The Engineer 1917 Jul-Dec: Index: Illustrations
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A AGAR, A. F., on Engineering Works Canteens, 491
Allison and Baltimore, Push-button Coal and I Ash Hoists at, 254
America, Aeroplane Construction in, 489, 498
America, Naval Power-boat Construction in, 139
American Locomotives for United States Forces in France, 458
American Wooden Steamships, 332
Andrew Dunlop Tractor Wheel, 134, 135
Angell, R. S., Proposal for Chain Track Motor Vehicle, 181
Applegarth Tractor, 157
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co., Loch Lomond Route of Mid-Scotland Ship Canal, 465, 538, 558 (Two-pacje Supplement, December 28th, 1917)
Arrol, Sir W., and Co.’s Five-ton Electric Goliath Cranes for France*, 140, 142
Aspinall, Frank B., on the Latent Heat of Steam, 3, 25, 47, 58 ; (Letters) 162, 184, 279
Atkins, Harry F., Nine-inch Taper-turning Sliding Lathe, 43
Atkinson’s Six-ton Steam Wagon, 494
Aultman Agricultural Tractor, 298
Australian Transcontinental Railway, 356, 362 : (Paragraph) 384
Aveling and Porter Agricultural Tractor, 533
Ayrshire Dockyard Company’s Reinforced Concrete Arched Keel Block, 345
B BABCOCK and Wilcox Coal and Ash Plant at Osaka Electric Works, G. F. Zimmer, 115
Batter Tractors, 156, 157
Beamond, F. L., Chain Track, 183
Beeston Dual Device for Petrol or Gas, 178
Bennis, Ed., and Co., Pneumatic Ash-handling
Plant, 103
Bertrams’ Rubber Factory and Plant, 446, 468, 469
Blake Boiler, Wagon and Engineering Company’s Narrow-gauge Self-discharging Wagon, 478
Boston, U.S.A., Submarine Tramway Tunnel, 230, 234, 235
Bourcier, P. G., on Aero-engine Connecting-rods, 167
Boyd, James, and Sons, Air Heater for Workshops, 502
Boydel) Traction Engine, 111
Bretts’ Patent Lifter Company, Drop Hammer Plant, 450, 452
Bridge, David, and Company, Cotton Baling and Sampling Machinery, 448, 467, 468
British Agricultural Tractors and Haulers, 512, 533, 553, 562
British and German Losses of Ships and Submarines, 556
British Merchant Vessels, Standardised, 267, 272, 273
Brook, E., Empress Electrical Engineering Works, Huddersfield, 342
Brown Brothers’ Air Heater for Motor Car Carburetters, 480
Bumsted and Chandler Agricultural Motor and Plough, 533
Burma Mines Railway, Narrow gauge Wagons, 478
Burrell Agricultural Tractors, 534
Burrell, G. A., and A. W. Gauger, on the Inflammability of Mixtures of Gases and Air, 168
c CARLISLE, Locomotive Coaling Plant at, for London and North-Western Railway, 12,
Centiped Chain Track, 205
Churchill Machine Tool Company, Internal
Cylinder Grinding Machine, 320
Copes Boiler Feed-water Regulator, 367
Cowans, Sheldon and Co., Locomotive Coaling
Plant at Carlisle, 12, 18
Crawley Agrimotor, 534
Cummins, A. E., Cotton Baling and Sampling
Machines, 448
Curtis Rateau Turbin^ Blading, the Deterioration of, A. Fenwick, 30, 60
D DARLING, Chas. R., on Small Electric Furnaces and their Uses, 422
Davidson and Liversedge Gas Washer, 502
Davy Brothers’ Steam Hydraulic Intensifier, 366
Dawson, Joseph, Suspension Bridges in New Zealand, 52, 56
Diplock Chain Track, Tractor, Lorry and
Wagon, 223, 241, 242, 243, 250
Diplock Pedrail Tractor, 181, 182
Diplock Traction Engine, 158
