The Engineer 1927 Jan-Jun: Index: Illustrations
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A ABELL, Professor T. B.. Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodie*, 149 Aberdeen Water Supply. Old and Neu Reser- voirsat Invercannic, 21 (Supplement, January llh, 1927) Avera, Elder Dempster Motor Liner, 8, 9 “ Aero ” A. G., New Process of Combustion for High-speed Heavy Oil Engines, 632 A.D.C. Aircraft, Ltd., “Cirrus’* Mark 11.
75 80 H.P. Engine, 35 ; “ Nimbus,*’ 300- 330 H.P. Six-cylinder Engine, 35
Alcantara, R.M. Liner, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 210, 21 I Alexander, Dr. F. W., Models for Demonstrating Electrical Principles. 517 Allen-Liveraidge. Ltd., Acetylene Breakdown Equipment, B.I.F. Supplement, vii Allen, W. H.. Sons and Co., Ltd.. Balancing Gear, for a Four-cylinder 250 B.ll.P. Oil Engine, 692 Allen, IV. H., Sons and Co., Ltd., Bore-hole Pump. Model of, B.I.F. Supplement, vi, vii Alineda, Blue Star Steam Passenger Liner, t'ammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 22. 378, 379 {Supplement, January 1th, 1927) American Great Northern Railway Electrification. 107 Anglo-French Submarine Telephone (’able, Siemens Brothers and Co., 336 Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft. Ltd., “ Siskin “ 111. A. Single-seater Fighter, 37 ; “ Argosy ” Twenty-seater Three-
engined Air Liner, 36, 37
Ashdown, A. J., Heteropt ic Shutter. 82 Ashwell and Nesbit, Ltd., “ Runwell ” Rotary Pump. 694 Atkins, E. A., Drawing Steel Wire. 557 Avery, W. and T.. Ltd.. Dynamic Balancing Machine, 265 Avro “ Avenger " Single-seater Scout. 35 B BABCOCK and Wilcox. Ltd.. Win h Equipment at Cardington, 288. 300 Bailey, Alex. D.. High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford -avenue Station, 635 Baird Televisor, 27 Baldwin-Westinghouse Single-phase Electric Locomotive, Great Northern Railway, America, 107 Barbara, Rotor Ship, 11. 12 Bartley Reservoir. 182. 186 Bauer-War h Turbine Reciprocating Engine, 24 Baulino, Colonel Carlo, Continuous Fuel Indicator, 157 Beedes and St. Olave*. Suing Bridges Over the River Waveney. 176, 177 Belli.se and Morcom, Ltd., Multi-jet Condenser Set, B.I.F. Supplement, vi Berwick Bridge Over the Tweed 8 i Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Birmingham Water Supply, Bartley Reservoir. 182. 186 Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company. Ltd., “Sprat” Two-seater All-purpose “ Training Machine. 37 ; ” Iris Triple- engined Reconnaimaneo Flying Boat. 36, 37 Blackstone and Co., Ltd., 4) H.P. Air Compressor, 217 ; (Correction), 267 Blackstone and Co., Ltd., Vertical Oil Engine.
Exhaust Valve Gear, B.I.F. Supplement, v
Blue Star—*ee AI med a Bodmin Wireless Beam Transmit tmg Station.
Machinery Hall. 26 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927)
Bolton, Thomas, and Sons, Ltd . Large High- conductivity Copper Cant mgs. 611 Brighton—see Millars' Machinery Co.. Lid. Brinjee and Goodwin Three-roller Mill, Helical
Driving Gear, Spring Adjusting Gear, Ac., 438
Krixtol “ Badminton ” Single-water Racing Machine, 35. 36 : Bristol “ Berkeley ’’ Day Bomber. 34 ; Briatol “ Boarhound ” Two- neater Military Machine, 34 Brituah Electric Transformer Company, Three- pliaae 1 ran*/ormer. 266 Bnii-h Indu«tnc« Fair, 217, 236. 264 British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., Direct-current Controller with Pivoted Contact Finger, also Unbreakable Resistance, 236, 237 British Thomson-Houston Company. Ltd.. U Typo Motors, Alternating and Direct- Current, Squirrel-cage and Slip-ring, Squirrel cage Rotor, Brush Gear, &e., 266, 277 Buckton, Joshua, and Co.. Ltd., Martin Balance Machine, Planing Machine, Testing Machines, B.l.F. Supplement, i, ii Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway. Six- coupled Three-cylinder Engine, Vulcan Foundry Company, Ltd., 7 Bunau-Varilla System of Water Sterilisation, 234 Burrator Dam, Removing Masonry Prior to Raising, 52 Buxton, Safety in Mines Research Station, Near, 651, 652 c CAMBRIDGE Instrument Company. Combined Indicating and Recording Set, 41 ; Dissolved Oxygen Apparatus, 14 ; Schering Galvanometer. 13 ; Surface Pyrometer. 41 Cammen, Leon, Centrifugal Casting of Bare, 574 Canadian-Pacific Liner Empress of Australia. Reconditioned. 649, 658 Canning, W., and Co., Ltd., Automatic Electroplating Machine, 264, 265 Cardington Airship Shed and Mooring Tower. 230, 242, 258, 270. 288. 300 ; (Addendum), 586 Carlisle, Willow Holme Electric Power Station at, 573, 578 Carnarvon Castle. Motor Passenger Liner, Harland and Wolff. Ltd., 8. 9 (Supplement, January 1th. 1027) Caversham Bridge Over the Thame*. 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Central Argentine Railway. Eight-coupled Cross-compound Engine, Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd.. 6. 7 Chatwin, Thomas, Ltd.. Automatic Screwing Machine, B.l.F. Supplement, v Clan Macnnughton. Improvised Stern Frame. 22 Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., 50 B.H.P. Cold starting Heavy Oil Engine, Fuel Pump and Governor. 80 Clayton Wagons, Ltd., Light Steam Locomotive, 381 Cook. Professor G.. Determination of the Efficiency of an Exhaust Gas Boiler, 403 Coursey, Philip R.» and If. Andrews, Battery Eliminators, 412 Cowdray, Viscount (Portrait), 499 Crossley Brothers. Ltd., Hopper-cooled Oil Engine, 137 Cross ley-Premier Oil Engine for Pumping Plant at Epsom Waterworks, 569 Croat h waite Engineering and Furnace Company, Ltd.. Self-cleaning Grate and Sprinkler Stoker. B.l.F. Supplement, vi D DALBY. Professor W. E.. Energy Diagrams an I Comparative Result*. Marino Oil Engine Trial*. 406. 420. 421 Danish Motor Train Ferry Korsur. 610 Davidson and Co., Ltd.. Largo Mine Fan for Durban Navigation Collieries, 518 Davies, C. E.« Coilore for Cold Strip Rolling Mills. 92. 123 Delaware River Suspension Bridge. U.S.A., 202. 214, 231.304, 305. 318. 345 Dunoulin. Maurice. Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, 402, 430, 472, 486. 518 Deptford Power Station, Extensions at. 598. 604 Deutz 1000 B.H.P. Marine Oil Engine. 528. 54 4, 545 Dewrance, Sir John, Bronco Founding, 274 Dolores de Urquiza, Motor Train Ferry, A. and J. Inglis, Ltd.. 9 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Dominia, Cable-laying Steamer, Swan. Hunter and Wigham Richardson. Ltd.. 22 Doxford Four-cylinder Opposed-piston Airless- injeetkm Oil Engine, 10, 11 Drysdale and Co.. Ltd., Submersible Pumps for Mersey Tunnel Works. 386 Du ns heath, Percy, 33,O00-Volt fables with Met al-sheathed Cores, 99, 100 E EGCZON Hydro-electric Station and Dam on the River (’reuse, 64. 66, 76 Electricars, Ltd.. Elevating Platform Truck, 267 Eleclroflo Meters. Ltd., Motor-driven CO, Recorder, 239 Electromotors, Ltd.. Motors for Operating Centrifugal Pumps for Mersey Channel Works, 586 Ellison, George, Cubicle Switchgear, 532 Elverson Oscilloscope, 72 Enghaveplads Automatic Sub-station in Copenhagen, 584 English Electric Company, Back-pressure Turbine, Coupled to Alternator, anil Governor Gear, Machine Nozzle for Turbine, Rotor for Turbine, 16. 56 Epsom Waterworks. Oil Engine-Driven Pumping Plant at. 569 Esuuimalt, Dry Dock at. 39 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) Eyles, A., Some Notos on Soldering and Welding Aluminium. 121 Eynshatn, Beet Sugar Factory at, 431, 142 F FENTON, Murray and Jackson, Benin Engine Built in 1838. 351 Ferranti, Ltd., High - volt age Outdoor Transformers, 496, 503 Forrester, R. Desmond, Quarrying Operations in a South American Mme, 594 Foster Instrument Company, Sparking Plug Pyrometer, 42 Foster, Win., and Co.. Ltd.. Mechanical Tea
Garden Cultivator. 468
Four-wheel Drive Lorry Company. Ltd..
