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A AERIAL Ropeway for Colliery—-we Coal, &c.» Kent Colliery

Aerial Ropeway for Passenger Traffic up Mount

Hood, Near Portland, Oregon, 355

AERONAUTICS : Aerial Survey by Seaplanes of Chittagong Hill Tract, 159

Aeroplane, D.H. Moth, Production Increase Would Reduce Price More than 50 Per Cont., 603

Aeroplane Engine Supercharger Submitted to Government Testa in Military Machines, 657

Air-cooled Aeroplane Engine, New', The “ Wright Cyclone,” United States Navy’s Successful Tests, 45

Aircraft Apprentices, Vacancies, 137

Aircraft Budding in Spain. 657

Air Transport Between Tasmania and

Australian Mainland, Company’s Equipment, 551

AERONAUTICS {continued) :

Royal Aero Club Sending Racing Seaplanes to Compete in Italian Waters, 241

AMERICAN Engineering Colleges and Engineering Research, 495

Ammonia, Synthetic, Plant of Lazote Inc., Projected Considerable Enlargement, 101

Ammonia, Synthetic Production of, in Various Countries, Comparison of Statistics, 101

Ammonium Compounds Accidental Explosion, Investigation into Fundamental Conditions Causing Such to Arise, 101

Andalusit, Mineral for Production of Heat-resisting Refractories, 327

Antwerp Port Equipment Greatly Increased, 495

Antwerp, Tenders for Three New Graving Docks, Proposed, 355

Arc Welding, Best Papers on. Money Given for Awards, 441

Argentina’s Projected Outlay on Now Port of Buenos Aires and other Works, 299

Artificial Silk not to be Manufactured in Japan, 129

Asbestos Mining and Kurunian Natives, 185

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES: Association or Consulting Engineers : Annual Dinner, 225

Association of Diesel Engine Users : February Meeting, Growth of the Association, 197

Association of Engineers, Belfast : Latest. Two-cycle Double-acting Oil Engine, J. Burdon, 370

Association of Supervising Electrical Engineers :

W. E. Highfleld Shield, Competition Awards, 535

Institute of Chemistry :

Borough Council's Demand to Inspect Private Laboratory Illegal, 15

Forty-ninth Annual General Meeting, Supply of Chemists Exceeding Demand, 200

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES

(continued) :

Institute, Iron and Steel :

Annual General Meeting, 140. 428

Autumn Meeting to ho Held at Glasgow, 311

Invitation to Visit Spain in 1928, 522

Annual Dinner, 140

Carnegie Fund Grants, 140

Programme of Proceedings, 428

Bessemer Gold Medal Awards, 311

Institute of Metals :

Annual Dinner, 283

Annual General Meeting in London and Autumn Meeting in Derby, Date Fixtures, 45

“Trade Alloys,” Compilation of Full List of, 365

Institute, Royal, of British Architects • Royal Gold Medal Award, 453

Institution of ('hemical Engineers :

Examinations for Associate Membership, 225

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued): Institution of Civil Engineers :

Annual Dinner, 370

Annual General Meeting, Awards for Papers, 517

Election of Officers and Council, 559

Heat Engine Trials Committee, Meeting, 611

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

A.M.I.E.E. Examination, 32

Award for Papers, 535

Electro-pneumatic Lamp, German, Very Old. 299

Faraday Medal, Sixth Annual Award, 116

I. E.E. Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings. 697

Null Methods of Measuring Ratio and Phase Displacement of Two Alternating Voltages, 13. C. Chureher, 469

Summer Meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 481

Wireless Section Committee, 1927-28, Nominations to the Committee, 586

Wireless Works Laboratory, P. K. Turner, 629

Institution of Engineers-in-Charge : Twenty-seventh Annual Dinner, 397

Institution of Engineers and Ship -BUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :

Joint Summer Meeting in Glasgow, 379

Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers :

Summer Meetings at Bournemouth, 611

Institution. Junior, of Engineers :

Annual Dinner. 481

Case Hardening. Percy J. Haler, 44

Iron Foundry Cupola, Efficiency of, Mr. Wolstenholme, 299

J. I.E. “ Old Brigade ” Meeting, 283

Scientific Apparatus Exhibition, 213

Shock Absorber Units, Design and Construction. C. D. Holland, 469

Unusual Gathering, 200

Institution of Mechanical Engineers : North-Western Branch :

Machine Tools for Wheel and Axle Production, E. W. Tipple, 166

Institution of Mining Engineers :

Summer Meeting at Newcastle, 228, 697

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy :

Annual Dinner, 222

sXnmial General Meeting. 222

Awards for Papers, &<x, 361

Institution of Municipal and County Engineers : Yorkshire District :

Competition and Prizes Offered. 240

Institution of Naval Architects :

Annual General Meeting. 140

Annual Dinner, 140

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

Joint Summer Meeting in Glasgow. 370

Institution of Public Lighting Engineers :

Conference to bo Hehl at Brighton, 370

Institution of Railway Signal Engi -

NEERS:

Annual Meeting. Elections and Report, 168 Signalling System, New, at Charing Cross, Cannon-street and London Bridge, W. J. Thorowgood, 577

Institution, Royal :

Annual Meeting, 507

General Meetings and Elections, 174, 535, 671

Reports and Elections, 507

Institution of Structural Engineers :

Annual Dinner. 559

Rrenforce Travelling Scholarship, 311 Examinations for Graduateship and Associate Membership, 674

Scholarship and Medals Awards for Competitive Design, 684

Society of Chemical Industry :

Phenol-Aldehyde Resin, Product Possibilities and Difficulties, 327

Society of Engineers :

Premiums for Technical Papers, 684

Society. Illuminating Engineering :

Novel Form of Discussion, 327

Society, Royal Aeronautical :

Alteration of Rule for Chairman's Term of Office ; Re-election of Colonel the Master of Sempill, 547

Society, Royal, of Arts :

Competition of Industrial Designs, 1927, 463

Society. Royal Meteorological :

Wireless Transmission and the Upper Atmosphere, Dr. E. V. Appleton, 577

AUSTRALIAN Commonwealth Lighthouse Service, 45

Austrian State Highways, Reconstruction Planned. 441

Automatic Telephone Conversion, This Year’s Programme for London and Provinces. 269 Automatic Telephone Exchanges for Brisbane.

To be Supplied by British Firm, 129 Automobiles, Output in Canada, 469

B

BARRAGE on the Moldau near Prague, Preliminary Work, 15

Beet Production. Increase Necessary if the Industry is to become Successful, 159

Beet Sugar Corporation Factory at Cupar, Anglo-Scottish. Acreage Planned for Beet Growing. 331

Beet Sugar Factory for Lincolnshire. 159

Beet Sugar Factory Proposed for Bedfordshire, 657

Beira Harbour. East Africa. Dredging and Improvement, 413

Belfast Association of Engineers, Electrically Operated Ship’s Deck Machinery, W. E. Porter, 155

Belfast Harbour, Improvement of Quays, 469

Belgian Rails for South Africa, Reporter Rejection of More than 25 per cent, or Account of Defects. 269

Bengal and Need of Irrigation for Cultivatior of Land and Reduction of Malaria, 15

Billingham Works of Synthetic Ammonia am Nitrates. Extension Work Delayed by Coa Stoppage, 24

Birmingham Decides Against Acquiring Canals 241

Bituminous Sands of Northern Alberta to b< Used for Road Surfacing, 15

Blast-furnace (las and Recovery of Crude Cyanide. 269

Blasting Under Mining Conditions, Study am Investigation by U.S. Bureau of Mines. 101

Board of Trade and Ministry of Transport Rumours as to Work Readjustment, 79

Boiler Failures, Statistics and Boiler Insurance 101

Boiler Plates, Embrittlement of, Remedy Dis covered by Experiments, 551

Boiler Scale Formation, Report, 577

Boiler, Vertical, Failure, Official Report, 629

Boilers on Ships, Stopper Rods and Washers

Board of Trade Warning. 45

Boron Oro Discovery in Majave Desert, Cali fornia, 327

Brazilian Factory for Chemical Treatment ol National Fibres, Manufacture of Rope, &c. Concession Asked for. 45

Brick Factory at East Beauport, Quebec Projected. 413

Brick-making Plant for 150,000 Bricks foi

British Columbia, Whittaker and Co., 576

Bricks Made of Calcium Phosphate, 269

Bricks. Standard Size Fixed by Canadian Association. 327

BRIDGES Bridge Replacement Across the Coleron River, India, 355

Buffalo and Fort Erie ami Peace Bridge Connecting Canada with U.S.A., Opened, 657

