The Engineer 1921 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs
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A ACOUSTICAL Effects in Wireless, Captain J. Robinson, 619 Aerial Navigation, Radio Apparatus, in, 619 Aerial for Wave Lengths below 400 m., Condenser Type, 669 Agricultural Possibilities of French West Africa, Scheme for Utilisation of Niger Floods, 669 Agricultural Tractor Trials. Name of Prize Winner, 485 Air Navigation, Anglo-French Agreement, 485 “ Alcobrons,” Metal Alloy, 97 Alcohol Fuel, Experimental Consignment of “ Natalite ” from South Africa, 543 Alcohol for Power Purposes, Empire Motor .
Fuels Committee Report, 265
Alexandria, Proposed Dredging of Great Pass, I 643 Aliens, Former Enemy, Excluded from Manufacture of Dyestuffs in the United Kingdom, 433 Aluminium and its Alloys, Protection from
Corrosion, Herr L. von Grotthaus, 643
American Air Service Estimates, 207 American Bricklayers’ Increase in Pay and
Decrease in Work, 43
Anglo-Swedish Train Ferry Proposed, 13 Apprenticeship Scheme for Queensland, 400 Aqueduct from Naples to Taranto, 321 Argentina State Oilfields Production, Plans for Intensifying, 97 Argentine Company for Shipbuilding for Trade with Europe, 7 0 Asbestos Exports from Quebec, 619 Asbestos Industry in Quebec, 480
Asphalt Macadam, Proper Method of. Laying, 237
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :
Questions for Special Committee. Glassware Origin, &c., 595
INSTITUTE, CONCRETE :
Building Exhibition, Luncheon at Olympia, 428
Land Subsidence, Lawson S. White, 643
Programme in connection with Inter national Building Trades’ Exhibition, 364
INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
Annual Meeting and Programme, 335
Joint Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162
INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :
Lloyd’s Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162
Lubrication of Internal Combustion
Engines, 331
Propellers and Question of Erosion, A. T. Quelch, 485
INSTITUTE OF METALS :
Autumn Return Visit to Birmingham, 417 LONDON LOCAL SECTION : Formation, Papers, 60:40 Brass, O. W. Ellis; Aluminium Alloys, S. L. Archbutt; Refractories, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 237
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT :
Manchester Congress, Preliminary Announcement, 24 Some Advantages of Control as Applied to Traffic on Railways, Arthur Watson, 485 INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS : Informal Meetings at Birmingham, 357 Pneumatic Motor Tires, Design and Manufacture of, Colin Macbeth, 179 Recent Developments in Transmission, Captain S. Bramley-Moore, 97
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
Annual General Meeting, Result of Ballot for Election of Officers, 558
Awards for Papers, 493
Engineering Conference, Series, Renewal, 530 “ James Forrest ” Lecture, Date Fixed, 530 Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458
Students’ Dinner, 493 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
Design of a Large Power Station, Some Notes on, Discussion, 191 Election of New Officers and Members of Council, 632 Heating of Buried Cables, Investigation and Report, 43
Informal Meeting, 191
Proposed Examination for Associate Membership, 83
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS (continued) :
Redecorating and Re-opening of Building, 433 Removal of the Institution to Own Building, 549
Summer Meeting in Scotland, 232, 338
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :
Present Position of the Marine Diesel
Engine, James Richardson, 237
INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS :
Postponement of Annual Meeting, 527
INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
Annual Dinner, 605
INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS (LONDON) :
•Election of Officers, 252
INSTITUTION . OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS : Annual General Meeting and Conference, Programme, 552
Programme for Dorking Meeting, 372 INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
Annual Meeting and Dinner, 135, 215 ; Programme, 215
Awards for Papers, 71
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) : INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGI¬NEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS : Invitation from Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders In Scotland to hold Summer Meeting in Glasgow, 249 Scholarship Offered to Graduates, 293 INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS : Officers Elected for Session 1921-1922, 361 INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGI¬NEERS : Changes Among Officials, 265 Magnetic Storms : Effects upon Railway Signal and Telegraph Apparatus, 513 Suggestions for Papers, Premium Offer Renewal, 485 INSTITUTION, ROYAL : Annual Meeting— Election of Officers, 493 General Meetings, Elections, 277, 389, 513, 632 Presents to the Institution, Acknowledge¬ment, 632 Programme of Lectures, 277, 357, 361, 584 INSTITUTION OF WATER ENGINEERS : Summer General Meeting at Hull, Pro¬gramme, 552 SOCIETY, AMERICAN, FOR TESTING MAT¬ERIALS : Annual Meeting and Programme, 581 Softening Point of Fire-clay Brick, 123 SOCIETY, ASSOCIATED, OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGI¬NEERS : Removal of Head Offices to London, 651 SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY : Oils Used in Transformers, Mr. Archbutt on, 321 Rudge-Whitworth, Limited, 321 SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS (CRYSTAL PALACE ENGINEERING SOCIETY) : Wilson Premium Award, C. W. Carter, 440 List of Papers Read during Session, 440 SOCIETY, FARADAY : General Discussion on Physico-Chemical Problems relating to the Soil, 454, 552 Joint Meeting and Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162—see also Miscellaneous Index SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL ENGINEERING : Annual Dinner, 132 SOCIETY, PHYSICAL : Frequency Measurement, Heterodyne Method, Messrs. B. S. Smith and Partridge, 459 SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL : Council for 1921, 413 Pilcher Memorial Prize for Students, 581 SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS : Mineral Resources of China, Prize Offered, 135 Oil-burning Methods and Results in Metallurgical Industries, A. F. Baillie 151 Prize in Memory of Mr. Peter Le Neve Foster, 135 AUSTRIAN Imports and Exports, 349 Automatic Coupling for Railway Vehicles—see Railways A.utomobile Association Fuel Supply Stations, 349 Automobile Association Installation of Tele¬phone Sentry Boxes for Night Use, 265 Automobile Standardisation, 642 Aviation in Central Queensland, Linking up of Distant Centres, 569
B BALL Bearings for Heavy Horse-drawn Vehicles, Tests by Swedish Artillery, 595 Bamboo for Papermaking, 274, 321 Belfast, Annual Staff Dinner of Messrs. Musgrave and Co., 305 Belfast, Proposed Grain Silo for, 151 Belgian Eight-hour Day and Forty-eight-hour Week, 543 Belt Speed and Power Calculator, J. Tullis and
Son, Limited, 109
Belt Stretcher, C. M. Conder, 655 Belts, Leather, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605 Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211 Bicycles from Germany Much Cheaper than English-made, 265 Bilbao Company Exchanges Construction of Ships for Marine Motors and Railway Material, 43 Blast-furnaces—see Iron Bolivian Demand for Grinding and Crushing Machinery, 619 Bombay and Ahmedabad Telephone Service, 485 Bombay Reclamation Works, 405 Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286 Borax, Largest Known Deposit Discovered in Nevada, 619 Bricks, Sand Lime, Manufacture, in Federated
Malay States, 293
Brisbane Sewerage System, 405 Bristol University Automobile Laboratory, 151 British Columbia, Land Clearing and Projected
Stump-using Industry, 377
British Columbia, Mineral Production, 179 British Engineering Standards Association, Specification for Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211 British Engineers’ Association, Annual Meeting, 552 British Honduras, Development of, Irrigation for Rice Growing, Needs of the Colony, 237 British and South American Merchandise and Produce Exhibition, 97 B.T.H. Willesden Works Forinen’s Dinner, 58 c CADMIUM Electro-plating, 669 Calcite Spar, Deposit of, near Yokecliffe Lead Mines, 433.
