The Engineer 1923 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous
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A ABELL, Sir Westcott S., on Loadlines, Deck Cargoes and Safety of Life Regulations, 174 Abell, Sir Westcott *S., on Mechanical Problems of Safety at Sea, 500 AERONAUTICS :
Aero-engines— see also Engines Aeroplane Design, Roy Chadwick, 504 Air Congress, International, 5, 32
Control of Aeroplanes at Low Speeds, R. McKinnon Wood, 32 Crude Oil Aero-engine, A. E. L. Chorlton, 6 Development of Aero-engine Materials, Leslie Aitchison, 7, 74 Experimental Determination of Aircraft Stability, T. N. Barlow, 33 Longitudinal Stability, Control and Manoeuvrability of Air-planes, Professor E. P. Warner, 33 Nature of Lubricants in Engineering Practice, Dr. T. E. Stanton, 34, 73 Reliability of Model Data, R. McKinnon Wood, 33
Research and Experimental Department of . the R.A.E., Recent Work, Wing Commander Hynes, 6
Static Radial Air-cooled Aero-engines, A.
H. R. Fedden, 6
Technical Development of the Aeroplane, J. D. North, 5 Testing of Aircraft Structures and Components, Wm. D. Douglas, 33 Air Transport, Major-General Sir S. Brancker, 305 Besson Commercial Seaplane, 346 Kite Balloons and Airships in Naval Warfare, Captain P. H. Sumner, 194
Seaplane Hangar at Copenhagen, 176, 180
Zeppelin Passenger Airship. LZ 126, 604, 616 (Two-page Supplement, December 1th, 1923) AGRICULTURAL Appliances and Machinery at the Royal Show, Newcastle, 17, 34 Agricultural Implements in India, 236 Ahrons, E. L., Short Histories of Famous Firms.
194, 231, 548 ; (Letters), 223, 614
Ainslie, A. F., Engagement and Loading of Involute Gearing, 685 Air Compressing Plant, Reavell-Aster, 338, 339 Air Compressor, Portable, Electric-driven, Reavell and Co., Limited, 624 Air Compressors, Power-driven; Air Compressors, “Typhoon” Self-contained Gear- driven, Broom and Wade, Limited, 624 Air Compressors at the Shipping Exhibition, Worthington-Simpson, Limited, 225 Air Heaters versus Economisers, 480
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
(continued) :
Association, British (continued):
SECTION G :
Transport:
Air Transport, Major-General Sir S. Brancker, 305
Future of Sea Transport, A. T. Wall, 305
Railway Transport, Colonel E. O’Brien, 305
Road Transport, A. E. Berriman, 305
Complex Stress Distributions :
Group of Papers, 333
Graphical Determination and Fatigue, Professor L. N. C. Filon, 334 Stresses in Bridges, J. S. Wilson and Professor B. P. Haigh, 333 Stresses in Connecting-rods, W. J. Kearton, 333 Stresses in Pipes, Professor Gilbert Cook, 333 Stresses in Round Bars, Professor W. Mason, 333 Conservation and Control of Water Resources, Joseph Parry, 335 Electric Propulsion of Ships, F. H. Clough, 334 Glare in Industrial Lighting, Dr. G. IT. Miles, 334
Mercury Arc Rectifiers, 370
Squirrel-cage Induction Motor, Dr. T. F. Wall, 370 Teaching of Dynamics, Sir J. Henderson, 370 Wireless Telegraphy and Shipping, Commander J. A. Slee, 335
SECTIONS G AND J :
Joint Discussion, Vocational Tests for Engineering Trades, 304
Visits to Works, 370
Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Aeroplane Design, Roy Chadwick, 504
Institute of Chemistry :
Anniversary Dinner, 650
Institute, Iron and Steel:
Autumn Meeting at Milan, 184, 319, 346 List of Papers, Visits, &c., 184
Institute of Metals; Autumn Meeting in Manchester, 150, 287, 317 Behaviour of Metals under Compressive Stresses, H. I. Coe, 318 Brinell Hardness Numbers, IT. W. Browns- don,288 Cause of Red Stains on Sheet Brass, E. A. Bolton, 287 Change of Volume in Metals during Solidification, Hikozo Endo, 288
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institute Of Metals (continued) :
Constitution and Age-hardening of Quarternary Alloys, Miss Marie L. V. Gayler, 317
Cooling of Metals and Alloys, R. C. Reader, 288
Copper Wire, Experiments with, Douglas H. Ingall, 318
Crystallisation Effect on Galvanised Iron Sheets, E. L. Rhead and J. Dickson Hannah, 288
Effect of Oxygen on Copper, Miss Grace Ford and others, 318
Electro-chemical Character of Corrosion, Ulick R. Evans, 317
Equilibrium in the Gold-zinc System, Professor P. Soldau, 318
Hardness Tests on Crystals of Aluminium, Hugh O’Neill, 318
Henry Cort, 319
Light Alloys of Aluminium, A. M. Portevin and Pierre Chevenard, 318 Nickel in Bearing Metals, A. H. Mundey and C. C. Bissett, 288 Non-ferrous Metals in Engineering, Lecture, Sir Henry Fowler, 287, 288 Programme and List of Papers, 150 Stereotyping, A. H. Mundey and John Cartland, 288 Institute of Transport: Ideal Seaport, Presidential Address, Sir J. G. Broadbank, 374 Institution of Automobile Engineers :
New Offices of the Institution, 513
Standardisation of Motor Car Parts, Presidential Address, H. G. Burford, 402 Institution of Civil Engineers :
Conversazione, 68
Deterioration of Structures Exposed to Sea Action, 91 Examination of Meriai Suspension Bridge, Henry T. Tudsbery and Alec R. Gibbs, 78 October Examinations, 1923, Pass List (Interim), 571 Presidential Address, Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan, 508 Institution of Electrical Engineers : French Midi Railway Electrification, Monsieur A. Bachellery, 588, 595
Presidential Address, Dr. Russell, 458
Pulverised Fuel and Efficient Steam Generation, David Brownlie, 665
WIRELESS SECTION :
Oscillating Valve Circuit, Model of, R. C. Clinker, 583 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) : Institution of Mechanical Engineers : Clyde Marine Oil Engines, Dr. A. L. Mellanby, 120, 620 Discussion at Manchester, 622 Contrivances for Storage and Distribution of Water, E. Bruce Ball, at Glasgow Summer Meeting, 47 Exhaust Valve and Cylinder Hoad Temperature in High-speed Petrol Engines, Professor A. H. Gibson and Mr. H. W. Baker, 663, 675, 700 Possibilities of Mercury as a Working Substance for Binary Fluid Turbines, W. J. Kearton, 560, 563 Presidential Address, Sir John Dewrance, Patents, Research, Standardisation, 445 Thomas Hawksley Lecture on Mechanical Problems of Safety at Sea, Sir Westcott S. Abell, 500 Institution of Naval Architects : Internal Combustion Engines Exhausting into Low-pressure Turbines, 274, 290 Mechanical Stokers on Marine Water-tube Boilers, W. J. Muller, 274, 279 Netherland Shipbuilding Company’s Yard at Amsterdam, 275, 282
Programme, 200
Rotterdam Nautical Institution and Museum, 258 Steam Turbines for Marine Propulsion in Holland, Professor Dresden, 274 Subdivision of Large Passenger Ships, A. C.
F. Henderson, 257, 261
Summer Meeting in Holland, 200, 256, 258, 261, 272, 279, 282, 290 Theory of Bending, Professor W. Hovgaard, 275 Visits and Entertainments in Holland, 275 Water-tight Subdivision of Ships, Sir A. Denny, 256 Institution of Petroleum Technologists : Origin of Petroleum, E. H. Cunningham- Craig, 530 Institution of Welding Engineers :
Opening Meeting, 430
Society, Ceramic:
Autumn Meeting, Drying of Refractories, 401
Society of Glass Technology : Visit to France, Particulars of Programme, Papers Read and Visits Paid, 183 Society, Norwich Engineering ; Inauguration Meeting, Programme of Papers, 527 AUSTRALIAN Engineering Notes, 55, 109, 187, 199, 320, 431, 517, 599 Auto-Klean Strainer, 306 B BALL, E. Bruce, Contrivances for Storage and Distribution of Water, 47 Balloons—see Aeronautics Barges—see Ships Barrage, The Sukkur, 459 Barton .Power Station—see Electrical Matters “ Beama ” Annual Dinner, 567 Belfast—see Electrical Matters Bending, Theory of, Professor W. Hovgaard, 275 Bengough, Guy D., and R. May, on Rapid Corrosion of Condenser Tubes, 7 Berriman, A. E., on Road Transport, 305 Bilton Silent Steam Water Heater, Hydraulic Pipe-bending Machine, 307 Birmingham, Past Great Men of, Dud Dudley and Others, 474 Blast-furnaces—see Iron and Steel Boiler, Clarkson Thimble-tube, 621 Boiler Feed-wrater Circuits, James J. Weir, 372 Boiler, Hawthorn-Wyber, 365 Boiler-house and Equipment at Barton Power Station, 391 Boiler-house and Equipment for Belfast Power Station, 415 Boiler-house Equipment at the Wayagamack Paper Mill, Quebec, 206, 207 Boiler, Mellanby Exhaust Gas, 621 Boiler, The Multitubular, Marc Seguin, 638, 661 Boiler Tube Cleaning Blower, C. P. Parry, Limited, 350 Boiler Water Alarm, The Hilo, 363 Boilers, Gas-fired and Other, Spencer-Bone- court, Limited, 307 Boilers, High-pressure Steam, D. S. Jacobus, 400 Boilers, Scotch Marine, Uptake Superheater for, T. Sugden, 134 Boilers, Series, Babcock and Wilcox, 400 Bolivia—see Railways Books of Reference, 353 Boring Machines—see Machine Tools Boundary Lubrication, 73 Brakes, Railway—see Railways Brancker, General Sir S., on Air Transport, 305 Breaking-up Large Masses of Steel, 530 ;
(Paragraph), 682
“ Brentford By-pass,” 609 BRIDGES:
Bascule Bridge at Norwich, 424, 428
Menai Suspension Bridge, Examination of, H. T. Tudsbery and A. R. Gibbs, 78 Stresses in Bridges, J. S. Wilson and Professor B. P. Haigh, 333 BRINELL Hardness Numbers, H. W. Browns- don, 288 BRITISH COMMERCIAL GAS ASSOCIATION :
Annual General Meeting, 371
BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION :
British Standard Electrical Specifications :
“ Moulded Flat Top Insulating Bushes,” 419 “ Oil-immersed Switches and Circuit Breakers for Alternating Current Circuits,” 419
“ Slate Slabs for Electrical Purposes,” 419
BRITISH Patent Working, 501 Brownlie, David, on • Pulverised Fuel and Efficient Steam Generation, 665—see also Fuel Building—see Railways Burford, H. G., Standardisation of Motor Car Parts, 402 Burton-Alexander, J. T., on Locomotive Practice and Performance in France, 119, 143, 178 Burton-Alexander, J. T., on Some British Locomotive Performances, 684 c CABLE Ship—see Ships Canada, Mining in, 323 Canadian Patent Law, 347 Canals Converted into Railways, 362 Capstan Controllers, Explosion-proof Controllers, &c., Electro-Mechanical Brake Company, Limited, 252 Castings or Forgings, 74 Casting—see also Iron and Steel Catalogues, 86, 161, 187, 213, 325, 353, 407 435, 484, 574, 705 Centrifugal Treatment of Petroleum, 668 Chadwick, Roy, on Aeroplane Design, 504 Cherbourg, Improvements at the Port of, 350 Chile, Port Improvements in, 208 China, Technical Education in, 345 Chinese Engineering Notes, 78 Chorlton, A. E. L., on the Crude Oil Aeroengine, 6 Clarke, J. B., on Polar Diagrams for Riveted Connections, 639 Clinker, R. C., Oscillating Valve Circuit , Model I of, 583 Clydebridge—see Works COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
Advantages of Powdered Coal as a Fuel, 222 Belfast Power Station, Coal Handling at, 415 Coal Dust Explosions, 129
Coal Meter, George Kent, Limited, 226
Coal-winding Plant, Large Electric, 103
Cronton Colliery and Others, Electrical
Winding and Equipment, 88, 116, 117, 126
Lea Recorder Coal Meter, 308
Motors in Collieries—see Electricity in Mines
Russian Coal Industry, 529
“ Strong-arm ” Coal Getter, 36
COHESION, 302, 343 Commercial Motors—see Motor Vehicles, also Exhibitions Complexity of Natural Phenomena, 507 Concrete—see also Ferro-concrete, Reinforced Concrete Concrete or Clay Moulding Machine, Ransome Machinery Company, Limited, 624 Concrete Mixers, John Fowler and Co., Limited, 584 Concrete Mixers, Winget, Limited, 584 Concrete Piling—see Sheet Concrete and Reinforced Concrete, 66 Concrete, Tools, Power-driven, for Breaking
Up, Broom and Wade, Limited, 624
Concreting the Bed of the Lake, St. James’s Park, 62 Condenser Tubes, Rapid Corrosion of, Guy
D. Bengough and R. May, 7
Conferences at the British Empire Exhibition, 209, 403, 555 Congress, International Air, 5, 32 Congress, International Railway, 1925, 480 Congress, Public Works, Roads and Transport, 473, 565, 584, 594, 618—see also Exhibitions, and for Papers, Public Works Contracts, 28, 58, 112, 140, 164, 190, 210, 328, 382, 407, 435, 463, 489, 520, 543, 567, 599, 622, 655, 679 Copper, Effect of Oxygen on, Miss Grace Ford and Others, 318 Copper in the United States, 79 Corrosion, 313, 317 Corrosion, Electro-chemical Character of, Ulick
R. Evans, 317
Corrosion in Sea Water, 91, 99 Cort, Henry, Tablet Portrait, 319 Crane, 15-Cwt. Electric Runabout, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Limited, 38 Crane Navvy, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 623 Cranes, Large Bridge-erecting, for India, Ransomes and Rapier, Limited, 566 Cranes at Penistone Works, 2, 14, 30 (Two Two-page Supplements, July 6th, 1923) Crewdson, Eric, on Velocity of Flow in Pipes, 635 Cunningham-Craig, E. H., Origin of Petroleum, 530 Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 26, 57, 84, 110, 138, 162, 188, 214, 240, 266, 294, 326, 354, 380, 408, 436, 464, 490, 518, 544 572, 600, 628, 656, 680, 706 Current Retards on American Rivers, 689 Cutting Machines—see Machine Tools D DAMS, Earth, Design of, 100 Dangers of Sulphuretted Hydrogen, 99 Davy Lamps, Tests of, 199 Degory Carburetter, 307 Dehydrating Apparatus on Fruit Farms, 651 Depression Effect in Nozzle Flow, Henry A.
