The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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ACCOUNTANTS, Cost and Works, Institute of, 314
Acetone from Bassia Flowers in India, War and Peace Uses of, 446
Advertising, Lectures on, Captain O. A. Minns, 439
Aeronautical Design, American Investigation of Gorman Instruments for, 559
Aeronautics, Department of, Imperial College of Science and Technology, 462
Aeroplanes, American Military, with Air Propeller Driven Generators for Wireless Installation, 637
Aeroplanes for Railway Survey, 453
Africa, South-West Protectorate, Active Waterboring Operations, 453
A.G.E. Smithfield Dinner, 597
Agricultural Machine Manufacture Begun in Australia, 507
Agricultural Tractor Trials at Lincoln, 135
Airships, British “ S.S.” .Dirigible, for Ice
Observation in Seal Fishing, 427
Airships Presented to Canada by Imperial Government, 661
Air Velocity in Small Tubes, Experiments, 35
Alaska’s First Pulp and Paper Mill, 157
Alcobronze, New Alloy, 611
Alcohol Fuel Patents, 248
Alcohol, Industrial, from Bassia Flowers, 446
Alcohol Motor Fuel, 214
Alcohol, Power, Supplies, 106
Alloy, New Magnetic, 277
Alloys Discovered in France, 111
Alloys, Pyrophoric, of Cerium and Iron, A.
Hirch, 661
Aluminium Alloy Casting, Proper Temperature, 585
Aluminium and its Alloys, Protection from Corrosion, 111, 203
Aluminium, Process for Nickelling, 611
Aluminium from Switzerland, 585
American Engineering Societies. Federated, Joined by American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 277
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Election Machinery Improvement, 403
Ammonia—see Synthetic
Annealing Polished Metals, German Process for Protection from Tarnishing, 533
Apprentices, Engineering, Shield for, 74
Apprentices of Two Firms, University Scholarships Offered, 377
Asbestos with 3ft. long Fibres at Luzon. 61
Asphalt Production in United States, 178
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES : Institute, Royal, of British Architects :
War Memorial, 545
Institute, Royal Sanitary :
Henry Saxon Snell Prize, Conditions for 1921, 597
Institute, Textile :
Noise in Weaving Sheds, Causes and Suggested Remedies, Committee’s Report, 533
Institution of Automobile Engineers
Annual Dinner, 548
Arrangements for Meetings, 74
Combustion of Naphthalene Solutions in Internal Combustion Engines, L. S. Palmer, 603
Repair of Worn Motor Parts by Electro deposited Iron, B. H. Thomas, 61
Steel Research Report, 106
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Annual Dinner Not to be Held, 309
Awards for Papers, 491
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Benevolent Fund, Conditional Offer of Donation, 647
Postponement of Meetings, 494
Subscription Rates Increase Proposal, 453
North Midland Centre :
Quasi-arc Welding lor Bombs and Submarine Mines, C. J. Jewell, 611
Institution of Gas Engineers :
Electricity Supply by Gas Companies, J. Fisher, 30
Institution of Locomotive Engineers (London):
Buenos Aires, Local Centre Opened, 170
Scottish Centre :
Inaugural Meeting, 465
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy :
Gold Modal Awards, 506
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers :
Economies in Road Maintenance, J. Lanf, 179
Gas in relation to the Housing Problem;
F. W. Goodenough, 403
Institution, Royal :
Christmas Juvenile Lecture Programme..
Professor J. A. Thomson, 619
Society of Chemical Industry :
Birmingham and Midland Section :
Corrosion in Copper and Brass, Dr. O. F. Hudson, 611
Society of Engineers :
Appeal for Increase of Membership, 85
Awards for Papers, 623
Concrete, Compressive Strength of, Comparison between Sea Water and Fresh, Professor E. R. Matthews, 35
Crystal Palace Engineering Society :
“Wilson Premium” Award, 647
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
Society, Faraday :
Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Discussion by Four Societies, 340
Society, Physical :
Annual Joint Exhibition with Optical Society, 650
Meetings for the Session, 203
AUSTRALIA, Electrolytic Smelting Industry, Future Possibilities, 453
Australian Grant for Buildings in Future Capital of Canberra, 327
Australian Proposal for Protection of New Industries and Joint Production of Tools by British Firms, 637
Automobile Association and Motor Union Report, 157
Aviation, Civil, Air Ministry’s Report, 661
B BALDWIN’S Toronto Plant Ceases Work for
Lack of Hydro-electric Power, 85
Bearings, White Metals for, 637
Belgium, Industrial Situation Analysed, 403
Belt Drive Tables, Buck and Hickman, 502
Belting, Method of Eliminating Static Electricity, C. M. Green, 403
Bengal Engineering College, Future of, 61
Bilbao, Crane-buying Difficulties, 322
Blast-furnace Gas, Beneficial Effect of, on
Plants, 611
Blast-furnaces—see Iron
Boiler Explosion and Need of Control, 111
Boiler and Tubes, Longer Life with Coal than
Oil Burning, 661
Boilers and Engines, Repair by Welding, 100
Boilers, Standard Marine, 165
Bombay Engineering Congress, 106
Bonus Wage Payment Scheme of Lambourne and Co., Limited, 479
Brassfoundry, Measurement of Casting Temperatures, J. Arnott, 327
Brassey’s Annual, 502
Brazil* Government Subsidy to Promote
Chemical Study, 157
Brazilian Loan in the United States, Projected, 353
British Engineering Standards Association :
Specifications Adopted for Official Use in
South Afri^p, 453
Standardisation of Test Pieces for Notched
Bar Test, 231
British Standard Specification for Electrical
Cooking Ranges, 157
Brussels Ship Canal, 61
Buenos Aires Arrangement for Register of Traders, 585
c CABLE Dispute between the Western Telegraph Company and the United States, 661
Cadmium, Pre-war Production in Germany Outdone by the United States, 427
Calcutta, Inland Harbour at Manicktollah, and Canal System, 35
Camellaird-Full agar Engine, 439
Canada and Financial Self-preservation, 327
Canada and Government Control of Hydroelectric Power, 203—see also Hydro-electric Power
Canada, Graphite Report, 165
Canada, Public Ownership on Large Scale in, 585
Canada and the West Indies, Preferential Trade Agreement, 427 •
Canadian Trade in Fertilisers, 179
Canadian Trent Valley Canal Finished, 111
Canal Abandoned and Used for Bed for Hydroelectric Pipe Track, with Railway Above it, 307
Canal, New, in France, under Consideration, 661
Canal, Part of, Abandoned, 253
Canal Schemes, Two, in India, F. L. Milne, 203
Canals, Disused, as Ponds for Fish Culture, 605
Canals—see also Ministry of Transport
Cardiff and Smoke, 314
Cartagena, Project for Protection against Inundation, 299
Catalogues for Reval, 623
Celebration Dinner, 568
Celluloid for Knife Handles and Camphor Shortage, 327
Cement Jointing for Cast Iron Water Pipes, 377
Cement Recovery from Sacks, 61
Cement Tests in the United States Standards
Bureau, 152
Cerium Alloys from Gas Mantle Residues, 661
Ceylon’s Hydro-electric Possibilities, 85
Chemical Analysis by Use of the Electric Arc, W. R. Mott, 559
China and American Enterprise, 403
China and Marconi Company, Negotiations for Loan for Wireless Stations, 559
China, Tatung Mining Administration, 227
Chromium—see Iron and Steel
Clay Product Values in the United States, 348
(Jay, Researches into Physical Properties of, Grant in Aid of, 35
CO Detector, Professor C. R. Hoover, 179
COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES : Air Required for Coal Combustion, Calculation of, 559
Australian Coal for Sweden, 507
Austria’s Low Coal Production, 377
Belgian Congo, Coal Deposits Discovery, 203 British Empire, Coal Resources of, 623 Canada and Expansion of Coal Output, 227
C°AL,^C°KE AND COLLIERIES {con- China the Sole Country with Increased Coal , Production, 301
Coal-loading Apparatus for Venezuelan Port, 61
Coal Prices and Costs, 74
Coke Supply Decrease in Belgium, 353
Coal and Iron Deposits Discovered,
Durham Colliery’s Experience of Increased Labour Force, Decreased Output and 1 rebled Wages Bill, 353
Eastern Siberia, Reported Coal Discovery, 559
France, Output of Coke in, Consumption, and Imports, 377
French Coal Consumption and Supply, Effect of War and War Treaty, 377
French Coal-mining Statistics, 559 Groundhog Coal Properties, British Columbia, 427
Japan, Estimate of Coal Deposits, 111
Lignite to Replace Coal in Westphalian Electrical Works, 301
. Malay Peninsula, Coal Discovery and Mining, 183
Malay Peninsula, Last Year’s Output of Coal, 301
Malay States, Successful Output of Coal at Cheap Rate, 585
Manchurian Coal Mines, Electric Plant Projected for, 533
Mines of Northern France, Clearing of the Dourges Pits, 479
Mines Reclamation at Lens, 301
Nigeria, Udi Coalfield Development, 135 Pulverised Coal for Firing Steel Furnaces, 301 Queensland Coal Statistics, 111 Ruhr Region Coal Production, 611 South African Coal Mines Waste, 507
South African Coal Output, Half in the Middelburg Area, fill
South Wales and Monmouthshire, New Course of Instruction in Coal Mining and Diploma, 179
Tucuman Province, Coal Deposit Discovery, 157 J
Upper Silesia, Reduced Output of Coal, 585 Workers’ Output, Averages of Various
Countries, 353
I COBALI Bloom Deposit Containing Amalite,
i Discovery in Manitoba, 11
Colloids and Industry, 100
Common Sense in Engineering, W. M. McFarland, 258
I Concrete Aggregate, Use of Slags, 430
( oncrete Consistency, Simple Apparatus for Determining, 11
| Concrete, Effects of Rodding and Tapping, 135 Concrete Floor Subsidence, Method of Repair 585 ’
Concrete Lining for Irrigation Canals, 637
Concrete Posts, Hollow, for Use as Mine “ Timbers,” 611
^°203ete Shipbuilding, Figures of its Failure,
Concrete Tanks, Sub-surface, Repair of, 327 Conveying Machinery, &c., Favourable Opportunity in Sweden for British Manufact urers, 179
Coolidge Wrought Tungsten Patent Controversy, 157
Copper Mine Reopened in Merionethshire. I 1 Copper Product of the World, 353
Cotton Industry, British, Research Association.