Canada’s Metal and Mineral Production, 179, 377
Canadian Deep Waterways Association, Speeding-up of Public Works Construction Urgently Demanded, 71
Canal between Bruges and Roulers, 207
Canals in India, Proposed Electrical Connection, 293
Canals, Moss and Plant Growth, Methods for Destruction of, 151
Carbon Monoxide Detection Instrument, 433
Carbonisation of Coal—see Coal
Cardiff Technical College, Class for Rolling Stock Construction, 88
Catalogues for Amsterdam, 249
Catalogues for Czernowitz, Roumania, 361
Catalogues for Jerusalem, 385
Catalogues for Madagascar, 650
Catskill Aqueduct, Steel Pipe Lining Protection, 513
Census of Production Abandoned, 433
Charring Useless as a Wood Preservative, 349
Chemical Industry in Germany, 207
Chimney Down Draught Trouble, 265
China, Good Roads Movement, 321
China, Important Road-building Scheme Projected, 643
China as a Market for Agricultural Implements, 513
China, Various Schemes for Important Public Works in, 643
Chinese and American Engineers’ Association Organised in Peking, 43
Chinese Glass Works, 207
Circulating Water, Cooling in Canals, 71
Clip, New Type, for Rubber Hose with Metal Fittings, Brown Brothers, Limited, 83
Clock, Automatic and Controlling, 405
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES:
Anthracite Coalfield of British Columbia, 669
Atritor Coal Dryer and Pulveriser, 676 Briquetting of Lignite Coal, Successful Plant in Saskatchewan, 377
Briquetting Plants in German Works, 569
British Columbia to Abolish Naked Lights in Coal Mines, 459
Canada, Coal Resources of, 459
Canadian Steamers Exchanging Oil for Coal Fuel Equipment, 43 Carbon Dioxide in Coal, Determination of, 215 Carbonisation of Coal, Low Temperature, Advantages of Smokeless Fuel, Major Armstrong’s Lecture, 43 Coal, Coke and Patent Fuel Export, Withdrawal of Restrictions, 43 Coal Transmission by Water Pressure, American Project, 13 Coaling Plant for Delagoa Bay, Tests, 485
Coke as a Boiler Fuel, 361 Coke for Metallurgical Purposes, 13 Denton, Valuable Coal Seam Discovery at, 97
Dutch Coal Districts and Waterways, Projected Schemes, 293 Electrical Coal-cutting Machines Unsafe at Present in New South Wales Colliery, 377 Export of British Coal, and Prices, 43 Froth Flotation Process for Coal Purification, 179 Japan, Average Coal Output, 237 Japan Exports Coal to New Zealand, 23 Kentish Coal, Calorific Value Compared with Yorkshire, 151 Kwantung’s Coal Resources, Development by British Syndicate, 377
Liquid Air for Coal Blasting, 265
Natal Coals, Average Heating Value, 459 Newfoundland Coal Area Development, 123 Rhenish Brown Coal as Fuel in Gas Producers, 179 Richards Bay, North of Durban, as Coaling Port, 237 South Africa, Coal Mining Output in, 13 South Wales Coal, Best Seams Worked Out, 97 Storage Battery Locomotives in American Coal Mines, 207 Tippler, Coal, for Delagoa Bay, Satisfactory Test, 595 Transport of Coal, Suggestions for Reducing Heavy Cost, 543 COAST Erosion on the South-east of Ireland, 409 Colorado River, New Bridge over, 265 Commercial Motor Users’ Association : Annual Luncheon, Roads and Road Users, Sir Eric Geddes, 385
Annual Parade of Motor Vehicles, 377 London Commercial Motor Parade, 338
Compressed Air “ Pistols ” for Various Uses, 123 Concrete Arch Bridges, 237 Concrete Arch, Longest in Canada, 513 Concrete Bored by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 595 Concrete Bricks, Sand, Lime and other, H. O.
Weller, 459
Concrete, Fusing Point of, 513 Concrete Mixing, Tests in America, 595 Concrete, Oils and Fats Attack on, 71 Concrete Piles, Hollow, Novel Process of Manufacture, 377 Concrete Pipes for Water under High Pressure, 669 Concrete, Reinforced, Wireless Tower, 660ft.
High, 595
Concrete Saving but Increased Cost of Form- work, 321 Concrete Structures, Joints in, System for
Making Water-tight, 513
Continental Trunk Telephone Cable, 679 Cooling Tower, Largest, in the World, 293 Copper, Free Exportation from Mexico, 207 Corrosion, Internal, of Hot Water Pipes, F. N.
Speller, 513
Corrosion in Steel Works Chimneys, Failure of Attempted Remedy, 595 Corundum Deposits of the Transvaal, 71 Cotton Cultivation in Argentina, 123 Creosoted Wood-stave Pipes, Long Duration of, 237 Creosoting of Wooden Sleepers, New Process
Tried in America, 569
Crinan Canal, 361 Crossley Brothers’ Staff Dinner, 191 Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers Read during Session, 440 ; Wilson Premium Award, 440
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ECONOMIC Position in Engineering Industries, 357
Egypt and the Sudan, Public Works and Finance, 619
Eight-storey Building Moved 40ft., 569
Einstein Theory and the Velocity of Light, 669
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
A.E.G. and Linke-Hoffmann Works, 330
Application of Electrical Machinery to
Increase Mine Production, T. R. Haig, 619 Arc-fused Steel, Unsatisfactory in Result, 13 Arc Welding of Aluminium, F. J. Heyes, 595 Artificial Silk for Cable Requirements, 643 Ash Disposal in German Power Houses, 123 Birmingham and Increased Electrical Supply, The Corporation and the Traders, 207
Boston and Washington Districts, Superpower Station and Expected Increased Demand, 321 British Electrical and Allied Industries’ Research Association, 669 Capetown New Power House, Provision for Great Expansion of Electrical Demand, 321 Chile, Natural Water Power Resources for Generating Electricity for Certain Towns, 273, 321 Coal-cutting Machines and Question of Safety in New South Wales Mine, 377 Cotton Mills Electrification in Blackburn, 179 Defective Contact Lift Fatality, 97 Douro, Proposed Utilisation of Falls of, for Railway Electrification, 377 Earthing in Electrical Practice, Indiscriminate Use of Water Pipes, 151 Electric Power Utilisation in Modern Gasworks, 265. Electric versus Combustion Furnaces for Low Temperatures, F. W. Brooke and G. P. Mills, 123 Electrical Research Association and Insulating Materials, 513 Electricity Commissioners and Lancashire Schemes, 237
Electrostatic Condensers, V. E. Goodwin, 485 Federated Malay States Electricity Board, 643
Flashlight, Hand, New Type of, 123 Fuses, H. W. Kefford, 123 Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43 German Electric Cable Industry’s Bad Trade, 265 Germany’s Reduced Coal Supply and Increased Demand for Electric Power, 265 Gosport and Delayed Power Supply, 543 Greenwich Power Station Boilers Equipped for Oil-burning in View of Coal Shortage, 669 Grimsby Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13 Hereford’s Proposed Extension of Area of Electricity Supply, 376 High-current Tests and High-tension Switchgear, Philip Torchio, 485 High Power Factor on Consumers’ Circuits, Proposed Tariff, 569 Houses, All-electric, for Power Station Employees, near Stockton-on-Tees, 97
Inductance Coils, American Research, 211 Ipswich Savings by Substitution of Electric Vehicles for Horses and Carts, 369
Lamps in Series on Traction Circuits, Device for Quick Discovery of Damage, 405 Leicester’s New 10,000-kilowatt Generator, 513
Liverpool Docks Electrification Progress, 13 Magnetos for the Air Service, Superiority of
British Design, Captain A. B. Burgoyne, 485 Merchant Ships, Electric Auxiliaries for, C, H. Giroux, 293 Mersey Power Station for Supply at Runcorn and at Ellesmere Port, 485 Mice and Electric Bells, 265 Motor for Use in Rooms where Explosive Mixtures may be Present, 179 Neon Lamp, New Type, 321 Netherlands East Indies, Lighting and Power Supply Transformation, 97 Newark Electricity Scheme, Expense Objected to, 595 New Zealand, Ashburton County Electrical Scheme, 349 North Wales and Supply of Electricity, Improvement Scheme, 71 North-West Midlands District Proposals, Time Extension for Objectors, 349 Omnibus, Edison, New Type, 123 Paper-making and Scanty Use of Electrical Power, 405 Phase Sequence Indicating Device, 619 Photometer, Action of Special Device, A. H.
