The Engineer 1925 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs
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A ABERDEEN University Engineering Department, Construction and Equipment, 299 Acid Tanks, Ingredients Used in Coating Interiors, 625 AERONAUTICS :
Aerial Surveys in Canada, 133
Aerodrome with Aviation School for Capital of Shansi Province, China, 709 Air Service Proposed between Kisumu, on Lake Victoria Nyanza and Khartum, 435 Airship Service to India, Base at Ismailia, 105 Aviation : Its Commercial Value by Timesaving, 299 Flying Boat for Mr. H. Vanderbilt, 681 Light Planes, Design of, and Engine Limits, Recorders for Aeroplanes, British and American Practice, 489
Royal Air Force Display, 473
Scholarship and Prize Awards bv Air Ministry, 215 Seaplanes for Dutch Government, Napier Lion Engines, 105 Six and a-Half Days’ Airship Service between England and New Zealand, Commander Burney’s View, 489
Sweden, Manufacture of Aeroplanes in, 47
Two New Air Routes between Belfast and Great Britain, 133 Two Problems in Aeroplane Design, 299 United States Naval Seaplane Flight, Endurance Record, 517 Wright Aeroplane to Remain at Washington, ALBERTA Main Highways Rapid Increase, All-metal Roofs and Immunity from Lightning, Alloy of Copper and Silicon, Resistance to Corrosion, 407 Alloys, Pyrophoric, Production of, Dr. M. F.
Bugden, 47
Alluvial Platinum Fields Worked by Dredging, 461 Aluminium Alloys, Two New, 573 Aluminium Obtained by Hoope Electrolvtical Process, 625 Aluminium as Protection of Metals Against
High Temperature, 517
American Lead Pencils, 381 Ammonia, Synthetic, Plant for Manufacture by Claude Process, 161 Antimony and Bismuth, Imperial Institute Monographs, 189 Apprentices, Scholarships for, 523 Arsenic Output in Southern Rhodesia, 461 Asphalt Discovery in Manitoba, 133 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
ASSOCIATION, BRITISH :
Annual Meeting, Date and Presidents, 585
ASSOCIATION, BRITISH ACETYLENE AND WELDING : Fluxes, Need for Scientific Examination and Price Reduction, Professor Darling, 133 ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, MANCHESTER : New Process for Mild Stainless Steel Production, H. S. Primrose, 15 ASSOCIATION OF MINING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
North of England Branch :
Pole-mounted Outdoor Sub-stations, A.
Bannister, 327
ASSOCIATION, WOMEN’S ELECTRICAL :
Three Lectures, Miss M. Partridge, 309
INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
Annual Meeting and Dinner, 145, 447 ;
Programme, 447
Autumn Meeting, 145
INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :
Fuel Economy, E. W. L. Nicol, 299
Student Graduate Examination Passes, 143
INSTITUTE OF METALS :
Journal of Institute, Lectures and Papers, 169 1 Numerous Elections of Members and Students, 47
INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS :
Annual General Meeting, Annual Report Elections of Officers, 625
INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
President and Vice-presidents Elected, 105
INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS :
Annual Meeting at Leeds, 595
Industrial Water Supply and Stream
Pollution, Symposium on, 595
Library Being Formed for the Institution, 685 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
Annual General Meeting, Election of Council, 585 Awards for Papers, 529 Association of London Students :
Forty-fourth Annual Dinner, 365 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS : Annual Dinner, 227 Awards of Premiums for Papers, 557 Awards of Students’ Premiums, 696
Engraved Plate for Production of Presidential Certificate, Present from Institution of Gas Engineers, 133 Examination for Associate Membership, 69, 256 Faraday Medal Award, 145; and Presentation, 309, 353 International Conference on Extra High- tension Supply Systems, 327 Model Form of General Conditions of Contract (Export), 724 Permanent Magnets in Theory and Practice, S. Evershed, 309 War Memorial Book, 501
INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS :
Election of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and also of the Lord Mayor of Manchester as Honorary Members, 227 INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS :
Summer Meetings, 696 ; Programme, 696 INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
Acceleration of Work, Speed versus Haste, Dr. Russell, 215
Annual Dinner, 541
INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :
North-Western Branch :
Annual Dinner, 365
INSTITUTION OF MINING ENGINEERS :
Scholarship in Mining, Mavor and Coulson, Award, 337
INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY : Awards of Medal, Premium and Prizes, 473 INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
Annual Meetings, Annual Dinner, Offers of Medal and Premium for Papers, 170
Awards of Gold Medal and Premium, 155
INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS : Limiting Possibilities in Steam Plants, Professors A. L. Mellanby and William Kerr, 327 ASSOCIATIONS. INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued): INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS : Election of President and Vice-presidents, 221
INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
Annual Meeting, Reports, Election of Officers, 532 Benzene Centenary Celebration, “ Faraday as a Chemist,” 668 General Meetings and Elections, 170, 283, 447, 557, 668 Programme of Lectures, 557 Sir Humphry Davy’s Letters, Valuable Gift to Association, Legacy, 447 INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS : Formation of Sectional Committees of the Science Committee, 227
Officers and Council for Session, 668 SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY : Birmingham and Midland Section :
Iron in Antiquity, by Dr. J. Newton Friend, 215
London Section :
Tar Distillation, Breaking-up Pitch by Novel Method, C. O. Condrup, 215
SOCIETY, FARADAY :
General Discussion at Oxford, Photochemical Reactions in Liquids and Gases, 693
Meeting, Symposium and Discussion, Physical Chemistry of Steel-making Pro- ’ cesses, 579 SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS : Fothergill Prize for Essay, 557 Joint Meeting :
Non-stop Flight to the Netherlands East Indies, Mr. T. a Thuessink van der Hoop, 517 A PAL ANTA, Ltd., Works Run Entirely by Women, 681 Atmospheric Conditions, Effect on Workers, Experiments, 269 Australian Eucalyptus Timber and Paper Manufacture, 681 Australia s Deficiency in Underground Water, Fresh and Salt Water from Neighbouring Bores, 545 Automobile Club, The Royal, Demonstration of Anti-dazzle Headlamps and Devices, 215
B BEET Sugar Factory at Wellington, Farmers' Undertaking to Grow Beet, 489 Beet Sugar Factory near Yeovil to Work on Next Year’s Crop, 133 Beet Sugar Factories, ^Estimated Cost and Proportion Expended in this Country, 709 Beet Sugar Filtered with Bone Charcoal, No such Plant yet Available in Britain, 133 Belfast Association of Engineers, 554 Bell, 10 Tons in Weight, Fourth Largest in the
Country, at Bristol University, 461
Bentonite, Canadian, for Soap-making, 381 Bentonite Used in Wet Grinding of Asphalt, 77 Bideford Fourteenth Century Bridge Reopened, Bihar and Orissa, Attempt to Force Back River to its Old Channel, 407 Birmingham Fire Brigade New Equipment for Emergencies affecting Breathing, 15 Birmingham to the Sea Canal Scheme, Parliamentary Assistance Question, 653 Birmingham University Establishing School of Sugar, 133 Birmingham University New Buildings, 77 Black Country Reminiscences, Duncan J.
Shedden, 353
Black Country Waste Dumps, Proposals for Utilisation, 133 Boiler Accident, Unusual, on Dredger, 545 Boiler Ashes in a Wet State, Test of Water Consumed in Handling, 161 Boiler Explosion, Cause of Failure, 77 Boiler Explosion and Danger of Replacing Rivets by Bolts. 545 Boiler Explosion, Formal Investigation, 709 Boiler Water Gauges, Board of Trade Notice, 299 Bomb, Live German, Retrieved from Thames Mud at Waterloo Bridge, 573 Brassfounders in China, Their Poor Pay, 709 Brick Walls, Relative Strength Tests with Different Mortars, 407 Bridge at Boothferry Over the Ouse, Cost of, 133 Bridge-building Rivets, Unsatisfactory, and the Remedy, 469 Bridge to Connect Montreal with South Shore, 573 Bridge, Damoodar River, near Telmucho, Opened for Traffic, 77 Bridge, Highway, Over Copenhagen Harbour, 335 Bridge, New, Over the Derwent at Baslow Opened, 545 Bridge Over the Dee at Q.ueensferry, 105 Bridge Over the Hudson at Castleton, New York, 545 Bridge Over the White Nile at Khartum, 1 89 Bridge Renewal at Hampton Court, 653 Bridge Replacement at Sunderland, 189 Bridges, Two, to Connect Staten Island with New Jersey, 47 Brighton Sewers Board Loan, 573 Brinell Hardness Numbers, Table of, 309 British Chemical Standards, Non-ferrous Standard Samples, 614 British Columbia, Second Narrows of BurrarcJ Inlet, Road and Railway Bridge under Construction for, 435 B.E.A.M.A. Scholarships, 567 British Embassy at Tokyo to Replace that Damaged by Earthquake, 599 BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION : \ Building Materials, Sectional Committee and Sub-committees to be Appointed, 240
Election of Officers and Members, 573
Standard Specifications:
Bus-bars and Connections, 473, 681
Marine Flanges, 61
Non-ferrous Locomotive Material, Revision of Specifications for, 309 BRITISH FOUNDRYMEN, INSTITUTION OF : Birmingham Branch : Pyrometric Control of Annealing Temperatures, D. Wilkinson, 104
Lancashire Branch : John Wilkinson Medal Examination, 468
Sheffield and District and East Midland Branches:
Visit to Yorkshire Ironworks, 337
Broadcasting—see Wireless Building Material, “ Celotex ” Manufactured from Sugar Cane Residue, 47 Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 473
Chicago’s Abstraction of Water from Great Lakes, Loss Entailed, 299
Chilean Government Bridge Construction Scheme, 551
Chimney Collapse, Fatal, near Leipzig, 709
Chimney, Reinforced Concrete, 300ft. High, in Australia, 189