Hepburn, 691
Deschamps, Jules, on Gas Turbines, 646 ; (Letter), 676 Deterioration of Structures Exposed to Sea
Action, 91, 99, 399
Diesel Engines—see Engines Dock, Government Graving, at Esquimalt,
B. C., 530, 532
Docks—see also London, Port of Dodd, K. S., on Design of Pontoons, 331 Douglas, Wm. D., on Testing of Aircraft
Structures and Components, 33
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools Drive Method—see Petroleum Dust Treatment, Special Emulsion for, Sir
George Scott-Moncrieff, 68
Dyke, F. S., on the Lethbridge Irrigation
Enterprise in Western Canada, 114, 146, 147
E EARTH Dams, Design of, 100 Earthquake Disaster in Japan, 258, 455, 577 Economic Speeds—see Railways Economic Use of Wood, 153 Educational Intelligence, 140, 190, 242, 268, 513 Elastic Limit, 590 ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
Arc Welding Exhibits, Various, 365 Barton Power Station of the Manchester Corporation, 391, 396 Belfast New Power Station, 415
Cargo Winch, 3-Ton Worm-geared, Electrical Steering Gear, &c., Laurence, Scott and Co., 278 Cascade Motor Driving in Mines for Haulage Gear, Winding Engine, Fan, Air Compressor, Sandy croft, Limited, 286 Charging Electric Batteries, Portable Plant for, Hesco, Limited, 209
Coal-winding Plant, Large Electric, 103
Diesel-electric Ship La Playa, Electrical Equipment for, Cammell Laird and Co., Limited, 420, 456
Direct-current Generator, 12,000-Volt, 568
Dynamo and Battery Regulator, British Lighting and Ignition Company, Limited, 375 Dynamo Coil-winding Machine, Midland Dynamo Company, 309 Furnaces with Internal Electric Heaters, Wild-Barfield, New Type, 159 Gas-driven Alternators for S. Africa, Electric Construction Company, 44, 64 ; (Letter), 70
Halifax Electricity Works, Extensions at, 419 Harworth Main Colliery and Hilton Collieries, Metropolitan-Vickers Winding Plant at, 359, 368
Haulage Gear, D. Ashton and Co., Limited, 235 Heating, Electric, New System, Grierson, Limited, 431 High-tension Interconnector, General Electric Company, 340 Johannesburg, Electric Power Scheme for, 133 Lighting, Electric, 107 Lighting Plant, Stuart Turner, Limited, 336 Lighting Plants, Small, with Paraffin Engines, Boulton and Paul, 37 Lighting and Power Set, 1200-Watt Combined, Worthington-Simpson, Limited, 18 Linton Lock Power Station for City of York, 148, 149 Locomotives and Trucks, Electric, British Electric Vehicles, Limited, 276 Manufacture of Ferro-vanadium by Electric Furnace, E. Kilburn Scott, 636 Mines, Electricity in, 88, 116, 117, 126, 142, 166, 198, 234, 259, 286, 316, 359, 368 Mining Switchgear, Ferguson, Pailin, Limited, 316 Minister of Transport and Electricity Supply, 134 Motors, Starting Controllers and Winders for Mine Work, Bruce Peebles and Co., Limited, 198 Oil Circuit Breaker, Three-phase Oil, A Large, Ferguson, Pailin, Limited, 200
Oscillating Valve, Circuit, Model of, R. C. Clinker, 583 Parsons Motor Company’s Lighting Set, 250 Penistone Works of Cammell Eaird and Co.,
Limited, 19,000 H.P. Motor and Other Electrical Equipment, 62, 72 (Two-page Supplement, July 20th, 1923)—for Description of Works, &c., see Works Polar Magnetos, British Thomson-Houston Company, 308 Power-house and Electrical Equipment at Plate Mill, Clydebridge Steel Works, English Electric Company, 247, 254
Propeller for Ships—see Ships Seattle, New Electric Sub-station for, 183
Small Lighting Set, National Gas Engine Company, Limited, 18 South African Electricity Supply Commission, 158 South-East Lancashire Electricity Supply, 93
S.P. Winding Equpiment for Mines, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 88, 359 Sperry Searchlight, 249 Structure of Matter, Electrical, Professor Sir E. Rutherford, 284 Switchgear, Line Sectioning Switch, Transformer Cabin, &c., Sprecher and Schuh, 276, 277
Three-phase Variable-speed Commutator Motor, Shunt-wound and Other Motors, Swedish General Electric Company, 364 Transmitting Electrical Energy from Norway to Denmark, 223 Truck, Electric Run-about Tipping, Electricars, Limited, 642 Trucks, Cranes, and Tractors, Electrical, Various Exhibits, 365 Trucks and Jib Crane Trucks, Lansing Equipment Company, 183 Tubular Electric Heating System, Lightfoot Brothers, 614 United States Power Station, New Generating Plant, 197 Ward-Leonard Direct-current Winder for Mines, 260, 261
Waste Heat Recovery in a Power Station, 622
Welding Plant, Multiple Arc D.C., Premier
Electric Welding Company, Limited, 226
West Flanders, Electrification of, 320
Winders, Reel Type with Direct Current, Winders, Reel Type with Alternating Current, 259, 261 ENERGY of the Future, Dr. Charles Steinmetz, 67 Engagement and Loading of Involute Gearing, A. F. Ainslie, 685 ENGINES AND MOTORS :
Aero-engine Failures, 258
Aero-engine Materials, Development of, Leslie Aitchison, 7 Ailsa Crag Marine Motor, New Types, 335 Air-cooled Aero-engines, A. H. R. Fedden, 6 Blackstone’s Crude Oil, Lampless Paraffin Engines, &c., 37 “ Bolinder ” Heavy Oil Engine, James Pollock, Sons and Co., 366 ENGINES AND MOTORS (continued): Browett-Lindley Gas Engines for Driving Alternators, 44, 64 ; (Letter), 70 Camellaird-Fullagar Engines for the La Playa, 420 456 Cargo Boat Type Marine Diesel Engines, 1500 B.H.P., Schneider et Cie., 152, 156, 157 Clyde Marine Oil Engines, Dr. A. L. Mellanby, 120,620; (Letters), 676 Cold Starting Engine, 165 B.H.P., Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 308 Cold Starting Heavy Oil Engine, L. Gardner and Sons, Limited, 276 Crude Oil Aero-engine, A. E. L. Chorlton, 6 Crude Oil Hot-bulb Engine for Road Roller, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Limited, 640, 644 Diesel Engine Power Plants, 55 Double-acting Four-cycle Marine Diesel Engine, Burmeister and Wain, 79 Engines Referred to in Dr. Mellanby’s Paper : Beardmore Engine, New Type ; North British Double-acting Two-cycle Engine ; Scott-Still Engines, Twin Set ; Vickers-Petter Engine with Clarkson Thimble-tube Boiler, 621 Exhaust Valve and Cylinder Head Temperature in High-speed Petrol Engines, Professor A. H. Gibson and Mr. H. W. Baker, 663, 671, 675, 700 Fairfield-Sulzer Diesel Engines, 649 French Submarine Engines, 1500 B.H.P. Two-stroke Cycle, Schneider et Cie., 152, 157, 158 Gas Engine, Four-cylinder Vertical, National Gas Engine Company, Limited, 18 Geared Turbine Machinery, Geared Oil Engine Models, &c., Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Limited, 365 Gleniffer Paraffin Marine Motors and Lubricating System, 308, 309 “ Harmonic Six” Marine Motor, Small, Slack and Parr, Limited, 366 Hot-bulb Engine, with Vertical Fuel Pump, Anglo-Belgian Company, 338 Internal Combustion Engine for Driving Road Roller, Blackstone and Co., Limited, 640
Internal Combustion Engine Phenomena, 671 Internal Combustion Engines Exhausting into Low-pressure Turbines, Lieut.-Colonel F. Modugno, 274, 290
“ King-of-All ” Engines, Petrol, Paraffin or Gas, Bradford Gas Engine Company, Limited, 37 Kromhout Engines at the Shipping Exhibition, 249, 250 Marine Diesel Engines, Working Costs, 177 Marine Oil Engines, Trials of, 20 Marine Paraffin and Other Engines at the Shipping Exhibition, J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, 224 MOTOR CAR AND COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE ENGINES AND ACCESSORIES AT OLYMPIA :
See also Motor Cars
Aster Six-cylinder Motor Car Engine, 498 Four-cylinder Monobloc Engine for 14
H.P. Bean Car, 497
Loyd-Lord Valveless Engine, 528
Ruston-Hornsby Motor Car Engine, 529 ;
(Note), 571
“Sentinel” Wagon Works Steam Engine for Commercial Vehicles, 612, 613 Thermostat for Pump-cooled Engines, Delco-Remy, Limited, 528 Thornycroft, J. I. and Co., Limited, Motor Lorry Engines, 581, 582 Trojan Motor Vehicle Engine, 10 H.P, Four-cylinder, Leyland Motors, Limited, 580, 581 Wolseley Four-cvlinder Motor Car Engine, 498
Oil Engine, 12-14 H.P., Petters Limited, 37 Paraffin and Petrol Engine, Small, Sir W. G.
Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, 36 Paraffin Two-cylinder Lighting Set, A. G.
Mumford, Limited, 158
Parsons Paraffin Marine Engines, 250, 251 Petrol, 2| H.P. Vertical, Engine, R. A.
Lister and Co., Limited, 37
Quadruple-expansion Marine Engine, North- Eastern Marine Engineering Company, Limited, 277 Record Solid Injection Engine, 310 Saunders-Clarkson 5 B.H.P. Two-stroke Inboard Motor, 184 Saunderson Tractor Engine and Gear-box, 35, 36
Scott-Still Marine Oil Engine, 556, 592
Single-cylinder High-speed Vertical Engine, Robey and Co., Limited, 225 Solid Injection Oil Engine, J. S. White and Co., 339 Two-cycle Oil Engine of the Motor Tanker Arnus, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 485 Varying Specific Heats and Gas Engine Mixtures, Telford Petrie, 361 Vickers-Petters Solid Injection Oil Engine, 37, 52 “Willing Worker” Paraffin Engine, Drummond Bros., Limited, 366 ENGINEERING Materials, Prices of, during the First Half of 1923, 22 Engineering News—see also French, Indian, &c. Engineers and the Future, 508 ; (Letter), 538 Engineers of the Future, 672 Evans, Ulick R., on the Electro-chemical Character of Corrosion, 317 Exhaust Valve, &c.—see Engines EXHIBITIONS : British Empire Exhibition, Conferences at, 209, 403, 555
Signalling, for the Exhibition, 390
World Power Conference, Programme,
List of Papers, 403, 555
Commercial Motor Exhibition, 580, 608, 609 —see also Motors, Commercial
Gas Exhibition in Birmingham, 40
Motor Car Show at Olympia, 469, 496, 506, 528—see also Motor Cars Public Works and Transport Exhibition, 473, 565, 584, 623, 640; also Miscellaneous Exhibits, 642—for Exhibits, see Various Headings EXHIBITIONS (continued): Royal Agricultural Show at Newcastle, 17, 34 Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 224, 249, 276, 306, 335, 363
Shoe and Leather Fair, 449, 452 Smithfield Club Show, 646 Wireless Exhibition, 502, 524, 553
EXPERIMENTAL—see Ships, Propeller Cavitation F FAIRFIELD—see Engines Fair—see Exhibitions Fedden, A. H. R., on Air-cooled Aero-engines, 6 Feed Heater—see Railway Locomotives Ferries—see Ships Ferro-concrete Warehouse at Manchester, 322 Ferro-vanadium, Manufacture of, by Electric Furnace, E. Kilburn Scott, 636 Files Reconditioning, Vikings-Tenax Company, 366 Filter, Feed-water, Robey and Co., Limited, 226 Filter, Stream-line, Dr. Hele-Shaw, Stream
Line Filter Company, 68, 339
Fir versus Pine Timber, 515 Fire-box Stays and the Metallurgist, 645; (Letter), 702 inns, Famous, Short Histories of, E. L. Ahrons, 194, 231, 548 Kitson and Co., Limited, Airedale Foundry, Leeds, 548 Sharp, Stewart and Co., Limited, 1806, Manchester and Glasgow, 194, 231 ; (Letter), 223—for List of Locomotives, see Railway Locomotives Flow Meter, Britannia Lathe and Oil Engine Company, Limited, 540 Forthcoming Engagements, 28, 58, 86, 112, 140, 164, 190, 216, 242, 268, 296, 328, 356, 382, 410, 438, 465, 492, 520, 546, 574, 602, 630, 658, 682, 708 Forward, E. A., Links in the History of the Locomotive, 638, 661 Fowler, Sir Henry, Lecture on Non-ferrous Metals in Engineering, 288 Fowler, Sir Henry, on Transport and its Indebtedness to Science, 305, 314 FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES : 27, 57, 85, 111, 139, 163, 189, 215, 241, 267, 295, 327, 355, 381, 409, 437, 465, 491, 519, 545, 573, 601, 629, 657, 681, 707
Aeronautics, 85 Air Resistance, 139 Airships, 215 Alma Bridge, 629 Armoured Cars, 573 Automatic Couplings, 573 Benzol from Peat, 657 British Unemployment, 681
i Cable Ploughing, 381
Canadian Exhibition, 163 Coke and Iron Ore, 295 Coke Problem, 85 Coke Reparations, 437] Coke Supply, 139 Cold Storage, 491 Commercial Aeroplanes, 327 Commercial Policy, 545 Commercial Propaganda, 267 Commercial Vehicles, 491 Competition, 707 Continuous Brakes, 27, 465 Dehydrating Alcohol, 327 Desert Transport, 437 Direct Process Steel, 57 Electric Locomotives, 657 Electric Traction, 139 Electric Train Lighting, 545 Electrical Distribution, 681 Electrification, 139 Engines and Transmissions, 409 Ferro-concrete, 111 Floating Exhibition ,111 Foreign Contracts, 295 Foreign Exchanges, 111 Foreign Orders, 437 Foreign Trade, 465 Foundry Congress, 327 Franco-British Co-operation, 465 Fuel Problem, 381 Harbour Works, 267 Haulage Economy, 491 Heavy Motor Traffic, 27 Helicopters, 295, 629 High-compression Engines, 163 Higher Prices, 241 Industry and Agriculture, 267 Iron Production, 57 Iron and Steel Production, 189, 295, 573 Light Aeroplanes, 215 Merchant Marine, 189 Miners’ Wages, 545 Motor Cars, 409 Motor Trade, 519 Moving Platforms, 241 Naval Manoeuvres, 139 New Cruiser Type, 215 New Fuels, 409 Oil Engineering, 657 Oil Research, 215 Olympic Engineering, 707 Paris a Seaport, 601 Paris Traffic, 629 Paris Transports, 267, 601 Paris Water Supply, 85 Power Alcohol, 295 Protection and Trade, 437 Reconstruction, 657 Rail Motors, 545 Reduced Tariffs, 85 Refloating the France, 189 Regulating the Seine, 27, 707 Road Depreciation, 163 Rolling Stock, 27, 519 Ruhr Situation, 573 Ruhr Stocks, 163, 491 Ruhr Supplies, 465 Stainless Steel, 111 State Railway Works, 355 Street Paving, 57 Suction Gas Lorries, 241 Suction Gas Tractors, 355 Suction Gas Wagons, 519 Tanks, 681
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES (continued):
Tractors, 381 Trade Compromise, 629 Trade and Employment, 355 Trade Fluctuations, 27 Trade Improvement, 601 Trade Opportunities, 327 Trade Position, 57, 267, 519 Trade Profits, 629 Trade Reconstruction, 657 Wagons, 163, 573 Water Pollution, 707 What to do with Stocks, 189
FUEL, Powdered, 695 Fuel, Pulverised, 665 Fullagar Engines—see Engines Furnace, Muffle Rivet-heating, Charles Burrell and Sons, Limited, 335 Furnaces, Electric—see Electrical Matters Furnaces at Penistone Works, 2 (Two Two-page
Supplements, July 6th, 1923)
Future Supply of Skilled Workers, 255 ; (Letters), 319, 375, 403 G GAS Engines—see Engines Gas Exhibition;—see Exhibition Gas Producers, Double-draught, Dowson and Mason Gas Plant Company, Ltd., 44, 64 ; (Letter), 70 Gas Producers, Morgan-Sahlin, 30 Gas Supplies, Testing the Calorific Value of, 48 Gas Turbines, Jules Deschamps, 646 ; (Letter), 676 Gauges, Brookes and Sears “ Generator Comparator ” for Measurement of, Precision Tool Company, Limited, 363 Gayler, Miss Marie L. V., on the Constitution and Age-hardening of Quarternary Alloys, 317 . Gear, Variable Speed, Adapted for Planers, Williams-Janney, 441 Geared Drive, 283 ; (Letter), 555 Gearing, Involute, Engagement and Loading of, A. F. Ainslie, 685 “Generator Comparator,” Brookes and Sears. 363 Germany, Engineering Position in, 322 Gibson, Professor A. H., and Mr. H. W. Baker, on Exhaust Valve and Cylinder Head Temperature in High-speed Petrol Engines, 663, 671, 675, 700 Glasgow and the Activated Sludge Process, 204 Glasgow Tramways, 20 Glass—see Society of Glass Technology Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools Gyroscopic Stabiliser—see Ships H HACKSAW Blade, New Type, Edward G. Herbert, Limited, 431 Hadfield, Sir Robert, on the History and Progress of Metallurgical Science, 474, 510, 536,'578 Hamburg, Smoke Abatement in, 107 Hangars—see Aeronautics Harrows at the Royal Show, 36 Haulage, Electric—see Electrical Matters Hawksley, Thomas, Lecture—see Institution of Mechanical Engineers Haymaking Without the Sun, R. Borlase Matthews’ Method, 17 Heating, Electric—see Electrical Matters Henderson, A. C. F., Subdivision of Large Passenger Ships, 257, 261 Hepburn, Henry A., Depression Effect in Nozzle Flow, 691 Herbert Pendulum Hardness Tester, Mathematical Theory of, Wm. J. Walker, 244; (Letters), 21, 70, 248 High-pressure Steam Boilers, D. S. Jacobus, 400 High-speed Planing—see Machine Tools Histories, Short—see Firms History of the Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives History and Progress of Metallurgical Science, Sir Robert Hadfield, 474, 510, 536, 552, 578 —for Illustrations, see Subjects Index, History, &c. Hoisting Cables, Magnetic Tests of, 431 Holland, Shipbuilding and Engineering in, 124 Hoile Four-wheel Driving and Steering Motor Car, 666, 667, 670 Hot Bulb—see Engines Humphrey Pumps—see Pumps Hydraulic Press, 250-Ton Open-sided, and Four-cylinder Radial Pump for, Tangent Tool and Engineering Company, Limited, 338 Hydro-electric Power Station at Linton Lock, 148, 149 I INDIA, Agricultural Implements in, 236 INDIAN ENGINEERING NOTES :
22 Hyderabad State Railways, 22 Hydro-electricity in Ceylon, 22 Irrigation Projects, 22 Sukkur Barrage, 22
INDICATOR, Distant-reading Water Level, Aster Engineering Company, Limited, 431 Indicators, Temperature, Recorders, &c., Cambridge and Paul Instrument Company, Limited, 251 Injector—see Railway Locomotives Interlocking Rubber Road Surfacing Blocks,
C. W. Read’s System, 651
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines International Air Congress—see Aeronautics International Navigation Congress, 10, 38, 65 —for Details, see Ships International Railway Congress—see Railways Inventions, Patents for, 453 ; (Letters), 484 IRON AND STEEL : Blast-furnace Labour-saving Equipment, 131 Blast-furnaces, The Tayeh, China, 48 Breaking Up Large Masses of Steel, 530 ;
(Paragraph), 682 Canada, Production of Iron and Steel in, 419
Casting Spun Iron Pipe, Stanton Ironworks Company, Limited, 104
Cold Brittleness, 534 France, Production of Iron and Steel in, 179 Iron and Steel Works—see Works
New Steel, Park Gate Iron and Steel Company, Limited, 319
Nickel Rolling Mill, Huntington, U.S.A., 330 Rolling Mills at Penistone Works, 32, 42
Steel Melting Department at Penistone Works, 2, 14, 30 (Two Two-page Supplements, July 6th, 1923) IRRIGATION Enterprise, Lethbridge, Western Canada, F. S. Dyke, 114, 146, 147 J JACOBUS, D. $., High-pressure Steam Boilers, 400 Japan, Earthquake Disaster, 258, 455, 577 Johns, A. W., on Ship Form and Steering, 551, 576 Johore Causeway, 537 (Two-page Supplement, November 16th, 1923) Joint Patentees, 562 Joint, Victaulic Company, Limited, 310 K KEARTON, W. J., on Mercury Vapour, for Binary Fluid Turbines, 560, 563 Kershaw, J. B. C., on Air Pollution in Towns of the United Kingdom, 128 Kromhout Engines—see Engines L LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS: 101 Boilermakers’ Dispute — see Seven-day J ournal Payment by Results, 283; (Letter), 223, 483, 513, 538, 555