Donovan and Company’s Combined Switch, Wall Socket and Plug, 83
Doorakkers, G., on the Manufacture of Hardened
Thread Gauges, 263, 290, 308, 354, 355, 390
Dudgeon, Miss E. C., and Mr. J. E. Newman, Experiments in Crop Production by Electric Discharge, 74
E EDINBURGH, Gas-driven Omnibus for, 226
Edwards Tractor, 157, 158
Elswick, Fire and Salvage Boat for, 503
Empress Electrical Engineering Works, Huddersfield, E. Brook, 342
English Aeroplane Works, 257 (Two-page
Supplement, September 21st, 1917)
F FENWICK, A., on the Deterioration of Curtis Rateau Turbine Blading, 30, 60
Fiat Company, Turin, Testing Department, 503
Ford Cars, Conversion of, into Commercial Vehicles, 8
Forth and Clyde Ship Canal Schemes, 465, 538, 558 (Two-page Supplement, December 28th, 1917)
Foster, William, and Company’s Steam and Oil Tractors, 553
Fowler, John, and Company’s Motor Ploughs, 554, 562
French Railways, Conversion of Single Expansion to Compound Engines, 511 (Two-page Supplement, December \±th, 1917)
G GALLENKAMP’S Resistance Furnace, 422
Garrett, Richard, and Sons, Agricultural Steam Tractors, 554, 555
General Electric Company’s Plant for Driving 20in. Bar Mill, 186, 190
German Aeroplanes, 516, 518
Glover and Co.’s Plug Extractor for Shells, 7
Gray Three-ton Tractor, 299
Great Eastern Railway Train Control, 50
Great Northern Railway, Conversion of Com pound Engines, 542, 547
Griffith, A. A., and G. J. Taylor, on the Use of Soap Films in Solving Torsion Problems, 536. 543, 546
Griffith Colliery Tub, Sanford-Day Ironworks and Manufacturing Company, 457
Guillaume Fender’s Proposals for Chain Tractors, 136
Gwinnett’s Chain Track Proposal for Tractor, 158
H HAMPSON’S Rubber Washing Machine, 444, 445
Haughton, J. L., and D. Hanson, Further Notes on a High Temperature Thermostat, 322
Hawksley, Charles (Portrait), 492
Heusser, Wilfrid, Assaying and Chemical
Balance, 192
Hetherington, John, and Sons, 15in. Gun Lathe, 213, 214
Hobbs’ Artificial Hands and Arms, 334, 335, 351, 376
Rollings and Guest’s Tube Roller-welding Machine, 524
olmes, W. C., and Co.’s Centrifugal Type Gas Washers, 502
olt Agricultural Chain Track Tractor. 243, 244 ornsby Tractor, Roberts’ Chain Track Fitted to, 202, 208, 221, 222, 223
Hunter and English. Portable Filter Bed Sand Washer, 44
IONIDES, A. C., on the Principles and Methods of a New System of Gas-firing, 320
Italian Submarine Chasers, 566
J JUSTICE-JOHNSON Chain Track, Proposed Vehicles, 181
KENWORTHY, George, Practice in Bridge and Girder Yards from a Theoretical Standpoint, 5, 25, 48, 91 : (Letters), 162, 248
Kershaw, J. B. C., Use of Waste Gases for Steam Generation, 25
L LOCH LOMOND—see Mid-Scotland
Lodge-Newman and Lincluden Apparatus for
Crop Production, 74
Lombard, A. O., Tractor, 183, 184, 244, 250
Lombard Log-Hauling Tractor, 205
London and North-Western Railway Locomotive Coaling Plant at Carlisle, 12, 18
M McKENZIE, Holland and Westinghouse Power Signal Company’s Mechanism for Operating Railway Signals, 124
McLarty, F. M., on Attachment of Spindles to Forged Steel Valves, 153
Madeley, Old Colliery Winding Engine at, 94, 98
Mansfield Railway, 401, 408
Marquis, F. W., on Tests of the Uniflow Engine for Road Vehicles, 276 ; (Letters), 333, 360, 384
