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A ACCIDENTS in Witwatersrand Mines, 315 AERONAUTICS: Aeroplanes for Bulgaria, British and French Contracts, 447 Chinese Aeroplane Service for Passengers and Goods, 661 Compass, Earth Inductor Type, for . Air Service, Satisfactory Results, 41 Hangars, Balloon, Method for Regulation of Temperature, 121 Non-stop Aeroplane, 2600 Miles, Across the United States, 553 Royal Air Force Pageant , 553 Survey of Projected Electric Transmission Line by Photographs from Aeroplane, 546 Transatlantic Aeroplane Service, London, vid Plymouth, Lisbon, &c., to New York, 579 Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, Dr. J. S. Ames, 299 Zeebrugge Aeroplane Construction Industry, 367 AERIAL Ropeway for Boiler Ash Conveyance, 294 African Artists, Brass Castings at Benin and South-West Adamawa, 121 A-L Club’s Dinner, 8 Air Compressor, Need of Careful Supervision to Avoid Excessive Cost, 607 Air Heater Invention of Swedish Engineer, Technical Opinions on, 499 Alkalies Action on Boiler Plates, Investigations, 499 Alldays and Onions, Limited, Long-service Presentations, 129 Alloys Resistance to Corrosion, 330, 473 Aluminium-Iron, 15 Per Cent. Alloy, Good Results for Castings, 93 Aluminium Production in the United States, Exports and Imports, 473 Ammonia, Purity of, Rival Claims of America and Germany, Comparison with Great Britain, 661 Amsterdam to Construct Tunnel under the Y River, 121 Anti-dazzle Light Eill, 13 Apprentice Advancement Scheme, Presentation of Certificates at Central Marine Engine Works, 287 Arsenical Deposits Reported in British Columbia, 697 Asbestos Deposits in Western Australia, 315 Asbestos and Serpentine, Extensive Alternate
Seams Discovered in the Transvaal, 231
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES: ASSOCIATION, DIESEL ENGINE USERS’ : Avoidance of Scale Troubles, and Cooling
Water Circulation, 607
ASSOCIATION OF DROP FORGERS AND STAMPERS :
Lectures by Dr. Leslie Aitchison, 231, 367
ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS-IN-CHARGE : Annual Dinner, 387 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) : ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, MANCHESTER : Lathe Tools Research Committee Investigations, 13
INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :
Birmingham and Midlands Sections, Restoration after having Lapsed, 261 INSTITUTE OF COST AND WORKS ACCOUNTANTS :
Standardisation in Costing, Conference, 239
INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
Annual Meeting and other Functions, 125
Carnegie Fund Grants in Aid of Research,
Notice, 147
INSTITUTE OF METALS :
Development of Membership Overseas, Formation of Local Sections, 41
INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT : Election of Officers, 485 Fourth Dinner, 511 Third Annual Congress, 315, 579 INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
Ball Bearings, New Departure in Discusion upon, 525
Summer Visit in Liverpool, Programme of, INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS : Oxygen in Gas Making, 661 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS : Awards for Papers, 485 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS : Annual Dinner, 151
Annual Meeting, Presentations to the Institution in Memory of Dr. Silvanus Thompson, 534 Faraday Medal Award to Sir C. A. Parsons, 211 Premium Awards for Papers, 1922-23, 622 Presentation to Mr. J. W. Meares by Indian Friends, 120
War Memorial Scholarships, 322 Wireless Section :
Radio Station Towers and Masts, Design of, C. F. Elwell, 367 Winding of High-frequency Inductances, Professor C. L. Fortescue, 588
INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
Dinner in Celebration of Foundation Anniversary, 537
Midland Section :
Neglect of Use of Specifications of the Engineering Standards Association, Dr. C. C. Garrard, 67 INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS : Central Heating, Useful Information in, B. R. Wingfield, 121 Summer Meeting at Folkestone, Paper by Mr. J. Roger Preston, 676 INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS : Address of Hon. General Secretary, 116 Annual Dinner, 353 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :
Meeting to Consider Formation of New Society, 41 William Henry Allen Grant Award, 619
INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY :
Awards for Services, 299
INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS : Powdered Fuel and Lancashire Boilers, E. A. Leybourne, 473 Turbine Troubles and their Causes, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Mr. W. Kerr, 579 INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS : Methods of Testing Physical Properties of Oils, 499 INSTITUTION OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERS : Depth of Drilling, L. C. Keen, 473 INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS : Annual Report, Membership, New President, 231 Grouping and the Institution’s Members, 41 Presidential Appointment, 175
“ Proceedings,” New Issue of, 689
Railway Accidents During 1901-1920,
George Holt, 447
INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
Annual Meeting, Report, Election of Officers, 514, 540, 622 Measurement of the Heating Value of Gas, C. V. Boys, 421 Meetings and Elections, 256, 540, 622
INSTITUTION OF RUBBER INDUSTRY :
Rubber and Paint Industries, Dr. D. F.
Twiss, 447
Manchester Section :
Volatile Solvents Recovery, J. H.
Mandelburg, 261
INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS :
New Title for Concrete Institute, 8
Visit to Gloucester, 669
SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :
Fuel Briquettes, Pitches Used in Manufacture, A. Grounds, 121 Birmingham and Midland Section :
Modern Electrolytic Methods, Alex. E.
Tucker, 13
SOCIETY, FARADAY :
Alloys Resistant to Corrosion, J. F. Kayser, 473 Electronic Theory of Valency, Discussion at Cambridge, 594
SOCIETY, OPTICAL :
Annual General Meeting, Election of Officers and Council, 269
SOCIETY, PHYSICAL :
Electrified Spheres Problem, Completion, Dr. Russell, 240 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL :
Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, Dr. J. S. Ames, 299
SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
Heat-resisting Glasses, Sir C. Parsons on Professor W. E. S. Turner’s Paper, 499 Paint Work, Rubbing Down, Damp Process and its Advantages, C. A. Klein, 231 AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Harbour Dredging Project, 525 Australian Customs Tariff Decisions, British Preferential Rates, 553 B BAUXITE in British Guiana, Extensive Deposits, 261 Beama (British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association) Dinner, 322 Beardmore News, 116 Belgian Congo Export Trade, Remarkable Increase, 341 Birmingham’s Scheme for Direct Outlet to the Sea, 689 Bitumen from Tar Sands for Surfacing Roadways, 67 Blast-furnaces—see Iron and Steel Boiler Efficiency at 85 Per Cent., W. M. Selvey, 421 Boiler, Large, Fired with Powdered Coal, Tests of, 367 Boiler, Marine, Return-tube, Board of Trade Report on Failure, 473 Boilers, Effluent Tank Water for, Doubtful Resource, 689 Boilers, Water-tube Marine, Board of Trade Standard, 175 Bombay, Scheme for Reclamation of Back Bay, 499, 607 Brass and Copper, Association of Large Users of, 421, 463 Brass Furnace Practice in the United States, 67 Brass Melting in Electrical Furnaces, 93 Brass, Standard, Experiments on, with Regard to Zinc Removal, 93 Bridge, Concrete, Longest in the World, 175 Bridge, Nerbudda, at Akbarpur, Details of, 661 British Cast Iron, &c.—see Iron British Columbia Log Output for 1922, 315 British Electrical Manufacturers—see Electrical Matters British Engineering Standards Associations : British Engineering Standards Specifications : Air Break Circuit Breakers, Air Break Knife Switches and Laminated Bush Switches, 421 Cast Iron and Enamelled Cast Iron, Steam- jacketed Pans, 602
Dimensions and Properties of British Standard Rolled Steel Sections, &c., 704 Insulating Oils for Use in Transformers, 499 I Piston Rings for Motor Car Engines, 169
British Engineers’ Association : Ground Plan Showing Progress of Space Letting in the British Empire Exhibition, 421, 689
Shipbuilding, Marine and General Engineering Exhibits, Over 75 per cent, of Space Already Allotted by the Association, 633 British Motor Road Roller with Scarifier, Advantage of, 41
British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association :
Communication of Investigation Results, 261
Polishing Metals, Investigation of Materials
Used, Dartrey Lewis, 287
Bronze Alloy, Coronium, Composition of, E.