What it has Done, 377
Cotton-picking Machine in Texas, 403
County of London Royal Engineers Volunteers Disbandment and Funds Distribution. 519
Crane for Bilbao, Difficult Purchase, 322
Crane, Largest Hammer Head Type Fitting-out, 111 *
Crossed Threads, 522
Crystal Palace Engineering Feat, 203
Crystal Palace Engineering Society, ‘ Premium ” Award, 647
Cutlery Research Association, 85, 340
‘ Wilson i
D
Bricks Exchanged for United States Coal, 253
Death of Mr. W. H. Taylor, 6
Detection of Animate and Inanimate Objects
{ by Heat Radiation, 301
xreYar \ Challenge Trophy Awarded to
National Benzole Company, 479
Diesel Engines, Large Marine, Completed in Germany, 277
Divers’ Time Under Water, Chemical Sugges-
Pe1IiodO637nCreaSing Capacity for longer
Divining Rod, A. J. Ellis, 301
Dredging Projects and Plant in Argentina, 11
Drill Sizes and Equivalents, C. A. Hunton and
Sons, 532
Dry Dock for St. John, New Brunswick, 1 ] 1
Dry Rot,” 214
Duddell Memorial, 439
Dunlop Tires Destroyed in Paris Fire, 301
Duplicating Documents for Railroad Purposes
by Various Methods on Wholesale Scale, 185
Dutch Commercial Intelligence Oifice, 289
Dutch East Indies, Forestry Plant and Small
Hanways, 35
Dyes, Synthetic, Inadequate Supply, No
Revival of German Trade with Bombay, 277
E
ECDN0M1SER Wreckage by Explosion at
Hull, 11
Educational Innovation in America, 533
ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Accounts of the York, Taunton and Sunderland Electricity Departments, 327
Aluminium for Electric Installations, 507
American Electrical Appliances, Exploitation by Houseboat in China, 403
American Large Electrical Power Systems, Analysis of, 179
Auckland Electrical Plant Extension, 327
Austrian Power Station at Strubklamm undei Construction, 661
Birmingham Electric Trainways Statistics, 227
Bolton Electricity Works Additions, 135
Bradford Electricity Works, New Generating Plant, 507
Bridge River Power Site, Vancouver, Development Begun, 61
Burnley Loan for Generating Station Plant, 179
Canadian Government Reduces Licence for Export of Electrical Energy of Three Companies, 585
Cauvery Falls, Development of Power in Mysore, 35
Cauvery Falls, Proposed New Power Stations, 637
Ceylon, Hydro-electric Development in, 377
Charleroi Electrical Trade Improving, 179
Cooking Ranges, Electrical, British Standard Specification for, 157
Cracking in Built-up High-tension Insulators, 85
Eastbourne Electricity Finance, 135
Electricity Supply by Gas Companies, J. Fisher, 30
Ex-Officers Trained for General Electrical Company’s Work, 533
Fulham and Hammersmith Undertakings “ Linking Up,” 301
Furnaces Used for Manufacture of Potash and Phosphoric Acid, 35
Garlearini’s Rotating Arc Lamp, 301
Generating Plant for Manchurian Coal Mines, 533
Generators, Air Propeller Driven, in American War Aeroplanes, 637
George Montefiore Prize Offer, 157
German Electrical Company’s Increased Dividend, 533
German Electrical Industry Position, 179
Gigantic Power Scheme Proposed for Eastern
United States, 111
Glasgow Electrical Deficit, 227
Glass Insulator Tests, 479
Greenock as a Power Centre for Renfrewshire, 479
High Voltage by San Francisco Company, 533
Italian Consumption of Electrical Energy, 277
Japan Erecting Power Stations for Train Operation, 111
Japanese Electrical Enterprise Statistics, 479
Japanese Electric Industry and Water Power Rights, 533
Lamp, High-voltage, New Form of, 253
Linking-up Scattered Water Power Resources, Dr. Steinmetz, 203
London County Council Electrical Supply Statistics, 253
Loughborough Corporation Electricity Supply Extension, 135
Maps pf Electrical Districts in Request, 111
Melbourne Electric Company Orders Tramway Rails from America, 277
Motor Tricycles, Electric, for Swiss Posta Work, 510
Nationalisation of German Electrical Under takings, 533
Norwich, Proposed New Electricity Works, 453
Nottingham’s New Electric Power Station.
403 ; Additional Expenditure, 661
Oil Switches, Rating and Design of, 327
Photometer, Electric, New Device, 403
Portobello New’ Generating Station, Capacity, 327
Pretoria, Extensive New Power Scheme, 11
Punjab and Cheap Electric Power, F. L. Milne, 203
Refractories for Electric Furnaces, 507
Research Committee. Electrical, New Developments, 253
Research Licence—.see Scientific
Shanghai Municipal Electrical Undertaking, 111
Southampton Electricity Undertaking Revenue 427
South-East Lancashire Electric Development Schemes, 11
Spanish Extensive Electrical Installations under Construction, 157 -
Surveys for Water Power Electric Generating Plant in Vancouver, 11
Swedish Electrical Industries Demand Protective Import Duty, 533
Swiss Increase in Electricity Charges, 253
Tests on 3|-Ton “Orwell” Electric Vehicle, 111
“Thermalloy” and Necessary Precautions with Electrical Machinery, 427
Transmission of Electrical Energy, Limiting Voltage, 327
Transmission of Electric Power instead of
Coal from Belgium to Italy, Proposal, 301
Turbo-generator Failures and their Cause 135 Welding, Electro-percussive, D. F. Miner.