Chimney’s Resistance to Demolition by Dynamite, 653
China, Official Estimate of Population, 15 China’s Two Largest Zinc Mines, 625 Chinese Cities, Widening of Streets, 327
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
Accidental Coal Discovery at Ilkeston, 105 Alberta’s Coal Production, 327
Anthracite Coal, Excellent Seam Struck in New Glanamman Colliery, 381 Argada Colliery, First Opened on Karanpura Coalfield, India, 687 Bengal Coal Quality and Quantity, Increasing Importations, 15 Bentley Colliery Starting New Seam Below Barnsley Bed, 133
Bly th, New Coaling Staithes Equipment, 435
Boring Operations at Sutton, South of Doncaster, 299
British India Coal Output Statistics, 161
Brodsworth Colliery, New Third Shaft Working, 189 Carboscope for Estimation of Ash Content in Coal, 15 China, Coal Seam Discovery Near Suiyuan, 709 Coal Dust in Mines, Methods of Control, 189 Coal Getting, The Best Method, Mavor and Coulson’s View, 709
Coal-handling Plant at Port Sudan, 133
Coal Mine Fire Ended by a Year’s Labour, 353 Coal in New South Wales, New Discoveries, 407 Coal Output of the United Kingdom in 1924, Steadily Diminishing Quantity, 189 Output*of Coal, Further Big Decrease, 709 Coatbridge Sewer Excavation and Coal Seam Discovery, 189
Coal Prospects at Winslow, Bucks., 681 Coal Shipping at Rapid Rate, 709
Coke Competition with View to Improving Gas Coke, 215, 573 Coke Production Recommended at Fernie, British Columbia, 381 Coke Samples Pulverisation, Various Methods, 461 Daily Output of Coal in Some Canadian Mines, 625
Discovery of Coal near Worksop, 545
Durban Navigation Collieries, New Coalbearing Ground Acquired, 381
Emergency Speed of Hoisting from Mines, 77 Garforth Colliery at Barnbow, Steady Progress with Construction, 105 German Coal Industry Crisis, 269
Kamasamndram, South India, Coal Discovery, 299 Kent Collieries, Suggested Deep-water Port for Shipping Coal, 133 Lamps for Coal Miners, Electric, Replacing Flame Lamps in America, 241 Low Temperature Carbonisation, Result of Coal Tests, 269 Plant to Carbonise 1000 Tons of Coal Daily, 573 Mysore Government’s Important Coal Discovery, 381,573 New Pits and Colliery Villages Projected at Awkley and Micklebring, 461 Powdered Coal Objected to as being an Explosive, 653 Pulverised Coal-fired Boilers, Favourable Test Against Mechanical Stokers, 241 Richmond Main Colliery, Australia, Record Output, 15 Seven Lines Cable, New, to Link Up Yorkshire Collieries, 161 Ship Coaling Record in New South Wales, Harbour, 241
South African Coal,Output for March, 625
South Australian Government Investigating Possibilities of Utilising Brown Coal, 625 South Wales Coalfield, Support of Underground Workings, 105 Spitzbergen Coal Production, Anticipations for this Season’s Output, 545 Stone Dusting in Coal Mines, Best Materials for, 189 United States Collieries, Fatality Rate Statistics, 15 Valuable New Seam of Coal in the Ere wash Valley, 105 Victorian State Coal Mine at Wonthaggi, Estimate of Coal Still in Mine, 625
Winslow, Possibility of Coal Mining Near, 517 World’s Record for a Day’s Coal Output, 161 World’s Record Broken, 327
Yorkshire Collieries, Meeting Underground of Two Sets of Workers, 299 “ COA4.LITE ” as Motor Fuel Tested and Triumph over Imported Spirit, 353 Cochin Harbour Development Loan, 189 Commercial Developments in Europe, Ten Lectures at City of London College, 27 Commercial Motor Vehicles Parade, Thorny- croft Successes, 435, 447 Company Registered as Limited by Guarantee and Not Having a Capital, 517 Compressed Air Explosions, 189 Concrete Houses and .Cement Factory, 201 Concrete Vessels Rendered Impervious to Acid by German Process, 77 Consulting Engineers, Association of, Annual Dinner, 393 Copper, Conductivity of Crystallised Form of, Compared with that of Pure Electrolytic Copper, 241 Copper Discovery in Newfoundland, 15 Copper Mines, Congo-Rhodesia Borderland, Predictions as to Value, 105 Copper Ore Prospecting in Algeria, 15 Copper Ores from the Belgian Congo, Electrolytic Treatment, 381 Copper Output Increased from Katanga, Congo, 15 Copper-Steel Alloy as Possible Non-corrosive Transmission Line Pole, 461 Corrosion Institute in America, 517 Corrosion, Nature and Prevention of, 117 Corrosion Ravages, Effort to Check, by Formation of New American Institute, 489
D
DAM, Experimental Arch, in Southern California, 625
Dar-es-Salaam Wharf Facilities to be Improved, 15
Death of Mr. W. W. Bradfield, 353
Death of Professor Henry M. Lamb, 461
Delco-Remy and Hyatt, Ltd., Staff Dinner, 473
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH :
Fuel Research Board :