Hall Craggs, 473
Bureau of Standards, New Director, 689 By-product Coke Oven Plant, Large, Hamilton,
Ontario, 372, 661
CALORIFIC Value, W. B. Davidson, 553 “ Calorising” of Metals,Description of Process, 367 Canada and Scrap Metals, Import Duty Urged, Canadian Government Dry Dock at Esquimalt,
Vancouver Island, Construction Delayed by Accident, 315
Canal, Proposed, in China between Chekian and Tientsin, 93 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Simplified Detection of, 661 Carrot River Valley, Canada, Reclamation, 287 Castings for Evaporators and Pans, 74 Catalogues for Kenya Colony, 282 Catalogues for New Zealand, 511 Cement Plant, Three-kiln, near Barry, Expected
Cost and Output, 315
Cement Works, Further Large, near Cardiff, 231 Central American Canal, Suggestion as to
Building a Second, 147
Chain-annealing and Safety of Workers, 175 Chilean Trade, Poor Supply of British Cata
logues in Comparison with other Countries, 67 Chimneys for Chemical Works, T. S. Clark, 371 China as a Market for British Machinery, 93 Chinese Government Chaos and Finances, 315 Chinese Houseboat as Electrical Showroom, 553 Clocks, Electric, Advantages of, 525
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES : Anthracite in the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Proposed Utilisation of, 499 Brazil Coal-mining Industry, Inferiority of Native Coal, 689 Brodsworth Colliery, Doncaster, Record Week’s Output, 315
Bulgaria, Increased Coal Production in, 607 Cantor Lecture on Brown Coals and Lignites, Dr. W. A. Bone, 181 Chinese Coal Production in 1922, 607
Coal-loading on Board Ships, New Apparatus, 175 Coal Reserve, per Capita, of Principal Countries, 689 Coal Resources, Estimate of Principal Countries, Comparison, 261 Coke, De-sulphurisation of, by Steam, Laboratory Experiments, 447 Coke-oven, Stella, and By-product Plant at Pelton, 231 Coke Supply Shortage and Damping Down of Furnaces, 315 Colliers Great Increase in Use of Electric Safety Lamp, 231 “Colloidal Oil” as Dust-laying Material in Coal Mines, Experiments, Professor Henry Briggs, 261
Delagoa Bay, New Coaling Plant at, 661
Explosives, Ammonium Nitrate, for Use in Coal Mines, 633 Generating Plant of the Cardiff Collieries, Limited, Completed, 367 Hamburg Supplied with Coal and Coke by United Kingdom, 689 Hydraulic Stowing for Coal Mines, A. J. A. Orchard, 341 India, British, Coal Exports from, Prohibited, 58 Istria Coal Mine, Singular Natural Features of, 579 Japan’s Coal Consumption and Increasing Coal Imports, 689 Jubilee Celebrations of the Fife Coal Company, Bonus to Old Workers, 13
Malayan Collieries, Coal Output from, 67 Northern Natal, Engineer’s Coal Report, 689
Reheating Furnaces, Economy by Use of Powdered Coal, 579 Saghalien Coal Mining Company Suggested, 661 Transport of Coal, Report of Advisory Committee for Coal Industry, 71 Transvaal, Eastern, Large Scheme for Coal Shipping, 315
Tyrone Borings, Excellent Coal Finds, 367 World’s Coal Production in 1922, 499
COBALT to Replace Nickel for Electro plating, Results of Trial, 41 Concrete Mixing, Determination of Water Amount, 287 Concrete Reservoir Cracking and Remedy, 261 Concrete in Sea Water, Reported Failure as
Protection from Marine Borers, 341
Copper, New Vein Discovered in Anglesey, 341 Copper Protection by Cuprous Oxide Coating, 525 Copper and Protective Value of Verdigris, 525 Cornish Tin-mining Industry Improving, 499 Corrosion, Alloys Resistance to, 330 Corrosion of Boilers, J. R. McDermot, 393 Corrosion, Resistance of Alloys to, Symposium at Sheffield University, 367 Coventry Libraries, 574 Crane, Overhead Travelling, Exceptionally
Powerful, 231
Creosoting Plant in Ontario for Treatment of Railway Sleepers, 393 Czecho-Slovakia’s Improved Trade in Coal and Coke, Pig Iron, Steel, &c., 447 D DANISH Investigation of Submerged Peat-bog, Interesting Revelations of the Late-Glacial Period, 633 Death of Professor R. Carr-Harris, 607 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Deterioration of Stonework in Buildings, Committee Appointed to Report, 553 Devonport Dockyard Men, Fluctuating Work
Affects Number Employed, 579
Diamond Fields of South-West Africa, Probable Life Limit of, 499 Diesel Engine Users’ Association, 8 Dockyard, Federal Government at Cockatoo
Island, N.S.W., to be Reorganised, 560
Dolcoath Mine and Government Guarantee, 367 Dredging the River Bidyadhari, Calcutta, Very
Urgent Need of, to Avoid Disaster, 48
Drogden Canal to be Dredged for Additional Depth, 689 Drop Forging, Lecture by Mr. Leslie Aitchison, 231, 367 Drought Anxiety in Spain, 261 Durban Grain Elevator, Further Effort to be
Made to Complete the Work, 689
Durban New Graving Dock, Progress of the Work, 367 E EARTH-CURRENTS, Study of, Researches on Magnetism, &c., Dr. S. J. Barnett, 447 ELECTRICAL MATTERS : Accident at Oldham Corporation Station, 261 Alternating-current Operating at Low Power Factor, Losses by, 41 Arc Welding Job, Unusual and Advantageous, 231 Arc Welding for Joints of Big Gasholder, 473 Australia, Snowy River Scheme for Electric Generation, 661 Automatic Control Applied to Sub-stations, 147 Auto-transformer and Two-winding Transformer Compared, 553 British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Grant of Fees and Scholarships, 525, 553 British Empire Exhibition, Electrical Exhibits, 121 Chesterfield Scheme for Use of Electricity as Condition of Tenancy, 287 Chinese Houseboat as Electrical Showroom, 553 “ Circuit Breakers versus Fuses,” Lecture by J. Anderson, 175 Durban’s Extensive Use of Electricity, 231 Earthing Plate, Satisfactory Characteristics, 421
Electric Condenser, New Type, 421
Electric Drills in Mines, Investigation to Secure Safety in Explosive Atmosphere, 231
Electric Generating Sets, 13
Electric Weld in Commercial Cast Iron, Results, 421 Electricity and Gas, Combined Undertaking for Supply of Both at Crowborough, 579 Electricity Supply in Unoccupied Areas, Lecture by A. Hugh Seabrook, 367 Farmers’ Electricity Supply, Difficulties of, 578 Fatal Accident from Electric Shock, Necessary Precautions, 121 France and General Electrification Problem, 147 Heating Devices, Electric, for Industrial Processes, 147 High-tension Transmission Line in Vancouver, 13 Industrial Depression and Reduction in Electrical Extensions, 13 Industries in the United States, Plan for Electrification of, 661 Japanese Electric Power Supply Concerns, 147 Johannesburg and its Power Problem Dilemma, Three Schemes, 67 Johnson-Rahbeck Effect, Rapid Writer for the Morse System, 473
Ka-Ka-Ka Falls in Canada to be Used for
Power Development. 579
Medical Aspects of Electricity, Dr. W. Clow, 13 Methods of Charging for Electricity, Amendment of Legislative Provisions, 41 Moravia, Four Supply Companies Organised, 633 Newcastle-under-Lyme, Projected Extension of Electric Generating Plant, 525 New Power Station Equipment in Ohio, 393
Ootacamund Government Loan for Electric
Lighting, 341
Otago (N.Z.) District Power Scheme, 559
Power Companies’ Incorporation to Develop
Falls on the Quinze River, Quebec, 633 Power-houses in Northern California, Second
Chain About to be Begun, 421
Power Plant on the Pacific Great Eastern
Railway Suggested, 341
Power Plant Projected at New Waterford, Nova Scotia, 341 Quebec Power Project, Electrical Equipment Contract, 447 Shortage of Electric Power Crippling Mines in Northern Ontario, 473 Sydney Electricity Supply Interruption, 261 Testing Transmission of Speech Over High- tension Lines, 88 Thermionic Effects Caused by Alkali Vapours in Vacuum Tubes, Drs. Irving Langmuir and K. H. Kingdon, 147 Transmission Line Under Difficulties from Kashira to Moscow, 13 Turbine Power Plant in Saxony, Wide Range of its Supply System, 41 Victoria Falls Projected New Power Station, 633 Victoria and Power Supply, Government Electricity Commission and Local Opinion, 41 Water Power Limitations, Mr. Theodore Stevens, 499 Worthing Generating Plant, Proposed Extensions, 473 EMPIRE Trade, 701 Engine’s Three Days’ Test at the Parsons Motor Company’s Works, 525 Esquimalt Dry Dock, Resumption of Work, 119 Excavation and Erosion, Lecture by Dr. R. L.