Tractor for Launching Life-boats, 531
Fowler, John and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Powerful
Steam Cultivating Machinery for Italy, 581
Fowler, John, and Co. (l^eeds), Ltd., Small
Narrow-gauge Locomotive. 7
Fox. Sir Francis (Portrait). 49 French Cruiser Duguay-Trouin. 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) GALLETTIS Radio Beam Transmitter, H. Tinsley and Co.. 12 General Electric Company, Drawing -oilice Lighting. 205 General Electric Company. “ D.B. Minor ’’ Double-pole Switch, 239 General Electric Company’s Photo-electric Lamp Rating Machine and Arrangement, 40 G.E.C. Tungsten Wire Level. 40, 41 Gibbs, John, ami Son, Ltd., Adjustable Cabin Ventilating Fitting. 422 Girardot Railway, Colombia, Kit son Meyer Locomotive for, 360 (Tuwpage Supplement, April Is/. 1927) Gladstone Dock—eee Liverpool Gloster Aircraft Company. Ltd., “ Gambet Single-seater Deck-landing Scout. 33, 37 Gough, H. J.. Fatigue Cracks and Frai tures in Armco Iron. Mild Stool, Aluminium. Ac.. 474. 475, 476 Great Western Railway, New Tender for “Castle” ('lass Engines. I. 5 Grimsby and Skegness Wireless Beam Stations 323 Guillet, Professor A . Vibrating wire Strobo- acopo, 73 H HACKBRIDGE Elert rit Construction Company, Tapping Switch. 238 Handley-Page, Ltd.. "Hamlet'* Five-«eater Monoplane. ” Hendon ” Slotted-wing Torpedo Carrier, 16, 19 (Supplement, January Uh. 1927) Hardy and Pad more, Ltd., Gravel Washer and Screeuer, 478 Harland and Wolff. Ltd.. Royal Mail Liner Alcantara. 310, 211 Hartley, V. L., Mechanical Vibration Filters, 624 ’ Harvey. William. The Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams. 568 Hawker Engineering Company. Ltd., “ Dane, cock” Single-seater Fighter. 29; ‘Horn bill” 650 H.P. Single-seater Fighter, 16, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Hawthorn, R. and W., Leslie and Co., Ltd., Werkapoor Indicator Gear. 209 Heenan and Fronde, Ltd.. Electric Dynamometer, 265 Helvetic, Paddle-wheel Steamer, 676 Herbert, Edward G., Work-hardening Properties of Metals. 138. 156. 180 Hoywood and Portcus, Ltd., Anglo Bender. B.I.F. Supplement, iv Highlield Electrical Company, Ltd., Electrical Control Gear of Milling Machine. 353, 354 Hind and Lund, Ltd.. Paint-making Machinery, Ball Mill, Laboratory Ball Mill, 519. 520 Hindley, E. S., 75 B.H.P. Steam Engine for Export. 335 Holden and Brooke. Ltd.. Ton-stage Centrifugal Feed Pump, 532; (Paragraph), 566 Holden and Hunt, Chain Bending and Chain Welding Machines, Fin Stripper. Testing and Calibrating Machine, B.l.F. Supplement, lii Holl ingu and Guest. Ltd., Hand Bundling Press. 264 ; B.I.F. Supplement, iv Horstod Keynes Pumping Station. 98, 102 I IGRANIC Electric Company's Seven-valve Wireless Receiver, 7 I Institution of Electrical Engineers, Summer Meeting, Visits. 654. 680. 686 Italy. Powerful Steam Cultivating Machinery for. 581 JAPANESE Cruiser Furutaka. 3 (Supplement.
January llh, 1927)
Japanese Mine-lax ing Submarine, 3 (Supple meat, January 1th, 1927) Johnson and Phillips. Ltd., l^argo Electric Armouring Machine, 552. 560 Jones, Burton and Co., Ltd.. Crank Pm Turning and Grinding Machine 110 Jones, George, Ltd.. Simple Form of Winder, 92 KEADBY. Railway Drawbridge at. 7 (Suppl,-, meni, January 1th, 1927) Kenmal. Sir Jamm (Portrait). 154 Kershaw, John B. <*.. World\ Future Supph* • of Liquid Fuels. 241. 261. 292. 316. 341 King George V., High-pressure Geared Turbine Clvde Steamer, 22 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) Kitson Clark, Lieut.-Colonel E.. Internal Com bustion Locomotives, 410. 415, 416, 4 45, 446, 447 Kittson anil Co., Ltd., Kit.son Meyer LHUDIO live for Gi rardot Railway, Colombia, 360 (Two'paqt Supplement, Ipril 1 1927) Krupp. Fried.. 50-Cycle Single-plm <• Loconto tive, 43. 14 Jyuhne, Captain C H., De\ »dopmeiit of Media nical Vehicles for Load -carry ing Duty in the Army. 306, 332 L LANGERBRVGGE Power Station Fwrtdne fur, 95. 96 Lea Marshes Viaduct, 7 (Supplrment, Januarij 1th, 1927) Lea, Professor F. C., and Mr. F. Hoywood, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses, &<•., 487 Leeds Forge Company, Ltd., Pullman Cars for the Continent, 136 Leipzig Fair, 263, 296, 320 “Little-Jack** Engineering Company, Ltd..