Technical Paper No. 10 Continues Report on Carbonisation of Coal, &c., 47 Technical Paper No. 12, Heating of Rooms, 709 Third Memorandum, 653 Dictionaries, Illustrated Technical, British Office Opened for Schlomann—Oldenbourg Series, 230 Distilling Plant for Treating Shale in Tasmania, 241 Dock, New Graving, at Durban, 189 Docks, Graving and Floating, at Vancouver Island, 545 Doncaster Corporation Allotments for Numerous Schemes, 545 Douglas Motor Cycle’s Climbing Feat, 381 Dredging Fleet on the St. Lawrence River, 681 Drop-stamped Railway Wheels, 557 Dry Dock, Large New Proposed, at Launceston, Tasmania, 77 Duralumin, Die-stamping, H. A. Whiteley, 189 Durban Harbour Entrance Improvement, Recommendations, 545 Dust Removal in Briquetting Plants, Electrical Compared with Water Cleaning, 407 Dust Removal from Potters’ Shops, 573 E EBBW VALE Ironstone Mines, Reopening, 215 ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Alternating Currents in Sheathed Cables, Losses Involved in Distribution, 489 Automatic Rotary Converter Sub-station, Third Completed in Durban, 545 Berlin, Proposed New Electric Power Station, 681 Birmingham’s Profit on Electric Supply, 653 Botany, N.S. Wales, Suggested as Site for New Power-house, 625 Buenos Aires Projected Big Electric Power Installation, 709 Cable between Vancouver and Fiji to be Doubled, 161 Canada, Big New Power Plant and Transmission Line to Winnipeg, 15 Canadian Montmorency Power Company, Projected 6000 H.P. Development, 407 Capetown, New Generating Station for, 625 Chinese Government, Shansi Province, to Erect Steam-electric Power Plants, 709 Darlington Electricity Undertaking, Output and Working Cost, 105 Earth Connection, American Method of Making, 241 Electrical Industry and Prices in Prussia, Poor Trade, 105 Electric Main Underground Haulage, 517 Electricity Production by Public Utility Power Plants in 1924, 709 Explosions in Electrical Conduits and Sodium Salt, 517 Farms’ Need of Electric Power and Excessive
Cost of Application, 545
Fireproofing Medium for Protection of Switchboard Wire, 625 Halifax and Huddersfield Electricity Undertakings, Linking-up Scheme Proposed, 435 Huddersfield and Halifax Corporation Power Plants, 461 Insulated Electric Wire, Flame-proofing by Selenium, 299 Insulating Varnish for Prevention of Flashovers, 489 International Conference in Paris, on Extra
High-tension Systems, 327
Johannesburg Power Station Cooling Towers, 85 Measuring Tape and Live Circuits, Protective Apparatus, 161 Million-Volt Arc, 326 Motors, Large, for Rolling Mill Drive, 461 Mysore, Generation of Power from Gersoppa Falls, 15 New Electric Lighting Plant at Agra, 681 New York Edison Company’s Projected 700,000-K.W. Generating Station, 625, 653 Plympton, Divided Opinion as to Erection of Power-house, 599 Power-house Extension at Bendigo, Victoria, 133 Power Line Interference with Radio Broadcast Reception, 241 Power Plant, Large, for Alaskan-Canadian Border, 435 Power Plants Used in Danish Agriculture, 686
Power Supply for Siddick Colliery, 517 Power Transmission, 100,000-Volt, to be
Brought Across the Narrows, Puget Sound, 381 Prague and Kolin, Laying Long-distance Cable, 161 Rural Electrification in Michigan, 381 Shawinigan Company’s Power Development on Batiscan River, Quebec, 77 Snake River, Idaho, Survey with View to Power Development, 381 South Africa and Electricity Supply, Interruptions by Lightning, 681 Steam-driven Large Power Station to Replace Tokyo Stations Destroyed by Earthquake, 269
F
FACTORY near Melbourne to Produce 50
Tons,of Fibre Weekly from Bark, 105
Failure of Hillside Reservoir in Ayshire, 461 Faraday House, Annual Scholarship Examinations, 176, 447 Old Students’ Association, Annual Smoking Concert, 440, 529
Scholarship and Prize Awards, 447
Faraday Society—see Associations Faroe Islands, Seven New Harbours in Course of Construction, 189 Fatalities Due to Carbon Monoxide from Want of Proper Care with Gas, 299 Federation of British Industries and Others Ask
Railway Companies for Reduction, 443
Fighting Fogs and Smoke, 143 Fire-fighting Appliances in Japan, 173 Fire Float for Hong Kong Government, 435 Fire Resistance of Concrete Columns, Tests of, 653 Fish Canning Factory Suggested for Tasmania, 47 Fish Escalator for Salmon and Trout Spawning, Experimental, 161 Floating Islands, Four French, as Bases for Aerial Transport, 461 Floors with Joists Embedded in Concrete, Great Superiority of, 133 Floors Settlement Detection by Ingenious Device, 15 Folkestone Harbour Steamboat Piers Roofed, 77 Foochow Company’s Projected Hydro-electric Power Plant on the Min River, 599 Forest Planting in Victoria, 15 Forging Machine Dies, Steel for, E. R. Frost, 189 Frozen Meat for Spain, 105 Fuel in Central Canada, Developing Coke Industry, 653 Fuel Economies, Various Ways of Saving Coal, 599 Fuel Research—see Department G GAS Engine Breakdowns and Connecting-rod Bolts, 105 Gas Used at Wembley, Enormous Amount, 709 Gas versus Electrical Undertakings, Gas Shareholders’ Troubles, 269 Gas versus Electricity in Stepney, 709 Genoa’s Commercial Importance Rivalling that of Marseilles, 269 Geological Museum Moved to Secure Safety in Foundations, 353 German Machine Tool Convention Renewed, 353 German Machinery Works, New, in China, 15 German Tube Trade Syndicate, 573 Glasgow Technical College Benefactions, 241 Glass Factory, Large New, in Pas-de-Calais, 269 Glue “ Pearls ” Manufacture, 161 Gold Mine, Regina, in Canada, Projected Reopening, 381 Gold Mines, Cost of Winding Ore, 15 Gold Production from Mercury, Experiments, 599 Gold from Witwatersrand, Total Output, 299 Grain Elevator, Another Million-bushel, for
