Engineering 1950 Jan-Jun: Index: General

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GENERAL

VACATION Work Scheme of Imperial College of Science and Technology, Report on, 18
Vacuum Valve Applied to Electric Furnace, 132*
Valves for Air Receivers, Specification, 678
— for 500-ton Floating Dock (Ham, Baker and Co., Ltd.), 258*
— Gas, Two-Way Magnetic (Perl Controls, Ltd.), 593*
— Gear, Walschaerts, for 2-8-4 Type Locomotives, 313*
— Internal-Combustion Engines, Temperature Measurement of, 672
— Marine Diesel Engine, Experience with Burning of Boiler Fuels, 513*, 546
— and Pipes, Graphical Symbols for. Specification, 12
— Plug, for Petroleum Industry, Specification, 442
— Vacuum, Applied to Electric Furnace, 132*
— and Valve Gear. See also Engines
” Vampire ” Aeroplane, with ” Goblin ” Engine with Reheat Tail Pipes, 191*
Van der Pol, Prof. B., on Heaviside’s Operational Calculus, 603. See 529, 569
Van Mele, M., on Gas Turbines for Generation of Electricity, 249
” Vanguard ” Diesel-Driven Concrete Mixer, 594*
Variable-Speed Gear. See Gear
Varley, Major P. C., on Hot Rolling of Aluminium and Its Alloys, 437
Vehicles, Public-Service, Limit of Length of, 186
— Wheeled, for Forces, Ministry of Supply’s Statement on, 139
” Velutina,” Launch of, 429*
Venezuelan Oilfields, 1,750-kW Natural-Gas Turbo-Alternator for, 132
Ventilating and Heating Engineers, Institution of. See Heating
Ventilation in Underground Hydro-Electric Power Plants, 236
Vernon, Dr. W. H. J., on Costs of Corrosion and of Its Control, 160
‘‘Vertical Feature” for Festival of Britain 1951, 49*
— Lift Bridges, Bridges
Vessel, High-Pressure, for Oil-Refining and Chemical Industries, 149
Vessel, Pressure, Fusion-Welded, for Chemical Industry, Specification, 268
Fudon-Welded, Manufacture by Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 344*, 373*
Manufacture by Autofrettage, 479*, 509*, 562*
Viaduct. See Bridges
Vibrations, Dynamics of (Review), 4
— Ground, from Blasting Operations, Reduction of, 430*
— in Internal-Combustion Engine, Methods of
Studying, 695*
Vibrograms of Blasting Operations, 430* “ Vibrosoil ” Soil-Compacting Machine, 276* Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Icing Trials of “ Viscount ” Air Liner, 150; Non-Ferrous Metal Shops at Elswick, 410* ; S.S. “ Eva Peron,” Maiden Voyage, 533* ; Schemes of Engineering Training, 667
Vinal Interlayer for Safety-Glass Manufacture, 292*
Viscometer, Portable (Ferranti Ltd.), 380* “ Viscount ” Air Liner, Icing Trials of, 150 Voltage Stabiliser, 20-kVA (British Power Transformer Co., Ltd.), 522*
Vosper, Ltd., Fire Floats for Royal Air Force, 333*, 353* ; Radio-Controlled Motor Launch, 701*

WACHAL, A. L., on Flow of Lubricating Oil from Big-End Bearing, 247*, 291*
Wages. See Labour : PAKAGRAPH INDEX Wagons, Motor. See Motor Vehicles ; Tractors
— Tippler, “ Rotaside *’ (Strachan and Henshaw, Ltd.), 685*
Wait, E. V., on Geometry of Quasi-Circular Shapes and Behaviour of Drills and Reamers, 285*, 330*
Wales, North, Hydro-Electric Developments in, 478. See LETTER, 571
Walklate, E. J., on Blast-Furnace Stock-Rod Gas-Seal, 574
Wall, Dr. T. F., on Phase Advancing by Three- Phase Machines, 115*
— for Coast Protection and Land Reclamation, 609
— Diagrams for Control Rooms of Electric Power Systems, 724*
Wallingford, Howbery Park, Hydraulic Research Station, 415. See LETTER, 508
Wallsend, Pametrada Research Station, Work of, 621*, 649*, 676*
Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co., Ltd., Machinery for Oil Tanker “ Velutina,” 429 Walschaerts Valve Gear for 2-8-4 Type Locomotives, 313*
Walters, B., on Rolling of Zinc and Zinc Alloys, 467
Wansbrough-Jones, Dr. 0. H., on Present Science and Future Strategy, 215
War, Cost of Aviation in, 629
— of Movement, Airfields in, 101
Warder, S. B., on Railway Substation Layout, Operation and Maintenance, 347
Warfare, Naval. See Warships
— Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics

Warships :