Compton, 71
Power Pressure Increase in Southern California, 543 Preston’s Supply Chiefly Generated by Steam from the Refuse Destructor, 619 Pukow Projected Electric Generating Plant, 669 Punjab, Development of Schemes for Electrical Power, 71 Punjab Hydro-electric Scheme for Canal Use, 293 Railway Station Lighting, New System Introduced on the London and South- Western Railway, 569
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
Rodditch Electric Supply and Coal Shortage, 669
Repelling Arc Furnace, Von Schlegel, 13
Resistance, Electrical, of the Human Body, Measurements, 123 Rivet Heater, Electric, New Type, 459 Salford Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13 San Joaquin River, California, Increased Power from, 293 Separators in Secondary Batteries, Improved Type Invented, T. A. Willard, 349 Ships, Electric Drive for, H. K. Barrows, 237 Simla Roads, Experiment with Electric Vehicles, 263 Smelting Works, Electric, for South Africa, 293 Spain, Distribution of Energy, National System Proposed, 459 Static Electricity Trouble in Textile Factory, 123 Steam-electric Plant, 125,000,000-kilowatt in Victoria, 265 Storage Batteries, Creeping of Electrolyte, 433 Story of the Induction Motor, G. B. Lamme, 349
Supply Development Schemes, Increase, 123 Swiss Electrical Industry Prosperity, 123 Sydney, N.S.W., Controversy over New ~ Turbo-alternator, 265
Temperature of Rotors belonging to Alternators, Instrument for Measuring, 265 Thermostat, New Type, for Control of Electric Ovens and Heating Appliances, 293 Thermostatic Control in connection with Electric Heating, G. Wilkinson, 433 Thomson-Houston and General Electric Companies Combination in Spain, 151 Tientsin and Pekin Electrical Company Proposed, 643 Tokyo, Reported Amalgamation of Electric Power Works, 377 Turbo - generator, 10,000 - Kilowatt, for Uruguay, Varying Tenders for, 485 United States Increased Production of Electric Lamps, 377 Wallasey Power Station Breakdowns, Recommendations, 459 West Bromwich Electrical Plant Extensions, 179 West Riding Electricity District Meeting, 459 Worcester Joint Electricity District Formed, 43 Worksop, Proposed Extension of Supply, 543 Wye, and Electrical Energy, Application to. Commissioners, 543 Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnace, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13 ELECTRO-PLATING, Cadmium, 669 Engine, Gas, Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605 Ex-British Westinghouse Association, Annual
Reunion, 361
Exhausts from Two-cycle and Four-cycle Engines, Temperature of, 643 EXHIBITIONS : Agricultural Machinery Exhibition at Brussels, 151 Agricultural Machinery Exhibition and Motor Tractor Trials in Spain, 86
Annual Agricultural Exhibition at Tours, 433 Basle, Fifth Swiss Trade Exhibition at, 349 Basle International Automobile Exhibition, 151
Efficiency Exhibition, Work of ex-Service Men, 179 Industrial and Agricultural Fair in Lemberg, 669 International Architecture Exhibition at
Ghent, 43
International Building Trades’ Exhibition at Olympia, 364 International Centenary Exhibition at Lima, 569 Milan Sample Fair, 274 National Industrial Fair at Gothenburg, 643
Netherlands East Indies Fair in Java, 83 Orient Fair in Czecho-Slovakia, 440
Rangoon, Permanent Exhibitions to be Opened, 293 EXPLOSION of Large Cast Iron Drying Cylinder, 179 Ex-Service Men, Disabled, Training of, 179 Eye Magnet, Giant, for Metal Removal from Injured Eyes, 123
Fuel Consumption Trials at Le Mans, 619 Fuel Economy of Motor Cars, Tests, 71 Fuel Economy Trial, Motor Car, 274 Fuel for Motor Ship Free of Charge, 377 Fuel Oil, Fall in Price, 513 Furnace Collapse, Remarkable, on s.s. Baltriger, 619 G GAS for Domestic Use, Dangerous Percentage of Carbon Monoxide, 207 Gas Engine Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605 Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43 Gas Fittings Manufacture, Comparatively Prosperous Condition of, 543 Gas Undertakings, Coal and Gas Statistics, 433 Genoa, Port Extension on Large Scale Projected, 643 Geological Survey of Western Australia, Publications to Aid Miners, 513 German Boiler Explosions Increase, 97 German Cement for South Africa at Lower
PricesthanBritish, Belgian and Pretorian, 237
German Competition in Hoisting Tackle Manufacture, 595 Germans and the British Magneto Trade, Unfair Competition, 97 Glass, Effect on, of Radium, X-rays, &c., J. R.
