, 78
Steam Plants, High-pressure, Use and Economy of, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Professor W. Kerr, 94, 107
Steam Pressures, Modern Developments in, W. Bayliss, 280
  Steam Production—see Economic
750-kW Steam Turbine Coupled with Alternator, 290 B.H.P. High-speed Engine, Multijet Condensing Set. Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, vi.
Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, R. Desmond Forrester, 594
Steel—see Iron
Storage Batteries—see Electrical Matters
Stourport—see Electrical Matters
St resses. Repeated Torsional, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under. Professor F. (’. l-ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522
Stribeck, Professor, A Now Process of Combustion for High-speed Heavy Oil Engines, 632
Strikes — see Labour
Stroboscope—see Hetoroptic Shutter, also Physical and Optical »Societie«’ Exhibition
Suction Gas for Commercial Vehicles, 488, 516
Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, Intensive, (I)
  Dr. II. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds ;
  (2) W. G. Mills, 303
Swedish Railway Memorial, 277
Swinden, Dr. T., and Mr. G. R. Bnlsovor, Cold- rolled Strip Steel, 543
Switchgear —see Elect rival Mai i era
T
TEA Garden Cultivator, Mechanical. Win. Foster and Co.. Ltd., 468
Telfcr. Dr. E. V.. Ship Resistance Similarity, 436
Telfcr. Dr. E. V.. Ship Resistance Similarity, 436
Temperature Conditions in Refrigerated Holds, 134
Testing and Balancing House at Heaton Works. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654
Testing Machine, Multi-lever, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i, ii
Testing Machines, 30-Ton Vertical Singlelever, 30,000 1b. Multi-lever, Joshua Burkton and Co,, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i, ii
Testing and Research Laboratory and Equipment. at Hehburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654, 656
Tests, Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Theoretical and Practical Lubrication, 386 Theory and Practice, Dr. Herbert Lap worth, 601


Theory of Strong Electrolytes, General Discussion at the University Museum, Oxford, Programme of Papers, 392
Temperature Conditions in Refrigerated Holds, 134
Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, .T. A. Hall, 84
 
  Thornton and Clevrleys’—see Electrical Matters
Testing and Balancing House at Heaton Works. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654
  Thornton, Professor VV. M., Faraday Lecture.
 
      What is Electricity ? 331
Testing Machine, Multi-lever, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i. ii
  Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River,
 
      T. C. S. Haslam, 602
Testing Machines, 30-Ton Vertical Singlelever, 30,000 1b. Multi-lever, Joshua Burkton and Co,, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i, ii
Tinning Compounds', Soldo Company, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
 
  Torsional Fatigue, 526 ; (Letter), 522
Testing and Research Laboratory and Equipment. at Hehburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654, 656
  Torsional Stresses—see Failure of Steel Wires
 
  Torsional Vibration, J. (’alderwood, 336
Tests, Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Theoretical and Practical Lubrication, 386 Theory and Practice, Dr. Herbert Lap worth, 601
  Tractor for Lifeboat Launching, Four •wheel
 
      Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531
Theory of Strong Electrolytes, General Discussion at the University Museum, Oxford, Programme of Papers, 392
  Trades Disputes Bill. 525
 
  Trades Unions and Trade Disputes—w Labour
Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, .T. A. Hall, 84
  Trafford Park—see Electrical Matters
 
  Train Ferry—see Ferry
Thornton and Clevrleys’—see Electrical Matters
  Transformers—sec Electrical Matters
 
  Travelling Grate, H. Type. Stoker, Underfeed
Thornton, Professor VV. M., Faraday Lecture.
      Stoker Company, 218
 
  Trend of Fuel Injection Practice, 329
What is Electricity ? 331
  Trucks—sec also Electrical Matters
 
Turbine, Improved Backpressure, English Electric Company, 46, 56
Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River,
  Turbine Machinery on I.and and Sea, Sir (’. A.
 
      Parsons and Others. 69
T. C. S. Haslam, 602
  Turbine Pumps—see Pumps
 
  Turbine, 20,000-Kilowatt Steam, at Rotterdam.
Tinning Compounds', Soldo Company, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 512, 524, 540 (Two-pagr Supplement, May \3th, 1927)
 
  Turbine Units, Small, for Industrial Purposes.
Torsional Fatigue, 526 ; (Letter), 522
      G. Arrowsmith, 109
 
  Turbines—see also Proportioning
Torsional Stresses—see Failure of Steel Wires
  Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry.
 
      C. A. Gillingham, 667
Torsional Vibration, J. (’alderwood, 336
u
 
  UNIFLOW Engines—see Engines
Tractor for Lifeboat Launching, Four •wheel
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Pro feasor William Kerr. 94. 107, 126, 166. 207, 208; (Erratum), 146; (Letter). 298
 
V
Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531
  VACUUM Brake in India, 462 ; (Letter), 684
 
  Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable Cabin, 422
Trades Disputes Bill, 525
  Verein Deutscher Ingenieure. 1856-1926, 193
 
  Viaduct—see Timber
Trades Unions and Trade Disputes—w Labour
  Volta and Laplace, 233
 
WADLOW. E. C., Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Turbines. 600
Trafford Park—see Electrical Matters
  Wages —see Labour
 
Wans, Oswald, Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, 504
Train Ferry—see Ferry
Warren, J. G. H., Centenary of the First Railway in France, 679
 
Water Lifter, Direct-acting Feed Pump. Frank
Transformers—sec Electrical Matters
Pearn and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
 
Water Power versus Oil Engines in Bulgarin, 07 Water-softening Plant with Osilameter Measuring and (’hemical Supply Gear ; ** Basex " Base-exchange Water Softener ; Pressure Filter for Purification of Sedimentary Waters for Boiler Feed, Ate.; Chloronome, Paterson Engineering Company, 218
Travelling Grate, H. Type. Stoker, Underfeed
Water-sterilising Process, New, Bunau-Varilla System, 234
 
  WATER SUPPLY :
Stoker Company, 218
    See. also Annual Articles
 
Annual Report to the Metropolitan Water Board, Sir Alexander Houston, 555
Trend of Fuel Injection Practice, 329
Birmingham Water Supply, Bartley Reservoir, 182, 186
 
Centenary of the Shaw’s Water Company's Works. 688
Trucks—sec also Electrical Matters
De-ferrating Plant at a Sussex Works, 98, Iu2 Epsom Waterworks, Oil Engine Driven
 
      Pumping Plant at. 569
Turbine, Improved Backpressure, English Electric Company, 46, 56
  WELDED Repairs—see. Bridges
 
  Werkspoor Indicator Gear. 209
Turbine Machinery on I.and and Sea, Sir (’. A.
Wernick, S., Protective Effect of Metal De- posits on Iron, 582
 
Wharton, C. J., Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, 278
Parsons and Others. 69
  Whitworth Scholarships. 1928, 220
 
  Wigley, W. C. S., Ship Wave Resistance.
Turbine Pumps—see Pumps
  Wilkins, P. T., Engineering Wages :
 
    Influence on Manufacturing Costs.
Turbine, 20,000-Kilowatt Steam, at Rotterdam.
    (Letter), 240
 
  Wilaou Dam— see
C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 512, 524, 540 (Two-pagr Supplement, May \3th, 1927)
Winch Equipment, Cardington Kirship Tower, Babcock and Wilcox, 288, 289, 300
 
Wire Rods, “ Road Studs,” Ate., William Cooke and Co., Ltd., B.I.F., Supplement, iv
Turbine Units, Small, for Industrial Purposes.
  WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY
 
Ser also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits
G. Arrowsmith, 109
Grimsby and Skegness Wireless Beam Stations, 323
 
Marconi Type R.g. 12 “ Press ” Wireless Receiver, 634
Turbines—see also Proportioning
  WOODS, F. W., A New Hydraulic Formula, 646
 
  WOODWORKING MACHINES :
Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry.
Saw Bench. Two-spindle Dimension, T. Robinson and Son. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
 
Saw, Cross-cutting and Trenching ; Combined Disc and Bobbin Sandor ; Single- dimension Saw Bench ; Combined Surfacing and Thicknesaing Machine, Wo,. Wadkin and Co., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
C. A. Gillingham, 667
Universal Woodworking Machine, Midland Saw and Tool Company. Ltd., 264
 
    Woodworking Tools. Various, at Leipzig, 321
u
  WOOLWICH—see. Electrical Matters
UNIFLOW Engines—see Engines
  Work-hardening Properties of Metals. Edward
 
    U. Herbert, 138. 156. 18U ; (Letters), 277
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Pro feasor William Kerr. 94. 107, 126, 166. 207, 208; (Erratum), 146; (Letter). 298
Works*, Now Switchgear, The Oerlikon Company, 404, 414
 
Works Visited l»v the Institution of Electrical Engineers : Ctarke, Chapman and Co,, Ltd., 681, 683; Connett Iron Company, 682, 686; Heftton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654 ; Hebburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654
V
World's Euluro Supplies of Liquid Fuels, John B. C. Kershaw, 244, 261, 292, 310, 344
VACUUM Brake in India, 462 ; (Letter), 684
World's Production and Trade in Machinery, 048
 
Worm Goar, Mem. J. Buckton and Co., Ltd., and MOMHFH. Bostock and Brarnloy, B.l.F. Supplement, ii
Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable Cabin, 422
 
Verein Deutscher Ingenieure. 1856-1926, 193
 
Viaduct—see Timber
 
Volta and Laplace, 233
 
WADLOW. E. C., Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Turbines. 600
 
Wages —see Labour
 
Wans, Oswald, Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, 504
 
Warren, J. G. H., Centenary of the First Railway in France, 679
 
Water Lifter, Direct-acting Feed Pump. Frank Pearn and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
 
Water Power versus Oil Engines in Bulgarin, 07 Water-softening Plant with Osilameter Measuring and (’hemical Supply Gear ; ** Basex " Base-exchange Water Softener ; Pressure Filter for Purification of Sedimentary Waters for Boiler Feed, Ate.; Cldoronome. Paterson Engineering Company, 218
 
Water-sterilising Process, New, Bunau-Varilla System, 234
 
WATER SUPPLY :
See. also Annual Articles
 
Annual Report to the Metropolitan Water Board, Sir Alexander Houston, 555
 
Birmingham Water Supply, Bartley Reservoir, 182, 186
 
Centenary of the Shaw’s Water Company's Works. 688
 
De-ferrating Plant at a Sussex Works, 98, Iu2 Epsom Waterworks, Oil Engine Driven
 
Pumping Plant at. 569
 
WELDED Repairs—see. Bridges
 
Werkspoor Indicator Gear. 209
 
Wernick, S., Protective Effect of Metal De-posits on Iron, 582
 
Wharton, C. J., Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, 278
 
Whitworth Scholarships. 1928, 220
 
Wigley, W. C. S., Ship Wave Resistance.
 
Wilkins, P. T., Engineering Wages :
 
Influence on Manufacturing Costs.
 
(Letter), 240
 
Wilaou Dam— see
 
Winch Equipment, Cardington Kirship Tower, Babcock and Wilcox, 288. 289. 300
 
Wire Rods, “ Road Studs,” Ate., William Cooke and Co., Ltd.. B.I.F., Supplement, iv
 
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY
Ser also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits
 
Grimsby and Skegness Wireless Beam Stations, 323
 
Marconi Type R.g. 12 “ Press ” Wireless Receiver, 634
 
WOODS, F. W., A New Hydraulic Formula, 646
 
WOODWORKING MACHINES :
Saw Bench. Two-spindle Dimension, T. Robinson and Son. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
 
Saw, Cross cutting and Trenching ; Combined Disc and Bobbin Sandor ; Single-dimension Saw Bench ; Combined Surfacing and Thicknesaing Machine, Wo,. Wadkin and Co., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
 
Universal Woodworking Machine, Midland Saw and Tool Company. Ltd., 264
 
Woodworking Tools. Various, at Leipzig, 321
 
WOOLWICH—see. Electrical Matters
 
Work-hardening Properties of Metals. Edward
 
U. Herbert, 138. 156. 18U ; (Letters), 277
 
136
 
Their
 
188 :
 
Dam
 
Works*, Now Switchgear, The Oerlikon Company, 404, 414
 
Works Visited l»v the Institution of Electrical Engineers : Ctarke, Chapman and Co,, Ltd.,
 
681, 683; Connett Iron Company, 682, 686; Heftton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654 ; Hebburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654
 
World's Euluro Supplies of Liquid Fuels, John B. C. Kershaw, 244, 261, 292, 310, 344
 
World's Production und Trade in Machinery, 048
 
Worm Goar, Mem. J. Buckton and Co., Ltd., and Momhfh. Bostock and Brarnloy, B.I.F. Supplement, ii
   
   
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ABELL, Professor T. B.. Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies, 149

Acetylene Breakdown Equipment, Allen- Liver-sidge, Ltd., vii

Adjustable Cabin Ventilating Fitting, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422

AERONAUTICS : See al*o Annua) Articles

Aero-engines—aee Engines

Cardington Airship Shed and Mooring Tower, 230, 242, 258, 270, 288. 300 ; (Addendum). 586

French Air Services, 659

French Trans-atlantic Flights, 554

International Register of Aircraft, 244

AGRICULTURAL Engineering, 104

Air Compressor, 4| H.P., Blackstone and Co..