Railway Labour, 696
Skilled Workers, Future Supply of, 255 ; (Letters), 319, 375, 403
Unemployment, 101
LAKES — see St. James’s Lathes—see Machine Tools Latin-American Engineering Notes, 323 Launches and Trial Trips, 28, 58, 140, 190, 213, 293, 325, 356, 375, 435, 543, 567, 599, 677,705 Lead Mines, Ore-loading Machines for, 209 LEADERS:
Air-heaters v. Economisers, 480 Annealing, 203
Automatic Couplings for Railway Wagons, 229 Boundary Lubrication, 73 Castings or Forgings ? 74
Cohesion, 343 Cold Brittleness, 534 Complexity of Natural Phenomena, 507 Corrosion, 313 Corrosion in Sea Water, 99 Cruising Ships of the Navy, 425 Dangers of Sulphuretted Hydrogen, 99 Economic Railway Speeds, 15 Economic Use of Wood, 153 Elastic Limit, 590 Engineers and the Future, 508 Engineers of the Future, 672 Extended Piston-rods, 618 Fire-box Stays and the Metallurgist, 645 Future Supply of Skilled Workers, 255 Geared Drive, 283 High-capacity Wagons, 397 Individuality in Locomotive Engineering, 454 Internal Combustion Engine Phenomena, 671 Locomotive Booster, 369 Locomotive Driving, 562 Locomotives and Trains, 203 London’s Water Supply, 177, 696 Main Line Electrification, 313 Marine Diesel Engine Working Costs, 177
Marine Engineers and Oil Engine Certificates, 229 Master and Mechanic, 343 Mercury-vapour Prime Mover, 561
Multi-cylinder Locomotives, 255 Naval Programme, New, 533 Navigation Congress Results, 43 Notches and Scratches, 397
One-wire and Three-wire Systems for Railway Telegraphy, 426
Optical Stress-strain Recorders, 479 Patents for Inventions, 453 Payment by Results, 283 Powdered Fuel, 695 Railway Accidents, 44 Railway Electrification, 589 Railway Labour, 696 Railway Rates and Railway Wages, 154 Research Associations, 398 Singapore Naval Base, 127 Smithfield Club Show, 646 Specifications : Their Use and Abuse, 15 State Railways, 369 Tensile Test, 128 Waste Heat Recovery on Ships, 617
LEATHER, Machines Used in Preparation of, 449, 452 Leonard! da Vinci, 647 Lethbridge Irrigation Enterprise in Western Canada, F. S. Dyke, 114, 146, 147 LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS : England, North of, 24, 54, 82, 1087136, 161, 186, 212, 239, 265, 292, 324, 352, 378, 406, 434, 462, 488, 516, 517, 542, 570, 598, 626, 654, 678, 704 Lancashire, 23, 53, 82, 108, 136, 160, 185, 211, 238, 263, 291, 323, 351, 377,405,433, 461, 487, 515, 541, 569, 597, 625, 653, 677, 703 Midlands and Staffordshire, 23, 53, 81, 107, 135, 159, 185, 211, 237, 263, 291, 323, 351, 377, 405, 433, 461, 487, 489, 515, 541. 569, 597, 625.653, 677, 703 Scotland, 25, 55, 83, 109, 137, 161, 187, 212, 239, 265, 293, 325, 353, 379, 407, 435. 463, 489, 517, 542, 571, 598, 627, 655, 679, 705 Sheffield, 24, 54, 82, 108, 136, 160, 186, 212, 238, 264, 292, 324, 352, 378, 406, 434, 462, 488, 516, 542, 570, 598, 626, 654, 678, 704 Wales and Adjoining Counties, 25, 55, 83, 109, ] 37, 161, 187, 213, 239, 265, 293, 325, 353, 379, 407, 435, 463, 489, 517, 543, 571, 599, 627, 655, 679, 705 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :
Akroyd-cycle Engine, J. L. Chaloner, 96 Alfred A. Scott, C. Mustill, 248 Annealing, A. F. Woodcock, 223 Belfast Union, C. E., 555 Booster Locomotives: Utilisation of the
Main Engine’s Exhaust Steam, C. R. King, 403 British Beet Sugar Machinery, British Empire Sugar Machinery Manufacturers’ Association, 702 Clyde Marine Oil Engines, W. A. Tookey, 673 ; Chas. Day, 673
Electricity Generated by Safety Valves, F. A. Fleming, 248, 319 ; H. S. Whiteley, 350 Emigration of Workmen, Ex-Service, 319,
422 ; Clyde Engineer, 375, 483 ; W. Collinson, 403
Empire Development and Employment, D. S. M., 223 Engineers for Motor Ships, X. Y. Z., 248 Fire-box Stays, E. Cecil Poultney, 702
Firing Locomotives, R. C. Prescott, 583— see also Locomotive Driving
Future of Engineering, Well Sinker, 538 Gas-driven Alternators for South Africa,
Campbell Gas Engine Company, Limited, 70
Gas Turbine, Henry A. Hepburn, 673
Geared Drive, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Limited, 555 Government Policy of Electricity Supply,
H. T. Day, 555 ; T. Mahn, 614 Herbert “ Pendulum ” Hardness Tester, S. Timoshenko, 21, 248; Edward G. Herbert, 70 Isherwood and the American Navy, Hector C. Bywater, 702
Lagging Water Mains, G. Brian Hersey, 614 Locomotive Driving, R. C. Prescott, 583 ;
F. W. Brewer, 613
Locomotives and Trains, W. B. Thompson, 248 Losses in Reduction Gears, M.I.M.E., 150 Main Line Electrification, E. O’Brien, 375 Marine Engineers’ Certificates, Extra First, 319
Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, and Vickers Limited, 513 Multi-cylinder Locomotives, F. P., 319; Chas. W. Dauncey, 375 National Profit-Sharing, Hugh Reid, 484
Oil Engine Nomenclature, H. Akroyd Stuart, 403 One-wire and Three-wire Systems for Railways, Signal and Telegraph Superintendent 554 Patents for Inventions, Edward Carpmael, 484 ; J. W. Fussell, 484 ; Stradium, 484 Payment by Results, H. T. Fowler, 223—see also Piecework System Piecework System, Superintendent of Production, 483, 513 ; Vectis, 538 ; Ratefixer, 555 ; William B. Pinching, 613—see also Payment by Results Port of London : Improvements, J. F. Ramsbotham, 513
Production of Process Steam, E. C. H., 484 Railway Electrification, W. B. Thompson, 96 ; J. Sayers, 614
Railway Speeds, John Riekie, 49 ; W. T. Taggett, 49 ; Horace Myers, 70 ; C. R. King, 96 ; J. Jackson, 96 ; F. W. Brewer, 124
Shop Temperatures and the Heat Wave. A. W. Farnsworth, 49 Short Histories of Famous Firms, E. L. Ahrons, 223
Spark Quenching Funnels for Solid Injection Engines, Bliss, 124
Starting and Accelerating Peculiarities of Electric Rolling Stock, J. Austin Baker, 21 Traffic Congestion in London, J. D. Roots, 124
LIFEBOATS—see Ships Light Rail Traction in South Africa, 647 Lighthouse Apparatus for Australia, Chance Brothers and Co., Limited, 513 Lighting and Beaconing of Coasts, 66 Lighting, Industrial, Glare in, Dr. G. H. Miles, 334 Lighting Set, Two-cylinder Paraffin, A. G. Mumford, Limited, 158 Lighting and Lighting Sets, Electric—see also Electrical Matters LITERATURE. Reviews: Brassey’s Naval and Shipping Annual, 1924, Sir Alex. Richardson and Archibald Hurd, 672 Century of Locomotive Building by Robert Stephenson and Co., 1823-1923, 426; (Correction), 458 Deterioration of Structures in Sea Water, 399 Friction, T. E. Stanton, 315, 450 Great War, Official History of the : Naval Operations, Voi. III., Sir Julian S. Corbett, 526 Hackworth, Timothy, and the Locomotive, Robert Young, 344 Production of Air-dried Peat, Fuel Research Board Report, 1922-23, 527 Properties of Engineering Materials, W. C Popplewell and H. Carrington, 450 LITERATURE {continued): Reviews {continued):
Railways of Spain, George L. Boag, 371
Statistical Bibliography in relation to the Growth of Modern Civilisation, E. Wyndham Hulme, 371
Text-book of Ore Dressing, S. J. Truscott, 16 White, Sir William, Life of, Frederic Manning, 591
Short Notices: Automatic Telephone Systems, Vol. II., William Aitken, 205, 450 Electrical Measuring Instruments and Supply Meters, D. J. Bolton, 315, 428 Engineers’ Pocket Technical Dictionary, French-English, Mark Lvoff, 205, 619 Hiitte, des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch, Vol. II., 509
Laminated Springs, T. H. Sanders, 315, 509
Lighting Circuits and Switches, Terrell Croft, 315, 428
Mechanics of Machinery : Mechanism, R. C.
H. Heck, 399, 509
Popular Fallacies, Explained and Illustrated, A. S. E. Ackermann, 619
Poulsen Arc Generator, G. F. Elwell, 371, 428
Practical Tests for the Electrical Laboratory, C. H. Johnson and R. P. Earle, 205, 428 Railway Signalling : Mechanical, Fr. Raynar Wilson, 509 Small Electric Lighting Sets, C. F. Caunter, 230, 428
Your Railway Rates, 619
Books Received :
Advancement of Science, 1923, 399 American Petroleum Refining, H. S. Bell, 129
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 480 Blasting with High Explosives, W. Gerard Boulton, 480 Boiler Chemistry and Feed-water Supplies, J. H. Paul, 591 Book of the Ford, 44 British Acetylene and Welding Handbook, 315 British Cast Iron Research Association, Bureau Bulletin, 315 Calculations in Heating and Ventilation,
G. S. Coleman, 205
Car Lighting by Electricity, C. W. T. Stuart, 480 Carenes de Formes Nuisibles ou Favorables a leurs Grandes Vitesses, &c., M. le Vice- Amiral F. E. Fournier, 205 Capital and Steam Power, 1750-1800, John Lord, 673 Cargo Handling at Ports, Brysson Cunningham, 527 Chemistry as a Career, 230 City and Guilds of London Institute, Department of Technology, &c., 230
Clouds and Smokes, William E. Gibbs, 673
Coal Tar Distillation and Working-up of Tar Products, Arthur R. Warnes, 509 Coke and Its Uses, E. W. L. Nicol, 509
Concrete Roads, 371
Conferences de Chimie Minerale (Mdtaux) faites & la Sorbonne, Marcel Guichard, 673 Contribution k la Theorie des Moteurs it Combustion Interne, M. Rrutzkus, 647 Converting a Business into a Private Company, H. W. Jordan, 44 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research:
Building Research Board :
Heat Transmission through Walls, Concretes and Plasters, Special Report, No. 7, 205
Food Investigation Board :
Special Report No. 12, Brown Heart, Functional Disease of Apples and Pears, Franklin Kidd and Cyril West, 205
Fuel Research Board :
Physical and Chemical Survey of the National Coal Resources, No. 2 Interim Report on Analysis of Coal, 591 Report for 1922-3: First Section, “ Production of Air-dried Peat,” 205, 527 Technical Paper No. 7, “ Low-temperature Carbonisation of Coal, &c., 248 Dictionary of Applied Physics, Vol. V., Aeronautics-Metallurgy, 179 Die Gesetze zum Schutze Gewerblichen Eigen turns, Dr. Erwin Huttner, 129 Diesel and Oil Engine Handbook, Julius Rosbloom, 129 Domestic Sanitation and House Drainage, Henry C. Adams, 205 Elasticity and Strength of Materials, Sec. III., Torsion in Shafting, &c., C. A. P. Turner, 527 Electrical Engineering Practice, J. W. Meares and R. E. Neale, 509 Electro-chemistry Related to Engineering, W. R. Cooper, 44 Engineering Kinematics, W. G. Smith, 371
Engineering Mathematics, Part I., R. W. M.