Clarke, 595
Glass Factory on Island of Madeira, 485 Gold Belt, Rich, Discovery in Nigeria, 643 Gold and Other Metals Output of Ontario, 13 Gramophones, Small Motors for Driving, 459 Greenwich Observatory, Repair of Instruments and Installation of New, 663 H HANDLING Small Locomotives, Booklet by
Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., 389
Harbour Improvement at Belize, 543 Havre-Paris Pipe Line Progress, 123 Highest Monolithic Structure Yet Built, 595 Hong Kong University, 191 Hot Water Centres during Fuel Shortage in
Birmingham, 569
Hydro-electric Plant Nearing Completion in Ontario, 513 Hydro-electric Possibilities of Queensland, 178 Hydro-electrical Development in Java, 13 Hydro-electrical Development in New Zealand,
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I ICE-CLEARING from Water Power Plants and Effect of Use of Explosives, 349 Iceland, Proposals for Railway and Electric Development, 97 Imports into Sweden from Germany, 459 Indian Construction Company Floated at Bombay, 123 Industrial Administration, Institute of, First Annual Dinner, 277 Industrial Welfare Society Conference, 207 Insulation of Sound, Tests of Variously Built Walls, Professor F. R. Watson, 491 Ipswich and Dust Collection, 151 IRON AND STEEL : Amalgamation of Steel Companies in France? 405 Arc-fused Steel, Unfavourable Result of Examination by American Bureau of Standards, 13
Austrian Duties on Iron and Steel, 595
Blast-furnace, New, Erected at Huangshi- kang, China, 43 Blast-furnaces in Lorraine, Diminished Number Working, 293 Bombay Manufacture of High Quality Steels, 669 Brazilian Government and Electrical Supply
* for Iron and Steel Making, 669
British Columbia, Government Agreement with Steel Company, 405 British Columbia, Projected Large Steel Works, 377 Burma, Iron Ore Find, 207 Chilean Concession to German Firm for Iron and Steel Industry, 207
Combination of Large Companies in Japan, 43 Deoxidisers in Steel Making, G. F. Comstock, 643
Eastern Finland, Discovery of Iron Pyrites Deposit, 513 Electric Furnace for Iron Castings, 669 Ferro-chrome Alloy, Cheap and Rustless, by Electrical Production, 71 International Nickel Company’s 12,000,000- Dollar Plant, 97 Iron Foundry in Chungking, China, Projected, 433 Italian Inquiry into Iron and Steel Industry, 265 Krupp Works Rustless Steel, 237 Magnetic Iron Ore Discovery on the Russo- Ukrainian Border, 459 Magnetic Method of Finding Bubbles and Cracks in Steel, 377 Metallography of Low-carbon Steel, James Mitchell, 349 National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Annual Meeting and Appointments, 344 Output of Iron and Steel in the United Kingdom, Great Drop, 669
“ Rustless ” Steel Again, 71, 97
- Steel Analysis, Strength of Solutions Used in Electrolytic Method of Determining, 485 Steel Demand and Use of Old Material, 669 Steel Ingot Production in the United States, Reduced Output, 595 Steel for Valves of Oil Engines, 179 Steel Works in America Compared with British, R. P. Smith, 543 Steel Works at Port Kemble, JSTew South Wales, 669 Swedish Ironworks’ Association Report, 151
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JAMES Keith and Blackman Company, Limited, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361
Japan, Telephone Service Extension and Improvement, 260
Japanese Government to Develop Coal Mining and Other Industries, 293
Japanese High-power Wireless Station near Peking, 467
Japanese Patent Laws, Revision of, 513
Java, Deepening of Sourabaya Harbour, 377
K
KEITH, James, and Blackman Company, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361
Kelvin Medal, 1920, 135
Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458
Kenya Colony, East Africa, Projected Sugar Plantation, 237
King George’s Dock,-Calcutta, Work Begun, 151
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LABOUR Ministry Appointment, 13
Laichikok, Hong Kong, Coaling Wharf and Oil- bunkering Appliances, 377
Lamps, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Lamps, Large Incandescent, in the United States, 123
Lamps for Use on Board Ship, W. J. Jones, 543
Lead Caulking Recovered by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 619
Leather Belts, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605
Lifting Magnets for Handling Metal Sheets, Major F. A. Hooper, 207
Light Measurement by Portable Meter, 97
Lightning Arresters, Information Sought as to Defective Operation, 543
Lightning Arresters, Investigation, 97
Liquid Air in Vacuum Flasks, Losses, &c., Professor H. Briggs, 433
Lloyd’s Register in Holland, 413
Lloyd’s Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162
Lock, Patent, to Eclipse the “ Yale,” 459
Locomotives, Small, Booklet on Handling, Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., Limited, 389
Locust Destruction by Liquid Fire, 527
Lubricating Oil in Constant Service when Continuously Purified, 377
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MACHINE Tool Trades’ Association, Annual Meeting and Dinner, 55
Machine Tools in Australia, Large British Plant Suggested, 97
Magnesite Production in the United States, 543
Magnetos for Internal Combustion Engines,
A. P. Young, 179
Manchuria, Establishment of Proper Communications Advised, 513 Manchuria, Harbour Construction on South Coast of, 513 Manufacturing Processes, Dangerous, List Extended by Home Secretary, 43 Metal and Mineral Output of South Australia, Increased Value of, 433 Metals, Failure of, under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Joint Discussion, 162—see also Associations Metals in Germany, Fall in Prices, 109 Metric System Obligatory in Japan, 459 Mica Deposits of Lomagundi, South Africa, 71 Microscale, Swedish Instrument for Minute Weighing, 265 Microscope, A Works, 471 Mine Managers and Surveyors, Postponement of Examinations for Certificates, 543 Mine Warnings by Evil-smelling Substance, 293 Mineral Output of New South Wales, Increased
Value of, 321
Mineral Resources of Tsinanfu, Shantung, 643 Miners’ Lamps, Safety, &c., Committee Reappointed, 123 Miners’ Phthisis in Gold Mines, C. J. Gray, 459 Mining Record in South Africa, 619 Mint at Shanghai will be Largest in the World, 377 Molybdenum—see Iron and Steel Montevideo Harbour Extension, 43 Montreal Harbour, New Storage Warehouse, 459 Motor Car Engine, Waste Heat for Warming
Body of the Car, 71
Motor Car Fuel Economy Trial, 274 Motor Car Hill-climbing Trials at Monaco, 349 Motor Car Imports into British India, United States Proportion nearly Three Times that of Great Britain, 43 Motor Car Racing, Disadvantage of Six and Eight-cylinder Engines, 513 Motor Car 1000-Miles Trial, Twenty-first Anniversary, 305 Motor Car Routes from the Congo to the Nile and to Lake Albert, 265 Motor Car which Won the Corsican Grand Prix, 513 Motor Fuels and Denaturation, Sir C. Bedford, 643 Motor Vehicles, Commercial, Parade of, 162 Motor Vehicles and Population in the United States, 619 Mysore, High-level Canal from River Cauvery Projected, 433
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NAILS, Bolts and Nuts Manufacture, Report on Trade Combinations, 543
“Natalite,” Experimental Consignment from South Africa, 543
Natural Gas in Mexico, Great Waste of, 207
Natural Gas and Petroleum Association of
Canada, 216
New South Wales Manufactures, Statistics, 643 Niagara Falls, Power Increase Without Detriment to View, 71 Norway, Industrial and Economic Situation, Report on, 377 o OCEAN Exploration, Proposed Expedition for, 459 Oil Bore-hole for South Africa, 293 Oil Deposits, Enormous Unexplored, in Various Regions of Southern Mexico, 669 Oil Development in Alberta, Rush for Oil Leases, 71 Oil Development in Canada, Petroleum Find, Aeroplane Communication, 123 Oil Engines, Drott Surface Ignition, Tests by Belgian Colonial Army, 569 Oilfields of Northern Canada, 293 Oil Finds on the Mackenzie River, Proposed Investigation by Canadian Government, 71 Oil Fuel Storage Installations in the Argentine, 669 Oil Prospecting by Aeroplane in the Orinoco Wilderness, 619 Oil for Steam Turbines, Necessity for Keeping in Good Condition, C. H. Bromley, 543 Oil Storage Tanks, Large, Being Built at Durban, 179 Oil Wells at Baku, Soviet Concession to British Company, 569 Oils for Lubrication, Continuous Duration if Continuously Purified, 377 Old Centralians, 191 Optophone, Thermionic Amplifier Experiments to Increase Sound Volume, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 405 Omnibus, Six-wheeled, Paris Experiment, 485 Ontario Loan for Hydro-electric Power Commission, 669 Ovens for Coke-making, in 1841, 123 Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe for Boring Concrete, 595 Oxygen Manufacture for Engineering Use, Study of, at Harvard, 43 p PACKING Case, Thief-proof, 543 Paris Passenger Traffic, Congestion Increase, Proposed Underground Moving Pavement, 265 Patent Office Assistant Examiners, Competitive Examination, 445, 549 Patent Office Inefficiency in America, 43 Pearl, Instrument to Detect Difference between