637
Wellington, New Zealand, Loan for Power Plant Extension, 157
West Ham Electricity Report, J 79
Westphalian Electrical Works, Proposal to Use Lignite instead of Coal, 301
ELECTROLYTIC Smelting Industry in Australia, 453
Electro-magnetism, Centenary of Discovery by Oersted, 296
Empire Motor Fuels Committee, Inquiries into Use of Alcohol, 353
Empire Press Conference in Newfoundland, Telephonic Communication with England. 85 Engineering Standards Association—.see British and also Italy
Engines, Diesel, Limited to Small Sizes, 258
Exhibitions: Algiers, Agricultural Exhibition Project, 427 British Industries Fairs, JOO, 507
Civic Survey Diagrams Exhibition, 435, 545
Commercial Fair at Brussels, 647
Dominions Touring Exhibition, 146
French Products Exhibition in London, 61
International Agricultural Exhibition at Rovigo, Italy, 135
International Motor Show in the Dutch East Indies, 35
Luxemburg, Exhibition of Agricultural Machinery, 227
Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia, 61, 110
Paris International Aeronautical Exhibition. 227
Peruvian International Industrial Exhibition, 453
Physical and Optical Societies’ Annual Joint Exhibition, 650
Timber Grown in British Empire Exhibition.
11, 48
EX PLOSION of a Drying Cylinder, 478
Explosions and Value of Isolating Valves, 611 Explosives, Conveyance of, in Petrol-driven
Vehicles, 559
FACTORY Depart inent of Home Office, Reorganisation, 203
Fairs-—see Exhibitions
Federation of British Industries :
Meeting to Consider Question of Steam Ferry
Across the North Sea, 111, 277
Membership, Analysis of, 33
Packing in Wire Netting as Protection from Theft, 606
Fertiliser Manufacture near Cape Town, 559
Finnish Industries, Increasing Production, 327
Finsbury Technical College Defence Committee, 600
Fire Extinguishers, Danger of Carbon Tetrachloride in Confined Spaces, 479
Fire Retardent Paints Tried in United States for Forest Protection, 85
Fish Propagation in Ponds Formed from Old
Canals, 605
Fish Quarrel at Mevagissey, 253
Floating Dock, 10,000-Ton, for Schiedam, 106
Ford Cars, 4000 a Day Capacity Aimed at, 179
Ford Company’s Free Technical Institute, 277
Ford Company Motor Ploughs for Germany, 661
Ford Motor, Price Reductions, 327
Freezing of Leakage Water, Unexpected Effect,
French Arsenal at Lorient to be Handed Over to Private Industry, 111
French Cities, Rebuilding Changes, 636
French Colonies and France, Wireless Connection Projected, 157
French Explosives, Proposal for Storage at the Bottom of a Lake, 507
Fuel Research Board, Conclusions as to Power
Alcohol, <fcc., Ill
Furnaces, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Fused Quartz, Development ami Physical Properties, 427
G GAS Coke in relation io Cheap Power and Smoke Abatement, E. W. Nicol, 453
Gas at Is. 6d. per 1000 cubic feet, less Discount. 308
Gas, Electricity Supply by,’ J. Fisher, 30
Gas for Lighting and Heating Obtained from Wheat, 327, 637
Gas and Motor Fuel Production from Straw, 533
Gas and Valuable By-products from Wheat Straw, 637
George Montefiore Prize Re-offered, 157
German Conscription of Labour Proposed, 353
German Income Tax Closes Motor Car Works in Wurtemburg, 227
German Labour Cost and Output Statistics, 253
German Patents in Japan on Sale, 35
German Powerful Wireless Telegraph Company in Buenos Aires, 227
German Shipbuilding and Metal Industries, 403
Germany and United Kingdom. Imports and
Exports since the Armistice, 135
Germany’s Trade with China Reviving, 559
Graphical Representation of Variable Quantities, Professor Douglas, 35
Graphite in Canada, 165
Graphite Deposits, Extensive, in Western
Australia, 135
Graphite as Preventive of Scale in Boilers, 227
Greek Government Scheme for Improvement of Smyrna Ports, 479
Greek Industries and Hydraulic Energy, 403
Guatemala as Field for British Trade, 51 1
H HAITI, Proposed Wharf at Saint Marc, 203
Harbour at Bratislava on the Danube, 111
Harbour Improvement Scheme for Hamilton, Ontario, 61
Heat from Dust Destructor Utilised for Driving Compressors for Sewage, Colonel Prescott. 661
Helium Gas, Excessive Cost of Production, 92
Helium Gas, Possible Cheap Production at Calgary, 11
Horse-power in Water Power of Various Countries Compared, 403
House of Commons Committee on Smoke Abatement, 11, 22
House Refuse Collection Cost, 637
Howrah Bridge Reconstruction, 637
Hydraulic Machinery, 519
Hydro-electric Development in Ceylon, 377
Hydro-electric Development in Japan, 533
Hydro-electric Development Schemes, 403
Hydro-electrical Plants, Reduced Utility in
Drought and Severe Weather, French Experiences, 661
Hydro-electric Power Possibilities and Government Control, in Canada, 203, 507. 585
Hydro-electric Scheme, Lochaber, 507
Hydro-electric Works at Linton Locks, York, 403
I ICEBREAKER, Proposed Purchase by Sweden, 427
111 umination—see National
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Aeronautics, 462
Indian Concession on Condition of Hydroelectric Irrigation Plant Erection, 203
Industrial Administration, Institute of:
Industrial Question, Address by Viscount Haldane, 416
Road Transport as an Aid to Industrial Management, R. Twelvetrees, 533 Industrial Alcohol from Bassia Flowers, 446 Industrial Centres and Water Power Remoteness, 403
Industrial Christian Fellowship, Labour’s Call, • Meeting, 479
Industrial League :
Dinner, 309
Week-end Conferences, 91
Industrial Nottingham, 235
Institutions—see Associations, &c.
Insurance Bicentenary, 48
International Communications Conference, Preliminary Meeting at Washington, 301
International Institute of Refrigeration, 24 International Patents Ofiice in Brussels, 507 Inventors and Inventions, State-aided, Committee to Consider Question of, J 1 1
Ireland, Utilisation of Water Power in Donegal, 174
IRON AND STEEL: Argentine Large New Ironworks, 157
Australia’s Beginnings of Large Steel Industry, 453
Bilbao Iron Industries and the Italian Market, 327
Boron in Steel Manufacture, 479
Brazil Iron Ore Deposits, I 35
British Columbia, Iron and Steel Industry, 479
British Columbia, Rolling Mills and Blastfurnaces for Steel Manufacture, 327
Broken Hill. Australia, New Steel Plant, 301
Canadian New Blast-furnaces on the Detroit River, 1 I 1
Cast Steel W heels for Railways, Japanese Experiments, 277
China, Blast-furnaces in, 403
Chinese Iron Ore and Pig Iron Production, 35
Congo, Coal and Iron Deposits Discovery, 427
Coolidge Wrought Tungsten Patent Dispute, 157
Copper Addition to Iron and Steel to Minimise Corrosion, 507
Electrolytic Iron. Liability to Defects, 61
Fricktal Iron Ore Deposits in Switzerland, Re-discovery, 585
German Shipbuilding Steel from the United States, 157
Hadfield Sink-head Ingots for Bail Manufacture, Tests in America, 661
High Chromium Steel Research Results, 135
Hoskins Iron and Steel Company’s Land Purchase, N.S.W., 611
Iceland Iron Ore Deposits, 1 35
Ironfoundries, Geographical Distribution in the United Kingdom, 353
Iron Ore Exports from France, Statistics, 301
Iron Ore Exports from Gaellivaro Orefields, 487