Canada, 517
Grain-handling Wharves, Manchester Ship
Canal, 100
Grand Falls Project in New Brunswick, 545 Grangemouth Six Dock Gates, Repaired and Replaced, 653 Great Britain’s One and a-half Men and Public
Ownership, 140
Great Lakes Water Levels, Serious Lowering, 625 Great North Road Improvement, 133 Greenock Harbour and Garvel Graving Dock, 15 Gum Swamp Products, Projected Utilisation of, 327 Gutta-percha Estate Development in Sumatra,
105
H HEAD Lamps, Motor Car, Reduced Size to Avoid Glare, 407 Heating Paper Machine Rolls, Electric Steam Generators for, 659 Helium-oxygen Mixtures and Decompression for Divers and other Workers, 299 Holiday Pay Plan at Fort Dunlop, 189 Holyhead Development as a Herring Port, 681 Hungarian Customs Tariff on Imports,.47 Huxley Lecture, Professor E. B. Poult on,
Huxley Centenary Celebrations, 447
Hydraulic Turbines of Niagara Falls Power
Company, Accident to, 15
Hydro-electric.Development in Canada, 77 Hydro-electric Plant, Novel Type, for China, 653 Hydro-electric Plant, Reported Largest in South America, 653 Hydro-electric Power, Control of Export, by Canadian Government, 709 Hydro-electric Power in Ontario, Needed
Expenditure for New Plant, 299
I ICE Cover to Protect from Ice, 161 India and Millwall Docks Improvement, 517 Indicating Instruments in Boiler-rooms, Method of Keeping them Clean, 215 Institutes and Institutions—see Associations Insulating Material, “ Poured-in-place-on-the- Job,” 709 Irish Free State Investigation of Question of Crude Alcohol Production for Power Purposes, 461 IRON AND STEEL : Blast-furnace About 1748, Halfpenny Token Portrait of Ironmaster, 77 Blast-furnace Output Affected by Shape of Hearth, 353 China, New Loan Required for Largest Ironworks, 599 Commercial Carbon and Alloy Steels, Temperature Changes, 299 Egryn Manganese Ore Mines near Barmouth Reopened, 47 Extrusion Process for Iron and Steel, R. Genders, 47 German Steel Works and Rolling Mills, Projected Erection in Bochum, 47
Hacksaw Blades and Tungsten Steel, 47
Heavy Cast Iron Fly-wheels Cut up by Acetylene Blow-pipe, 545 Iron in Antiquity, Dr. J. Newton Friend, 215 Iron Mines in Italy, War-time Feat, 327 Iron Trades Employers’ Insurance Association, 573
Manganese Investigations in Banffshire, 681
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURERS : Pig Iron and Steel Production in December, 105 Pig Iron and Steel Production in January, Pig Iron and Steel Production in February, 353 Pig Iron and Steel Production in March, 489 Pig Iron and Steel Production in April, 569 Pig Iron and Steel Production in May, 681 New Zealand Customs Decision Regarding British Possessions Iron and Steel, 161 Ontario, Large Steel Works, but no Iron Ore Mining, 517 Pig Iron at Sabar&, Brazil, Increased Output, 299 Polono-Upper Silesian Iron and Steel Cartel!, 435 Record Blast-furnace Output at South Manchurian Works, 407
Record Rolling of Steel Rails in Canada, 521
Rhodesia as Leading Producer in the World of
Chrome Iron Ore, 625
Seamless Hollow Steel Balls for Bearings, 133 South Africa, Large Percentage of Iron in Ore Deposits, 77 Sponge Iron Experiments by United States Bureau of Mines, 215 Sponge Iron Production in Utah, U.S.A., 517 Stainless Steel, Mild, New Process for Production, H. S. Primrose, 15 Steel Manufacturing Plant Transfer from Kobe to South Manchuria, 133 Steel Production Direct from Iron Ore, Two Experimental Methods, 215 Sydney Steel Plant, Nova Scotia, Record Output, 381 Tasmania, Electric Smelting of Iron and Steel, Company Formed for, 653 Welded Steel Pipe Factory Opened at Williamstown, Victoria, 133 Wellingborough Urban Council Reduces Royalties on Ironstone to Prevent Stoppage . pf Blast-furnaces, 709 M McGILL University, Montreal, Engineering Curriculum Improvement Sought, 599 Machine Tool Trades’ Association Dinner, 311 Madras Harbour, New Shipping Berths, 77 Magnesite, Cartel Formed of Works to Control
99 per Cent, of European Output, 299
Magnesium Oxychloride for Binding Woody or Fibrous Material, Excels as Flooring and Very Inexpensive, 625 Manchester Steam Users’ Association, Seventieth Annual Report, 337 Manganese—see Iron and Steel Marine Flanges—see British-Engineering Maw, Dr. W. H., Publication of Biography of, Metallic Sodium and Red Phosphorus, Projected Manufacture in Norway, 105 Metric System Established in Netherlands East Indies, 262 Middlesbrough’s Application for Loan for Petrol-electric Trolley Vehicles, 381 Mineral Deposits in Anatolia and Branch Line of the Baghdad Railway, 299 Mines, Devices to Prevent Over-winding, W. L. Grassham, 435 Mines Explosives, British, Tested by American Official Tests, 133 Mines, Fire-damp and Electric Cutting in, Accident