('haring Cross, Proposed Double-decker Bridge, 657

Cologne and Millheim Bridge over the Rhine to bo Built by Krupps, 75, 185

Cologne and Millheim Now Bridge, Prize Design Condemned by Experts, 469 ; Final Decision in Favour of Suspension Bridge, 577

Cologne, New Bridge Over the Rhine, 75

Concrete Arch Highway Bridge, Series of Load Tests to be Carried out on, 603

Concrete Bridge in Durban North, Longest Erected by Private Enterprise, 129

Concrete Highway Bridge, Largest Yet Undertaken in United States, 495

Double-deck Bridge Over Clarence River, New South Wales, Fresh Tenders to be Invited, 15

International Bridge Across the St. Lawrence River Projected, 45; Project Rejected by Dominion House of Commons, 441

Lions’ Gate at Vancouver, Bridge Across, Projected, 355

Murray River Bridge at Echuca, Strengthening Completed, 629

Murray River, New Bridge Projected, 71

Nerbuddo Bridge, India, 577

New Bridge Over the Clyde at Finnieston, 523

Niagara Falls, Bill for Construction of Bridge Opposed as Likely to Spoil Beauty of the Falls, 355

Port of New York. Projected Bridge to Connect Bayonne, N.J., with Staten Island, 241

Projected Bridge Across the Danube, 159

Reinforced Concrete Bridge Across Minnesota River, Claimed as Record, 101

Sydney Harbour Bridge, Fourth and Last Bearing Completed for, 629

Timber Trestle Bridge near Tacoma, Washington, 523

BRITISH Columbia, Greatest Water Power Unit Yet Discovered, Reserved by Government, 355

British Electrical and Allied Industries’ Research Association :

Sixth Annual Report, 174

British Empire Overseas, Research Relating to, 75

British Engineering Standards Association :

Specifications :

Bull-head Rails, 253

Drawn Steel Reinforcement Bars, Proposed New Specification, 674

British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Exhibition, 383

British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Seventh Annual General Meeting. 611 ; Report, 629

British Optical Science. 566

Buenaventura Harbour, Agreement for Improvements at, 685

Surma Oil Company’s Agreement with Bugti Tribe in Beluchistan, 577

Burma, Sal in (’anal System to be Remodelled.

Also Singan Swamp to be Reclaimed, 551

>ABLE. New Electric. Laid Between Boulogne and Sandgate, 355

'admium Production at United States Plants, 75

Calcutta and Bombay Telephone Connection nearly 1800 Miles in Ixmgth, 129

Canada, Forest Fires Damage Lust Year, 523

'anada, the Main Source of M orld’s Supply of Cobalt. 129

'anada’s Diamond Jubilee Commemoration, 75

'anada’s First Air Mail Service, 550

Anada’s Forests, Campaign for Protection from Fires, 469

‘anadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Calgary Branch Extension. 129

'anadian and Uni toil States Co-operation in 1 nve^tigations Affecting the Mineral Industry, 603

'anadinn Vickers Company’s Busy Season. 101 anal. Direct, in Belgian Territory, from Meuse to Antwerp, Proposed, 657

Caimi, Hoover Commission Reports in Favour of the St. Lawrence Route for Canal from Croat Lakes to the Atlantic, 15

Carbon Monoxide, Contamination of Tunnel

Air, Tests Made in U.S.A., 299

Cardington Airship Mooring Tower, 586

Caustic Soda and Chlorine, Factory for Manufacture of. Near Sydney, Australia, 129

Cellulose Acetate, Industrial Use of, in France, 629

Cement in Great Britain, Largely Increased Output., 413

Central Marine Engine Works, 143

Cheap Power, Booklet, Ruston and Hornshy, Ltd., 146

Chilo Starting Factory for Copper Wire to Secure Independence of Foreign Markets, 603

Chimneys of Reinforced Concrete, Vastly Superior in Wind Resistance to Brick or Steel, 15

Coal Liquefaction Plant and Calcium Nitrate Plant in Germany, 129

COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES : Barnsley Seam Reached at the New Upton Colliery, Near Doncaster, 657

Battery of Twenty Coke Ovens to be Put Up Near Barnsley, 383

Bedlington Coal Company, Extensive Improvements Involve Suspension of Work, 629

Bergins Process of Treating Coal, Dr. J. A. Roelofsen, 185

Bituminous Coal. Second International Conference, 326

Brazilian Government and Coal Mining, 185

British Coal-raising Record. 213

British Columbia Coal Production in 1926, Reduced Amount, 269

By-products Works to Experiment on Low-temperature Carbonisation, 441

Canadian Improved Coal Output, 213

Chimney Stack Razed to the Ground and Path-Head Colliery Dismantled, 159

Coal Analysis. Report on, 413

Coal, Modern Methods of Using as Fuel. 383, Coal Seam Discovery in Newfoundland, 523 Coal Seam Reported Struck at Crosby, Cumberland, 97

Coal Shipments from the Tyne, 213

Coals and Temperature at which Decomposition Begins, General Investigation in Progress, 603

Colliery Company Reopening in Lancashire. 159

Colliery Wharf on the River Ouse, 213

Czechoslovakia Hard Coal Production Statistics for 1926, 241

Durham and Northumberland Coalfields, Physical and Chemical Survey of, 441

English and German Coal Markets Position During and Since the English Strike, 495

Formosa, Output of Cool from, 577

France, Output of Coal and Pig Iron in January and February, 469

Gas Supply Over Long Distances Direct from Coal Pits, Question Under Consideration, 83

Hungary’s Slump in Coal Demand, Coalgetting Restricted, 355

Kent Colliery and Aerial Ropeway, Probable Closing of Colliery, 327 ; Revival of Scheme, Favourable Result Hoped for, 657

Koppers Continuous Vertical Chamber Coke Ovens, First Installation in this Country, 383

Low-temperature Carbonisation of Cofel on Large Scale Proposed for Canada, 441

National Coal Resources, 342

Oil Shale, Distilling, Fushun Colliery Plant for, 434

Oil Shale Laboratory Work and Further Developments at Fushun Collieries, 469

Output of Coal from Mines of Great Britain, 21 Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company, Ltd., Appointment of Managing Director, 45

Pulverised Coal for Scotch Marine Boilers, Favourable Result of Laboratory Tests, 653 Safety in Coal Mining. Problems, 629

Scam of Coal Found During Well Sinking, Near Leamington, 551

Seaharn Harbour, New Coal Pit Projected, 667

Sinking Progress at New Colliery at Upton, 213

South .African Coal Industry, Natal Sdbtion, Crippled for Lack of Railway Rolling Stock, 15

South Australia, Coal and Lignite Resources of. 213

Soviet Union Sinking New Coal Shafts, 551

Union of South Africa’s Coal Output in November, 1926, 269

United States Statistics of Coal Mine Fatalities in 1926. 241

Weinyss Coal Company’s Shaft. Record Diameter. 629

COLD Storage Warehouse, Large. Projected Construction for Benefit of British Columbia Fruit Crop, 15

Collapse of Tank and Tower Duo to Removal of Rod Connections, 159

Colonial Scientific and Research Service. 685

Columns Having H-shaped Sections. Testing of Different Types of Construction, 101

Commercial Motor Users Association, Annual London Motor Parade, 228

Compressed Air System, Transmission Losses in, 657

Concrete Construction, Novel System for Houses at Cambridge, 383

Concrete, Result of Heat Test. Effects, 15

Concrete Slab Lowered by Means of Melting Ice Blocks. 523

Congo, Cataract Region of. to be Made Navigable for Large Steamers, 75

Congress on the Explosion Engine, 618

Congress of Gas Engineers, Coke Oven Managers anti Fuel Section of Society of Chemical Industry Postponed, 159

Continental New Steamship Route. French Steamers and L.M. and S. Railway, 441

Copper Mines, Allihies, Berehaven, Co. Cork, Work Resumed. 355

Copper Ore Raised by Union Mini ere du Haut Katanga, 129

Copper Pipe Explosion, Probable Cause of, 551 Corona Discharge During Cracking of Oils. 185 Corrosion, An Interesting Case of, in Adelaide, H. E. Bellamy. 45

Crane Accident, Unusual, 413

ude Petroleum Refining in Great Britain* 441 ystal Detectors. Rectifying Action of, 551 itting Speed of a Diamond Bit Used in Oilfields. 45

’.echoslovak Projected Fund for Road Im provement on Large Scale, 299

AM Building in Record Time, but at Record Cost, 269

amming the Water of Three Lakes m Quebec.