Iron Ore Reduction, Investigations by Professor Stansfield, 135
Iron and Steel Exports of this Country and America, Comparison, 479
Japan Thick Steel Plate Plant, 135, 179
Japanese Government Ironworks Undertakings, 453
Manganese Bronze Production, 1J1
Manganese Exports from India, 568
Manganese Export from Minas Geraes, New Law, 533
Newcastle, New South W’ales, Prediction of Great Future for, 427
New Zealand Iron Trade Development, 507
Nichrome, Metallic Alloy, 301
Nickel and Chromium Bearing Iron Ores in Dutch East Indies, 11
Nickel Deposits on Aluminium and its Alloys, Tests in France, 85
Nickelling Aluminium, Process for, 611
Notched Bar Test Pieces, Standardised, 231
Pig Iron and Steel Output in the United Kingdom, 85, 222, 479. 536, 611
Plate Mill, Reversing Universal, Installed in Ontario, 227
Queensland, State Iron and Steel W’orks, 253, 277
Railway Rates and Iron and Steel Trade, 203
Bio Manganese Ore Exports. Falling Off due to War and High Freights, 157
Seattle, U.S.A., New Steel W’orks under Construction, 142
Steel Furnaces Run with Pulverised Coal in Canada, 301
Steel Output—see Pig Iron
Steel Rail Imports into the United Kingdom,
■ 559
Steel Research Report, 106
Swedish Iron Ore Imports into Germany, 157
Swedish Iron Ore Exports, 253
Swedish Iron and Steel Output, Imports and Exports. 1914 and 1920, 301
Swiss Search for and Discovery of Iron Orc Deposits, 559
Tool Steel from Detinned Scrap, 227
Vancouver, Coast Range Steel Company, 558
Volcanic Iron Sand fdr Steel Manufacture, 474
IRRIGATION Canals, Lining with Concrete, 637
Irrigation in India, Glossary of Technical Terms, 533
Irrigation in Return for Concession to Indian
Prince, 203
Isolating Valves Value in Explosions, 611
Italian Automobile Importation, Government
Regulation 637
Italian Desire for British Machinery, 157
Italian Exemption from Customs Duty of
Certain Construction Materials, 611
Italian Motor Cars’ Severe Tests at Turin, 179
Italy to Adopt Idea of Engineering Standards
Committee, 157
J JAPAN, Labour Conditions in, 135
Japanese Government to Introduce Metric
System, 611
Japanese Harbour of Shimidzu, Largest Tea
Export Port, Reconstruction, 533
Japanese Successful Experiments on Timber for Termite Resistance, 227
Japan’s Share in Surrendered German Aircraft, 277
Jet of Water at High Pressure, New Uses of, 377
K KIL1ND1NI, East Africa, Government Wharf
Scheme for, 211, 227
King’s College Engineering Society Dinner, 502
King’s College Old Students’ Association, Luncheon, 462
Krupp Works Profit and its Disposal, 661
LA PLATA Port, Government Vote for Improvement, 157
La Rochelle Loan for Port Improvement at La Pollice, 253
Lathes, Handy Tool for Use with, 611
Launderers’ Research—see Scientific
Lead Brittleness by Contact with an Electrolyte, 85
Lead Poisoning and Women, 203
Lead, Remedy for Tendency to Sag or Creep, 157
Leather Manufacturers—see Scientific Research
Leeds University Appeal, 571, 637
Lifeboat Service and Lack of Support from
Shipping Firms, 277
Lightning Flash, The Origin and Energy of the, Dr. Steinmetz, 584
Lightning, and Soils Struck Most Frequently, Statistics, 35
Lignite Briquettes from Alberta, 85
Locomotive Turntable, 92ft. long, Lifting and
Removal, 35
London Assurance, 48
M MACHINE Tool Exhibition—see Exhibitions
Machine 'Tool Output in Great Britain in 1919, 35
Magnesia Cement for Coating Mine Timbers, 479
Magnetic Elements and Atomic Weight, 61
Manchester Housing Rapid Concrete Building, 353
Manganese—see Iron and Steel
Map to Aid Industrial Vehicle Road Transport, 192
Marine Engineers’ Bravery, 170
Melbourne’s Projected Large Gasworks, 327
Metal and Mineral Production of Canada.
Reduction in Estimate of Value, 85
Metals, Failure of, Under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Discussion by Four Societies, 340
Mica Discovery on Cape Breton Island, 377
Mine Sweeping in the Kattegat and in the North Sea, 135
Mine Timbers Replaced by Hollow Concrete Posts, 611
Mine Water Settlement Prior to Pumping, J. Whitehouse, 61
Mines Death-rate Statistics, Above and Below Sixteen Years of Age, 559
Mines, Stenches as Warning, 611
Miner’s Lamp, German Prize Offered, but No Award, 353
Mineral Production in South Africa, 377
Mining Law, Proposed Series of Volumes on, 353
Mining Record in U.S.A., 10
Ministry of Mines Bill, 100
Ministry of Munitions, Disposal Board Sales of Railway Rolling Stock, 17
Ministry of Munitions and Ministry of Shipping, Joint Memorandum on Finance, 611
Ministry of Transport :
—see also Railways
Canal, Part of, Abandoned, 253
Canal Undertakings and the Transport Act, 114
Inland Waterways Committee. New Member Appointed, 85 ; Beginning of Investigations, 135
Omnibus and Tramwavs Competition, 111, 143
Mombasa’s Big Schemes for Harbour and Railway Construction, 227
Mono-rail Tramway—see Railways
Monte Video Port. Cost of Additional Works, 227
Motor Car Imports into India Chiefly from the United States, 585
Motor Omnibuses for New York, Opposition to Establishment of, 277
Motor Show, International, in the Dutch East Indies, 41
Motor Transport Conference, Imperial, 252
Motor Tricycles, Electric, for Swiss Postal Work, 516
N NAPHTHALENE Solutions, L. S. Palmer, 603
National Illumination Committee of Great Britain, 22
Newcomen Society, First Meeting, Literature of Historical Engineering, E. W. Hulme, 403 News Transmission by Wireless Telephony and
Telegraphy, Post Office Experiments, 611
New’ Zealand Government Aid for Petroleum Prospecting, 637
Niagara Falls, Gigantic Dam Suggested, 585
Nickel—see also Iron and Steel
Nickelling Aluminium, Process for, 611
Nitrogen for France, Government Negotiations for Haber Process Patents, 179
Northampton Polytechnic'Institute, 545
Nottingham, Industrial, 235
OIL Depot Erection in Paris, 427
Oil Pipe Line of Mexico, Suggested Exclusion
of Foreign Powers and Warships, 585
Oil Pipe Mileage of Mexico, 353
Omnibus and Tramways Competition, 111, 143
Ontario New Water Power Plant, 135
Optical Instruments, Elements, Committee’s
Standardisation Report, 522
Origin and Energy of the Lightning Flash, Dr.
C. P. Steinmetz, 584
p PAINT, Bituminous, as the Best Rust Preventive, 277
Palm Oil and Kernels, Various Uses of, 661
Panama Canal Navigation Imperilled by Un -
usual Drought, 135
Panama. Canal Statistics, 408
Paris in Dummy Form, War Camouflage, 479
Patent Conference in Brussels, Office for Inter
national Patents, 507
Patent Office Applications Increase, 227
Patent Office Library, 288
Patent Specificat ions, Printing Changes, 61
Peat Deposits of Canada, Investigations, 253
Peat Output in Sweden, 637
Peat Production and Use by Swedish State Railways7", 157
Peat Values in Ireland, Professor P. F. Purcell, 507
Peruvian New Seaport in Bay of Maratani, 61 I
Petrol, Price of, 252
Petroleum Boring in Scotland, Delay at West
Calder, 377
Petroleum Boring in West Lothian, 301
Plate Mill—see Iron
Platinum Find of High Value in Cape Colony. 453
Platinum Group of Metals, Survey, A. I).