Ltd., 217

Air Filter for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559

Air Pollution in English and Scotch Towns and Cities, John B. C. Kershaw, 203

Alloys, Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in, R. Genders, 323

Alloys—#ee alao Electrical Matters

Aluminium, Soldering and Welding, Some Practical Notes on, A. Eyles, 121

Ambrose, E.. Electrical Osmosis, 412

America and Groat Britain, 415

America—see alto Ships, Naval Matters. alto Railways

AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS ; 468, 610, 638

Burning Wood Waste, 638

High-pressure Locomotive, Another, 610

High-speed Oil Engines, 638

Improvements in Pointsand Crossings, 610

New Port, 611

Permanent Way Recording Car, 468

Pipe Lines for Oil, 468

Power in the /American Steel Industry, 610

Proportioning Concrete by Weight, 638

Remote Control Mine Haulage, 610

Track Brakes for Gravity Yards, 468

Track Shifting Machine, 610

Ventilation of the Oakland Tunnel, 610

.ANGLE Bender, Heywood and Porteus, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv

Anglo-French Submarine Telephone (’able. New. Siemens Brothers and Co., 336

Annealing Temperatures—«ee Iron and Steel

ANNUAL ARTICLES : Aeronautics in 1926, 19, 34

(Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Aircraft Engines—see Engines Some Typical British Aeroplanes, 19

Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft. Ltd.:

All-steel Siskin III., A Single-seater Fighter. 37

•* Argosy ” Twenty-seater Three-engined Air Liner, 36, 37

Aeroplanes for Aerodynamic Research, 37

A. V. Roe and Co.. Ltd.:

Avro “ Avenger ” Single-seater Scout, 35

ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued)

Aeronautics in 1926 (continued):

Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd.:

“ Ripon ” Torpedo Aeroplane. 37

“ Sprat ” Two-seater Ail-purpose Training Machine with 275 H.P. Rolls-Royce Falcon Engine. 37

“ Iris ” Triple-engined Reconnaissance Flying Boat, 36, 37

Boulton and Paul, Ltd., Work During the Year, 35

Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.:

Bristol “ Badminton ” Single-seater Racing Machine, 35, 36

Bristol “ Berkeley ” Day Bomber, 34 Bristol “ Boarhound ” Two-seater Military Machine, 34

Work for Foreign Countries as Well as Home Ministry, 34

Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd.:

'fhe “ Fawn,” “ Flycatcher ” and “ Fox” Machines, 35

Gloster Aircraft Company. Ltd.;

Wooden Aeroplanes Re-designed in Steel, Two New Two-seater Fighting Machines, 37

“ Coral ” All-steel Aeroplane, 37

“Gambet” Single-seater Deck-landing Scout, with Bristol Jupiter Mark VI. Engine, 36, 37

Handley Page, Ltd.:

“ Hendon ” Slotted Wing Torpedo Carrier, Two-seater Military Machine, 16, 19

“ Hamlet ” Five-seater Three-engined Slotted Wing Monoplane, 19 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927)

Hawker Engineering Co.. Ltd.:

“ Danecock ” Single-seater Fighter, 21 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927)

65(1 H.P. “ Horn bill ” Single-seater Fighter, 16, 21

Short Brothers, Ltd.:

All-metal “ Calcutta ” Flying Boat, 20

Duralumin Propeller with Detachable Blades, 20

“ Mussel ” All-metal Seaplane, 20 (Sup piemen t, January 1th, 1927)

Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd.:

“ Southampton ” Flying Boat, 19 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Vickers Ltd.:

“ Vendace ” Two-seater Training Machine, “Vespa” Army Co-operation Two-seater Aeroplane, 16, 21

Viekers-Wibault All-metal Monoplane Scout, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Westland Aircraft Works, Ltd.:

Captain G. T. R. Hill’s “ Pterodactyl ” or Tailless Aeroplane, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Bridges in 1926, 7

(Supplement, January 1th, \Wl)

Berwick Bridge, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Caversham Bridge, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Floating Roadway, New, at Seacoin he Ferry, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Lea Marshes Viaduct, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

ANNUAL ARTICLES (cow/viued) : Bridges in 1926 (continued):

Railway Drawbridge at Keadby, 7 (Supplement, .January 1th, 1927)

Electrical Engineering in 1926, 25. 43 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) Converters. Automatic Sub-station, Soho-square. 25 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927)

Electric Traction, 43

50-Cycle Single-phase Locomotive, Fried.

Krupp, 43, 44

Electricity in Agriculture. 26 Hydro-electric Plant. 25 Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, Hewittic Electric Company, Ltd., 43

Miscellaneous, 44

Research, 25

Telephones, 44

Television, 26

The Baird Televisor. 26

Transatlantic Wireless Telephony, Stations at Rugby and Wroughton. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Turbo-generator Sets, 43

High-pressure Alternator Windings, C. A.

Parsons and Co., Ltd., 43

Wireless Communication, 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Photo-radiogram Receiver and Transmitter, Marconi Company, London, 26 Transmitting Station at Bodmin, Receiving Station Near Bridge water. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Harbours and Waterways in 1926, 38 The United Kingdom, 38

British Waterways, 38 London, Port of, 38 Mersey, The, and Manchester Ship Canal, 38

Floating Roadway at Seacombe Ferry, 38 (Supplement. January 1th. 1927)— ttee Bridges (Annual Articles) Naval Dockyards, 38

Nort h-East Coast and Humber Ports, 38 I Other Ports, 38 Scotland, 38

Southampton, 38

Africa, 39

Australasia, 39

Canada, New Dry Dock at Esquimalt, 39 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) East. The, 39

European Ports and Waterways, 38

North and South America, 39

Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84 Locomotives of 1926, 3

(Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Lj angstrom Turbine Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd., 3, 6 (Supplement, January llh, 1927)

Reid-MacLeod Turbine Locomotive, L. and N.E.R., Attached to Special Train, 4, 6 Great Western Railway, New Type of Tender for “ Castle ’* Class Engines, 4 5 London. Midland and Scottish, Mixed Traffic Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

London anti North-Eastern Railway, 5 Booster Addition Proved of Great Value, 5, 6

Lentz Valve Gear Adopted, 5

New Standard Goods Engine, Extended

Use of, 5

ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) :

Locomotives in 1926 (continued):

Southern Railway. 4

Lord Nelson, 3, 4 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)

Locomotive Industry, 6

Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co,, Ltd.. Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Three-cylinder Oil Fuel Engines, &c., 7

Beyer, Peacock Locomotives, Additional, Garratt Engine for Rhodesia. Central Argentine Railway Eight-coupled Cross Compound Engine, 6, 7

Kitson and Co., Ltd.. Midland Railway of Western Australia, Locomotives, «. 7

North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., Rhodesian Railway Locomotive with Lentz Valves, 6 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)

Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway Six-coupled Three-cylinder Engine, Ac., 7

Light Locomotives, 7

Fowler, John, and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Narrow-gauge Locomotive for 60 cm. Railway for Agricultural Use, 7

Puckett and Sons, Ltd., Special Light Engines for Quarry Use, 7

Motor Vessels and Marine On. Engines in 1926, 8

(Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)

Double-acting Engines, 8

Richardsons, Westgarth and Co.. Ltd..

8. 10

Elder Dempster Motor Liners Accra and A papa, with Twin-screw Double-acting Engines, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 8, 9

Opposed-piston Engines, 11

Dox ford Four-cylinder Opposed-piston Airless Injection Oil Engine, 10. 11 Plenty-Still Oil Engine, 10, 11 Progress in Europe and America, 11

Rotor Ship Barbara with Two Weser-M.A.N. Engines, 11, 12

Silver Line Motor Cargo Ship Silverash with Opposed-piston Engine. 10, 11 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) Single-acting Four-cycle Engines, 8

Dolores do Urquiza, A. and J. Inglis.

Ltd., 9 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)

Single-acting Two-cycle Engines, 9

Some Large Motor Passenger Liners, Union Castle Liner Carnarvon Castle, Harland and WolfT, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)

Smaller Marine Motors, 11

Some New Directions of Development, II

Ten-cylinder Sulzer Engine for the Christiaan Huygens, 11, 12

Naval Construction in 1926, 2 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)

British Empire, 2

France, 3

French Cruiser Duguay-Trouin, 3 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)

Italy, 3

Japan, 3

Japanese Cruiser Furutaka, 3

Japanese Minelaying Submarine, 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)

ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued):

Naval Construction in 1926 (continued) :

United States, 2

Minor Navies, 3

Railways in 1926, 42

Great Western, 42

London, Midland and Scottish, 42

London and North-Eastern. Drawbridge at Keadby, 42 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)’

Metropolitan, 43

Southern, 42

Underground. 43

Sanitary Engineering in 1926. 55

General, 55

Bradford. 55

Leeds, 55

Leicester, 55

London Main Drainage, 55

Manchester, 55

Main Drainage, 55

Outfall Works, 55

Portobello (Edinburgh), 55

West Kent Main Sewerage Board. 55

Works in Progress or in Contemplation. 55

France, 55

Other Works Abroad, 56

Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering in 1926, 22

(Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Higher Steam Pressures and Temperatures, 22

High-pressure Geared Turbine Clyde Steamer King George V., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Some Notable Ships of the Year, 22

Blue Star Liner Almeda, Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Cable-laying Steamer Dominia, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., 22

Orient. Liner, 20,000-Ton Otranto, Vickers Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Union-Castle Liner Llandaff Castle, Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., 22

Repairs and Reconditioning, 22

(3an Macnaughten Improvised Stern Frame, 22

High Elastic Limit Steels for Shipbuilding 23

Improved Marine Engine Efficiency, 23

Bauer - Wnch Turbine - Reciprocating Engine, 24

Large Liners Launched and Built Abroad. 23

Salvage Operations and Shipbreaking, 23

Some Dredgers of 1926, 23

Drag and Suction Dredger Vizagapatam, Wm. Simons and Co.. Ltd., 23

L.N.E.R. Bucket Dredger Telford, Lobnitz and Co., Ltd., 23

Conclusion, 24

Water Supply in 1926, 24

(Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

General, 24

Aberdeen Water Supply, Old and New Reservoirs at Invercannie, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Birmingham, 51

Cardiff, 51

Llwynon Reservoir, 52

Roughing Filters, 52

Taff Fawr Pipe Line, 52

Wenallt Reservoir, 52

Durham County Water Board. 52

Glasgow, 53

Liverpool. Vyrnwy Supply. 24

Aber Tunnel, 24

Vyrnwy Aqueduct, 24

Londonderry, 52

Manchester, 51

H aweswat er Scheme, 5!

Heaton Park Reservoir, 51

Thirlmere, 51

Thirlmere Aqueduct, 51

Mechanical Filtration Plants, 53

Bradford. 53

Exeter, 53

Mid-Sussex Joint Water Board, 53

Metropolitan Water Board, 51

Supply from the Queen Mary Reservoir, 51

Walton-on-Thames Filtration Plant, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Works for the Improvement of Supply North of the Thames, 51

Works for the Improvement of Supply

South of the Thames. 51

Works at Hampton. 51

Nottingham. 52

Bore-holes at Burton Joyce, 52

Colwick Hill Reservoir. 52

East wood Filtration Plant, 52

Plymouth, 52

Preston, 52

Taf Feehan, 53

Wakefield. 52

Bombay, 53

France, 53

Singapore, Water Supply from Johore, 53

South Australia, 53

Ot her Works Abroad, 53

Irrigation, 54

ARMOURING Machine—tee Electrical Matters

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES

Association, Diesel Engine Users' :

Consumers’ Oil Tests, Arthur F. Evans, 665 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans 504

High Revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday. 298

Association of Engineers, Manchester :

Annual Dinner, 71

Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E.

Windeler, 354

Junior Technical School and its Relation to Engineering, 8. Howden, 125

Modern Developments in Steam Pressures.

W. Bayliss, 280

Recent Developments in Machine Tools, Q. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:

Annual Convention at Buxton, 607, 622

Annual General Meeting, 624

Dinner, 624

Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland with Special Reference to the Heating Question, H. H. Berry, 624

Methods and Capital Costs of Distribution Over an Extensive Area, W. C. Bexon, 607

Presidential Address, R. W. L. Phillips, 607 Recent Developments in Power Plant Design and their Effects on the Economy of Generation. T. Roles. 622

Institute, Iron and Steel: Annual Meeting, 502, 513, 541

Annual Report, 513

Annual Dinner, 516

ACj Range in Special Steels, Professor J. H. Andrew and H. A. Dickie, 543

Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins, 541. 557 Experimental Inquiry into the Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, Professor W. A. Bone and Others, 514, 530

Four Other Papers Taken as Read, 544 Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield. 558 Influence of Annealing Temperatures on the Properties of Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543

Low-carbon Alloys of Iron and Manganese, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515, 516

Metal Manganese and its Properties, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515

Metallurgical Industry, The Heavy, of the East of France, M. J. Seigle, 514

Presidential Address, F. W. Harbord, 502, 514

Properties of Some Nickel-chromium-molyb-denum Steels, Professor Andrew and Others, 544

Some Notes on Cold-rolled Strip, Dr. T. Swinden and Mr. G. R. Bolsover, 543

The Alloys of Iron Research. Dr. Rosenhain and Others, 516

Theory of the Growth of Cast Iron Repeatedly Heated, Dr. C. Benedicks and M. H. Loquist, 543

Institute of Marine Engineers ; Recovery and Utilisation of Heat from Exhaust Gases of Internal Combustion Engines, Thomas Clarkson, 411

Some Types of Marine Internal Combustion Engines. W. F. Rabbidge, 273

Institute of Metals : Annual General Meeting, 184, 294, 322 Programme, 184

Autumn Meeting, 184

Application of Strain Methods to the Investigation of the Structure of Eutectic Alloys, F. Hargreaves, 322

Crystallisation of the Lead-tin Eutectic, F. Hargreaves, 322

Attack of Molten Metals on Certain Nonferrous Metals and Alloys, Harold J. Hartley, 322

Penetration of Brass by Tin and Solder, H. J. Miller, 322

Penetration of Mild Steel by Brazing Solder and other Metals, R. Genders, 322

Brittleness in Arsenical Copper, Clement Blazey, 294

Effect of Arsenic on Copper, Effect of Arsenic and Arsenic plus Oxygen on Copper, Professor D. Hanson and Mr. C. B. Marryat, 294

