Engineering 1948 Jul-Dec: Index: General

Note: This is a sub-section of Engineering 1948 Jul-Dec: Index

GENERAL

MAAS Tunnel, Rotterdam, 268
Macadam. See Roads and Tar Macadam
Macfarlane, Dr. G. G., Variational Methods in Applied Mathematics, 511. See 376, 541, 613. See Erratum, 643
MacFarlane, J. S., on Influence of Liquid Films on Adhesion, 321
Machine Shops. See Machine Tools
— Testing. See Testing Machine and Tests {Materials}

Machine Tools :

American Machine Tools, Production Statistics of Quantity and Value, 641
Boring Machine, Cylinder (J. Archdale and Co., Ltd.), 248*
Cylinder (Kitchen and Wade, Ltd.), 196*
Jig (Newall Engineering Co., Ltd.), 248*
Jig, Optical (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 198*
Precision, Devlieg “Jigrail” (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 202*
— and Drilling Machine, Horizontal (Kitchen and Wade, Ltd.), 195*
— and Facing Machine, Horizontal (G. Richards and Co., Ltd.), 242*
— and Milling Machine, Jig, “ Hydroptic” (Soci6t6 Genevoise, Ltd.), 241*
Machine (Soci6t6 Nouvelle de Construction de Machines-Outiis et d’Outillage), 264*
and Drilling Machine, Horizontal (W. Asquith, Ltd.), 196*
Drilling and Tapping Machine
(H. W. Kearns and Co., Ltd.), 197*
Broaching Machine, Vertical (Weatherly Oilgear, Ltd.), 271*
Clutch-Operated Machine Tools, “ Hyslip- Tork ” Motors for, 631
Copying Attachment, Hydraulic, Turchan, for Lathes (Holbrook Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 194*
Cutting Machine for Tungsten-Carbide (W. Asquith, Ltd.), 203*
Dead Centres, Self-Oiling (Austin and Lang, Ltd.), 150
Diamond Lapping Spindle (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.), 225*
Dividing Machine, Circular (Abwood Tool Engineering Co., Ltd.), 222*
Drills, Performance of, Apparatus for Assessing, 461
Drilling Machine, Radial (W. Asquith, Ltd.), 197*
Kadial Heavy-Duty (J. Archdale and Co., Ltd.), 247*
— and Boring Machine, Horizontal
(Kitchen and Wade, Ltd.), 195*
and Milling Machine, Horizontal (W. Asquith, Ltd.), 196*
— Tapping, Boring and Milling Machine, Horizontal (H. W. Kearns and Co., Ltd.), 197*
Pacing and Boring Machne, Horizontal (G. Kichards and Co., Ltd,), 242*
Gears, Gear Production and Measurement (Review), 388
— Generating Machine, Vertical (W. E. Sykes, Ltd.), 243*
— Grinding Machine (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 221*
— Helical, Grinding Machine (Gear Grinding Co., Ltd.), 220*
— Hobbing Machine (W. Asquith, Ltd.), 242*
Machine, Measurement of Periodic Errors in, 337*
Machine Tables, Accuracy of, 471 — Shaving Machine (D. Brown Machine Tools, Ltd.), 270*
Machine, Fellows (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 221*
Grinding, Centreless, Work Carrier for (A. Scrivener, Ltd.), 57*
— Machines for Ball and Koller Bearing Manufacture, 537*, 560*, 583*
Camshaft-, Landis (Burton, Griffiths and Co., Ltd.), 218*
Gear- (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 221*
Helical-Gear (Gear Grinding Co., Ltd.), 220*
Hydraulic (A. A. Jones and Shipman, Ltd.), 269*
Plain, Cylindrical (J. Lund, Ltd.), 217* 10-in. Plain (Churchill Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 219*
Tliread-, Centreless (A. Scrivener, Ltd.), 220
Universal (J. Lund, Ltd.), 218* Hammer, 10-cwt. Board Drop Stamp (B.
(fc S. Massey, Ltd.), 293*
Hobbing Machine, Pfauter, Tests of German “ Giant” Hobs with, 128*
Universal (W. E. Sykes, Ltd.), 243* Hydraulic Press. See Press (below) Lapping Spindle, Diamond (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.), 225
Lathe, The Amateur’s (Review), 53
— Automatic (G. H. Alexander Machinery, Ltd.), 294
Accuracy of. Assessment, 390* for Ball and Koller Bearing Manufacture, 536*
No. 12 (C.V.A. Jigs, Moulds and Tools, Ltd.), 248*
Heavy-Duty (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 195* “Maximinor” (Drummond Brothers Ltd.), 248*
-^-in. Precision (A. C. Wickman, Ltd.), 271*
Six-Spindle (B.S.A. Tools, Ltd.), 223*
— Capstan No. 2C (H. W. Ward <fe Co., Ltd.), 269*
— 12-in. Centre Hydraulic (C. Churchill and Co., Ltd.), 269*
— 7-ft. Chucking Heavy-Duty (Noble <fe Lund, Ltd.), 194*
— with Copying Attachment, Automatic (J. Lang and Sons, Ltd.), 294*
— Copying, “Shapemaster Engraver”
(Monarch Machine Tool Co.), 293* Turchan Hydraulic Attachment (Holbrook Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 194*
— Dead Centres, Self-Oiling (Austin and Lang, Ltd.), 150
— Hexagon- Turret (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 195* Turret No. 3 “ Preoptive ” (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 224*
— Improvised by Captain R. Bradley While Prisoner of War, 6
— Precision, Tool-Room (Holbrook Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 194*
— Screw-Cutting, Recording Pitch Errors in, 461*
— 18i-in. Swing-Centre (G. Swift and Sons, Ltd.), 193*
— for Testing Turning Tools (G. Swift and Sons, Ltd.), 193*
— Turchan Hydraulic Copying Attachment for (Holbrook Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 194*
— Turret, Combination “ Tripset ” (H. W. Ward and Co., Ltd.), 269*
Limit Gauging. See Gauge Machine-Snop Management. See Works Management
— Tools, Clutch-Operated, “ Hyslip- Tork” Motors for, 631
Electric Motor for. Control of, 567 and Engineering Exhibition, Olympia, 193*, 205, 217*, 241*, 269*, 293*, 461*
Historic, at Machine Tool Exhibition, 241
Hydraulic Control for (Stein and Atkinson, Ltd.), 294
Production in United States, Quantity and Value, 641
Surplus, Disposal of, 495 Trades Association, Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition, 193*, 205, 217*, 241*, 269*, 293*,461*
Use of Aluminium-Alloy Castings in, 215*
— Work, Tolerances in. See Gauge Measuring Machine for Lead of Helical Gear Teeth (Gear Grinding Co., Ltd.), 221*
Milling and Boring Machine, Jig, “ Hydrop- tic ” (Soci6t6 Genevoise, Ltd.), 241* Machine (Soci6t6 Nouvelle de Construction de Machines-Outils et d’Outillage), 246*
— and Drilling Machine, Horizontal (W. Asquith, Ltd.), 196*
Drilling and Tapping Machine, Horizontal (H. W. Kearns and Co., Ltd.), 197*
— Machine, “Adapta” (J. Parkinson and Son), 201*
Duplex ** Hydromatic” (Cincinnati Milling Machines, Ltd.), 246*
Kearney and Trecker (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.), 225
Open-Side (Kendall and Gent, Ltd.), 225*
for Ports of Locomotive Piston- Valve Liners (J. Archdale and Co., Ltd.), 247*
Precision, “ Edgwick Di-Mil” (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 222*
Production (J. Archdale and Co., Ltd.), 247*
Thread (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 201*
Thread (J. Holroyd and Co., Ltd.),271* Tool and Die (Cincinnati Milling Machines, Ltd.), 244*
Vertical (Cincinnati Milling Machines, Ltd.), 245*
Moulding and Planing Machine, Four-Side, for Wood (Wadkin, Ltd.), 202* Planing Machine, Gear. See Gear Hydraulic Open-Side (Butler Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 199*
Loudon, Electronic Control of (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 320*
“Spiral-Electric” (Butler Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 199*
— and Moulding Machine, Four-Side, for I Wood (Wadkin, Ltd.), 202*
Press, Forging, for Ball and Roller Bearing Race Manufacture, 536*
Saw Bench, Mobile, for Wood (D. Brown Tractors, Ltd.), 67* 1— Circular, Hydraulic Cross-Cut, for Wood j (Wadkin, Ltd.), 202*
[Sawing Machine, Band, Metal-Cutting • (Sagar (Developments), Ltd.), 249* Screwing Machine, Tube- (Kendall and Gent, Ltd.), 223*
Shaping Machine, 18-in. Stroke Hydraulic (Butler Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 200* Shaving Machine, Gear (D. Brown Machine Tool), Ltd.), 270*
Gear-, Fellows (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 221*
Slotting Machine, 8-in. Precision Tool- Room (Butler Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 199*
Stamp, 10-cwt. Board Drop (B. and S. Massey, Ltd.), 293*
Tapping, Drilling, Boring and Milling Machine, Horizontal (H. W. Kearns and Co., Ltd.), 197*
Tenoning Machine, Double-Ended, for Wood (Wadkin, Ltd.), 202* Tool-Room Lathe. See Lathe Toolmakers’ Tests, National Physical Laboratory, Apparatus for, 461* Turchan Hydraulic Copying Attachment for Lathes (Holbrook Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 194*
Turret Lathes. See Lathes
Wood-Working Machinery, Planing and Moulding Machine, Four-Side (Wadkin, Ltd.), 202*
Saw Bench, Tractors, Ltd.), Saw, Circular, (Wadkin, Ltd.),
Tenoning Machine, Double-Ended (Wadkin, Ltd,), 202*
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Machine Work, See Machine Tools
— and Men, 60 Years With, An Autobiography
(Review), 123
MacIntyre, R., the Late, 16 Macmillan, R H., on Theory of Control in Engineering Courses, 472. See LETTER, 520
Macnair, Dr. P. M., on Ingot Structures in Rimming and Killed Steels, 544
Mac. 'See also Me
Maentwrog Power Station, Proposed Extensions, 639
Magnesium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Magnetic Compasses, Correction of, Developments in, 505*, 529*
— Concentration of North Lincolnshire Ores, 497
— Observations at Royal Observatories, 364
— Strain Gauge, Use on Railway Trucks, 149* Mains, Electric. See Cables under Electric Malayan State Railways, 350-h.p. Diesel-
Electric Shunting Locomotive, 29
Management of Works. See Works Management
Manchester and District Council for Further Education, Advanced Engineering Education 266
— Sheffield Railway, Electrification of, 67, 547 Manganese-Steel Castings, Specification, 322 Mantles, Heating, Electro-Thermal, for Laboratory Use (Electro-Thermal Engineering, Ltd.), 126
Manufacture, Scientific Methods in. See Works Management
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, S.S. “ Orcades,” 585
Machinery of Atlantic Liners, 20*
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Engines. See Engines ; Turbines; Marine Propulsion
— Engineers, Institute of. Presidential Address by Comdr. Sir R. Micklem, on War Effort of Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., 364
and Naval Architects, American Society of. See Naval Architects
— Engineering in Australia, 141*
Gas Turbines Possibilities, 551*
Machinery of H.M. Ships, Behaviour During War, 377, 558 2,340-b.h.p. Oil Engines for Diesel- Electric Dredger, 607*
Oil Fuel for. See Oil Fuel 34,000-s.h.p. Parsons Geared Turbines, S.S. ‘‘ Orcades,” 584*
Thornycroft 90-b.h.p. Diesel Engine, 474
See also Engines; Turbines; Propellers; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Structures, Timber, Report on Deterioration of, 374
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine Propulsion
Markets. See Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., Diesel-Engined Road Roller, 485*
Martindale, R. R., the Late, 113 “Marton” Air Hoist, 78
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 20-in. Water Tunnel at, 69
Massey, B. and S., Ltd., 10-cwt. Board Drop Stamp, 293*
Masts of H.M. Ships, Behaviour During War, 378,558
Mastic Asphalt for Roads and Footways, Specification, 634
— Pitch, and Coloured Mastic Asphalt Flooring,
Specifications, 240
“ Matador” Chassis for 125-h.p. Motor Lorry, 344*
Materials, Strength of. See Stress and Tests aterials)
Materiel Industriel S.A., Matisa Automatic Ballast-Cleaning Machine, 33* ; Me-di- co” Apparatus for Alignment of Railway Track 137
Mathematical Tables Committee of Royal Society, Formation of, 135
for Scientific and Technical Computation (Review), 99
Mathematics, Applicable, British Association, Discussion on, 376, 439, 462, 487, 511, 534, 541, 613. See Erratum, 643
— Bessel Functions, Tables of (Review), 292, 436, 532
— Calculus, Modern Operational (Review), 315
— Differential Equations, Applied (Review), 340
Equations in Technical Problems (Review), 484
— Sequential Analysis (Review), 460
— Tables of Coefficients for Obtaining First
Derivative Without Differences (Review), 412
— Vector and Tensor Analysis (Review), 579 Mather and Platt, Ltd., Pumping Plant for Trafalgar Square Fountains, 414*
Matisa Equipment Co., Railway Ballast- Cleaning Machine, 33*; “Me-di-co” Apparatus for Alignment of Railway X57
Mawddach Hydro-Electric Power Project, Proposals for, 639
Maxim Engineering, Ltd., 10-h.p. Three- Wheeled “Power-Steer” Agricultural Tractor, 66*
“Maximinor” Automatic Lathe, 248*
McClelland, E. H., on Reviewing of Technical Books, 543. See 302
McLean, D., on Properties of Extruded Aluminium-Alloy Bar, 93*
McLeod, R. C., on Testing Plants for Components of Gas Turbines, 1*
McNeill, W. A., on Pneumatic Operation of Air-Blast Circuit Breakers, 91
Me. See also Mac
Meadowcroft, A. J., on Flash Tube and Its Applications, 31
Measures and Weights and Metric System, 304, 307, 318, 319, 359. See LETTERS, 448, 520, 544, 567, 616,639
Mechanical Admittances and Their Applications to Oscillation Problems (Review), 5
— Engineers, American Society of, Report on
Research on Flow Nozzles, 325. See LETTER, 401; Rehabilitation of Barker Dam, Colorado, 385*

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of :

Award of James Clayton Fellowships, 111 Annual Dinner, 423
London Meetings, Winter Session:
Modernisation of Coal-Discharging Depot, by G. T. Shoosmith, 543
Presidential Address, by Capt. (E) W. Gregson, on Developments in Marine Machinery, 549. See 423
Accuracy of Gear-Hobbing Machine Tables, by J. M. Newton, 471
Some Operating Experiences with High- Pressure Steam Power Plant, by W. N. C. Clinch, 447
Control of Production, by S. W. Lister, 567 Internal-Combustion Turbines, by H. Constant, 589
Cinematography in Engineering, by H. A. V. Bulleid, 615
Hawksley Lecture on Heat Engines, by K. Baumann, 519
Glasgow Summer Meeting:
Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering on Slupboard, by T, A. Crowe, 20*
Applied Mechanics Croup:
Some Properties of Compression Shock as in Turbine and Compressor Blade Passages, by I. M. Davidson, 495
Further Researches in Fluid Flow Through Beds of Granular Material, by Drs. H. E. Rose and A. M. A. Rizk, 591 Mechanical Engineering Congress, International, Paris, Programme, 207
— Handling Exhibition and Convention, National, Olympia, 34, 53*, 63, 77*, 331*
— Lubricator. See Lubricating
— Stoker. See Stoker
Mechanics, Applied, International Congress of, London: Programme, 231
Reports of Proceedings, 279, 421
Plastic Bending Under Tension, by Prof. H. W. Swift, 333*, 357
Collisions Through Liquid Layers, by Dr. D. Tabor, 421
Surface Temperatures Due to Friction Between Sliding Bodies, by P. H. Thomas, 421
Influence of Liquid Films on Adhesion, by J. S. MacFarlane and Dr. D. Taioor, 421
Formation of Lubricating Layers on Metal Surfaces, by E. D. Tingle, 422
Mechanism of Friction in Extreme Pressure Regions, by Dr. R. Schnurmann, 422
Dimensions of Journal Bearings and Friction Losses, by A. Fogg, 422
Rotational Friction, by Z. Horak, 422
Cinematographic Studies of Motion of Railway-Vehicle Wheels, by Dr.
F. C. Johansen, 476*, 500* Mechanics, Fluid, Elementary (Review), 459
— Soil (Review), 484
and Foundation Engineering, International Conference on, Rotterdam. See Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, International Conference on
Mechanisation and Productivity, Anglo- American Council on, 495
Mechanisms and Linkages, Computing (Review) 28
“Me-di-co” Apparatus for Curved Railway Track,137
Melbourne, Williamstown Dockyard, 142* Memorial, Trevithick, at Pool, Cornwall,
Unveiling of, 399,403*. See Erratum, 442 Men and Machines, 60 Years with, an Autobiography (Review), 123
Menai Straits Suspension Bridge, Zinc Spraying on,474
‘‘Merchant Navy’’-Class 4-6-2 Type Locomotives, Mechanical Stokers for, 455*
— Ships. See Ships; Steamers; Motorships
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, Diesel-Electric Grab Dredger, 607* Merz, N., the Late, 308 Metadyne System for Diesel-Electric Dredger
(Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.). 607*
Metals, Anti-Friction. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Creep of, in Compression, Characteristics, 535
Tests. See Tests {Materials)
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials)