Lu mb, 637
Port of London Congestion, Situation Improving, 507
Potash Recovery from Cement Kiln Fume, Attempted, 157
Powder Factory in Santiago de Chili, 111
Power Alcohol Supplies, 106
Power Generation by Mercury Vapour, American Experiments, 479
Power Plant, Bridge River, British Columbia, 227
Power Supply for Toronto, 507
Presentation at Kilmarnock, 623
Presentation to Professor F. Bacon, 642
Professional Classes War Relief Council, 439
Professors Attend Lectures by Manufacturers, 533
Pulp Production from African Softwoods, 85
Punch Press Accidents, A Safety Device, 403
Q
QUEBEC Bridge Report and Illustrations, 24
Queensland’s Large Irrigation Scheme, 277
Queensland State Iron and Steel Works, 253, 277
R RADIO Research—see Scientific
Railless Trolley Car for Bradford, 507
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
Accidents •• Buffer Stop Collision at Cambridge, 403
Buffer Stop Collision on the Great Western Railway, Report, 533
Buffer Stop Collision at Littlehampton, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, 157, 179
Buffer Stop Collision at Wimbledon, 403, 637
Caledonian Railway Collision Report, 277
Collision on the Barry Hailway, Report, 533
Collision at Hatfield, Great Northern Railway, 403
Collisions at Margate and in North Wales, 301
Derailment on the Metropolitan Railway due to Fog, 427
Derailment in the United Stated, 226
Fireman as Temporary Driver as the Cause of Accident, 157
French Railway Accident, Disastrous, 377, 427, 533
Heathfield Station, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Derailment, 34
Indian Train Accident less Disastrous than Supposed. 301
Inquiries into Accidents by Ministry of Transport, Suggested, 253
Lostock Junction Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Collision, 85, 111, 157
Madras and Bangalore Train Wilfully Derailed. Fatal Disaster, 433
Midland Railway Double Collision, 377
Missing Tail Lamp and Averted Accident, 377
Piston Valve Fracture on a Caledonian Engine Brake, 11
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued)
Accidents (continued):
Six Accidents, Reports, 135
Stourbridge, Unusual Accident at, 377
Air Brake, New, Adoption in America, 507
Air Brakes, German Type, for Swedish State Kai I ways, 179
Air Service of the United States to Undertake Railway Surveys, 453
Amalgamation of Railway Companies, 637
American Locomotives, Offices for Sale of, Established in Johannesburg, 585
Appointments and Staff Changes, 1 1, 68, 80, 179, 327, 403, 507, 559, 585, 637
Australia, Committee to Settle Railway Gauge Question, 327
Australian Railway Mileage and Gauge Uniformity, 403
Automatic Train Control, Committee Appointed, 507
Barcelona to Tarrasa, Electrification, 507
Belgian and Dutch Loan for Chinese Railway Construction, 559
Belgian Railways, Rolling Stock Purchases, 227
Belgian State Railways, Electrification; 215
Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company to Construct Harbour at Vizagapatam, 479
Bengal-Nagpur Railway, Survey for New Line, 585
Bicycles and Cloak-room Law, 135
Blackpool Corporation and Railway Negotiations, 453
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Suburban Electrification, 27
Bombay Housing and the Bombay-Baroda Railway Wharf, Rival Need of Land, 1 I
Brakes—see Air Brakes
British Columbia Viaduct on the Pacific and
Great Eastern Railway, 111
Brixton, Loughborough Junction, Elephant and Castle and Ludgate Hill Communication Restored, 353
Brunei’s Timber Viaducts Exchanged for Steel, 559
Buenos Aires Railways, Oil-working Company, 537
Canadian Government to Become Owner of World’s Largest Railway System, 277
Canadian National Railway Mileage, 585
Canadian Pacific Railway Oil Shortage, Re-conversionof Oil-burning Locomotives and Steamships to Coal Burning, 661
Canadian Railway Finance, Twelve Years’ Statistics, 327
Canton-Hankow New Branch Line, 11
Central Argentine Railway, Fuel Question, 507
Central Argentine Railway, Projected Electrification, 227
Central of Brazil Railway Electrification, 611
Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Mistake, 637
Channel Tunnel Problem, 227
Char-a-bancs versus Railway Cost, 403
Charing Cross, Underground, Additional
Subways and Stairs, 135, 637
Chilean Railway Proposed from Antofagasta to Salta, Argentina, 353
Chilean State Railways, Projected Electrification, Bids Invited, 514
China Clay from Fowey (Cornwall) to United States, 585
China Clay Question and Railway in Cornwall, 377
Chinese State Railways, Standardisation under Consideration, 35
Christinas Holidays. Reduced Fares, 585
Clapham Common Station, Escalators Installed, 403
Cloak-room Law, 227
Compound Locomotives, Questions of Fuel
Economy and Engine Maintenance, 277
Corporation Tax and the Railways, 85
Czecho-Slovakia Building Locomotives and other Rolling Stock, 227
Death of Mr. H. G. Bell, North-Eastern
Railway, 403
Death of Lord Bessborough, 585
Death of Mr. W. 11. Macnamara, 301
Death of Mr. Neville Priestley, 611
Death of Mr. F. C. Tipler, 327
Deaths of Scottish Railway Veterans, 11
Doors on the Metropolitan Railway, 559
Dyke Branch, London and South-Western
Railway, Re-opening, 85
Ealing Broadway Station for Central London Railway Extension, 85
Early African Railways, Dates of Opening, 479
Eastern Bengal Railway, Survey for New Line, 585
Ecuador Government Concession and Proposed Railway, 301
Egyptian State Railways’ Finance, 203
Electric Locomotives, Swedish State Railways’ Order, 253
Employees’Suggestions for Railway Working, 69
Excursion Facilities Financially Justified, 485
Excursion Trains Resume Running, 157
Express Trains to the North, Changes, 17
Fares Increase, 111, 135
Fares Increase in London Area, 276
Federated Malay States Railways, Gross and Not Receipts in 1919, 327
Finance—see also Ministry of Transport
Fire at Crewe Signal Box, 277
Fire Destruction of Electric Passenger
Coaches on the North-Eastern Railway, 85
Fireless Shunting Engine, 352
First-clads Passengers, Percentage of their Accommodation and Payments,-227
Fish from Aberdeen, Accelerated Transit. 61
Fish Traffic by Rail Doubled since 1913, 11
Fish Traffic and Scarcity of Vans, 203
Freight Traffic Statistics, Great Britain, 198
French Goods Train, Continuous Brakes for, 427
French Railway Commissions on Railway Electrification, Estimate of Cost, 179
Fruit-pickers, Tickets Concession, 61
Furness Railway and Barrow Docks, Efforts at Port Development, 301
Furness Railway Exchanges Steamers for Motor Omnibuses, 559
Gattie System in America, 353
Gauge Question in Australia, Committee of
Experts to be Appointed, 327
German Firm Building Locomotives for the Soviet Government, 277
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Glasgow Corporation Tramways, Revenue Report, 85
Goods, Delay or Short Delivery, Legal Decision, 35 .
Government and the Railways, Mr. Lloyd George, 135, 157
Grand Trunk Railway Lines, Disposal Question, 227
Gratitude on an American Railway, 453
Great Eastern Railway Requests for Suggestions as to Improvements, 427
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Suburban Electrification, 35, 85
Great Northern Railway Engines for Sale, 277
Great Northern Railway, Bogie-saving System, Mr. H. N. Grosley, 453
Great Northern Railway and Future of the Railways, 54
Great Northern Railway Shareholders, Meeting, 111
Great Western Company’s New Service, 227
Great Western Short Line in Cornwall, 111
Great Western Steamer St. David Under
Repair, 403
Grouping Railways no Economy, Sir A.