Sherlock, 287
Explosion in Oxygen Compressor, G. Stevenson Taylor, 579 EXHIBITIONS :
British Empire Exhibition :
Electrical Exhibits at, 121
Grouping and Guidance for Visitors and Buyers, 175 Space Letting Progress, Ground Plan, 421, 689 British Industries Fair at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, 67 Buenos Aires, Rural Exhibition, Seed Wheats and Corn of all Kinds, Corn Mills and Cleaning Machinery, &c., 231 Cologne International Fair, 60 Foire de Paris, 459 Gothenburg Jubilee Exhibition, 130 International Foundry Trades’ Exhibition, 41 International Gas Exhibition at Amsterdam, 393 International Mining Exhibition :
Oil Conference, List of Papers 574
Safety in Mines Exhibit, 525
Jubilee Exhibition in Gothenburg, 701
Leipzig Fair, Poor Results of, 341
Proposed Madras Exhibition Abandoned, 607
F FAIRS—see Exhibitions Faraday House Entrance Scholarships, 433 Federated Malay States Tin Stocks, Unfounded Rumour, 393 Files, Foreign-made, Collection by Overseas Trade Department, 315 Finsburians and Centralians, Combined Old Students’ Dinner, 239 Foreign Trade of British India, 498 Forestry Planting in China, 661 “ Foundryman’s Educator,” Arthur Greaves, 382 French National Credit Proposed for Development of Water Power, 681 French “ Trade Ship’s ” Voyage Round South America, 661 Fuel Economy Lectures at Sheffield, 67 Fuel Problem in Ontario, Use of Peat Beds Strongly Urged, 579 Fuel Supply, Causes of Great Britain’s Favourable Position, 261 Fuels, Moist and Fibrous, Heat Values of, 147 Furnaces for Burning Powdered Coal, Necessities of Design, 633 G GAS Masks and Respirators, Tests in American Tunnel, 553 Gas Supply and Lack of Coal in the War Period, Dr. H. Bunte, 633 Gas Undertakings in Germany, Herr Thyssen’s Ambitions, 499 German Blast-furnace Difficulties Due to Lack of Coke, 121 German Electrical Machinery Trade with Japan Disappears, 447 German Shipbreaking Industry Development, 553 Germany’s Large Use of Liquid Oxygen Plants in Mines, 553 Germany Underselling Japanese Cement Industry, 121 Glasgow Subway, 412 Glasgow Subway Railway Tunnel, Cementation to Prevent Leakage, 689 Glass-making Sand, Accidental Discovery of Silica in New Zealand, 231 Glass Melting by New Method, Alec Ferguson, 607 Gold Discovery, Recent, in Western Australia, 341 Gold Fields of British Columbia, Funds to be Raised for Development, 421 Gold Mines, Large, Comparison Between Two in West Australia and in Northern Ontario, 393 Gold Mines of the Witwatersrand, Duration of, Variously Estimated, 633 Gold Output of the Transvaal, 13, 490 Gold Rush to Labrador Predicted, 393 Grain Elevator at Durban, Further Efforts to be Made to Complete, 689 Grain Elevator Foundations at Durban, 499 Grain Elevator, 10,000,000-Bushel, for Montreal, Work on it to Begin at Once, 393 Grain Elevators, Port and Inland, for Capetown and Durban, 93 Grinding, A Useful Book, 79 H HARBOURS of South Africa, Development of Table Bay Harbour, Report and Scheme, 482 Heat Treatment of Metals and Alloys, Course of Lectures, Dr. O. F. Hudson, 405 Highway Bridge, Old Tension Bars Restored to Usefulness, 367 Hydraulic Press to Eliminate Hand-cut Dies in the Pressed Metal Industry, 67 Hydraulicing, Novel Form of, on the Vaal River Diamond Fields, 661 Hydro-electric Development, Big Scheme in Buffalo, 287 Hydro-electric Development in Quebec, Keno- gami Dam, 393 Hydro-electric Energy as Saving Coal Consumption in Canada, 93 Hydro-electric Facilities to be Increased at the Anyox Smelter, British Columbia, 93 Hydro-electric Power Lines Extension in Chihuahua, Republic of Mexico, 473 Hydro-electric Scheme on the Kootenay River, Big Tunnel and other Work Starting, 499 Hydro-electric Schemes in the Punjab, Indian Legislator’s Views, 447 Hydro-electric Supply in Bombay, Increased
Demand and Further Scheme, 341
I IDLE Days in Coal Mining, Heavy American Loss, 173 India’s Raw Material and Need of Organisation, 553 Indian Science Congress, Lecture on Hydroelectric Problems, Lieut.-Colonel B. Battye, 154 Industrial Fuel Conference in Paris, 93 Institutions—see Associations, &c. Internal Combustion Machinery for Ships Under Construction in Great Britain and Germany, 287 IRON AND STEEL : Acid-resisting Irons, Analysis for Corrosion Resistance Properties, 548
Alloy Steels, Etching Reagent for, 661
American Investigations and Hoped-for Benefit to Iron and Steel Industry, 689 Autogenous Welding of Nickel and Alloys, 579 Blast-furnace at Asansol, India, Said to be the Largest in Asia, 67 Blast-furnace Coke Industry, 499 Blast-furnace in Ohio, World’s Record Output, 287 Blast-furnace and other New Plant at Renishaw Ironworks, 315 British Cast Iron Research Association, Work and Appointments, 13, 121 Investigations on Iron for Motor Car and Cycle Engine Cylinders, Report in Preparation, also Further Resume, 552
Work of American Cast Iron Research, 174
Chromium in Iron and Steel Manufacture, Its Growing Importance, 499 Colombo, Iron Ore Deposits Near, 607, 661 Cutting Tools of Malleable Cast Iron, E. K.