Plans Submitted. 45

»ead Sea Mineral Contents, Estimated Value of. 523

»eath of Colonel H. G. Prout, 241

letonation in an Engine Using Liquid Fuel. 185 liamonds, Black, and White or Borts* 15 ►iesol Engine Burning Whale Oil, 213

iiesel Engines versus Steam Turbines, Result of Costs Calculation, 185

lock Facilities, Possible Establishment of, on the River Tees, 694

loulton’s Manufacture of Stoneware Drainage Pipes Transferred from Lambeth to Erith, 577 >redger Breakdown at Bombay, Result of Investigation, 551

>urban Technical College Extensions, 327

First Completed

Road* 495

Null Methods of

in this

AST London. South Africa. Projected Turning Basin 1000ft. Square, 551

lelipse of the Sun, Total, Lantern Lecture. 538 Idinburgh and Glasgow Section of New Arterial

LECTRICAL MATTERS Alternating Voltages,

Measuring Ratio and Phase Displacement, R. C. Churcher, 469

Assisted Wiring Scheme Increases Customers. 495

Atmosphere and the Variation in Electric-Field, 129

Auxiliary Hot-water Heating System in Electric Houses at Glasgow, 129

Basingstoke Electricity Works. 314

British Columbia's Electric Development, 185 British Electrical Development Association

Annual Dinner. 339

Calcutta Big Power Station, First of Three Turbines Started Up, 101

Capo Town Electricity Undertaking, Proposed Extensions, 519 ; and Expenditure on- 603 o

Carolina Company Installing Electric Storage Batteries, each Weighing 100,000 1b., 15

Columbia Power Station Remarkable Operating Results, 469

County of London Electric Supply Company, New Engineer-in-Chief, 577

Design and Balancing of Three-phase, Low-tension Systems. W. Fordham Cooper, 603

Destructive Insects Destroyed by Electric Light, 241

Distributors of Too .Small Area, Needless Expense Caused by Replacement to Meet Increasing Demand, 523

Electrical Blasting from a Circuit. Needfu. Precautions, 159

Electric Crucible Furnace, First

Country, 355

Electrical Generating Plant Extension at Beckton Works, 213

Electrical Industry in the U.S.A., 213

Electric Motor Breakdown. Interesting Case of. 495

Electric Trolley Bus, 298

Electricity from Coke Oven Gas. Staveley Coaland Iron Company’s Progress, 15

Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926. 113

Extra High-tension Systems. Fourth Conference on, 15 .

French Regulations as to I se of Electrical Equipment Underground. 241

Fukien Province of China, Electricity Supply for Kulangsu, 15

German Use of Electricity. Report of the Industry, 629

Ghent, New Central Electricity Station Completed, 299

Hackney Electricity Committee. I roposed Extensions* 551

Heating. Electric, in Strasbourg. Great Increase in Consumption, 185

House Heating by Electricity, 75

Hull. Quebec’, Ample Supply of Electric Energy for any Industry, 413

Industrial Electric Heating Load in I mted States, 495

Insulating Material. Valuable Discovery, Professor A. I. X offe* 269

International High-tension Transmission Congress, the Fourth, to bo held in Paris, 523

Italy. Large Transformers in Use, 629

Kootenay River. British Columbia. New Generating Station, 383

Large Electric Generators for Southern California, Unusual Design, 241

Liverpool Power Station, Second Large Generating Sot to be Installed, 101

Low-tension Supply Appliances, 495 Melbourne Electrical Exhibition. 551 Mercury-Arc Rectifier, Automatic, Substation at Verdun, Quebec, 241

Mica, Chief Use in Electrical Industries 577 Moffatt Tunnel Rock Removal by Shot Fired by Electric Current at Washington, 277

Moscow Report on Electrification of the Donetz Biwin, 269

1200-Kdowatt Oil-driven Plant at Ashford, Position of Small Stations. 469

Power Plant, 50,000-Kilowatt. Proposed for Supply of Electricity to Canberra, Australia, 450

Power Transmission Line. High-voltage, between Montiers and Lyons. Underground Cable Installed for a High Section of the Line, 603

Pumps, Electrically Driven, for Irrigation, 43 Restaurant with all Heat. Light and Power Derived from Electricity. 80

Safety Lamp, New Electric Type, 213

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :

Salmon River. Idaho. Horse-power Development Anticipated. 269

Secondary Batteries in Warships, Restricted Use of. 469

Shannon Electricity Supply Bill, 299

Society Electricpie du Nord-Ouest, Prosperous Financial Year, 558

South Africa. Increase in Imports of Elec-. trical Machinery, 551

Southend Suggests Electricity Power Station Erection on Canvey Island, 269

Swellendam, South Africa, Electric Lighting Scheme for. 129

Tasmanian Hydro-electric Supply System. Great Increase in Number of Consumers, 101

Towers for Transmission Line from the Shannon to Dublin, 213

Turbo-alternator Set, 20,000-Kilowatt, Alternator for, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 87

Turbo-alternator Set, 25,000-Kilowatt, for Liverpool, Installation Followed by Order for Second Similar Set, 299

Victorian State Electricity Commission, Various Extensions and Undertakings, 261

Welding Electrode, New Tpye, 495

West Midland Electricity Scheme for Area of 1095 Square Miles, 159

ELECTROLUX Works, Luton, 592

Electro platers* and Depositors* I'echoica! Society, Electro-deposited Coatings for Prevention of Corrosion, H. Sutton, 158 ; Electro-deposition of Iron, T. Jolmston, 256

Elevator for Canada. Largest Single-working Constructed in One Unit, 685

Empire Sugar, 428

" Engineer ” Degree to Involve Nine Years’ "Work, 45

Engineers’ League Challenge Shield for Rifle Shooting, 29

Excavation of Submarine Pipe Trench, 75

EXHIBITIONS : A.E.G. Transformer Works. Berlin, Plant for New Treatment of Oil, 657

British Industries Fair, 45 ; American Buyers to Obtain Remission of Feo on Passport Visa to Great Britain, 45

Como, Exhibition, Commemorative Centenary, 101

Exhibition of Results of Recent Research Work on Adhesives Application, 15

International Foundry Exhibition to be Organised in Paris, 657

Melbourne Electrical Exhibition, 551

Melbourne, Exhibition of British Goods, 181

Milan Sample Fair. 228

Model Railway Club Annual Exhibition. 469 North-East Coast Industries Exhibition

Postponed, 327

Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 222

Royal Dublin Society’s Spring Show at

Ball's Bridge, 159

Scientific Apparatus Exhibition. 213

Street Lighting Appliances Exhibition at Brighton, 197

Trade Exhibition at Manchester of Modern Power Efficiency Machinery, 241

EXPLOSION of Hot Plate and Needful Precautions, Board of Trade Comments. 15

Explosion of a Stenin Trap, 75

Explosion of Tube in Steam-heated Oven.

Surveyor’s Report, 629

F FACTORY’, Crosse and Blackwell, to be Used for Artificial Silk Manufacture, 129

Failure of Old Gauge (Bass Fitting on Board a

Steam Drifter, 15

Fairs—nee Exhibitions

Faraday House Electrical Engineering College

Entrance Scholarships, 425

Federated Malay States to Import Dredgers for

Flood Prevention Work, 241

Federation of British Industries Meeting, 314

Fertiliser from Vegetable Refuse, Scheme for

Production at Birmingham, 327

Furnish Manufacture of Gunpowder and Nitro-cellulose, 241

Fire in Chemical Works and Use of Ammonia Gas. 75

Fires. Carbon Bisulphide, Necessary Precaution in Use of Water for Extinction, 269

Fishing Industry. Recovery of By-products, 327

Flame Movement, The Study of, O. C. de C.

Ellis. 469

Forest Products Research Laboratory. Paper on Movement of Moisture Through Wood. 15

Fracture of Quartz by Heat, Result of Laboratory Experiments, 241

France. Output of Coal and Pig Iron in January and February, 469

“ Frigorifico ” nt South Dock, Buenos Aires, Most Up-to-date Cold Storage, 327

Fruit in Cold Storage and Temperature Precautions, 213

Fruit Storage in Gas, Experiments. 523

Fuel Research ami By-products, 75

G GALVESTON Bay. Coast Submergence. 159

Garbage, Household, New Method for Recovery of Valuable Products from, 129

Gas Welding for Chromium Alloys, 555

Gasworks, Dawsholm, Glasgow, Projected Extension of, 129

Germany, Reported Projected Company to Study Problem of Long-distance Production of Gas from Lignite. 551

Gold Find, Very Rich, on Western Shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza, 355

Gold Output from South African Mines in 1926. 159. 185

Gold. Particles of, New Electrical Device for Reclaiming, 355

Gold Recovery from Cleaning Up of Old Plant in Abandoned South African Mine, 523

Gold Yield of New South Wales for 1926, 355

Gun-laying in Warships, Device for Reducing

Effects of Rolling and Pitching. 355

H HAIFA and Baghdad. Transport Service Projected. 185

Harbour Works in Spain. 657

Heat Insulating Materia! with Cork as Basis. 355

Heat Transfer to Heavy Oils in Steam Heaters.