Metals, Institute of:

Autumn Meeting, Cambridge: Programme, 178
Inaugural Proceedings, 305
Reports of Discussions, 305, 330, 355 Visits and Excursions, 330, 356
Autumn Lecture on The Cavendish Laboratory, by Sir L. Bragg, 303, 356
Micro-Hardness Testing of Metals, by E. W. Taylor, 261*. See 305
Measurement of Damping Capacity of Metals in Torsional Vibration, by
G. A. Cottell, Dr. K. M. Entwistle and Prof. F. C. Thompson, 330
Effect of Crystal Arrangement on “ Secondary Crystallation ” in Metals, by J. G. Bowles and Dr. W. Boas, 355
Observations on Annealing Characteristics of Aluminium - Copper - Magnesium Alloy, by Dr. M. Cook and Dr. T. LI. Richards, 355
Annual General Meeting, London, March, 1948 ;
Corrosion-Resistant Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, by Drs. P. Brenner and W. Roth, 44*
Effect of Single and Multi-Hole Die Extrusion on Properties of Extruded Aluminium-Alloy Bar, by Dr. L. Northcott, D. McLean and Dr. O. R. J. Lee, 93*
Papers for Written Discussion:
Adhesion of Tin-Base Bearing Alloys, by P. G. Forrester and L. T. Greenfield, 572*
Promotion and Acceleration of Metallic Corrosion by Micro-Organisms, by T. H. Rogers, 581, 623
Solubility of Hydrogen in Liquid and Solid aluminium, by Dr. C. E. Rans- ley and H. Neufeld, 645*
Metal to Metal Bonding with Synthetic-Resin Adhesive (Aero Research, Ltd.), 367
— Micro-Hardness Testing of, 261*, 305
— Non-Ferrous, Research Association, British,
Metallic Corrosion by Micro-Organisms, 581, 623
Ferrous, Statistics, British Bureau of. First Issue of Statistical Bulletin, 183
— Secondary Recrystallisation of, 355
— Semi-Rare, Investigations at Chemical Research Laboratory, 29
Metal Sheet, Deep Drawing of, Plastic Bending Under Tension, 333*, 357*
— Structure of. See Microphotographs
— in Torsional Vibration, Damping Capacity of, Measurement of, 330
— Tubing, Solid-Drawn Non-Ferrous, Specification, 490
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Metallurgy ; Microphotographs
Metallography. See Metals: Metallurgy; Microphotographs
Metallurgists, Institution of, Lecture Course on Working of Metals, 274

Metallurgy :

Alloy, Aluminium Anodic Oxidation of, Processes and Methods, 295
for Bascule Bridge, Sunderland, 543 Copper-Magnesium, Annealing of, 355
Developments in Casting of, 213* Effect of Single and Multi-Hole Extrusion on,93*
—• — Magnesium, Corrosion-Resistant, 44* Use for Concert-Hall Sounding Board, 129*
— Bearing, Tin-Base, Adhesion of, 572*
— Copper, Ingots and Castings of, Specification, 58
See also Brass ; Bronze^ etc.
— Nickel-Chromium, Nimonic, Use in Gas Turbine, 595
Silver, Gas Porosity in Castings, 237* Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces
Brass. See Brass
Bronze. See Bronze
Cast Iron. See Cast Iron
Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion Ferrous Materials for the Engineer (Review), 556
Foundry. See Foundry
Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces
— Metallurgical. See Furnaces Heat Treatment, Annealing of Aluminium- Copper-Magnesium Alloy, 355
of Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, 44* of Ball and Roller Bearings, 536,560, 583*
Iron Manufacture. See Furnaces^ Blast
— Ore. See Ore
Liverpool Metallurgical Society, First Meeting, 135
Metals, Tests of. See Tests {Materials} Metallurgical Researches in Australia, 593, 618,640
Council, Inter-Service, 135 Metallurgy, Use of X-Ray Analysis, 301 Pyrometers. See Pyrometers Refractories. See Refractory Materials Slag, Blast-Furnace, Cement, Use in Concrete, 342
— Open-Hearth, Rapid Estimation of Basicity, 545
Steel Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Manganese, for Castings, Specification, 322
— Manufacture, Improved Basic-Bessemer Practice, 522
Ingot Structures and Surface Defects, 544
Oxygen Enrichment in Convertt^r Practice, 521
Welding. See Welding
See also Iron and Steel Institute; MetaU, Institute of; Microphotographs; Foundry ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Metallurgy and Mining, Institution of. See Mining
“ Meteor *’ Training Aeroplane, 284*
Meteorological Observations at Royal Observatories, 364
Meters, Fluid, Flow Nozzles for, Research on, 325. See LETTER, 401
Methven District Irrigation Scheme, Electrical Supervisory Control for Gates of, 167
Metric System, Advantages and Disadvantages of, 304, 307, 318, 319, 359. See LETTERS, 448, 520, 544, 567, 616,639
Metropolitan Cammell-Weymann Motor Bodies, Ltd., Trolley ’Buses for Brazil, 9. See LETTER, 64
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Road Transport of 128-ton Stator, 17 ; 100-kV Electron Microscope, 116; Infra-Red Paint Drying for Lock Manufacture, 177 ; Electrically-Operated Automatic-Copying Attachment for Machine Tools, 294* ; Machinery for H.M. Gunboats, 389; 60-MW Chatalagzi Power Station, 591; Control System for Diesel-Electric Dredger, 607*
— Water Board and Greater London Water Supplies, 140; Annual Report, 637
— See also London
Metrological Investigations in Australia, 617 Metrology Department, National Physical Laboratory, Testing Circular Division with Precision Polygons, 73*
Mexico, Oil Production and Reserves, 119
Micklem, Comdr. Sir R., on War Effort of Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., 364
Micro-Organisms, Promotion of Metallic Corrosion by, 581, 623
Microphotograph, Adhesion of Tin-Base Bearing Alloys, 572*
— Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, 44
— Fractures of Boiler Steels, 497* of Steel Chain Links, 509*
— Porosity in Nickel-Silver Castings, 237*
— Rare-Earth Oxides, 189*
Microscope, Electron, 50-kV (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 152* 100-kV (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 116
Microstructure of Metals. See Microphotographs
Middle East, Oil Production and Reserves, 119 “ Mildura,” Royal Australian Sloop, 142*
Mill, Hammer, Mobile (D. Brown Tractors, Ltd.), 66*
Milling Machines and Cutters. See Machine Tools Mines, Chief Inspector’s Report, 1939-46, 446
— Coal. See Collieries
— Damage to H.M. Ships, 599
Mines, Hoists and Winding Engines, Manual of Design and Operation (Review), 603
— Silicosis, Pneumokoniosis and Dust Suppression in, Report on, 206
— Winding. See Winding
— See also Goal; Collieries ; Mining ; Ores ; Winding; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mineral Development in Northern Ireland, 233
— Oils. See Oils
— Research in Australia, 593
— See also Coal; Mining; Ores; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mineralogy, Use of X-Ray Analysis, 301 Minikin, R. R., on Floating and Foundationless
Breakwaters, 577*, 604*
Mining, Earth Pressure in, 161
— Engineers, Institution of, Report on Silicosis, Pneumoconiosis and Dust Suppression in Mines, 206
— and Metallurgy, Institution of, Nuffield
Fellowship in Extraction Metallurgy, Establishment of, 178 ; Report on Silicosis, Pneumokoniosis and Dust Suppression in Mines, 206
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ministry of Health. See Health
— of Supply. See Supply
— of Transport. See Transport
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway, Counterbalance Tests of Locomotives, 361*
Mississippi River, Alluvial Deposits and Their Effect on Activity of (Review), 291
Mitchell Engineering, Ltd., Coaling Plant, Pol- madie Locomotive Depot, 191*
“Model Engineer’* Exhibition, 183
— and Experimental Engineers, Society of. Jubilee Dinner, 375; Annual General Meeting, 620
— Experiments. See Aeronautics ; Tank Experiments
— Makers, Warship Drawings for, 556
— Piles, Tests on, 209
— for Stress Determination. See Photo Elastic
— Suspension Bridge, Thurleigh, Wind Tunnel for Tests of, 423
— Torpedo, 48-in. Water Tunnel for Tests of, 68*
Modern Wheel Drive, Ltd., S.L.M. Oil-Operated Gearbox, 369*
Moisture in Producer Gas, Determination, 569
— Tests of Anderson Ranch Earth-Fill Dam, 313*
Mole, Dr. G., on Effects of Electrolysis on Strength of Reinforced Concrete, 453*
— Wave Action Against, 577*, 604*
“ Monaco ’* Broken-Tap Extractor, 118* Monaghan, J., on Rapid Estimation of Open- Hearth Slag Basicity, 545
Monarch Machine Tool Co., “ Shapemaster Engraver” Copying Lathe, 293*
Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., Nimonic Series of Alloys for Gas Turbines, 595
Monmouthshire and Wales, Industries of, Report on, 614. See Erratum, 630
Monteith, A. C., on Power Transmission at Extra-High Voltages, 91
Montereau Railway Bridge, Reconstruction, 526*
Montlouis Railway Bridge, Reconstruction, 526* Morar, Loch, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 615 Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd., 75-h.p. Six- Cylinder Diesel Engine, 365* ; Four- Cylinder, 35-h.p., Oil Engine, 617
Mortality Rates and Health Statistics, 256, 306 Mossend Works, Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., New Tube Mill, 370
Motor Boat, Ambulance Motor Launch, “Alfred Roach,” 474*
— Car Design, Trends in, 450

Motor-Car Details :

Brakes, Hydraulic, Vacuum-Assisted
(Automotive Products, Ltd.), 643* Chassis for “ Matador*’ Mark III Tractor (A.E.C., Ltd.), 344*
— for 5-ton Motor Lorry (Dennis Brothers, Ltd.), 345*
— for 7/8-ton Motor Lorry (Sentinel (Shrewsbury), Ltd.), 345*
— for 42-Seater Motor Omnibus (Crossley Motors, Ltd.), 366*
— for Single-Decker Motor Omnibus (Guy Motors, Ltd.), 366*
— for Single-Deck Trolley-’Bus for Export Market, 272*
Engines. See Engines, Petrol^ Motor Car Motor-Car Engines. See Engines^ Petrol Engineering Research, 18* Fuels. See Motor Fuels
Industry, Co-operation in, to Increase Productivity, 567
Standardisation Plan to Increase Productivity, 567
See also Motor Vehicles ; Motor Cycles; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Commercial, Transport Exhibition, International, Earl’s Court, 344*, 365*
— Cycle and Bicycle Show, Earl’s Court, 523 Engines. See Engines, Petrol, Motor-Cycle
— Electric, “ Hyslip-Tork *’ for Clutch-Operated Machine Tools, 631
Induction, and Transformers, Alternating Current, Performance and Design of (Review), 507
for Machine Tools, Control of, 567 836-s.h.p. Propulsion, for Diesel-Electric Dredger, 608*
Traction, for 1,600-h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 393*, 417* 130-h.p. Traction, for Trolley-’Bus (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 272*
— Exhibition, International, Earl’s Court, 450
— Industry Research Association, Work at Laboratories of, 18* ; Proving Ground, Lindley, 351
— Internal-Combustion. See Aeronautics; Engines ; Motor Cars ; Motor Boats ; Tractors
— Launch. See Motor Boat
— Lorry, 5-ton, Chassis for (Dennis Brothers, Ltd.), 345*
Motor Lorry, 7/8-ton Chassis for (Sentinel (Shrewsbury), Ltd.), 345*
Diesel Engine for, 596*, 621* 103-h.p. Eight-Wheeled (E.R.F., Ltd.), 344*
End-Tipping (Commer Cars, Ltd.), 345* 125-h.p., “ Matador ” Chassis for (A.E.C., Ltd.), 344*
— Manufacturers and Traders, Ltd., Society of.
Commercial Motor Transport Exhibition, 344*, 365* ; Car Standardisation Plan, 567
— Marine. See Engines ; Marine Propulsion ; Motorships
— Omnibus, 42-Seater, Chassis for (Crossley Motors, Ltd.), 366*
Single-Decker, Chassis for (Guy Motors, Ltd.), 366*
— Paraffin. See Engines^ Oil
— Petrol. See Aeronautics; Engines^ Petrol; Motor Boats ; Motor Cars ; Tractors
— Spirit. See Motor Fuel
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Truck, 2-ton Electric-Battery Driven
(Crompton Parkinson, Ltd,), 77* 50-cwt. Electric-Battery Driven (Steels Engineering Products, Ltd.), 77* 1-ton “ Forklift ” Electric-Battery (Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 79*
Petrol-Driven, 17‘5-cub. ft. Staca- shovel” (I.T.D., Ltd.), 78
— Vehicles, Electric Battery for Ignition (Holson Batteries, Ltd.), 634
Lindley Proving Ground for, 351
Radio Interference by, British Standard Code of Practice for Abating, 255
Vacuum-Assisted Hydraulic Brakes, 643* See also Motor Lorries
— Wagons. See Motor Vehicles ; Tractors Motorships under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 183, 399
— Launches and Trial Trips, 10,34,59, 82,107, 131,179, 211, 227, 260, 284, 299,322,346, 370,394, 418, 452, 466, 490, 514, 548, 562, 586,610, 644
— Lost and Broken Up, Lloyd’s Register Wreck Returns, 420, 603
— ” Wanganella,” Repairs to, 31
— See also Marine Propulsion
Mouchel and Partners, Ltd., Huncoat Power Station, 103
Moulds for Steel Ingots, Defects in, 117* Moulding Machines, Wood. See Machine Tools Mount, Sir A. H. L., on Letter by George Stephenson, 616*
Moyle, J. P., on “ Spotlight on Derby,” 256. See 216
Mto Mtwara Harbour and Railway to Naching- wea. East Africa, 138
Mulatidre Railway Bridge, Reconstruction, 526* Mullard Electronic Products, Ltd., Electronic Counter and Batcher, 130 ; Establishment of Readership in Electronics, 264 ; Voltage Reference Tube for Electronic Circuits, 571 Multitubular Boilers. See Boilers
Municipal Electrical Association, Incorporated, Eastbourne Convention, Presidential Address by J. Eccles on Problems in British Industry, 7; Gas Turbines for Public Electricity Supply, by H. G. Bell and D. M. Smith, 7. See 62 ; Reorganisation for Efficiency on Regional Basis, by R. C. Golding, 30; Annual Dinner, 30; Final Meeting of Association, 30
— Engineers, Institution of. Grant of Royal Charter, 323
— Engineering and Public Health Exhibition and Congress, 485*, 509*
Munition Work of Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., 364 Muraszew, Dr. A., on Fuel-Injection System with Rotary Fuel Chamber, 316*
Museum, National Air, Washington, Return of Wright Aeroplane to, 399
— Science, South Kensington, Eotvos Centenary Exhibition, 131; Return of Wright Aeroplane to United States, 399

NACHINGWEA Railway to Mto Mtwara, East A.frica, 138
Nant Ffrancon Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, Proposed, 639
“ Nation’s Wealth” Coal-Products Exhibition, London,487
National Coal Board, Annual Report, 63, 85
— College of Aeronautics, Presentation of Awards, 64
— Foundry College, Wolverhampton, Work of, 207, 448
— Gas Turbine Establishment, Testing Plant for Gas-Turbine Components, 1*
— Mechanical Handling Exhibition and Convention, Olympia, 34, 53*, 63, 77*, 331*
— Physical Laboratory, Severn Bridge Design
Research, 6; Temperature Distribution in Bush of Journal Bearing, 49* ; Testing Circular Division with Precision Polygons, by C. O. Taylerson, 73* ; Research on Measurement of Periodic Errors in Gear- Hobbing Machines, 337 ; Flatness Comparator, 461* ; Testing of Standard Square, 461* ; Recording of Pitch Errors in Screw made in Lathe, 461*
Nationalisation of Steel Industry, Reference in King’s Speech, 423 ; Purpose and Motives, 445 ; Parliamentary Debate on Iron and Steel Bill, 495, 518
Natural Philosophy Through the Eighteenth Century (Review), 229
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics

Naval Architects, Institution of :