Smith, 689
Ferro-titanium Manufacture, Important Deposits for Use in, 525 French Iron and Steel Production Decline, 393 High-speed Steels, Discovery of• New Constituents, 393
Iron from Lapland Ore, Question of, 661
Iron Ore Deposit Discoveries in Kursk, Russia, 553 Iron Ore (Hematite) Discovery in Johore, Malay, 393 Iron Ore Outcrops in Brazil, 421
Kent Coalfields Iron Development, 93
Malleable Iron Deterioration in Hot Dip Galvanising Process, Effect of Phosphorus and Silicon, 341 Mill Scale Influence on Iron, Controversy as to its Effect, 525 Mysore Distillation and Ironworks, 607 National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers :
Annual General Meeting and Elections, 367
Returns for December, 1922, 67
Returns for February, 1923, 287
Returns for March, 1923, 421
Returns for April, 1923, 525
Returns for May, 1923, 633
Newcastle, N.S.W., Reopening of Steel Works, 147 Nickel Steel, New, A Research Department Success, 553 Numbering of Forging, Casting and other Steels, American Engineering Standards Committee, 85 Pig Iron and Ingot Steel Production in Canada, Higher Costs Anticipated, 525 Pig Iron and Steel Output in the United States, 367 Powdered Coal as Fuel for Basic Steel Making in Open-hearth Furnaces, 633 Record Output of Iron Ore in Malay States, 147 Silicon Iron Demand in Japan, 147 South African- Companies’ Iron and Steel Amalgamation, 121
Stainless Steel, J. H. G. Monypenny, 261
Stainless Steel for Metal Bath and Lavatory Fittings, 367 Steel of High Quality, Cheapest Method of Making, B. Stoughton, 688 Steel Structures, Painting, or Galvanising, Relative Merits, 607 Sulphide Ores on the Pacific Coast, Reduction Experiments, 341 Swedish Iron and Steel Industries, Report for 1922, 175 Titanium Alloy Steels, Experiments and Rumours, 121 Titanium Pigment, Experiments and Success, 315 ITALY’S Progress in Power Generation, 499 J JAPAN’S Scheme for Under-sea Railway Tunnel, 67 Japanese Trade with Great Britain, Good Openings, but Need of Expert Agents, 41 Johannesburg, New Power Station Advised, 684 Journal of Scientific Instruments, 633 K KAOLIN Discovery in Eastern Finland, 607 L LAKE Albert Nyanza and Lake Tana, Investigations with View to Construction of Reservoirs, 41 Lakes Huron and Michigan, Regulation of Levels, 661 Lamps in Mines, Oil-flame being Rapidly Replaced by Electricity, 468 Lava from Mount Vesuvius Used as Fertiliser, 393 Lead-cable Borer in California, R. G. Hartman and others, 447 Lighthouses, Two, Projected, in Republic of Colombia, 93 Lighting, Public, Cost of, H. A. Butler, 661 Lightning Flash, Voltage and Horse-power Estimate, 421 Lights, Anti-dazzle, on Vehicles, Regulations Required, 13 Lignite Basin, Alhama, Murcia, Exploration Results, 93 Lignite Briquetting Experiments in Saskatchewan, Reported Failure and New Measures, 341 Lime Sludge as Substitute for Whitewash, 287 Liquid Chlorine Plant in Ontario, 13 Liverpool University New Building, 315 Liverpool University Students to be Carried on White Star Liners for Educative Engineering Purposes, 633 Locks between Rouen and Paris, Number to be Reduced to Expedite Transport, 579 Loughborough College, Presentation Day, March 10th, 1923, 302 M MAGGIORE, Navigation on the Lake, Concession for, 231 Malarial Mosquitoes in Mississippi Valley, Efforts to Limit their Breeding, 341 Manchester Steam Users’ Association, Report, 315 Marble, Copper and other Minerals to be Worked in Malay, 340 Marble, Formation of, Igneous or Aqueous ?
Theory and Experiment, 633
Marine Diesel Engines for Japan Vessels, 93 Marine Engineering, Present and Future of, 393 Marine Wood-boring Insects, .Investigation into Poisonous Substances for Extermination, 231 Mechanical Stoking with Mechanical Draught for Marine Service, R. Clark, 447 Metal Mining and Railway Building in China, Chinese Promoter’s Plans, 75 Metals Used in Solders, Necessary Precautions with Aluminium, 689 Metric System of Weights and Measures Advocated for United States, 231 Mexican Government and Petroleum Gas Utilisation, 261 20,000 Miles Run in Official Road Trial of Crossley Car, 468 Milling Machinery for Italy, 282 Mine Regulations for Issue to Workmen, 607 Mines, Deep and Shallow, Winding Speed in, 607 Mineral Resources in Vancouver Island, Canadian Pacific Railway Survey, 93 Miners’ Lamps, Increase in Illumination, in Weight and in Efficient Output, 147 Minneapolis and St. Paul, Extensive Power Construction Schemes, 67 Motor Car Construction of the World, 421 Motor Car Exhaust Gases, Tests, 473 Motor Car Gears, Differences in Ratio, 287 Motor Cars, New Material for Coachwork, 315 Motor Cycle Converted for Use Over Snow, Successful Trials in Norway, 473 Motor Lifeboat at a Regatta, 633 Motor Lorries Sold at Home by Disposal Board, 287 Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Society, and Ship and Boat Builders’ Association, 473 Motor Omnibuses in China, Projected 150 Miles Government Service Run, 499 Motor Vehicle Taxation System, Great Fight, 147 Muscovite and Molybdenite said to Exist in South-West Africa, 579 N NATAL Port, Progress of Wharf, Coal Storage Scheme, Oil Tanks, &c., 689 Netherlands East Indies Personal Landing Tax, 231 Newcomen Society Secretary in United States, His Advice, 499 Newcomen Society, Summer Meeting Programme, 645 New South Wales, Great Cemeint Scheme Proposed, 175 New York and Environs, Plan of, under Consideration, 261 New Zealand, Suggested Power Scheme at Taranaki, 341 Niagara Falls Power Company’s Hydraulic
Pressure Tunnel, 393
Niagara River, New Bridge Projected, 315 Niagara River, Steel Arch Bridge to Replace
Present Cantilever Bridge, 121
Nitrogen, Fixed, Plant for Large Production at Niagara Falls, 579 o OFFICE Ceilings Framework Electrically Welded in Place, 393 Oil Boring Abandoned at Roma, Australia, 92 Oil Can, New Type, Joseph Kaye and Sons, Limited, 269 Oil Conference—see Exhibitions, International Mining Oil Deflectors, New System, Mitchell Bearings, Limited, 689 Oilfield Discovery at Limogue, France, 341 Oil Fuel Depots and Tank Vessels in Spanish Harbours, 689 Oil Recovery from Seeds by Use of Liquid Air, 525 Oil Separation from Bilge Water, New System, 689 Oil Shales in New South Wales, Extraction of
Oil Abandoned as Unprofitable, 579
Oil Stations at Dunkirk for Fuel Supply to French Industries, 121 Oil Wells in California the Deepest Rotary- drilled, 341 Omnibuses, Accumulator Electric, Experi
ments at Lyons, 231
Omnibuses for Long-distance Transportation in China, 661 Ontario Hydro-electric System, Chippewa Development, 473 Ontario Legislature Appropriations for Provincial Hydro-electric Power, 525 Oxidised Kerosenes, Superiority Over Straight
Kerosenes for Engine Use, 315