Japanese Culture and Real Pearl, 662
“ Penrol,” New Motor Car Fuel, 433 Peru, Nationalisation of Water Power, 321, 669 Petrol Consumption in Australia, 405 Petroleum Bore-hole in Boshof District, South Africa, 485, 595 Petroleum Boring in Leicestershire, Licence Granted, 71 Philippines Postal and Passenger Aeroplane Service, 377 Phosphorus Deposits on Uninhabited Island, 265 Photometers, Illumination, Increased Use of, 377 Platinum Production in British Columbia, 433 Platinum, Prospecting for, in View of High Prices, 619 Platinum, World’s Production of, 293 Plug, Bougiver Type, with Glass Insulator, 237 Polish Wireless Station, Very Large, to be Constructed by American Company, 265 Portland Cement Manufacture in Brazil, Proposed, 71, 151 Post Office Purchase of Trans-Atlantic Cable, 321 Power Plant near Melbourne and Fuel By-
Products Recovery, 513
Presentations for Long Service, 629 Producer Gas, Bad Effect on Electric Machinery Windings, 179 Pulp and Paper Mill, 6,000,000-DoIlar, Projected for Prince George, B.C., 97 Pulpwood in Manitoba, Land for Sale on Conditions, 377
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Accidents (continued):
Cambrian Railway Disaster at Abermule, 237, 265, 651
Christmas and Accidents Record, 13
Coupling Failures and Accidents, Change in Regulations as to Reporting, 569 Fatal Accident, Rare Type of, on the North British Railway, 377 ; Report, 669
Fatal Accident Statistics, 71 Fatal Collision with Empty Coaches, 321
Fatal Passenger Train Accidents in this Country, Only Two in Nine Months, 377 Liverpool Overhead Railway Collision, Report, 511 London and South-Western Collision during Fog, near Vauxhall, 151 ; Report, 405
London and South-Western Collision near
Vauxhall, Report, 123
Lostock Junction Collision, Death of Another Passenger, 237 Paris-Orleans Railway Fatal Accidents, 543 Reports on Three Months’ Accidents, 207, 293
Whitehouse Junction, Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway, Collision, Report, 66
Acworth, Mr. W. M., Knighted, 97
Amalgamation of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway with the London and North- Western, Terms, 405 ; Previous Rejection of Similar Bill, 405 American Steam Locomotive Increased Export, 207 Apple Growing on Railway Embankments, Unfavourable Comment on Proposal, 513 Appointments and Staff Changes, 13, 43, 71, 97, 177, 179, 595, 643, 669 Argentine and Brazil as Markets for American Railway Material, 431 Armistice Railway Car to be Permanently Preserved in Paris, 485 Ashford Schools of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 245 Automatic Signalling, English and American Claims to Invention, 237 Automatic Signalling on Mersey Railway Line, 319 Average Wagon Load, Highest on Record, 321 Baghdad Railway Ownership, 13 Belfast and County Down Railway, Capital Expenditure, 265 Bideford, Westward Ho ! and Appledore Railway, Rolling Stock to be Sold, 405 Bolivian Railway between Potosi and Sucre, 576 Bologna and Florence, Electrification of Line, 513 Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Survey for New Line, 595
Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286 Bridge Across the Yellow River, Plans, 71 Bridge, New, Over the Avon, Chippenham, 506
Bridges Over Railways and Omnibus Traffic, 669 British Railways and the Great War, Private Wagons Service, E. A. Pratt, 543 Brixton and Ludgate Hill Train Service Withdrawn, 321 Caledonian Railway, Eight-hour Day, Increase in Men and in Cost of Fuel, 293 Caledonian Railway Goods Brake Vans, Clayton Wagons, Limited, 151 Caine Branch Railway Bridge, New, near Chippenham, 506 Cambrian Railway Meeting and the Abermule Accident, 237 Cambrian Railway Takes Over Tanat Valley Light Railway, 377 Canadian Railways, Ownership and Finance, 542
Channel Tunnel Decision Delayed, 669 Channel Tunnel or Train Ferries, 321
Cheap Tickets Issue Question to be Left to the Railway Companies, 433 Chilian and Argentine New Railway Construction, 123 Chinese Railway Single-line Working and Token Instruments, 321 Claims for Lost or Damaged Goods, Reduced Number of, at Paddington, 433 Coal Strikes and Railway Loss, 377 Colwyn Committee :
Further Information Asked for, 43
Report, 13
Sir A. K. Butterworth’s Evidence, 71
Commercial Travellers’ Week-end Tickets, Suggested Revival, 349 Competitive Goods Traffic Allocation Ceases, 265 Concession to Season Ticket Holders during Restricted Train Service, 459 “Container” System and Pilfering from American Railways, 207 Cost of Material for Railways and Shipping, Enormous Rates Driving Huge Orders Abroad, 321
Crewe Men, Past and Present, 417, 471
I Danish State Railways, New Steamer for Ferry, 123 Death of Engineman, and Workmen’s Compensation Act, 485
Death of Mr. E. A. Bowden, 405 Death of Mr. George Estall, 638 Death of Mr. G. P. Neele, 13 Death of Lord Terrington, 151
Denbighshire Transport Schemes and State Finance Question, 619 District and Associated Railways, Self supporting Basis Restored, 265 Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, and Coast Erosion, 409 Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, Escape from III Consequences of “ Munitions ” Strike, 293 Ealing and Shepherd’s Bush Extension, Poor Results, 293
East London Railway’s Hard Caso, 179
Eastern Group of Railways, Suggested Further Inclusion, 207, 237 Electric Lighting of Railway Stations, New Method on the London and South-Western Railway, 569
Electric Railway Training Film, 97 Electrical Starting Signal, 237
Electric Traction on Railways, Lecture on its Advantages, Sir V. Raven, 179 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): Electrification of United Kingdom Railways, Delays Solely due to Finance, 522 Empty Rolling Stock, Waste irr Cost of Haulage, 513 English Railway Stockholders’ Protection Association, 179 Exceptional Rates and the Iron and Steel Trade, 669 Finland, Proposed New Railway in Ceded Territory, 207 First-class Compartments on the District Railway, Not to be Abolished, 13 Folkestone and Boulogne, Day Service Restored, 123 Freight Statistics, Four Weeks, and the Miners’ Strike, 123 Furness Railway’s Increased Passenger Traffic, 412 Furness Railway’s New Locomotives, 71 Funless Railway Scholarship, Conditions, 513 Furness Railway, Sunday Closing of some Stations, 122 Gauge, Break of, Device, Trial in Australia, 71 Gauge Conversion, Cost in Australia, 349 Gauge Disadvantages in Australia, 123 Gauge Question in South America, Difficulties Caused by Diversity, 43 German Locomotive Tenders for the Com- pania del Norte, 207 Glasgow and South-Western Railway Report, 237 Glasgow Subway Railway’s Heavy Loss on Working, 349 Glasgow Underground Electrification Declined on Account of Cost, 293 Goods Tonnage and Ton-miles in January, Reduction, 485 Goods Traffic by Road, Railway Companies’ Service, 179 Government Control, Date of Termination, 207 Great Eastern Engines Converted for Oil Firing, 569 Great Eastern Railway, Harwich-Antwerp New Steamer Malines, 71 Great Eastern Railway and the Railways Bill, 577 Great Eastern Railway, Steamers and Crane Cost, 179 Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Expected Large Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 207 Great Western Goods Train Working, Saving, 293 Great Western Point and Signal Levers, 123 Great Western Railway, Excursions and Fares Reduction, 433 Great Western Railway, Staff Training Scheme, 179 Grouping of Railways, Pros and Cons, 43, 207, 237, 265 Heavy Electric Traction, Co-operation with American Railway Engineering Association, 433 Holyhead, Work at, Parliamentary Sanction Required, 643 Hungary and State Railways, Electrification, 643 Indian Government Loan at 7 per cent., 459 Indian Railway Development and the Finance Question, 97 Indian Railways, Automatic Continuous Vacuum Brake Recommended on, 485 Ingot Mould Weighing over 87 Tons Carried by Rail, 543 Institutes and Institutions, Railway—see Associations, &c. Interlocking on Single-line Railways, 669 Irish Collieries’ War-time Railways, Successful Traffic, 293 Irish Railwaymen and “ Direct Action,” 13 Iron and Steel Trade and Exceptional Carriage Rates, 669 Italy’s Projected Electrification of 5000 Miles of Railways, 555 Japanese Government Railways, Electrification, 648 Japanese Imperial Government Railways, Gauge Question, 459 Krupps’ Successful Tender for Steel Wheels for Argentine Railways, 349 Lancashire and Yorkshire First-class Season Ticket Holders, 377 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Increase of Capital Expenditure, 459 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Sir E.