Prevention Suggestions, 386 Mine Rescue Oxygen Breathing Apparatus, Training of Miners, 327 Mint, Royal, Coinage Statistics, 47 Monasite Sand Discovery in Tasmania, 133 Montreal New Dry Dock Projected, 407 Motor Car Importation into India, 653 Motor Cycle Efficiency Due to Scientific Research, 353 Motor Fuels, Problems of Supply, Professor J. S. S. Brame, 545 Motor Manufacturers’ and Traders’ Society, Meeting and Elections, 721 Motor Omnibus Popularity in Shanghai, 15 Moving Three-storey House, 653 N NAILS, Holding Power of, Its Importance in Wood Construction, 241 National Physical Laboratory and Weights Verification, 517 National Screw Thread Commission (America), Report Revision, 545 Natural Gas in Canada, Greatly Increased Value of Production, 113, 517 Natural Gas Transmission Systems, Efficiency Investigation, 353 Newcastle Quay, Additional Berths, 133 New Caledonia Exports, 1924, 625 Newfoundland Public Works, Reconditioning, New South Wales Increase in Factories and Plant, also in Value of Land and Buildings 564 ° New South Wales, 25,000 H.P. Plant at Junction of Two Rivers, 215 New South Wales, Proposed Floating Dock, 435 NeW) South Wales Water Conservation Schemes,
^Ga^anc^s Additional Irrigation Schemes, 545 .> ’
New Zealand, Arapuni Hydro-electric Scheme, 161 Niagara River, Details of New Bridge Over, 607 Nickel Welding, Possible in Certain Conditions, 77 . . ' Nitro-glycerine the Only Suitable Explosive for Shooting Oil Wells, 15 Nitro-glycerine, Possible Substitute for, 15 Norton and Gregory Engineering Scholarships, 541 Norway as Aluminium Producer, 381 Norway, Carbide Factory Furnace for Cyanamide Manufacture, 517 Nottingham’s Projected New Bridge Over the Trent, 381 o OIL Burner Soot, Danger from Salts Content, 47 Oil Cracking Plant at Baku, 517 Oil Distillery at La Plata being Rapidly Completed, 709 Oilfield Emulsions, Method Used for Dehydration, D. B. Dow, 681 Oil-fired Boilers and Oil Temperature, 198 Oil Found near Chittagong, 653 Oil as Fuel, Disadvantages of Any Water Content, 573 Oil Pipe Line, Acetylene Welded, Highly Successful on Test, 189 Oil from Shale, Refineries to be Established at Shansi, China, 709 Oil Shale, Valuable, Overlaying Colliery Main Seam in Manchuria, 15 Oil Storage Plant at Toronto for Fuel Supply to Vessels on the Great Lakes, 133 “ Old Crompt onians ” Association Dinner, 579 Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission, New Power Development Scheme, 327 Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission— see also St. Lawrence River Ontario Hydro-electric Scheme for Diverting Waters of the Albany River, 105 Ontario Power Shortage Feared, Steam Plant Called for, 299 Oyster Shells for Manufacture of Portland Cement, 15 Oxy-acetylene Cut, Heat Effect of, 625 p PARKING Motor Cars Beneath Hyde Park Sydney, N.S.W., 57 Patent Applications Decrease, 15 Patent Rights Applications, 681 Patentees, Institute of, Third Annual Exhibition, 112,133 Petrol in Starting Gas Engines, Necessary Precautions in Use, 599 Petroleum Production of Venezuela, 47 Petroleum, World’s Supply and its Waste, 327 Photo-chemical Reactions in Liquids and Gases, 693 Pile Deterioration, Unusual Case, 681 Plantation Destruction, Midland Reafforesting Association Wound Up, 653 Plaster on Metal Lath for Fire Protection of Structural Steel Work, 517 Platinum and Allied Metals, British Empire and Foreign Countries, Production, 681 Platinum Discovery in the Rustenburg District, South Africa, 299 Platinum Reef Discovery in the Transvaal, 573 Platinum Trust, Ural, Refining Works Progress and Expectations, 241 Plumbago Trade of Ceylon and Madagascar, 327 Portland Cement Production in New South Wales, 517 Portuguese Chamber’s Exemption of Certain Material from Customs Duty, 353 Portuguese Colonies General Agency at Lisbon, 407 Pressure, Horizontal, Effect of Experiments, 241 Pulp and Paper Mill Projected near Quebec, 47 Pupin, Dr. Michael I., Scientific Appointment, 161 Pyrites Depdsit in Sweden, Probable Formation of Company to Work, 435 Q QUEBEC Development Company, Hydroelectric Plant Starting Work, 77 Quebec, Prize Award for New Bridge, 407 Queensland Bridge Wrecked for the Third Time, 435 R RADIUM Research Laboratory in Washington, RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
Accidents :
Accidents in 1924, Statistics, 77
Bordeaux to Paris Express, Fatal Derailment, 381
Broken Tire on an Express, 77
Buffer Stop Collision at Glasgow, Severe, 133, 161, 517 Canada, Train Accident Statistics, 1924, 461 Charing Cross Loop Accident, Motorman Not to Blame, 489 Collision of Engines After Bridge Testing, Goole and Selby Line, 352, 517 Criterion of Safety, the Number of Accidents Rather than of Fatalities, 709
Derailment at Lytham, Another Fatality,
Derailments and Collisions Compared, 709
Disastrous Derailment of Special Train near Rockport, U.S.A., 709
Engine Equipment Failures, 189
Fatal Accident from Broken Coupling, 483
Fatal Derailment on Rhymney Section, Great Western Railway, 47, 407