Oxy-acetylene Welding, Success Dependent on Filling Material, 147 Oxygen Breathing Apparatus, Pros and Cons, 421 p PAINT, White, and Aluminium, Respective Properties and Advantages, 121 Paints and Varnishes, Durability of, Importance of Oil Used, 393 Palm Oil as Engine Fuel, Experiments, 287 Paper Industry in Alaska from Forest Timber, 142 Paper Manufacture and Australian Wood Pulp, Experiments, 455 Paris Experiments with Underground Moving Pathway, 447 Patentees Institute, “ What’s Wanted ” Book, 499 Petrol versus Gas Oil for Motor Cars, Cost of Petrol Running Four Times that of Gas Oil, 175 Petrol and Natural Gas, Large Quantities Obtainable from Illinois-Alberta Well, 421 Petrol and Paraffin Production in the United States, Record Increase in Petrol, 661 Petroleum and Gas Prospecting, Wasted Money, Petroleum in Kuruman District, South Africa, 175 Platinum Borings in Malaya, Success of, 93 Pneumatic Machines and Boilermakers’ Union in New South Wales, 367 Polish Lack of Wire Rods, 13 Pollution of Harbour Water by Waste Oil, Baltimore Attacking the Problem, 231 Porosity of Wood and Protective Coatings, 579 Portland Cement Output in the United States, 315 Port Natal, Proposal for Extension of Deepwater Berthage, 661 Portuguese Dock and Canal Construction at Oporto, Foreign Tenders Invited, 30 Portuguese West African Government Orders Track Material from England, 261 Presentation at Middlewich, 462 Pulp and Paper Mill, Most Modern in the World, 607 Pulp and Paper Plant, Large, in Vancouver, 13 Pyrometry, University Course in, 129 Q QUEBEC Development Company’s Extensive Operations, 607 Quebec Port, Dredging the North Channel of the St. Lawrence, 689 Quebec Power Plant on the Saguenay River to be Manufactured in Canada, 393 Queensland Irrigation Scheme at Dawson River, 367 R RADIUM Factory Near Antwerp will be Able to Supply all the Doctors in the World, 341 Radium in Large Quantities Available from the Congo, 93 Radium Production from the Belgian Congo, 661 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS : Aberdeen-Penzance Sleeping Cars Through Service, 656 Aberystwyth Station to be Replaced by New One by the Great Western Railway, 41 ; Improvements at Aberystwyth and Barmouth, 661
Accidents :
Accidents to Railway Servants, Inquiries, 183 Australian Railway Accidents, Official Inquiries Called for, 41 Broken Connecting-rod, London and North-Western Section, 633 ' Buffer-stop Collision, Another, at Liverpool-street, 420 Cardiff, Great Western Railway, Collision Caused by Signalman, Colonel Mount’s Report, 553 Collision at Abbey Gates, Report, 203 Collision at Birkenhead Park Station, Report, 203 Collision in Carlisle Station between Edinburgh and Glasgow Trains, 661 Collision Outside Derby Station, Major Hall’s Report, 693 Collision Outside St. Enoch’s Station, Glasgow, Report, 121 Collision, in Fog, on London and South- Western, Colonel Pringle’s Report, 93, 287 Collision at New Cross, London, Brighton and South Coast Section, Southern Railway, Report, 341 Collision at Retford, Report, 67 Collision, Serious, at Duren, 242 Derailment Near Bray Head, Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, 473 Derailment in a Fog Near Croydon, Report, 121 Elevated Railway, Fatal Accident in New York, 689 Fish Wagons Derailment in Scotland, 41 ;
Major Hall’s Report, 315
Havre Boat Train from Southampton in Collision During Fog, 93, 287 London and North-Eastern Collision between Electric and Steam Trains, 13 ; Major Hall’s Report, 499 London and North-Western Express, Slight Derailment, Report, 121 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): Accidents (continued) : Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway, Coaches Derailed by the Wind, 13 Mineral Train Out of Control, Collision at Forth Station, 93; Colonel Mount’s Pveport, 315 Ministry of Transport Inquiries—see also Ministry :
Fatal Collision at Retford Station, 175 ; Report, 203, 525 ; (Letters), 198, 256 Report on Collision at Hornsey, Great Northern Railway, 93
Reports for Quarter, July-September 30th, 1922, Thirty-three Inquiries, 367, 553
Three Accident Inquiries, 121 Rangoon Mail Fatal Accident, 553
Signalman’s Sudden Change and Resulting Accident at Pollockshaws, Colonel Mount’s Censure, 525
Swale Road and River Bridge Accident, 421 Tramway Accident Near Leeds, Fatal, 579 Amalgamation Tribunal:
Amalgamations Competition and Monopoly, The Chairman’s Views, 525 Approval of Absorption of Three Companies by South-Eastern Railway, Nine Companies by Great Western Railway, 93 ; Seventeen Companies by London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 367 Caledonian Railway Amalgamation to be Arranged by the Tribunal, 231, 473, 499 Caledonian Railway’s Refusal of Amalgamation Terms, 231 ; Tribunal’s Decision, 525 Exeter, Forest of Dean, and Midland and South-Western Junction, Absorption by Great Western Unarranged and Left to the Amalgamation Tribunal, 287, 499 Railway Clearing House Grouping Scheme Approved, 13 Railway Companies’ Association Distribution Scheme Approved of, 147, 237 Subsidiary Companies Remaining to be Absorbed by Various Railways, List, 499 ; Cases Heard by Tribunal, 520 Appointments and Staff Changes, 13, 41, 67, 93, 261, 315, 341, 447, 499, 553, 579, 633, 661 Austrian Railways and Sir W. Acworth’s Appointment, 499 Automatic Locking of Railway Carriages, Disadvantages of, 607 Automatic Ticket-issuing Machines, New Device, 473 Automatic Train Control, Railway Committee Considering Departmental Report, Automatic Vacuum Brake, 661 Bangor Station Reconstruction, 203 Basingstoke—see Southern Railway Belgian State Railways and Northern of France Non-stop Train, 579 Berne Hotel Converted to Swiss Government Department, 607 Booster for Trailing Wheels of Locomotive, H. N. Gresley, 689 British Association Liverpool Meeting, Reduced Fares, 315 British Railway Wagon, Corrected Figures, 175 Calais and Boulogne to Basle, Pre-war, Laon, Route Reopened After Repair, 553 Canadian Minister’s Change of Appointment, 553 Channel Tunnel, Trial Tunnel Proposed, 689 Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Loop, Condemnation and Abandonment, 499, 633 Cheap Tickets on Certain Days, London and South-Western Section, 633 Chilean State Railways’ Locomotive Orders, 341 Chinese Government Railways’ Revenue, 661 City and South London Tube, Proposed Junction with Projected Wimbledon and Sutton Railway, 499 Coaches Transferred from Midland Railway to London-road (Manchester) and Euston Service, 175, 315 Coal, Coke, &c., Conveyance, Companies’ Proposals, 416 Coal Trains for London Worked by Midland Section Men and Rolling Stock, 315 Conference Scheme for Trading, Railway Representatives, 633 Contract for Construction of Metropolitan and Great Central Branch Line, 13 Cost of Living and Railwaymen’s Wages, 579
Cup Final Traffic, Immense Increase on Estimate and on Last Year’s Figures, 473 Darlington’s Celebration in 1925 of Centenary of Opening of Stockton and Darlington Railway, 525 Death of Mr. J. J. Brewer, 499 Death of Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, 441
Delaware and Hudson Railway Company, Centenary Celebrations, 447 Docks and Harbours and Railway Companies’ Association, General Agreement Reached, 147 Driver’s Illness and Fireman’s Prompt Help, ? 473 East Coast Services, Great Improvements to be Made, 670 Electric Fog Repeater Signals versus Hand Fog Signalling, 607 Electric Locomotives in France, Various Contracts for, 393 Electric Locomotives’ Tenacity Under Serious Strain, 311 Electrification of Former South-Eastern
Railway, 287