Chain Pulling Jack, 694
Liverpool, Gladstone Dock Extensions, 372, 373, 384 Liverpool Refrigeration Company, Ltd., Refrigerating Machinery Equipment for the Almeda, 378, 379, 380 Ljungstrom Turbine Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., 3 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Llandaft Castle, Union Castle Liner, 22 Lindon, Midland and Scottish Railway', Mixed Traffic Engine, 4 (Supplement, January llh, 1927) London and North-Eastern Railway, New Standard 0 6-0 Goods Engine, 5 ; Reid- MacLeod Steam Turbine Engine, 4. 6 ; Dynamometer Records of Train with Engine Fitted with Booster, 5, 6 L >rraino Wood Carboniser, 488, 489 ; Giorla Automatic Carboniser, 488, 490 M MARCHANT Brothers, Ltd., Five-roller Mil), Chain Driving Goar. 438. 439 ; Paint Mixer. 464 ; Paint Strainer, 464, 465 Marconi Company’s Photo-radiogram Transmitter and Photo radiogram Receiver, 25, 26 Marconi Typo R.g. 12 "Press” Wireless Receiver, 634 Marshall, Sons and Co.. Oil Engines and Governor Gear. B.I.F. Supplement, ii Massey, B. and 8., Ltd.. "Clear Space ” Pneumatic Power Hammer, 666 Mawdsloy’s Ltd., Binary Electric Weldor, 238, Mayhew, Ramsay* and Co., Ltd., Coal Pulverising Machine, 249 Mellanby, Professor A. L., and Professor William Kerr, Use and Economy* of High- pressure Steam Plants, 94. 1<>7. 126, 166; (Erratum), 146 ; (Letter), 298 Mepotead and Co.. Rotary^ Pump. 440 Merry weather “Fire Suds” Foam Producer, 612 Morryweather and Sons, Ltd., Turbine Pump Motor Fire Engine, 638 Mersey Tunnel Works, Submersible Pumps for, Drysdale and Co., Ltd., 586 Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, A.C. Starting Pane), Arc Welding Equipment, 236 ; Gate End Starting Box (Coal-cutter Protection), 236 Metropolitan - Vickers Electrical Company, Equipment of Enghavoplads Automatic Substation at Copenhagen, 584 Metropolitan - Vickers Electrical Company, Large Single-phase Transformers, 135 Metropolitan-Vickcrs Electrical Company, Voltage Regulating Equipment for Transrnisson Scheme of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Electric Supply Company, 556 Midland Railway of Western Australia, Eight - coupled Locomotive, Kitson and Co., Ltd.. 6, 7 Midland Saw and Tool Company, Ltd., Universal Wood-working Machine, 264 Midworth Distant Repeater, Evorshed and Vignolas, Ltd., 13 Millars* Machinery Company, Ltd., Road Metal Plant and Material at Brighton, 504 Morris Motors, Ltd., and Wm. Asquith, Ltd., Rotary Milling Machine for Motor Car Engine Works, 352, 356 N NATIONAL Gas Engine Company, Ltd.,
31 B.H.P. Vertical Gas Engine, 217
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Transmission Scheme, 556 Niclausse Boiler for Heating Electric Railway-
Trains, 134
o OERLIKON Company, Loading Reactances for Large Generators, 694 Oerlikon Company, Switchgear Works. 404, 414 Oscilloscope Company's Oscilloscope, Gear-box and Cabinets, 72, 73 “ Osiso “ and its Modifications for Use as a
Phonoscope, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of America, 135
Otranto, Orient. Liner Steamship, Vickers Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) p PARIS-ORLEANS Railway, Steam Boiler Wagon. 134 Park Royal Engineering Company. Three- phase Oil Switch and Switchgear, 238, 239 Parker, Frederick. Ltd., Stone-crushing and Screening Plant, 549 Parsons, C. A., and Co., Ltd., High-pressure Alternator Windings, 4 3 Parsons, C. A., and Co., Ltd., 20,000-kW Turboalternator at the Schiedam Power Station at Rotterdam. 512, 524. 540 (Two-page Supplement, May \2th, 1927) Parsons, C. A., and Co., Ltd., 12,000-kW Turboalternator, Cast Iron Casing for Turbo Air Compressor, Testing and Balancing House and Vacuum Drying Oven at Heaton Works, 654, 655 Parsons, Sir Charles A., Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, 387, 390, 39) Paterson Engineering Company, Chloronome, 218 Pearn, Frank, and Co., Ltd., Water Lifter, B.I.F. Supplement, vii Pels, Henry, Open-ended Shearing Machine for Reinforcing Rods, 280 “ Penzold ” Typo and “ Volta ” Type Electric Boilers, 278 Physical and Optical Societies' Exhibition, 12, 40, 71 -for Exhibits, nee Subjects Index, Scientific Instruments Piccadilly'Circus. Railway and Urban Improvement at, 458. 492, 493 P.I.V. Gear Syndicate, Ltd.. Infinitely Variable
Gear-boxes. B.I.F. Supplement, viii
Plenty-Still Oil Engine. 10. II Pneulec. Ltd., Sana Mixer, 266 Poplar Electric Generating Station, Turbogenerator, Pulverised Coal Plant. &c., 4116. 470 Potter. R. B., Pulverised Fuel, 362 Poultney, E. C., Tests of a 2 8 4 Type Locomotive, 620 Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Welded Repairs to, 419 Pulsometer Engineering Company, Ltd., Deep Well Turbine Pump, 222 Q QUEEN Mary Reservoir Conduit, Reinforcement and Collapsible “ Blawform ” Centering, 51 R RADIO Communication Company, l|-kW Continuous-wave Transmitter, 40, 41 Rapid Magnetting Company, Ltd., Bi-polar Lifting Magnet, B.I.F. Supplement, v. vi Record Electrical Company, Ltd., Bridge Ohmmeter, 41 Reid-Macleod Turbine Locomotive, North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 4, 6, 118. 130 ; (Letter). 181 Reyrolle, A., and Co., 400-AmpAre Switch. 236. 237 Reyrolle, A., and Co., Ltd., Testing Transformer, and Control Gallery, Extra-high Pressure Text Room and Testing Laboratory at Hebburn Works, 654, 655. 656 Rhodesian Railway Locomotive with Lentz Valves. North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 6 (Supplemcnt. January 1th. 1927) Richardsons, Westgarth Double-acting Engine.
8. 10
Robertson. W. II. A., and Co., Ltd., Geared Coders. 93. 123, 124 Robinson. T.. and Son. Ltd.. Two-spindle Dimension Sow Bench. B.I.F. Supplement, v Rowland, B. R.. and Co., Ltd., Electrically Driven Double Dry-grinding Machines, 667 Rugby, Transatlantic Wireless Telephony Transmitter at, 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) s SI. OLAVES jfcc. Beccles Schering Galvanometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, Ltd., 13 Schiess-Defries. Horizontal Boring Machine, for Turbine Cylinders, 297. 630. 635 Scunthorpe Gasworks, Lynin Static Gas Cooler and (’leaner, Ammonia Absorber, 477 Seacoinbe Ferry, Floating Roadway, 8, 38 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Seguin, Marc, and Facsimile Sketches, 1827 8.