Effect of Bismuth on Copper, Dr. Hanson and Miss Ford, 294

Electric Furnaces in Non-terrous Metallurgy, D. F. Campbell, 295

Hair Springs, Manufacture and Properties of, Moore and Beckinsale, 322

Influence of Calcium on Aluminium Containing Silicon, J. D. Grogan, 323

Magnesium-rich Magnesium-copper Alloys, Max Hansen, 323

Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in Alloys, R. Genders, 323

Seventh Maj* Lecture : Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527

Institution of Chemical Engineers : Annual Dinner, 326

Annuel General Meeting, 326

Conference, 193

Programme, 193

Cross Cracking Process and Plant. F. Heron Rogers, 326

Meeting, 302, 325

Effect of Temperature on Some nf the Properties of Metals, &c.. Professor F. C. Lea, 325

Intensive Sulphuric Acid Manufacture :

(1) Dr. H. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds,

(2) W. G. Mills, 303

Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302

Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to Lead Burning. W. C. Freeman, 302

Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, B. D. Porritt, 325

Some Industrial Developments and the Chemical Engineer, Sir F. Nathan, 326

Institution of Civil Engineers : Applications of Power on Gasworks, Harold C. Smith, 137

Conversazione, 662

Three Lantern Lectures, 662

Exhibits : Yarrow-Hyde Bed. “ Rubber-phalte ” Road Blocks, &c., 662

James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering. Professor H. C. N. Carpenter, 490, 520

October Examinations. 1926, Pass List, 113 April Examinations, 1927, Pass List, Interim, 668

Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River. T. C. S. Haslam, 602

Manchester and District Association :

Sixth Annual Dinner, 181

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued) :

Institution of Electrical Engineers ■

Alternating-current. Measuring Instruments, Recent Advances in, Lieut.-Colonel K. Edgcumbe and Mr. F. E. J. Oekenden, 208 Annual Dinner, 71, 193

Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, Professor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472

Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, Lieut.-Commander Haydn T. Harrison. 297

Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough, 221

Summer Meeting at North-Eastern Centre. 654. 680. 686 ; Programme. 354

Visits to Heaton Works (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.) and to Hebburn Works (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 654

Visits to Works of Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.. Works of (’onsett Iron Company, and North Tees Electric Power Station, 680. 686

What is Electricity ? Abstract of Faraday Lecture. Professor W. M. Thornton, 331

Wireless Section :

Battery Eliminators, Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews. 412

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland : Joint Meeting with North-East Coast Institution, 611, 693

Programme, 611

Historical References to the Progress in Use of High-pressure Steam, James Mollison, 693

Machinery Installation of the Grosser Kur-furst, John S. Brown, 276

Various Papers, Dinner, Visits, 693

Institution, Junior, of Engineers: Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412

Torsional Vibration, Investigation of, J.

Calderwood, 336

Institution of Mechanical Engineers : Annual General Meeting, 206

Report, 206

Conversazione, 208

Development of Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 332

Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses, &c., Professor F. C. I.ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter). 522

Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut. -Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 410, 415, 416, 445

Joint Meeting with Chemical Engineering Group, Lubrication. Dr. W. R. Onnandy. 358, 361, 393

Second Joint Meeting, Lubricating Oils— Laboratory' in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton. 376

Summer Meeting, Birmingham, 240

Provisional Programme, 240

Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanbv and Professor William Kerr, 94, 107, 126, 166, 207 : (Erratum), 146

North-Western Branch :

Annual General Meeting, 109

Joint Meeting, Discussion, of Professors Mellanby and Kerr’s Paper, 207

Manchester Meeting, 208

Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, 207, 208

Meeting in Manchester, Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.-Colonel Kitson Clark, 444

Small Turbine Units for Industrial Purposes, G. Arrowsmith, 109

Joint Meeting, Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 377

Mechanical Vehicles, Development of. for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 330

Recent Developments in Grinding Machines and Processes, H. H. Axbridge, 276

Institution of Mining Engineers : Eighty-sixth General Meeting, Programme, 638

Institution of Municipal and County Engineers Annual General Meeting and Conference. Programme, 531

Institution of Naval Architects : Annual Dinner, 388

Annual General Meeting, 387, 405, 434

Report and Elections, 387

Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats, David Nieolson, 409

Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, H. .1. R. Biles, 435, 439

Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405

Notes on the Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 408

Oil Engine Energy Diagram and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dalby, 406, 420, 421

l*rogramme of Meetings, 336

Propulsion of Ships Under Different Weather Conditions, J. L. Kent. 434

Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors.

Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408

Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436

Ship Wave Resistance, W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Summer Meeting in Cambridge, Programme, 336

Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders : Economy' of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion, G. S. Baker, 1 125

Joint Meeting—see Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland

Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery | on Land and Sea, Sir C. A. Parsons and Others, 69

Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth. 249

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

Institution of Structural Engineers :

Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, H. J. Gough, 474

Institution of Water Engineers • Summer General Meeting, Programme and List of Papers, 450

Theory and Practice (from Presidential Address of Dr. Herbert Lapworth), 691

Society, Ceramic : Spring Meeting in Czechoslovakia, 437

Society of Chemical Industry : Midland Section, Joint Meeting, 84 Measurement of Temperature in Technical

Practice, Professor J. W. Hinchley, 84 Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, J. A. Hall, 84

Chemical Engineering Group, Joint Meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 358, 361, 393

Society, Faraday ; Meeting for Presentation of Second Report to Atmospheric Corrosion Research Committee, by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon, 374

Theory of Strong Electrolytes, Programme of Papers and General Discussion at University Museum, Oxford, 392

Society, Liverpool Engineering : Annual Dinner. 155

Society, Newcomen : Meeting, 219

British Railways of 1825 as Seen by Marc Seguin, Ferdinand Achard and Laurent Seguin, 219

First British Locomotives of the St. Etienne-Lyon Railway, M. Achard. 219

Summer Meeting, 576

Society, Royal : Conversazione : Ultra-violet Radiation, Applications of and Apparatus for Generation of ; Specimens of Pure Metals ; Specimens Illustrating Metallography of Solid Mercury ; Magnetometer ; Model of Rotating Shaft; New Form of Thermostat ; Seldnyi’s Method of Observing the “ Cleanup ” in a Vacuum Lamp, &c., 522

Societies, Physical and Optical: Exhibition, 12, 42, 72—For Details see Separate Heading, “ Physical and Optical Exhibits ”

ATKINS, E. A., Drawing Steel Wire, 541, 557 Australia and India, Wireless Communication with—see Wireless Telegraphy, Grimsby and Skegness Stations

Automatic Electro-plating Machine, Grinding Machinery, “ Minik ” Plating Apparatus, &c., W. Canning and Co., Ltd., 264, 265

B BAILEY, Alex. D., High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, 635

Baker, G. S., Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion. 125

Baker, G. S., Skin Friction Resistance, 179

Balancing Gear—see Engines

Balancing Machine. Martin, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i, ii

Bars, Centrifugal Casting of, Leon Cammen, 574

Baulino Continuous Fuel Indicator, 157

Beam Engines—see Engines

Beet Sugar, New Method of Making, 431, 442, 444

Benedicks, Dr. C-, and M. H. Loquist. Growth of Cast Iron, 543

Berry, H. H., Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland, 624

Biles, H. J. R., Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, 435, 439

Boiler Drums, High-pressure. Manufacture of, Thyssen and Co., 246

Boiler, Exhaust Gas, Determination of the Efficiency of, Professor G. Cook, 403

Boiler, Experimental Critical Pressure, Siemens. Benson. 690

Boiler Fittings, Feed Pumps and Boiler-house Apparatus at Leipzig, 321

Boiler Mountings, Variety of Valves, &c., Hunt and Mitt on, 267

Boiler Tubes, Duty of, 580

Boiler, Vertical Tubular, Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii

Boiler, Woodeson Water-tube, with Pulverised Coal Equipment. Clarke. Chapman and Co.. 681, 682

Boilers. Pulverised Fuel, at Birmingham, 363

Boilers. Lancashire and Water-tube, John Thompson, Ltd., vii

Bone, Professor W. A., and Others, Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, 514, 530

Books of Reference, 100, 152. 184, 220. 268, 364, 437. 584, 611

Borbera Valley Hydro-electric Installation, 222 Boring Machines—see Machine Tools

Brakes, Trains—see Railways

BRIDGES : Bridges, Swing, Over the River Waveney at Beccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177

Delaware River Suspension Bridge. U.S.A..

202, 214, 231, 304. 305. 318. 345

“ Iron Bridge ” at Plymouth. Centenary, 625

Kafne Bridge, Lifting the, 478

Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Welded Repairs to, 419

BRITISH Engineers’ Association, Luncheon, Economic Conference at Geneva, Sir Arthur Balfour, 665

BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION Conference by Screw Threads Committee on Question of Width Across Flats of Nuts and Bolt Heads, 335

Specifications : Charcoal Iron Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, 212

Cold-drawn Wcldless Steel Tubes for Locomotive Boilers, 212

Contours for Locomotive Tires for British Railways, 440

Copper Conductors for Electric Power and Light, 308

Electrical Protective Relays, 336

Flame-proof Enclosures for Electrical Apparatus, 84

Gear Wheels and Pinions for Electric Tramways, 394

Instrument Transformers and Recording Ammeters, Voltmeters and Wattmeters, 531

Iron or Steel Tubular Poles for Telegraph and Telephone Purposes. 582

Oil Paints, 277

Paints, Varnishes and Paint Ingredients, 44

Piston Rings for Automobiles, 550

Switchgear Cells and Cubicles, 193

Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 692

Water-tight Fittings for Incandescent

Electric Lamps, 109

Zinc Specifications, 171

BRITISH Foundrymen, Institute of, Annual Convention, Programme, 637

British Industries—«ec Exhibitions

British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Second Report to Corrosion Research Committee, 374

Bronze Founding, Sir John Dewrance, 274

Browne, A. W., Storage Buttery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268

Buenos Aires Port Works, 298

Burning—sec Coal

c CABIN Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422

Cables—see Electrical Matters

Calder, J. Douglas, Notes on the Design of Coasters, 408

Calendars, Diaries, &c., 87, 109, 225

(Jammen, Leon, Centrifugal Casting of Bars, 574 Cardington—see Aeronautics

Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering, 490, 520

Cast Iron Casing for Turbo Air Compressor, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654

Castings, Large, of High-conductivity Copper, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd., 611

Catalogues. 87, 109, 171, 197, 367. 425. 453, 477, 611, 641, 071, 697

Centenary, Railway—see Railways

Centenary, Waterworks—see Water Supply

Centrifugal Casting of Bars, Leon Cammen, 574 Chain Bending and Chain Welding Machines, Fin Stripper and Testing Machine, Holden and Hunt, B.l.F. Supplement, iii

Chain Pulling Jack, " Little Jack '* Engineering Company, Ltd., 694

Chemical Analysis, 216

China, The “ Red Menace “ in, 105

Chloronome—Water Softening

Ciment Fondu Concrete, 329; (Letter), 351 Circulating Water—sec Electrical Mutters Clarkson, Thomas, Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, 411

•‘Clear Space’ Pneumatic Power Hammer, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666

Clough, F. H., Stability of I.arge Power Systems, 221

COAL. COKE AND COLLIERIES : British Cool in Franco, 350

Burning of Low-grade Coal, 162

Coal Ash and Probability. 48 ; (Letter), 449 Coal Pulverising Machine, Mayhew, Ramsay and Co., Ltd., 249

Pneumatic Coal and Ash Conveying Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160, 163

Pulverised Coal Plant at the Poplar Power Station, 466, 470

Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268

Stourport Power Station, Coal-handling Plant, 626. 663

COASTERS—see Ships

Coilers for Cold Strip Rolling Mills, C. E.

Davies, 92, 123

Colombia, Port Improvements in, 692 Combiiation—see Engines

Compressor, CO2, Tandem-compound Steam-driven, for the Almcdu Liner, 379

Conference on Engineering Materials. 4 48 Conferences on Industrial Welfare, 477 Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, William Harvey, 568

Contracts. 59, 90, 113, 146, 174, 197, 225, 253, 283. 31 1, 339. 367, 397, 425. 453. 481, 507, 535, 566. 588, 618, 644. 674, 670

Conveyor, Genera) Purpose, New Conveyor Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv

Cook, Professor (L, Determination of the Efficiency of an Exhaust Gas Boiler, 403

Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215

Co-operative Industrial Research, 471

Copper,Arsenic and ; Copper. Arsenical ; Copper, Bismuth and ; Papera and Discussion at the Institute of Metals, 294

Copper Castings—see Castings

Copper Conductors, Hard-drawn, 463

Corrosion, Atmospheric, of Metal®—see British Non-ferrous Metals

Crane Girder Design—sec Economics of

Cross Cracking Process and Plant, F. Heron Rogers, 326 ; (Letter). 351

Cultivating Machinery—see Steam

Cultivator—see Tea Garden

Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 30. 60, 88, 114. 144. 172, 198. 226. 254, 284, 312, 340, 368, 398. 426, 454, 4 82, 508, 536. 564, 590, 616, 642, 672. 698

Cylinder Piers for Dockyard Wharf, 527

DALBY, Professor W. E., Energy Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials. 406. 420. 421

Dam. Eguzon, on the River (Tense, 64, 76

Dam, Wilson Bhandardara Dam, Bombay, 317, 328

Dams, Continuous Nat ure of Decay in, William Harvey, 668

Davies, C. E., Coders for Cold Strip Rolling Mills. 02. 123

Deferrating Plant at. a Sussex Works. 98. 102

Delaware— .■.re Bridges

Demoulin, Maurice, Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518

Deptford—see Electrical Matters

Dewrance, Sir John, Bronze Founding. 274

Diamond Pool—see Longlands

Die Casting, Non-metallic Materials, 321

Diesel Engines—sec Engines

Digging and Loading Machine. Spencer (Mclk-shain), Ltd.. 393

Dock Extensions at Liverpool. 372. 373, 384

Double Dry Grinding Machine. Electrically Driven, B. R. Rowland and Co.. Ltd.. 667

Drawing-otlice Lighting, 205

Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541, 557

Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools

Drying Oven, Largo Vacuum, at Heaton Works, (’. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654

Dunsheath, Percy, 33,000-Volt Three-core Cables. 99

Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580

Dynamic Balancing Machine. W. and T.

