The Engineer 1926/02/12

1926 February 12th PDF

• Contents, p 185

Main Subjects

• American Engineering Industries, p 190
  • Electrical Energy
  • Iron and Steel
  • Ocean Shipping
  • Labour
  • Simplified Practice

• A Motor Firefloat, p 192 - p 193 (Illustrated)
  • London County Council Fire Brigade
  • Merryweather and Sons

• A New Hydraulic Governor, p 191 (Illustrated)
  • South Metropolitan Gas Co
  • Percy Pitman
• A Seven-Day Journal, p171
  • Public Works in Spain
  • A Transatlantic Air Line
  • Motor Vehicle Repairers - Institution of Automobile Engineers
  • New Cruisers to be Launched
    • HMS Suffolk
    • HMS Cornwall
    • HMS Kent
    • HMS Cumberland
    • HMS Berwick
  • New Orders for the North-East Coast
    • Commonwealth and Dominion Line
    • Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson
    • Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co
    • William Doxford and Sons
    • Furness Shipbuilding Co
  • Royal Indian Navy
  • A Notable Trial Trip - build and engined by Harland and Wolff for Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
  • A Large Marine Wireless Installation - Marconi International Marine Communication Co
  • Highway Engineering
  • New Superintendent-Engineer, P and O Line - R. T. Clarke

• A Simple Hand Screwing Machine, p 194 (Illustrated)
  • Victor Engineering Co

• Editorial, p 185 - p 186
  • Misunderstandings about Steam
  • Power Factor

• Hydro-Mechanical Transmission Gearing for Motor Ships, p 179
  • Vulcan Werke

• Institution of Electrical Engineers, p 192 (Illustrated)
  • American Switchgear - H. W. Clothier
  • The Propagation of Radio Waves

• International Tests of Aeronautical Models, p 174
  • National Physical Laboratory

• Involute Internal Gearing (No. II), p 172 - p 174 (Illustrated)
  • Internal Gear Design
  • Tooth Strength
  • The Question of Interchangeability
  • Methods of Cutting
  • Interference

• Launches and Trial Trips, p 197
  • 'Tjisaroea', passenger and cargo steamer, by Netherland Shipbuilding Co for Java-China-Japan line. Engines by Werkspoor. Trial trip 15th January 1926.
  • 'Oakbank', motor vessel, by Harland and Wolff for Bank Line. Launch date 18th January 1926.
  • 'Patris II', passenger steamship, by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, for Byron Steamship Co. Trial trip 19th January 1926.
  • 'George L. Torian', steamer by Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering Co for Eastern Steamship Co. Launch 20th January 1926.
  • 'Storstad', motor oil tanker by Blythswood Shipbuilding Co for Klaveness Damskibsaktieselskab, Oslo. Engines by J. G. Kineaid and Co. Trial trip 20th January 1926.
  • 'Azania', steamer by Ferguson Brothers for Crown Agents for the colonies. Trial trip 28th January 1926.
  • 'Arthur W. Sewall', tank steamer by Armstrong Whitworth for Ivarans Rederi of Oslo. Launch 29th January 1926.
  • 'Nova Scotia' steamer by Vickers for Warren Line (Liverpool). Launch 29th January 1926.

• Linoleum Machinery (No. IV), p 180 - p 181 (Illustrated)
  • Melville-Brodie Co

• Main Line Railway Electrification, p 175 - p 178 (Illustrated)
  • Reasons for electrification
  • Choice of System
  • Extent of the present electrification
  • General Description - Puget Sound Power Co

• Notes on British Railways by a Continental Engineer (No. II), p 178
  • Permanent Way
  • Interlocking and Signalling

• Obituary, p 191
  • Gordon H. Fraser
  • Thomas W. Ward
  • Thomas Henry Tregoning

• Sixty Years Ago, p 187
  • John Noble and Co

• Some Notes on the Welding of Aluminium, p 189
  • National Physical Laboratory

• South African Engineering Notes, p 194
  • Irrigation of the Kalahari
  • Natal Railway Electrification
  • A Novel Power Agreement
    • W. H. Allen, Sons and Co
    • General Electric Co, Birmingham
  • Rhodesia's Mineral Riches
  • Reservoirs Troubled by Silt
  • Pulp Binder Invented

• The Brugg Sub-Station of the Swiss Federal Railways, p 185 and p 188 (Illustrated)
  • Brown, Boveri and Co

• The Improvement of Power Factor, p 182 (Illustrated)
  • Ball and Roller Bearings for Induction Motors
  • Static Condensers
    • British Insulated and Helsby Cables
    • Telegraph Condenser Co

• The Manufacture of Armour Plate, p 186
  • John Brown and Co

• The Werkspoor Marine Oil Engine, p 193 - p 194 (Illustrated)
  • Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
  • Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co
  • Werkspoor
  • North Eastern Marine Engineering Co
  • Hawthorn, Leslie and Co
  • Alfred Holt and Co

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