Pease, 637
Highland Railway News vid America, 453
Highland Railway and Slow Services, 85
Holyhead Inner Harbour Deepening Not
Yet Begun, 559
Holyhead Inner Harbour Deepening Scheme
Sanctioned by Ministry of Transport, 675
Hop Exchange Fire and South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 453
Hudson Bay Railway Construction, Prospect of Resumption of Work, 661
Hull and Barnsley Railway, Provisional
Amalgamation with theNorth-Eastern, 661
Hustler at Victoria, District, Station, 135
Indian Railway Administration, Committee
Not Yet Appointed, 157, 453
Indian Railways, Suggested Transference of Directorate from England to India, 35
Indian State Railways’ Earnings, 585
Irish Mails Conveyance, New Contract, 533, 559
Irish Railwaymen and Military Traffic, 637
Irish Railways Not to Come Under Proposed Legislation, 95
Jamaica, Proposed Railway Electrification, 111
Japanese Railway Department Erecting Power Stations, 111, 227
Japanese Ten Years’ Scheme for Railway Improvement, 111
Lancashire and Yorkshire Electrification, Proposed Extension, 215
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, First-class Day Excursion Tickets, 179
Landslip on Midland Main Line, 377
Leeds City Trani ways’ Report, 161
Legion of Honour for English Railwav Official, 585
Level Crossings over Public Highways, 35
Light Railway Proposals Rejected, 11
Locomotive Bar Frames and Plate Frames,
G. G. Elliott, 637
Locomotive Fitted with Steam Turbine, 460
Locomotive Orders for Germany, 253
Locomotive Quick Cleaning on South African
Railways, 661
Locomotives Available for Work and in
Stock, Figures for Principal Railways, 353, 661
London, Brighton and South Coast Gasmaking Plant for Sale, 277
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Scheme for Electrification of the Whole Line, 585
London, Brighton and Sout h Coast Steamer’s
Quick Journeys to Brighton, 403
L.C.C. Tram Working Expenses, 61, 85
London Electric Railway Companies (Faros, &c.) Bill, 168, 203
London Electric Railways, Increased Fares and Increased Receipts, 377
London and South-Western, Guildford Electrification Scheme Postponed, 35
London and South-Western “ Trailer ” Cars, Number Increased, 301
London, Tilbury and Southend Section of the Midland Railway, 396
Lorain Surface Contact System or Overhead Lines, Pros and Cons, at Wolverhampton, 11 ‘
Manchester Tramways Report, 85
Mechanical Coaling Plants for Locomotives, 305
Metropolitan District Railway New Cars, 637
Metropolitan Railway Doors, A Change, 559
Metropolitan Railway Lectures, Dr. Henry
Chellew, 507
Miners’ Strike Turns Big Railway Surplus into Deficit, 585
Ministry of Transport :
Accident Reports—see Accidents
“Actual Fare,” Printing of Tickets, 179
Amalgamation of Hull and Barnsley and
. the North-Eastern Railways, Proposal,
Ambulance Trains Offered for Sale, 253
Anniversary of Ministry of Transport Bill,
Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, Reopening Debated, 585
Central Authority for London Traffic, Projected Bill. 35
Central Wages Board, Proposed Further Increase, 353—see also Wages
Claim Decision between Government and
North-Eastern Railway, 85
Coal Strike to Cost Taxpayers Two Millions or More a Week, 427, 479, 585
Committee on Railway Agreements, 507
Cost and Efficiency Figures Tabulated with View to Economy 533
Counsel Retained for Railway Companies before the Rates Advisory Committee, 157
Current and Arrear Maintenance, Forty
Millions Payable by Government, 507
Disposal Board Sales of Railway Stock, and Ministry of Transport, Mr. Bonar Law, 17
Economies n Railway Working Claimed by Ministry of Transport, 453
Excursion Trains and Railway Non Possumus, 135
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Ministry or Transport (continued):
Fares Refunding Question, 11 I
Fish Thrown Back to Sea, Unwarranted Criticism of Railway 253
Future Powers of the State in relation to Railways, 656
Gattie System, Containers in Cincinnati, 353
Grouping the Railways, Alternative Proposals, 611
Holyhead Harbour and the Ministry, 559, 675
Irish Ministry of Transport, Mr. Burgess’ New Appointment, 179
Iron and Steel Industry and Railway Rates, 203
Local Interests and Reduction in Railway Repairing Shops, 661
Locomotive Shortage due to Arrears of Repairs, 157
London, .Brighton and South Coast Meeting, Lord Bessborough on the Government Scheme, 533
L.C.C. Tramway Deficit, Deputation to Sir Eric Geddes, 61, 85
Mid-week Cheaper Ticket Proposal Rejected, 85
Northumberland, Proposals for Series of New Railways, 585
Obsolete Rolling Stock, Disposal of. 85
Railway Companies’ Association and Sir Eric Geddes, 479, 533
Railway Executive Committee Replaced by Railway Advisory Committee, 479
Railway Expenditure, Analysis, 585
Railway Expenditure, Mistake, 637
Railway Expenditure, Lord Colwyn’s Committee, 507, 559, 585
Railway Finance Statistics, 61, 203, 211, 277, 353, 559
Railway Operating Statistics, 17, 61, 111, 157, 253, 327, 353, 507, 533, 559, 670
Rates Advisory Committee, 35, 51, 111, 135, 157, 179, 231, 277, 301, 377, 381, 559, 611
Revaluation of Railways Impracticable at Present, 327
Scottish Railways and Government Management, Sir Eric Geddes, 84
Staff Concessions and Rates Increase, 203
Subsidiary Businesses of Railways, Wholesale Losses, 157
Suggested Inquiries into Accidents, 253 Sunday Travelling, Sir E. Geddes, 61, 157 Trade Disturbance and Self-supporting
Railways, 203
Traffic Increase by Rail and Road, Sir E. Geddes, 11
Traffic Regulation, Lancashire and Yorkshire Scheme, Proposed Adoption by London, 61
'Trams and Omnibuses, Competition, Committee to Consider, 111 : Conference, 143
Tramway and Light Railway, White Paper Statistics, 611
'Tramway Statistics of the United Kingdom, 187
'Tunnel under the Solent, Would it Pay ? 203
'Twenty-four-hour Notation System, 61
Unprofitable Branch Lines, Sir E. Geddes, 61
Wages Board Awards and Traffic Finance, 301, 353
Wagon Supply Shortage Remedied, 19
White Paper Railway Statistics, Statement Asked for, 61 I
Workmen’s Fares, New Scale and New Concession, 179
Mono-rail Electric 'Tramway Proposed for Tokyo, 1 I
Motor Vehicles and Taxation, 135
National Union of Railwaymen, Report, Cost of Strike, 30
Nationalisation of Railways and Mr. Churchill, 479
Nationalisation of Railways, Government Decision, 111
Netherlands East Indies State Railways and Tramways Development, 656
Netherlands Railway, Electrification Proposed, 301
Netherlands Railways, Control to be Transferred to the State, 637
New South Wales Railway Commissioners’ Annual Report, 533
New Zealand Electrification, English Contract for, 288
Now Zealand Railways, Government Report on Finances of, 665
New Zealand Rolling Stock Ordered from Great Britain, 427
North-Eastern Railway and the Railway Companies’ Association, 661
Northern Railway of France, War Traffic Facilitation, 427
Northern Railway of France, Wholesale War Damage and Rapid Process of Repair, 403 Nord-S nd Underground (Paris), Statistics, 227
North - Eastern Railway Electrification Scheme, Experiments, 1 I
Oil-burning Locomotives, Tests in Progress, 179
Oil Fuel for Locomotives, 304
Oil Locomotives Conversion to Coal Burners, in Texas, 203
Outer Circular Electric Railway for London, Proposal by Mr. Alex. Ross, 479
Paris-Orleans Locomotives, Fifty Ordered from America, 559
Passenger Statistics, Mistaken Figures, 377
Passenger Traffic.United Kingdom, Statistics, 203
Passenger 'Train Mileage for 1913 and 1920. 85, 203
Penzance Viaduct Replacement, 427
Piccadilly Tube New Cars Starting Arrangement, 611
Prague, Large Orders for Goods Wagons from the United States, 227
Presentation to Mr. J. H. Robinson, 227
“ Privilege Tickets ” Question, 210
Profits on Railway Refreshments in 1919, 85
Pullman Cars on the Great Eastern Railway, 533
Pulverised Coal, Italian Uocomotives Fitted for Burning, 11
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con-tinned):