“ Marvel ” Drill Chuck, Louis Wearden and Guylee, Limited, 54
Mercedes Car with Hornsby’s Chain Track, 221
Michie-Golledge Coagulator, 421
Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, Ambulance Train, 358 (Two-page Supplement, October 2§th, 1917)
Mid-Scotland Ship Canal Schemes, 465, 538, 558 {Two-page Supplement, December 28th, 1917)
Mirrlees, Watson Caustic Soda Concentration Plant, 34, 44
Monometer Manufacturing Company’s Oil-fired Case Hardening Furnace, 571
N NEATH Tramways, Diaphragm Valve, 178
New Zealand, Suspension Bridge in, Joseph Dawson,. 52, 56
North-British Locomotive Company’s Tank Engines for the Paris-Orleans Railway, 43 {Two-page Supplement, July 18th, 1917)
North-Eastern Railway, Transporting a Heavy Casting, 413
Norway, Reinforced Concrete Shipbuilding in, 520, 524
OSAKA Electric Works, Coal and Ash Plant at, Babcock and Wilcox, 115
PAGE Tractor, 157
.L.M. Railway, Conversion of Single-Expansion to Compound Engines, 511 {Two-page Supplement, December ]Ath, 1917) aris-Orleans Railway, British Built Locomo
tives for, 43 {Two-page Supplement, July 13th, 1917)
’aris, Protection of, Against Floods, 16
’earn-Richards’ Combined Surfacing, Boring,
Milling and Drilling Machine, 118, 120
’erkins’ Rubber Washing Machinery, 446
’hcenix Company’s Log-Haub’ng Tractor, 204
Pioneer” Road Sweeping and Loading Machine, F. Walters and Co., 96
’oland, The Industries of, 14
’urchas, A. W., on Air-lift Pumping, 446
Q LEBEC Bridge, 253, 336, 338, 381, 403, 426, {Two-page Supplement, November 9th, 1917)
lASTRICK’S Design for a Steamboat, 81 ;
(Letters), 118, 228, 248, 279, 323
Rhodes, J., and Sons, 250-Ton Friction Screw Press, 43
Richards, Geo., and Co., Horizontal Boring Machines, 118, 120
Richardsons, Westgarth and Company’s Experi -mental Apparatus for Producing High Vacuum, 557
Roberts’ Chain Track and Tractor, 202, 203, 204, 221, 222, 223
Robinson, Thos., and Son, Vertical Band Sawing Machine, 412
Rochet-Schneider Car Fitted with Roberts’ Chain Track, 203
Rogers, F., on the Acid Open-Hearth Process, 276
Rumely Three-Wheeled Tractor, 298
Ruston, Proctor and Co’s Large Casting, 292
s SANFORD-DAY Ironworks and Manufacturing Company, The Griffith Colliery Tub, 457
Shaw, Francis, and Co.’s Rubber Washing and Drying Machines, 444, 445, 467, 468
Simms, F. R., Ploughing Tractor, 183, 184
Sisson, W. D., Diving Globe for Salving Sunken Ships, 386, 389
Smith and Coventry’s Bevel Gear Generating Machine, 82
Smith and Coventry’s 42in. Plain Horizontal Milling Machine, 102
Smith and Coventry’s Tool Works at Tim-perley, 470, 474
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, New Locomotives on, 287, 294 ; (Letter), 323 ; (Correction), 326 {Two-page Supplement, October 5th, 1917)
Sterne Resilient Wheel, 184
Stirling’s Regenerator and Hot-air Engine of 1816, 516, 517 ; (Letter), 537 : (Specification), 567
Strachan and Henshaw’s Telpher Coke Handling Plant, 430, 434
Stromeyer, C. E., on the Action of Caustic Liquors on Steel Plates, 496
Summerscales Rubber Machinery, 421, 422
Sydney, City and Suburban Electric Railways of, 144
Sykes, W. R. (Portrait), 319
Sykes—see also W. R. Sykes, &c.