Result of Experiments, 577

Herne Bay Waterworks, Centrifugal Bore hole Pump, 15

High-speed Steel Hacksaw Blades. Sir W. G.

Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., 253

Highway Engineering, Chair of, at London University, 685

Hull. Alexandra Dock Gates Reconstruction, 413

Hume Reservoir. Australia. Threatened with Extinction, Urgent Need of Improved Management, 603

Hydraulic Accumulators. Advantage of Using Air Pressure Instead of Dead Weight for Loading, 14

Hydro-electric Development of Canada, 129. 383

Hydro-electric Development of Switzerland, 629

Hydro-electric Installation on Batiscan River, Canada, Particulars of, 666

Hydro-electric Plant in California, 60in. Penstock for, 355

Hydro-electric Plants, Very Large, on Winnipeg River, 355, 413

Hydro-electric Power Plant Construction on the Saluda River. Platts by Lexington Water Power Company. Columbia. 355

Hydro-electric Power Station at Meso. Inauguration by Crown Prince of Italy. 657

Hydro-electric Scheme. Mandi, India, 'funnel Piercing to Begin. 523

Hydro-electric Scheme on Susquehanna River, Maryland. Progress of. 15

Hvdro-elert ric Schemes in Victoria. Australia. 551

Hydro-electric Schemes at Zurich, in the Enga-dine, and the Lower A are River, 211

I ICEBERGS, High Temperatures for Rapid Destruction of, 603

Ijinuiden, North Sea Port. Now Lock to he Largest in the World. 129

Impact of Light Effects and Value of Attention to them, 241

Indian Road and Transport Development Association, 280

India's Surfeit of Self-termed Engineers, 129

Industrial Liverpool. 531

Industry. New, tor Manufacture of Megans into

Building Boards. At.. 101

Ingot Mould. Huge Size of, 383

Institutes and Institutions—Associations

International Commission on Illumination.

Meeting at Bellagio, 586

International Conference on Large Electric High-tension Systems. 481

Irish Engineering and Foundry Firm Completes Ninety-six Years of Continuous Activity. 15

Irish Free State’s Road Grant, 269

IRON AND STEEL Ashton Mechanical Iron Puddling Process.

635

Blast-furnaces, I<lle for \cars, Being Blown in. 383

Cast Steel, Alternating Stress Fatigue Tests. Professor H. F. Moore, 15

Cobalt Steel Magnets, Super Cast, J. F.

Kayser, 45

Electrodeposition of Iron. T. Johnston, 256

European Steel Cartel’s Output, 269

Foundry Moulds and Cores. Nitride .Application to Surface of, a great Advantage. F. Bickowsky, 45

Gamngara Manganese Corporation Formed in South Africa. 577

Gaseous Reduction of Iron Ore, Mr. Heihachi Kamura, 523

Heat Treatment of Steel. Recent Experiments. 657

Ilmenite-bearing Iron Ores. New Use for, 213

Indian Tariff Board Report and Steel Industry Protection. 185

Ingots of Basic Open-hearth Steel. Huge Size, 629

Iron Deposits Discovered in Mountains of County Leitrim. 159

Iron Oro from Hudson Bay Island to be Tested in England. 159

Iron Smelting. New Electrical Process of, 383

Iron and Steel Industry in Pretoria, 129

Manganese Deposits in Kurutnan District.

South Africa. 462

Manganese Ores Research in the United States, 523

Manganese Steel Railway Crossings. 413

Maple Leaf Steel Mills, Development on Large Scale of Iron and Steel Manufacture, 15

Molybdenum Used in Steel, New Method, 383

Mysore Ironworks, Scheme tn Utilise Byproducts, 685

National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Reports :

Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 185

Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production in January. 185

Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in February. 299

Furnaces in Blast. Pig Iron and Stool Production, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in March, 413

Furnaces in Blast. Pig Iron and Steel Production, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in April, 577

Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Pro duction, Comparison Between 1926 and 1927, in May. 657

Orc Extraction from Mounds Near Cleveland Ironstone Mines, 213

Pig Iron Imports into the United States in 1925, 269

Pig Iron, New and Valuable Type in Norway. 129

Record Steel Output, 213

IRON AND STEEL (continued) :

South Africa, Sub-Continent. Major Occur-ences of Iron Ore. 419

South Australia, Production of Iron Ore, Statistics, 685

South Russian Steel Works Tube Mill and Steel Plant. 383

Steam Pipes, Cast Iron, for High Pressures, Need of Great Care to Secure Even Thickness of Metal, 503

Steel, British and American, Compared, 45

Steel Pipes Manufacture in Factory Projected at Vereeniging, S.A.. 81

Steel Production by New Furnace at Cardiff. A British Record. 523

Steel Protection Bill in Indian Legislative Assembly, 129

Steel Sections, Arc-welded. Better than Cast Iron for Machine Parts* J. F. Lincoln, 603

Swedish Iron Industry, Government Measures for Support, 685

Swedish Ironworks Collaboration in Technical Research Work, Extension of, 685

Technological Laboratory in American Steel Industry, 495

United States Iron Ore Mining Statistics for 1926, 100

IRRIGATION Project Submitted to Mexican Government, 523

Irrigation Pumps, Electrically Driven, 13

J JAPAN’S Total Disappearance into the Pacific

Predicted if Earthquakes Continue, 413

Johannesburg Municipal Gasworks, 185

Jubilee of Service, 29

KAURI Timber Industry of New Zealand ami

Use of Waste Wood, 495

L LANDSLIDES in South Wales, Professor G. Knox, 413

Lead and Copper Production in the United States in 1925 and 1926, 129

Lead Discoveries in Kiaochow and at Tsian, Fengtien Province, 241

Lead Mine, Derelict for Nearly Eighty Years, Reopened on Discovery of Rich Vein, 355

Lead Mine, Western Australia, New Treatment Plant Completed, 441

Lead Mines Near Harrogate Reopened, 159

Lead Mining Industry in Wales, Attempted Re vivid, 269

Lead Producing Field in South-West Africa, Hopeful Prospect from, 185

Lenham By-pass. Concrete Road, Officially Opened. 413

Liege-Antwerp Canal, Direct. Proposed. 685

Lime Whitewash for Brickwork of High Temperature Industrial Furnaces, E. P. Arthur and Others, 495

Limestone Removal by' Mining Superior to Quarrying. 383

Lincoln Cathedral Repairs. Fresh Defects Discovered, 327

Load Tests on a Concrete Arch Highway Bridge, 603

Loughborough College, British Empire Scholarships Awards. 592

Lubricants. Good, from Certain Crude Oils.

Tests in .America. 441

Lubricants, G. W. Watson. 355

Lubrication Problems. 535

M MACHINE Tool Home Trade Slowly Recovering, 495

Machine Tool Trades' Association, Annual Dinner. 339

Madras Hydro-electric Schemes and Railway Electrification in South India. Government Committee to be Appointed, 159

Magnesite Beds in Manchuria. 75, 213

Magneto, The High-tension, with Tungsten Contacts. 441

Manchester’s Lark of Light and Excessive Deposit of Foreign Matter from Atmosphere.

| Manhattan Island Excavation, Island's Value Now and 300 Years Ago. 450

Manitoba, Highway Construction Programme, 413

Marlow Lock Reopened After Reconstruction. 409

Measurement of Air Flow in Mines, 355

Merchandise Marks Act, 1926, 367, 400

Mercury Obtained in Distillation of Coal Tar. 413

Mercury, Selling Price of, Negotiations Between Spanish and Italian Governments, 269

Mersey Tunnel, Now. Settlement Reached as to Birkenhead Entrances, 469

Metallic Alloys, Reported Discovery of Three New, 523

Metrovick Carnival, 397

Mexico City and Acapulco, Highway Between, Extensive Scheme Planned. 603

Mino Ventilation Problems, C. F. Raney. 355

Mineralogical Analyses. Varieties in Chemical Investigation. 327

Mines Accidents Statistics for 1926, 213

Mining Prospects in Canada, Dr. Adam Shortt, 383

Molybdite, Two New Leaching Methods for Recovery of, 129

Montevideo Scheme for Construction of the Rambla Sud (South Sea Wall:. 241

Montreal, Port of. Further Expenditure on Development, 15

Monument to Eiffel Projected in Paris, 159

Motor Road Proposed Between Genoa, Milan and Hamburg, 101

Motor Transport Growth in Southern Rhodesia, 241

Motor Vehicle Increase in India and Ceylon, Creation of Central Road Board and other Measures Proposed, 101