Queensland Railway Locomotives, Tenders Invited, 559
Queensland Railways’ Development. Anticipated 4000 Miles Journey by Rail. 427
Railless Electric Traction, Possibilities of R. II. Wilkinson, 61
Railway Benevolent. Institution, No Annual Dinner, 35
Railway Expenses for Material, Pre-war and Present Prices, 253
Railway Material Exports Statistics, 35 253 327,479,611,661
Railway Operating Statistics—Ministry of Transport *
Railway Policy Discussion, 61
Railway Working, White Paper, 61
Rates Advisory Committee—see Ministry of Transport
Reservation of Compartments Again Allowed 253, and Price, 403
Rolling Stock—see Wagons, also Ministry of Transport, Operating Statistics
Russian Heavy Locomotive Shortage, 157
Salto-Rivera, South America, Proposed Railway, 209
Scottish Railways Opposition to White Paper Scheme, 72
Separation of Running Department from that of Chief Mechanical Engineer on Two Railways, 611
Simplon Tunnel, Second, Progress of, 453
Sleeper, Substitute for Wooden One, 327, 507
Sleepers for British Railways, Twenty
Million Ordered from British Columbia, 507 “Smoking Forbidden ” Compartments, New
Regulation, 179
South Africa, Proposed New Important Railway, 611
South Africa and Railway Electrification, W. Ingham, 11
South African Government Electrification Schemes, 135
South American Railway Congress, Meeting,
South American Railways, British Control and American Goods, 301
Southern Pacific Railroad, Wholesale Duplication of Documents by a Variety of Methods, 185
Southwold and Mid-Suffolk Light Railways, Proposal for Amalgamation, 427
Soviet Government Locomotive Contracts 453
Spanish Rolling Stock Orders for Other Countries, 377
Standard Loading Gauge, Factor of Safetv
Tests, 301 y
Steel Rail Imports into United Kingdom, 559
Steel Wheels With and Without Separate Tires, 61
Stockholm-Gothenberg Railway, Government Grant for Electrification, 179
Stockholm Tramway Cars, Large Size. 327
Strike, Railway, Cost to Men’s Union, 30
Strike Settlement Anniversary, 351
Swaziland Railway, Extension Surveys Completed, 585
Swedish Railway Electrification, 611
Tank Locomotives for the Metropolitan Railway, 427
Time-table Alterations, 347
Time-tables, Resumption of Printing but Increase of Cost, 1 I I
I imber Trade Increase and Wagon Scarcity,
Ton-Mileage Statistics, 277
Traffic Finance—sec Railway Finance
Traffic, Goods, Four Weeks’ Ret urns, 479, 661
I rain Perry to Replace Bridge over Suez Canal, 61 I
'Trains, Certain Special, for War Use Now on Sale, 157
Trains—ace Railways, Ministry of Transport
I revithick’s Trams and Track (1804) in Berlin and America, 453
Truro-Falmouth Line, 'Timber Viaduct Removal, 559
'Tunnel under the Solent, Question of Cost and Revenue, 203 ; Train Ferry Suggested as Alternative, 277
'Turbo-alternator for Australian Suburban Railway Electrification, 372
'Two Up and Down Trains per Day and their Cost, 533
United States Railways :
Agencies to be Set Up in Europe to Encourage Immigration and Traffic to Western America, 84
Automatic Train Control, Decision in New York State, 661
“Booster” Auxiliary Steam Cylinder in America, 377
Claim by Western Railroad Company on Recent Federal Administration, 258
( oal Commandeered by Railways durin" Strike, 203
Coal Purchase and Stores Statist ics, 422
Coal, 1,000,000 Tons Undelivered by Rail ways, 203
Electrification of United States Railways.
Estimate of Coal Consumption Reduction, 179
Elevated Railway, Solid Floor Construction, 277
Eric Railroad and Norfolk and Western Railway, Adoption of New Air Brake, 507
federal Control to be Wound Up by Mr
J. B. Payne, 61 '
Government Guarantee Expiry, Railroads to be Self-supporting, 301
Illinois Central Railway Cars. D Question, 35
Labour Board Working and its Results 135, 157
Level Crossing Elimination Resumed, 61
Motor Cars and Trains Collisions, Big -Figures, 227 H
New York Central Engine’s Record Speed.
Engine Scrapped, 453 ; (Correction 559
I cnnsylvama Railroad Signalling Changes,
Railway Situation Easier, Increased Coal
Carriage and Rolling Stock Orders, 403
Railway Surveys by Aeroplane in the
United States, 453
Rate Paradoxes, Inter-State and Stat1 Control, 427
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued.)
United States Railways (continued) : Rates Increases as Affecting Prices of
Goods Carried on Southern Railway, 277 Roumanian Government, Large Purchase of
American Railway Equipment, Payment in Petroleum, 35
Sleepers, Experiments in Substitutes for Timber, 507
Southern Pacific Railroad’s “Safety”' Poster, 227
Ton-Miles Figures of Administration Disproved, 301
Traffic Statistics of United States Rail- ■ ways, 585
Transportation Act, Now Enactments, I I “ Wheel Burnt” and “ Snow Burnt ”
Rails, 226
Vancouver, Projected Twenty-car Freight Train Ferry, 301
Victoria, Australia, Plan to Meet Intestate Gauge Difficulty, I I I
Victoria, Continental Train Changes, I I
Victoria, N.S.W., Suburban Railway Electrification Cost Much Increased Owing to War, 533
Victoria, Underground, Footbridge, &c., 135
Wages Bill Increase, Estimate, 35
Wages and Increased Cost of Working, 61
Wagon Detention on the Increase, 179
Wagon and Locomotive Increase on British Railways, 661
Wagons, Bolster, Scarcity of, 227
Wagons, British, Still in France, 111 ; Much Diminished Number, 479
Wagons Built at Woolwich for the Great Western and North-Eastern Railways, 637
Wagons in Employ of Various Government Departments, 479
Wagons, New, Put into Traffic in Great Britain, Monthly Average, 111
Wagons, Railway-owned, in United Kingdom, Census Taken, 85
Weaver, Mr. Henry, Stationmaster at Paddington, 68
Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company, Amalgamation, 353
Wheels for Railways, Japanese Experiments with Cast Steel, 277
Workmen’s Fares, 51, 61
Workmen’s Tickets and Congestion, 135
RAINFALL Variations, Difficulties in Expression of, 35
Rainfall of the World, Statistics, 427
Rayleigh, Lord, Memorial in Westminster Abbey, 85
Refractories for Electric Furnaces, 507
Refrigeration, International Institute, 24
Reinforced Concrete, Risk of Fire and Suggested Remedy, 453
Research—see Scientific, also Electrical Matters
Rhine Water Power for French Mining District, 661
Rhone River Development from Geneva to the
Sea, Projected, 301
Riga Fishing Boats and Brit ish Petrol Engines, 479
Road Damage due to Railway Strike, 377
Road Transport, Map to Aid Commercial Vehicles, 192
Rock Drill. New Type, 253
Rock Salt Production in Poland, 479
Roman Road Discovered in Digging Manhole, 301
Roumanian Oil Industry, New Plans, 253
Rubber, New Source, in Arizona, 203
Rubber as Road Surfacing Material, Experiment in Southwark, 277
Rubber Trees, Uses of Seed Kernels, 35
Russian Plans for Hydro-electric Stations, 227
Russian Pre-war Industries, Extent and Value, 585
Russian Transport Problem, 157
Rust Preventive, Bituminous Paint the Best, 277
“ SAFETY First ” Convention, 214
St. Lawrence River, Question of Deepening, Divided Opinions, 479
Salt Exportation from Portugal, Falling-off in Trade Due to War, 179
Salt Mines in Greece, Increased Output and
Cessation of Imports, 585
Salt, Ocean, Volume of, in Terms of United
States Area, 272
Sand Removal from Welter in Hydro-electrie Work, 427
Science Museum, South Kensington, Additions to Collections, 35
Science Museum, South Kensington, Increased Number of Visitors for Instruction, 35
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH : Departmental Staff Appointments and Changes, 35, 277, 585
Licences Issued to :
British Electrical and Allied Industries
Research Association, 364
British Motor Cycle and Cyclecar Research
Association, 453
Cutlery Industry, 85, 340
Launderers’ Association, 285
Leather Manufacturers, 235
Radio Research Board, Sub-committees
Appointed to Assist, 179
Research Associations, Approved List of, 203, 235
SEWAGE Sludge Utilisation, 427
Shield for Engineering Apprentices, 74
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : American Shipyards’ Output, 227