Avery, Ltd., 265

Dynamometer, Heenan-Highfield Electric, Heenan and Fronde, Ltd., 265

E EARLY Modern Plough Design, G. E. Fussell. 233

Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, C. J. \\ barton, 278

Economics of Crane Girder Design, Edward G.

Fiegehcn, 204

Economy of Tank Testing—see Ship Propulsion Research

Educational Intelligence, 54

Edwards, Professor C. A., and Mr. J. C. Jones, Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets. 543

Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76

ELECTRICAL MATTERS : See also Annual Articles, also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits

Alternating-current Motor Starting Panel, Arc Welding Equipment. Gate End Starting Box, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 236

Armouring Electric Cables, Large Machine for, Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 552, 560

Automatic Control of Boilers Working with Powdered Fuel, Allgemeine Elektrieitiits Gesellschaft, 297

Automatic Sub-station in Copenhagen, Electrical Equipment, Metropolitan-Vickers Company, 584

Battery Eliminators. &c., Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews, 412

Binary Electric Converter, Mawdsley’s, Ltd., 238

Cables, 33,000-Volt Three-core, Percy Dunsheath, 99

Canada, Electric Power Position in, 233

Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, 529

Circulating Water System, New, at Woolwich Electricity Station, 150

CO, Recorder, Elect rofio Meters, Ltd.. 239

Congella Power Station, Durban, 106

(’onset t Iron Company's Works, Electrical Equipment at, 682, 686

Cubicle Switchgear, George Ellison, 532

Direct-current Controller with Pivoted Contact Finger, Unbreakable Resistance, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 237

Double-pole Switch, D. B. Minor, General Electric Company, 239

Economic Production of Steam by Electricity,

C. J. Wharton, 278

Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76

Electric Furnaces in Non-ferrous Metallurgy,

D. F. Campbell, 295

Electrical Industry, The, 437

Electrical Instruments, 208

Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412

Electrical Research, 188

Electric Welding Machines, Siemens-Schuc-kert. 297

Electrified Homes . . . the Heating

Question, H. H. Berry, 624

Extensions at the Deptford Power Station, 598, 604

French Electrification Developments, 250

High-frequency Currents, Kelvin Lecture, Profeasor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472

High-voltage Outdoor Transformers, Ferranti Ltd., 496. 503

Langerbrugge Power Station, Results Obtained with High-pressure Steam at, 550

Largo Transformers, Mctropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 135

Loading Reactances for Large Generators, Oerlikon Company, 694

Magnetic Alloys, Mumetal ami Rhome tai, Gutta Pore ha Company, 240

Manchester Electricity Supply, 625

Models for Demonstrating Electrical Principles, Dr. F. W. Alexander, 547

North Tecs Electric Power Stations, 680

Outdoor Transformers at Stourport, 663

Parsons 20,000-Kilowatt Turbo-alternator at Rotterdam, 512. 524, 540 (Ttco-paye Supplement, May 1927)

Power Station, New, at Willow Holme, Carlisle, 573, 578

Power Station at Poplar, A New. 466. 470

Pyromic, Nickel-Chromium Alloy, Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Ltd., 240

Recent Development in Power Plant Design, Ac., T. Roles, 622

Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, A. W. Browne, 268

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :

Stourport Power Station. 626, 627, 663 Street Lighting, Haydn T. Harrison. 297 Switch, 400-Ampdre Oil-immersed Fuse, A.

Reyrolle and Co., 236, 237

Switchgear, Cubicle Typo for 11,000*Volt Supply, George Ellison. 267

Switchgear Works. New, The Oerlikon Com pony. 404. 414

Switching Plug, Stanton, Ltd., 207

Tapping Switch. Hackbridge Electric Construction Company, 238

Thornton and Clevelvy's Electricity Scheme, 008

Three-phase Circuit Breaker. 100,000-Volt, 297

Three-phase Oil Switch and Switchgear. Park Royal Engineering Company, 238, 239 Trafford Park Power Station, New Coalhandling Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160. 163

Transformer, Three-phase, Oil-cooled, Cort* Type Transformers : Single-phase. Radiid Type, Air-cooled Transformer, British Electric Transformer Company, 266

Treforcst Power Station, Extensions to, 500 Truck, Electric, Wingrove anil Rogers, Ltd., 237. 238

Truck Elevating Platform, Electricars, Ltd., 267

Turbo-alternator, 12,000-kW, Two Turbogenerator Sets at 20,000 kW, at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons anil Co., Ltd., 654

U Type Motors. Alternating and Direct Current, Squirrel Cage and Slip Ring Motors, Squirrel Cage Rotor, Brush Gear, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 266. 267

Voltage Regplating Equipment for Transmission Lines, Newcastle • upon - Tyne Scheme, Motropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 556

What is Electricity ? Faraday Lecture, Professor W. M. Thornton. 331

ENERGY Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dolby, 406. 420. 421

ENGINES AND MOTORS <$’*•<• al«o Annual Articles

Aircraft Engines :

Beardmore “ Typhoon ” Aero-engine, 97 Bristol Company’s “ Cherub.” “ Jupiter ’ and ” Lucifer ” Aeroplane Engines. 35 "Cirrus” Mark II. 75-8’1 H.P. Engine, "Nimbus” 300-330 H.P. Six-cylinder Engine. A.D.C. Aircraft, Ltd., 35. .

Aircraft Engines, Torsional Vibration with Particular Reference to, J. Calderwood, 336

Airless Injection, 1000 B.H.P. Marine Oil Engine, ” V.M.” Deutz Type. 528. 544

Automatic Steam Engine, Small, 392 ; (Letter), 448 ; (Correction), 507

Balancing Gear for a Four-cylinder 250 B.H.P. Oil Engine. W. H. Allen, Sons anil Co., Ltd., 692

Bearn Engines. Old—we Letters to the Edit or. 351, 449, 465, 025, 656, 684 ; (Correction), 400

Cold-starting Heavy Oil Engine, Clayton ami Shuttieworth, Ltd., 80

Combustion, A New Process of, for Highspeed Heavy Oil Engines, Dr.-Ing. R. Stribeck. 632

Compound Engine, 100 kW Two-crank, with Dynamo ; Turbine with Dynamo ; Heavy Oil Engine, 50 H.P. Two-cylinder ; Centrifugal Pump for Irrigation ; Mode! of Borehole Pump, W. H. Allen, Sons, and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi, vii

Crossley Premier Oil Engine, Four-cylinder, for Driving Pumps at Epsom Waterworks. 569

Diesel Engineer s Log, M. V. Tampa, 279 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans, 504

Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 47

High-revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday, 298

Hopper-cooled Oil Engine, Crosslev Brothers, Ltd., 137

Internal Combustion Engines, Various, Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Fielding and Platt, Ltd., Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii

Marino Oil Engines -#rr alto Annual Articles (1) Motor Vessels, Ac.; (2) Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering

Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors. Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472. 486, 518

Oil Engine, Vertical, with New Form of Exhaust Valve Gear, Blackstone and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v

Oil Engines, 70 H.P. Cold-starting Heavy Oil, and 96 H.P. Four-cylinder Vertical, Norris, Henty and Gardners, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii

Oil Engines and Governor Gear. Marshall, Sons and Co.. B.I.F. Supplement, ii

Oil Engines. Stationary, and 24 H.P. Twincylinder Marine, Fuel Pump Unit anil Spraying Jet, Petters, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v

Some Tvpes of Marine Oil Engines, \V. F. Rubhidge, 273

Steam Engine, 75 B.H.P., for Export, E. S. Hindley and Sons, 335

Uniflow Marino Engine with Oil-operated Valve Gear, Sulzer Brothers. 676

Vertical Gas Engine, 31 B.H.P., National Gas Engine Company. Ltd., 217

Water Power Oil Engines in Bulgaria,

97

Winch Engine and Equipment at Cardington. Babcock and Wilcox, 288. 300

ENGINEER and Client. 193

Engineering Conference at Manchester, 4 12

Engineering Materials, Conference on, 448

Engineering Wages : Their Influence on

Manufacturing Costs. P. T. Wilkins, 188;

(Letter), 240

Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir

Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405

Exchange in Ideas, 579 ; (Letter), 625

Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, Thomas Clarkson,

II I

EXHIBITIONS: British Industries Fair, 217, 236, 264

Leipzig Fair. 263. 296. 320

Midland Building Trades’ Exhibition, 585

Paris Fair, 572

Physical and Optical Societies* Exhibition. 12, 40, 72—For Exhibits, see Physical and Optical

Prague Fair, 350

EX PERT Evidence, 131

Extinguishing Oil Fires Afloat, Apparatus by Merry weather anti Sons, 612

Eyles, A., Notes on Soldering and Welding Aluminium, 121

F FACTORIES, Safety in, 558

Failure of Some Steel Wires under Repeated Torsional Stresses. <&e.. Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522

Fairs—see Exhibitions

Fan—see also Mine

Fan, Induced Draught ; Fan, Centrifugal, with Dust Collecting Unit ; Fan, Propeller, for Cooling, Musgrave and Co., Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, vi

Fatigue of Metals, Some Modern Views on the, H. J. Gough, 474

Ferry. Largo Oil-engined Propelled Train, Danish, 610

Fiegehen, Edward G., Economics of Crane Girder Design, 204

Filter, Air, for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559

Filter, Experimental Mechanical. V. L. Hartley, 624

Firo Engine. 80 H.P. Turbine Pump Motor, Merry weather and Sons, Ltd., 638

Fires Afloat—see Extinguishing

Fleets. Fighting—sec Ships, Naval Matters

Floating Prismatic Bodies—see Stability

Flue Dust Collector, *’ Sirocco ” Fans, Davidson and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii

Foreign Trade and Tariffs, 132

Forrester, R. Desmond, Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, 594

Forthcoming Engagements, 32, 62, 96, 116, 146, 174, 200. 228, 256. 286. 314, 342, 370. 400. 428. 456, 484, 510, 538. 566. 592. 618. 641. 674, 670

FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES : 31. 61. 89, 115. 145, 173. 199, 227, 255. 285. 313, 341, 369. 399, 427, 455, 483, 509, 537, 565, 591, 617, 043. 673, 699

.African Railways, 227

Barrage Models, 537

Battleship France, 173

Bridge Enlargements, 285

British Coal Trade Imperilled, 617

British Trade, 399

Cameroon Railways, 369

Cham bon Barrage, 115

Coal Import Licences, 673

Coal Production. 199

Coal Situation. 285, 341. 643

Coal Trade, 565, 699

Colonial Exhibition, 341

Colonial Works, 31, 509

Commercial Agreements, 427

Commercial Aviation. 255

Continuous Brakes. 369

Cruiser Suffren. 537

Engineering Trades. 483

Export Trade, 89

Flood Protection, 89

Foreign Trade, 227, 591, 699

Hydraulic Works, 115

Hydro-electric Schemes, 455

Import Duties, 255

Industrial Agreements, 643

Inland Navigation. 509

Kembs Barrage, 369

Languedoc Ship Canal, 483

Manufacturing Costs, 61

Marseilles Extensions, 313

Midi Electrification, 483

Mont Valerien Lighthouse. 565

Motor Car Industry, 399, 565

Motor Car Trade. 227

Naval Construction, 369, 455

New Cruiser Type, 173

Novel Boat, 699

Over-production, 537

Paris Suburban Traffic, 427

Paris Water Supply, 399. 455, 617

Port of Strasburg, 341

Production and Prices, 565

Prospecting by Colours, 89

Public Works, 61, 145

Rail Motors, 173

Railway Accident, 643

Railway Centenary, 61

Railway Electrification, 399

Railway Standardisation, 31

Rod Makers’ Agreement, 89

Rove Tunnel, 483

Russian Navy, 285

Sales Organisations, 509

Sewage Disposal, 617

Shipbuilding, 145, 255

South American Air Service, 199

Steel and Concrete, 427

Steel Industry. 145, 673

Steel Pact, 3i.3

Steel Trade, 455

Steel Trade Depression, 699

Steel Union, 61

Tariff Bill, 591

Tariffs and Coal. 643

The “ He de France,” 673

Tidal Power. 673

Trade Depression. 145

Trade Difficulties, 255

Trade Organisation, 285

Trade Outlook, 399

Trade Ret urns, I 15

Trade Situation, 115

Trade Slump. 173

Trade Stagnation. 369

Trans-Saharnn Railway, 89

Tunnelling the Vosges, 509

Two Concrete Bridges', 673

Underground Paris. 115

Unemployment. 341

Wages and Prices, 227

Wages Reductions. 509

FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES {continued) 1 Wages and Work, 313

Water Sterilisation, 399

Weaker Prices, 31

West African Railways, 427

Work for Unemployed, 199

Works in Indo-China, 537

FRENCH Oil Problem, 357

Fuel Pump—sec Pumps

Fuel Research. Report for 1925, 54

Furnace for Bright Annealing of Non-ferrous

Metals, Gibbons Brothers. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, ii

Furnaces, Electric—sec Electrical Matters

Fussell, G. E., Early Modern Plough Design, 233

G GAS—aree also Suction Gas

Gas Boiler—see Boiler

Gas Engines—see Engines

Gas Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131

Gas Transmission, Long-distance. in Saxonv, 193, 240

Gases and Oro, Interactions of, in the Blast -furnace, Professor William A. Bone and Others, 514, 530