Stockton and Hereditary Service, 179
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company Ceases as a Carrier, Wages, Hours and the Trade Union, 433 Level Crossing for Two Vehicles a Week at a Weekly Cost of over £12, 293 Liverpool Committee on Question of Additional Passenger Facilities, 293 Locomotives and Wagons, New. and under Repair, 237 London and North-Western Engine Coaling Plant at Crewe, 377 London and North-Western Railway Chairmanship, 595 London and North-Western Work at Holyhead, Parliamentary Approval Necessary, 643 London and South-Western Electrical Services Traffic Statistics, 43 London and South-Western New Signalling Invention, 123 London Traffic Authority Bill Abandoned, 321 Lung-hai Railway Construction, Maritime Terminus and New Port Projected, 595 Melbourne Suburban Railways, Success of Partial Electrification, 595 Mersey Railway, Automatic Signalling on Line from Liverpool to Birkenhead, 319 Mersey Railway Company Fares Advance, 569 Metropolitan Railway Company’s New Well, 264 Midland Railway Express Trains Punctuality, 301 • Midland Railway, Increased Output of New and Repaired Rolling Stock, 265 Ministry of Transport’s Committee on Railway Companies’ Goods Traffic Road Service, 179 Ministry of Transport’s Figures as to Passenger Traffic, €69 National Union of Railwaymen. Decline in Membership, 543 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): New South Wales Railway Car Mileage, Suggested Increase to Effect Large Savings, 465 New South Wales Railways, Suggestions for Improvements and Economies Adopted, 349 North British Railway and Burntisland Harbour, 643 North British Railway Ferry Charges, 459 North British and Other Companies and the Ministry of Transport, Disputed Claims, 237, 293, 543, 595 North-Eastern Railway, Economies in View of Increased Cost, 293 North-Eastern Railway, Meeting to Consider Railways Bill, 543 North-Eastern Railway and Railway Grouping Scheme, 43, 207, 237 North-Eastern Wages Bill, Increase of 225 per Cent., 265 North Staffordshire Engines Fitted for Oil Fuel, 619 North Staffordshire Railway Bill, 542 North Staffordshire Railway’s Proposed
Capital Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 293 Norwegian Government Concession for Electric Railway, 179
Oil Fuel on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 669 Passenger Fares and the Coal Strike, 538 Passenger Traffic Reduction Statistics, 669 Pekin and Hankow Railway, New Bridge, 71 Pekin-Hankow and Pekin—Pukow Railways’
Connection, 643
Pekin New Railway Station, 543 Policy Proposed in White Paper, Men’s Joint Committee on, 97 Port Talbot Railways and Docks Company, Railway Business and Property Taken Over by Great Western, 433 Presentation to Mr. J. Rayner-Smith, 43 Pre-war Facilities, but at Post-war Prices, 619 Prince of Wales’ Train Derailment in Australia Due to Heavy Train, 349 Queensland Government Railways, Change in Administration, 513 Quick Method of Tickets Issue, 485 Quito, Ecuador, National Tramway Company Plans, 643 Rail Locomotive Parts from the United States, 349 Rails from Belgium £12 per Ton Against £23 at Home, 321 Rails, Steel, for the South Manchurian Railway, 459 Railway Benevolent Institution Funds, 151. 321 Railway Commissioners, New Appointment, 71 Railway Companies’ Claims and the Government, 543 Railway Companies and Trades Unions, New Agreement, 543 ; Further Discussion, 569 Railway Difficulties and Railwaymen’s Hours and Pay, 619 Railway Equipment Increasing Cost, 459 Railway Material Exports, Statistics, 182, 265, 377, 485, 619 Railway Operating Statistics, 123, 151, 179, 292, 330, 459, 485 Railway Returns for 1919. First Since the War, 237, 568 Railway Servants’ Pay, Sliding Scale, 97, 123, 377 Railway Staff and Unemployment, Question of Guaranteed Week, 97 Railway Stockholders’ Association and Sir Eric Geddes, 237 Railway Stockholders Outnumber Railway Employees, 433 Railway Track Ctfst and Motor Vehicle Immunity, 293 Railway and Tramway Traffic. Morning and
Evening Hours’ Demands, 569
Railways Bill, Analysis of Voting, 595’ Railways Bill, Directors’ Views and Communication with Proprietors, 569 Railways Bill Introduction, 459, 543, 643 Railways Bill Postponement and End of Control, 433 Rates Advisory Committee, Fares, &c., 237 Rates Advisory Committee and Goods Classification, 43, 97, 237, 377 Rates Advisory Committee, Postponement of Public Meeting on Account of Present Crisis, 433, 569 Receipts and Expenditure for November, 1920, 71 Receipts and Expenditure for December, 1920, 349 Receipts and Expenditure for March, 1921, 512 Receipts and Expenditure for April, 643 Receipts and Expenditure for Twelve Months, 349 Reports of English Railway Companies, 179 Restricted Service Due to Coal Strike, 595 Richborough and the South-Eastern and
Chatham Railway, 207
Road Traffic and Loss by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 459 Road Traffic by Railways, 459 Rolling Stock Construction and Repair Statistics, 123, 619 Rolling Stock Expenditure by Two Railways, 459 Rubber Covering of Platforms Suggested to Reduce Noise, 669 Rumanian Railways and Working by French Group, 71 “ Safety First,” Awards to Drivers of Street Vehicles, 265 Scottish Coalowners’ Association and the Railway Question, 13 Scottish Railway Companies and English Amalgamation Tribunal, 569 Scottish Railway Stockholders’ Protection Association, Appeal, 485 Scottish Railway’s Increased Expenditure, 643 Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company Ceases to be a Carrier, 669 Signal-box Control of Railway Points, 651 Single-decker Omnibuses for Road Bridges over Railways, 669 Single-line Working not to be Abandoned, 321 South African Railways and Harbours,
Failure in Courtesy of Staff, 513