Admiralty Investigations on Model Anchors, 449
“Ark Royal,” H.M. Aircraft Carrier, Launch of, 507, 543*
Aviation, Naval. See Aeronautics
H.M. Aircraft Carrier ” Ark Royal,” Launch of, 507, 543*
— Battleship ” Royal Oak,” 1890, Keel Laying of, 605*. See LETTER, 685
— Destroyer, Trials of Machinery and Boilers, 650
— Ship ” Thunderer,” Training of Naval Engineers in, 279*
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics
— Construction and Research, 361
— Constructors, Royal Corps of. Future of, 271; Annual Dinner, 540
— Engineers, Training in H.M.S. ” Thunderer,” 279*
— Machinery Developments, 1910-1950, 426, 457, 484
Navy Estimates, 1950-51, 299. See Erratum, 322
Royal Naval Engineering College, Mana- don, Developments at, 279*
United States Navy Bureau of Ordnance Supersonic Wind Tunnel, 34*
See also Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX War-Time Activity of Road Research Laboratory, Report on, 44

Washing Machine for Bottles, Hydraulically- Operated (Graham-Enock Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 580*
for Flour Mills, 91* Glass, for Safety-Glass Manufacture, 292* Washington, Seattle, Gorge Hydro-Electric
Plant, Grinding Tunnel Floor of, 251
— Snipes Mountain Canal, Asphalt Lining for, 613*
— Yakima Canal Project, Concrete Slab Lining for, 531*
Waste Paper Recovery Association, Annual Report, 629
Watches and Clocks, Increased Production, 318 Water-Cement Ratio for High-Strength Concrete, 80*
— Cooling Towers, Theory and Design of, 388
— Currents Due to Wind, 19
— De-Aerated, Estimation of Dissolved Oxygen in, 553*
— Department, Glasgow Corporation, New
Works of, 370, 477
Water Engineers, Institution of, Scottish Section, New Works of Glasgow Corporation Water Department, by S. D. Canvin, 370, 477
— Friction. See Friction; Ship Resistance
— Gas. See Gas
— Heaters. See Feed-Water Heaters
— Power Resources of Alaska, Report on, 184 See also Hydraulic; Power Plant; Power,
Water ; Turbine, Hydraulic
— Stress Propagation in, 689*
— Supply, Hot, Domestic, Central, Standard ' Code of Practice, 726
Rural, Recent Developments, 639, 668 See also Irrigation
— Tanks. See Tanks
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Twrandines, Hydraulic ; Power Plant
— Used in Steam Generation, Tests for, Specification, 152
— Wheels. See Turbine, Hydraulic; Power Plant
Waterways Association, Inland, Annual General Meeting, 629. See LETTER, 685
— See Rivers; Canals
Waterworks. See Water Supply and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Wath-Sheffield-Manchester Railway Electrification, 205*
Wave Analvser, Pametrada Research Station (Muirhead and Co., Ltd.), 377*, 698
— Guide Testing Apparatus (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 403*
— Making Resistance of Ships. See Ship Resistance
Wavelengths, Broadcasting, New Plan, 273, 337, 359
Wax Injection Machine, Hydraulic, for “ Lost- Wax ” Process of Precision Casting, 108*
Weather. See Metewology
Weathering Tests, Machine for Making (Decel Engineers, Ltd.), 589*
Webb, W. J., on Railway Electrification— Spacing of Substations, 321
Weed Growth in Canals, Methods of Prevention, 615, 693
Weighing Car, Beevor Iron Foundry (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 67*
— and Measuring Devices, American, Specifications, Tolerances and Regulations for (Review), 316
Welch, Prof. J. J,, the Late, 274
Weld Metal, Electronic Control of Deposition of (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 522
— Ultrasonic Testing of, 264*
Welded Joints, Stress Propagation in, 690* Welder, Spot, 300-kVA Single-Phase (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 459*
Welding of High-Pressure Vessels for Chemical Industries, 149
— Machine, Cold-Pressure, for Aluminium-
Sheathed Cable (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 150* 60-kVA Flash-Butt (British Insulated Callenders’ Cables, Ltd.), 558* 50-kVA Seam (Sciaky Electric Welding Machines, Ltd.), 560*
—.— 1-kW Thermo-Plastic Sheet (Radio Heaters, Ltd.), 558*
— Metallic-Arc, for Repairs to Locomotive Plate Frames, 177*, 251*
— Plant, Renfrew Works (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 344*, 373*
— Research Association. British, Welding Re
search Exhibition, 161; Demonstration of Ultrasonic Testing cf Welds, 264* Exhibition, 161, 264*
Wellman Smith Owen Engineering Corporation, Ltd., 106-ton Charging Machine for Sheet-Annealing Furnaces, 564*
West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute. See Iron and Steel
Western Australian Government Railways, 4-6-2 Type Passenger Locomotives, 104*
Wetness, Steam, and Turbine Efficiency, 666 “ Wetting’’-Agent Injector for Dust Suppression in Collieries (Permutit Co., Ltd.), 517*
Weybridge Jig and Tool Co., Ltd., Gang Slitting Machine, 590*
Wharves, Docks and Piers, Design, Construction and Maintenance of (Review), 87
Wheat, Milling of, 29*, 57*, 91*, 113*
Wheels, Gear. See Gears; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
— Tapered-Tread, on Overhead-Travelling Cranes, Effect of, 477
Whirling of Rotating Elastic Shafts, 102 White Metal. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Waltham Aerodrome, Garden Party of Royal Aeronautical Society at, 571
Whitehead, Dr. R., on Requirements f-jr M.Sc. Degree, 584
Whiteley, Dr. J. H., on Extension of Ari Range with Carbide Formation in Mild Steel, 543 Whitworth, R., Thames and Severn Canal, 110, 120
— Society, Annual Dinner, 329
Whyman, F., on Railway Electric Braking Systems, 390
Wickman, A. C., Ltd., Deep-Hole Drilling Attachment for Automatic Lathe, 38*
Wilkins, C. T., on Producing a Prototype Aircraft, 185
Wilkinson, E. R., on Electricity, Gas and Consumer, 739
Wilkinson, R. G., on Hot Working of Aluminium and Its Alloys, 437
Wilks, W. T., on Charges of Railway Inefficiency, 684. See 576
Willans, K. W., on Elderly Engineers, 478, 602. See 445, See LETTERS, 508, 630, 684, 731
Williams, W. J., on Influence of Certain Elements on Microstructure of Cast Irons, 573
Williams Lecture on Gases and Steel, by Sir A. McCance, 737*
Williamson, G. J., on Gas Cooling and Humidification, 388
WiJson, G., on Bearing Capacity of Screw Piles and Screwcrete Cylinders, 73
Wilson, J. S., Work on Stresses in Dams, 24* Wiiton-Fijenoord, 5,500-b,h.p. Doxford Diesel Engine, 635*
Wind Tunnels. See AerorMutics
— Water Currents Due to, 19
Winding Engine, 1,750-h.p. Electric, Calverton Colliery (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 500*
Winget, Ltd., Twin-Trolley Concrete Batcher, 492* ; Boom-Type Trencher, 492* ; Self-Propelled Barrow, Pedestrian-Operated, 711* Winkler Method of Testing Feed AVater, 553* Winter, Dr, J. B., the Late, 303 Wire Ropes in Mines, Conference on, 18
— and Strip-Forming Machines (A. AV. Macnamara, Ltd.), 557* Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
— Telephony. See Telephony
Wiring Systems, Electric, Trends in Materials Used, 623
Wiseman, A., and Co., Ltd., Resilient Gearwheel for Traction Purposes, 460*
Withers, J. G., on Flow of Lubricating Oil from
Big-End Bearing, 247*, 291*
Wood, B., on Natural-Draught Cooling Towers 388
Wood, Prof. W. A., on Mechanism of Deformation in Creep, 499
— Lecture on Industrial Applications of Atomic
Energy, by Prof. M. L. Oliphant, 273 Woodcock, F. J., on Electrical Methods of
Measuring Mechanical Quantities, 483* Woodhead Tunnel, Manchester-Sheffield Railway, 205*
Woodhouse, L. C., on Diesel-Electric Motor-
Coach Trains, 391 AVoodworking Machinery. See Machine Tools Woolwich Polytechnic Diamond Jubilee, 359 AVorking Party on Building Operations, Report on, 539
— Platform, Telescopic (W. Moss and Sons, Ltd.),
Workmen. See Labottr