J. G. H. Warren, 679
Shaw’s Water Company’s Works, Centenary, 688 Short Brothers All-Metal “ Calcutta ” Flying Boat, “ Mussel ” All-Metal Seaplane, Duralumin Propeller with Detachable Blades, 20 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) Siemens-Benson Critical Pressure Boiler, 690 Siemens Brothers and Co., Anglo-French Submarine Telephone Cable, 336 Silver Line Motor Cargo Ship Silverash, 9. I I (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Simon, Henry. Ltd., Pneumatic Coal and Ashconveying Plant, 160, 163-6 Smith. Sidney, and Blyth, Single-roll Paint Finishing Mill, 464 Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., New Sheet Edge Grinding Machine, 692 Soho - square Automatic Sub - station ami Rotaries, Metropolitan - Mekers Electrical Company. 25 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Somerset Quarry, Resuscitating a. 549 South America, Quarrying Operations in, R. D. Forrester, 594 South Australian Water Supplies, 596 Southern Railway, Express Passenger Engine. Lord Nelson, 3 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Spencer (Melksham), Ltd., Digyloador Machine, 393 St irk. John, and Sons. Ltd,, “ Hiloplano ” Planing Machine, 199, 191 Stokes, Sir Wilfrid (Portrait), 153 Stourport Electric Power Station. 626. 627. 663 Sulzer Brothers, Uniflow Marine' Engine with Oil-operated Valve Gear, 676 Sulzer Ton-cylinder Engine for the Christiaan Huygens. II, 12 Supermarinc Aviation Works. Ltd., “Southampton" Flying Boat, 19 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Swedish Railway Memorial Stone, 277 Swift, George, and Sons. Ltd., Locomotive Connecting-rod Drilling Machine, 106, 107 T TANGYES. Ltd., Experimental Hydraulic Press, 217 Taylor and Challen, Ltd., Flat-edge Trimming Machine, Press with Pneumatic Dio Cushion, Taylor and Challen, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v Taylor, Godfred Midgloy (Portrait), 661 Telford, Bucket Dredger, Lobnitz and Co., Ltd., 23 Thornton ami Clevelevs’ Electricity Scheme. 608 Thyssen and Co., Manufacture of High-pressure Boiler Drums, 246 Torrance and Sons, Paint-mixing Mills, Tripleroller Mill, &c„ 38ft, 389, 41 ft, 464 ; Finishing Mill, 464 ; Gyrator Disc Mill. 519 Torrington Coiler for Rolling Mill. 123, 124, 125 Trafford Park Power Station, Coal and Ash- handling Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 166, 163-6 Treforest Power Station, Extensions to, 500 Tring Ford Pumping Station, Old Beam Engine at. 449 —see alio Letters to the Editor, Beam Engine u UNDERFEED Stoker Company, H. Type Travelling Grate Stoker, 218 V VENNER SHOTTER Water Flow Meter. 73 Vickers “Vespa” Army Co-operation Two- neater Aeroplane. “ Vendace ’’ Two-roater Training Machine, 16. 21 Vickers-Wibault All-Metal Monoplane Single- seater Scout, 21 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) Visco Engineering Company. Ltd., Air Filter f< r Automobiles, 559 Vizagapatarn. Drag and Suction Dredger. Win.
Simons and Co., Ltd., 23
Vogelc. Joseph, Road-making Machine, 296 w WADKIN and Co., Saw. Cross-cutting and Trenching, Combined Disc and Bobbin Sander, Single-dimension Saw Bench, Combined Surfacing and Thicknessing Machine, &c.. 264. and B.I.F. Supplement, Tv Walton, New Filtration Plant at, for the Metropolitan Water Board, 24 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) Warren, J. G. H., Centenary of the First Railway in France, 679 Wavoncy nee Becclos Wcrkspoor Indicator Gear. R. and W. Hawthorn. Leslie and Co., Ltd., 209 Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of America. The “ Osiso “ and its Modifications, &c., 135 West land Aircraft Works, Ltd., The Hill “ Pterodactyl *’ or Tailless Aeroplane, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Weston Electrical Instrument Company, Pin Jack Voltmeter, 42 Wharton, C. J., Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, 278 Whitdhead Iron and Steel Company. Screw Device for Withdrawing Cone, 94 Wilson-Bhandadara Dam. Bombay, 317, 32ft Wingrove and Rogers, Ltd., Electric Truck.
237, 238
Woods, F. W., A New Hydraulic Formula. 646 Woolwich Electricity Station, New Circulating Water System at. 150 Wroughton, Transatlantic Wireless Telephony Receiving Hut at, 26 (Suppltmint, January 1th, 1927) z ZBIROWER ? EISENWEKKE Max Hopfen- gartner A.G., Combination Machine Tool, 583 Zwicky Fuel Pump and Equipment at Cardington Airahip Shed, 290 Subjects. ACETYLENE Breakdown Equipment. Allen- Liversedge, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii AERONAUTICS : See also Miscellaneous Index. Annual Articles Aircraft Engines—see also Engines Some Aeroplanes of 1926, 16, 34 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Airship Shed, Reconstructed, and Mooring Tower, at Cardington. 230. 242 258, 270. 288. 300 ; (Addendum). 580 Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft. Ltd., “ Siskin “III. A Single-seater Fighter. 37 ; “ Argosy ” Three-engined Air Liner. 36. 37
Avro “ Avenger ” Single-seater Scout, 35
Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd., “ Iris ” Triple-engined Reconnaissance Flying Boat, 36, 37 ; “ Sprat ’’ All-
purpose ” Training Machine, 37
Bristol “ Badminton ” Single-seater Racing Machine, 35, 36 ; “ Berkeley " Day Bomber, 34 : “ Boarhound ’* Two-seater Military Machine, 34 Gloster Aircraft Company, Ltd., “ Gambet ’’ Single-Heater Deck landing Scout, 36. 37 Handley Page “ Hamlet ” Five-seater Monoplane, 19 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) Handley Page “ Hendon ’’ Slotted-wing Torpedo Carrier, 16, 19 Hawker Engineering Company, Ltd.. “ Danecock ” Single-seater Fighter, 20 (Supplement. January 1th. 1927) Hawker 650 H.P. “ Hornbill “ Single-seater Fighter, 16. 21 Short Brothers All-metal “ Calcutta ” Flying Boat, 20 Short Brothers Duralumin Propeller with Detachable Blades. 20 Short Brothers “ Mussel ” All-metal Seaplane, 20 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) AERONAUTICS (continued): Superrnarine Aviation Works, Ltd., *' Southampton ” Flying Boat, 19 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) The Hill ” Pterodactyl ” or Tailless Aeroplane. West land Aircraft Works. Ltd., 21 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) Vickers Ltd., “ Vendace ” Two-seater Training Machine. 16. 21 Vickers ” Vespa ” Army Co operation Two- seater Aeroplane. 16, 21 Vickers-Wibault All-metal Monoplane Single- neater Scout, 21 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) AIR Compressor, 4| H.P., Blackstone and Co., Ltd., 217 ; (Correction). 267 Air Filter for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559 Aluminium, Soldering and Welding, Practical Notes on, A. Eyles, 121 Angle Bender, Heywood and Portcus, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv Armouring Machine—see Electrical Matters Automatic Electro plating Machine, W. Canning and Co., Ltd., 264, 265 B BALANCING Gear—see Engines Balancing Machine. “ Martin,” Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd.. B.I.F. Supplement, i, ii Bar (’anting Machine. Centrifugal, 574 Beet Sugar, New Method of Making. 431, 442 Boiler for Birmingham, Pulverised Fuel, 363 Boiler Drums, High-pressure Welded, Manufac
ture of, Thyssen and Co.. 246, 247, 248
Boiler, Exhaust Gas, and Engine, Arrangement, 403 Boiler, Experimental Critical Pressure, Siemens- Benson, 69<» Boiler, “ Volta *’ Type Electric ; Boiler, ” Ponzold ” Type Electric, 278 Boiler, Woodeson, Firing with Powdered Fuel.
Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd., 681, 682
Boiler—see also Steam Boring Machines—see Machine Tools Bridges—sec also Railways Bridge Over the Thames at Caversham, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Bridge Over the Tweed at Berwick, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Bridges, Swing, at Beccles and St. Olaves, also Turning Gear, <fcc.» 176, 177 Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Welded Repairs to, 419
Suspension Bridge Over the River Delaware, U.S.A., 202. 214, 231, 304, 305. 318. 345
Bronze Founding, Sir John Dewrance, 274 c (’ABIN Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422 Cables—sec Electrical Matters Carbonisers, Lorraine Wood and Giorla Automatic, 488, 490 Cast Iron Casing for Turbo Air Compressor, C. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654 Centenary of Shaw’s Water Company’s Work:*, 688 Centrifugal Casting of Bars, Machine for, Leon Cammen, 574 Chain Bending and Chain Welding Machines, Fin Stripper and Testing Machine, Holden and Hunt, B.I.F. Supplement, iii Chloronome, Paterson Engineering Company, Circulating Water—see Electrical Matters Coal and Ash-handling Plant, Trafford Park Power Station, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160, 163 6 Coal Barges, Coal Bunkers, Coal Conveyors, Coal Conveying Plant and Outdoor Transformers at Stourport Power Station. 663 Coal Cutter Protection System, Gate End Starting Box, Metropolitan-Vickers Electric Company, 236 Coal Pulverising Machine, Mayhew, Ramsay and Co., Ltd.. 249 Coal Wagon Tippler, 20-Ton ” Whitehall ” Type, 160. 105 (’oilers—see Rolling Mills Combustion, New Process—sec Engines Condenser Sots, Multi-jet, Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi Condenser Tubes and Apparatus for Investigating Erosion, Sir Charles Parsons. 387, 390 Cooling and Cleaning Plant at Scunthorpe Gasworks, Ammonia Absorber, &c., 477 Copper Castings, Large High Conductivity, Thomas Bolton and Sons. Ltd,, 611 D DAM, Burrator, Removing Masonry Prior to Raising, 52 Dam on the River (’reuse. The Eguzon, 64, 66, Dam, Wilson-Bhandadara, Bombay. 317, 328 * Dams. The Continuous Nature of Decay in
Dams, William Harvey, 568
Defcrrating Plant at a Sussex Waterworks, 98.
99, 102
Determination of the Efficiency of an Exhaust Gas Boiler. Professor G. Cook. 403 Digging and Loading Machine, Spencer (Melk- sham), Ltd., 393 Dock. Dry, at Esquimalt, 39 (Supplement, January llh, 1927) Dork Extensions, Gladstone, at Liverpool, 372.
373, 384
Double Dry Grinding Machines, Electrically Driven, B. R. Rowland and Co.. Ltd., 067 Drawing-office Lighting, General Electric Com pany,205 Drawing Steel Wire. E. A. Atkins, 557 Dynamic Balancing Machine, W. and T. Avery.
Ltd., 265
Dynamometer, Electric, Heenan-HighfiekU Heenan and Fronde, Ltd., 265 ECONOMIC Production of Steam by Electricity. C. J. Wharton. 278 ELECTRICAL MATTERS A.C. Motor Starting Panel, Arc Welding Equipment. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company. 236
Alcantara. R.M. Liner. 400 kW Generat ora. 210. 211
Armouring Large Diameter Electric Cables, Machine for, Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 552. 660 Automat ic Sub-station and Rotaries at Soho- square, Metropol it an-Vickers Electrical Company, 25 {Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Battery Eliminators, Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews, 412 Binary Electric Welder, Binary Converter, &c., Mawdsley’s Ltd., 238 Cable, Submarine Telephone, Anglo-French, Siemens Bi others and Co., 336 33,000-Volt Cables with Metal sheat hed Cores. “ S.L.” Type Extra High Tension Cables, Percy Dunsheath, 99 Circulating Water System, New, at Woolwich Electricity Station, 150 Coal Cutter Protection with Special Gate End Starting Box, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company. 236 CO, Recorder, Motor-driven. Electroflo Meters, Ltd., 239 Consett Iron Company’s Works, Electrical Equipment at, 682. 686
Cubicle Switchgear. George Ellison. 532
Deptford Power Station, Extensions at, 598, 604 Direct-current Controller with Pivoted Contact Finger and Unbreakable Resistance. British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd.,
236. 531
Double-pole Switch, ‘ D.B. Minor,” General Electric Company. 239 Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, Power-house, 64, 66, 67, 76
Electric Locomotives—sec Locomotives
Electric Truck, Wingrove and Rogers. Ltd..