T TASMANIAN Great Lake Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, 69, 78 {Two-page Supplement, July 27 th, 1917)
Towns, Herbert L., on Welding with Application to Automobile Engineering, lj>5, 147
V VALERI, O., Longitudinal Sleepers for Rail* ways and Tramways, 29
Virginian Railway, 312, 316
WALKER, John, Proposed Chain Tractor, 180
Wallace, W. M., on the Critical Speeds of Loaded Shafts,246
Wallis 3|-ton Three-Wheeled Tractor, 299
Walters, F., and Co., Road Sweeping Machine, 96
Warrington Gasworks, Strachan and Henshaw’s Telpher Coke Handling Plant, 430, 434 Wearden, Louis, and Guylee, The “ Marvel ” Drill Chuck, 54
Welsh Railways, Co-ordination Among, 189
Westinghouse Brake, Automatic Train Control for, 50
White and Poppe Type Carburetter, 178
Wild-Barfield Electrical Method of Steel Hardening, 82
Wilson, John H., and Co.’s Electric Winch, 525
Wolff, Dr. E. B., on Failure of Boiler Plates and
Stresses in Riveted Joints, 296, 456
Woodbridge Tractor, 156, 157
Wright, J., and Co.’s Furnaces for the Heat Treatment of Metals, 146, 147
W. R. Sykes Signal Interlocking Company, Apparatus for Train Control, 50, 319
z ZEPPELIN, Captured, Engine Gondolas of, 392
Zimmer, George Frederick, on Coal and Ash
Plant at Osaka Electric Works, 115
A ACID Open-Hearth Process, F. Rogers, 276
Action of Caustic Liquors on Steel Plates, C. E. Stromeyer, 496
Aero Engine Connecting-rods, P. G. Bourcier, 167
Aeroplane Construction in America, 489, 498
Aeroplane Works, An English, 257 {Two-page
Supplement, September 21<si, 1917)
Aeroplanes, Recent German, Notes on, 516, 518
Agricultural Tractors and Haulers, British, 512, 533, 553, 562
Air Heater for Motor Car Carburetters, Brown Brothers, Limited, 480
Air Heater for Workshops, J. Boyd and Sons, 502
Air-lift Pumping, A. W. Purchas, 446
Air Pump for High Vacuum Experiments, 557
Ambulance Train for Continental Service, 358 {Two-page Supplement, October 26th, 1917)
Arched Keel Block, Reinforced Concrete, Ayrshire Dockyard Company, 345
Ash-handling Plant, Pneumatic, Ed. Bennis and Co., 103
Assaying and Chemical Balance, Wilfrid Heusser, 192
Attachment of Spindles to Forged Steel Valves, F. M. McLarty, Jun., 153
Automatic Drop Bottom Mine Car, Sanford-Day Ironworks and Manufacturing Company, 457
Automatic Train Control, W. R. Sykes’ Signa!
Interlocking Company, 50, 319
Automobile Engineering, Welding with Application to, Herbert L. Towns, 125, 147
B BALANCE, Assaying and Chemical, Wilfrid Heusser, 192
Baling and Sampling Machines, Cotton, D.