Autumn Meeting^ London:
Reports of Discussions, 327, 353, 377, 389
Visits and Excursions, 355, 390 Measurement and Recording of Forces Acting on Ship at Sea:—
Sea Trials on 10,000-ton d.w. Cargo Steamer, by F. B. Bull and Prof. J. F. Baker, 327
Instruments Used on Trials, by A. J. Johnson and A. V. Ridler, 327
Naval Architects* Institution of—con* tinned.
Autumn Meeting^ London—continued.
Some Experiments with Models of High- Speed Ships, by Prof. A. E. Lindblad, 353
Effect of Shape of Entrance on Ship Propulsion, by Prof. L. Troost, 353
Wave Resistance Calculations at High Speeds, by Prof. J. K. Lunde, 353
Notes on Behaviour of H.M. Ships During War, by N. D. Holt and Capt. (K) E. E. Clemitson, 546,558,599. See 377
Steam Gunboat Machinery—a Lightweight Steam Plant, by Comdr. (E) H. A. K. Lay and Comdr. (B) L. Baker, 377, 389
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of, Hydrodynamic Design of 48-in. Water Tunnel, by D. Ross and Drs. J. M, Robertson and R. B. Power, 68*
— Architecture. See also Warships
— Construction in Australia, 141* See also Warships
— Engineering in Australia, 141*
— Guns. See Guns
— See also Warships
Navigation, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Congresses, International Association of. Formation of British National Committee, 375
Navy, British. See H.M. under Warships
— United States. See United States under Warships
— See also Naval; Warships; and PARA- GRAPH INDEX
Neath to Briton Ferry Trunk Road, Building of, 639
“ Nelson,” H.M, Battleship, Behaviour During War, 546, 558
” Nene ” Aeroplane Engines, 258*, 282*
” Nene-Viking ” Aeroplane, Record London- Paris Flight, 111
Nepean Dam, Australia, Earth Movements at, 185
Netherlands, Geology and Soil Mechanics of, 413 Neufeld, H., on Solubility of Hydrogen in Aluminium, 645*
New-Street Railway Station, Birmingham, Roof Reconstruction at, 105*
— Zealand Public Works Department, Methven District Irrigation Scheme Control System, 167
Soil Erosion and Conservation in, 303
Newall Engineering Co., Ltd., Jig Boring Machine, 248*
Newcomen Society, Winter-Session Programme, 135; Trevithick Memorial at Pool, 399, 403*. See Erratum, 442 ; Annual Meeting, 508; Locked*Coil and Flattened-Strand Wire Ropes, by T. H. Davies, 508
Newell, Dr. W. C., on Ladle De-Sulphurising Pig Iron, 210, 431; on Oxygen Enrichment in Converter Practice, 521
Newnham, W. L., on Soil Erosion and Conservation in New Zealand, 303
Newton, J. M., on Accuracy of Gear-Hobbing Machine Tables, 471
Newton Observatory at Herstmonceux, 317. See LETTER, 401
Nickel-Silver Castings, Gas Porosity in, 237* Nitriding of Crankshaft Steel, Effect on Fatigue Properties of, 569
Noble and Lund, Ltd,, 7-ft. Heavy-Duty Chucking Lathe, 194*
Non-Conducting Coverings. See Heat Insulation
Non-Ferrous Metals. See Metals ; Metallurgy North British Locomotive Co., Ltd., 102-b.h.p. Oil-Engined Mining Locomotive, 367*; 3,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 576
— East Coast Institution of Engineers and
Shipbuilders, Purchase of George Stephenson’s Birthplace, 157. See 159
England, Flood Damage in, 183, 207, 235*, 336
— Lincolnshire Ores, Magnetic Concentration of, 497
— Notes from, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 212, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611, 635. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, Annual
Report, 38; Loch Dubh Scheme, 326; Loch Morar and Lochalsh Hydro-Electric Schemes, 615
— Wales, Hydro-Electric Developments in, 279, 639
North Wales Power Company, Report on Hydro-Electric Developments, 639 '
Northampton Polytechnic, London, Lectures ' on Fuel-Fired Furnaces and Refractories, 250 ; Prospectus, 281 ,
Northcott, Dr. L., on Properties of Extruded ' Aluminium-Alloy Bar, 93*
Northern Ireland, Mineral Development in, 233
Northmet Power Co., High-Pressure Steam I Plants of, 447
Northumberland, Whiteadder Water, Flood I Damage to Bridge over, 235* '
Norwich Heat Pump Installation, 287, 310
Notes. See Cleveland; North; Soulh-West; South Yorkshire; Labour. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— on New Books. See Books and LITERATURE INDEX
Nottingham Trolley ’Buses, Automatic Acceleration Control for, 451
Nozzles for Colliery Fire-Fighting Systems, 433*, 457*
— Flow, Research on, Report on, 325. See LETTER, 401 i
— Standard, Orifice Plates and Venturi Tubes, Flow Tlirough, 40. See LETTERS, 87,160 i
Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity (Review), I 292
Research in Australia, 592
Research at Harwell Atomic Research Establishment, 97*. See Erratum, 154
— Power, Science and Engineering of (Review), 411
Nuffield Fellowship in Extraction Metallurgy, Establishment of, 178
Nuffield Organisation, 35-h.p. “Universal” Farm Tractor, 619*
Nuts and Bolts, Causes of Loosening of, 127 — Ground, East African Scheme, Civil Engineering Problems in, 138

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Observatory, Herstmonceux, Astronomer Royal’s Report, 317,363. See LETTER, 401
— Kanzelhohe, Germany, Reorganisation of, 364
“ Ocean Vulcan,” S.S., Measurement of Stresses on, 327
Ohio State University, Report on Research on Flow Nozzles, 325. See LETTER, 401
— Tidd, Experimental High-Voltage Transmission Lines at, 55, 381*
Oil Burning in Ships, Recent Developments, 549
— Engines. See £!nffines, Oil; Motor Cars; Motor Boats ; Tractors
— Fuel in H.M. Ships During War, 559, 600 for United States Diesel Locomotives, 428
— Industry, Statistical Digest 1946-47, 590
— Motors, SeeEngines^ Oil; Motor Vehicles; Motor Boats ; Tractors
— Production and Consumption in United States, 428
— Research, by Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd., 543
— Reserves of World, 119
— Supplies, Influence on Diesel-Engined Road Vehicles, 596*, 621*
— Switches. See Switchgear
— Tractors. See Tractors
— See also Lubrication; Petroleum
Oklahoma University, Research on Flow Nozzles, 325. See LETTER, 401
Old Bedford River, Welches Dam Pumping Station, 631*
— Centralians, Annual Dinner, 39
J. Olding and Co., Ltd., “ Traxcavator ” Bucket Hoist, 486*
Olympia. See Exhibition
Olympic Games, Radio Broadcasting Facilities for, 150
Omnibus, Motor. See Motor Omnibus
— Trolley. See Trolley-'Bus
Open-Hearth Furnace. See Furnace Opening Bridges. See Bridges
Opie, R., on Locomotive Power, Efficiency and Rating, 231, 352, 424. See LETTERS, 256, 304,376
Opperman, S. E., Ltd., Mobile Grass Dryer, 91* Optical Rotating Dividing Table, 73*
— System for Jig-Boring Machines (Hilger and Watts, Ltd.), 198*
Optics, Technical (Review), 579
“ Orcades,” S.S., Orient Line Twin-Screw Passenger Liner, 584*
Ordnance. See Guns ; Warships
Ores, North Lincolnshire, Magnetic Concentration of, 497
Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., S.S. “'Orcades,” 584*
Orifice Plates, Standard Nozzles and Venturi Tubes, Flow Through, 40. See LETTERS, 87,160
Osborn, S., and Co., Ltd., Working Model of Sheffield Works, 495
Oscillation Problems, Applications of Mechanical Admittances to (Review), 5
Osmond, W, P., on Magnetic Study of Stainless- Steel Wires, 569
Overhead Cranes. See Cranes
— Lines, Power Transmission, Ageing of Conductors, 102
Power Transmission, Design of 264-kV Lines, 101
Power Transmission, in Great Britain, New Developments, 499
Power Transmission, at High Voltages, 55, 91
Power Transmission, High-Voltage Experimental, Tidd, Ohio, 55, 381*
Power Transmission, High-Voltage Lightning Protection of, 594
Overhead Lines, Power Transmission, Investigations at Chevilly Experimental Station, 55
Power Transmission, North of Scotland, 38
Power Transmission, in South Africa, Report on,398
Power Transmission, in Sweden, 473
Power Transmission, 380-kV in Sweden, 101
Power Transmission, 275-kV System for. 373
Ondes, Rare-Earth, for Polishing Glass, Investigations on ,189*
Orygen Enrichment in Side-Blown Converter Practice, 521