Gibbs, 673
Engineering Non-ferrous Metals and Alloys, Leslie Aitchison and W. R. Barclay, 101
Engineering Science, A. G. Robson, 673
Engineer’s Draughtsman, H. Varley, 527
Fair Wage, Reflections on the Minimum
Wage, &c., Edward Batten, 101
Forecasting Weather, Sir Napier Shaw, 509
Gas Manufacture, W. B. Davidson, 371
Graphic Statics, Elements of, Clarence W.
Hudson and Edward J. Squire, 315
Henry Ford : The Man and his Motives, Wm.
L. Stidger, 647
How to Organise and Conduct an Export and Import Business, R. Osborne, 129
11 Hiitte,” Des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch, 179 Hydraulic Principles Governing River and Harbour Construction, Curtis and Townsend, 399 Hydraulics, E. H. Lewitt, 647 Hydraulics for Engineers, F. C. Lea, 44
Income Tax, Super Tax, Corporation Profits Tax, &c., Charles H. Tolley, 205 Indian Railway Bridge Committee, Vol. III., of Fourth Report, C. W. Lloyd-Jones, 179 Industrial Arts Index, Periodicals, 248
Industrial Furnaces, Vol. I., W. Trinks, 129
LITERATURE {continued): Books Received {continued): Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Treatise on, Vol. IV., J. W. Mellor, 591 Inspecting and Testing of Materials, Apparatus and Lines, F. L. Henley, 527 International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, 509 Iron and Steel Institute : Carnegie Scholarship Memoirs, Vol. XII., 480 Jordan’s Tabulated Weights of Iron and Steel Sections, 101 Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Vol. CVII., 480 Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Research Association : Determination of Carbon Monoxide in Vitiated Air, &c., F. S. Sinatt and L. Slater, Bulletin XIII., 205 Transparent Preparations of Coal for Microscopical Investigations, J. and J. R. Lomax, 205
Lathe Users’ Handbook, C. M. Linley, 480
Lathes, their Construction and Operatron-
G. W. Burley, 673
Law of the Car, W. Gordon Aston, 509
Law of the Car, Private and Commercial, L. G. Redmond Howard and Harold Crane, 673 Law and Practice of Town Planning, Sydney Davey and F. C. Minshull, 509 Lead : Its Occurrence in Nature, &c., J. A. Smythe, 673
L’Eclairage, E. Darmois, 129
Leeds Technical School, Department of Engineering Day Courses, 1923-4, 248 Les Economies de Combustibles, &c., Pierre Appell, 205
Les Isotopes, A. Damien, 179
Les Methodes Modemes d’Organisation In- dustrielle, M. L. Benoist, 129 Life of Sir William White, Frederick Manning, 480 L’Industrie du Gaz, Distillation de la Houille, Rene Mass6 and Auguste Baril, 527 L’lndustrie du Gaz, Traitement des Produits et Sous-Produits, Rene Mass6 and Auguste Baril, 509
Liverpool Shipping, Who’s Who ? 1923, 230 London Shipping, Who’s Who ? 1923, 230 Machine Construction and Drawing, First
Course in, T. M. Navi or and W. Tattersail, 399 Manchester, College of Technology, Prospectus, 248
Materials and their Application to Engineering Design, E. A. Allcut and E. Miller, 527 Mechanical Engineering Formula?, E. W.
Huddy, 129
Mechanical Road Transport, C. J. Conradi, 509
Mechanical Stoking, David Brownlie, 673 Mercantile Calculation Tables, A. Kirchner, 527
Metals and Metallic Compounds, Vol. III., Transition Elements; Vol. IV., Metals of the “ B ” Group, Ulick R. Evans, 101 Metallurgy of Steel, Vol. I., Metallurgy; Vol. II., Mechanical Treatment, F. W. Har- bord and/ohn W. Hall, 673 Meteorological Office, Air Ministry, Atmospheric Pollution, 248 Microscope, Part II., Conrad Beck, 647 Ministry of Public Works, Egypt, Index to Annual Reports, Irrigation Department, 1884-1920, 44 Modern Electro-Plating, W. E. Hughes, 527 Motor Vehicles and their Engines, E. S.
Fraser and Ralph B. Jones, 480 Nickel Ores, W. G. Rumbold, 399
North-East Coast Shipping, Who’s Who ? 1923, 230 Oil Fuel Burning at Sea and on Land, J. S. Gander, 205 Petroleum Technologists’ Pocket Book, A.W. Eastlake, 205 Petroleum Year Book, 1923, Sidney H. North, 205 Photography as a Scientific Implement, A. E. Conrady, C. R. Davidson and Others, 205 Practical Control of Electrical Energy, A. G. Collis, 205 Practical Moulding, S. Jones Parsons, 509 Principal Factors in Freight Train Operating, Philip Burtt, 129 Problems of the Obelisks, R. Engelbach, 673 “Proceedings” of American Society of Engineers, 205 ‘ Proceedings ” of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, January-April, 1923, 480 “ Proceedings ” of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, Vol. XXXVIII., No. 8, 509 Radio and High-frequency Currents, E. T. Larner, 480 Radio Telegraphy and Telephony, E. W. Marchant, 480
Railways for All, J. F. Gairns, 315 Scottish Shipping, Who’s Who ? 1923, 230
Sexton’s Pocket Book on Boilermaking, Shipbuilding and Steel and Iron Trades, P. W. McGuire, 509 Shop Kinks, Robert Grimshaw, 205 Silica in Canada, Its Occurrence, &c., Part I., Eastern Canada, L. Heber Cole, 315
Smoke Inspectors’ Handbook on Economic Smoke Abatement, Herbert G. Clinch, 673 Society of Engineers, Journal and “Transactions,” 101
Standard Conditions and Rules for Shafts of Marine Steam Engines, 248 Strength and Structure of Steel and other Metals, W. E. Dalby, 480
Studies in Tidal Power, Norman Davey, 591
Study of Alternating Currents, Albert E. Clayton, 591 Successful Wireless Reception, Paul D. Tyers, 480
Technical Arithmetic, R. W. M. Gibbs, 673 Technisches Hilfsbuch, Schuchardt and Schutte, 527 Technology Reports, Tokoha Imperial University, Sendai, Japan, Vol. TIL, No. 3, 248
Typical Mechanisms, Details of, C. M. Linley, 44 University College of Swansea, Prospectus of Department of Engineering, 1923-4, 248 LITERATURE {continued): Books Received {continued): Ventilation of Public Buildings, Robert Boyle, 129
Wireless for the Amateur, J. Roussel, 647
Wireless Facts and Figures, A. V. Ballhatchet, 480 LLOYD’S Register—see Ships Loadlines, &c.—see Ships Locks, Elevators, and Inclined Planes, 39 Locomotive, Internal Combustion, Baguley,
Limited, 609
Locomotive, Novel Petrol, Lake and Elliot, 145 Locomotive, Oil Rail, Blackstone and Co.,
Limited, 37
Locomotive Tools—see Machine Tools Locomotives, Electric—see Electrical Matters Locomotives, Railway—see also Railway Locomotives London, Port of, Improvements, 130 ; (Letter), 513 Lorries—see Motor Vehicles Lubrication—see Boundary M MACHINE TOOLS: Boring and Turning Mills and other Machines at Penistone Works, 4 {Two Two-page Supplements, July 6th, 1923) Crank Pin Grinding and Quartering Machine, Churchill Machine Tool Company, Limited, Crank Pin Turning Machine, Geo. Richards and Co., Limited, 460 30in. Drilling, Tapping and Studding Machine, Kitchen and Wade, 210 Hand-operated Table for Punching Machines, D. C. Endert and H. W. Curchin, 539 Old Punching and Shearing Machine, Laird and Kitson, 548 Oxytome Metal-cutting Machine, Alfred Herbert, Limited, 404 Radial Machine for Drilling Plates and Girders, Wm. Asquith (1920), Ltd., 540 32in. Surfacing and Screw-cutting Break Lathe, G. and A. Harvey, Limited, 342, 348 MAGNETIC Tests of Hoisting Cables, 431 Manchester, Power Station for—see Electrical Matters Manchester University Department of Metallurgy, Opening of New Building, 293 Marine Engineers and Oil Engine Certificates, 229 ; (Letter), 319 Marine Engines—see Engines Mass Production of Omnibus Bodies, Short Brothers, Limited, 102 {Two-page Supplement, July 21th, 1923) Mass Production of Railway Coaches and Wagons, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 385, 697 {Two-page Supplement, October 12th, 1923) Master and Mechanic, 343 Mechanical Stokers on Marine Water-tube Boilers, W. J. Muller, 274, 279 Mellanby, Dr. A. L., on Clyde Marine Oil Engines, 120, 620 ; (Letters), 676 Mercury-vapour Prime Mover, Plant by W. L. R. Emmet, Paper, W. J. Kearton, 560, 561, 563 Mersey, River, Proposed Tunnel Under, 362 Mexico, British Trade with, 340 Michell Oil Deflector, 307 Mineral Statistics, Our, 534 Mineral Wagons, Large, 394, 397 Mines, Electricity in—see Electrical Matters Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 280 Modugno, Lieut.-Colonel F., on Internal Combustion Engines Exhausting into Low- pressure Turbines, 274, 290 Morgan, Sir C. Langbridge, Presidential Address, 508 Mortiser, Vertical Automatic, Thos. Robinson and Sons, 35 Motorailer, Motorailer Transport Company, 402 Motor Car Engines—see also Engines Motor Car, Hoile Four-wheel Driving and Steering, 666, 667, 670 Motor Car Parts, Standardisation of, H. G. Burford, 402 MOTOR CARS AT OLYMPIA :