Euston and Manchester, Train Timing Alterations, 287, 315 Fares Reduced to 50 Per Cent, above Prewar Rates, 13, 421, 447 Fay, Sir Sam, Director and Chairman of Beyer, Peacock and Co., 41 Ferry Service Removal from Southampton to Harwich, Dredging at Harwich, 633 Festiniog Railway Company Obtains Light Railway Order for Junction and New Station, 147
Finance Statistics, 421
Forth and Clyde Railway’s Changing Vicissitudes, 689 French Railways, General Electrification under Consideration, 198 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): French West African Railway Renewal and Repair, 287 Galway as a Transatlantic Port, 579 German Ruhr Coal Shortage and Railway Electrification, 553 Gleneagles Golf Course and Hotel, Benefit to the Caledonian Railway and to Railwaymen, Mr. J. H. Thomas, 525 Gold Coast Colony New Railway, 633 Golders Green, Record Train Service and Increased Size of Station, 147 Grand Trunk Absorbed by Canadian National Railways, 175 Great Central Outlay on Locomotives and Wagons, 261 Great Eastern Railway New Works in 1922, 121 Great Indian Peninsula and East Indian Railways, State Management Question, 315 Great Indian Peninsula Railway to Proceed with Bombay Suburban Electrification, 93 ; Electrification Contract'Award, 341 Great Northern and City Railway to Loth- bury, House of Commons Committee on Bill, 473 Great Northern Railway Self-congratulation, 231 Great Western Railway: Absorption of Nine Companies Approved by Amalgamation Tribunal, 93 Appeal to the Engineers for Fuel Economy, 447 Buckeye Coupling and other Improvements, 579 Dawlish and Teignmouth Section Blocked on Both Lines by Landslide and Trains Diverted at Exeter, 287 Federation of British Industries, Application with regard to the Great Western Railway, 660 Great Western’s Numerous Non-stop Runs, 661 Great Western Summer Service, Fast Cheltenham—Paddington Express, 661 Gwendraeth Valley Railway the Smallest Absorbed by the Great Western, 203 Halts for Access to Beauty Spots in Wales, 421
Men at the Swindon Works, 175
Oswestry, Two Railways’ Stations to be Combined, 447 Oxley and Kingswinford Junction Line Construction Resumed, 661 Proportion of Receipts for Wages and Dividends Respectively, 147 Prosperity of the Business and its Great Mutual Advantage to Company and Men, 41
Punctuality Record, 203
Quick Services, Two Additional, London to Bristol, 607 Record for Immunity from Fatal and other Accidents to Railway Servants Lowered in 1922, 442 Swansea Station, Projected Enlargement of, 261 Gresley, Mr. H. N., Removal of Office from Doncaster to King’s Cross, 533 Grouping—see also Railway Amalgamation Tribunal Guatemalan Link of Pan-American Railroad System, 421 Highland Railway Directors Transfer Amount of Compensation Paid to Them to the Inverness Infirmary, 315 Honorary Degrees for Railwaymen Formerly Students of Owens College, 447 House of Commons Committee and Various London Railway Proposals, 499 Hudson’s Bay Railway Project to have Priority over other Schemes, Manitoba Legislature Urgent for Action, 287 Hudson River New Steamship and Railway Terminus, 315 Illumination of Four Underground Stations Greatly Increased, 240 India, Report by Lord Inchcape’s Committee on Railway Retrenchments, 447 Indian Commercial Bodies and Railway Management, 231 Indian Government Loan, Second, to be Floated in United Kingdom, 393 Indian Railways and Central Railway Advisory Councils, 147 Indian Railways and Recommendations of the Acworth Committee, 499 Indian State Railways’ Locomotive Orders, 633 Institutions, Railway, Locomotive, Transport, &c.—see Associations Intensive Traffic Working, Address to Railway Students, H. E. O. Wheeler, 64 Investors and Railway Companies’ Earnings, 525 Ireland, North of, Resumption of Day Services vid Stranraer, 287 Irish Free State Railways Amalgamation, Joint Committee Appointed, 633 Irish Railwaymen and Pay Reduction, Arrangements by Northern and Southern Governments, and by Certain Companies, 41 Irish Railways’ Amalgamation, Great Northern Outstanding, 579 Irish Railways, Reported Amalgamation between Great Northern and Midland Great Western, 203 Isle of Sheppey and Mainland of Kent, Road Communication Restored, 231 Isle of Wight Railways Abolish Second Class, 67 Italian State Railways, Drastic Measures to Save the Railway Budget, 121 Life-saving from Asphyxiation in a Tunnel, 315 Lines Outside Compulsory Grouping Scheme, 261 Locomotive and Carriage Superintendents’ Committee, I.R.C.A., Annual Conference at Lucknow, 367 Locomotives, Government Built, and their Fate, 13, 393 Locomotives, Sixty, Put in Hand by Mr.
Hughes at Horwich and Crewe, 287
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued):
London, Midland and Scottish Railway :
Absorption of—
Charnwood Forest and Harborne Railways, Terms Agreed, 615
Mary port and Carlisle and the Mold and Denbigh Junction Companies, 67 Seventeen Other Companies, 367 Stratford and Avon and Midland Junction Railway, 41
Wirral Railway, Terms Agreed, 652 Appointments, 121, 315
Gift of Land to Abergele, 341
King’s Cross Train Arrangements, 341
Land and Estate Department Organised, 661 Question of Electrification between Broad Street and Poplar, 93 Temporary Alteration of Trains on Manchester, Victoria-Oldham Line, 447 Train from Southend to London, 13
Welfare Superintendent Appointed, 447 London and North-Eastern Railway :
Absorption of Humber Commercial Railway and Dock Company, 41
Absorption of Mansfield Company, 607
Engines and Rolling Stock Orders for Own Railway and Outside Firms, 499 Freight Rolling Stock, Central Control at York, 473 Labour-saving Plant and Machinery at Doncaster Wagon Shops, Greatly Increased Capacity, 525 Locomotive Workshops and also Carriage and Wagon Works, Both Managers at Darlington, 661 New Standard Colours for Engines and Coaches, 261 Staff Appointments and Changes, 13, 261, 341
Stores Department Appointments, 447 Viscount Grey and Economies, 261
London and North-Western Railway, Items of Capital Expenditure in 1922, 260 London and South-Western Railway, Final Meeting, Waterloo Reconstruction Cost, 203 London’s Tube and Omnibus Traffic Statistics, 231 Luxor and Assouan, Change from Narrow to Standard-gauge Railway, 231 Manchester - Liverpool Forty - minute Expresses Resumed, 367
Manchurian Communications, China’s Proposed Railway, but Japan Objects, 689 Maryport and Carlisle Pronounced the Senior British Railway, 203 Melbourne Railway Traffic Statistics, 553
Metropolitan District Railway Cars Unnamed, 382
Metropolitan Railway Station Near Wembley Stadium and Exhibition Grounds, 426 Mexican Railway Electrification, 121 Midland Railway Ball Programme, 175 Midland Railway Cost of Equipment in 1913 and Now, 261 Midland Railway Report, 203
Milan Central Station, New, Projected to Replace One Damaged by Fire, 154
Ministry of Transport:
Bishop’s Castle Railway, Negotiations for Absorption by the Great Western, 261 Figures of Coal Traffic in Relation to Coal Railway Rates Reduction, 41
Light Railway Orders Confirmed, 499
Members of Panels of the Tribunal for
Current Year, Names Announced, 607
Runaway Catch Points, 175
Safeguard for Traders in the Railways Act, 175
Scottish Railways’ Headquarters and Orders for Material, Application to Ministry, 473