PACKAGING Methods and Equipment (Review), 412
Page Motors, Ltd., Mobile Fuel-Testing Unit, 547*
Print-Drying Plant, Infra-Red, for Lock Manufacture, 177
— Manufacture, Styrene Co-Polymers for (L. Berger and Sons, Ltd.), 106
— “Self-Cleaning” for Use on Signal Posts, 367
Panama Canal, Sea-Level, Proposals for, 37 Paraffin Engines. See Engines^ Petrol-Paraffin Paramagnetic Relaxation (Review), 460
Paris, International Conference on High-Tension Networks. See High-Tension Networks International Conference^ Paris
— Mechanical Engineering Congress, Pro- ’ gramme, 207
— London Record Flight by “ Nene-Viking ”
Aeroplane, 111
Parkhead Works, Steel Casting-Pit Practice at, 117*
Parkinson, J., and Son, “Adapta” Milling Machine, 201*
Persons, R. H., on Lesser-Known Traction
? Engines, 40. See LETTERS, 64, 136, 160 Parsons, J. W., on Ladle De-Sulphurising Pig Iron, 210, 431
-r Turbines. See Turbines^ Steam; Marine Propulsion
Partners and the Law (Review), 28
Passenger Aeroplane. See Aeroplane under Aeronautics
— Steamers. See Steamers
Pasteurisers for Beer-Bottling Plant, 513 Patent Record, 24*, 48*, 96*, 120*, 144*, 168*, 192*, 264*, 288*, 336*, 360*, 384*, 408*, 432*, 456*, 480*, 504*, 528*, 576*, 624*, 648*. See PATENT RECORD INDEX
Paterson, Sir C. C., the Late, 112*
Paterson cfe Dickinson, Ltd., Cable Tunnel Under River Thames, 619
PATRA, Opening of Leatherhead Research Centre, 447
Pattison, W. F., Diesel-Engine Pumping Plant for Fen Drainage, 631*
Peabody, H. W., and Co., of London, Ltd., Ransburg Spraying and De-Tearing Processes, 427*
Pearson, Dr. J., on Moisture in Producer Gas, 569
Pearson, T. F., on Gas Porosity in Nickel-Silver Castings, 237*
Peat, Winning, Harvesting and Utilisation of. Report on, 14
Pegson, Ltd,, 1-2-h.p. Petrol-Driven “Unitractor” Cultivator, 42*
Pendulum Measurements of Deformation in Dams, 162
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Return to Service of S.S. “ Carthage,” 129 ; Launch of S.S. “ Himalaya,” 351
Pennsylvania State College, 48-in. Variable- Pressure Water Tunnel, 68*
Penstock, Steel, Anderson Ranch Dam, Idaho, 147*, 265*
Percival Aircraft, Ltd., “ Prince ” Feeder-Line Aeroplane, 282*
Percivall, A. E., on Design of 264-kV Transmission Lines in Great Britain, 101
Performance Energy Ratio of Heat Pump, 285*, 309*. See Errata^ 448
Permanent Way, Curved, Correcting Alignment of, 137
French, War-Damaged, Reconstruction of, 524*
Renewal at Denbigh Hall, 167*
Personal, 10, 34, 58, 82,106,130, 154, 178, 211, 236, 250, 274, 298, 322, 346, 370, 394, 418, 442, 466, 490, 514, 538, 562, 586, 610, 634
Peruvian Corporation, Ltd., 2-8-0 Type Locomotive, 153*
Pest Control, Ltd., Helicopter for Crop Spraying, 104*
Petit, D., on Varying-Turbulence Cowper Stove, 496
Petrol Carburettors. See Carburettors
— Motors. See Aeronaulics; Engines., Petrol; Motor Cars ; Motor Boats ; Tractors
— Storage in H.M. Ships, 600
— Tractors. See Tractors
Petroleum, Institute of. Conference on Applications of Liquid Fuels, Programme, 255
— See also Oil; Engines, Oil
Pfauter Hobbing Machine for Testing German “Giant” Hobs, 128*
Philips Electrical, Ltd., 20-kVA General- Purpose Spot Welding Machine, 138* “Philosophical Magazine,” 150th Anniversary Number (Review), 229
Photo-Elasticity (Review), 340
Courses in. University College, London, 305
Photo-Electric Cells in Industry (Review), 315 Photometric Research in Australia, 592 Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs Physical Laboratory. See National Physical
— Research in Australia, 592, 640
— Science in 1885, 256, 306
— Society, Competition for Apprentices, 303 Physics and Applicable Mathematics, 511, 541, 613. See Erratum, 643
— at Cavendish Laboratory, 303
- Physics, Crystalline State, Investigations on,
— of Drying in Heated Air (Review), 171
— Electronics, Symposium on Use of, 255, 519
— History of Study of Heat and Tliermometry, 424
— Modern, Introduction to (Review), 75
— Paramagnetic Relaxation (Review), 460
— Radioactivity and Nuclear Physics (Review), 292
— See also Physical Society^ and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Pickfords, Ltd., Road Transport of 128-ton Stator, 17
Pier, Reinforced-Concrete, for Railway Bridge Over Colorado River, 553*
— Southend, Radar Equipment on, 207 Piezometers in Anderson Ranch Earth-Fill Dam, 313*
Pig Iron, Ladle De-Sulphurising Methods, 210, 431
Pile Foundations and Pile-Loading Tests, 209
— “deep” 100-kW, at Harwell Atomic-Energy Research Establishment, 97*. See
— Loading Tests and Pile Foundations, 209 Pilons, Steel-Tube, Concrete-Filled, in Switzerland, 102
Pinions, Gears; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
Pipes, Cast-Iron, for Hydraulic Power, Specification, 394
— for Colliery Fire-Fighting Systems, 433*, 457*
— Fittings, Cast Iron, for Rain-Water, Specification, 634
— See also Tubes
Pipelines, Oil, in Middle East, 119
Piping in Dams, Precautions Against Formation of, 232
Pirani Vacuum Gauge (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 152* Pirie, J. H., on Semi-Conducting Glaze on Porcelain Insulators, 103
Piston, Oil-Cooled, for Diesel Engines, 621* Pitch Mastic Flooring, Specification, 240 Planing Machine. See Machine Tools Planning, Town, Underground, World Conference on, Rotterdam. See Underground Town Planning, World Conference on
Plant Engineers, Incorporated, Institution of. Conference and Dinner, 400
Plastic Bending Under Tension, 333*, 357*
— Materials and Products, Certification of, 471 Plasticity in Design of Bituminous Road Carpets (Review), 507
— in Engineering (Review), 315
Plastics, Investigation at Chemical Research Laboratory, 29
— Research in Australia, 617
Plate, Mild-Steel, Brittle Fracture in, 497*, 508*,532, 557, 580*, 605*, 628
— Steel, Specification, 538
Plessy Co., Ltd., “ Breeze ” System of Electric Wiring, 118 ; 50-kV Electron Microscope, 152*
Pneumatic. See Air Compressor
Pneuraokoniosis, Silicosis and Dust Suppression in Mines, Report on, 206
Pobjoy, D. R., the Late, 41
Point-by-Point Correctors for Magnetic Compasses, 505*, 529*
Polishing, Glass, Rare-Earth Oxides for. Investigations on, 189*
Pollard, Prof, A. F. C., the Late, 184 Pollution, Water, Research Board, Work of, 565 Polmadie Locomotive Depot, 191* Polychromatic Theory of Colour Vision, 350 Polygons for Testing Circular Division, 73* Polytechnic. See Education
Polytetrafluoroethylene, Applications of, 351
Pool, Cornwall, Unveiling of Trevithick Memorial at, 399, 403*. See Erratum^ 442 Pope, Dr. J. A., on Applicable Mathematics and the Engineer, 462. See 376, 541, 613. See Erratum, 643
Population, World, and Food Supply, 277, 306 Porosity, Gas, in “Nickel-Silver” Castings, 237*
Port of Beira, Administration of, 40
— of London Health Authority, Ambulance
Launch “Alfred Roach,” 474*
Portable Engine. See Engine
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools Portland Cement. See Cement Portsmouth-Type Ball Valves, Specification, 610 Post Office Engineering Research Station, Work of, 57
Submarine Telephone Repeater, 6 Postmaster-General, Wireless Telegraphy, Bill for Reducing Interference of, 447
Powder, Polishing, for Glass, Use of Rare-Earth Oxides, 189*
Powell, E. B., on Stability of Large Electric- Cable Systems, 165*. See Erratum, 305
Power, Dr. R. B., on Hydrodynamic Design of 48-in. Water Tunnel, 68*
Power, Atomic, Applied (Review), 388
— Conference, World, International Congress on Large Dams. See Dams, Larger International Congress on
—? Ministry of Fuel and. See Fuel and Power — Hammer. See Hammer under Machine Tools — Hydraulic, Cast-Iron Pipes for, Specification, 394
— Nuclear, Science and Engineering of (Review), 411
— Plant, Hydro-Electric, Anderson Ranch Dam, Idaho, 145*, 169*
Hydro-Electric, in Columbia Basin, 542
Hydro-Electric, Developments in Wales, 279, 639
Hydro-Electric, Grand Coulee Switchgear for, 92
Hydro-Electric, in Great Britain, Measures for Expansion, 499
Hydro-Electric, Loch Dubh, 326
Hydro-Electric, Loch Morar and Loch- alsh, 615
— — Hydro-Electric, North of Scotland, 38, 326, 615
Hydro-Electric, in Sweden, 101, 473 See also Power Stations; Power, Water; Substations
Power Press. See Machine Tools
— Stations, Electric, British, Statistics of, 590 Electric, 60-MW, Chatalagzi, Turkey, Opening of, 591
Electric, Coal Supply for, 158
Electric, Dunston, Breakdown at, 556 Electric, Gas Turbines for, 7, 62 Electric, in Great Britain, Measures for
Expansion, 499
Electric, Heston and Isleworth, Extension to, 454
Electric, High-Pressure Steam Plants, 447 Electric, Huncoat, Accrington, 103 Electric, Kingston-on-Thames, 424, 439* Electric, North Wales, Extensions to, 639 Electric, in 1945-46, Report on Engineering and Financial Statistics, 230
Electric, Shortage of Generating Plant, 39 El metric. South African, Report on, 398 Electric, Tarraleam, Alternators for, 32* See also Power Plants; Substations ’’Power-Steer” 10-h.p. Three-Wheeled Agricultural Tractor, 66*
— Supply, Electric, Coal as Source of, 158 Electric, in Columbia River Basin, 542 Electric, Consumers’ Control Units, 562 Electric, Electricity Service Centre, London, Opening of, 111
Electric, in France, 15 Electric, for French Railways, 527 Electric, in Great Britain, Recent Statistics, 499
Electric, at Heston and Isleworth, Extensions to, 454
Electric, in Hungary, 103
Electric, Increase in Charges for, 183, 207 Electric, Load Restrictions on Commercial Undertakings, 255, 544
Electric, North of Scotland, 38, 326, 615 Electric, Peak Loads and Non-Industrial Consumers, 134, 159
Electric, Problem of Meeting Future Demands, 103
Electric Reorganisation on Regional Basis, 30
Electric, in 1945-46, Report on Engineering and Financial Statistics, 230
Electric, Shortage and Domestic Demands, 39
Electric, in South Africa, Report on, 398 Electric, Stability of Large Cable Systems for, 165*. Erratum 305
Electric, Statistical Digest, 1946-47, 590 Electric, for Steel Works, Control of Maximum Demand, 176*
Electric, in Sweden, 101, 473 Electric, Units Generated in Great
Britain, 129, 250
Electric, Winter Surcharges for, 351
— Transmission, Overhead Lines, Ageing of Conductors, 102
Overhead, Lines, Design of 264-kV Lines, 101
Overhead Lines, in Great Britain, New Developments, 499
Overhead Lines, at High Voltages, 55, 91 Overhead Lines, High-Voltage Experimental, Tidd, Ohio, 55, 381*
Overhead Lines, High-Voltage Lightning Protection of, 594
Overhead Lines, Investigations at Chev- illy Experimental Station, 55
Overhead Lines, North of Scotland, 38 Overhead Lines, in South Africa, Report on, 398
Overhead Lines, 380-kV in Sweden, 101 Overhead Lines, in Sweden, 473
Overhead Lines, 275-kV System for, 373 See also Gearing ; Marine Propulsion
— Water, of Columbia River Basin, Report on, 542
See also Hydraulics; Power Plants^ Hydro-Electric; Turbines^ Hydraulic
— Wind, for Electric Generators, Possibilities
of, 326. See (Review), 469. See LETTER, 520
Precipitation, Dust, Electrostatic, Kingston-on- Thames Power Station, 440*
Preece, Cardew and Rider, Kingston-on- Thames Power Station, 424, 439*
** Preoptive ” Hexagon-Turret Lathe, 224* Prepakt Concrete Co., Rehabilitation of Barker Dam, Colorado, 385*
Presidential Address to British Association, by Sir H. Tizard, on the ^’assing World, 256, 306. See 277, 280
to British Association, Section A (Mathematics and Physics), by Sir L. Bragg on The Crystalline State, 301
to British Association, Section G (Engineering), by Prof. T. R. Cave-Brown-Cave, on The Young Engineer, 287, 295. See 280, 377
to Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association, by J. Eccles on Problems in British Industry, 7
to Institute of Marine Engineers, by Comdr. Sir R. Micklem, on War Effort of Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., 364
to Institution of Civil Engineers, by
Sir J. Davidson, on Water Supply, 447 to Institution of Electrical Engineers, by T. G. N. Haldane, on Engineering Means and Ways, 373. See 375
to Institution of Engineering Inspection by Lt.-Comdr. R. B. Fairthorne, on Some Aspects of Engineering Inspection, 163
to Institution of Locomotive Engineers, by Lieut.-Col. H. Rudgard, on Uses of Locomotives for Revenue Earning, 343*, 383
to Institution of Mechanical Engineers, by Capt. (E) W. Gregson, on Developments in Marine Machinery, 549*. See 423 to International Conference on Soil
Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, by Prof. K. von Terzaghi, 16. See 41.
to Junior Institution of Engineers, by Sir N. Ashbridge, on Developments in Broadcasting, 642
Press. See Machine Tools
Pressure, Earth, on Retaining Walls, 161
— Foundation, and Settlements of Buildings, 208
Pressure, Means of Measuring, 281, 425
— Uplift, and Stresses in Dams, Measurement of, 64,124
“Pretoria Castle,” S.S., Maiden Voyage, 87; Water-Tube Boiler of, 551*
Price, B., the Late, 113
Priestman Brothers, Ltd., Grab Cranes for Diesel-Electric Dredger, 607*
“Prince” Feeder-Line Passenger Aeroplane, 282*
Printing, Packaging and Allied Trades Research Association, New Leatherhead Centre, 447 Process Timer, Electronic (Electro Methods, Ltd.), 139*
Producer Gas, Moisture in. Determination, 569 Production Drive, Use of Royal Ordnance Factories and Dockyards in, 181
— Efficiency : Contribution of Engineering Industry, Report on, 494
Measurement of, 471, 494
— Engineers, Institution of, Associate-Membership Examination, 319 ; Measurement of Production Efficiency, by L. W. Robson, 471; Measurement and Management, by W. C. Puckey, 471, 494
— Engineering Research Association, Opening of, Staveley Lodge Laboratories, 423; Apparatus for Assessing Performance of Drills, 461
— in Industry, Control of, 567
— per Man Hour and Economic Recovery, 16
— Quality Control in (Review), 460
— with Safety (Review), 76
Productivity, Anglo-American Council on, 133, 279 ; First Meeting of, 423 ; Report on, 495
Professional Classes Aid Council, Annual Report, 39
— Recognition of Engineers, Report on, 175. See LETTERS, 231, 304
Propeller, Torpedo, 48-in. High-Speed Water Tunnel for Testing, 68*
— Vibration in H.M. Ships, 377, 559 Propulsion of Ships, See Marine Propvision; Engines ; Turbines; Propellers
Proving Ground, Lindley, of Motor Industry Research Association, 351
P.T.F.E. Plastic, Applications of, 351 Public Health and Municipal Engineering Exhibition and Congress, 485*, 509*
Puckey, W. C., on Measurement and Management, 471, 494
Pumps, Air. See Air Compressors
— Centrifugal (Mather and Platt, Ltd.), 414*
— Circulating, Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 441*
— Grouting, Use at Barker Dam, Colorado, 388*
— Heat, Application to Swimming Bath, 570. See 285*, 309*, 352, 380. See Errata, 448 Fuel and Power Economy with, 285*, 309*, 352, 380, 570. See Errata, 448
— Rotary Displacement, W. H. S. Aplin’s, 6 Pumphrey, W. I., on Hardenability and Isothermal Transformation Data, 569
Pumping Arrangements in H.M. Ships, 599
— Plant, Centrifugal, Diesel-Engine Driven for
Welches Dam (W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Ltd.), 631*
for Columbia Basin and Central Valley Irrigation Schemes, 151
for Trafalgar Square Fountains, 414*
— Station for Fen Drainage at Welches Dam, 631*
Purfleet, Coal Discharging Depot, Modernisation of, 543
Purification of Water. See Water
Pyrometry, Temperature Measurement Research in Australia, 592

QUALITY Control in Engineering Processes, 379,405*
in Production (Review), 460
Quay Reconstruction at Rotterdam, 208
“ Queen Elizabeth,” S.S., Geared-Turbine Machinery of, 20*
“ Queen Mary,” S.S., Geared-Turbine Machinery of, 20*