469, 496, 506, 528
‘ All-weather ” 11.4 H.P. Humber Car, 496, 506 Annstrong-Siddeley Six-cylinder Cars, 500, 506
Aster 18-50 H.P. Six-cylinder Car, 498
Austin Cars, 7, 12 and 20 H.P., Mechanical Starter, Loyd-Lord Valveless Engine, 528
Bean Motor Car, 14 H.P., 496, 497
Clement-Talbot Small Car, 529
Ruston and Hornsby Car, 529
Coachwork of Motor Cars, 496
Weymann Construction, 496
Crossley Motors Two-seater Coupe, 500, 506
Rover Company’s New Model Car, 500 Ruston and Hornsby Car, 529 ; (Note), 571 Saloon Car Factory at Coventry, Standard
Motor Company, 497, 498
Standard 14 H.P. Motor Car and Engine, 497, 506 Transmission Systems, New, Lanchester and Sunbeam Six-cylinder Cars, 469 Tube, Puncture-proof, A. P. P. Tube, Limited, 528
Wolseley Car, Engine and Details, 498-500
MOTOR Car Works—see Works Motor Fuel “ Discol,” 101 MOTOR VEHICLES, COMMERCIAL, AT OLYMPIA :
580, 608, 609—see also Engines Chassis, Associated Equipment Company, 580 Chassis, Karrier Motors, Limited, 580 Chassis, 30-Cwt. Subsidy, Albion Motor Car
Company, 608, 610; Crossley Motors, Limited, 611, 612 Thornycroft, J. I. and Co., Ltd., Six-wheeled Lorry, 6-Ton Brewers’ Lorry, 581, 582 Trojan, 10 H.P. Vehicle, Leyland Motors, Limited, 580, 581 United Automobile Works Triangel Long- frame Six-wheeled Vehicle, 611, 613 MOTOR Vehicles, Speed and Petrol Mixture of, 116 Muller, W. J., Mechanical Stokers on Marine Water-tube Boilers, 274, 279 Multiflow’ Steam Superheaters, Galloways, Limited, 376 N NAVIGATION Congress—see Ships Netherland Shipbuilding Company’s Yard at
Amsterdam, 275, 282
New’castle, Royal Show at, 17, 34 New Orleans Ship Canal, 350 Nickel—see Iron and Steel Non-ferrous Metals in Engineering, Lecture, Sir Henry Fowler, 288 North, J. D., Technical Development of the
Aeroplane, 5
Notches and Scratches, 397 Nozzle Flow— see Depression o OBITUARY:
Ayrton, Hertha, 230 Barford, James Golbv, 16 Bligh, William G., 482 Craven, William Henry Saville, 504 Devitt, Sir Thomas L., 647 Dixon, Charles Frederick, 403 Harker, Dr. John Allen, 419
Ivatt, Henry Alfred (Portrait), 481 ; (Paragraph), 505
Laurence, Reginald, 101 Leblanc, Maurice, 504 Meik, Charles Scott, 49 Mitchell, Herbert E., 124 Nuttall, Sir Edmund, 419 Phillips, James Alexander, 347 Puplett, Samuel, 371 St. George, Percival Walter, 622 Scott, Alfred A., 205 ; (Letter), 248 Stead, Dr. J. E., 482 Steinmetz, Dr. (Portrait), 481 Walker, Edwin Robert, 285
O’BRIEN, Colonel E., on Railway Transport, 305, 313 Oil-burning System, Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company, Limited, 366 Oil Engines—see Engines Oil Meter, W. D. Fair and Co., 309 Omnibus Bodies, Building, Short Brothers, Limited, 102 {Two-page Supplement, July 21th, 1923) Optical Engineering and Applied Optics, 121 Optical Stress-Strain Recorders, 479 Ore-loading Machines for Lead Mines, 209 Otira Tunnel, New Zealand, 154 Oxy-acetylene Cutting Machine, Godfrey Engineering Company, 336 Oxytome Metal Cutting Machine, Alfred Herbert, Limited, 404 p PADDY Husks for Boiler Fuel, 566 Paint Sprayer, Portable, The Aerostyle, 363 Pan-American Standardisation, 200 Pantagraphs, Steel, 233ft. Long, 185 Paper Mill and its Steam Plant, Wayagamack, Quebec, 206, 207 Paraffin Engines—see Engines “ Parry ” Boiler-tube Cleaning Blower, 350 Patent Action Damages, 21 PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, BRITISH:
Aeronautics, 267 Batteries and Accumulators, 163, 215, 681 Building, 382
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 86, 163, 355, 465
Cranes and Conveyors, 216, 409, 520, 658 Crushing and Grinding, 27, 296, 328
Dynamos and Motors, 111, 139, 163, 215, 241, ‘267, 296, 355, 465, 491, 519, 546, 657
Electrical Appliances, 27, 139, 189, 355, 707
Engines, Internal Combustion, 27, 57, 85, 111, 163, 215, 267, 327, 355, 381, 409, 437. 491, 629, 657
Furnaces, 57, 328, 492, 658, 681 Gas Producers, 139, 491, 519 .
Lighting and Heating, 57, 140, 241, 328, 438 Locomotives, 28, 139, 381, 409, 629 Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 28, 58, 86, 112, 164, 190, 268, 296, 356, 438, 602, 629, 657, 707 Measuring and Testing Instruments, 58, 85, 140, 381, 438, 466, 492, 601, 629
Metallurgy, 58, 296, 682
Miscellaneous, 86, 140, 164, 190, 216, 242, 268, 296, 328, 356, 382, 410, 466, 492, 520, 546, 574, 602, 630, 658, 682, 707, 708 Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 112, 164, 189, 242, 296, 328, 356, 545, 682 Pumping and Blowing Machinerv, 28, 58, 216, 242, 296, 381, 438, 466, 546
Ships and Boats, 28, 409, 466, 681 Steam Generators, 111, 241, 355, 437, 573, 601
Switchgear, 85, 111, 267, 295, 327, 381, 438, 465, 491, 574, 601, 707 Telegraphs and Telephones, 85, 111, 139, 163, 189, 215, 241, 267, 295, 327, 410, 437, 466, 574, 601, 629, 657, 681, 707 Tramways and Railways, 140, 190, 216, 409, 545, 574, 681 Transformers and Converters, 27, 111, 189, 295, 327 Transmission of Power, 57, 85, 140, 215, 242, 295, 356, 409, 545, 573, 630, 657, 681
Turbine Machinery, 381, 519, 545, 573 Water Purification, 241 Welding, 58, 602
PATENT Working, British, 501 Patents for Inventions, 453 ; (Letters), 484 Patents, Restored, 315 Patentees, Joint, 562 Payment by Results—see Labour Personal and Business Announcements, 28, 58, 86, 112, 140, 161, 213, 242, 268, 328, 356, 382, 435, 463, 484, 517, 543, 574, 599, 622. 655, 682, 708 Petrie, Telford, on the Combined Use of Steam for Power and Other Purposes, 220 Petrie, Telford, Varying Specific Heats and Gas Engine Mixtures, 361 Petrol Engines—see Engines Petrol Mixture of Motor Vehicles, Speed and, 116 Petroleum, Drive Method of Winning, 454 Petroleum, Origin of, E. H. Cunningham-Craig, 530 Piling—see Sheet Pipe Bends, Some Awkward, Mill wall Engineering Company, Limited, 460 Pipe Casting, Stanton de Lavaud Machine and Other Plant, 104 Piston-rods—see Railway Locomotives Planing, High-speed Rotary, Stafford Ransome, 388, 412, 441 Plate Mill, 36in. Three-high, Davy Brothers, Limited, 218, 245 (Two-page Supplement, September 1th, 1923) Ploughs and Plough Engines, Motor, Motor Cable, and Steam Cable, John Fowler and Co., Limited, 18 Ploughs at the Royal Show, 18, 35, 38 Pneumatic Road Wheel, L. Nuttall, 135 Pneumatic Tools, Little Giant Grinder and Polisher, Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Company, 310 Polar Diagrams for Riveted Connections, J. B. Clarke, 639 Pollution, Air, in Towns of the United Kingdom, J. B. C. Kershaw, 128 Pontoons, Design of, K. S. Dodd, 331 Port Improvements in Chile, 208 Port of London Improvements, 130 ; (Letter), 513 Port of San Antonio, Chile, 321 Portland Cement Factory in the Sudan, Henry
R. Tutton, 447
Powdered Fuel, 695 Power-houses—see Electrical Matters Power Scrapers for Handling Ore, 391 Power Stations—see Electrical Matters Power from Waterways, Sir J. Purser Griffiths, 12, 38 Propellers, Marine—see Ships PUBLIC WORKS, ROADS AND TRANSPORT CONGRESS : 473, 565, 584, 594, 618—see also Exhibitions Programme and List of Papers, 473 Papers Read, Subjects of : Rivers Pollution and Sewage Disposal, 565 Water Supply ; Refuse Transportation ; Market Gardening ; Bridge Construction ; Reconstruction, Repair, &c., of Main Roads ; Estate Roads and Private Streets; Mechanical Appliances for Road Work, 594, 595 Town’s Gas, Quality and Composition of ; Position of Mains in Highways ; Stray Electric Currents; Charges in Road Construction and Maintenance ; Road Foundations and Carpeting; Evolution of the Road and Transport Thereon; Road Beautiful, 618, 619 PULVERISED Fuel and Efficient Steam Generation, David Brownlie, 665—see also Powdered Fuel PUMPS: A. G. Browning Pump, 337 ; (Correction), 379 Air Pump, “ Radojet,” John Musgrave and Sons, Limited, 364 Boiler Feed and Other Pumps at the Shipping Exhibition, Worthington Simpson, Limited, 225 Diesel Engine Pumping Plant in Egypt, 432 Electrically Driven Fuel Oil Pump, A. J.