Secretary to the Ministry, Retirement and New Appointment, 147, 175 Standard Rates and Charges, Delay in Companies Presentation of, to the Ministry, 67 Statistics, Monthly, Necessity for their Continuance, 231 Statistics for October, 1922, 41, 67 Statistics for November, 1922, 175, 198 Statistics for November (Mineral Traffic), 203 Stretford Urban District Council and Light Railways in the Manchester Area, 67
Transfer of Ministry to the Board of Trade, No Time Yet Fixed, 450 Mukden and Kirin Railway Construction, 367 Natal Railways Electrification, 261
National Union of Railwaymen and Suggestion to the Companies, 473 Newton Abbot Station, Projected Modernisation, 421 New Year Honours for Railway Officials, 13, 203 New York State Orders Electrification of Lines in New York City, 689 Non-inflammable Material in Rolling Stock, 315
“ Non-smoking ” Labels Abandoned, 633
North British Railway, Annual Meeting and Chairman’s Remarks, 341 North British Railway, Rates Reduction and Coal Prices, 261 Norwegian Rail Cars Ordered from Germany, 473 Orleans and Midi Railways’ Electrification Schemes, 561 Pennsylvania Railway Headquarters at Philadelphia, Fire at the Station, 661 Pneumatic Door Six-car Trains on the Piccadilly Line, 121 “ Pullmian, Limited,” London to Leeds and Harrogate, 393, 421, 670 Pullman Vestibule and Buckeye Coupling, Advantage of, 579 Rail Motor Cars, Former History on the London and South-Western, 261 Rails Rolled in the United States, Tonnage Statistics, 633 Railway Benevolent Institution, Annual Dinner, 473, 525 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued)-. Railway Companies, Chambers of Commerce and Federation of British Industries, 147 Railway Companies and Labour Unions, Chairman’s Rebuke to Outsiders, 525 Railway Companies and Press Criticism, 421 Railway Companies’ Representative and the
Unions, Progress, 421
Railway Dividends Improvement Since Decontrol, British and Irish, 147 Railway Expenditure, Authorised, Bill to Increase Amount, 473 Railway Fires Act Amendment, 393 Railway Material Exports Statistics, 67, 203, 231, 393, 579, 607 Railwaymen’s Wage Negotiations, 41, 393
Railwaymen’s Wages and Cost of Living, 689 Railway Purchase Offer and its Refusal, 13
Railway Rates Tribunal:
Annual Report, First, 1922, 393
Applications to the Tribunal, Colonel Ashley on Position, 499 Decision as to Tickets Subject to Statute, 382 Proposal to Set Up Local Joint Committees to Deal with Certain Matters and Make Representations to the Tribunal, 67, 121
Railway Shopmen’s War Bonus, 393, 447
Railways and their Men, British and United States, 147, 231, 367 Rates and Railway Stockholders, 661 Rates—see also Railway Rates Tribunal, also Fares Rotterdam-Amsterdam Railway Electrification, 382 Season Tickets at Half Rates for Juniors, 579
Season Tickets and Public Expectation, 614 Second-class on Railways, Suggested Abandonment, 341, 689 Shrewsbury and Welshpool Joint Line, 393 Southern Railway :
Basingstoke and Alton Railway not to be Abandoned, 666 Brighton Section of the Southern Railway, Sir William Forbes on, 121 Headquarters at Waterloo, 67 Premature Electrification Announcement, 147 Staff Appointments, 67, 661 South-Eastern Railway, Absorption of Three Companies Approved by Railways Amalgamation Tribunal, 93 South-Eastern Section Electrification Contracts, 382 South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Valedictory Meeting, Past History and Recent Improvements, 453 Staff Changes Consequent on Grouping, 93, 121, 261, 315—see also Appointments Stockholm-Goteberg Railway, Single-phase System Adopted for Electrification, 287, 661 Stoke-on-Trent Improved Train Service from Euston, 382 Storage on English and Welsh Railways, Reduction in Charges, 231 Streatham Junction, Tooting and Merton- road Line, Possible Restoration of Service, 393 Swedish Appropriations for Railway Construction, 447 Swedish Locomotive Building, 261 Swiss Federal Council and Furka Railway Completion, 175 Swiss Locomotives, Conference between Federal Railways and Locomotive Factories, 184 Swiss State Railways, Earlier Completion of Electrification, 226 Telegraph Department of a Railway, Figures, E. J. Collier, 175
Temiskaming and Northern Ontario, Railway Electrification, Favourable Report on, 116, 315 Temperance Among Railwaymen, 71
Third-class Sleeping Cars Not to be Started, 13 Thomas, Mr. J. H., New Year Message to Railwaymen on Wage Negotiations, 41 Traffic for the British Empire Exhibition and Sports Stadium at Wembley, Extensive Preparations by Companies, 67
Traffic—see Ministry of Transport, Statistics
Tram Extensions in Madras, Suggested Working by Gas Engines, 367 Transport of Coal, Report of Advisory Committee for Coal and the Coal Industry, 71 Tube Extension, Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton, or Great Northern and City, Question in Parliament, 231 Underground Electric Railways Company, Enormous Traffic by Road and Railway, 341 Underground Staff Suggestions Made and Adopted, 393 Unemployed Skilled Labour at Crewe Transferred to France, 607 United States Railways and their Men, Improved Relations, 147, 231 Venezuela, Report on Railway Concessions in, 287 Victoria (Australia), Holiday Trip of 1000 Miles, 13 Victorian Railway Electrification Extending, 553 Virginian Railway, Electrification of 215 Miles, 553 Waterloo Station, Reconstruction Cost, 203 Weather, Holidays, Men’s Unions and Railway Rates, 689 Week-end Tickets Concession, 473 Welsh Highlands Light Railways Progress, 203 Welsh Highlands Railway Opening, 579 West Somerset Mineral Railway Company Wound Up and Dissolved, 341 Wimbledon and Sutton Railway, Bill Passed Third Reading, 579 Woolwich Locomotives, Built and Partly Built, are Still Unsold, 13, 393 Workmen’s Tickets and Railway Liability, 607 RECORD Speed at a Pulp and Paper Mill, 632 Refractory Material to Withstand More Severe Heat, Great Need in Metallurgy, 231 Reservoir, The Gouin, Quebec, One of Largest in the World, 607 Rhodesian-Congo Border Concession Company, 362 Rio Tinto Mine Worked by the Phoenicians over 1000 Years B.C., 473 Road Programme Cost in Quebec, 689 Road Transport Completes Ruin of Canals Begun by Railway Competition, 579 Roofing Materials, D. Anderson and Son, Limited, 645 Roumanian Engineer’s Plan to Keep Open in Winter the Channel of St. Lawrence River, 481 Rubber from Dutch Indies, Increased Export, 393 Rubber Industry, Institution, Papers—see Associations Rubber-covered Roadway, Experimental, near Manchester, 402 Rubber as a Road Surface Dressing, Success in Ceylon, 41 Russian Manganese Ore Export Decline, 607 s SAFE Doors, Messrs. Chubb and Son’s Film Exhibition, 130 Salmon River, Idaho, and Water Power Projects, 473, 525 Salt Deposits in Nova Scotia, Development, 421 Sandpaper for Cleaning Off Paint, &c., while Damp, Special Advantages, 633 Sanitary Science Research, Scholarship Offered for, 175 Saturated Air, Circumstances Producing Ill Effects from, 499 Sawdust Burning for Boiler Purposes, 147 Scholarships, Electrical—see Electrical Matters Scientific Periodicals in Great Britain, Libraries where they can be Consulted, 121 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS: Diesel-driven Ship Service between Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 147 Fires on American Ships Due to Spontaneous Combustion in Coal, 633 German Submarine Engines’ Light Weight, Dr. G. E. Lucke, 147