Gasworks, Applications of Power on. Harold C. Smith, 137

Gasworks, Scunthorpe, Cooling and ('leaning Plant at, 477

Gear-boxes. Infinitely Variable ; Open Motor Drive, P.l.V. Gear Syndicate, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii

Gear-cutting—see Machine Tools

Goar Wheels. Quiet-running, New Material for

Making, “ Fenlin,” Alfred Wiseman, Ltd., 207

Geared Electric Motor at Leipzig Fair, 321

German Steel—see Iron

Gillingham, C. A., Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry, 067

Gladstone Dock—sec Dock Extensions

Gough, H. J., Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, 474

Government Certificate for Mining Engineers, 71

Gravel Washer and Screener, Hardy and Pud-more, Ltd., 478

Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools

Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527

H HADFIELD, Sir Robert, Metal Manganese and its Properties, 515 ; Iron ami Manganese, Low Carbon .Alloys, 515, 516

Hair Springs, Moore and Beckinsale, 322

Hall, J. A., Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry. 84

Hammer, " Clear Space,” Pneumatic Power, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666

Harbord, F. W., Presidential Address, 502, 514 Hard-drawn Copper Conductors, 163

Hardness Testing Instrument, “ Duroscope,” 321

Harrison, Haydn T., Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, 297

Harvey, William, Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, 568

Haslam, T. ('. $., Timber Viaduct Over the Tunnyan River, 602

Hatfield, Dr. W. H., Heat-resisting Steels, 558

Helium in Canada, 465

Herbert, Edward G.. Work-hardening Properties of Metals, 138, 156, 180; (Letters), 277

Heteroptic Shutter : A Stroboscope Development, A. J. Ashdown, 82

High-conductivity Copper Castings, Large, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd.. 611

High-pressure Steam, Historical References to tke Progress in Use of, James Mollison, 693 High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, Alex. D. Bailey, 635

H orated Keynes—see Water Supply, Deferrat-ing

Howden, S., Junior Technical School ami its Relation to Engineering. 125

Hydraulic Formula, A New, F. W. Woods. 646

Hydraulic Press, Experimental, Tangyes Ltd., 217

Hydraulic Presses and Pumps, Hand-operated Press for Light Scrap, Rollings and Guest, Ltd., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv

Hydro-electric Installation, Borbcra Valley, 222 Hydro-electric Progress in Canada during 1926, 219

I IDEA of Power for Nothing, 554

Ideas, Exchange of, 579; (Letter), 625

India, Vacuum Brake in. 462 ; (Letter), <184

Indicator, Continuous Fuel, The Baulino. 157

Indicator Gear, Werkspoor, 209

Industrial Bursaries in Metallurgy, 531

Industrial Welfare, Conferences on, 477

Industry—see Labour

Institutes and Institutions—see Associations Interactions—see Gases

Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines ; also Railway Locomotives

International Congress for Testing Materials.

184

International Discussion, 660

International Register of Aircraft. 244

Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 032

IRON AND STEEL Alloys of Iron Research, Dr. Roscnhain and Others, 516

Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543

Cold Rolled Strip Steel, Dr. T. Swindon and Mr. J. R. Bolsover, 543

Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541 German Steel Combination, 350

Growth of Cast Iron, Dr. (’. Benedicks and

M. H. Loquiat, 543

Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 558

IRON AND STEEL (continued):

Interactions of Gases and Oro in the Blast furnace. Professor W. A. Bone and Others 514. 530

Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84

Iron and Steel in Sweden, New Methods o Production, 662

Low-carbon -Alloys of Iron and Manganese Metal Manganese and its Properties. Si Robert Hadfield, 515, 516

Mikl Steel Penetration by Brazing Solder, &c.

R. Genders, 322

National Federation of Iron and Steel Manu facturers, Dinner, 691

Protective Effect of Metal Deposits on Iron

S. Wornick, 582

South Africa. Steel Industry in, 348

Stainless Steel for Variety of Uses, at Leipzig

Steel Cartel, 179

Steel Sections, Special. Janies Mills, Ltd. Stringer and Co., J no. Hy. Andrew ant Co.. Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, iv

J JACK—Chain Pulling

.lames Forrest Lecture. Some Recent Service) of Metallurgy to Engineering, Professo; II. C. H. Carpenter. 490. 520

K KELVIN Lecture—sec Institution of Elect rica Engineers

Kent. J. L., Propulsion of Ships under Different Weather Conditions, 434

Kershaw, John B. C., Air Pollution in Brit is) and Scotch Towns and Cities, 203

Kershaw. John B. C., World’s Future Supply ol Liquid Fuels, 244, 261. 292, 316, 344

Kit son Clark. Lieut.-Colonel E., Internal Com bust ion Locomotives, 410, 415, 416

Kuhne, Captain C. H.. Mechanical Vehicles foi Load-carrying Duty in the Army, 291, 306 330. 332

LABOUR MATTERS : Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, P. T. Wilkins, 188

Goodwill in Industry, 440

Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike, 688

Trades Unions Bill, 385

LADDERS, Steel Tube, L. Nicklin. Ltd., B.LF.

Supplement, iv

Langerbruggo—sec Electrical Matters

Lathes—nee Machine Tools

Launches and Trial Trips, 87, 113, 171, 225, 283, 311, 397, 453, 563. 589, 61 I. 641. 671, 697

Lea, Professor F. C., Effect of Temperature on Some of the Properties of Metals, &c., 325

Lea, Professor F. C.» and Mr. F. Heywood, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses. &c., 487 ; (Letter), 522

Lead Burning. Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to, W. C. Freeman, 302

Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302

LEADERS 1926—A Retrospect of. 17

Electricity Supply, 18

High Pressures. 18

Locomotives, 18

London Traffic, 18

Metallurgy, 18

Conclusion. 18

Agricultural Engineering, 104

America and the Cruiser Question. 103

America and Great Britain, 415

Armament of Capital Ships, 553

British Locomotive, The. and Foreign Inventors. 243

Burning of Low-grade Coal. 161

Chemical Analysis, 216

Ci merit Fondu Concrete, 329

Coal Ash and Probability, 48

Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631

Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215

Co-operative Industrial Research, 471

Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580

Electrical Research, 188

Exchange in Ideas, 579

Expert Evidence, 131

French Air Services, 659

French Oil Problem, 354

French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605

French Transatlantic Flights, 553

Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 4 7

Gaa Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131

Idea of Power for Nothing, 553

Internal Combustion Locomotives, 415

International Discussion, 660

International Register of Aircraft. 214

Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 632

Kelvin Lecture, 472

Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs, 497

Marine Steam Turbine Progress. 77

Metallurgists and Engineers, 525

Naval Limitation Conference, 687

Navy Estimates, 301

New Method of Manufacturing Beet Sugar, 444

Old and New Atomic Theories. 606

President Coolidge on Naval Armaments. 187

Problem of High Superheats, 272

Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, -M3

Railways and Unfair Competition, 354

Rating of Machinery, 161

Reticence, 302

Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike. 688

Steam Accumulators. 78

Super-pressure Steam Plant a;. Bradford. 78

Theoretical and Practical Lubrication. 386

Torsional Fatigue, 526

Trades Disputes Bill, 525

Trades Unions Bill, 385

LEADERS (continued) :

Trans-Saharan Railway, 497

Trend of Fuel Injection Practice. 329

World's Fighting Fleets, 271

LEIPZIG—see Exhibitions

LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS : England. North of, 28, 58. 86. 112. 142, 170. 196, 224. 252. 282, 3in. 338, 366. 396, 424. 452. 480, 506. 534. 562. 588, 614. 640. 670. 696

Lancashire. 27, 57, 85. 111. 141. 169. 195. 223. 251. 281. 30d, 337. 365. 395. 423. 451, 479. 505, 533. 561, 587. 613. 615. 639, 669. 695

Midlands and Staffordshire, 27, 56. 85. 111. 141, 169, 194. 223. 251. 281. 309. 337. 364. 395, 423, 451. 479, 505. 533, 561, 587, 613. 615, 639, 669, 695

Scotland, 29, 59. 86, 112, 143. 171. 197. 225. 253. 2b3. 311. 339, 367, 397. 425, 452, 481, 507. 534. 563. 589. 615. 640. 670. 696

Sheffield. 28. 58. 86. I 12. 142. 170, 19G. 224, 252. 282. 310, 338. 366, 396. 424. 452. 480. 506. 534. 562. 588. 1H4. 640, 670, 696

Wales and Adjoining Counties, 29. 59. 87. 113, 143, 171, 197, 225. 253. 283. 311. 339. 367. 397, 425, 453, 481, 507, 535. 563, 589. 615. 611, 671, 697

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : Beam Engine. An Old, W. J. Barker. 351 ; W. Yates. 449 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 465 ; (Correction). 4011

Beam Engine, The Last. EdgarC. Smith, 625 ;

H. Taylor, 656; Worthington-Simpson. Ltd.. 684

Brains in the Foundry, J. IL Jones, 133

British Columbia Electric Railway. J. Light -body. 559

British Steel and Research, John Brown and Co., Ltd.. 351

Cast Iron, Horace J. Young, 82

Ciinent Fondu, John G. Kay, 351

Coal Ash and Probability, Dr.-Ing. K. Daevos. 450

Dearth of Useful British Inventions, Athol G. Evans, 625

Direct Conversion of Low-pressure Superheats into Super-pressure, “ Astonished,” 44

Directory of Sources of Special Information. G. F. Barwick, 351

Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, G. T. Wilkins, 240

Harvey Combe Locomotive, J. C. H. Warren. 44

High Motor Speeds, I. Wonder, 392

High-pressure Reciprocating Engines, M.I. Meeh. E„ 656

Higher Pressure in Boilers and I.C. Engines,

F. J. B. Magg?». 181

“ Howlers,” H. E. Wimperis, 656

Industrial Welfare Society, Robert R. Hvde, 181

Internal Combustion Locomotives, James Clayton, 465

Largest Passenger Locomotive, Win. T. Hoecker. 133

Magnetisation of Dextrorsa! and Sinistrorse! Helices, Fredk. W. Alexander, 585

Men Who Do Things, S. P. Christie, 494

Newton Bicentenary. R. de Villamil, 133

Oldest Engineering Firm, Clydeside, 456

Railway Signal Engineer, A Railway Engineer, 83

Rcid-Maeleod Steam Turbine Locomotive, Ernest Moir, 181

Senate of the University of London. Roger T. Smith, 494

Small Automatic Steam Engine, Edwin W. Jones, 448

Smith. A. M., and Co., Ltd., Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., 83

Speed Record, Hugh H. Gregory. 240 ; F. Lindsay Lloyd. 277

Taxes on Transport, Edward S. Shrapnell-Sinith, 298

Three-cylinder Locomotives, Chas. W. Dauncy, 240 ; W. H. Thornbury, 298

Torsional Fatigue. G. A. Hankins, 522

Unemployment—the Gateway to a New Life, Geo. W. Mullins. 133

Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam. R. S. T. Collingham. 298

Vacuum Brake in India, Another Indian Railway Engineer, 684

Work Hardening. IL Poliakoff, 277 ; Edward

G. Herbert, 277 ; C. L. Sumpter, 277

LIFEBOAT Launching Tractor. Four-Wheel Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531

Lifting the Kafue Bridge, 478

Lifting Magnet, Bi-polar, Rapid Magnetting Machine Company. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v, vi

Liquid Fuels, World’s Future Supply of, John B. C. Kershaw. 244. 261. 292

LITERATURE : Reviews : Atomic Theory : An Elementary Exposition, A. Haas, 245. 473

Beitrflge zur Geschichte dec Technik und Industrie, V.D.I. Year Book, Conrad Matehoss, 216

Chemistry of Cellulose and Wood. A. W. Sehorger, 133

Chemistry of the Oil Industries, J. E. South-combe, 74

Chronicles of Boulton’s Siding, A. R. Bennett. 105

Collected Papers of Sir James Dewar, Lady Dewar and Ot hers, 189. 350

Edison : The Man and His Work, G. S. Bryan. 105, 386

Electric Switch ami Controlling Gear, C. C. Garrard. 354. 660

Hydrous Oxides, The, Harry Boyer Weiser, 105

Marketing Problem, E. T. El bourne. 526

Masonry Structures, F. P. Spalding. 155, 445

Natural History of a Savant. Professor C.

Richet. 386

Reinforced Concrete Design. Introduction to, H. Sutherland and W. W. Clifford. 354, 498 Rotary Converters. E. P. Hill, 189. 473 Scientific Principles of Petroleum Technology, Dr. Leo Gurwitsch, 155

LITERATURE (continued):

Short Notices:

Ausldoidung von Druckstollen und Druck-schfichten, Dr.-Ing. Otto Walch, 71, 189

Business Economics, Sir William Ashley. 155

Capacities: and Properties of Steel Tubes, 189

Coal anti Allied Subjects, N. Simpkin and F. 8. Sinnott, 155

Controllers for Electric Motors, H. I). James, 354. 580

Design and Construction of Form Work for Concrete' Structures, A. E. Wynn, 216

Die Luft vorwilrrnung im DampfkcKselbetrich, Dipl.-Ing. W. (Jumz, 133

Electric Trains, R. E. Dickinson, 189

Field Astronomy, David Clark, 155

Use of Power in Colliery Working. John Kirsopp, 105

Whitworth Book, The. 105

Books Received . Abridged Callondnr Steam Tables : Fahrenheit Units, H. L. Callendar, 494

Activated Sludge Process, A. J. Martin, 660

Advertising, Printing and Art in Commerce, J. F. Preston and E. Arch. 689

Aerial Cableways, G. Beret ti, 189

Age of the Earth. A. Holmes. 277

Allgemeino Energiewirthschaft, Hof rat Ing.