Works :

Beevor Iron Foundry, (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 66"?
Elswick Works Non-Ferrous Metal Shops (Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd.), 410* Grangemouth Works, High-Pressure Boiler Plant at, 721*
King’s Norton Factory of Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., 292*
Oxney Road Factory, Newark, F. Perkins, Ltd., 699*
Renfrew Works of Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 344*, 373*
Steelworks Plant, Model, Royal Scottish Museum, 622*
Wroughton Factory for Small Petrol Engines (R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd.), 10* Works Management, Management Problems
Due to “ Simplification,” 213, 215, 222
— Ministry of. Experiments on Prestressed Concrete, 20 ; Lee-McCall System of Prestressed Concrete, 438*; Report of Working Party on Building Operations, 539 ; Codes of Practice. See Standards
Workshops. See Works; Machine Tools
— Training. See Educaiion
World Power Conference, Fourth, London, Programme, 183
Wray, G. H., on Stress-Corrosion in Radial- Flow Steam Turbines, 141*, 169*, 217 Wrecks. See Accidents
Wrest Park, Silsoe, National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Exhibition at, 601
Wright Lecture on Aspects of Expenditure on Aviation, 629
Wrightson, Sir G., the Late, 46
Wroughton Factory for Small Petrol Engines (R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd.), 10*
Wyre Estuary, Model Investigations on, 415. See LETTER, 508

X-RAY Equipment, 2,000,000-Volt, at Renfrew Works, Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 373*
Examination of Welded High-Pressure Vessels for Chemical Industries, 149
Methods for Metallurgical Equilibrium Diagrams, 498

YACHT Sailing, Developments in 1910-1950, 518*
Yakima Canal Project, Washington, Concrete^ Slab Lining for, 531*
Year Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Yorkshire Copper Works, Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 495

ZARAGOSA University, Fuel Research Organisation at, 519
Zienkiewicz, O. C., Work on Stresses in Dams, 25*
Zinc Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— and Zinc-Rich Alloys, Rolling of, 467
Zircon Powder in Suspension, Light Transmission Through, 406*. See Erratxiw, 542

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