Fog Causes Death of Driver, 105
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued):
Accidents {continue I):
Goods Train Fatal Buffer Stop Collision at Luddendenfoot, 381 Haymarket, Edinburgh, Accident Trial, Driver Acquitted, 161, 241
Konisberg-Berlin Express Disaster, 545
Letterkenny and Burtonport Railway, Owencarrow, Fatal Accident due to Wind, 161 ; Inquest Result, 189 ; Report, 333
Light Engine Collision in a Fog, 105 Passenger Train Wholly Derailed, 299
Preston Station Fatal Accident Report, 241 Previous Accidents Recalled, 573 Prosecution for Attempted Entry of Train in Motion, 215 Report on Collision at Cogan, Great Western Railway, 653 Roof-repairing Accident, Fatal, at Manchester, Report on, 653 Safety First and Accident Reductions, 215 Train, Whole of, Leaves Rails at Lostock Junction, 47, 439
Trains Overthrown by Gales, 215
United States Accident Statistics, Comparatively Satisfactory Figures, 625 Workman’s Ticket, Accident Liability, 189
Algeria, New Railway, 327
Appointments and Staff Changes, 15, 77, 105, 133, 215, 224, 327, 339, 435, 545, 709 Arbitration, Compulsory, Decision Against; 189 Automatic Signalling, Economy of, 15 Automatic Signalling a Pronounced Success, H. A. Watson, 189 Automatic Train Control Apparatus, Organised Sales of, 105 Automatic Train Control, Difference of
Opinion, 241 Ballycastle Railway Transference, 15
Barcelona and Electric Railways, Level Crossings and Street Railway Traffic Suppressed, 443
Belgian Congo Railway Electrification, 161 Board of Trade Requirements, New List, 265 Bolivar, Department of (Colombia), Central Railway Construction Projected, 381
Bombay Harbour Electrical Service Opened, G.I.P. Railway, 161, 189 Brazil, State of Sergipe, Embarking on Railway and Canal Construction, 77 Bridge, Memorial, Across the Hudson River, 105 . . Bridge, New, at Niagara Falls, Michigan Central Railway, 299 Canadian National Railways, Branch Line Construction from Macanik to Rouyn, 353, 517 Canadian National Railways, Branch Lines, 299 Canadian National Railways, List of ^ew Lines Decided Upon, 599 Canadian National Railways’ Report, 517
Canadian Pacific Railway, Lining Tunnel 5 Miles in Length, 517
Canadian Railways, Demand for Abolition of Costly Duplication, 545 Canal Legislation Not Contemplated, 435 Canals (Continuation of Charging Powers), Bill, 15 Capital and Revenue, Which Should Pay Cost of Betterment, 407 Cattle and Sheep Conveyance by Road and Railway, 517 Central London and City (South London) Railways, Completion of Bank Station Alterations, 573 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Bankruptcy of, 381 China, Szepingkai-Taonan Railway, 77 Chinese Railway Extension in Honan Province, 709 City and South London Extension Sections, Accuracy of Measurements, 405 City and South London Railway, Pneumatically Opened Doors, 215 Clapham-Tooting Section of Morden Extension, Underground Company, 105 Code Words for Correspondence as well as Telegraphy on Certain Railways, 387 Coppernob Locomotive as Exhibit, 545 Cost of Living and Increased Pay for Railwaymen, 15 Cost of Some Railway Projects in and near London, 461 Death of Mr. J. E. Charnley, 241
Death of Mr. John Davies, 435 Death of Mr. James Holden, 625 Death of Mr. Logan McPherson, 435
Delaware and Hudson Railway Car Shops, Ijnmunity from Accident to Employees, 407 Divisional or Departmental Railway Control, 58! Dukeries Proposed Railways, Great Opposition, 241, 299 Dutch Railways, Petrol-driven Motor Carriages for Certain Lines, 489 Ecuadorian Government, New Railway, 435 Egyptian State Railway Freight Wagons Order, 517 Egyptian State Railways Inviting Tenders for Steel Coaches and Bridge, 545, 625 Egyptian State Railways, New River Steamer Required, 407 Egyptian State Railways, Tenders Invited, 15 Egyptian State Railways, Tenders for 400 Goods Trucks Wanted, 299 Electric Locomotives, New Typo Becoming Popular in America, 625 Electric Tramway to Connect San Lorenzo and El Libano, Colombia, 105 Electrification of Railways, Doubtful Advantage of, 189 Engine Exchange between Two Railways for Testing Purposes, 407 Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, Men’s Misconceptions, 133 ? Freeland, Major-General Sir Harry, Retirement, 653 George Stephenson Locomotive of 1823 Sent to Take Part in Railway Centenary Celebrations, 681 German Railways’ Administrative Board, Appointment, 625 German Railways and Competition with River Shipping Companies, 489 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
German Train Telephonic Service, 406
Glasgow Tramway Material from United States, 489
Goldfields Traffic in Canada, 353, 517
Government Surplus Locomotives Bought by Several Railways, 653
Great Western Railway :
Agreement Arrangements with Regard to Reduction of Staff, 681 Automatic Control System, 241 Branch Lines, Non-paying and Possible Closing, 299 Coal Trade, Export, Serious Effect of its Condition on the Railway, 704
Electric Lighting on the Railway, 299