Bridge and Co., 448
Band Saw—see Sawing-
Bar Mill, 20in., Motor-driven, General Electric
Company, 186, 190
Battery Signals—see Railway Signals Bevel-cutting Machines—see Machine Tools Boiler Feed-water Regulator, Copes, 367 Boiler Plates, Failure of, and Stresses in Riveted
Joints, Dr. E. B. Wolff, 296, 456
Boring Machines—see Machine Tools
Brakes, Westinghouse and Vacuum, Automatic Train Control for, W. R. Sykes’ Signal Interlocking Company, 50
Bridge and Girder Yards, Practice in, &c., G. Kenworthy, 5, 25, 48, 91 ; (Letters), 162, 248
Bridge, Quebec, The New, 253, 336, 338, 381, 403, 426 {Two-page Supplement, November Qth, 1917)
Bridges for Mid-Scotland Canal, 558 {Two-page Supplement, December 28th, 1917)
Bridges, Suspension, in New Zealand, Joseph Dawson, 52, 56
Bulb Experiments on Hot Bulb Engines, 112
c CANAL Schemes, Mid-Scotland, 465, 538, 558 {Two-page Supplement, December 28th, 1917)
Canteen, Engineering Works, A. F. Agar, 491
Canteens at Munitions Works, 268, 269
Carburetter, White and Poppe, 178
Carburetters, Motor Car, Air Heater for, Brown
Brothers, Limited, 480
Cars, Ford, Conversion of, into Commercial
Vehicles, 8
Case Hardening Furnace, Monometer Manufacturing Company, 571
Casting, Heavy, Transporting by North-
Eastern Railway, 413
Casting, A Large, Ruston, Proctor and Co., Limited, 292
Caterpillar or Paddle-wheel Traction Engine, 205
Caterpillar—see also Chain Track Tractor
Caustic Soda Concentration Plant, Mirrlees,
Watson Company, 34, 44
Centenary of Heat Regenerator and Stirling’s Engine, 1816, 516, 517 ; (Letter), 537 ; (Specification), 567
Centrifugal Type Gas Washers, W. C. Holmes and Co., 502
Chain Track Tractor, Evolution of the, 111, 134, 135, 156, 181, 202, 221, 241, 250; (Letter), 184
Chuck, Drill, the “ Marvel,” Louis Wearden and Guylee, Limited, 54
Circular Arcs, Simple Calculations of, 114
Coal and Ash Hoists, Push-button, 254
Coal and Ash Plant at Osaka Electric Works, Babcock and Wilcox, 115
Coaling Plant, Locomotive, at Carlisle, for London and North-Western Railway, 12, 18
Coke Handling Plant at Warrington Gasworks, Strachan and Henshaw, Limited, 430, 434
Colliery Tub—see Automatic Mine Car
Concrete, Reinforced, Arched Keel Block, Ayrshire Dockyard Company, 345
Concrete, Reinforced, Shipbuilding in Norway, 520, 524
Concrete, Transmission of, by Air and Steam, 159, 164
Connecting-rods, Aero-engine, P. G. Bourcier, 167
Conversion of Ford Cars into Commercial Vehicles, 8
Conversion of Locomotives—see Locomotives
Cotton Baling and Sampling Machines, D.
Bridge and Co., 448
Cranes, for France, Five-ton Electric Goliath, Sir W. Arrol and Co., Limited, 140, 142
Critical Speeds of Loaded Shafts, W. M. Wallace, 246
D DETERIORATION of Curtis Rateau Turbine
Blading, A. Fenwick, 30, 60
Diving Globe for Salving Sunken Ships, W. D.