Mumford, Limited, 432
Electromersible Pump, J. S. White and Co., Limited, 337 Fire Pump, Trailer, Merryweather and Sons, 38 Force Pump, F. W. Brackett and Co., Limited, 339 Four-cylinder Radial Pump for Hydraulic Press, Tangent Tool and Engineering Company, Limited, 338 High-lift Pump, Lee, Howl and Co., Limited, 558 Humphrey Pumps, Large, for Australia, W. Beardmore and Co., Limited, 673 (Two- page Supplement, December 21$/, 1923) Rotary Pumps, Stothert and Pitt, Limited, 310
“ Unchokable ” Pump, 366
Vertical Fuel Pump, Professor R. E. Mathot, 338 Williams-Janney Variable Delivery Pumps, Variable Speed Gears, Limited, 336 PUNCHING Machines—see Machine Tools Purification Plant—see Water Supply Q QUARTEPvNARY Alloys, Constitution, &c., Miss Marie L. V. Gayler, 317 Quasi-arc Petrol Generator Welding Set, 310 R RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS: General Matters: Automatic Couplings for Railway Wagons, 229 Building a Railway Coach in Six Days, 385 (Two-page Supplement, October 12th, 1923) Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 192 ;
(Correction), 230 Diggle Railway Accident, 49
Economic Railway Speeds, 15 ; (Letters), 49, 70, 96, 124 Head-on Railway Collision, 107 High-capacity Wagons, 397, 422 International Railway Congress, 1925, Reporters, 480 Main Une Electrification, 313 ; (Letter), 375 “ Never-Stop ” Railway at Southend. 94, 95 Paris-London Service, Accelerated, 431 Railway Accidents, 44
Railway Accidents in 1922, 145 Railway Bills in Parliament, 596 Railway Labour, 696 Railway Rates and Railway Wages, 154
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS (continued) : General Matters (continued):
Railway Returns for 1922, 322
Railway Telegraphy, One-wire and Three - Wire Systems for, 426 ; (Letter), 554 Railway Transport, Colonel O’Brien, 305 Railway Wagon Sides, Machine for Rounding and Cross-cutting Deals for, J. Pickles and Son, Limited, 236
Scemia-Renault Rail Car, 652
Signalling for the Empire Exhibition, 390 State Railways, 369 Stresses in Bridges, Connecting-rods, &c., Papers and Discussion at the British Association, 333 Ticket Machine in Railway Stations, 81 Vermot Shunting Tractor, 687, 694 British, Colonial and Indian : London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Building Railway Vehicles at Derby, 385 (Two-page Supplement, October 12th, 1923) Railway Wagon Building, 697 Foreign:
Bolivia, Railways in, 74
French Midi Railway Electrification, 588, 589, 595 ; (Letter), 614 Sahara, Proposed Railway Across the, 515 Sweden and Finland, Railway and Steamer
Service between, 459
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES : General Matters: Automatic Control of Locomotive Cut-off, 349 Electric Railway Locomotive for Mines, Shipyards, &c., Joseph Booth and Bros., Limited, 36 Extended Piston-rods, 618 Feed Heater for Small Locomotives, 404 Individuality in Locomotive Engineering, 454 Injector, Introduction of the, Sharp, Stewart and Co., Limited, 1860, 231 Links in the History of the Locomotive, E. A. Forward, 638, 661 Locomotive Booster, 369 ; (Letter), 403 Locomotive Driving, 562 ; (Letters), 583, 613 Locomotives and Trains, 203 ; (Letters), 248 Locomotives Included in Short Histories of Famous Firms, E. L. Ahrons : The Experiment, 1833, 194; Dublin and Kingstown Railway, Three Engines, 1833, 195 : Hibernia Class Engines, 195 ; Grand Junction Railway, Ten Passenger Engines, 1837, 105; The Atlas, circa 1838, 195 ; Standard Single-driver Engine, circa 1847—8, 195 ; London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Fifteen Engines, 1849, 196 ; German Railway Engines, 1845, 196; Manchester and Birmingham Railway, 1847, 196 ; Manchester and Birmingham and other Railway, 1846-9, 196 ; Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 1860-62, 196 ; “ Bloomers ” Londonand North-Western Railway, 1851-2, 196; Midland Railway, Ten “ Single ” Express Engines, 1868, 196 ; Midland Railway, Goods Engine, 1854-5, 196 ; Various Engines for Continent and Elsewhere, 196; Tank Engine, Eight-coupled, Mauritius Railways, 1867, 231 ; Japanese Railways, Passenger Engine, 1871, 231 ; London, Chatham and Dover Express Engine, 1873, 231 ; Express Passenger Engine, Midland Railway, 1874, 231 ; Eight-coupled Goods Engine, Barry Railway, 1886, 231; Paris Exhibition, Four-coupled Express Engine, P.O. Railway, 1873, 232 ; and Various Other Engines, Sharp, Stewart and Co., Limited, 194, 231 ; (Letter), 223 ; Lion and Tiger, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1838, 548 ; Early Engines for England, Germany and France, 1839, 1840 et seq., 548 ; Single Driver, 1845, 548 ; Single Driver, Midland Railway, 1845, 548; Passenger Engine, Madrid and Zaragoza Railway, 1858-9, 548 ; Bogie Engine, Copiapo and Caldera Railway, Chile, 1860, 548 ; Numerous Engines for English Railways, 1850-2, 549 ; Engines for Indian Railways from 1854 Onwards, 549; Celebrated Single Express Engines for Great Northern Railway, 1860-1, 549 ; “ Bloomer ” Express Engines and “Mail” Engines, 1861, 549; Great Western Engines, 1862, 549 ; Six- coupled Goods Engines, Midland Railway, 1866—8, 549 ; Russian Railway Engines, 1869-72, 549 ; Engines for the Argentine, 549, 550; Midland, Taff Vale, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 549, 550; Articulated Kitson-Meyer Engines for Chilian Nitrate and Railway Company, 1894, and Others, 550; KitsonandCo., Limited, 548 Marc Seguin and the Multi tubular Boiler, 638* 661 Multi-cylinder Locomotives, 255 ; (Letters), 319, 375 British, Colonial and Indian : Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Six-coupled Tank Locomotives, 172 British Locomotive Performances, J. T. Burton-Alexander, 684 Cornish Riviera Limited Express, Another Run with, 685 Great Western Railway Four-cylinder Engine, Caerphilly Castle, 197, 202 London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Eight-coupled Tank Engines, 476 Foreign : France, Locomotive Practice and Performance in, J. T. Burton-Alexander, 119, 143, 178 Paris-Orleans Railway Eight-coupled Tank Engines, 236 Poland, Small Locomotive and Railway Material for, Andrew Barolay, Sons and Co., Limited, 432 RANSOME, Stafford, High-speed Rotary Planing, 388, 412, 441 Ravier System of Sheet Piling, 132 Refuse Collecting Vehicle, Electric, Electricars, Limited, 642 Reinforced Concrete Filter, Pump-house, &c., for Thames Water at Beckton Gasworks, 168 (Two-page Supplement, August 11th, 1923) Reno Marine Salvage System, 471, 478 (Two- page Supplement, November 2nd, 1923) Research—see Scientific Restored Patents, 315 Rhodin, John G. A., on Theories and Hypotheses, 232 Road Fund, Annual Report, 649 Road Roller, Crude Oil Engine-driven, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Limited, 640, 644 Road Roller, Motor, John Fowler and Co., Limited, 584 Road Roller, Tandem Motor, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 623 Road Roller, 8-Ton Tandem Steam, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 584 ; (Note), 625 Road Roller, Three-wheeled Motor, Aveling and Porter, Limited, 640 Road Rollers, Steam and Tractor Type, Robey and Co., Limited, 19 ; Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, 20 Road Sweeping Machine, Three-wheeled. Lacre Motor Car Company, Limited, 641 Road Transport, A. E. Berriman, 305 Road Wheel, Pneumatic, L. Nuttall, 135 Roller, 8-Ton Motor, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited 37 Roller, Motor, Small, for Special Work, Barford and Perkins, Limited, 586 Rolling Mills—see Iron and Steel Rosenhain, Dr. Walter, on Science and Industry in America, 271, 298, 312, 330, 358, 384, 412, 440, 468, 494, 522 Rotary Tine Tilling Machine, Simar Rototillers, 17 Rotterdam, Nautical Institution and Museum, 258 Royal Show at Newcastle, 17, 34 Rubber Road Surfacing Blocks, Interlocking, C. W. Read’s System, 651 Ramsey and Fitch, The Work of, Engineer- Captain Edgar C. Smith, 418 Rutherford, Professor Sir E., on Electrical Structure of Matter, 284 s SAFETY at Sea—see Ships Sahara, Proposed Railway Through, 20, 515 St. James’s Park and Other London Lakes, 60, 92, 93 Salvage, Marine—see Ships San Antonio, Chile, Port of, 321 Scemia-Renault Rail Car, 652 Schneider-Diesel Engines—see Engines Scholarship Awards, Beama, 543 Schoop Process of Melting and Atomising Coating Metal, Metallisation, Limited, 339 Science—see also History Science and Industry in America, Dr. Walter Rosenhain, 271, 298, 312, 330, 358, 384, 412, 440, 468, 494, 522—for Titles of Illustrations see Subjects Index, Bureau of Standards. Academy and the National Research Council, Washington, 523 Aluminium and Light Alloys, 330 ; Nickel and Monel Metal, 330
Automobile Industry, 358
Bureau of Standards, 495
Chemical Division, 522
Conclusion, 522
Electrical Industries, 358, 384
General Observations, 440, 523
Geophysical Laboratory, 494
Glass, 384, 496
Glass and Ceramic Research, 385
Harvard and Yale, 412 ; Case School, 412 ;
Illinois, 440
McCook’s Field, Dayton, Ohio, 468
Mellon Institute, 469
Michigan, 440
Non-ferrous Metals, 298 ; Copper Refining, 299, 312 Non-ferrous Metal Industries, 331 ; Iron and Steel, 331
Other Departments, 523 Public Institutions, 468 Testing Machines, 495 Tungsten, 358
Universities and Colleges, 412 ; The M.I.T., 412 Washington Navy Yard, 468 Watertown Arsenal, 468 Scientific and Industrial Research, Abstract of Report, 398 Scott, E. Kilburn, Manufacture of Ferrovanadium by Electric Furnace, 636 Scott-Still—see Engines Sea Action—see Deterioration Seaplanes—see Aeronautics Seaport, The Ideal, Presidential Address, Sir J. G. Broodbank, 374 “Service” Black Paint, H. Dodgson White, Limited, 365 Shears, Guillotine (Hydraulic), Sketch Shearing Machine, Bruce Peebles and Co., Limited, 246 Shears, Steam-Hydraulic Slab, Davy Brothers, Limited, 220 Sheet Piling, Ravier System of, 132 SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING: General: American Lakes, Large Steamer for, 614 Canal Barge, Electrically Propelled, Gill Propeller Company, 252
Canal Barge, Further Trial, 394 Donkin-Scott Electric Steering Gear, 366
Dutch River Lighters, A. M. Schippers, 257 Electric Propulsion of Ships, F. H. Clough, 334
Gill Shrouded Propeller, 224
International Navigation Congress, 10, 38, 65 Concrete and Reinforced Concrete, 66 Dimensions of Port Works, 11 Inland Navigation Section, 12 Lighting and Beaconing of Coasts, 66 Liquid Fuel for Ships, 66 Limiting Size of Ships, 11
Locks, Elevators and Inclined Planes, 39
Navigation Congress Results, 43
Ocean Transport Problems, 10 Power from Waterways, 12, 38 Resolutions Adopted, 12, 39, 66 Ship and Port Equipment, 40, 65 SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING (continued) : General (continued): International Navigation Congress (continued) :
Waste Heat Recovery on Ships, 617
Waterways and Power Production, Sir J. Purser Griffith’s Report, 12, 38
Lifeboat Flooding Experiments, 223
Lifeboats, Wireless Set for, Radio Communication Company, Limited, 251
Lloyd’s Register Book of Shipping, 69
Lloyd’s Register, Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 48, 401 Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Annual Report, 482 Loadlines, Deck Cargoes and Safety of Life, Regulations for, Sir Westcott S. Abell, 174 Mechanical Problems of Safety at Sea, Thomas Hawksley Lecture, Sir Westcott S. Abell, 500 Motor Craft Building at Cowes, S. E. Saunder- son, Limited, 184 Motor Lifeboat, Paraffin-driven, Seamless Steel Boat Company, Limited, 251 Nautical Institution and Museum at Rotterdam, 258 Netherland Shipbuilding Company’s Yard at Amsterdam, 275, 282 Propeller Cavitation, Experimental Researches on, 590, 605, 632, 660 Reno Marine Salvage System, 471, 478 (Two- page Supplement, November 2nd, 1923) Sal Log, “ Dead-beat ” Compass and other Navigating Instruments, Henry Hughes and Son, Limited, 365 Ship Form and Steering, A. W. Johns, 551, 576 Shipping Exhibition—see Exhibitions