RACES for Ball and Roller Bearings, Manufacture of, 535*, 560*, 582*
Radar Equipment on Southend Pier, 207
— Researches in Australia, 640
Radial Drill, See Drill under Machine Tools Radiant and Convective Heating, 449, 481* Radio Broadcasting, Developments in, 642 Facilities for Olympic Games, 150
— Communication, Handbook of Standard Graphical Symbols, 562
System for London Transport, 159
— Equipment for Services, Design of, 607 for Ships, 254
— Frequency Modulation Engineering (Review), 75
— Instruments for Air Navigation (Review), 628
— Interference by Motor Vehicles, British
Standard Code of Practice for Abating, 255 Wireless Telegraphy Bill, 447
— Research in Australia, 640
— Sound and Television by. Code of Practice on Broadcast Reception, 10
— “Transistor” Amplifier (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 630*
— Transmitting Station, 100-kW, Horby, Sweden, 602
— Wireless Telegraphy, Bill for Reducing Interference, 447
— See also Telegraphy, Wireless ; Telephony,
Wireless; Television; Radar
Radioactivity and Nuclear Physics (Review), 292
Rails, Effect of Wheel Motion on, 476*, 500*
— Stresses and Balancing of Locomotives, 148*, 172*, 361*. 409*, 437
Railroads, Association of American, Counterbalance Tests of Locomotives, 148*, 172*, 361*, 409*, 437
— Engineering, Elements of (Review), 171
— See also Railways
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
— Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fc, Counter balance Tests of Locomotives, 409*, 437 ; Bridge over Colorado River, 553*
— Bridge, See Bridge
— British, Exhibits at Institution of Civil Engineers’ Conversazione, 6; Report on Accidents in 1947, 13 ; Matisa Automatic Ballast-Cleaning Machine, 33*; Future of London Terminal Stations, 39 ; Electrification of Manchester-Sheffield Line, 67, 547 ; Roof Reconstruction at New Street Station, Birmingham, 105* ; Collision at London Bridge Station, Report on, 151; Locomotive “ Stephenson,” 154 ; Track Renewal at Denbigh Hall, 167* ; Flood Damage on, 183, 207, 235*, 336 ; Methods of Measuring Railway-Sleeper Electrical Resistance, 188 ; Polmadie Locomotive Depot, 191* ; 4-6-2 Type Three- Cylinder Express Locomotive, 227 ; Reconstruction of Chepstow Railway Bridge, 321*. See LETTER, 376; Mileage and Availability of Locomotives, 343*, 383; London Midland Region Rebuilding Schemes, 351; “ Self-Cleaning ” Paint for Signal Posts, 367 ; 1,600-h.p. Main-Line Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 392*, 417* ; Mechanical Stoker on ** Merchant Navy ” 4-6-2 Type Locomotives, 455* ; Rugby Locomotive-Testing Station, 462*, 487* ; Cinematographic Study of Motion of Railway-Vehicle Wheels, 476*, 500* ; London Transport Central Line Extensions, 519; Motive-Power Organisation Given Departmental Status, 591; Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Reorganisation, 641
— Carriage. See Carriage
— Chicago and North Western, Counterbalance Tests of Locomotives, 148*, 172*, 361*, 409*,437
— Coal Supply for, 158
— Embankments near Gouda, Holland, Stabilisation of, 267
— French National, Use of Mechanical-Diagram Corrector for Alignment of Track, 137 ; Reconstruction Work on, 524*
— Guaqui-La Paz, 2-8T0 Type Locomotive, 153*
— Illinois Central, Dynamometer Car for, 100. See LETTER, 184 ; Counterbalance Tests of Locomotives, 172*, 361*, 409*
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Malayan State, 350-h.p. Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive, 29
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, Counterbalance Tests of Locomotives, 361*
— Motive Power, Future of, 87
— from Mto Mtwara to Nachingwea, 138
— Rolling Stock Design, 304
Stock. See also Carriages; Locomotives; Wagons
— Signalling. See Signal
— South African, 3,000-h.p. Electric Loco motive, 576
— Track, Curved, Correcting Alignment of, 137
— Tube and Underground. See Underground ; London Transport Executive
— Wagons. See Wagons
See also Railroads and PARAGRAPH INDEX Rain, Artificial Stimulation of, Australian Experiments in,592
Water Pipes and Fittings, Cast-Iron, Specification, 634
Rainfall and Floods in North-East England, 183,207, 235*, 336
Ransburg Electrostatic Spraying and DeTearing Processes (H. W. Peabody and Co. of London, Ltd.), 427*
Ransley, Dr. C. E., on Solubility of Hydrogen in Aluminium, 645*
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., ” Forklift ” 1-ton Electric-Battery Truck, 79*
Rare-Earth Oxides for Glass Polishing, Investigations on, 189*
Ratcliffe, W. M., the Late, 184
Rays. See X-Rays
Reber, J. W., on Flow Through Standard Nozzles, 160. See LETTERS, 40, 87
Records Transport, Exhibition by British Records Association, 519
Recording Dynamometer. See Dynamometer
— Equipment, Periodic-Error, for Gear-Hobbing Machines, 337*
— Instruments Used in Trials of S.S. “ Ocean Vulcan,” 327
Rectifiers. See Electric
Redpath, Brown and Co., Ltd., Steelwork for Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 439* “ Redux ” Metal-to-Metal Bonding, 367 Reed, P., on Activities of British Council, 352.
Reeve, Dr. L., on Magnetic Concentration of Iron Ores, 497 ; on Ingot Surface Defects in Structural Steels, 544
Reference Books. See Annuals Refractory Research in Australia, 617 Refrigerating Plant, S.S. ” Orcades,” 585* Refrigerators for Beer-Bottling Plant (J. and E. Hall, Ltd.), 512*
— Electric, Domestic, Code of Practice, 178 Regenerative Furnace. See Furnace Regionalisation of Electricity Supply Industry, 30
Reheating Furnace. See Furnace Reinforced Concrete. See Concrete
Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, New Trunk Road in South Wales, 639
Report, Accidents, Railway, in 1947, 13
— Annual, Australian Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research, 592, 617, 640
British Cast-Iron Research Association, 404
British Council, 254. See LETTER, 352 British Welding Research Association, 375 City and Guilds of London, Institute, 639 Imperial College of Science, Vacation- Work Scheme, 591
Institute of Welding, 63
Report, Annual, North of Scotland Hydro- Electric Board, 38
Professional Classes Aid Council, 39 South African Electricity Supply Commission, 398
United States National Bureau of Standards, 182
— Astronomer Royal’s, 317, 363. See LETTER, 401
— British Iron and Steel Research Association on New Methods of Ladle De-Sulphurising Pig Iron, 210, 431
— Chief Inspector of Mines, 1939-46, 446
— Collision at London Bridge Station, 151
— Deterioration of Structures Exposed to Sea Water, 374
— Effects of Electrolysis on Strength of Reinforced Concrete, 453*
— Electricity, Peak-Load Problem in Relation to Non-Industrial Consumers, 134, 159
— Engineers’ Council for Professional Development, on Student Selection and Guidance, 278 , . . r-
— Engineering and Financial Statistics of Electricity Supply in 1945-46, 230
— on German Switchgear Practice, 534
— Greater London Water Supplies, 140 ' — Heavy-Oil Engine Working Costs, 615
— Home Office, on Domestic Electrical Accidents 255
— Ministry of Transport, on London Railway Terminals, 39
— Performance of Shell-Type Boilers, 566
— on Professional Recognition of Engineers, 175. See LETTERS, 231, 304
— on Research on Flow Nozzles, 325. See LETTER 401
—' Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference, 1946 (Review), 436
' — on Sand and Gravel Supplies, 422
— Select Committee’s on Use of Royal Ordnance Factories and Naval Establishments in Production and Export Drive, 181
— Silicosis, Pneumokoniosis and Dust Suppression in Mines, 206
— Wales and Monmouthshire Industries, 614. See Erratum^ 630
— Water Resources of Columbia River Basin, 542
— on Winning, Harvesting and Utilisation of Peat, 14
Research Association, British Cast-Iron, Annual Report, 404
British Coal Utilisation, Report on Performance of Shell-Type Boilers, 566
British Electrical and Allied Industries, Investigation on Wind Power, 326; Report on Effects of Electrolysis upon Strength of Reinforced Concrete, 453* , Reports on German Switchgear Practice, 534
British Hydromechanics, Programme of, 111; Work of, 615
British Iron and Steel, Report on New Methods of Ladle De-Sulphurising Pig Iron,210,431
British Non-Ferrous Metals, Metallic Corrosion by Micro-Organisms, 581, 623
British Welding, Annual Report, 375 Motor Industry, Work at Laboratories of, 18* ; Proving Ground, Lindley, 351
Printing, Packaging and Allied Trades, New Leatherhead Centre, 447
Production Engineering, Opening of Staveley Lodge Laboratories, 423
— Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial, Annual Report, 592, 617, 640
— Board, Water Pollution, Work of, 565
— Chemical, Laboratory, Work of, 29. See Erratum, 91
— Council, Metallurgical, Inter-Service, 135
— Department, Scientific and Industrial,
Work of Chemical Research Laboratory, 29. See Erratum, 91 ; Report on Fundamental Research Problems of Telecommunications, 61; Foundation of in 1915, 257
— Domestic-Heating, Calorimeter Building for, 15,79*
— Engineering, Automobile, 18
— Establishment, Atomic Energy, Harwell, 97*. See Erratum, 154 ; Output of Isotopes, 499
— on Flow Nozzles, Report on, 325. See LETTER, 401
— Forest Products, Laboratory, Exhibits at
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Conversazione, 6
— Fuel, Station, Report on Winning, Harvesting and Utilisation of Peat, 14 ; Calorimeter Building at, 15, 79*
— Industrial, Growth of in Recent Years, 257
— Institute, Fulmer, Investigation on Creep of Metals in Compression, by Dr. A. H. Sully, G. N. Cale and G. Willoughby, 535
Tin, Experiments on Adhesion of Tin- Base Bearing Alloys, by P. G. Forrester and L. T. Greenfield, 572*
— Laboratories, Brown-Firth, Work on Inter-Relation of Hardenability of Steel and Isothermal Transformation Data, 569
Diamond, Johannesburg, South Africa, 426
— Oil, by Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd., 543
— Problems, Fundamental, of Telecommunications, Report on, 61
— Road, Laboratory, Concrete-Testing Apparatus, 6
— Scientific, Cinematography in, Conference on,493
by United States National Bureau of Standards, 182
?— Ship, Deep-Sea, Swedish, “ Albatross,” Equipment of, 351
— Signals, and Development Establishment, Military, Work of, 326
— Station, Building, Work on Domestic Space and Water Heating and Cooking, 638
Fuel, Report on Winning, Harvesting, and Utilisation of Peat; Calorimeter Building at, 15, 79*
Post Office Engineering, Work of, 57
— See also National Physical Laboratory
Reservoirs for Columbia Basin and Central Valley Irrigation Schemes, 151
Resistance, Electric. See Electric
Restler, Lieut.-Col. J. D. K., the Late, 521 Reviewing of Technical Books, 302, 543 Reviews. See LITBRATTTRE INDEX
Rheidol Hydro-Electric Power Project, Proposals for, 639
Ricardo, Sir H. R., on Diesel Engines for Road Transport, 596*, 621*. See 376
Richards, G,, and Co., Ltd., Horizontal Boring and Facing Machine, 242*
Richards, Dr. T. Lt, on Annealing of Alumi- nium-Copper-Magnesium Alloy, 355
Ridler, A. V., on Instruments for Measuring Forces Acting on Ship at Sea, 327
Ritchie, Dr. E. G., on Performance of Shell- ! Type Boilers, 566
River Boise, Idaho, Anderson Ranch 145*, 169*, 265*, 289*, 313*
— Colorado, Arizona, Railway Bridge 553*
— Columbia Irrigation Scheme, 151 Water Resources of, Report, 542
— Mississippi, Alluvial Deposits and.
Effect on Activity of (Review), 291 ,
— Old Bedford, Welches Dam Pumping Station, 631*
— Pollution and Disposal of Waste Waters, 565
— Saguenay, Canada, Aluminium-Alloy Bridge over, 127 I
— Thames, Cable Tunnel Under, 619
London, Re-Development of South Bank , of, 399 I
Temporary Bridge Over, Removal of Main Span, 63
— Wear Commissioners, Aluminium-Alloy Bascule Bridge, Sunderland, 543
— Wye, Chepstow Railway Bridge over, Reconstruction of, 321*. See LETTER, 376
Rizk, Dr, A. M. A., on Fluid Flow Through Beds of Granular Materials, 591
Road Bridge Design (Review), 389
— and Bridges in North-East England, Flood
Damage to, 183, 207, 235*, 336
— Carpets, Bituminous, Plasticity as Factor in Design (Review), 507
— Construction on Soft Subsoils in Holland, 401
— Federation of Coated Macadam Industries, Annual Luncheon, 63
— Natural-Rock and Mastic Asphalt for, Specification, 634
— Research Laboratory, Concrete-Testing Apparatus, 6
— Roller, Diesel-Engined (Marshall, Sons, and Co., Ltd.), 485*
— Sheep’s-Foot, at Anderson Ranch Dam, 289*
— and Runway Construction, Problems in, 402
— Special, Billfor Promoting Construction, 744
— Traction, Railless Electric. See Trolley Bus
— Transport of 128-ton Alternator Stator, 17 Diesel Engines for, 376, 596*, 621* Gas Turbines for, 15
— Trunk, Briton Ferry to Neath, Building of, 639
— See also Tar-Macadam
Roadless Traction, Ltd., Half-Track Equipment for Tractor,67*
Robertson, F. L., Report of Open-Hearth Instruments Sub-Commitee, 545
Robertson, Dr. J. M., on Hydrodynamic Design of 48-in. Water Tunnel, 68*
Robson, L. W., on Measurement of Production Efficiency, 471
Roche-au-Moine Barrage, Uplift Pressures on, 125
Rockwell Machine Tool Co., Ltd., “ Shapemaster Engraver” Copying Lathe, 293*
Roe, A. V., <fe Co., Ltd., ‘‘ Tudor VIII ” Research Aeroplane, 282*; “Athena” Three-Seater Training Aeroplane, 283*
Rogers, E., on Open-Hearth Furnace Instrumentation, 545
Rogers, T. H., on Metallic Corrosion by Micro- Organisms, 581,623
Roller Bearings. See Bearings
— for Bearings, Manufacture of, 535*, 560*, 582*
— Road. See Road Roller
— Sheeps-Foot, Used at Anderson RanchDara, 289*
Rolling Stock, French, Reconstruction of, 524 Tendencies in Design, 304
See also Carriages; Locomotives; Wagons Rolls-Royce Ltd., “Tudor VIII” Research Aeroplane, 282*
Rdntgen Rays. See X-Rays
Roof Reconstruction at New Street Railway Station, Birmingham, 105*
Roofing Tiles and Fittings, Specification, 240 Room, Radiant and Convective Heating of, 449,481*
Ropes, Wire. See Wire Ropes
Rose, Dr. H. E., on Fluid Flow Through Beds of Granular Materials, 591
Rosenblad Heat Exchanger (Ashmore, Benson, Pease and Co., Ltd.), 56*
Ross, D., on Hydrodynanuc Design of 48-in. Water Tunnel, 68*
Rotary Engine. See Engine; Aeronautics
— Pump. See Pump
Roth, Dr. W., on Corrosion-Resistant Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, 44*
Rotor, High-Speed, Checking Dynamic Balance of, 137*
Rotterdam Harbour, Reconstruction Works, 208
— International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. See Soil Mechanics UTid Foundation Engineering^ International Conference on
— Maas Tunnel, 267
— World Conference on Underground Town Planning. See Underground Town Plan- ning^ World Conference on
Roumama, Oil Production and Reserves, 119
Rowell, Dr. H. S., on So-Called Metric System, 359, 639. See 304. See LETTERS, 448, 520,544,567, 616
Rowland, H. A., Centenary of, 519 Royal Aeronautical Society. See Aeronautical
— Agricultural Society. See Agricultural
— Aircraft Establishment. See Aeronautics
— Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Work at Shorncliffe Territorial-Army Camp, 77* ; First Re-Union Dinner, 467
Royal Engineers, Bridge Construction in North- East England and South-East Scotland, 183, 207, 235*, 336; (Transportation) Supplementary Reserve, Particulars of Service, 303
— Institution, Christmas Lectures for Juveniles, 617
— Observatory, Greenwich, Astronomer
Royal’s Report, 317,363. See LETTER, 401
— Ordnance Factories, Report on Their Use in
Production Drive, 181

Royal Society :

Conference on Distribution of Scientiflc Information, 86
Formation of Royal Society Mathematical Tables Committee, 135
Scientific Information Conference, Aslib Discussion, 349
Empire Scientific Conference, 1946, Report (Review), 436
Awards for 1948, 531
Election of Officers for 1949, 562

Rubber Technology, Courses at Liverpool, 612
Rubery, Owen and Co., Ltd., Gantries for Roof Demolition at New-Street Railway Station, Birmingham 105
Rudgard, Lieut.-Col. H., on Uses of Locomotives for Revenue Earning, 343*, 383
Rugby Locomotive-Testing Station, 462*, 487*
Runway and Road Construction, Problems in, 402
Russia, Oil Production and Reserves, 119
— Utilisation of Peat, 14
Rusting. See Corrosion
Rylands, Sir W. P., the Late, 424