Mysore State Industries, Experiments, 685

N

I NATAL Sugar Industry and Alcohol Production as Motor Spirit, 269

| Natural Gas for Lifting Oil from Deep Oil Wells,

Natural Graphite. Chief Uses of. 657

Newfoundland Mining Industry Revival Possible, 213

New Zealand Invites Tenders for Electric Locomotives, Machinery and Material from British Firms, 269

New Zealand’s Variety of Heavy Orders Placed in United Kingdom, 327

Newsprint Factory Projected at Port Arthur, Ontario, 355

Newsprint Factory at Winnipeg, Projected Increase, 356

Newsprint Mills at Bathurst. New Brunswick, 355

Newsprint Production in Canada, 603

Nigeria’s Road and Railway Construction Programme, 327

Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Government Aid in

Brazil in Erection of Factory for Fixation, 75

North /Australia Needs Works Engineer, 603

Nova Scotia. Wealth in Gypsum Shipped to the

United States, 441

o OIL from Alaska. Poor Prospect of, 185

Oil, Commercial Production of. by Hydrogenation of Brown Coal, 383

Oil. Crude, Production in Tasmania, 159

Oil Discovery Near Grand View, Canada. 129

Oil Drilling Operations. Analysing Underground Waters Encountered, 685

Oil Recovery in Large Quantities by the Bowie-Gavin Process, 159

Oil Removal from Steam Engine Condenser Water, Professor Dijkshoorn, 269

Oil Sand and “ Tar Spring ” Accessible Deposits in Canada und in California, 129

Oil Shale. Valuable Discovery in Lomiuimav

Valley, Chili, 523

Oil Shale—nee afno Coal

Oils and Lubricants, Specifications for India

Stores Department. 185

Oldest Engineering Firm. 312

Ontario Association of Professional Engineers,

Annual Meeting, 185

Ontario Road Construction Schemes. 383

Ontario’s Wealth in Valuable White ami Red Pine. 383

Oxygen, Percentage Necessary to Keep in Good Health, 299

P

| PAINT Spraying Machines for Clyde Shin.

269^8' on Employers’ Proposals,

Palestine’s Interest in Dead Sea Concession for Extraction of Potash, 495

Panama and Suez Canals Traffic Comparison. 185

Paper. High Quality. Successful Production from State Forests Bamboo. Bombay. 685

Paper Pulp Manufacture in Tasmania, Expert-mental Plant. 685

Paper Pulp Mill Projected on Vancouver Island, 185

Past and Present Crewe Pupils’ Thirty-seventh Annual Dinner. 618

Patent Prolongation of Five Years. 159

Pavement, Double, Type Being Used in Paris, 629

Petrol, Synthetic, and Other By-products from Spitzbergen Coal, Factory "for Production. 523

Petroleum Industry Losses Due to Formation of Water in Oil Emulsions, 15

Petroleum in Okla, U.S.A., Very Large Increase in Production by New Method, 45

Petroleum Operations at Infantas, Colombia, Success Results. 129

Petroleum Pipe Lines in the United States, 185 Petroleum Reserves of America, Deeper Drilling Believed to be Best Solution for Supply, 101 11 ?

Phenolic. Products Removal from Effluent Liquors from Distillation of Gasworks Ammonia, 383

Platinum Concentrates in South Africa. Output of, 577

Platinum Discovery in Quebec. 657

Platinum and Palladium Recovery while Refining Nickel-copper Matte, 657

Platinum, Rich Deposit Discovered in Province of Quebec, 327

Plumbago Industry. Flagging, in Ceylon, 577

Portland Cement, British Rapid-hardening.

for Re-paving of Broadway. New York. 523 Portuguese Government Plans for Good Roads, 502

Potash Salts Reserves. Russian Geological Mission Investigation Report, 523

Power Alcohol Manufacture on the Queensland Sugar Fields, 241

Power Alcohol Plant Near Mackay, Queensland, Large Capacity of. 355

Power Generation and Distribution. Commission of Inquiry Appointed by Saskatchewan Government, 4)3

Power Provision to Replace Diesel Plant bv , Harnessing Umtata Falls, South Africa, 355 Presentation to Professor Dempster Smith. 425 Prince Edward Island, Expenditure on Harbours and Rivers, 603

Printing Trades and Illumination Research Committee’s Report, 299

Professor D. A. Low, Complimentary Dinner to,

Pulp and Paper Mill Plant Proposed for Erection on Vancouver Island, 657

Pulp and Paper Mill Projected for Prince George, British Columbia, 45

Pulp and Paper Production in Canada, Notable Industry, 189, 327

Pulpwood and Water Power Resources of Quebec, Development, 213

Q QUARRY Managers’ Institution, Annual Conference, 225

Quebec and Northern Ontario, Record Gold

Production Anticipated, 413

Quebec Rivalling Ontario and British Columbia as a Metal-producing Province, 129

R RADIUM Recovery After Passing Through Destructor Fires, 269

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS : Accidents ■■ Accident Inquiries Affected by the Strike and Coal Stoppage in 1926, 213

Anniversary of General Strike and Serious Accidents, 523

Collision, Due to Fog, Between Light Engine and Passenger Train, Report and Recommendation, 101

Collision Between Freight Trains, Inquiry and Report, 684

Collision at Gale St. Halt, on Tilbury Section, Report on Causes, 603, 685

Collision Between Light Engine and Passenger Train Near Birmingham, 159 Collision with Light Engine at Penistone Station, 241, 269

Collision of Scottish Express with Light Engine, 551

Collision, Serious, on Bengal-Nagpur Railway, 327

Collision at Sheffield Station, Result of Inquiry. 629

Collision Between Train and Motor Car at Unprotected Level Crossing, Report on, 413

Derailment hut Little Damage on Express from Manchester to York, 101

Fatal Accident to Driver on the L. and N.E.R., Report, 411

Fiftieth Anniversary of Remarkable Accident, 355

Finsbury Park Accident Report , 628

.Government- Inquiries into Accidents, 148 ’Hull Railway Disaster Inquiry, 213, 24 1. 327

Mishaps and Delayed Trains on the Southern and Metropolitan District Lines, 101

O< cupation Crossing Fatality Near Tottenham, 241

Past Years, Analysis of Accidents in the Present Century, 15

Report oit Accident at Roudhain, Ancient Regulations Still in Force, Bridge Recommended, 469

Report on Collision on the Southern Railway, 159

Report on Derailment Caused by Broken Brake Hanger, 218

Report on Derailment Outside Charing Cross Station After Re-signalling of Yard, 245

Report on Rawmarsh Fatal Collision, 327

Royal Commission Railway Accidents Report Fifty Years Ago, 159

Runaway Carriages Derailed and Damaged on Rishworth Branch, 129

Thirty-third Anniversary of Bad Accident, 625

American Interstate Bureau of Safety, Exception to General Good Will, 184

Anti-friction Clips for Switches, 159

Antioquia Railway, Projected Tunnel Between Santiago and Limon, 75

Appointments and Staff Changes, 75. 382, 523, 603, 662, 693

Australian Losses on Steam Tramways at Certain Centres to bj Abolished as Nonpaying Concerns, 101

Australian North-South Transcontinental Extension. First Sod Turned. 101

Automatic Signalling on the Great Northern Railway of America, Various Records of the Railway, 101

Automatic Train Control. New System on Reading—New Jersey—Railroad, 75 Automatic Train Control. Trial of New Switch to Cut Off Battery Automatically. 101

Avonmouth Light Railway Transferred from Private Ownership, 441

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Locomotives, Repainting and Re-naming, 469

Becontree Housing Scheme and Railway Extension Question, 185

Belgian Rails Supplied to South Africa, Considerable Proportion Rejected, South African Trade with the Empire, 299

Birthday Honours for Engineers and Industrialists, 629

Bridges—t>ec Separate Heading

Britain and Japan, Exchange of Courtesy, 685

British Columbia Electric Railway Plant, 185 ; (Letter), 559

British Railways Handicapped by Smallness of Goods Consignments. 413

Burmah Desires State Management of its Railways, 383

Buxton and Ashby Light Railway Closed Down. 241

Calais and Brussels. New Train to Connect with 11 a.m. Train from Victoria. 248

Canadian National Railways, Engineers’ Report on Proposed Route for New Line, 629