Sperigyro Automatic Helmsman, 249 “ Sperigyro ” Ship Stabiliser, 122
Subdivision of Large Passenger Ships, A. C. F. Henderson, 257, 261 Viking Ships’ Winch, Electric, and Contactor Control Cubicle, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Limited, 337 Waterproof Ventilation of Ships, John Gibbs and Son, Limited, 338 Wireless Telegraphy and Shipping, Commander J. A. Slee, 335
Wreck Statistics for 1922, 131
Naval Matters :
Cruising Ships of the Navy, 425 Guns of the Swedish Battleship Sverige, 76
Gyroscopic Ship Stabiliser for the Navy, “ Sperigyro,” Metropolitan-Vickers Company, Limited, 122, 249
Naval Programme, The New, 533 Singapore Naval Base, 127
Foreign Navies:
Swedish Navy, 76
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels : American Lake and Coastwise Motor Ships, 527 Canadian Diesel-driven Motor Car Ferry Boat, Yarrows Limited, 80 Diesel-electric Ship La Playa, Cammell Laird and Co., Limited, 420, 456 Faraday, Siemens Cable Ship, Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Companv, Limited, 98, 106
Flying Cloud, Motor Yacht, 37, 50, 51
Hamburg-American Liner Albert Ballin, 271, 273, 299 Lifeboat, H. F. Bailey, and Launching Slip at Cromer, 81 Minnewaska, Atlantic Transport Liner, Harland and Wolff, Limited, 235
Motor Cruiser Lady Clare II., 568
Motor Lifeboat, 60-Foot, for New Brighton, 320 Motor Yacht Beryl, S. E. Saunderson, Limited, 184 Peninsular and Oriental Liner Mooltan, 349 Restless, Steam Yacht, John Brown and Co., Limited, 155 Sarpedon, Twin-screw Steamer, Cammell Laird and Co., Limited, 374 Twin-screw Motor Tanker, Arnus, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 485 Yacht, 35-Foot Sailing Motor, J. I. Thorny- croft and Co., Limited, 224 SHOWS—see Exhibitions Signalling, Railway—see Railways Singapore Naval Base, 127 Sixty Years Ago, 12, 48, 79, 96, 135, 150, 174, 197, 230, 258, 289, 319, 347, 362, 399, 431, 446, 473. 513, 530, 558, 586, 615, 647, 668, 692 ; (Letter), 702 Sluice Valve—see Valve Small Inventions, 199 Smith, Engineer-Captain Edgar C., on the Work of Rumsey and Fitch, 418 Smoke Abatement in Hamburg, 107 South Africa, Light Rail Traction in, 647 Southend, “ Never-Stop ” Railway at, 94, 95 Specific Heats, Varying—see Engines Specifications : Their Use and Abuse, 15 Speed Gears, Hydraulic Variable, and Pumps, Williams-Janney System, Variable Speed Gears, Limited, 336 Sperigyro—see Ships Sperry Searchlight, 249 “ Spotanok,” Taylor, Gibsons, Limited, 226 Spun Iron Pipe, Stanton Ironworks Company, Limited, 104 Stack Feeder, Wm. Foster and Co., Limited, 17, 18 Standardisation, Pan-American, 200 Stanton Spun Iron Pipe, 104 Steam, Combined Use of, for Power and other Purposes, Telford Petrie, 220 Steam Engines—see Engines Steam Superheaters, Multi-flow, Galloways, Limited, 376 Steam Turbines for Marine Propulsion in Holland, Professor Dresden, 274, 283 Steel—see Iron and Steel Steinmetz, Dr. Charles, on the Energy of the Future, 67 Stoker, Mechanical Chain Grate, Babcock and Willcox, Limited, 336 Stone Drying and Mixing Plant, Multiple, Frederick Parker, 641 Stone Drying and Tarring Plant, Model, Winget, Limited, 586 Street Gully Emptier, Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Company, 38 Stress Distributions, Complex, Discussion of Group of Papers at the British Association, 333 Stress Indicator, Fereday-Palmer, 68 Submarine Engines—see Engines Success, Hoad to, Cecil Bentham, 455 Suction Gas Plant for Anthracite or Coke, National Gas Engine Company, Limited, 18 Sukkur Barrage, 459 Sulphuretted Hydrogen, Dangers of, 99 Sumner, Captain P. IL, on Kite Balloons and Airships in Naval Warfare, 194 Superheater, Uptake, for Scotch Marine Boilers, Thos. Sugden, 134 Surfacing Machines—see Machine Tools T TABLE, Punching—see Machine Tools Tamping Machines, B. Johnson and Son, 642 Tar and Bituminous Macadam Plant, Ban- some Machinery Company, Limited, 624 Tar-macadam Mixer, Ord and Maddison, 623 Tar-sprayer and Gritter, Aveling and Porter, Limited, 640 Technical Education in China, 345 Telegraphy, Railway—see Railways Temperature Indicators, Control, Recorders, &c., Cambridge and Paul Company, Limited, 251 Tensile Test, 128 Theories and Hypotheses, J. G. A. Rhodin, 232 Thermal Storage, C. E. Stromeyer, 583 Thrashing Machine, All-steel, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 20, 38 Thrust Boring Machine, Mangnall Irving, Improved Type, 321 Ticket Machines in Railway Stations, 81 Timber in Eastern Asia, 567 Timber, Fir versus Pine, 515 Timber, Machine for Cross-cutting and Rounding, John Pickles and Son, Limited, 236 Tire Department and Equipment at Penistone Works, 3 (Two Two-page Supplements, July 6th, 1923) Tractor Engines—see also Engines Tractor, Farmer’s Light-weight, Saunderson Tractor and Implement Company, Limited, 35 Tractor, Petrol Shunting, The Verrnot, 687, 694 Tractors and Traction Engines at the Royal Show, 18, 19 Tramways, Glasgow, 20 Trailers at the Commercial Motor Exhibition, 609 Trains—see Railways Transport and its Indebtedness to Science, Sir Henry Fowler, 305, 314 Transport, Land, Sea, and Air, 305 Trucks, Electric—see Electrical Matters Tube Bending Machine, C. R. H. Bonn, 514 Tubular Heating—see Electrical Matters Tudsbery, Henry T., and Alec. R. Gibbs, An
Examination of Menai Suspension Bridge, 78
Tunnel, Otira, New Zealand, 154 Tunnel, Proposed, Under the River Mersey, 362 Turbine Machinery of the Liner Albert Ballin,
Blohm and Voss, 271, 273, 299
Turbine, Steam, Design, New, 76 Turbines, Binary Fluid, W. J. Kearton, 560, 561, 563 Turbines, Gas, Jules Deschamps, 646 ; (Letter). 676 Turning Machines—see Machine Tools Tutton, Henry, Portland Cement Factory at Makwar, Sudan, 447 u UNEMPLOYMENT—see Labour V VALVE, High-pressure Air, and other Valves and Valve Regrinding Apparatus, Robey and Co., Limited, 225 Valve, Quick-closing Sluice, Alley and Mac- Lellan, Limited, 651 Valve, Wireless—see Works Valves for High-pressure Superheated Steam, Hunt and Mitton, Limited, 337 Vanadium—see Ferro-vanadium Velocity of Flow in Pipes, Eric Crcwdson, 635 Vermot Shunting Tractor, Petrol, 687, 694 w WAGON, 6-Ton Steam, R. Garrett and Sons, Limited, 37 Wagon, Super-Sentinel Steam, Sentinel Wagon Works, Limited, 19 Wagons at the Commercial Motor Exhibition, Atkinson Uniflow Steam Wagon, 608, 610, 611; Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies 6-Ton Steam, 611, 612 ; Scainmell Lorries, Limited, Six-wheeled Tipping Wagon and Turntable, 611, 612; J. and E. Hall, Limited, 612; Sentinel Wagon Works “ Super-Sentinel ” Steam Wagon, 612 ; Walker Brothers’ Motor Lorry and Horse Wagon Units, 613 ; Fodens’ 6-Ton Steam Wagon, 613 Wagons and Couplings, Railway-—see Railways Wagons, High-capacity, 394, 397 Wagons at the Royal Show, 19, 37, 38 Wagons, Steam, Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Company, Robey and Co., Limited, Wm. Foster and Co., Limited, 642 Walker, Wm. J., Mathematical Theory of the Herbert Hardness Tester, 244 Water Elevator, Cellular Band, Caruelle, Boulton and Paul, Limited, 307, 308 Water Level Indicator, Distant-reading, Aster Engineering Company, Limited, 431 Water Meters, George Kent, Limited, Beck and Co., Limited, 642 Water Softening Installations, Lassen-Hjort and Permutit, United Water Softeners, Limited, 336 WATER SUPPLY : Conservation and Control of Water Resources, Joseph Parry, 335 Contrivances for Storage and Distribution of Water, E. Bruce Ball, 47 London Water Supply, Annual Report, Sir A. C. Houston, 167, 177, 696 Purification Plant for Tidal River Water, United Water Softeners, Limited, 168 (Two-page Supplement, August 11th, 1923) St. James’s Park and other London Lakes, Water Supply of, 60, 92, 93 WAVE-POWER Transmission Set, W. H. Dorman and Co., Limited, 224, 225 Weighing Machines, W. and T. Avery, Limited, 36 Weir, James G., on Boiler Feed Water Circuits, 372 Welding, Quasi-arc Process, 310 Wheel, Pneumatic Road, L. Nuttall, 135 Winch—see Ships Winding Equipment in Mines—see Electrical Matters Windlasses, Motor, J. and H. McLaren, Limited, 38 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY :
EXHIBITS AT THE WHITE CITY :
British Thomson-Houston Amplifiers,
LoudSpeakersand Gramophone Attachment ; Brown, S. G., and Co., Crystalox Loud Speaker and Amplifier, 554 British Thomson-Houston Valves ; 524 ; Penton Valves, 524 Burndept Coil Holder and Crystal Detector 502 ; Siemens Variometer Rotor and Valve Holder, Loud Speakers, &c., 503 Dubilier Condenser Company Accessories, Anti-capacity Switch, Anode and Grid Resistances, &c., 503 ; Marconi Heterodyne Wave Meter and Accessories, 503 Edison Swan Electric Company Two-valve and Four-valve Receivers, Transmitting and Receiving Valves, 554 Graham, Alfred, and Co., Portable and other Loud Speakers, 504 Igranic Electric Company Accessories, &c., Valve Lighting Set, Electric Soldering . Iron, Vario Coupler, Variometer, Inter- valve Transformer, Coil Holder, 525, 526 McMichael, L., Limited, Receiving Sets and Accessories; Marconi Company Receiving Sets, Amplifiers, Loud Speakers, New Dull Emitter Power Valves, &c., 554 Metropolitan-Vickers “ Radiobrix ” Units and “ Cosmos ” Valve Sets, 525 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELE
PHONY (continued} : EXHIBITS AT THE WHITE CITY (continued}'.
Pvadio Instruments’ Receiving Sets and Eliminator, 524 Receiving Sets, Burn dept, Sterling, 502 ; General Electric Company, Marconi Portable Set, 503 Telephone Receiver, “ Frenophone,” S. G . Brown and Co., 524
French Wireless Regulations, 133
Instruments for Ships, Wireless Beam Receiver and Aerial for, Wireless for Lifeboat, Marconi International Marine Company, Limited, 277, 278 l ifeboats, Wireless Set for, Radio Communication Company, Limited, 251 Three-valve Wireless Receiver and Continuous Wave Wireless Telegraph Transmitter, Siemens Bros., 364, 365 Wireless Telegraphy and Shipping, Commander J. A. Slee, 335
Wireless Valve—see Works
WOOD, Economic Use of, 153 Wood Moulding and Planing Machine, Thos. Robinson and Sons, 34 Wood Planing—see also Planing Wood, R. McKinnon, on Control of Aeroplanes at Low Speeds, 32 ; and on Reliability of Model Data, 33 WORKS : Clvdebridge Steel Works, David Colville and Sons, Limited, 218, 228, 245, 254 (Two- page Supplement, August 31.*?/, 1923) (Two- page Supplement, September 1th, 1923)
Derby Works, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Building Railway Coaches, 385 (Two-page Supplement, October 12th, 1923) Mass Production of Railway Wagons, 697 Motor Car Works, A.C. Motor Cars, Limited, 77 Penistone Works of Cammoll Laird and Co., Limited, 2, 14, 30, 42, 62, 72 (Two .Two page Supplements, July 6th, 1923)
Short Brothers, Limited, Omnibus Body Building, 102, (Two-page Supplement, July 21th, 1923) Wireless Valve Repairing Works, Revalco, Limited, 648, 649 WORLD Power Conference, 403, 555 Wrecks—see Ships Y YACHTS—see Ships Yarrow Convalescent Home, 101 York, City of, Hydro-electric Power Station at
Linton Lock, 148, 149
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