237, 238
Equipment of Enghaveplads Automatic Substation. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 584 Hebburn Works, High-pressure Test Room, Testing Transformer and Control Gallery for Testing Laboratory, A. Reyrolle ami Co.. Ltd.. 654. 655, 656 High-pressure Alternator Windings. C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 43 High-voltage Outdoor Transformers, Ferranti, Ltd., 496, 503
Laugerbrugge Power Station, 95, 96
Loading Reactances for Large Generators, Oerlikon Company, 694 Milling Machine, Electrical Control Gear of. Highfield Electrical Company, Ltd.. 353, 354 Models for Demonstrating Electrical Principles. Dr. F. W. Alexander, 547 Motors for Operating Centrifugal Pumps for Mersey Channel Works, Electromotors. Ltd., *586 Oil Switch, Three-phase, and Switchgear, Park Royal Engineering Company, 238. 239 Power Station, New, at Poplar, 10,000-kW Turbo-generator, 466, 470 Scientific Instruments—ofw* Scientific Exhibits Stourport Electric Power Station. Turbogenerators, Condenser Plant, &c,, Switchgear Control Room, 626, 627, 663—see also Coal Switch, Oil Immersed, 400 Amp re, A. Reyrolle and Co.. 236. 237 Switchgear Works of the Oerlikon Company, 404, 414 Tapping Switch. Hackbridge Electric Construction Company. 238 Thornton and Clovcley’s Electricity Scheme, 608 . Three-phase Transformer. British Electric Transformer Company. 266 Trafford Park Power Station. Pneumatic Coal and Ash Conveying Plant, Henry’ Simon. Ltd., 160. 163, 164, 166 Transformers, Large Single-phase. Metro- polit an -Vickers Electrical Company. 135 Treforest Power Station. Extensions to, 500 Truck. Elevating Platform, Electricars. Ltd., 267 Turbo alternator. 12,000-kW. at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.. 654 Turbo-alternator. 20.000-kW. at the Schiedam Power Station. Rotterdam, C. A. Parsons and Co.. 512. 524. 540 {Two-page Supplement, May 13/Zi, 1927) U Typo Motors, Alternating ami Direct Current, Squirrel Cage and Slip Ring Motors. Squirrel (’age Rotor, Brush Gear. British Thomson-Houston Company. Ltd.. 266. 267 Voltage Regulating Equipment for Frans- mission Lincs. 66,000-Volt Transformers, Metal-clad Tapping Switches, Contactor Panel Controlling Tapping Switches, Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company. Ltd., for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Electric Supply Company, 556 Willow Holme Electric Power Station. Carl- isle, 573. 578 Wireless Matters—see Wireless Telegraphy. also Scientific Instruments Exhibits
EMOINES AND MOTORS
Aircraft Engines, “ Uirrus ” Mark II. 75-80 H.P. Engine, 35; ‘•Nimbus” 300-330 H.P. Six-cylinder Engine, 35 Airless Injection Marino Oil Engine, 1000 B.H.P., Motorcn-Fabrik Deutz, 528. 544, 545 Automatic Steam Engine, German. 39- ; (Latter), 448; (Correction), 507 Balancing Gear for a Four-cylinder 250 B.H.P. Oil Engine. W. H. Allen. Sons and Co.. Ltd.. 692 Beam Engine Built in 1838, Fenton, Murray and Jackson, 351 ; (Correction), 400
ENGINES AND MOTORS (continued):
Beam Engine, Old, at the Tring Ford Pumping Station, 449—sec also Letters to the Editor, “ Beam Engine ” Bauer-Wach Turbine Reciprocating Engine, 24 Cold-starting 50 B.H.P. Heavy Oil Engine. Fuel Pump and Governor, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., 80 Double-acting Two-stroke Cycle Engine, Richardsons, Westgarth and Co.. Ltd., 8. 10 Doxford Four-cylinder Opposed piston Airless Injection Oil Engine, 10, 11 Epsom Waterworks, Crossley-Premier Oil Engine for Pumps at. 569 Gas Engine, 31 B.H.P. Vertical. National Gas Engine Company, Ltd., 217 Hopper-cooled Oil Engine, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 137 Marine Oil Engine Trials. Energy Diagrams and Comparative Results, Professor W. E. Dalby, 406. 420. 421 Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518 New Process of Combustion for High-speed Heavy Oil Engines. Aero A.O., 632 Oil Engines and Governor Gear, Marshall, Sons and Co., B.LF. Supplement, ii
Plenty-Still Oil Engine, 10, 11
Propelling Machinery, Auxiliary and Main.
of the RM. I .iner Alcantara, 210, 211
Some Marine Oil Engines of 1926. 10
Steam Engine. 75 B.H.P., for Export, E. S.
Hindley and Sons, 335
Ten-cvlinder Sulzer Engine for the Christiaan Huygens, II, 12 Three-cylinder Uniflow Steam Engine, Cylinder, Piston, Shaft Bearing, Oil Control Valve. Oil Storage Vessel and Various Gear, &c., for Paddle-wheel Steamer Helve tie, Sulzer Brothers, 676 Turbine Pump Motor Fire Engine, Merry- weather and Sons. Ltd., 638 Vertical Oil Engine with New Form of Exhaust Valve Gear. Blackstone and Co.. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v Winch Engine at Cardington, Babcock and Wilcox, 288, 289. 300 EROSION of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir Charles A. Parsons, 387, 390 EXHIBITIONS : British Industries Fair, 217, 236, 264 {Supplement, March 4th, 1927)
Leipzig Fair, 263, 296, 320 Physical and Optical Societies* Exhibition. 12, 40, 72—For Exhibits see Scientific Instruments
F FACTORY, Experimental Beet Sugar, nt Eynsham, 431. 442 Fairs—see Exhibitions Fatigue of Metals, Some Modern Views on, H. J. Gough. 474, 475, 476 Ferry—sec Train Ferry Filters, Mechanical Vibration, V. L. Hartley, I Fire Engine, Turbine Pump Motor, Merry- weather and Sons, Ltd., 638 Fires. Oil, Afloat, Extinguishing, Merryweathor and Sons Apparatus, 612 Floating Roadway at Seacombe Ferry, 8 {Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Flow Meter—see Scientific Instruments Founding—see Bronze Fuel Indicator, Continuous, Colonel Carlo Baulino, 157 Fuel Pump—see Pumps GALVANOMETER—see Scientific Instruments, Exhibits, Ac. Gas Boiler—set Determination Gas Plant, ** Autogaz *’ Suction, Mui bay Suction, 517 Gear-boxes Infinitely Variable Open Motor Drive, P.I.V. Gear Syndicate, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, viii Gravel Washer and Screener, Hardy and Pad- more, Ltd.. 478 H HAMMER, “Clear Space ” Pneumatic Power, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666 Heteroptic Shutter: A Stroboscopic Development, A. .1. Ashdown, 82 High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, Alex. D. Bailey, 635 Hydraulic Formula, A New, F. W. Woods, 646 Hydraulic Press, Experimental, Tangyes, Ltd., 217 Hydro-electric Station, The Eguzon, 64, 76 INDICATOR. Continuous Fuel, Colonel Carlo Baulino, 157 Indicator Gear. Werkupoor, R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Ltd., 2U9 Internal Combustion Engines- set Engines, aht> Locomotives JACK. Chain Pulling. “ Little-Jack ” Engineering Company, Ltd., 691 LENTZ Valve Mechanism. Modified, 518 Lifeboats, Tractor for—see Tractor Lifting Magnet, Bi polar, Rapid Magnetting Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v. vi Liquid Fuels, World’s Future Supplies of. John B. C. Kershaw, 244, 261, 292 LOCOMOTIVES : Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway. Six- coupled Three-cylinder Engine, Vulcan Foundry Company, Ltd., 7 Central Argentine Railway, Eight-coupled Cross Compound Engine, Beyer. Peacock and Co., Ltd., 6, 7 Great Northern Railway, America, Single phase Baldwin-Westinghouse Electric Locomotive, 107 Great Western Railway “ Castle ” Class Engines, Neu- Tender for, 4, 5 Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut. - Colonel E. Kit son Clark, 410, 415, 416, 445, 446, 447 Kitson-Meyer Locomotive for Colombia. 360 (Two-page Supplement, April Uf, 1927) Light Steam Locomotive, Clayton Wagons, Ltd., 381 Ljungstrom Turbine Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., 3 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927)