Canadian National Railways Improved Position. 383

Canadian National Railways, Programme for Construction of Branch Lines, 355

Canadian National Railway's Steady Financial Improvement, 15

Canadian Northern National Railways, Earnings in 1926, 185

Canal, Kennett and Avon, Question of its Future, 185

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): Central of New Jersey Railway New Bridge, 75, 677

Channel Tunnel Question, Scheme Opposed by all Parties, 603

Coal Stoppage and Wagon Supply Trouble, 213

Colombia, Survey on Section of the Puerto Witches Railway, 495

Compensation Money Paid to Railways. 269 Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 685

Cost of Living Figure and Extra Shilling for Railwaymen, 15

Court House Station. Changes of Ownership and Rolling Stock on Various Midland County Railways, 75

Danger of Using Boards Left on a Roof, 15

Death of Mr. George Deuchars, 441

Death of Mr. W. T. Foxleo, 383

Death of Mr. George A. Mountain, 327

Death of Mr. J. H. E. Secretan, 45

Dividend Reduction and Withdrawals from Reserve Funds on all the Principal Railways, 213

Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway Sold to Tramways Company, 629

East London, Transit Accommodation in. Suggested Postponement of Further House Building. 101, 185

Egyptian Government Railways Now* All Standard Gauge, 657

Electric Railways in the Ruhr and Westphalian District, Doubtful Scheme, 577

Finance Statistics of Four Great Lines. 657

Foreign Coal Contracts Necessitate Further Large Transferences from Reserved Funds, 213

Foreign Coal Imports and Shortage of Wagons 15

German Railway Students Touring English Railways, 495

Great Indian Peninsular Railway, Projected Independent Electric Power Station. 101

Great Northern Engine No. 1 Placed in York Museum, 383

Great Southern Railways of Ireland. Alterations in Signalling Operation at Killarncy .1unction, Kingstown. &c., 412

Great Western Railway : Junction, Old Oak Common, for Wycombe Line, Improvement. Projection. 495

Kennett and Avon Canal, Abandonment Decision Modified, 185

I,and Taken Over on Lease from G. W.R. by Patent Fuel Company. 277

Mineral Wagons, 20-Ton, Rebate of Charges to be Allowed for Use of Such, 129

Newton .Abbot Station Opened After Rebuilding, 441

Newton Abbot Station, Souvenir of Brunel, 577

Plymouth, Overseas Mails Arriving to be Handled by Belt Conveyor Instead of by Men. 495

Up and Down Lines for Engines and Empty Stock, 299

Wages Bill of the Company, 629

Guaranteed Week for Railwaymen Being Gradually Restored, 213

Harbin Electric Tramway Extension, 15

Heavy Outlay of Four Larger Companies Last Year on Engines and Rolling Stock, 383

Hudson Bay Railway Completion, Question of Choice of Termini, 469

Hull, Alexandra Dock Gates Reconstruction, 413

India, Class I. Railways. Locomotives and Rolling Stock Equipped with or Piped for Vacuum Brake, 15

Irish Mails between London and Belfast. Holyhead-Kingstown Route Restored, 469, 657

Irish Mails for Ulster. Suggested Change from Kingstown to Killough Harbour. County Down. 355

Irish National Wages Board, Chairman's Resignation. 629

Irish Railway Companies Financial Returns. 269

Italy, Increase in Length of Electrified Railways, 603

Johannesburg, Cost of New Railway Station Extensions, 327

Jointly Owned and also Light Railways.

Exceptional Legislation for, 523

Largest Passenger Locomotive (Correction), 26 Level Crossings, Occupation, or Otherwise.

Parties Responsible. 351

Locomotive for Mine Haulage. Most Powerful in the World, 657

Locomotives, High Power. ” Mountain “ Type Built by Spanish Firm. 657

London Electric Railways Company : Enlarged Station in Piccadilly Circus, Oneway Traffic Difficulties, 101

Lighting, Concealed. Experiment on Piccadilly Railway, 577

Liverpool Overhead Railway Supplied with Electric Power. 685

London Site Wanted by One Railway, but Bought by Another. 299

Morden Terminus Motor Garage. 185

Unusual Incident Causes Holding-up of Trains, 213

London. Midland and Scottish Railway : Ancient History, Midland Company and Scottish Policy, 603

Automatic Signalling. Cause of Delay, 269 Belfast Steamship Service of the Company to be Transferred from Fleet wood and Centred Wholly on Heysham, 693

Caprotti Steam Valves Reported to be Adopted for Locomotives. 441

Coleraine-Port rush Deviation to Port-stewart, 523

Estimates of Expenditure on Capita! Account, 241

L.M. and 8. New Train and Steamship Service to the Continent end Tilbury and Dunkirk. 469

Naming of Some Long-distance Trains, 68

New Administration by Four Vice-Presidents, 15

New All-steel Passenger Coaches and Projected New Locomotives, 101

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

London, Midland and Scottish Railway (continued) :

Non-stop Run Between Euston and Scotland, 685

Passenger Brake Vans, New Type, 240 Railwaymen’s Investments in Railway Stock, 629

Rates Increase to be Imposed Cautiously, 355

Road, Motor and Railway Working, Appeal to the Government as to Adjustment of Expenses, 276

Seventy-five New’ Coaches for Service in London Area, 495

Sidings. Increased, for Handling Coal Traffic. 75

Suggestions Made by Staff, Bureau Started at Euston, 413

Water Troughs Laid Down in Scotland for Long Non-stop Runs, 15, 159 ; Change of Plans Projected, 551 ; Misconception and Explanation, 45

London and North-Eastern Railway :

Bridge Collapse Interferes with Traffic. 299 Expenditure Charged to Capital, Varying Practice of Different Railways, 269

Foreign Coal Contracts as Provision Against Possible Railway Stoppage, 355 Future of British Railways, Sir Ralph

Wedgwood, 441

Great Eastern Railway’s Goods Traffic, 495 Hull Roads, Level Crossings Over, Cost of

Suggested Abolition, 577

King’s Cross to Newcastle at 1.15 a.in., 299 Lincoln, Level Crossing, Questions in House of Commons, 383

Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works AU on Full Time, 364

Locomotive Coaling Plant, New Mechanical, Its Cost, 327

Marshalling Yard Enlargement at White-moor, 129 ; Cost of Improvements, 327 Naworth Disaster, Recommendations to be Adopted, 299

Passenger Vehicles, Order for Additional Construction, 441

Potters Bar Complaint of Unpunctuality and its Result, 269

Report for 1926, Variation in Certificates, 269

Signalling System, Special Type, to he Introduced on L. and N.E. Railway, 213

Timing of Summer Trains as in Former Years. 657

Traffic Control Office at King's Cross, 551 Trains No Longer Running Between Mary* lebone and Watford, Metropolitan to Take Over Service, 129

Two Locomotive Items of Interest, 413 Walton-on-the-Nazc, Proposed Diversion to Avoid Erosion, 413

Mersey Railway Company Statistics fur 1926, 250

Metropolitan Railway

Additional Expenditure of Capital on Rolling Stock, 213

Housing Scheme at Becontree, 185 Metropolitan Railway to Supply Additional Service from Watford to Replace L. and N.E.R., 129

Neasden Power-house Improved Equipment, 213

Reduced Dividend, 159

Revenue from Letting Premises on Railway Stations, 355

Ministry of Transport :

Annual Railway Returns, 75

Inquiries into Serious Accidents, Statistics of. 448

Minister of Transport Congratulated by his Labour Predecessor, 551

New Standard Charges, Date for Operation to Begin, 551

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry, No Re-appointment to be Made, 213 Railway Statistics for October, 1926, 45 Railway Statistics for November, 185 Railway Statistics for December, 299 Railway Statistics for January, 1927, 441 Railway Statistics for February. 1927, 551 Railway Statistics for March, 1927, 685 Suggested Inquiry into Railway Organisation Declined, 269

Model Railway Club Exhibition, 469 Moscow's Growth, Scheme for Construction of Metropolitan Railway, 185

Natal Main Line Railway Electrification and Increased Capacity of Line, 603

National Union of Railwaymen Levy of Threepence a Week to Replace Depletion of Funds, 45

National Wages Board. A Spirit of Forgiveness Both Ways, 45

New Year Honours, Solitary Railwayman, 15 Oil-burning Locomotives of the Southern Pacific Railway, Fuel Consumption. 185 Passenger Duty Question, 495