South African Railways and Harbours, Finance Analysis, 433 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): South African Railways, Increase in Mileage and Traffic, 433 South African Railways, Useful Disposal of Timber Packing Material, 405 South African Reduction of Railway Rates for Bunker Coal, 459 South African Treatment of Light Railway Rolling Stock, 652 South-Eastern Railway, Holdings of Stock, Analysis, 207 South-Western Railway Delayed Electrification Due to Enormous Cost Increase, 293 Spanish Iron and Steel Syndicate for Supply of Wagons to Spanish Railways, 151 Spanish Railway Electric Installations, Contract for American Firms, 151 Spanish Railway Material Obtained from Germany, 151 Spanish Railway Wagons and Germany’s Successful Tender, 151 Spanish Railway Wagons Ordered from Spanish Firms, 321 Spanish Railways, Ownership Transference, 595 Standardisation of Wages, Anomalies, 349 Standardised Wages in Ireland as well as on British Lines, 293 Steam Rail Motor Cars Reduced to Four on the London and South-Western Railway, 466 Strikes and Wireless Telephony, 207 Suez Canal and Kantara Bridge Question, 513 Sunday Night Trains and Withdrawal of Sunday Postal Service, 643 Sunday Trains, Improved Service between Broad-street and Richmond, 432 Superannuation Allowances of Old Railway Servants, Increased Benefits, 349 Superheating on British Railways and Mr. O. Winder, 377 Swedish Locomotive Manufacturing Firm, Soviet Orders and Extension of Works, 179 Swiss Electrical Locomotives and Motor Coaches, 569 Swiss Railways, Nationalisation Question, 619 Tanat Valley Light Railway Taken Over by Cambrian Company, 377 Telegraph and Telephone Wire Mileage Maintained by Railways for Post Office Use, 265 Telescoping and Composition of Passenger Trains, 265 Three-cylinder Engines for Express Passenger Trains, 569 Tientsin— Pukow Railway Electric Plant, 595 Ton-mileage Figures for March, 669 Traffic Figures, Reduction in Passengers, 669 Traffic Increase between Bakerloo and
London and North-Western Railway, 328 Traffic (Merchandise) Decline during March, 669
Traffic by Railway or Ship, Rates Question, 459 Traffic Statistics, Passengers and Passenger Receipts, 123 Train Alterations and Additions Postponed on Account of Coal Dispute, 643 Train Ferries as Alternative to Channel Tunnel, 321 Train Services, Improvement in, 643 Train Services, Passenger, Reduction, for Saving of Coal, 485 Transport, Passenger Traffic and Electric Power Demand, Arthur Watson on, 485 Triennial Census of Railway Servants, 404 Tunnel under the Thames to Connect Gravesend and Tilbury, Projected, 321 Unballasted Lines in Australia, Excessive Cost of Working, 71 United States Railways : Accident Inquiries, Disastrous Record, 123 Accidents Record, Improvement, 13 Accidents Record, Method of Reporting, 619 . American Railroad Wages Reduction, 643 Average Railway Receipts and Wholesale Prices in United States, 595 Baldwin Company’s Locomotive Output, 151 Boilers, Locomotive, Inspector’s Recommendation, 405 Congressional] Enquiry into Railway Finance, 513 Consolidation of Railways, U.S. Government Scheme, 64
Death of Mr. George S. Rice, 151
Electrification of Railways in America.
Committee’s Conclusions, 595
Electrification of Railways, Committee’s Report, 569 Electrification of Railways and Industries between Boston and Washington, Investigation as to Economy, 97 Employees on the United States Railways, Numbers and Pay, 543 Expansion of Facilities for Traffic Movements, 265 Freight Traffic Greatly Diminished, 43, 207 Fruits and Vegetables and Freight Rates, 595 Labour and Inter-urban Railways, Disputes and Labour Board Decision, 71 Locomotive Export Association of New York City on United States Successful Competition for Orders, 349 New York Central, Terrible Collision near Chicago, 342 New York State and City, Transit Commission Appointed, 513 Pennsylvania, New York Terminus and Ferries Statistics, 71 Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburg Station and Public Thoroughfares, Wall Failure and Results, 151 Pennsylvania Railroad, Seventy-fifth Anniversary, 513 Private Operation of the United States Railways, Nine Months’ Remarkable Increases, 207 Rail Sections, Rolling, Needless Expense, 179 Rails Production in the United States, Details, 595 Railway Track Mileage, Great Decrease, 569 Railwaymen’s Conventions and Depressed Trade, 543 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
United States Railways (continued):
Revenue Decrease, but no Change in Wages, Possible Inquiry, 465, 513 “ Safety First ” Reminder on the Chicago and North-Western Railroad, 513
Salaries of Railway Officers in America, 643
Tickets or Payment in the Train, Company’s Action, 513
Timber Bridge Replaced by Steel, 43
Tramcar Preferred to Rapid Transit Railways, 349
Unjustifiable Complaints from Florida, 595 Victoria and New South Wales Delegation to United States, 669
Victoria and New South Wales, Increase in
I nter-traffic, 123
Victoria Station, District Railway, New Footbridge and Exit, 405 Victorian Government Railways’ New Type of Locomotive, 97 Victorian Government Railways’ Statement as to Increased Fares, 669 Victorian Government Railways’ Statistics, 43 Victorian Railways and Car Loading, 543 Wages and Fares, Railway, Finance on the
Furness Railway, 405
Wagon, Privately Owned, Question of Abolition, 97 Welsh Railways and the Railways Bill Grouping, 619
Whitsuntide and the Coal Dispute, 543 Wireless on the Midland and London and
North-Western Railways for Railway Purposes only, 543
Wireless Telephony and Railway Strikes, 207
RAIN Precipitation by Electro-static Influence, Experiments with Aeroplane, 405 Refrigerating Industry, Volume of Standard Ton in British Thermal Units, 43 Reservoirs near Poona, Land Compensation Question Unsettled, 569 Rest, One Day in Seven, in South African Mines, 97 Rice Straw for Power Alcohol, 643 Road 172 Miles Long Proposed between Canton and Kowloon, 595 Road Wheel, New, 527 Rock Drills, Pneumatic, Mechanical and Thermal Efficiency of, 71 “ Romance of Science,” Professor Sir W. H.
Bragg, 321
Royal Agricultural Society Show, at Darby, 349 Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines, City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Meteorological Lectures, Programme, 24 Rubber Industry in United States as Largest User of Electric Power, 97 Rugby Water—see Water Supply SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued) ?.