Sisson, 386, 389
Drill Chuck, The “ Marvel,” Louis Wearden and Guylee, Limited, 54
Drop Hammer Plant Driven by Waste Heat, Bretts’ Patent Lifter Company, 450, 452
E ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Bar Mill, 20in., Electrically-driven, General Electric Company, 186, 190
Coal and Ash Plant at Osaka Electric Works, Babcock and Wilcox, 115
Electric Discharge and Crop Production, 74
Empress Works, E. Brook, 342
Furnaces, Small Electric, and their Uses, Chas. R. Darling, 422
Steel Hardening, Electric Method of, Wild-Barfield, 82
Switch, Wall Socket and Plug, Combined, Donovan and Co., 83
Winch, Electric, J. H. Wilson and Co., 525
ENGINES AND MOTORS: Atmospheric Colliery Winding Engine, 94, 98
Hot Air Engine and Regenerator of 1816, Stirling’s, 516, 517 ; (Letter), 537 ; (Specification), 567
Hot Bulb Engines, 112 ; (Letters), 149, 161
Locomotives—see Locomotives
Traction Engine, Boydell, 111
Traction Engine, B. J. Diplock, 158
Uniflow Engine for Road Vehicles, Tests at Ohio, F. W. Marquis, 276 ; (Letters), 333, 360, 384
ENGINEERING Works Canteens, A. F. Agar, 491
Evolution of the Chain Track Tractor, 111, 134, 135, 156, 181, 202, 221, 241, 250; (Letter), 184
F FAILURE of Boiler Plates—see Boiler Plates
Feed-water Regulator, Copes, 367
Filter Bed Sand Washer, Portable, Hunter and
English, Limited, 44
Fire and Salvage Boat for Elswick, 503
Floods, Protection of Paris Against, 16
Friction Screw Press, 250-Ton, J. Rhodes and
Sons, Limited, 43
Furnace, Oil-fired Case-hardening, Monometer
Manufacturing ‘Company, 571
Furnaces for the Heat Treatment of Metals,
J. Wright and Co., 146, 147
Furnaces—see also Electrical Matters
G GAS-DRIVEN Motor Vehicles, 178, 226
Gas-driven Omnibus for Edinburgh, 226
Gases and Air, Inflammability of Mixtures of,
G. A. Burrell and A. W. Gauger, 168
Gas-firing, A New System, Principles and Methods of, A. C. lonides, 320
Gas Washers, Centrifugal Type, W. C. Holmes and Co., 502
Gauges, Hardened Thread, Manufacture of, G. Doorakkers, 263, 290, 308, 354, 355, 390
Gun Lathe—see Machine Tools
H HEAT of Steam, The Latent, F. B. Aspinall, 3, 25, 47, 58 ; (Letters), 162, 184, 279
Heat Treatment of Metals, Furnaces for, J.
Wright and Co., 146, 147
Heating of Industrial Buildings, James Boyd and Sons, 502
High Vacuum Experiments at Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., 557
Hot Air and Hot Bulb Engines—see Engines
Hydraulic, Steam, Intensifier, Davy Brothers, Limited, 366
Hydro-electric Power Scheme, Tasmanian Great Lake, 69, 78 {Two-page Supplement, July 21th,
INDUSTRIES of Poland, 14
Inflammability of Mixtures of Gases and Air,
G. A. Burrell and A. W. Gauger, 168
Intensifier, Steam Hydraulic, Davy Brothers, Limited, 366 <
L LATENT Heat of Steam, F. B. Aspinall, 3, 25, 47, 58 ; (Letters), 162, 184, 279
Lathes—see Machine Tools
Locomotives for American Military Railways in France, 458
Locomotive Coaling Plant at Carlisle, London and North-Western Railway, 12, 18
Locomotive, P.L.M., Conversion of Single Expansion to Compound, 511 {Two-page Supplement, December \4th, 1917)
Locomotive, British Built Tank, for the Paris-Orleans Railway, 43 {Two-page Supplement, July ISth, 1917)
Locomotives on the Great Northern Railway, Conversion of, 542, 547
Locomotives, South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 287, 294 : (Letter), 323 ; (Correction) 326 {Two-page Supplement, October 5th, 1917)
Longitudinal Sleepers for Railways and Tramways, Olindo Valeri, 29
Losses of Ships—see Ships
M MACHINE TOOLS: Bevel Gear Generating Machine, Smith and Coventry, Limited, 82
Gun Lathe, 15in., Motor Driven, John
Hetherington and Sons, Limited, 213, 214
Horizontal Boring Machines, Two New, Geo.