SACK Hoist (Thwaites Agricultural Engineering Co., Ltd.). 90*
Safety of Life at Sea. See Life-Saving
Sagar (Developments), Ltd., Metal-Cutting Band-Sawing Machine, 249*
Saguenay River, Canada, Aluminium-Alloy Bridge over, 127
J. Salmon Engineering Co., Ltd., Beet Harvester, 90*
Sampling and Boring of Soils, 268
— Dust-, Apparatus (J. Howden and Co., Ltd.), 8*
— Schemes in Engineering Processes, 405*
Sand and Gravel Supplies, Report on, 422
— Loose, Flow Slides in, 137
Sandifer, D. A. N., on Jet Calibration, 121*
Saudi Arabia, Oil Production and Reserves, 119
Sautet Dam, France, Earth Movements at, 185
Saws. See Machine Tools
Scales and Slide Rules, Bakelite (Blundell Rules Ltd.), 583
Scammell Lorries, Ltd., “Scarab” Three- Wheeled Mechanical Horse Tractor, 367* ; 45-h.p. Four-Cylinder Petrol Engine, 367*
Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Runway Construction at, 402
Schnurmann, Dr. R., on Mechanism of Friction in Extreme Pressure Region, 422
Scholarships. See Education
Schori Metallising Process, Ltd., Zinc Spraying on Menai Straits Suspension Bridge, 474
Science and Its Background (Review), 532
— in Eighteenth Century (Review), 229
— Industry and World Affairs, 256, 277, 306
— Museum, South Kensington, Eotvos Centenary Exhibition, 131; Return of Wright Aeroplane to United States, 399
Scientific Activities of British Council, 254, See LETTER, 352
— Apparatus, Exhibition of, Institution of
Civil Engineers, 6
— Information Services, Conference on, 86 Presentation and Dissemination of, 349
— Instrument Manufacturers’ Association,
Symposium on Use of Electronics, 255, 519 (Review), 628
— Management. See Works Management
— Research. See Research
— Societies. See Institutions
Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in. See Engineers
— North, Hydro-Electric Board, Annual Report, 38 ; Loch Dubh Scheme, 326 ; Loch Morar and Lochalsh Hydro-Electric Schemes, 615
— South East, Flood Damage in, 183, 207, 235*, 326
Screening Plant, Anderson Ranch Dam, Idaho, 291*
Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tools
— Lead, Recording Pitch Errors in, 461*
— Propellers. See Propellers
— Thread System, Unified, Anglo-American-
Canadian Agreement on, 517, 523
Screwing Machine. See Machine Tools Scrivener, A., Ltd., Work Carrier for Centreless Grinding, 57* ; Centreless Thread- Grinding Machine, 220*
Sea, Safety of Life at, International Conference on,253
— Water Corrosion, Promotion by Micro-Organisms, 581, 623
Deterioration of Timber in, Report, 374 “ Seagull ” Amphibian Aircraft, 296*
“ Sealand ” Amphibian Aircraft, 296* Searchlights, Symposium on (Review), 411 Secondary Battery. See Accumulator under Electric ; also Motor Trucks
— Schools and Education. See Education Seepage Problems in Dams and Levees, 161 Seismology. See Earthquake
Select Committee’s Report on Use of Royal Ordnance Factories and Naval Establishments in Production and Export Drive, 181 Selenium Rectifier, Manufacture and Development of, 331
“Self-Cleaning” Paint for Use on Signal Posts, 367
“Selsyn” Speed Transmitter, Rugby Locomotive-Testing Station, 489*
Selvey, W. M,, the Late, 496
Sentinel (Shrewsbury), Ltd., Chassis for 7-8 ton M(^or Lorry, 345*
Sequential Analysis (Review), 460 Service Aviation. See
Settlement Measurements, Anderson Ranch Earth-Fill Dam, 313*
~ and Foundation Pressure of Buildings 208 Severn Bridge, Design of, Influence of Wind- Tunnel Tests, 423
Research on Design for, 6
Shaft, Alternator, Removal of (English Electric Co. Ltd,), 32*
— Crank. See Crankshaft
~ I>J?|jnometer. See
— and Holes, Fitting of. See Failures of, 509, 605*
Shapemaster Engraver*’ Copying Lathe, 293*
Machine. See Machine Tools
Shedriought ” Electric Batteries for Commercial Vehicles, 634
Sheet Metal Deep Drawing of, Plastic Bending Under Tension, 333*, 357*
— Steel, Specification, 538
— and Strip Metal Users’ Technical Association, Winter Conference, Programme, 532 : Proceedings, 591
Sheffield, Atlas Works, Control of Maximum -„^®'^and in Electric Melting Shops, 176*
— H.M. Cruiser, Behaviour During War, 377 546 * *
—Manchester Railway, Electrification, 67 '547 ' — on its Mettle, Exhibition, 495 "
Z? n Industry, Master-Cutler’s Speech, 375 Petroleum Co., Ltd., Scholarship in MArine Engineering and Naval Architec- ^®search Budget of Royal Dutch-Shell Group, 543
Ship Canal. See Canal
— Coasting, Model Tests of, 354
— Un^r Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 183, 399
^^®^’Sea Research, Swedish, ** Albatross ” Equipment of, 351 ’
— Dmsel-Engined. See Marine Ptopulsion
Failure of Mild-Steel Plates in, 497* 508* 532, 557, 580*, 605*, 628
— Hi^-Speed, Experiments with Models, 353 Wave-Resistance Calculations for 355
— Launching. See Launch Broken Up, Lloyd’s Register Wreck Returns, 420, 603
— Model Experiments. See Tank Experiments
— Motor. See ; Marine Propulsion
— Propellers. See Pro^?eZZers
Propulsion. See Marine Propidsion ’ En- gi^s; Turbines ; Propellers ' at Sea, Forces Acting on. Measurement, 327 — lank Superintendents, International Conference of, London, 208
— See also Marine; Motorships; Shipping; Steamers; ( Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
. Shipbuilders and Engineers, North-East Coast Institution of. See North-East Coast
Scotland, Institution of. See L’n^in- Shipbuilding in Australia, 141*
Shape of Entrance on Propulsion of Coasting Ships, 354
-- Industry in United States (Review), 627
— Launches and Trial Trips, 10, 34, 59 82 107 131, 179, 211, 227, 260, 284, 299, 3^’ 346 586* 6W V44
— Naval. See Warships
— Orient Liner S.S. “ Orcades,” 584* Repairs to M.S. “ Wanganella,” 31
— Safety of Life at Sea, International Conference on, 253
—Shipwright’s Trade (Review), 603
— Vessels Under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 183, 399
— Sec also Steamers; Naval; Warships PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipping, American Bureau. See Vniled States Safety of Life at Sea, International Conference on, 253
Shipwright’s Trade (Review), 603
Shockley, W., Work on “Transistor” Radio Amplifier, 630*
Shoosimth, G. T., on Modernisation of Coal- Discharging Depot, 543
Shop Management. See IFori-s Management Shornchffe Camp, Royal Electrical and ^echamcal Engineers (T.A.), Work at, 77^ Short Bros, and Harland, Ltd., “Sealand” Amphibian Aircraft, 296*
Shots at the Truth (Review), 109
Show. See Exhibition Siemens-Martin Furnaces. See Furnaces
Signal Posts, “ Self-Cleaning ” Paint for, 367 peyelopment Establishment, Military, Work of, 326
Silica Bricks. See Refractories
Silicosis, Pneumokoniosis and Dust Suppression in Mines, Report on, 206
Sir John Cass Technical Institute, London Prospectus, 291; Lectures on Internal- Combustion Turbine, 420; Lectures in Chemical Engineering, 610/ 617
Slab^ Reinforced-Concrete, for Refacing Barker Dam, Colorado, 385*
Slag. See Metallurgy Slamming of Ship at Sea, Effect of, 327 Slee, J. on Locomotive Power, Efficiency and LETTERS, 231, 256, 352, 376, 424 ’
Sleepers, Railway, Measurement of Electrical Resistance of, 6, 188
Slides in Fissured Clay, 137
— Rules and Scales, Bakelite (Blundell Rules, 583
S.L.M. Oil-Operated Gearbox (Modern Wheel Drive, Ltd.), 369*
Slotting Machines. See Machine Tools Sloy, Loch, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 38 Sluice Valve, Electrically-Operated, for Pump (Blakeborough, J., and Sons, Bta.), 633* I
Smallpeice, Ltd., “ Marton” Air Hoist, 78 I
Smelting Furnaces. See Furnaces
Smith, D. M., on Gas Turbines for Public o Supply, 7. See 62.
>Smith, Engr.-Capt. E. C., on First Dynamometer Car, 184. See 100; on Metric System, 668. See 304, 307, 318, 319, 359.
a . See LE-fTERS, 448, 620, 544, 667, 616, 639 Smith, L. E., the Late, 208
Smith, W. A., on Rapid Estimation of Open-
I Hearth Slag Basicity, 545
Smoke-Abatement Plant, Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 439
Snow, F. S., on Applied Mathematics and the Structural Engineer, 487. See 376, 541, 613. See Erratum^ 643
Snowdon Hydro-Electric Power Project, Proposals for, 639 ’
SOC16U Genevoise, Ltd., “ Hydroptic ” Jig- Boring and Milling Machine, 241*
Societe Nouvelle de Construction de Jufechines- Outils et d’Outillage, JVIilling and Boring Machine, 246*
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders See Motor
— Technical and Scientific. See Institutions
— Irade. Labour ; Labour Notes : FhSik- GRAPH INDEX
as Corrosion Inhibitor, 29 Softener, Water. See Water
Soil Erosion, Biology in Relation to, 303
— — and Conservation in New Zealand, 303
— Load Tests of Bearing Capacity of. Symposium on (Review), 469
— Mechanics (Review), 484
Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, International Conference, Rotterdam :
Inaugural Proceedings, 41 Visits and Excursions, 41, 414 Presidential Address by Prof. K. von
Terzaghi, on Progress in Soil Mech- amcs, 16. See 41
Lectures:
Closing the Gaps in Dikes of Walcheren by Prof. P. P. Jansen, 136
Harbour Reconstruction Works at Rotter-
^am, by D. H. de Herder, 208 Stabilisation of Railway Embankments
near Gouda, by J. L. A. Cuperus, 267 Construction of Maas Tunnel, Roterdamt T» '"an Bruggen, 268
Road Construction on Soft Subsoils, bv
H. A. M. C. Dibbits, 401 Geology and Soil Mechanics of Netherlands, by T. K. Huizinga, 413
Reports of Discussions :
Section I Theories, Hypotheses and Considerations of General Character,
Section II. Laboratory Investigatioas, 268 Section HI, Investigations in the Field, 268
Section IV. Stability and Deformation of Earth Construction, 136
Section V. Earth Pressure on Retaining Walls, 161
Section VI. Foundation Pressure and Settlement of Buildings on Footings and Rafts, 208 ®
Section VII. Pile Foundations and Pile Loading Tests, 208
Section VIII. Problems in Road and Runway Construction, 402
Section IX. Improvements in Mechanical Properties of Soil, 403
Section X. Groundwater Problems 161 o 1 p^^pluding Proceedings, 414 Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering International Society of, Proposals fo?,’ and Geology of Netherlands, 413 -5. Journal on, 10 Historical and Bibliographical Review 413 Laboratory, Delft, Work of, 41 Mechamcal Properties of, Improvement, 403 S^tlement Under Dams, Measurement of Displacement of, 185 Solar Radiation Research in Australia, 692 —? See also Sun
— and Television by Radio, Specification, 10 Sounding Board for Harringay Concert Hall, South Africa, Johannesburg, Diamond Re-
search Laboratory, 426
Report? 398 Commission,
Electric Locomotive,
^Sineering Motes from 126, 475
— Callforma Co-operative Wind Tunnel, 187
~ College, Electrical
Engineering Courses, 129 2^5^*^*^^336 ’ Damage in, 183, 207,
— V'ales New Briton Ferry to Neath Trunk
Koaa, 639
s IS- 687’ III' 686 ’‘*8' ‘‘V’ 615; 539; 563;
— yShi;:; s,6 131, 155, 179, 212, 227, 251, 275 299* 323* INDEX””"’ PARAGRAPH
'’“‘athSa’KS “
“Sf’wS.WtS “5«5'“‘"“‘
Space Heating by Heat Pump, 285* luspections and Certificates in
Works Management, 163
cinPAd ; Standardisation
Speed Trials. See Trials
— Transmitter, “ Selsyn,” Kugby Locomotive-Testing Station, 489*
Spillway, Anderson Ranch Dam, Idaho, 145*, 169 291* 314*
*‘ Spiral-Electric” Planing Machine, 199* Spirit, Motor. See Motor Fuels
Sporn, P., on Power Transmission at Extra- High Voltages, 91
Spraying, Crop, Helicopter for (Pest Control, Ltd.), 104*
— Process, Electrostatic, Ransburg (H. W. Peabody and Co., of London, Ltd.), 427*
— Zinc, on Menai Straits Suspension Bridge, 474 ,
Square, Standard, Testing of, at National Physical Laboratory, 461*
Stability and Deformation of Earth Construction, 136
— of Large Electric-Cable Systems, 165*. See Frratum, 305
“ Stacashovel” 17*5-cub. ft. Truck, 78 Staff-Location System, Code of Practice, 466 Stainless-Steel Wire, Magnetic Study of, 569 Stamping Hammers. See Machine Tools Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., 100-kW
Radio Transmitting Station, Sweden, 602 Standards Association, American, Agreement on Unified Screw-Thread System, 517, 523 Canadian, Agreement on Unified Screw- Thread System, 517, 523
— Institution, British, Agreement on Unified
Screw Thread System, 517, 523 ; Annual Report, 111; Certification of Plastic Materials and Products, 471; Codes of Practice, Magnesium-Oxychloride Flooring 82 ; Foundations and Substructures, 82 ; Electric Lighting in Dwellings, 178; Domestic Electric Refrigerators, 178; Structural Use of Steel in Buildings, 240 ; Abatement of Radio Interference by Motor Vehicles and Internal-Combustion Engines, 255; Staff-Location System, 466. Committee for Standardisation of Farm and Horticultural Buildings, 159. Draft Codes of Practice, Broadcast Reception, Sound and Television by Radio, 10 ; Sound Distribution Systems for Buildings, 10; Wood-Block Flooring, 10
British, Specifications, Copper-Alloy- Ingots and Castings, 58; Metal-Window Sub-Frames and Sills, 178; Carburettor Jets, 178 ; Instrument Jewels, 178; Roofing Tiles and Fittings, 240 ; Pitch Mastic Flooring, 240; Coloured Mastic Asphalt Flooring, 240 ; Endless V-Belt Drives, 250; Grey Iron Castings, 250 ; Galvanised Wire for Submarine Cables, 322; Manganese- Steel Castings, 322; Cast-Iron Pipes for Hydraulic Power, 394 ; Alloy-Steel Castings, 394; Size of X-Ray Film, 466; Solid-Drawn Non-Ferrous Metal Tubing, 490 ; Water Treatment for Marine Boilers, 490; Flexible Metallic Tubing, 514; Portable Fire Extinguishers, 514 ; Use of Structural Steel in Building, 538; Steel Plate, Sheet and Strip, 538; Graphical Symbols for Telecommunication, 562; Consumers’ Electricity Control Units, 562; Portsmouth-Type Ball Valves, 610; Tensile Creep Testing, 610; Structural Steel, 610 ; Cast-iron Rain-Water Goods, 634; Asphalt for Road Engineering, 634
— United States Bureau of. See United States Standardisation of Engineering Products, Advisory Committee on, 543
Stanhay, Ltd., 1-ton and 3-ton Pneumatic Mobile Cranes, 53*
State Railways. See Railways Stations, Power. See Power Stations
— Railway, Douai, Reconstruction of, 526* London Bridge, Report on Collision at, 151
New Street, Birmingham, Roof Reconstruction at, 105*
Terminal, London, Future of, 39 Statistical Analysis, Selected Techniques of (Review), 531
— Department in Steel Industry, 521 Statistics in Engineering, 329, 390*, 405*, 429*
— Trade. See Trade
Stator, 128-ton, Road Transport of (Metropoli- tan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 17 Staveley Lodge Laboratories, Production Engineering Research Association, Opening of, 423
Steam Boats. See Steamers
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Consumption. See Coal Consumption
— Engines. See Engines
— Flow Through Nozzles. See Nozzles
— High-Pressure, and Temperature in Atlantic Liners, 20*
Pressure, Use in Power Stations, 447 — Superheater. See Superheater — Turbines. See Turbines
Steamers, Atlantic, Geared-Turbine Machinery of, 20*
— ” Caronia,” Geared-Turbine Machinery, 20*
— ” Carthage,” Reconditioning of, 129
— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 183, 399
— ” Duchess of Bedford,” Geared-Turbine
Machinery of, 20
— “ Empress of Britain,” Geared-Turbine
Machinery of, 20
— ” Franconia,” Geared-Turbine Machinery of, 20
— Geared Turbines for. See Marine Propulsion
— ” Himalaya,” Launch of, 351
— Launching of. See La;unch
— Lost and Broken Up, Lloyd’s Register Wreck Returns, 420, 603
— ” Ocean Vulcan,” Measurement of Stresses on, 327
“ Orcades,” Orient Line Twin-Screw Passenger Liner, 584*
— ” Pretoria Castle,” Maiden Voyage, 87 ;
Water-Tube Boiler of, 551*
— Propulsion of. See Marine Propulsion; Engines; Turbines; Propellers
— ” Queen Elizabeth,” Geared-Turbine Machinery of, 20*
Steamer, *' Queen Mary,” Geared-Turbine Machinery of, 20*
— See also Engines; Marine Propulsion;
Shipbuilding; Shipping; Ships; Turbines ; Warships; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Steamships. See Ships; Steamers; Warships Steckborn Artificial Silk Co., Heat Pump Installation, 309*
Steel, Adhesion of Tin-Base Bearing Alloy to, 572*
— Alloy, Castings, Specification, 394
— for Ball and Roller Bearings, 536
— Casting-Pit Practice and Ingot Defects, 117*
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Engineering Products, Ltd., 50-cwt.
trie-Battery Truck, 77*
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue under {Materials}
— Frame Hangar for Aeroplane Tests,
Field, Florida, 25*
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Heat Treatment of. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
— Industry, Nationalisation of. Parliamentary Debates on, 423, 445, 495, 518
Sheffield, Master-Cutler’s Speech, 375 Statistical Department in, 521
— Inter-Relation of Hardenability and Isothermal Transformation Data, 569
— Manganese, for Castings, Specification, 322 ,
— Manufacture, See Metallurgy
— Micro-Hardness Tests of, 263*, 305
— Microstructure of. See Microphotographs
— Mild, Brittle Fractures of, 497*, 508*, 532, 557, 580*, 605*, 628
— Plate, Sheet and Strip, Specification, 538
— Rails. See Hails
— from Rimmed to Killed, Ingot Structures,544
— Ropes. See Wire Hopes
— Stress Distribution in. See Stress; Tests {Materials}
— Strip, Plastic Bending under Tension of, 357*
— Structural, Ingot Surface Defects in, 544 Specification, 610
Use in Building, Specification, 538 Use of in Buildings, Standard Code of Practice, 240
— Tests of. See Tests {Materials}
— Tower, Power Transmission, Lightning Protection of, 594
— Tube Pylons, Concrete-Filled, in Switzerland, 102
— Works. See Works
Steering Gear for Atlantic Liners, 22 of H.M. Ships, Behaviour During War, 546
Stein and Atkinson, Ltd., Hydraulic Control for Machine Tools, 294
Stephen, A., and Sons, Ltd., Reconditioning of S.S. ‘‘ Carthage,” 129
Stephenson, George, Centenary of, 154, 157, 159 ; Letter by, 616*
” Stephenson” Locomotive for British Railways, 154
Sterland, E. G., on Partial-Load Characteristics of Marine Gas-Turbine Cycles, 601*, 625*
Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., New Tube Mill at Mossend, 370
Stirling Boiler Co., Ltd., Boilers for Kingston- on-Thames Power Station, 440*
Stockholm, International Congress on Large Dams. See Daws, Large^ International Congress on
Stoker, Chain-Grate, Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 440*
— Mechanical, Berkeley, for ” Merchant Navy” 4-6-2 Type Locomotives, 455*
in Shell-Type Boilers, Advantages of, 566 Stoking, Mechanical, in Ships, Recent Developments, 549
Storage Battery. See Accumulator under Electric ; Motor Trucks
Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., Transporter Jib Cranes, Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 439* Stove, Cowper, Varying-Turbulence, 496 Strachan and Henshaw, Ltd., Telpher Crane for Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 439* Strain in Drawn Sheet Metal, 333*, 357*
— Gauge Indicator (Prof. J. F. Baker and J. G. Yates), 6
Magnetic, Use on Railway Tracks, 149* -
— See also Stress
Stratton, Col. J. H., on Sea-Level Panama Canal, 37
Streets. See Hoads
Strength of Materials. See Stress and Tests {Materials}
Stress, Alternating and Combined. See Tests {Materials}
— Corrosion Resistance of Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, 44*
— in Drawn Sheet Metal, 333*, 357*
— Mechanical Means of Measuring, 281, 425
— Optical Determination of. See Photo Elastic
— Rail, and Balancing of Locomotives, 148*, 172*, 361*, 409*, 437
— Repetitions. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials}
— in Ship at Sea, Measurement of, 327
— and Uplift Pressures in Dams, Measurement of, 64, 124
Strip, Steel, Specification, 538
Structural Design of Aeroplanes. See Aeroplanes under Aeronautics
— Engineering and Applied Mathematics 487
— and Mechanical Development Engineers’ Ltd., Sounding Board for Concert Halt 129*
— Steel, Specification, 610
— Use of Steel in Buildings, Standard Code of Practice, 240
Structures, Marine, Timber, Report on Deterioration of, 374
— Mild-Steel, Brittle Fracture of, 497*, 508*, 532, 557, 580*, 605*,628
— Reinforced-Concrete. See Concrete^ Reinforced
Styrene Co-Polymers for Paint Manufacture (L. Berger and Sons, Ltd.), 106
Submarine Alines. See Mines
— Telephone Repeater, British Post Office, 6
Subsoils, Soft, Road Construction on, in Hol- I land,401 i
Substation, Lightning Protection of, 594
Suez Canal Improvements, 616 ,
Sully, Dr. A. H., on Creep of Metals in Com- 'pression, 535 ,, ,
Sulphur, Removal from Pig-Iron, Ladle Me- thods, 210,431 o ,
Summers, J., and Sons, Ltd., History of, 274 I Sun Engineering (Crowle), Ltd., 10-h.p. Mechanical Cart, 115* I
— See also Solar ,
Sunderland, Aluminium-Alloy Bascule Bridge, 543 . , .
Supercharging in High-Speed Diesel Engines, 598,621 . .1 r
Superheater Header, Mild-Steel, Failure of, 508*, 605*
Supply, Ministry of, Research on Corrosion- i Resistant Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, | 44* • Investigations on Extruded Aluminium-Alloy Bars, 93* ; Harwell Atonaic- | Energy Research Establishment, 97*. See Erratu'fnf 154; Output of Isotopes, 499 ; j Inter-Service Metallurgical Research Council, 135 ; de Havilland Goblin Turbo-Jet , Aeroplane Engine, 231; Signals Research I and Development Establishment, 326; Purpose and Motives of Iron and Steel Bill, 445 ; Relaxation of Industrial Controls, 471; Disposal of Surplus Machine Tools, 495 ; Iron and Steel Bill, 423, 445, 495, 518; Circular on Supply of Radioactive and Stable Isotopes, 499 ; Appointment of Advisory Committee for Standard- i isation of Engineering Products, 543; Control of Electric Motors on Machine j Tools 567 ; on Development of Television, 567 ; Industrial Tour of East Anglia, 639
Surface Grinding Machine. See Grinding under | Machine Tools 1
Sliding, Friction and Lubrication oi, 421 | Surge Diverter for Lightning Protection, 594 Suspension Bridge, Menai Straits, Zinc Spraying on, 474
Models, Wind Tunnel for Tests of, Thur- leigh, 423
Sutton Coldfield Television-Broadcasting Station, 321 , , . T
Swan, A. W., on Statistical Methods in Iron and Steel Industry, 379. See 329 ; on Statistical Department in Steel Industry, 521
Sweden, High-Voltage Power Transmission, 55 Horby 100-kW Radio Transmitting Station, 602
— Hydro-Electric Plants in, 473
— 380-kV Transmission Lines in, 101
Swedish Deep-Sea Research Ship “ Albatross, Equipment of, 351 , r
— Networks, Air-Blast Circuit Breakers for, 92
Swift, G., and Sons, Ltd., Lathe for Testing Turning Tools, 193* ; 18J-in. Swing Centre Lathe, 193*
Swift Prof. H. W., on Plastic Bending under Tension, 333*, 357*
Swimming Bath, Zuricli, Heat Pump Installation at, 309*, 570. See Errata, 448
Swiss Rhine Salt Works, Use of Thermal Compressor at, 312*
Switchgear for British Power Stations, Recent Developments, 499
— Circuit Breakers, Air-Blast, Pneumatic Operation of, 91 ,, __ .
— — Breaker, Air-Blast, for Swedish Networks 92 , . . r-i. T •
Breaker, Automatic Reclosing After Line Breakers, Direct and Indirect Tests of, 91 Breakers, Domestic Electricity Supply, Specification, 562
Breakers, 230-kV Field Tests for, 92 Breakers for Tidd Experimental High- Voltage Transmission Lines, 55, 381*
— Contactor Gear for Trolley-’Bus, 273* Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 439 — Practice, German, Reports on, 534 Switzerland, Concrete-Filled Steel-Tube Pylons, — Electricity Supply, Present and Future, 103 Heat Pump Installations in, 285*, 309* Sydney, Captain Cook Dock, 142*
Cockatoo Island and Garden Island Dock- i vards 141*
University Engineering Club, Naval Engineering and Construction in Australia, by Engr. Rear-Admiral A. B. Doyle, 141*
Sykes, W. E., Ltd., Universal Hobbing Machine, 243* ; Vertical Gear-Generating Machine, 243* ,
Symbols, Standard Graphical, for Telecommunications, Handbook of, 562