Privately Owned Wagon Question, Appointment of Standing Committee, 216

Punjab Railways, Two New Sections, 629 Rail Failures, Extraordinary Number of, on American Railroad. 523

Railroad Sleepers Made from Used Rails, 469 Railway Across Lake Titicaca (Bolivia) to Puno (Peru), Construotion Begun, 498

Railway Benevolent Institution Dinner, Mr. Bromley’s Speech. 577

Railway Construction in Kirin Province, Chinese and Japanese Organising Engineering Works to Secure Contracts. 577

Railway Material Exports Statistics. 45, 101. 185, 299. 383, 551. 657

Railwaymen as Presidents of Two Societies, 577

Railway Rates, Increased. 75

Railway Rates Increase, Rail and Road Transport Question. Suggestion, 185

Railway Rates Tribunal

Railway Sleepers Made Out of Old Flat-bottomed Rails, 551

Reversal of Tribunal's Judgment by Court of .Appeal. 241

Standard Charges Judgment, 45

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

Record Upward Career of Railway Engineer, 159

Rhodesian Railways, Northern and Southern, Reorganisation, 500

Rome and Bari, Projected New Railway Between, 185

Sao Paulo Tramway. Light and Power Company, 185

Sloane-square Station Modernisation, 129

South African Railways Report, 129

Southern Railway : Brake, Westinghouse, Conversion to the Vacuum, on All Sections, 355

Brighton Station to be Enlarged, 495

Coal Carrying Rate and Closing of Colliery, Favourable Result Hoped for, 327, 657

Dover, Big Programme in Progress, 577

Dover Priory Station Reconstruction.

Removal of Locomotive Depot and

Suggested Marine Walk at Dover, 129

Further Electrification Details, 269

“ Gladstone,” Old Engine, to Go to Museum, 551

Oil Fuel Too Costly for Locomotives, 355

1000 Passengers Per Minute Detrain in

Three Hours Daily, 437

Railwaymen’s Investments in Railway

Stock, 629

Southern Railway New Line, 273

Victoria Boat Trains Improved Running, 299

Widening of Four Bridges Oyer Roads at Peckham, Parliamentary Bill. 299

Widening of Line Near Beckenham and Reconstruction of Bridge, 603

Wimbledon and Sutton Intended Railway, Time Extension for Land Purchase, 327

Spanish Government Concession for Now Railway. 685

Stationery Office Preliminary Railway Returns for 1926, 383

Survey by Bolivian and Peruvian Governments with View to Construction of Railway at Lofty Elevation. 249

Swiss Federal Railways, Electrification Progress, 665

Sydney, Progress of Central Station and City Railway, 45

Texas, 75-Mile Gap in Incompleted Radway to be Built, 523

Thorne Colliery, Withdrawal of Bill for Private Railway, 577

Ticket “Census” on the Underground, Explanation of its Cause. 213

Timiskaining and Northern Ontario Railway, Extension, 413

Traffic Returns for First Quarter of 1927, Figures Affected by Date of Good Friday, 413

Tramcar Equipment and Modern Speed Demand. 185

Tramway Fatal Derailment. Report and Recommendations, 45

Turkestan—Siberian Railway to be Laid, 181

Turkish Government’s Projected Railway

Schemes, 15

Twin-screw Steamers for Hey sham Belfast

Service, 308, 355 *

Underground Electric Railways Company

London's Increased Population and Relative Increase in Rail and Road Travellers, 441

Loud speaking Announcers of Stations in Trains Proposed, Unpopular Proposal, 441

New Morning Train, Edgware to Charing Cross, 694

Pooling Agreement Between Underground Railway, London General Omnibus Company, and London County Council for Tramways, 657

Underground Company Accepts Record Number of Suggestions Sent in by Staff, 129

Unfair Road Motor Competition, Deputation from Railways and Trades Unions to Chancellor of Exchequer, 355

United States Transportation Act. 1920,

Points of Difference from British Act, 629

Unpunctuality of Business Trains, Possible Explanation, 129

Victorian Government Railways, All-steel Restaurant Car, 657

Victorian Government Railways, Workshops.

Clock Dial to Record Accidents, 377

Victorian Government’s Choice of Local in

Preference to English Firm’s Tender, 269

Weekly Traffic Returns Compared with 1925 as Well as with Coal Strike Period, 551

Welland Railway, Old Line in Canada.

Ceases Operation. Service Taken Over by Electric Lines, 551

Welsh Highland Railway, Receiver Appointed, 272 ; Railway to Continue Working, 383

Western Canada, Great Activity in Railway Construction Predicted, 15

Wireless Receiving Apparatus in Trains. 495

Woolwich, Cost of Locomotives and Parts

Provided at, 299

Rangoon, Improvement of Channel below, 355

Rangoon University, Presentation by Burmah Company for Establishment of College of Mining and Engineering, 657

Reaping Machine Invention Centenary, 657

Reclamation of Large Swamp Area Along the Kootenay River, British Columbia. 603

Reclamation Schemes in the Forth Estuary, Good Progress of, 577

Record in Long Service, Employees of J. and E.

Hall. Ltd., 113

Refrigerating Plant. New. at Buenos Aires One of the Largest in the World. 45

Refrigeration, Development of New Form of, 269

Refrigerator. Household, New Swedish Type, 657

Reinforced Concrete Bridges—wee Bridges

Reinforced Concrete, Mild tweus High-tensile

Steel in. 566

Research and the Metal Industries Exhibition, 339

Research Scholarships in Technology, 5In Reservoir’s Plight—nee Hume Reservoir Reservoir Production Feat in Oregon, 523

Rcykiavik, Iceland, Scheme for Heating the Whole Town by Underground Hot Springs, 551

Rhodesia Broken Hill Mine, Large Amount of Vanadium Minerals, 603

Rio de Janeiro, State Concession for Port Works at Bay of Angra dos Reis, 685

Road-covering Substance, A New, Invented in Sweden by Mr. John Behmer, 523

Road Drills, Search for Less Noisy Type, 110 Road Motor Vehicles Statistics for 1926, 389 Road Watering in Sweden, Use of Sulphite

Lye, 469

Roadway Over Quebec Bridge Projected, 657

Rolled Wire Rods, Home Production Reduced while Imported Rods Increase, 653

Rolling Mill, New Type, Carnegie Steel Company, 413

Romance of a Century, 559

Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 222

Royal Scholarships and Studentships in Science, 222

Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Annual Report, 589

Rubber Bearings Valuable where Exposed to Grit, 551

Rubber, Electro-deposition of, Difficulties, 159 Rubber in Industrial Occupations, 657 Rubber-lined Pipes, Astonishing Durability of, in Comparison with Lap-welded Mild Steel, 45

Rubber, Use of, for Wet and Dry Grinding, 185 Rubber Used for Tests on Skew Arches, 269 Russian Mica Industry Development, 327 Russian Nikit inski Mercury Mines to be Restarted, 45

s SAFEGUAR DING of Industries Act, Additional Articles Liable to Duty. 37

Saint Nazaire, Improvement of Port, 441

Salt River Power Station, South Africa, Further Extension of, 355

San Pablo Bay, California, Proposed Bridge Across, 413

Santo Domingo Port, Structural Improvements, 523

Scholarship, Brenforce Travelling, Competition, 400

Scholarships, British Empire, Engineering, at Loughborough College, Awards, 592

Scholarships, Charles R. E. Bell Fund, 397

Scholarships, Research, in Technology, 510

Science, Applied, Graduates of Toronto Finding

Posts in United States, 603

Sea Wall, The Throndon, New Zealand, will be Largest in that Country, 45

Seville, Port to be Made Accessible to Large Vessels, 299

Shale Oil, Value of, and also Complexity of its Composition, 75

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : Agamemnon, Battleship, to be Broken Up and Replaced as Target Ship by the Centurion, 241

Atlantic Liner and the Port of London, 697

Belfast Boats Transferred to Heysham from Fleetwood Route, 308, 355

Blue Star Liner Andalucia, 253

Blue Star Liner Arandora, Trials of, 629

Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd., to Erect New Docks at Toronto, 241

Cross-Channel Triple-screw Steamer to Run Between Vancouver and Nanaimo, 263

Deep-water Berths Projected at Durban. 129 Destroyers for Roumania, Design Order Given to J. I. Thonrycroft and Co., Ltd., 140

Dublin Bay, Measured Mile for Speed Trials of Sea-going Vessels, 355

Ferry Boat, Oil-engined, for Conveyance of i MotorCars, 185

Hamburg-American Motor Passenger Liner Ordered, 577

H.M.S. Berwick, Light Cruiser, Completed, 469

H.M.S. Nelson, Britain's Most Powerful Battleship, Completed, 441

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS {continued): Merchant Steamers at South Kensington Science Museum, 456