Hans von JUptner, 277

Aluminium anil its Alloys, M. G. Corson, 133

Aluminium Facts and Figures. 105

American Society for Testing Materials. Proceedings of Meeting. 380

Amerikas Dainpfturbinenbau, Professor Dr.-Ing. E. A. Kraft, 354

Annales des Ponta et Chausseos. 1926, 189

Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, 585

Annali dei Lavori Pubblici (gia (liornale del Genio Civile). 354. 473, 585, 689

Annual Report of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, 660

Annual Report, 1924-25 of the Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service, Canada,105

Anton Flettner : Story of the Rotor, 689

Architectural Design in Concrete, T. P. Bennett, 660

Art do ringdnieur ct Metallurgic, L. Descroix. 105

Artificial Fertilisers : Their Chemistry, Manufacture and Application, P. Parrish and A. Ogilvie, 277

Automatic Telephony, A Manual of, C. W. Wilman, 633

Bauxite : Treatise Discussing the Origin. Constitution, &c., of Bauxite, C. 8. Fox, 689

Bewegungsfugen im Belon- und Eisenbeton-bau. Professor Dr.-Ing. A. Kleinlogel, 445

Blue Book. 1927. 155

British Railway Operation, T. Bernard Hare, 473

British Waterworks Year Book and Directory, &c.. G. P. Warner Terry. 133

Building Construction and Drawing, Part I., C. F. Mitchell, 585

Building Science, An Introduction to, F, L. Brady, 689

Bulletin of the British Cast Iron Research Association, No. 16, 585

Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, Vol. XXV., No. 1, 1927, 633

Bulletin de la Soci6t6 d* Encouragement pour rindustrie Nationale. 606, 633

Calvert’s Mechanics’ Almanack, 1927, F. Nasmith, 105

Capital for Labour. W. Francis Lloyd and Bertram Austin, 473

Carbon Brushes and Brush Shunts, 633

Carbon y Fierro, No. I., 633

Carnegie Scholarship Memoirs, Vol. XV., 189

Central Station Voltages and Charges

Throughout the United Kingdom, 1927, 606

Chemical Engineering and Chemical Catalogue. 354

China Architects’ and Builders* Compendium, J. '1'. W. Brooke and R. W. Davis, 633

China and the Nations, Wong Ching-Wai. 245

Coal Carbonisation : High and Low Tern-

Serature, J. Roberts, 633

liery Manager's Pocket Book, 1927, 48

Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory, 1927, 386

Concrete Year Book, 1927, 48

Craft of Tracing, 417

Cutters and Cutter Blocks. 8. Ransome, 417

Cycling Manual, 155

Danube-Aegean Waterway Project, Prince Lazarovich - Hrebelianovich, 245

Der Bau des Dieselmotors, Ing. Kamillo Korner, 473

Der elastisch drehbar gestutzte Durchlauf-b al ken. Dr.-Ing. H. Craemar, 526

Dielectric Phenomena, S. Whitehead. 494

Die rationelle Bewirtschaftuug des Batons, Dr.-Ing. A. Agatz, 105

Die Trockentechnic, Dipl.-Ing. M. Kirsch. 585

Diesel Engines, A. H. Goldingham. 133

Directory of Contractors and Public Works Annual, 1927, 494

Directory of the Members, Subscribers, &c., of the Birmingham Exchange, 1927, 660

Directory of Paper Makers, 1927, 386

Directory of Shipowners. Ac., 1927. 189

Domestic Electric Heating. IL G. Solomon. 633

Doubling our Coal Power, A. Allport, 277

Draft und Capacity of Chimneys, J. G.

Mingle, 633

Drainage and Sanitation. E. H. Blake, 189

Dredging and Dredging Appliances, P. M.

Dekker. 633

Durehlaufende Eisen betonkon.strukt ionen in elastischer Verbindung mil den Zwischen-stiitzen, Baurat Dr.-Ing. F. Kann, 105

Economic Basis of Fair Wages, J. D. Cox, 354

E.H.T. Switchgear and Breakers, G. L. E. Metz, 417

Ein Jahrhundert Deutscher Maschinenbau. Conrad Matsrhoss, 133

Electric Telpherage. G. W. UroaMnith, 48

Electricity Act. The Now. W. S. Kennedy. 189

Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926, J. C. Dalton. 354

Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926. E. J, Rimmer and G. Rend Alien, 354

Empire Forestry Journal, Fraser Story, 245

LITERATURE (continued):

Books Received (continued):

Empire Municipal Directory and Year Book, 192", 473

Engine Service Testa of Interna! Combustion Engine Lubricating Oils, &c.» M. J. Cavin and G. Wade, 633

Engineering Index, 1926, 689

English Clubs, A List of, 1927, E. C. Austen* Jxngh, 133

Erdstatische Berechnungen mit Reibung and KohAsion, &c., W. Fellenius, 277

Four-place Tables with Forced Decimals.

F. S. Cary and S. F. Grace, 660

Gas Meters, A. T. Gilbert, 364

Gottlob’s Technology of Rubber, J. J,. Rosenbaum. 417

Grundlagen des Aufzugsbaues, Dr. M. Paet-zold, 633

Handbibliothek fiir Bauingenieure : Eisen-bahnwesen und Stftdtebau, Oherbau und Glcisverbindungen. Dr.-Ing. Adolf Bloss, 386

High Vacua, C. W. C. Kaye, 48

Helium in Canada. R. T. Elworthy, 633 H.M. Stationery Office Publications :

Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum : Electrical Engineering, F. St. A. Hartley, 633

Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum, Land Transport : No. IV., Railway Construction and Working. E. A. Forward, 606

Gas Storage of Fruit, Franklin Kidd and Others, Special Report No. 30, 526 Inflammation of Coal Dusts : The Effect of the Chemical Composition of the Dust-,

T. M. Mason and R. V. Wheeler. 585

Investigation of the Caking Power of Coal, 386

Low-temperature Carbonisation, 386

Measurement of Mean Spherical Candlepower, 689

Primary Decomposition of Coal : I., The Temperature of Initial Decomposition, 585

Report on the Economic Situation in Belgium, J. Pict on Bagge, 494

Report on the Industrial. Commercial and Financial Situation in Poland, R. E. Kimens, 585

Report on the Science Museum for the Year 1926, 633

History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Arnold Reymond, 155

Hope of the Workers, Austin Hopkinson, 660 Hydro-electric Handbook, W. P. Creager and J. D. Justin, 585

Indian Railways: Rates and Regulations.

N. B. Mehta, 633

Industrial Combination in England, P. Fitzgerald, 48

Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Comprehensive Treatise on, J. W. Mellor, 133 Institution of Structural Engineers’ Year Book. 1927, 473

International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, 473

Investigations in Ore Dressing and Metallurgy, 1925, 105 •

1st Gussbeton wirthschaftlich ? Dr.-Ing. L. Bauineister, 633

Jahrbuch der Brennkrafttechnischen Gesellschaft E.V.. 1926, 585

Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft. 1927, 189

  • Journal of the Franklin Institute, May. 1927,

633 t ,

Journal of the Institute of Metals, ' ol.

XXXVI., 155

Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 189

Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of

England, Vol. 87, 660

Kelly s Directory of the Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 1927, 633

La Machine Locomotive, E. Sauvage. 41 >

La Soci6t6 des Ingenieurs Civils de France : MSmoires et Coinpte Rendu des Travaux, 417

Large Uses of Steel in Small Ways. 689

Locomotive of To-day, 105 ,

L'Organisation Scientifique du Travail. (».

Bricard, 386

Lubrication in Colliery Practice, N. Simpkin and A. Dawe, 48

Lubrication and Lubricants, L. Archbutt and R. M. Deeley, 585

Machine Design. Construction and Drawing, H. J. Spooner. 354

Machine Tool Driving and Feed Gear-boxes, H. C. Town. 133

Magneto Manual. H. R. Langman. 633

Manuel des Laboratoires Sid6rurgiques : Methodes Analytiqucs Conventionnelles de la Cornmiinautc- Arbed Torres-Rouges. 417 Marine Diesel Engines, W. C. Macgibbon, 633 Mathematical Tables (Four Figures). C. V

Durell, 473 . .

Mechanical World Electrical Pocket-book. 1927. 133 .

Mechanics Applied to Engineering, J. Good-

Mechanics. Text-book of. E. H- Wood. 133

MechanischeSchwingungen und ihre Messung, Dr -Ing. J* Geiger. 585

Metallurgists’ Manual. T. G. Bamford and H. Harris. 633 _

Metallurgy of the Common Metals, L.

Austin. 155

Meteorological Report for the \ ear 19-1. 689

Modern Ignition. H. H. V. CroML 633

Modern Scientific Ideas. Sir ( liver Lodge. 2- < Modern Steelwork, E. Fiander Etchell... fi89 Motor Cycling Manual 105

Motor Shin Reference Bock for 1».7, 155

Movable Bridges : Vol. TI„ Machinery. O. I-..

Hovey, 606

National Physical Laboratory. Collected Researches, 1926, 245

Naval Engineering Review, I art XII., No. *0, 473

New* South Wales. Report of Metropolitan Water. Sewerage, &c.t 386

Notes on the Preparation of Railuaj I rejects, H. L. Glass. 606

Oil and Retortable Materials. G. W Haise.

Ordinary Differential Equations, E. L. Ince, 526

Petrol Engine, 4 7 3

LITERATURE (continued):

Books Received (continued) :

Plastering. Plain and Decorative. W. Millar and G. P. Bankart. 633

Port of Gothenburg Year Book, 1927, Sixten Prytz, 006

Practical Electricians' Pocket-book. 1927, 155

Pratique duCalcul du B6tonArm&,G. Magnel, 133

Principles of Irrigation, Roads and Buildings and of the Water Supply of Towns, W. L. Strange, 585

“ Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, April, 1927, 494

■* Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Part I., 1927, 585

“ Proceedings” of the Chemical Engineering Group. 585

” Proceedings ” of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers. 585

” Proceedings ” of the Optical Convention,

1926, Parts I. and IT.. 18

“ Proceedings ” of the Rugby Engineering Society. Vol. XX.. 386

” Proceedings ” of the South Wales Institute of Engineers. 354, 473

Radio Communication, The Elements of,

O. F. Brown. 133

Railway and Commercial Gazetteer of England, Scotland and Wales, 1927, 155

Railway Year Book, 1927, 585

Rainfall Atlas of the British Isles. 277

Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings, 689

Relation of Atmospheric Conditions to Working Capacity and Accident Rate of Coal Miners, H. M. Vernon and T. Bedford, 133

Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum,. 1926, 494

Running Maintenance of the Marine Diesel Engine, John Lamb. 277

Safeguarding Workmen at Oil Derricks, H. C.

Miller, 660

Schnitte und Stanzen, Ernst Gohre, 105

Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 1927, 245

Sewage Works. F. C. Temple, 354

Skandinaviska Kreditaktiebolaget-Gothen -burg, Stockholm, Malmo, Quarterly Report, 473

Some Considerations in the Design of Spur and Helical Gearing, H. Walker, 133

Specification Writing, The Elements of, R. S. Kirby. 633

Spectroscopy, Vol. I., E. C. C. Baly, 585

Standards Year Book, 1927, 585

Stresses in Space Frames. Dr. W. W. Pad-lield, 48

Study of Flame Movement, O. C. de C. Ellis, 445

Successful Asphalt Paving, P. J. M. Larra-naga, 386

Support of Underground Workings in the East Midland Coalfield. 189

Theory of Machines, Louis Toft and A. J. J.

Kersey, 633

Theory and Practice of Rolling Steel, Wilhelm Tafel. 689

To America in Thirty-nine Days, J. Biggs. 445 Towards Industrial Recovery, Hugh Quigley, 633

“ Transactions ” of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, 74

"Transactions” of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 245

“ Transactions ” of the Liverpool Engineering Society, F. W. Gaskin and A. M. Robb. 245

Treatise on Thermodynamics, Dr. Max Planck, 105

Trials with Vacuum Brakes on Long Goods Trains, 1926, R. C. Case, 74

Twenty-sixth Financial and Economic Annual of Japan, 1926, 585

Universal Directory of Railway Officials,

1927, 660

WArmetechnische Grundlagen der Indus-triedfon, Professor Hans V. Juptner, 633

Wasserdurchlassigkeit von Bet on, &c., Dr.-Ing. G. Merkle, 386

Water Power Practice, F. Johnstone-Taylor, 386

Water Powers of Manitoba, C. H. Attwood, 494

Water Transport: IL, Merchant Steamers, Catalogue of Collections in the Science Museum, 526

Wellington Harbour Board. Accounts. Ac., to September 30th. 1926, 689

Witness of the Great Pyramid, B. Stewart, 155

Working of Unstratified Mineral Deposits, G. J. Young, 277

Year Book of the Bermudas, the Bahamas, British Guiana, British Honduras, and the British West Indies, 1926-7, 74

Year Book and Directory of the South African Mining and Engineering Journal, 1927, 417

Zur Frage dos Shiffswiderstandos. Uh.

Doydre, 606

LIVENS. F. H., Rating and Valuation Act. 1925, 148

Lloyd’s Register—see Ships

Locomotive, Internal Combustion, 96

Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives. also Storage Battery Locomotives (Electrical Matters)

Long Distance Gas Transmission. 193. 240

Longlands Diamond Pool on the Vaal River, 277 Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton, 376

Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy. 358. 361, 393 —see also Theoretical Lubrication

M MACHINE TOOLS : Raring Machine. Large Horizontal, for Turbine Cylinders, Schiess-Defrics, 297. 630. 635

Centreless Grinders at Leipzig Fair. 320

Combination Machine Tool. Max Hopfen-glirtner A.G., 583

Crank Pin Turning and Grinding Machine, Jones, Burton and Co., Ltd., 110

MACHINE TOOLS (continued) :

Double-spindle Locomotive Connecting-rod Drilling Machine. George Swiff and Sons, Ltd., 106. 107

Drills, Milling Cutters. Reamers, Saws. Arc.. Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, viii, and 265

Flat-edge Trimming Machine, Press with Pneumatic Die Cushion. Taylor and Challen, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v

Gear Hobbing Machine, Schuchardt and Schutte, 297

Grinding Machines and Processes, Recent Developments in. H. H. Asbridge, 277

Hammer, Motor-driven Air. Record Size.