Hong Kong, Shipbuilding in, 8
Launch with Gas Engine and Producer for Hangchow, China, 661 Leviathan Overhauling at Newport News, Slow Progress, 147 Lifeboat, Motor, for Cromer, 574 Lifeboats’ Automatic Illumination on Launching, 525 Mauretania’s Latest Type Direction Finder, 525 New Zealand Ship Rotorua, Largest Passenger Steamer on Panama Route, 341 Prize for Internal Ship Decoration Design, 607 Propelling a Cargo Boat, 565 Screw Propeller with Five Blades, 579 Shipbuilding in Canada at Very Low Ebb,393 Singapore, Projected Naval Base for Modern
Ships, 315
Three New 20,000-Ton Passenger Liners to be Built by Harland and Wolff, Limited, 689 Turbine-driven Ferry Boats for New York, 93 Wooden Steamers, War-time, from British Columbia, 287 SIEMENS and Halske and Siemens-Schuckert Companies 80 per cent. Dividends, 261 Silvanus Thompson Memorial Lecture, Conversazione, &c., at Leonard-street Technical College, 50, 93, 101 Silver Discovery of Remarkable Value in Keeley Mine, Canada, 287 Societies—see Associations. &c. South African Mint Coining, 661 Spanish Copper Companies’ Inter-agreement, 507 Speaking Flame, Talking Pictures and Broadcasting, Reported Invention, 525 Standardisation in Cost Accountancy, Verbatim Report, 341 Steam Boiler, the “ Atmos,” Test of New Swedish Type, 341 Steam Temperatures, Difficulty of Control, 607 Submerged Bridge, Largest in India, 633 Suez Canal Improvements, Immediate Start, 175 Suez Canal Ore Traffic Figures, 67 Sugar Beet Factory Suggested in the Spalding Area, 341 Sukkur Barrage Scheme, Government Sanction Given, 421 Summer Vacation Lectures at Grenoble, 704 Swiss Aluminium Industry Statistics, 13 Sydney Harbour New Bridge Tenders, 362 T TASMANIA, Projected Shipping Port at Cole Bay, and Railway from, 499 Tasmanian Tin-bearing Discovery, 147 Telegraphic Line Between Kilo, in the Congo, and British System, in Uganda, 175 Telephone Service, Need of Adequate Provision for, in Construction of Large Buildings, 367 Telephone System in New Delhi, Cables About to be Laid, 579 Telephones of Western Europe, Technical Administrators’ Meeting, 294 Testing Machine, Largest in the World, 175 Thornycroft’s Educational System, 645 Thornycroft Suction Gas Lorry, 568 Tidal Power Problem, Dr. Ing. Siemonsen, 261 Tiles and Brick from Castor Oil Beans, 287 Timber Consumption in Illinois Coal Mines, 499 Timber in Saskatchewan, Statistics, 689 Timber Seasoning, Opinion of Forest Research Expert in India, 689 Tin Industry, Termination of Burma Government Scheme, 261 Tin-plates Imports into Netherlands East Indies, Nearly All from Great Britain, 231 Tin-plates, Peppery Blister in, Professor Edwards, 633 Tin Stocks and the Bandoeng Agreement, Arrangement Made, 473 Titanium—see Iron and Steel Torbanite Discovery in South Africa, Expected Oil Yield, 499 Toronto Harbour, Increased Activity of, 447 Transmission, Electrical—see Electrical Matters T.N.T., Picric Acid and Tetryl, Specific Heats of, Determinations in American Laboratory, 553 Tunnel Proposed for Diversion of the Salmon River for Development of Water Power, 473, 525 Turbines for Winnipeg Hydro, 315 u UNEMPLOYMENT Increase in Switzerland, 13 University of London, Four Lectures on the Control of the Speed and Power Factor of Induction Motors, Professor Miles Walker, 170 University of Sheffield, Symposium on Resistance of Alloys to Corrosion, 367 V VALPARAISO, Port of, Extension of the Mole and Harbour Works, 607 Vancouver Harbour Widening, 341 Vancouver and North Vancouver, First Bridge to Connect the Two, 93 Vizagapatam, Proposed Harbour, 315 Volcanic Islands Erupting off Cochin China, 525 w WAGES Proposals Ballot in Railway Wagon Building and Repairing Trades, 447 Walsall, Proposed Establishment of Engineering Society, 341 Water Power Schemes for Canada Several New, 341 WATER SUPPLY : Chicago Water Supply, Enormous Daily Demand, 607 Metropolitan Water Board Scheme North of the Thames, 315 Ministry of Health Advisory Committee, 175
Montreal City Waterworks and its Cost, 315 Rio de Janeiro, Water Supply Extensions,
Projected by Brazilian Government, 261
Three Electrically Driven Pumps for Calcutta Water Supply, 473 WELDED Pressure Vessels, Results of Tests, 231 Welded River Crossings, N. E. Wagner, 579 Welland Ship Canal, Work on, 315 White Enamel Resistant to Acids, New Type, 447 Whitworth Society Dinner at Olympia in September, 421 Why Research is Necessary, 673 Winnipeg City Hydro-electric System to Install Steam Stand-by Plant, 689 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY : American Radio Messages to Munchentuch- see (Berne) Station, 673 Audibility of Wireless Signals, Experiments in Method of Increasing, 661 Basis of Wireless Communication, Sir Oliver Lodge, 93 Bibliography of Publications on Wireless, 13 Birmingham Broadcasting Station, 661 Broadcasting Stations in the United States, 553 Colombo Wireless Station Condemned as Out of Date, Projected Improvements, 367 Direction Finders, Wireless Newest Type on the Cunarder Mauretania, 525 Greece, Radio Stations being Established in Accordance with International Agreement, 421 Harbin, Manchuria, Wireless Station Redeemed from the Russians, 511 Madagascar, Powerful Station at Antananarivo, 315 New Non-interfering Detector, Harold P. Doule, 67 Norway and Wireless Stations, Concession Asked for from Government, 41 Nova Zembla, Wireless Station to be Erected at, by the Russians, 579 Radio Communication Between France and Poland, Paris and Beyrout, 121 Radiophone Experiments in Mine Life-saving, 121 Radio Society of Great Britain (Formerly Wireless Society of London), Successful Experiments in Transatlantic Telegraphy, 67 Radio-telegraphy Between Bulgaria and Moscow, 661 Siamese Government and Bangkok Station, Withdrawal of Communication Permission, 147 South African Union Government and the Marconi Company, 175 Static Interference in Reception of Radio Signals, Prevention of, 67 Study of Short Wave Lengths by Amateurs, French Offer of Prizes, 147 Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Bell Island, Newfoundland, Wireless Stations Projected at, 315 Wireless and Aircraft, Captain P. P. Eckersley, 41 Wireless in the Provinces to be Regulated, Locally, 553 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY (continued): “ Wireless Town ” for England, Marconi Company’s Scheme, 392 W1TWATERSRAND Mines Development Since 1910, 367 Workmen Sent Abroad, Agreement as to Wages Between Amalgamated Engineering Union and Engineering Employers’ Federation, 147 World’s Coaling Record at Port Said, 315 Y YANGTZE Port, New, at Kiukiang, 661 Yarn, Specially Treated and Tested. Results, 579 Yukon Gold Mined by Dredgers on the Klon- dyke River, 114 Yunnan, China, Minerals Abundant, but Capital and Means of Communication Lacking, 287 Yunnan, China, Programme for Development, 287 z ZINC Chloride as Wood Preservative, Necessary Precaution, 393 Zinc and Lead Concentration and other Plant to be Constructed for Mine in Quebec, 287 Zinc Works in Sardinia, Prospect of Italy’s Independence of Foreign Zinc Supplies, 393
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