TABLES of Bessel Functions (Review), 292, 436,532
— of Coefficients for Obtaining First Derivative
Without Differences (Review), 412
— Dividing, Rotating, Optical, 73* _ , . ,
Numerical, for Scientific and Technical Computation (Review), 99
~ Vibrating (Westool, Ltd.), 510
Tabor, Dr. D., on Influence of Liquid Films on Adhesion, 421; on Collisions Through Liquid Layers, 421 _ .
Tangyes, Ltd., 25-ton Universal Testing Machine, 595*
Tank, Break-Pressure for Colliery Fire-Fighting Systems, 433*, 457* .
— Experimental, for Ship Models, International Conference of Superintendents, London, 208
Tests of Model High-Speed Ships, 353 Wageningen, Tests of Coaster-Type Snips, 354
Tap Extractor, Monaco (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools, Ltd.), 118*
Tapping Machine. See Machine Tools
Tar Macadam, Federation of Coated Macadam Industries, Annual Luncheon, 63 1 Tarraleam Electric Power Station, Alternators I for, 32*
Tasker, W., and Sons, Traction Engines by, 40. See LETTERS, 64,136,160
“ Taskmaster ” Industrial Tractor, 344* Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission, Water- Turbine Sets, 32*
Taylerson, C. 0., on Testing Circular Division with Precision Polygons, 73*
Taylor, E. W., on Micro-Hardness Testing of Metals, 261*. See 305
Taylor, F., Sons (Manchester), Ltd., 50-cwt. Mobile Diesel-Driven Crane, 509*
Teaching. See Education
Tecalemit, Ltd., Lubricating Equipment, 53 Technical College and Education. See Education
— Societies. See InstiUitions and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Teeth, Gear. See Gear
Telecommunications, Fundamental Research Problems of. Report on, 61
— Standard Graphical Symbols for. Handbook of, 562
— Work of Signals Research and Development Establishment, 326
Telegraphy, Wireless, Bill for Reducing Interference, 447
Developments in Broadcasting, 642 See also Radar ; Radio ; Television
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX Telephone Repeater, Submarine, British Post Office, 6
Telephony Wireless, Bill for Reducing Interference, 447
Developments in Broadcasting, 642 See also Radar ; Radio ; Television
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX Telescopes at Royal Observatories, 317, 363. See LETTER, 401
Television-Broadcasting Station, Sutton Coldfield, 321
— Development of, in Great Britain and United States, 567
— Recent Developments in, 642
— and Sound by Radio, Specification, 10 Temperature-Entropy Diagram for Heat Pump, 286*
— Indicator, Compensated, “ Arie” (Accurate
Recording Instrument Co., Ltd.), 571*
— Measurement. See Pyrometry ; Thermometry
— Room, and Heating Systems, 449, 481* Tennessee Valley Authority, Uplift Pressures on Dams of, 125
Tensile Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Tensor Analysis and Vector Algebra (Review), 579
Ternary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Terzaghi, Prof. K. von, on Progress in Soil Mechanics, 16. See 41
Tests, Adhesion, of Tin-Base Bearing Alloys, 572
— Aeronautical. See Aeronautics
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Counterbalance, of American High-Speed Locomotives, 148*, 172*, 361*, 409*, 437
— Cutting, with German ** Giant ” Hobs, 128*
— de Havilland Goblin Turbo-Jet Engine, 231
— of 1,600-h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 392,417*
— Load, of Bearing Capacity of Soils, Symposium on (Review), 459
— Loading, on Piles, 209

Tests (Materials) :

Bending Tests Under Tension, Strip Metals, 333*, 357*
Compression Test for Steel Balls, 561* Creep Tests of Metals in Compression, 535 — Testing, Tensile, Specification, 610 Damping Capacity of Metals in Torsional Vibration, Measurement of, 330
Drift Tests of Extruded Aluminium-Alloy Bars, 93*
Fatigue Tests on Crankshaft Steels, 569 Motor-Car Gear Teeth, 18* Torsional, Motor-Car Crankshafts, 18*
Hardness Tests, with Diamond-Pyramid Micro-Hardness Testing Machine, 261*, 305
Mechanical Tests of Boiler Steels, 497*, 508*, 532, 557, 580*, 605*, 628
Micro-Hardness Testing of Metals, 261* , 305
King Deformation Tests of Extruded Aluminium-Alloy Bars, 93*
Stress Determination, Optical, See Photo Elastic
— in Materials and Structures. See Stress Tensile Tests of Extruded Aluminium- Alloy Bars, 93*
Testing Machine, Bending, for Strip-Metal Investigation, 357*
25-ton Universal (Tangyes, Ltd.), 595*
— Plant at Motor Industry Research Association’s Laboratories, 18*
Torsional Fatigue Tests, Motor-Car Crankshafts, 18*
Tests, Moisture and Density, Anderson Ranch Dam, Idaho, 313*
— of Polishing Powders, 190*
-- Toolmakers’, Apparatus for, 461*
— of Torpedo Propellers, 48-in. Water Tunnel for, 68*
Testing Apparatus for Concrete, Propagation of Ultrasonic Pulse Method, 6
— Cements for Large Dams, 341
— Circular Division with Precision Polygons, 73*
— Instruments for Mobile Fuel-Testing Unit, 547*
— Laboratory. See National Physical —? Machines, Fatigue, for Gear Teeth, 18* Micro-Hardness, for Metals, 261*, 305 at Motor Industry Research Association’s
Laboratories, 18*
Torsional Fatigue for Crankshafts, 18* 25-ton Universal (Tangyes, Ltd.), 595* See also Tests {Materials)
— Micro-Hardness, of Metals, 261*, 305
— Plant for Aeroplanes, Elgin Field, Florida,
Testing Plant for Components of Gas Turbines, 1*
— Station, Locomotive, Rugby, 462*, 487* 500-kV, at Tidd Power Station, Ohio, 55, 381*
— See also Tests {Materials}; Trials Teszner, S., on Tests of Circuit Breakers, 91 Text-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX Thames, River, Cable Tunnel Under, 619 London, Re-Development of South Bank, of, 399
Temporary Bridge Over, Removal of Main Span, 63
Thermal Compressor, In Heat-Pump Installation, 311*
— Efficiency of Gas Turbines, 7, 62
— Treatment, Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Thermocouple. See Pyrometer Thermodynamics, Chemical, Introduction to (Review), 602
— Cycles for Gas Turbines, 7, 62
— of Heat Pumps, 285*, 309*, 380, 570. See Errata^ 448
Thermometry, “ Arie ” Compensated Temperature Indicator, 571*
— Development of Study of, 424
— Temperature Measurement Research in Australia, 592
— See also Pyrometer
Thibaudat, A., on Tests of Circuit Breakers, 91 Thomas, P. H., on Surface Temperatures Due to Friction, 421
Thompson, Prof. F. C., on Measurement of Damping Capacity of Metals, 330
Thompson, J., Engineering Co., Ltd., Ash- Handling Plant, Polmadie Locomotive Depot, 191*
Thornycroft, J. I., and Co., Ltd., Ambulance Motor Launch “Alfred Roach,” 474*
Threads, Screw. See Screw
Thurleigh Wind Tunnel for Testing Suspension Bridge Models, 423
Thwaites Agricultural Engineering Co., Ltd., “ Airforce ” Crop Mover, 89* ; Sack Hoist, 90*
Tldd, Ohio, Experimental High-Voltage Transmission Lines, at, 55, 381*
Tiles and Fittings for Roofs, Specification, 240 Tileman and Co., Ltd., Chimneys for Kingston- on-Thames Power Station, 439*
Timber Decay and Its Prevention (Review), 53
— Exposed to Sea Water, Deterioration of, Report on, 374
— Its Structure and Properties (Review), 75 Time Service, Astronomer Royal’s Report on, 317, 363
Timer, Process, Electronic (Electro Methods, Ltd.), 139*
Tims, C., on Measurement of Periodic Errors in Gear-Hobbing Machines, 337*
Tin Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Research Institute, Experiments on Adhesion of Tin-Base Bearing Alloys, by P. G. Forrester and L. T. Greenfield, 572*
Tingle, Dr. E. D., on Formation of Lubricating Layers on Metal Surfaces, 422
Titley, A,, the Late, 014, 640
Tizard, Sir H., on The Passing World, 256, 306. See 277, 280
Toledo Woodhead Springs, Ltd., Theory and Manufacture of Helical-Spring Washers, 127
Tolerances in Machine Work. See Gauges Tools, Machine. See Machine Tools
— Room Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tools
Toothed Gear. See Gear; Marine Propulsion Torpedo Boats and Destroyers. See Warships
— Damage to H.M. Ships, 377, 559, 599 Torque Meters. See Dyrtamomelers Torsion Tests. See Tests {Materials} Torsionmeters. See Dynamometers
Tower, Steel, Power Transmission, Lightning Protection of, 594
— for Tidd Experimental High-Voltage Transmission Lines, 55, 381*
— for 264-kV Transmission Lines, 101
— for 380-kV Transmission Lines in Sweden, 101
Town and Country Planning, Ministry of. Report on Sand and Gravel Supplies, 422
— Gas. See Gas
— Planning, Underground, World Conference
on, Rotterdam. See Underground Town Planning^ World Conference on
Toye, R., on Moisture in Producer Gas, 569 Trackless Trolley System, Road Traction. See Trolley 'Bus
“ Tracloder ” Tractor Crane, 90* Traction Dynamometer. See Dynamometer
— Electric. Railways; Trolley Bus Tractor, Agricultural 7-h.p. “ Auto-Culto" (Allen and Simmonds (Holdings), Ltd.), 65* 22-h.p. Crawler (Bristol Tractors, ” ’ ' 114*
Fordson, with 45-h.p. Perkins Engine (Ford Motor Co., Ltd.), 67* 1^-h.p. “ Hoe-Mate " (British Boat Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 42* 35-h.p. Nuffield “ Universal,” 619 6-h.p. Three-Wheeled “Gunsmith” (Farm Facilities, Ltd.), 66* 10-h.p. Three-Wheeled “ Power-Steer ” (Maxim Engineering Ltd.), 66* 5-h.p. Two-Wheeled (Garner Mobile Equipment, Ltd.), 65*
Tracked (Glave, Ltd.), 114*
Tracked, 30-h.p. Lloyd (V. Lloyd and Co., Ltd.), 114*
— Crane, “ Tracloder ” (Whitlock Brothers, Ltd.), 90*
— 15-h.p. Diesel-Engined (F. C. Hibberd and Co., Ltd.), 77*
— Industrial, 39-h.p. “Taskmaster” (D.
Brown Tractors, Ltd.), 344*
— Three-Wheeled Mechanical Horse “ Scarab ” (Scammell Lorries, Ltd.), 367*
Trade, British, with South America, 126
— Exhibition. See Exhibition
— Export, Bicycle and Motor Cycle, 523 Statistics, Motor-Vehicle, 450
— Machine-Tool, 205,217
— South American, 126, 475
Trade Unions. See Trade Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Trafalgar Square, London, Fountains in, 414* Trafl’ord Park Power Station 15-MW Gas- Turbine Generating Set, 8, 62
Train. See Railway Training. See Education
Transducer for Measuring Pressure, 425
Transformers in British Power Stations, Recent Developments, 499
— and Induction Motors, Alternating-Current,
Performance and Design of (Review), 507
— Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 441*
— Lightning Protection of, 594
— for Tidd Experimental High-Voltage Transmission Lines, 55, 381*
“ Transistor ’* Amplifier, 630*
Transmission Dynamometer. See Dynamometer
—-Gear. See Gear; Marine Propulsion
— of Power. See Marine Propulsion; Power Transmission
Transport, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Industry, London Transport Central Line Extensions, 519
— Institute of, Awards for 1947-48 Session, 443
— Ministry of, Report on Railway Accidents in 1947, 13; Report on London Railway Terminals, 39; Report on Collision at London Bridge Station, 151; Wind Tunnel for Testing Suspension Bridge Models, Thurleigh, 423; Special Roads Construc- ! tion Bill, 447 ; Rugby Locomotive-Testing Station, 462*, 487* : New Briton Ferry to ] Neath i?runk Road, 639 ' — Motor. See Road; Motor I — Railway. See Railway
— Records, Exhibition by British Records Association, 519
— Road. See Road ; Motor ; Trolley 'Bus
Transporter, Dumping, Petrol-Driven Pedestrian-Controlled (Avellng-Barford, Ltd.), 509*
Travelling Crane. See Crane
" Traxcavator ** Bucket Hoist, 486*
Trench-Cutting Machine, Petrol-Driven (Barber-Greene Olding and Co., Ltd.), 486*
Trestling, Steel, for Reconstruction of Chepstow I Railway Bridge, 321*. See LETTER, 376
Trevithick Memorial at Pool, Cornwall, Unveiling of, 399, 403*. Erratum 442
Trials, Agricultural Tractors. See Tractors
! — Trips and Launches, 10, 34, 69, 82,107,131, 179, 211, 227, 260, 284, 299, 322, 346, 370, 394, 418, 452, 466, 490, 514, 548, 562, 586, 610, 644
** Tripset ** Combination Turret Lathe, 269* I Trolley ’Buses, Automatic Acceleration Control for (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 451
Single-Deck, for Brazil, 9. See LETTER, 64 I Single-deck, Chassis for Export Market
(British United Traction, Ltd.), 272* Troost, Prof. L., on Effect of Shape of Entrance on Ship Propulsion, 353
Truck. See Bogie
Trusses, Roof, Bowstring, New Street Railway Station, Birmingham, Demolition of 105*
Tube, Condenser, Corrosion Due to Micro- Organisms, 623
— Mill, New, at Mossend Works of Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., 370
— Plate, Boiler, Failure of, 497*, 605*
— Railways. See Underground Railways;
London Transport Executive
— See also Pipes
Tubing, Metal, Solid-Drawn Non-Ferrous, Specification, 490
— Metallic, Flexible, Specification, 514
“ Tudor VIII ” Research Aeroplane, 282* ?Tumbling Drum for Steel Ball Manufacture, 561*
Tummel-Gary Hydro-Electric Scheme, 38 Tunnel, Anderson Ranch Dam, Idaho, 146*. 169*,265
— Cable, Under River Thames, 619
— for Large Electric Cable System, 165*. See Erratum^ 305
— Maas, Rotterdam, 268
— Water, 48-in., Hydrodynamic Design of, 68* Tuplin, Dr. W. A., on Engineering Units of
Force, 64. See LETTERS, 16, 40,113 ; on Locomotive Power, Efliciency and Rating, 256, 376. See LETTERS, 231, 304, 352, 424 Turbine, Gas, Compression Shock in Blade Passages of, 495
Continuous Fuel-Injection System for 316*
Marine, Cycles, Partial-Load Characteristics of, 601*, 625*
—- — for Public Electricity Supply, 7, 62
for Road Transport, 15 Testing Plant for Components of, 1* Use of Nimonic Alloys in, 595 Waste-Heat Recovery from, 551*
— Hydraulic, 32,500-kW Francis, Loch Sloy
Power Station, 38
Loch Morar and Lochalsh Hydro-Electric Schemes, 615
— — in Swedish Power Plants, 473
for Tarraleam Power Station, Tasmania, Alternators for, 32*
See also Power Plant
— Internal-Combustion, for Land and Sea, Future Prospects, 589
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Steam, 20-MW, Chatalagzi Power Station, 591
Development of since 1917, 519 Dunston Power Station, Failure of, 556 for Gas-Turbine Component Testing Plant, 1* 30-MW, Kingston-upon-Thames Power Station, 439*
Marine, Geared. See Marine Propulsion See also Turbo-Oenerators
— Steamers. See Steamers ; Warships
— Wind, 1,250-kW, Grandpa’s Knob, Vermont, 469. See 326. See LETTER, 520
Turbo-Generators, Auxiliary Purpose, for Atlantic Liners, 22* 20-MW, Chatalagzi Power Station, 591
Turpo-Generator, 30-MW, Kingston-on- iTharaes Power Station, 439*
U 850-kW, S.S. “ Orcades,” 585*
Turiiian Hydraulic Copying Attachment for Lathes (Holbrook Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 194*
Turkey, Chatalagzi 60-MW Electric Power fetation. Opening of, 591
Turner, N. H., on Flow Through Standard (Nozzles, 40. See LETTERS, 87, 160
Turning. See Machine Tools
Turret Lathes. See Lathes under Machine Tools
Tuthill, Prof. J. K., on Dynamometer Car for Illinois University and Illinois Central (Railroad, 100. See LETTER, 184