Eumtico A.G., &c., 297

High-speed Planing Machine, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i

“ Hiloplane ” Planing Machine. .John Stick and Sons. Ltd.. 190. 19!

Lathe. Heavy Double bed Centre, Schiesa* Defries, 297

Lat hes, Powerful Railway \\ heel. \\ ilheliii Hegenscheidt, 297

Maag Gear-cutting Machine. 320

Machine Toni Hall and German Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Exhibits. 297

Milling Cutters, Drills, Chucks, &c.. Portable Cylinder Re-boring Tool, “ Floxtol.” Alfred Herbert. Ltd., 266

Recent Developments in Machine Tools,

G. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235

Rotary Milling Machines in a Motor Car Engine Works, Morris Motors, Ltd., anti Wm. Asquith, Ltd., 352, 356

Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines, 463

Screwing Machine, Automatic, 3 horn as

Chatwin, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v

Shearing Machine for Curves, 320

Shearing Machine, Henry Pels. 297

Shearing Machine, Open-ended, for Reinforcing Rods, Henry Pels, 280

Sheet Edge Grinding Machine, Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., 692

MACHINERY—also Rating

Machinery, World’s Production and Trade in. 648

Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs. 497

Manufacture of High-pressure Boiler Drums, Thyssen and Co., 246

Marchant, Professor E. W., Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, 461. 472

Marine Engines—see Engines

Marine Steam Turbine Progress, 77

Marshall, A. G., and C. H. Barton, Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, 376

Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army. Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 330, 332

Mechanical—see also Tea Garden

Mellanby, Professor A. L., and Professor W. Kerr, Use and Economy of High pressure Steam Plants. 94, 107, 126, 166, 207, 208; (Erratum), 146 ; (Letter), 298

Mersey Tunnel—see Pumps

Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, The Heavy. M. J. Seigle, 514

Metallurgists and Engineers, 525

Metallurgy, Industrial Bursaries in, 531

Metallurgy. Some Recent Services of. to Engineering, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 490, 520

Metals—see also Associations, &c., Institute of Metals

Metals—sec also Work Hardening

Miers, Sir Henry A., Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, 527

Milling Machines—see Machine Tools

Mine Fan, Large, for Durban Navigation Collieries, Davidson and Co., Ltd., 548

Mineral Wealth of Cornwall, 665

Mines—see Safety

Mining Industry of Now South Wales, 209

Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 71

Model Steam Power Station, 217

Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518

Monel Metal and Malleable Nickel, G. and J.

Weir, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii

Motor Car Engine Works, Milling Machines— see Machine Tools

Movement of Sand by Wind, Dr. J. S. Owens, 377

N NAVAL Matters—see Ships

New Work Always Ready for Men who Do

Things, Frank Richards. 467 ; (Letter). 494

Nicolson, David, Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats. 409

Nozzles—see Proportioning

OBITUARY : Anderson, Konrad. 389

Boulnois, Henry Percy, 50

Culthrop. Everard R.. 354

Campbell, Archibald W., 580

Chapman, Mr. H. T., 444

Cowdray, Viscount (Portrait). 499

D'Alton, Lieut.-Colonel Patrick Walter. 117

Etchells, Ernest Fiander, 50

Fox, Sir Francis (Portrait). 49

Greenhill, Sir George, 189

Haslam, Sir Alfred Seale. 50. 79

Hill, Alfred John. 302

Hills, Arnold Frank. 273

Hutchins, Thomas William Stainer, 602

Kearns, Henry Ward. 154

Kemnal, Sir James (Portrait), 154

M’Cullough, F. W., 354

Phipps. Frederick Reginald, 50

Platt, John, 662

Samuelson, Ernest. 580

Savage, E. A., 151

Stokes, Sir Wilfrid (Portrait ), 153

Taylor, Godfred Midgley (Portrait), 661

Thomas, Qeorgo, 354

OIL Engines — nee Engines

Oil Tests, Consumers’, Arthur F. Evans, 665

Old and New Atomic Theories. 606

Ormandy, Dr. W. R.. Lubrication. 358. 361. 393

“ Osiso ” and its Modification." for Use as a

Phonoscope, Westinghouse Electric and

Manufacturing Company. 135

Oscilloscope and Oxygen Apparatus — see

Physical and Optical Exhibits

Owens. Dr. J. 8., Movement nf Sand bv Wind, 377

Oxygen Jet Metal Cutting Machine, Godfrey

Engineering Works. 267

115.

200, 450.

044.

115.

455.

691,

115,

537,

P PAINT-MAKING MACHINERY 388. 418. 438. 464. 519

Paint. Mills and Mixers. Torrance and Sons, 388. 389. 418. 461. 519

Ball Mill and Laboratory Ball Mill, Hind and

Lund. 519, 520

Mill, Single-roll Finishing, Sidney Smith and

Blyth. 464

Mills with Chain-driving Gear. Marchant Brothers, Ltd., 138. 439

Mills with Helical Driving Gear. Cam Gear, Spring Adjusting Gear. Brinjes and Goodwin. 438

Paint Mixer and Strainer. Marchant Brothers,

Ltd., 461

PARSONS. Sir Charles, Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, 387, 390, 405

Parsons, Sir C. A., and Others, Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery, 69

PATENT SPECIFICATIONS. BRITISH Aeronautics, 313

Batteries and Accumulators, 537, 591, 617

Building, 400

Condensers and Feed-water Healers. 173. 199, 591

Cranes and Conveyors, 61. 484. 510, 592

Crushing and Grinding. 200. 700 Dynamos and Motors, 61. 227, 255, 34), 399, ‘427, 455, 565. 617, 643, 673, 699

Electrical Appliances, 89, 115, 199, 227 Engines, Internal Combustion, 31, 89. 145, 173, 227, 313, 369. 455, 483, 565, 591, 617

Furnaces, 89. 199, 228, 255, 427. 456, 510, 566, 643, 674

Gas Producers. 89

Lighting and Heating, 200, 313, 369, 566, 618 Locomotives, 510

Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 32, 228, 342, 399, 510, 592, 618. 643, 674, 699

Measuring and Testing Instruments, 61, 199, 369, 509, 6£9

Metallurgy, 285, 428. 456

Mining Machinery, 115, 145

Miscellaneous, 32, 62. 90, 116, 146, 174, 228, 255, 286, 313, 342, 369, 400, 428 484. 510, 538, 566, 592, 618, 644, 674 Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 484, 618, 670

Ordnance and Armour, 90

Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 31, 285, 341, 483, 538, 618, 643 Ships and Boats, 62. 173, 566, 670 Steam Generators, 173, 285, 313, 427, 509, 565, 591

Switchgear, 31. 61, 341, 399. 509. 537, 617, 643, 673

Telegraphs and Telephones, 31, 61. 89, 145, 341, 369, 399, 427. 456. 483, 509. 565, 592. 617. 673

Tramways and Railways, 115, 173

Transformers and Converters, 173, 455, 483, 509

Transmission of Power. 145. 199. 227. 255, 285, 399, 427. 537. 592, 643. 674, 699

Turbine Machinery, 227. 313, 483, 537. 699

PERSONAL and Business Announcements, 29, 87. 116, 140, 174, 200, 225. 253, 286, 314, 342, 367, 400, 425, 456, 481, 510, 535, 563, 589. 615, 644, 671, 697

PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES’ EXHIBITS : 12. 40, 72

1 Apparatus for Observing Flaws in Metal Surfaces and Comparing Conductivities of Metal Plates, Professor E. W. Marchant and Mr. J. L. Miller. 12

Apparatus, Research Departments of Various Firms and the National Physical Laboratory. 12

Automatic Voltage Regulator for Direct-current Generators, Isenthal and Co., Ltd., 74

Bridge Ohmmeter. Record Electrical Company, Ltd., 41

Carbon Dioxide Measuring Instrument, 72 CO2 Indicator and Recorder. 41 ; Dissolved

Oxygen Apparatus, 14 ; Surface Pyrometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, 41

Dow Deposition Recorder, 72

Elverson Flashing Lamp Oscilloscope. 72 Guillet Vibrating-wiro Stroboscope, 73 Level, Tungsten Wire, General Electric

Company, 40, 41

Lighting, Internal, of Rooms by Daylight, Method of Measurement by Mode), 72

Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of a Metal Rod, 72

Peak Voltage Measuring Instruments, L.M. Magneto Syndicate, Ltd., 12

Photo-electric Rating Machine for Lamps, General Electric Company, 40

Pin Jack Voltmeter, Weston Electrical Instrument Company. 42

Rotary Pump, The “ Geryk,” Pulsometer Company, Ltd., 74

Rotary Steam Meter. George Kent, Ltd.. 74 Schering Galvanometer. Cambridge Instrument Company. Ltd., 13

Sparking Plug Thermo-couple Pyrometer. Foster Instrument. Company. 41, 42

S.P. 18 Amplifying Valve, Collection of Constituent Parts and other Exhibits. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company. 72

Standard Telephonic Frequencies Obtained through a Clock Pendulum, 72

Transformers, Portable Current, Everett, Edgoumbe and Co., Ltd., 74

Venner-Shotter Water Flow Meter, 73

PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES' EX HIBITS (continued):

Wireless Apparatus :

Continuous Wave Transmitter, l| kW, Radio Communication Company, 40, 41 (lalletti's Radio Beam Transmitter, H.

Tinsley and Co.,. 12

Mid worth Distant Repeater. Evershed end Vignoles, Ltd.. 13

Wireless Receiver, Seven Valve, Igranic Electric Company, 74

PICCADILLY-CIRCUS-arc Railways

Pipe Covering, “ Kisol,’’ Wm. Kenyon and Sons, Ltd., 267

Planing Machines—«rc Machine Tools

Poplar—*ec Electrical Matters

Port Improvements in Colombia, 692

Potter, R. B.. Pulverised Fuel, 362

Poultney, E. Tests of a 2 8-4 Type Locomotive. 620

Power for Nothing, The Idea of, 554

Power Stations see Electrical Mutters

Prague—tuc Exhibitions

President Coolidge on Naval Armaments, 187 Problem of High Superheats. 272 ,

Propelling Machinery of Canadian -Pacific Liner Empress of Australia. 649, 658, 692

Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Tur bines, E. C. Wadlow, 600

Protective Effect—see Iron

Pullman Cars—see Railways

Pulverised Fuel. R. B. Potter, 362

PUMPS : Deep Well Turbine Pump. Pulsometer Engineering Company. Ltd., 222

Fuel Pumping Equipment nt Cardington Airship Shed, Zwicky, Ltd.. 290

H orated Keynes Pumping Station. 98, 102

Mersey Tunnel Works. Submersible Pump* for. Drysdale and Co., Ltd.. 580

Oil Engine Driven Pumping Plant at Epson Waterworks. 569

Pumps, Centrifugal, Double Inlet ; Multi stage Turbine ; Reciprocating, Lee, How and Co., Ltd., B.l.F. Supplement, v

Rotary Pump, A New. Mepstead and Co., 44(

Rotary Pump. Ashwell and Nesbit-, Ltd., 69*1 Ten-stage Centrifugal Feed Pump, Holder and Brooke, Ltd.. 532 ; (Paragraph), 566

Q QUARRY, Somerset. Resuscitating. 549 Quarrying—see Steam Shovel

R

RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS General: A Few Observations on Railways, 152 Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631 Railway Expenditure in relation tn Railway Receipts, 474

Railways and Unfair Competition, 357

British, Colonial and Indian : India, Vacuum Broke in. 462 ; (Letter), 684 Indian Railway Report. 235 Railway Projects in Africa, 450

Railway and Urban Improvements at Piccadilly-circus, 458. 492, 493

Swing Bridges. London and North-Eastern Railway, at Boccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177

Travelling Facilities in South-East London. 267

Foreign : Bolivian Railway Construction, 522 Centenary of the First Railway in France, J. CL H. Warren, 679

Electrification on the American Great Northern Railway, 107 rardot Railway, Colombia. Kitson-Meyer Locomotive. 360 (Two •page Supplement. April Ul, 1927)

Paris-Orleans Railway Company. Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains. 134

Pullman Cars for the Continent. Leeds Forge Company, Ltd., 136

Railway Projects in Africa, 450

Right of Continental Railwaymen to Strike. 688

Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains, Paris-Orleans Railway Company. 134

Swedish Railway Memorial, 277

Trans-Saharan Railway, 84. 197

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES Sec also Annual Articles

General: British Locomotive. The, anti Foreign Inventors, 243

Internal Combustion Locomotive. 96

Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.* Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 419, 415, 416

Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E Windeler, 354

Light Steam Locomotive. (Jayton Wagons, Ltd., 381

Repairs to Locomotives of American Design, 67

Tests of a 2-8-4 Type Locomotive. F. C. Poultney. 620

Tools for Locomotive Work—see Machine Tools

British, Colonial and Indian ; Reid-MacLeod Steam Turbine Locomotive, North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 118. 130; (letter), 181

Foreign Kitson-Meyer Locomotive for Colombia, 360 (Two-page Supplement, April Inf, 1927)

Single-pna.su Baldwin Westinghouse Electric Locomotive, 107

RATING of Machinery, 148, 161

Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, F. II. Liven#, 148

Rectifier, New Electronic, L. O. Grondahl and

P. H. Geiger, 364

“ Red Menace ” in China. 105

Refrigerating Machinery on the Blue Star Liner Almedu. Liverpool Refrigerating Coin pany, Ltd.. 378. 379. 380

Research, Co-operative Industrial, 472

Reservoirs—see Water Supply

Resuscitating a Somerset Quarry, 549

Reticence, 302

Richards. Frank. New Work Always Ready for the Men who Do Things, 467 ; (Letter), 491

Road Machinery, Various, at Leipzig, 321. 322

Road-making. Concrete, Machine, Joseph Viigelr, 296

Road Metal from Household Refuse, Plant nt Brighton, Millars’ Machinery Company, Ltd.. 504

Rogers, F. Heron, Cross Cracking Process and Plant. 326 ; (Letter). 351

Roles.'I’., Recent Development in Power Plant Design, &c., 622

Rolling Mills—see Cotters for

Rosenhain, Dr., and Others, The Alloys of Iron Research. 516

Rotoscope—see Heteropt ic Shutter

Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering. B. D. Porritt, 325


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SAFETY in Factories, 558

Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines. 463

Safety in Mines Research Station near Buxton, 651

Samuel Crompton Centenary, 665

Sand-mixing Machine, Pneulee, Ltd., 266 Sand—see Movement of Saws, Cold Disc, 321

Saws for Cutting Metal, both Hot and Cold.