North German Lloyd Vessels to Call at Galway, 75

Rapid Work in Cargo Discharge, 136

Refrigerator Motor Ship, A Large, 370

Repairing Accommodation, Additional for, Trawlers at the Port of Fleetwood, 657

Secondary Batteries in Warships, 469

Sherard Osborn, Ex-Cable Ship, Fitted Out for Oil Extraction from Non-edible Fish. 159

Shipbuilding Industry Materials, Board of Trade Deputation, 154

Shipbuilding Industry Revival Reported from Moscow, 413

Shipbuilding in Russia, 374

Shipyard Reopening at Stockton, 213

Tonnage with Cargo and in Ballast at Ports of United Kingdom and to Other Countries, Statistics Show Reduction in Both for 1926, 299

Tonnage Under Construction for Great Britain and Ireland, 685

Tonnage of Vessels Entered into British India and Cleared Outwards with Cargoes, Analysis, 355

Trawler, First Steel Motor Twin-screw, in Shanghai, Launch of, 75

World Shipping, Improvement in Basic Conditions, 327

SHOWS— see Exhibitions

Skew Arches, Interesting Test Arrangement for Experiments on, Professor G. E. Beggs, 269 Smokeless Fuel Plant at a Gasworks, Results

Exceed Expectations, 269

Sodium Carbonate Solutions, Adverse Effects on Aluminium, 551

Solway Viaduct Closed as Dangerous, 303

Soviet Spinning Factory, First Opened in Russia, 159

Spanish Plans for Compulsory Expropriation for Hydro-electric Development, also for Construction of Road Exclusively for Motor Cars. 45

Speed Indicator, Vest Pocket, Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company, 286

Spirit Distilleries in Groat Britain, Census, 299 Spodumene Lithium Orc from Canada for

German Experimental Use, 383

Steam Pipe, Flexible Metallic, Failure of, on an Engine Makers’ Test Bed, 523

Steam Road Vehicles and their Coal Consumption, 577

Steam Turbo-generators in Russia, Attempt to Extend Construction, 495

Steel—see Iron

Stone Preservation, 566, 635

Storing Drawings for Reference, 566

Story of the Electric Detonator, 551

Suction Gas Power Plant Superseded by Steam Engine, 75

Sulphite Cellulose Process, Memory of its Discoverer to be Marked by Fund for Research, 355

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Likely to Become the Largest Structure in the British Empire, 657

Sydney Harbour Bridge Bearings, Special Train Necessary for Transport of, 75

T TECHNICAL Teachers, Annual Conference, 342

Telegraph Offices Along Chinese Railway in Manchuria and Competition of Long-distance Telephones, 15

Telephone Cable to Belgium, Group of Lines Opened, 495

Telephone Kiosks, Large Number Erected and Increasing, 657

Telephone System’s Growth and Flourishing Condition Notwithstanding Coal Stoppage and General Strike in 1926, 299

Telephone Talk Between Great Britain and Certain American States at £5 4s. per Minute, 213

Television—see Wireless

Tenders of Widely Varying Amounts, 327

Testing Machine, Largest and Most Powerful in

Canada, 185

Tientsin and Tungchow, Proposal to Reopen Canal Between, 75

Tin-bearing Land in Queensland, Company

Formed to Work it, 101

Tin Discovery at Largs, Ayrshire, 269

Tin Mine, Tambo, Northern Transvaal, Development of, 441

Tin Ore Deposit in the Northern Transvaal.

Great Extent of, .355

Tin-plate Company Starting New Mills, 159

Tire Puncture on Four and Six-wheelers, F. A.

Boyce, 169

Tires, Manufacture of Various Types, Pirelli, Ltd., 685

Toronto Bricklayers’ Increased Wage. 101

Toronto’s Harbour Project, Necessary Expenditure, 269

Transatlantic Conversation with Possibility of

Seeing as Well as Hearing the Speaker, 15

Tristan da Cunha Receives First Steamer Visit

for Twelve Months, 213

Tunnel Aqueduct, A Second, to Carry Water from the Catskills to New York, 413

Turbine, Fourneyron, Celebration of the Invention, 629

Turbine Pumps for Shanghai, Holden and

Brooke, Ltd., 566

Tyneside Big Advertising Campaign. 495

Tyneside and Unemployment, 495

V VACUUM Cups to Replace Slings, 269

Vacuum Tube, Reputed World’s Largest, Now in Use in Radio Station, 551

Vanadium Properties, Opinions Differ, 413

Venezuelan Government Scheme for Widening

Bay and Port Reconstruction, 75

Vickers Group Amateur Operatic Society, 222

Vizagapatam Harbour to Become Transhipment Port for Manganese Ore, 383

w WADE’S Tables. 113

War Office Large Contract for Hacksaw Blades, 602

Water Powers of Canada, Nelson River Capacity, 677

WATER SUPPLY : Australian Water Catchment Neglect, Proposal to Remove Control from Government Departments, 603

Brixton and Newton Ferrers, Scheme for Water Supnly, 125

Chungking. China, Projected Supply, 629

Gatineau River, Quebec, Large Storage Reservoir, 685

Geelong, Victoria, District, Projected Increase of Stocks of Water, lol

Groendal Water Scheme of Uitenhage Town Council, South Africa, 547

Metropolitan Water Board Electrically Driven Centrifugal Pumps, 685

Redruth Town’s Water Supply Augmentation, 495

Reservoir, Record, for Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, 441

South Australian Water Supplies, Hume Reservoir Threatened, 603

Sydney Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board Contract for New Pipe Line, 441

Sydney Water Supply Augmentation by Cordeaux Dam, 355

Water Conservation, Proposal to Dam the Lachlan River, New South Wales, 355

Water and Sewerage System of San Jos6, Costa Rica, Commission to Consider Extension, 75

Waterworks Pumping Plant, Centrifugal Type, Mather and Platt, Ltd., 228

World’s Water Reservoirs’ Capacities, 159

WATER-TUBE Boiler Tube Failure, 523 Water Wheels in Power Plants in the United ■States, Capacity of, 577

Waterworks, Old Buildings, at Slough to bo Converted into Factory, 129

Winnington Chemical Works, Reconstruction Contemplated by Brunner, Mond and Co., 355

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY : Amazon River, Broadcasting Station to be Erected on, 327

Atmospherics. Range of Interference with Reception, 577

Birmingham Proposes By-laws for Control of Wireless Aerials, 629

British Broadcasting Corporation's Proposed Change, 657

Broadcasting Station, Large, at Zeesen. 685 Calcutta and Bombay Stations of Indian

Broadcasting Company to Begin Work in August, 551

Characteristics of Wireless Waves Ten Miles Aloft, Test by French Scientists, 441

European Broadcasting Stations, Minor Adjustments in Wave Lengths Projected, 551

European Wireless Engineers’ Conference, 213

Federal Radio Commission Orders to Stations, 629

High-power Broadcast Station in Germany Audible All Over Europe, 441

Hull Trawlers Proceeding to Greenland Equipped with Wireless Telephone Apparatus, 685

Loud Speakers, Lecture and Demonstration, J. E. Roe, 577

Nanking. Wireless Station at Pehchikoh, 75

Portable Radio Direction Finder, F. W.

Dunmore, 233

Rumanian Company to Monopolise Broadcasting Manufacture of Radio Apparatus, &c„ 299

Ship’s Wireless Equipment, Simple Spark and Continuous Wave Telegraphy. 299

Sophia, Tenders for New Wireless Telegraphic and Telephonic Station from British, French and German Firms, 303

South Seas Wireless Stations Broadcast Copra Quotations, 213

Telephone Receiving Station, Transatlantic, in.Scotland, 3-Mile Long Aerials, 441

Television Between London and Glasgow, 629 Television Between New York and Washington, Successful Demonstration Over 250 Miles, 441

Transatlantic Wireless Telephony Receiving Station at Kern back, Near Cupar, 327

Wireless Communication Between Lighthouses on the Clyde, 657

Wireless Problems Discussion at Colonial Conference in London, 657

WOOD Preservers’ Association, American, Incising or Treating Timber, Tests on, 413

Wood Protection by Aluininium'Leaf Coating, 185

Workington Dock Opening. 629

World Motor Transport Congress, 327

YEAST-making Industry, New, Starting in

Western Canada, 577

z ZEEBRUGGE Mole, Project to Replace, by One Built on Arches, 491

Zinc Reduction Plants, Production of Slab

Zinc in U.S.A., 441

See Also

• The Engineer 1927 Jan-Jun: Index