Richards and Co., 118, 120
Internal Cylinder Grinding Machine, Churchill
Machine Tool Company, 320
Milling Machine, 42in. Plain Horizontal,
Smith and Coventry, 102
Nine-inch Taper Turning Sliding Lathe, Harry F. Atkins, 43
Press, 250-Ton Friction Screw, J. Rhodes and
Sons, Limited, 43
MANUFACTURE of Hardened Thread Gauges,
G. Doorakkers, 263, 290, 308, 354, 355, 390
MAPS: Australia, Transcontinental Railway, 356
Cardiff, Railways in the Vicinity of, 189
Coal Distribution Areas of Great Britain, 37
Forth and Clyde Canal, 465, 466
Mansfield Railway, 401
Paris and its Environs, Protection of, Against Floods, 16
Poland, Coal, Iron and Oil Fields, 14
Sydney, Existing and Proposed Suburban Railways, 145
West Virginia Coalfields and Virginian Railway, 312
MECHANICAL Arms for Maimed Soldiers, E.
W. Hobbs, 334, 335, 351, 376
Metals, Furnaces for the Heat Treatment of,
John Wright and Co., 146, 147
Milling Machines—see Machine Tools
Mine Car—see Automatic
Motor Car Carburetters, Air Heater for, Brown
Brothers, Limited, 480
Motor Vehicles, Gas-driven, 178
Munitions Works, Canteens at, 268, 269
N NARROW-GAUGE Rolling Stock for Burma, Blake Boiler, Wagon and Engineering Company, 478
o OIL-FIRED Case-hardening Furnace, Mono-meter Manufacturing Company, 571
Omnibus, Gas-driven, for Edinburgh, 226
Oxy-Acetylene Welding—see Welding
p PETROL or Gas as Motor Fuel, Beeston Dual Device, 178
Petrol Tractor on the Farm, 298
Plug Extractor for Shells, M. Glover and Co., 7
Pneumatic Ash Handling Plant, Ed. Bennis and
Co., 103
Portable Filter Bed Sand Washer, Hunter and
English, Limited, 44
Portrait, Charles Hawksley, 492
Portrait, W. R. Sykes, 319
Practice in Bridge and Girder Yards, &c., G.
Kenworthy, 5, 25, 48, 91 ; (Letters), 162, 248
Presses—see Machine Tools
Production and Preparation of Raw Rubber, 399, 421, 444, 467
Protection of Paris Against Floods, 16
Push Button Coal and Ash Hoists, American, 254
R RAILWAY, Australian Transcontinental, 356, 362 ; (Paragraph), 384
Railway, Mansfield, 401
Railway, Narrow Gauge, Wagons for Burma, 478
Railway (Signals, Mechanism for Operating, McKenzie, Holland and Westinghouse Power Signal Company, 124
Railway, The Virginian, 312, 316
Railways of Sydney, City and Suburban Electric, 144
Railways and Tramways, Longitudinal Sleepers for, 0. Valeri, 29
Railways, Welsh, Co-ordination Among, 189
Regenerator and Hot Air Engine of 1816, Stirling’s, 516, 517 ; (Letter), 537 ; (Specification), 567
Reinforced Concrete Arched Keel Blcck, Ayrshire Dockyard Company, 345
Rcniforccd Concrete Shipbuilding in Norway,
Road Sweeping and Loading Machine, F.
Walters and Co., 96
Roller Welding Tubes Machine, Rollings and Guest, Limited, 524
Rubber, Raw, The Production and Preparation of, 399, 421, 444, 467
s SAW Mill at an Aeroplane Works, 257
Sawing Machine, Vertical Band, Thos. Robinson and Son, Limited, 412
Shafts, Loaded, Critical Speeds cf, W. M. Wallace, 246
Shells, Plug Extractor for, M. Glover and Co., 7 Ship Canal Schemes, Mid-Scotland, 465>, 538
SHIPS AND SHIPPING WAITERS :
General:
Losses of Ships and Submarines, 556
Reinforced Concrete Shipbuilding in Norway, 520,524 ?
Sunken Ships, New Device for Raising, W.