Sanderson Brothers and Newhould, Ltd., 267 Schemes in Soviet Union, 14

Scientific Apparatus—see. al«o Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition.

Scientific, and Industrial Research, Report of Committee, 349

Screwing Machines—see Machine Tools Scunthorpe—see Gasworks

Seigle, M. J., The Heavy Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, 514

Self-cleaning Grate and Sprinkler Stoker. Crosthwaite Engineering and Furnace Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi

Shearing Machines—see Machine Tools

SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING See also Annual Articles

General Matters :

America and the Cruiser Question, 103

Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 4U8 Effect of Wind on Power and Speed. 11. J. R.

Biles. 435, 439

High-speed Motor Boats, Design and Con struct ion of, David Nicolson, 409

Lloyd’s Register :

Annual Summary, 81

Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 50, 412

M.V. Tampa, Return Voyage of, and Engineer’s Log, 279

Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors.

Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408

Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth, 249

Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436

Ship Wave Resistance. W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Skin Friction Resistance, G. S. Baker. Ship Propulsion Research. G. S. Baker. Weather and the Propulsion of Ships.

Kent. 434

Naval Matters : Armament of Capital Ships. 553

Machinery Installation of the Grosser fiirst, John 8. Brown. 276

Naval Limitation Conference, 687

Navy Estimates. 301

President Coolidge on Naval Armament 187

Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, 443

World’s Fighting Fleets, 271

Foreign Navies:

French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605

Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels

Blue Star Liner Alineda, Refrigerating Machinery on. 378. 379

Danish Motor Train Ferry Korsor, 610

Empress of Australia, Reconditioned Liner. | 649. 658. 692

Paddle-wheel Steamer Helvetic with Uniflow Engine ami Oil-operated Valve Gear, 676 Royal Mail Motor Liner Alcantara, Harland and Wolff. Ltd.. 210. 211

SIEMENS-BENSON Critical Pressure Boiler, 690

Sixty Years Ago. 14. 48. 83. 97. 137, 162. 184.

212. 249. 273. 393. 331. 351. 392. 417. 450.

463. 498. 527. 547, 585. 602. 633. 656. 693

Skin Friction—see Ships

Smith, Harold C., Applications of Power on Gasworks. 137

Societies—see Associations

Soldering and Welding—see Aluminium

South Africa, Steel Industry in. 348

SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES 110, 128. 168, 191. 221. 250. 280. 336. 391.

422, 559. 585. 612. 666. 681

Accident Rate in Mines, 250

An Aerial Survey, 250

Automatic Rotary Sub-station, 169

Big Platinum Plant, 194

British Combine, 250

British Motor Industry, To Help. 280

Buluwayo Water Supply, 336

Cape Town Harbour Extensions. 392

Cape Town’s Floating Dock. 168

Cape Town’s Mountain (’ableway. 194

Capo Town Water Supply, 422

Carbide Factory at Wit bank, 684

Kur-

SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES (continued): Defective American Locomotives, 280 Developing Table Bay, 336 Dunswart Works Expanding, 606 Durban’s Grain Elevator, 194 Electric Lighting of Trains, 392 Electric Power from City Reservoir. 612 Electricity Undertakings, IBS Electrification Results, 612 Engineering in 1926. 221 Ermelo Torbanites, 250 Funicular Railway, 330 Huge Locomotives. Two. 221 Improved Mining Methods. 110 Industrial Enterprises Checked, OK I Industrial Expansion. 128 Iron Ore Deposits of the Union. 392 Johannesburg Gasworks, 422 Johannesburg’s New Gasworks, 25o Largest. Winding Hoist, 585 Lightning Causes Mine Fire, I 10 Manganese for America, 422 Mining at Broken Hill, 336 Now Cement Factories. 250 New Durban North Bridge. 191 New Plant for Rond Mine. 191 Oil Boring Operations, 250 Pipes, Large Order for, 684 Platinum Mining, 684 Platinum Production, 250 Port Elizabeth Harbour, 194 Potgietersrust Platinums, 391 Preference on British Goods, 559 Pretoria Railway Workshops. 128 Pretoria Steel Foundry, 666 Production of Oil, 168

Progress at Dunswart Works, 250

Quick Coaling at Durban, 128

Railway Construction, 110

Railway Repair Shops, 612

Rand Industrial Exhibition, 559

Rand's Latest Reduction Plant, 559

Results of Railway Electrification 280 Rhodesia's Copper Mines. 128 Road Mot or Services, 336 Rolling Stock Position, 559 Sabie Hydro-electric Scheme, 585 Sir William Hoy to Leave the S.A.R.. 666 South African Coal. 194

S.A. Market for Tools, 559

State-aided Steel Industry, 612

Steam Omnibus, 250

Steel Combine Formed, 221

Suburban Railway Electrification. 666

Table Bay Cooling Chambers, 684

Table Mountain Cableway, 221

Three-cylinder Locomotives, 422. 606

Tram Design, New, 585

Union Minidre Progress, 194

Union Rubber Industry, 168

Wankie Colliery Expansion, 110

Wankie Colliery Reconstruction. 612

SOUTH African Mining Prospects for 1927, 179 South Australia—see Water Supply

South-East London. Travelling Facilities in, 267 Springs—see also Manufacture

Springs, Fine, for Gun Makers, Northern Spring Company, 267

Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies of Simple Geometric Section, Professor T. B. Abell, 149

Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough. 221

Stationary Enginej—see Engines

Steam Accumulators, 78

Steam Boiler Wagons—see Railways

Steam Cultivating Machinery, Powerful, for Italy, John Fowler and Co., Ltd., 581

Steam Engines—see Engines

Steam Fittings, Venturi Typo Parallel Slide Valve, &c., Gummers, Ltd., 267

Steam Plant, Super-pressure, at Bradford, 78

Steam Plants, High-pressure, Use and Economy of, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Professor W. Kerr, 94, 107

Steam Pressures, Modern Developments in, W. Bayliss, 280

Steam Production—see Economic

750-kW Steam Turbine Coupled with Alternator, 290 B.H.P. High-speed Engine, Multijet Condensing Set. Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi.

Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, R. Desmond Forrester, 594

Steel—see Iron

Storage Batteries—see Electrical Matters

Stourport—see Electrical Matters

St resses. Repeated Torsional, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under. Professor F. (’. l-ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522

Stribeck, Professor, A Now Process of Combustion for High-speed Heavy Oil Engines, 632

Strikes — see Labour

Stroboscope—see Hetoroptic Shutter, also Physical and Optical »Societie«’ Exhibition

Suction Gas for Commercial Vehicles, 488, 516

Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, Intensive, (I)

Dr. II. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds ;

(2) W. G. Mills, 303

Swedish Railway Memorial, 277

Swinden, Dr. T., and Mr. G. R. Bnlsovor, Cold-rolled Strip Steel, 543

Switchgear —see Elect rival Mai i era

T TEA Garden Cultivator, Mechanical. Win. Foster and Co.. Ltd., 468

Telfcr. Dr. E. V.. Ship Resistance Similarity, 436

Temperature Conditions in Refrigerated Holds, 134

Testing and Balancing House at Heaton Works. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654

Testing Machine, Multi-lever, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i. ii

Testing Machines, 30-Ton Vertical Singlelever, 30,000 1b. Multi-lever, Joshua Burkton and Co,, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i, ii

Testing and Research Laboratory and Equipment. at Hehburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654, 656

Tests, Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Theoretical and Practical Lubrication, 386 Theory and Practice, Dr. Herbert Lap worth, 601

Theory of Strong Electrolytes, General Discussion at the University Museum, Oxford, Programme of Papers, 392

Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, .T. A. Hall, 84

Thornton and Clevrleys’—see Electrical Matters

Thornton, Professor VV. M., Faraday Lecture.

What is Electricity ? 331

Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River,

T. C. S. Haslam, 602

Tinning Compounds', Soldo Company, B.I.F. Supplement, iv

Torsional Fatigue, 526 ; (Letter), 522

Torsional Stresses—see Failure of Steel Wires

Torsional Vibration, J. (’alderwood, 336

Tractor for Lifeboat Launching, Four •wheel

Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531

Trades Disputes Bill, 525

Trades Unions and Trade Disputes—w Labour

Trafford Park—see Electrical Matters

Train Ferry—see Ferry

Transformers—sec Electrical Matters

Travelling Grate, H. Type. Stoker, Underfeed

Stoker Company, 218

Trend of Fuel Injection Practice, 329

Trucks—sec also Electrical Matters

Turbine, Improved Backpressure, English Electric Company, 46, 56

Turbine Machinery on I.and and Sea, Sir (’. A.

Parsons and Others. 69

Turbine Pumps—see Pumps

Turbine, 20,000-Kilowatt Steam, at Rotterdam.

C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 512, 524, 540 (Two-pagr Supplement, May \3th, 1927)

Turbine Units, Small, for Industrial Purposes.

G. Arrowsmith, 109

Turbines—see also Proportioning

Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry.

C. A. Gillingham, 667

u UNIFLOW Engines—see Engines

Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Pro feasor William Kerr. 94. 107, 126, 166. 207, 208; (Erratum), 146; (Letter). 298

V VACUUM Brake in India, 462 ; (Letter), 684

Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable Cabin, 422

Verein Deutscher Ingenieure. 1856-1926, 193

Viaduct—see Timber

Volta and Laplace, 233

WADLOW. E. C., Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Turbines. 600

Wages —see Labour

Wans, Oswald, Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, 504

Warren, J. G. H., Centenary of the First Railway in France, 679

Water Lifter, Direct-acting Feed Pump. Frank Pearn and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii

Water Power versus Oil Engines in Bulgarin, 07 Water-softening Plant with Osilameter Measuring and (’hemical Supply Gear ; ** Basex " Base-exchange Water Softener ; Pressure Filter for Purification of Sedimentary Waters for Boiler Feed, Ate.; Cldoronome. Paterson Engineering Company, 218

Water-sterilising Process, New, Bunau-Varilla System, 234

WATER SUPPLY : See. also Annual Articles

Annual Report to the Metropolitan Water Board, Sir Alexander Houston, 555

Birmingham Water Supply, Bartley Reservoir, 182, 186

Centenary of the Shaw’s Water Company's Works. 688

De-ferrating Plant at a Sussex Works, 98, Iu2 Epsom Waterworks, Oil Engine Driven

Pumping Plant at. 569

WELDED Repairs—see. Bridges

Werkspoor Indicator Gear. 209

Wernick, S., Protective Effect of Metal De-posits on Iron, 582

Wharton, C. J., Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, 278

Whitworth Scholarships. 1928, 220

Wigley, W. C. S., Ship Wave Resistance.

Wilkins, P. T., Engineering Wages :

Influence on Manufacturing Costs.

(Letter), 240

Wilaou Dam— see

Winch Equipment, Cardington Kirship Tower, Babcock and Wilcox, 288. 289. 300

Wire Rods, “ Road Studs,” Ate., William Cooke and Co., Ltd.. B.I.F., Supplement, iv

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY Ser also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits

Grimsby and Skegness Wireless Beam Stations, 323

Marconi Type R.g. 12 “ Press ” Wireless Receiver, 634

WOODS, F. W., A New Hydraulic Formula, 646

WOODWORKING MACHINES : Saw Bench. Two-spindle Dimension, T. Robinson and Son. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v

Saw, Cross cutting and Trenching ; Combined Disc and Bobbin Sandor ; Single-dimension Saw Bench ; Combined Surfacing and Thicknesaing Machine, Wo,. Wadkin and Co., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv

Universal Woodworking Machine, Midland Saw and Tool Company. Ltd., 264

Woodworking Tools. Various, at Leipzig, 321

WOOLWICH—see. Electrical Matters

Work-hardening Properties of Metals. Edward

U. Herbert, 138. 156. 18U ; (Letters), 277

136

Their

188 :

Dam

Works*, Now Switchgear, The Oerlikon Company, 404, 414

Works Visited l»v the Institution of Electrical Engineers : Ctarke, Chapman and Co,, Ltd.,

681, 683; Connett Iron Company, 682, 686; Heftton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654 ; Hebburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654

World's Euluro Supplies of Liquid Fuels, John B. C. Kershaw, 244, 261, 292, 310, 344

World's Production und Trade in Machinery, 048

Worm Goar, Mem. J. Buckton and Co., Ltd., and Momhfh. Bostock and Brarnloy, B.I.F. Supplement, ii

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