Locomotive. 50-Cycle Single-phase, Fried. Krupp, 43. 44
London. Midland and Scottish Railway. Mixed Traffic Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) London and North-Eastern Railway. New Standard 0-6-0 Goods Engine. 5 ; Dynamometer Records of Train with Engine Fitted with Booster. 5, 6 Midland Railway of Western Australia, Eight-coupled Locomotive, Kitson and Co., Ltd., 6, 7 Reid-Macleod Steam Turbine Engine, North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 4, 6, 118, 130 ; (Letter). 181 Rhodesian Railway Locomotive with Lentz Valves, North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 6 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Small Narrow-gauge Locomotive, .John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 7 Southern Railway, Lord Nelson. Express Passenger Engine, 3 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Tests of a 2-8-4 Type Locomotive, E. C. Poultney. 620 M MACHINE TOOLS ; Boring Machine, Large Horizontal, for Turbine Cylinders. Schiess-Defries, 297, 630, 635 Combination Machine Tool, Zbirower Eisen - werke Max Hopfengartnor A.G., 583 Crank Pin Turning and Grinding Machine, Jones, Burton and Co., Ltd., 110
Drilling Machine. Locomotive Connecting- rod, George Swift and Sons, Ltd., 106, 107 Flat Edge Trimming Machine, Press with Pneumatic Die Cushion, Taylor and Challen, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
Grinding Machine. New Sheet Edge, Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., 692 High-speed Planing Machine, Joshua Buck- ton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i
Machine Tool Hall at Leipzig Fair, 297
Rotary Milling Machines in a Motor Car Engine Works, Morris Motors, Ltd., and Wm. Asquith, Ltd., 352, 356 Screwing Machine, Automatic, Thomas Chatwin. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v Shearing Machine, Open-ended, for Reinforcing Rods, Henry Pels, 280 “ Hiloplane ” Planing Machine, John Stirk and Sons, Ltd., 190, 191 MAPS
“ East of France,’’ 514 Tod River Reservoir and Area, 597
MECHANICAL Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Development of. Captain C. H. Kuhne, 306, 332 Memorial Stone, Swedish Railway, 277 Metals—eec Work Hardening Mills and Mixing Machines for Paint Making, Ball Mills, Finishing Mill. Five-roller and Triple-roller Mills, Gyrator Disc Mill. Laboratory Disc Mill, Paint Mixing Mills, &c., 388, 418, 438. 464, 519, 520 Mine Fan, Large, for Durban Navigation Collieries, Davidson and Co., Ltd., 548 Models, Electrical—see Electrical Matters Modern Steam Engines—eee Engines Motor Car Engine Works, Rotary Milling Machines for, 352, 356 o OSCILLOSCOPE—see Scientific Instruments “ Ofhso ” and its Modifications for Vse as a Phonoscope, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. 135 Oxygen—see Scientific Instruments, Exhibits, &c. p PAINT-MAKING Machinery, 388, 418, 438, 464, 519. 520 Planing Machines—see Machine Took Ploughing Engine, 275 H.P. Steam. John
Fowler and Co. < Leeds). Ltd., 581
Portrait, Viscount Cowdray. 499 Portrait. Sir Francis Fox. 49 Portrait. Sir James Kemnal, 154 Portrait. Sir Wilfrid Stokes. 153 Portrait. Godfred Midgley Taylor. 661 Press, Hand Bundling. Hulling* and Guest,
Ltd., 264 and B.I.F. Supplement, iv Propelling Machinery—see Ships Pullman Cars—tee Railways
Pulverised Coal Plant at the Poplar Electric
Generating Station, 466, 470
Pulverised Fuel :
Boater Type Pulverising Unit, 363 Pulverisetf Fuel Boiler for Birmingham. R. B. Potter, 363 Table Type Controllers for, 362
PUMPS : Bore-hole Pump. Model, W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Ltd., B.T.F. Supplement, vi, vii Circulating Water Pump-nouse, Deptford Power Station, 598, 604 Deep Well Turbine Pump, Pulsometer Engineering Company, Ltd., 222 Holy Well Spring and Pumping Station, Horsted Keynes, 98. 102 Pump-room at Epsom Waterworks, Interior
View of, 569, 570 Rotary Pump, Mepstead and Co.. 440
“ Run well ” Rotary Pump, Ash well and Nesbit, Ltd., 694
Submersible Pumps for the Mersey Tunnel Works, Drysdale and Co., Ltd.. 586
Ten-stage Centrifugal Feed Pump, Holden and Brooke, Ltd., 532 ; (Paragraph). 566 Zwicky Fuel Pump and Equipment at Cardington Airship Shed, 290 PYROMETERS—see Scientific Instruments Q QUARRY. A Somerset, Resuscitating, 549 Quarrying Operations in a South American
Mino. K. Desmond Forrester, 594
R RADIO Transmission—see Wireless, also Scientific Instruments Railway Drawbridge at Keadby, 7, 42 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Railway, First, in France, Centenary of, J. G. H. Warren, 679 Railway, Great Northern, America, Electrification, 107 Railway and Urban Improvements at Picca- dilly-circus, 458, 492, 493 Railways, Continental, Pullman Cars for, lx>cds Forge Company, Ltd., 136 Railways in France, Steam Boiler Wagons for Heating Electric Trains, 134 Rectifier, Electronic, L. O. Grondahl and P. H. Geiger, 364 Refrigerating Machinery on the Blue Star Liner Alrneda, Liverpool Refrigerating Company, Ltd., 378, 379, 380 Re-heater, Suggested, 95 Reservoirs—sec Water Supply Road-making Machine, Joseph Vogele, 296 Road Metal Plant at Brighton, Millars* Machinery Company. Ltd., 504 Rolling Mills, Cold Strip, Coilers for, C. E. Davies, 92, 123
(.'oiler. Simple. Belt-driven from Strip Mill, 93 Coder, Torrington Automatic, 123 Coilers, Geared, Robertson, W. H. A., and Co., Ltd., 93, 123, 124
Collapsible Drum for Releasing Coiled Strip, 93
High-speed Strip Rolling Mill and Coder, 94
Screw Device for Withdrawing Cone, Whitehead Iron and Steel Company, 94
Winder with Pedal-operated Clutch. 92, 93 Winder, Simple Form of, G. Jones, 92
R otoscope, Electrically Driven—see Hot er- optic 8 SAFETY in Mines Research Station Near Buxton. 651. 652 Sand Mixing Machine, Pneulic, Ltd.. 266 Scientific Instruments—Exhibits of the Physical and Optical Societies. 12. 40. 72 Bridge Ohmmeter, Record Electrical Company, 41 Combined Indicating and Recording Set, Surface Pyrometer, Cambridge Instrument Company. 41 Continuous Wave Transmitter, l|-kW, Radio Communication Company. 40. 41 Distant Repeater, Midworth, Evenhed and Vignolas, Ltd., 13 Flow Meter, Simple, Flow Meter with Modified Electrode, Vrnner-Shotter, 73 Galvanometer, Schering. Cambridge Instrument Company, Ltd.. 13 Lamp Rating Machine, Photo-electric, General Electric Company, 40 Level, Tungsten Wire, General Electric Company, 40, 41 Oscilloscope, Elverson, Oscilloscope Gear-box and Cabinets. 72, 73 Oxygen, Dissolved, Apparatus, Cambridge Instrument Company. Ltd.. 14 Pyrometer, Sparking Plug, Foster Instrument Company. 41, 42