UNDERGROUND Railways, London Central 1 Line Extensions, 519 See also London Transport Executive
— Town Planning, World Conference on, Rotterdam, 41, 414
Unions, Trade. See Trade Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co., Ltd., Maiden Voyage of S.S. “ Pretoria Castle,” 87
“ Unisaw ” Tool-Room Bandsaw, 249*
Units of Force, Engineering, 16. See LETTERS, 40, 64,113
United States, American Bureau of Shipping, Working Agreement with Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 64
— (—Army Air Force, “Climatic Hangar,”
Elgin Field, Florida, 25*
British Council on Productivity, 133, 279, 423, 495
Bureau of Reclamation, Anderson Ranch
Dam, Idaho, 145*, 169*, 265*, 289*, 313* ;
Columbia Basin and Central Valley I . Schemes, 151: Report on Water Resources 1 of Columbia River Basin, 542
Diesel Locomotives, Fuel for, 428
Electricity Supply Present and Future, 1 103
Engineering Education in, 278
High-Speed Locomotives, Counterbalance Tests of, 148*, 172*, 361*, 409*, 437
Machine-Tool Production, Quantity and Value, 641
National Bureau of Standards, Annual Report, 182 ; Research on Flow Nozzles, 325. See LETTER, 401
Navy. See United States under Warships —i— Oil Production and Reserves, 119
— — Operation of Cables Over 100-kV, 102 Power Transmission at Extra-High Voltages, 91
— Railways. See Bailwaps; Bailroads
Shipbuilding Industry of (Review), 627
— Statistics on Television Development, 567 See also America
“Unitractor” 1-2-h.p. Cultivator, 42* Universal Grinding Machine. See Grinding Machine under Machine Tools
University, Cambridge, Lubrication Researches at, 421
— College, London, Courses in Photo-Elasticity, 305
— and Engineering Education, 280, 287, 295, 377
— Illinois, Railroad Dynamometer Car for, 100. See LETTER, 184
— Ohio State, Report on Research on Flow Nozzles, 325. See LETTER, 401
— Oklahoma, Research on Flow Nozzles, 325. See LETTER, 401
— See also Edwation
Uranium Deposits in Australia, 593
Urie, R. W., on Rare-Earth Oxides for Glass Polishing, 189*

V-BELT Drives, Endless, Specification, 250 Vacuum-Assisted Hydraulic Brakes for Commercial Vehicles, 643*
Valve, Ball, Portsmouth-Type, Specification, 610
— Sluice, Electrically-Operated, for Pump
Discharge (Blakeborough, J., and Sons, Ltd.), 633*
— and Valve Gear. See also Engines van der Bijl, Dr. H. J., the Late, 568 Variational Methods in Applied Mathematics, 511, 541, 613. See Erratum^ 643
Vector and Tensor Analysis (Review), 579 Vegetables, Drying in Heated Air, Physics of (Review), 171
Venezuela, Oil Production and Reserves, 119 Ventilation efifects in Radiant and Convective Heating, 449, 481*
— Problems in H.M. Ships, 378, 599
Venturi Jets, Discharge from, Investigation, 121*
— Tubes, Standard Nozzles and Orifice
Plates, Flow Through, 40. See LETTERS, 87,160 . ,
Vermont, Grandpa’s Knob, 1,250-kW Wind Turbine, 469. See 326. See LETTER 520 Viaduct. See Bridges
Vibrating Table (Westool, Ltd.), 510 Vibration, Propeller, in H.M. Ships, 377, 559 Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., “ Viking ” Passenger Aeroplane, with “Nene” Engines, 111, 258* ; “ Viscount ” Civil-Transport Aeroplane, with “Dart” Propeller Turbine Engines, 259*; “Seagull” Amphibian Aircraft, 296* ; Launch of S.S. “ Himalaya,” 351; War Effort of, 364 ; Orient Line Twin-Screw Passenger S.S. “ Or- pfldpQ ** 584*
Vignoles, E. B., the Late, 496
Viking” Passenger Aeroplane, 258*
” Viscount ” Civil-Transport Aeroplane, 258* Vision, Colour, Theories of, 350
VOgeli, R., on Steel-Tube Pilons Filled with Concrete, 102
Vrethem, A., on Swedish 380-kV Systems, 65

WADKIN, Ltd., Four-Side Planing and Moulding Machine, 202*; Hydraulic Cross-Cut Circular Saw, 202* ; Double- Ended Tenoning Machine, 202*
Wageningen, Holland, 36-in. Water Tunnel, 69; Tank Tests of Coaster-Type Ships, 354
Wagner, C. F., on Tidd 500-kV Project, 381*. See 55
Wagons, Motor. See Motor Vehicles; Tractors — Railway, Mover, Petrol-Driven (B.S.A. Cycles, Ltd.), 54*..
Walcheren, Closing of Dikes at, 136
Wales and Monmouthshire Industries, Report on, 614. See Erratiim, 630
— North, Hydro-Electric Developments in, 279, 639
— South, New Briton Ferry to Neath Trunk Road, 639
Walker, F. J., Aluminiura-Alloy Bascule Bridge, 543
Wall, Cut-Off, Anderson Ranch Dam, Idaho, 265*
— Retaining, Earth Pressure on, 161
— Sea, Vertical, Wave Action Against, 577*, 604*
Wanganella,” Motorship, Repairs to, 31 War Damage (Public Utility Undertakings) Bill, 615
to Water Services, Statistics, 637
— Effort of Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., 364
— Importance of Scientific Research in, 256, 306
— Time Work of Naval Engineering and Construction Branch of Royal Australian Navy, 141*
Ward, E. C., the Late, 113
Ward, G. B., and Co., Ltd., Portable Lubricating Appliances, 54
Ward, H. W., and Co., Ltd., “ Tripset ’* Combination Turret Lathe, 269* ; ” No. 2C ”
Capstan Lathe, 269*
Warfare, Naval. Seo Warships
— Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics
“ Warramunga,” Royal Australian Destroyer, 142*

Warships:

Admiralty Compass Observatory, Development of Correction of Magnetic Compasses at, 505*, 529*
— Inter-Service Metallurgical Research Council, 135
— Ship Welding Committee, Trials of S.S. “ Ocean Vulcan,” 327
Aviation, Naval. See Aeronautics
Brassey’s Naval Annual, 1948 (Review). 470
German Naval Affairs, Fuehrer Reports on, 470
Guns, Naval. See Guns
H.M. Aircraft Carrier “Ark Royal,” Loss of, 377, 559
— A.S. ” Arunta,” 142*
“ Culgoa,” 142*
” Kookaburra,” 142*
” Mildura,” 142*
Warramunga,” 142*
— Battleship ” Duke of York,” Behaviour During War, 379, 558
“King George V,” Behaviour During War, 377, 546, 558
” Nelson,” Behaviour During War. 546, 558
— Cruiser ” Belfast,” Mine Damage to, 599 ‘‘ London,” Behaviour During War. 377, 546
” Sheffield,” Behaviour During War. 377, 546
— Dockyards, Report on Use in Production Drive, 181
— Gunboats, Machinery of, 377, 389
— Ships, Behaviour During War, 546. 558, 599. See 377
Drawings for Model Makers, 556 Radio Equipment for, 607 Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics — Construction by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., during War, 364
— Engineers of Royal Australian Navy. Work of, 141*
— Guns. See Guns
Royal Australian Boom Defence Vessel ” Kookaburra,” 142*
Corvette ” Culgoa,” 142*
Destroyer ” Arunta,” 142*
Destroyer “ Warramunga,” 142* Navy, Work of Engineering and Construction Branch, 141*
Sloop ” Mildura,” 142*
Torpedo Propellers, 48-in. High-Speed Water Tunnel for Testing, 68*
United States Navy Bureau of Ordnance, 48-in. Variable-Pressure Water Tunnel, 68*
See also Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX Washer, Helical-Spring, Theory and Manufacture of (Toledo Woodhead Springs, Ltd.), 127
Washing Plant for Bottles (Gimson and Co. (Leicester), Ltd.), 513*
Washmgton, Columbia Basin Irrigation Scheme,
— National Air Museum, Return of Wright Aeroplane to, 399
Waste-Heat Recovery in Ships, Recent Developments, 549*
— Waters, Industrial, Treatment and Disposal of, 565
Water Board, Metropolitan, Annual Report, 637
— Consumption Statistics, 1922-23 and 1939- 1948, 637
— Filters. See Filters
— Flow of. Electro-Osmotic, Through Saturated Soil, 268
— Heaters. See Feed Heaters
— Pollution Research Board, Work of, 565
— Power. See also Hydraulic ; Power Plant; Power, Water; Turbine, Hydraulic
— Pressure in Earthworks, Measurement of,
Water and Space Heating and Cooking, Domestic, Research on, 638
— Supply for East African Ground Nuts Scheme, 138
in Great Britain, Development of, 447 Greater London, Report on, 140
in H.M. Ships, 600
See also Irrigation ; Wells
— Tanks. See 1 anks
— Treatment for Marine Boilers, Specification, 490
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Tunnel, 48-in., Hydrodynamic Design of, 68*
— Turbines. See Tivrbines, Hydraulic ; Power Plant
— Waste, Industrial, Treatment and Disposal of, 565
— Wheels. See Turbine Hudraulic; Power Plant
Waterloo Bridge, Settlement Analysis of, 208 Waterways. See Riv^s; Canals _
Waterworks. See GRAPH INDEX
Watts, F. G., on Pumps, 285*, Errataf 448 ;
Pump to Swimming Bath, 570
Wave Action Against Vertical Sea Walls, 577*, 604*
Wear, Lubrication and Friction, Recent Research on, 421
— River, Aluminium-Alloy Bascule Bridge over, 543
Weather. See Meteorology
Weatherley Oilgear, Ltd., Vertical Broaching Machine, 271*
Weights and Measures and Metric System, 304, 307, 318, 319, 359. See LETTERS, 448, 520, 544, 567, 616, 639
Welches Dam Pumping Station for Fen Drainage, 631*
Weldability of Aluminium Alloys, 213* Welded Structures, Failures of, 557, 580*, 605* Welding, Institute of. Annual Report, 63
— International Institute of. Formation of, 63
— Machine, 20-kVA General-Purpose Spot (Philips Electrical, Ltd.), 138*
— Research Association, British, Annual Report, 375
Wells, Filter, Groundwater Lowering by, 161 Wembley, Broadcasting Centre for Olympic Games, 150
West, Dr. E. G., on Aluminium-Alloy Casting Developments, 213*
— Hartlepool Technical College, Prospectus, 226
— of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute. See Iron and Steel
Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd., Manufacture and Development of Metal Rectifier, 331
Weston, Dr. J. C., on Domestic Heating and Cooking, 638
Westool, Ltd., Vibrating Table, 510
Wheels, Gear. See Gears; Marine Propulsion
— Grinding. See Grinding under Machine Tools
— Railway-Vehicle, Cinematographic Study of Motion of, 476*, 500*
Whitaker, Comdr. (L.) G. C. F., on Design of Services Radio Equipment, 607
White Metal. See Alloys under Metallurgy Whiteadder Water, Northumberland, Flood Damage to Bridge over, 235*
Whitlock Brothers, Ltd., “ Tracloder ” Tractor Crane, 90*
Whitten-Brown, Sir A., The Late, 380j
Whittle, Sir F., Award of Kelvin M.edal to, 375
Wickman, A. C., Ltd., -in. Precision Automatic Lathe, 271* ;
Wightman, I. L., on Columbia Basin and Central Valley Irrigation Schemes, 151 I
Wilczek, E., on Electricity Supply in Hungary, i 103
Wilkes, S. H., on Dust Explosions in Factories, i 110 i
Wilkie, M. J., on Temperature Distribution in J Bush of Journal Bearing, 49*
Wilks, W. T., on Reconstruction of Chepstow Bridge, 376. See 321* J
Willesden Power Station, High-Pressure Plants at, 447
Williamson, J., Hydro-Electric Developments in North Wales, 639
Williamstown Dockyard, Melbourne, 142* Willoughby, G., on Creep of Metals in Compression, 535
Winch, Air-Operated (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 510*
Wind Action on Suspension Bridges, Investigation of, 423
— Power for Electric Generators, Possibilities of, 326. See 469. See LETTER, 520
Wind Power Plants, Experience with (Review), 469. See 326. See LETTER, 520
— Tunnels. See Aeronautics
Winding Engines and Mine Hoists, Electric, Manual of Design and Operation (Review), 603
Windmills in England (Review), 556
Window Sub-Frames and Sills, Specification, 178
Wire, Galvanised, for Submarine Cables, Specification, 322
— Invar, for Measuring Deformation in Dams, 162
— Ropes, Locked-Coil and Flattened-Strand, History of, 508
— Stainless-Steel, Magnetic Study of, 569 Wiring, Electric, ** Breeze ” System of (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 118
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
— Telephony. See Telephony
Wohler’s Tests. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials}
Wolverhampton Technical College, Courses at National Foundry College, 207, 448
Women’s Engineering Society, Annual Conference, 365
Wood, G., on Professional Recognition of Engineers, 304. See 175. See LETTER, 231
— Bending, Solid and Laminated (Review), 556
— Block Flooring, Specification, 10 Woodfield, C. H., the Late, 400 Woodworking Machinery. See Machine Tools Wool, Scientific Investigation on, 592 Workmen. See Labour
Works, Control of Maximum Demand on Electricity Supply in Steelworks, 176*
— Management, Control of Production in Industry, 567
Industrial Environment and Its Control j (Review), 147
Inspections, Specifications and Certificates, 163 j
Production Efficiency, Measurement of, 471, 494
Production Efficiency, Report on, 494 —- — Production with Safety (Review), 76 Quality Control in Production (Review), 460
Statistical Department in Steel Industry, 329,379,521
Statistics in Engineering Processes, 329, 379,405*
Works, Ministry of. Reconstruction of Trafalgar Square, 414*
Workshops. See Machine Tools
— Training. See Education ; Labour
World Affairs, Science and Industry, 256, 277, 306
— Conference on Underground Town Planning,
Rotterdam. See Underground Town Planning^ World Conference on
— Engineering Conference, International Technical Congress, Cairo, Programme of, 544
— Power Conference, International Congress on
Large Dams. See DamSy Large, International Congress on Wrecks. See Accidents
Wright Aeroplane, Return to United States, 399
Wrotham Ultra-High Frequency Broadcasting Station, 642
Wye, River, Chepstow Railway Bridge over. Reconstruction of, 321*. See LETTER, 376
Wylie, A. W., on Rare- Earth Oxides for Glass Polishing, 189*
X-RAY Analysis, Use for Determining Crystalline State, 301
Film Sizes, Specification, 466

YATES, J. G., Resistance Strain-Gauge Indicator, 6
Year Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
York, Royal Agricultural Show, 42*, 65*, 89*, 114*
Young, R. H., on Engineering Units of Force, 113. See LETTERS, 16, 40, 64
Youngmark, F. A., the Late, 427

ZETTERHOLM, 0. D., on 380-kV Transmission Lines in Sweden, 101
Zinc Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy — Spraying on Menai Straits Suspension Bridge, 474
Zurich Swimming Bath, Heat Pump Installation at, 309*, 570. See Errata^ 448

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