Antwerp, Company Formed for Ship and
Marine Engine Building and Repair, 253
Brazilian Battleship Sao Paulo for Use of Belgian King and Queen, 203
British Ship Repair Work Going to Belgium and Holland, 203
Camellaird -Fullagar Engine, 439
Clyde Transatlantic Traffic Development, 377
Concrete Shipbuilding Failure, Cost as it is and as it might have been, 203
Denmark’s Shipping, 1914 and 1918, 353
Frauendorf, New Shipbuilding Firm at, 227
French Construction of Submarines, 253
French Merchant Fleet, Rapid Recovery since War Losses, 353
German Shipbuilders, Large Steel Orders from the United States, 157
German Shipbuilding and Metal Industries, Common Interest, 403
Gliding Boats Test on River Bermejo, Argentina, 85
Hog Island Shipyard Plant Still Unsold by America, 559
Hong-Kong Shipping Returns, 533
Irish Mails Conveyance, Holyhead and
Kingstown, New Contract, 533, 559
Japanese Navy Fuel Depot, 327
Japanese Shipping Lying Idle, 559
Kingston, Jamaica, Oil and Coaling Station for British Ships, 227
Merchant Tonnage Construction in the United Kingdom, 427
Motor Lifeboat for the Lizard, 528
New South Wales Projected Shipbuilding, 227
Oil-burning Steamship Orita Re-conditioned and in Service, 146
Port Navigation during Fog, Monsieur Loth’s Apparatus for, 427
Portuguese Sailing Barque under Conversion to Steam by W. Beardmore and Co., 559
St. David, G.W.R. Steamer, under Repair, 403
Seapa Flow, Compensation to be Paid by Germany, 453
Scottish Shipbuilding Figures, 353
Ship Stabilisers, Tests by United States
Naval Transport, 453
Ship Surveyor Examination, 442
Southern Belle’s Quick Journeys to Brighton, 403
Spain and Chile Steamship Service Negotiations, 157
Steel Steamships, 8100-Ton, Building at Victoria, B.C., 61
Swedish Shipbuilding Industry Suffering from Effect of Exchange, 327
Target Experiments, Unique, on American Battleship Iowa, 179
United States Shipbuilding Output, 253
Vaterland’s Three Complete Wireless Transmitters, 637
SHOWS—see Exhibitions
Singapore Harbour and Reclamation Work, 35
Sixty Years’ Service Celebration at Redpath,
Brown and Co.’s Works, 611
Slag By-products Recovery Begun at Barrow,
157
Slags for Concrete Aggregate, 430
Smoke Abatement, House of Commons Committee, 11, 22
Smoking at Work, Extension of Privilege, 35
Societies—see Associations
Soot Abatement by Use of Salt, 301
South Africa, Water-boring Plant for, 252
South African Association of British Manu-
• facturers, 11
South African Mineral Production Report, 377
South African Regulation of Drilling Blasting Holes, 157
South American Trade for European versus American Markets, 4.53
Spanish Hydro-electric Power Statistics, 453
Spanish Motor Works, New Establishments, 179
Spanish Power Generation from the River Deva, 135
Spanners, Danger of Great Length in, 479
Sparking Plug Cleaner, Brown Brothers, Limited, 392
Stamps, Inland Revenue, Royal Mint Processes of Production, 59
Standard—see also British Standard
Standard Marine Boilers, .1.65
Static Electricity, Method of Eliminating from Belting, C. M. Green, 403
Steam Ferry Across North Sea Proposed, Swedish Disbelief in Success of Scheme, 111, 277
Steel—see Iron
Stenches as Warning in Mines, 611
Stone Crusher, Largest in the World, 35
Storm Detector, 214
Straw Houses for France, 585
Straw as a Source of Gas, 327, 637
Subsidence in Concrete Floors, Method of Repairing, 585
Suez Canal Finances and the War, 281
Suez Canal Navigation and Kantara Opening Bridge, 430
Suez Canal War-time Bridge to be Dismantled, 585, 611
Suggestions from Workers, Proposed Scheme, 327
Sulphur Supply for South Africa, 85
Swedish Air Traffic, International and Home, 187
Swedish and German Aerial Mail Service, 157
Swiss Available Water Power, Statistics, 227
Switzerland as Source of Aluminium, 585
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Railway Employees ’
Ultimatum and Steel Company’s Reply, 533
Synthetic Ammonia and Nitrates, Limited, 11 Szechuan Trade, Commercial Museum to be
Established at Chungking, 227
TAR, Crude or Relined, for Road Surfacing, 277 Tar and Pitch from Gas and Coke Oven Works, Statistics, 157
Tar Spraying, Advantages of a New System, J. Lang, 179
Technical Students, Greatly Increased Numbers, 403
Telephone Extensions on Large Scale, I I I
Telephone Installations of Various Countries Per Cent, of Population, 179
Telephone System for Alagoas State, Brazil, 203
Telephones, Automatic, Proposed Exchanges in London, 11
Temperature of a Chimney at Various Depths, Instrument for Ascertaining, 661.
Teredos Attacks on Wet Wood, 61
Termite Attacks on Timber, Immunity of Certain Woods, 227
Thermalene as a Fuel, Karl Wolff, 585
“ Thermalloy ” Dangers and Electrical Machinery, 427
Thermometers Inaccurate through Ago. 353
Timber Consumption in France, 135
Timber Fence Production, Charring Discredited, 479
Timber Grown in British Empire, Exhibition 11, 48
Timber Piles and Teredo Attacks, 35
Timber Preservation Theories, Experiments, 559
Tin, Large Lode Discovered in Old Mine Working in Cornwall, 85
Tin Ore Discovery in South Africa, 61
Toronto’s Insufficient Hydro-electric Power, 85
Tractor Ploughing Prize. 637
Trade Propaganda and Foreign Students, 253
Trams—see Railways
Transport—see Motor, also Ministry of
Tropical Diseases Bulletin, 487
Tungsten—see Iron and Steel
Tunnel Under the Solent a Question of Cost and Revenue, 203 ; Train Ferry Suggested as Alternative, 277
Turbine, Steam, Fitted to Locomotive, 460
Turkish Concession for Hydro-electric Station in Asia Minor, 661
UNITED States Engineering Manufactures Increased Imports into South Africa, 35
United States Geological Survey, 178
University Finance, Foes and Endowments Considerably Below Expenditure, 277, 353, 403
University Training Offered to Apprentices, 377
V VANADIUM, World’s Principal Mino in Peru, Statistics of, 35
Vancouver, Question of Dam or Low Level
Bridge, ILL
Vancouver, Three Great Harbour Schemes, 203
Vizagapatam Harbour, Construction to be
Carried out by the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, 479
Vesper, Mr. H. E., Retirement of, 647
WAGE Increase and jOutput Decline, United
States Reports, 135
Water-boring Plant for South Africa, 252
Water Power Project in Califormia, 309
Water Power Resources, Scattered, How to
Link up, Dr. Steinmetz, 203
Water Power Stations on Cauvery Falls, New
Sites Proposed, 637
WATER SUPPLY : Bombay Water Supply from Lake Tansa, 61
Electrolysis of Pipes, Professor G. Alleman, 135
London Water, Increased Charges, 248
Pipes for Mandalay Water Scheme to be of Concrete by Hume Process, 85
Tunis, New Reservoir in Hamma-Siba, 35
Welwyn Garden City, Pumping Trials for
Water Supply Test, 61
Wuchow, China, Water Supply Scheme and Chinese Engineering, 203
WATERWAYS, Inland—see Ministry of Transport
Watt, James, Commemoration Scheme, 427
Welding, Repairs to Boilers and Engines, J 00
Wellington, New Zealand, Projected Extension 4 of Water Supply, 157
White Ants, Protection of Buildings from, 61
Wilbur Wright Memorial in France, 35
Wind Motor, Invention to Utilise,.427
Wind Pressure Coefficient for Cylinders, Tests, 637
Wine Transport by Pipe Line, 253
Wire Netting to Foil Parcel Thieves, 606
Wire Ropes, G. W. Westgarth, 453
Wireless* Direction Finder and Wireless Telephone, Great Value in Air Navigation, 661
Wireless Message from Bordeaux to Washington, 227
Wireless Service, Extensive, Projected for France and her Colonies, 157
Wireless Station at Tahiti, Further Survey Called for, 660
Wireless Telegraph Company in Buonos Aires, German, 227
Wireless Transmission Station, Most Powerful in the World, 637
Women’s Liability to Lead Poisoning, 203
YOKOH AMA Harbour Improvements, I 1
z ZINC Deposit on Galvanised Iron Apparatus for Determining Weight, 377
Zinc Production in the United States, 227
Zionist Society of Engineers, Plans for Water
Supply of the Holy Land, 427
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