Oil Fuel on the ss. Bismarck, 569
Oil Tankers and other Steamers Built at
Hong Kong, 13
Olympic Oil Bunker Capacity Increased, 321
Salvaged Vessel from the. Red Sea, 595
Self-propelled Steel Barges with Electrical Steering Gear, 433 Ship Loading Speed Record in Duluth Harbour, 293
Shipyard at Vancouver Reopened, 151
Somersetshire, Steamship, Launched at Belfast, Complete Electrical Equipment, 293 South Australia and Shipbuilding, Launch of the Eurimbla, 485 Spanish Shipbuilding and Navigation Development, New Law, 485 Steamship Spaniel, Conversion as Cattlecarrying Boat, 454 Stranding of Steamer Blackhill, Bearings Obtained by Wireless during Fog, 97 Tank Steamer Repaired by Use of Outside Caisson, 13 Tug, Quaint Type, for New York State Canal, 569 SHORT-.STROKE Planers, Advantages over Shaping Machines, 543 Silver and Lead in the Yukon, 151 Silver-lead Mine at Cania, Central Queensland, 377 Sir John Cass Technical Institute, 308 Smart Work by a Middlesbrough Company, 569 Smugglers’ Armoured Car and Contents Captured in Flanders, 569 South African Imports and Exports, 43 South African Mining and Engineering Journal, Editor, 207 South African Road Bridges, Large Order to United Kingdom, 595 South Kensington Science Museum, New Catalogues, 405 Spain, Longest Motor Transport Line in the Country Opened, 433 Spanish Bill for Expenditure on Public Works, 543 Spanish Harbour Conditions, 405 Spanish Telephones and Swedish Manufacture, 619 Sparking Plug, New Type, 669 Standard—see also British Standard. Standardisation, Automobile, 642 Standardisation in Belgium, 43 Steam Engine, -Single-cylinder, Largest in Europe, 513 Steam Ferry Traffic between Sweden and Great Britain, 349 Steam Pipe Explosion Causes, 349 Steam Turbines, Pass-out, D. Brownlie, 179 Steel—see Iron and Steel Sulphite Pulp Mill, Finland, to Begin Work, 485 Sulphuric Acid Manufacture in the United States, 123 Sulphuric and Nitric Acid—see also Scientific Research Swansea as the Chief Oil Port of the United Kingdom, 619 Swedish Agricultural Machinery, Reduced Prices, 207 Sydney Harbour Bridge Proposal, Tenders to be Invited, 43 T TANK, Amphibious, Trials, 459 Taxation of Mechanically Propelled Road Vehicles, 179 Telephone Cable, Continental Trunk, 679 Telephone Rate Increase in New York, 349 Telephone Sentry-boxes for Motorists’ Night
Use, 265
Telephones for Cuba, 8000 Ordered, 151 Telephones, Long-distance, Experiments in France, 619 Telephones in Sweden, Pre-eminent Position Claimed for, 71 Thornycroft’s London Staff Dinner, 159 Thunder and Gunfire, Accoustics Comparison,
J. W. Humphreys, 643
Tides Utilisation as Motive Power in Hie et
Vilaine, Experimental Work, 237
Tractor Trials, Successful, on Singapore Rubber
Estate, 485
Tractors at Beersheba, Demonstration, 459 Tractors to Replace Coolie Labour, Suggestion, 485 Tractors in Western Canada, 595 Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Proposed, 13 Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Postponed, 459 Tungsten—see Iron Tunnel, New Vehicular, between New York and Jersey, Ventilation Experiments, 97 Turbine Lubrication and Oil Purifying, 377 Turbo-blower, Unusual Accident, 405 UNEMPLOYMENT on the Continent Daily Increasing, 151 United States Copper Export Association, 179 United States Electric Trucks in Commission, Great Increase in Number, 405 United States Shipping Material, Sale of, 513 University of London, University College, Lectures, 27, 232 ; Lectures by Professor Luigi Luiggi, 194, 232 University of Manchester, Lecture by Professor Einstein, 433 V i VALVES of Internal Combustion Engines, Heat Treatment for, 293 Vancouver, Increase in Cargo Handled at the Port, 265 Vancouver Island, Mineral-bearing Land Survey by Canadian Pacific Railway, 405 Venezuela, Commercial Museum in, 260 w WAGES Reduction in New York Shipyards, 293 Wagon, 12-Ton Standardisation Recommended, 440 Water Diversion from Lake Michigan, Proposed, Anticipated Effect on Level of St. Lawrence River, 569 Water Power Plant, Cost of, in New England, 237 Water Power of the St. Lawrence River, Latest
Development Scheme, 669
WATER SUPPLY : Bombay Water Supply Department Inviting Various Tenders, 595 Chauny (Aisne) Drinking Wa ter and Drainage Plant Competition, 237 Cordoba Water Supply Improvement Scheme, 669
Rand Pumping Scheme Plant, Tenders, 207
Rand Water Supply, Barrage across the Vaal River, 595 Rugby Water and Sewage Scheme for Clifton- on-Dunsmore, 216 Seattle, Additional Water Supply, 377 Specifications of Standard Water Pipes and Fittings, 224 ' Sydney Water Supply Extension, 349 Tampico, Mexico, Water Supply for, 433 WATER Tanks, Elevated, Reinforced Concrete’ Built in Germany, 207 Waygood-Otis, Limited, Patriotic Fund Winding-up,. 389 Welding, Acetylene, Success with a Long Steel Gas Pipe, 543 Well Sunk by Metropolitan Railway at Neasden, 264 West Bromwich goes a’ Borrowing, 619 West Kent Main Sewerage Board, New Plant, 97 Wheel, Road, New Form, Stagg Patent Wheel Company, 527 Wind Power, Improved Method for Utilisation of, 151 Wire Measurement, Difficulties in Obtaining Exact Results, 43 Wireless, Amateur, Installations in America and United Kingdom, 15] Wireless Equipped Motor Car for San Francisco, 485 Wireless Post Suggested on Willis Island, 643 Wireless Station for Belgium, to be Among Most Powerful in the World, 377 Wireless Station, Most Powerful in the World, First Stone Laid at Sainte Assise, 71 Wireless Station Plant at Port Elizabeth, 569 Wireless Station, Proposed, on Bank Premises, 293 Wireless Station at Shanghai, 513 Wireless Station at Tomiska, Japan, 97 Wireless Station at Warsaw, American Company to Erect, 349 Wireless Telegraph Station for Greenland, British and Danish Negotiations, 485 Wireless Telegraph Station on the Willis Islands, Investigation of Possibilities by Australian Government, 265, 321 Wireless Telegraphy in Life-saving at Sea, 349 Wireless Telegraphy for Railway Purposes, Successful Tests, 207 Wireless Telephone for American Motor Cars, 71 Wireless Telephone for Panama Railway Towing Vessels, 293 Wireless Telephony for Commercial Purposes, First Installation in United Kingdom, 377 Wireless, World’s Long-distance Record Broken, 405 Women’s Engineering Society :
Loughborough Branch Started, 109 Second Annual General Meeting, 581
Wood Preservation, Various Methods, 349 Wood Pulp Mill Started in Alaska, 433 Wooden Wedges in the Rand Mines, 642 Woosung, near Shanghai, Industrial District Development, 411 Wuchang as a Port on the Yangtze River, 643 X X-RAY Motor Ambulance Wagon, 595 Y YORKSHIRE Boiler Works, Visit and Lecture, 471 ZANZIBAR Harbour, Extensive Improvement, 207 Zanzibar Harbour Improvement Works, Cost of, 43 Zinc Ammonium Chloride in Galvanising to Replace Sal Ammoniac, 97 Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnce, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13
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