Radio Beam Transmitter, Gullett i, H. Tinsley and Co.. 12 Stroboscope, The Guillet Vibrating Wire, 73
Voltmeter, Pin Jack, Weston Electrical Instrument. 42 Wireless Receiver, Seven-valve, Igranic Elec trie Company, 74 Self-cleaning Grate and Sprinkler Stoker, Croathwaite Engineering and Furnace Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi Shearing Machine*—see Machine Tools SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS General Matters
dan Mucnaughton Improved Stem Frame, 22
Foreign Navies : French Cruiser Duguay-Trouin. 3 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Japanese Cruiser Furutaka, 3 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Japanese Minelaying Submarine, 3 (Supplr. merit, January 1th, 1927) SHIPS AND SHIPPING BLATTERS (continu'd): Miscellaneous Vessels : Blue Star Steam Passenger Liner Almeda, 22.’ 378, 370 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Cable-laying Steamer Dominia, 22 Danish Motor Train Ferry Korsor, 610
Drag and Suction Dredger Vizagapatam, Win. Simons and Co., Ltd., 23
Elder Dempster Motor Liner Accra, 8, 9
High-pressure Geared Turbine Clyde Steamer King George V., 22 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) L.N.E.R. Bucket Dredger Telford, Lobnitz and Co., Ltd., 23 Motor Train Ferry Dolores do Urquiza, A. and .L Inglis, Ltd., 9 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Orient Liner Steamship Otranto, Vickers Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Paddle-wheel Steamer Helvetic, 676
Propelling Machinery of the Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Australia, 049, 658
Rotor Ship Barbara, 11, 12
Royal Mail Liner Alcantara, Harland and Wolff. Ltd., 210, 211 Silver Line Motor Cargo Ship Silverash, 9, 11 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Union-Castle Motor Liner Carnarvon Castle, 8, 9 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
Union Castle Liner Llandaff Castle, 22 SOLDERING—see Aluminium
Springs, Apparatus for Testing ; Springs, Compression, (.’age for, Stress and Mean Stress, Rango of, Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies of Simple Geometric Section, Professor T. B. Abell, 149 Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains, J. and A. Niclausse, 134
Steam Plants—see also Use and Economy Steam Turbines—see Turbine
Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South America, R. Desmond Forrester, 594 Stoker. H Type Travelling Grate, Underfeed Stoker Company. 218 Stone (’rushing and Screening Plant. Frederick Parker, Ltd., 549 Stroboscope—see Heteroptic, also Scientific Instruments
Suction Gas for Commercial Vehicles, 487, 516
Sugar Extraction Plant at Eynsham, Laboratory at Oxford. 431, 442 T TEA Garden Cultivator, Mechanical, Win. Foster and Co., Ltd., 408
Telephone Cables—xer Electrical Mat tecs
Testing and Balancing House at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons anti Co., I Ad., G54, 655 Testing Machine, 30-Ton Vertical Single-lever, Joshua Buck ton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, ii
Testing—j*rc QIMO Electrical Matters Tests, Locomotive—»re Locomotives Tractor for Launching Lifeboats, Four-wheel Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531
Train Ferry, Largo Oil Engine • Propelled, Danish, 610
Trucks—see al*o Electrical Mat ters
Turbine, Back-pressure. Coupled to Alternator, and Governor Gear, 46. 56
Machined Nozzle for Turbine, Rotor for
Turbine. English Electric Company, 56
Turbine for Langerbrugge Power Station, 95, 96
Turbine Reciprocating Engine—*rr Engines
Turbine, 20,000-kW Steam, at Rotterdam,
C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 512, 524 (Two- page Supplement, Mag \3th, 1927) u USE and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants. Professor A. L. Mellanby ami Professor William Kerr, 94. 107. 126, 16G (Erratum), 146 V
VACUUM Drying Oven. Large, at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654, 655 Valve, 6<>in. By-pass Sluice, 151, 152 Valve Mechanism, Lentz, Modified, 518
Viaduct Over the Lea Marshes, North Circular Road, 7 ; (Letter), 298 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) w WATER Lifter, Frank Pearn and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement , vii Water Sterilising Process, Bunau*Varilla, and Plant at Rheims anti Carcaasone, 234
Water Supplies, South Australian, 690 WATER SUPPLY
Aberdeen Water Supply, Ohl and New Reservoirs at Invercannio, 24 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) Birmingham Water Supply, Bartley Reser voir, 182, 186 Metropolitan Wafer Board, New Filtration Water Plant at Walton, 24 (Supplement. , January 1th. 1927) Metropolitan Water Board, Queen Mary Reservoir Conduit, Reinforcement and Collapsible “ Blawform ” Centering, 51
WELDED Repairs—tee Bridges Winch Equipment at Cardington, Babcock and Wilcox, 288, 300
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY —See alao Scientific Instruments Bodmin Wireless Beam Transmitting Station, Machinery Hall, 26 (Supplement, January , 1th, 1927) Grimsby and Skegness Wireless Beam J Stat ions : Australian and Indian Transmitters at J Grimsby Station, 324
Skegness Receiving Station, 324
Photo Radiogram Transmitter and Photo ( Radiogram Receiver, Marconi Company. J 25, 26 J
Televisor, The Baird, 27 |
Transatlantic Wireless Telephony Receiving Hut at Wroughton, 26 (Supplement, j January 1th, 1927) Transatlantic Wireless Telephony Trans-K mitter at Rugby, 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Wireless Receiver, Marconi Typo R.g. 12 " Press,” 634 WOODWORKING MACHINES Saw Bench, Two-spindle Dimension, T. Robinson and Son, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v Saw, Cross-cutting and Trenching, Combined Disc and Bobbin Sander, Single Dimension Saw Bench, Combined Surfacing and Thicknessing Machine, &c., Wadkin and Co., 264, and B.I.F. Supplement, iv WORK HARDENING Properties of Metals, Edward G. Herbert, 138, 156. 180 Works, Switchgear, of the Oerlikon Company, 404.414 Works Visited by Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Consett Iron Company’s Works, 682. 686
Clarke, Chapman and Co.’s Works, 081, 082 Nort h Tees Electric Power Station, 080, 081 Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., 654, 055 Hebburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., 054, 655, 650 World’s Future Supplies of Liquid Fuels, John B. (’. Kershaw, 244, 201, 292, 310, 344
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