D. Sisson, 386, 389
British Navy:
Submarine Chasers for* British Admiralty, American Built, 139
Foreign: Naval Power Boat Construction in America, 139
Submarine Chasers, American Built, 139
Submarine Chasers, Italian, 566
Miscellaneous Ve ssels:
American Wooden Steamships, 332
Rastrick’s Design for a Steamboat, 81 : (Letters), 118, 228, 248, 279, 323
SIGNALS—sec Railway Signals
Six-ton Steam Wagon, Atkinson and Co., 494
Sleepers, Longitudinal, for Railways and Tramways, O. Valeri, 29
Soap Films, Use of, in Solving Torsion Problems, A. A. Griffiths and G. I. Taylor, 536, • 543, 546
Soda, Caustic, Concentration Plant, Mirrlees, Watson Company, 34, 44
Soldiers, Maimed, Mechanical Arms for, E. W.
Hobbs, 334, 335, 351, 376
Speeds of Loaded Shafts, Critical, W. M. Wallace, 246
Spindles, Attachment of, to Forged Steel Valves, F. M. McLarty, jun., 153
Standardised British Merchant Vessels, 267, 272, 273
Steam Generation, Use of Waste Gases for, J.
B. C. Kershaw, 25
Steam Hydraulic Intensifier, Davy Brothers, Limited, 366
Steam, The Latent Heat of, F. B. Aspinall, 3, 25, 47, 58 ; (Letters), 162, 184, 279
Steam Wagon—see. Wagon
Steel Hardening, Electric Method, Wild-Barfield, 82
Steel Manufacture, The Acid Open-Hearth Process, F. Rogers, 276
Steel Plates, Action of Caustic Liquors on, C. E. Stromeyer, 496
Submarine Tramway Tunnel at Boston, 230, 234, 235
TELPHER Coke-handling Plant—see Coke
Testing Department of the Fiat Company, Turin, 503
Thermostat, A High Temperature, Further Notes on, J. L. Haughton and D. Hanson, 322 Tool Works at Timperley, Smith and Coventry, 470, 474
Torsion Problems, Use of Soap Films in Solving, A. A. Griffith and G. I. Taylor, 536, 543, 546
Traction Engines—see Engines
Tractor, Chain Track, Evolution of the, 111, 134, 135, 156, 181, 202, 221, 241, 250; (Letter), 184
Tractor, Petrol, on the Farm, 298
Tractors and Haulers, British Agricultural, 512, 533, 553, 562
Train, Ambulance—see Ambulance
Train Control—see Automatic
Transmission of Concrete by Air and Steam, 159, 164
Transporting a Heavy Casting, 413
Tube Roller-welding Machine, Rollings and Guest, Limited, 524
Tunnel, Submarine, at Boston, U.S.A., 230, 234, 235
Turbine Blading, Curtis Rateau, The Deteriora tion of, A. Fenwick, 30, 60
NIFLOW—see Engines
se of Soap Films—see Soap
se of Waste Gases for Steam Generation,
J. B. C. Kershaw, 27
7ALVE,Pressure Regulating,Neath Tramways,
178 .
WAGON, Narrow Gauge, Self-discharging, for Burma, Blake Boiler, Wagon and Engineering Company, 478
Wagon, Six-ton Steam, Atkinson and Co., 494 Washer—see Gas Washer
Waste Gases for Steam Generation, Use of, J. B. C. Kershaw, 25
Water Softening Plant—see Australian Transcontinental Railway, 356, 362 ; (Paragraph), 384
Welding with Application to Automobile Engineering, Herbert L. Towns, 125, 147
Wheel Tractor, Andrew Dunlop, 134, 135
Winch, Electric, J. H. Wilson and Co., 525
Works, Aeroplane, An English, 257 (Two-page
Supplement, September 21st, 1917)
Works, Electrical—see Electrical Matters
Works, New Tool, at Timperley, Smith and
Coventry, 470, 474
Workshops, Air Heater for, J. Boyd and Sons, 502
ZEPPELIN, Captured, Engine Gondolas of, 392
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