Gross Receipts and Decreased Rates, Increased Wages Percentage of Expenditure, 269 National Union of Railwaymen and Reduction of South Wales Staff, 545 Oxley and Kingswinsford New Line Opened, 573 Paddington - Plymouth Fast Afternoon Trains to be Restored, 214 Safety First on the Great Western, 215 Signals, Battery-operated, 600 Installed, Summer Train Service, Opening Antedated, 625 'Fime-saving by Through Running of Engines, 105 Torquay and Paignton Station Platforms, Arrangement, 215 Guard’s Look-out Window on Passenger Trains, 278
Halwill-Torrington Railway Opening, 461
Headlamps of Locomotives and Road Vehicles, 407 Holyhead Inner Harbour Deepening Completed, 299 Indian Government Railway Department, Change in Bridge Rules, 77
Indian Railway Accident Statistics, 407
Indian Railway Budget, Proposed Capital Expenditure, 327
Irish Free State Railway Combination, 353
Ishover Light Railway Opened for Public Traffic, 435 Italian Railwaymen’s Offering to British Railwaymen at Centenary Celebrations, 431
Jubilee of Newark Brake Trials, 625
Khyber Railway, India, Construction and Progress, 573 Labour Leaders’ Joint Conference, Agreement Doubtful, Mr. J. H. Thomas’ Views, 653
Listowel Mono-railway, Dismantling, 105
Locomotive Manufacturers’ Association, Condition of Industry Pronounced Desperate, 681
Locomotives, Cluj, 122 London, Midland and Scottish Railway :
Appointment of President, 517 Closed Stations, Demand for Reopening, 133 Coal Tips at Garston Docks, Increase of Capacity, 545 Cranes, Two 50-Ton Overhead Travelling, for Horwich Ordered. 77 Crewe Locomotive Works, Important Alterations and Additions, 381 Derby and Wolverton Works, Rapid Work in Assembling Rolling Stock, 269 Electrification Schemes, New Department, 327 Engines and Rolling Stock Ordered from Five Firms, 77 Euston to Glasgow Night Express Divided to Travel to Different Stations, 681 Excursion Trains with Restaurant at Inclusive Fares, 632 Fleetwood Boat Train Alteration, 241 Goods Stations Booklet with Map Issued, 133
Horwich Locomotive Works Busy, 133 10,000 Locomotives Renumbered, 161, 241
Permanent^ Way Diversion on to New Bridge, Leeds-Holbeck, 489 Rivalry with London and North-Eastern, 353 St. Pancras and Bradford Express, 215
Sherwood Forest, Railway Proposal Withdrawn, Joint Railway Projected, 353, 435 Sir Guy Granet’s Remarks, 327
Turbine Steamer, Glen Sannox, 507
London and North-Eastern Railway :
Bill for Proposed Railway from Nottingham to Retford, 381 ; Scheme Withdrawn and Joint Railway Projected, 435 Cambridge Railway Station, Extensive Alterations Started, 133
Escalators at Liverpool-street, 599
Great Northern Section Suburban Lines Electrification Question, 489 Harwich Boat Expresses, Coach Improvements, 461 ? z
Harrogate Pullman’s Change of Route, 545 Hull, Level Crossings Abolition, 653
Hull Corporation and Level Crossings, Scheme Agreed Upon, 599
King’s Cross and Bradford Express, 215 Parliamentary Fight Probable with London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 353 Presentation of Relics of Early Railway to L. and N.E. Museum, 353
Punctuality Shown by Train Run Records, 599
Railway in the Dukeries, Rival Bills, 241 “ Sheffield Pullman’s ” Change of Route, 353
Sunday Travel, Chairman’s Views on Public Demand, 635 London Underground Railways, New Electrical Equipment Programme, 327 London Underground Railways, New Escalators, 492 Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway, Financial Trouble, 573 Madras Suburbs’ Railway Lines Improvement, 517 Madrid, Proposed Central Railway Station, 299
Madrid, Proposed Further Facilities. 435
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): Madrid Railway and Station Construction, 461 Manchester, Victoria and Exchange Stations Alterations, 573 Maritzburg-Glencoe Section of Natal Main Line Electrification Cost, 299 Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Line Automatic Signals, 46
Metropolitan Railway Dividend, 189 Ministry of Transport:
Application for Power to Construct New Line made by London Electric Railways Company, 269 Automatic Train Control, Experts Examining the Question, Accident Inspectors’ Recommendations, 269 Bridges, Difficulty for Highway Authorities, 47 Debate on the Vote for the Ministry, Differing Views as to Progress of Electrification, 625 Light Railway Order for Liverpool, 681 Live Wire or Live Rail in Railway Electrification, 461 Ministry’s Railway Statistics for September, 1924, 15 ; for October, 133 ; for December, 353 Preliminary Statement, 435
Railway Returns for 1924, Passenger and
Freight Statistics, 133
Railway Results for January, 1925, 488
Railway Results for February, 1925, 653
Railway Results for March, 1925, 709
Pneumatically Operated Doors on London Tube Railways, 461 South-East London and Railway Facilities, Minister’s Reply to Deputations, 269 Motor Omnibuses to Replace Tramways in America Reported, 709
National Union of Railwaymen :
All-grades Programme and the Companies, 327, 573 Coal Trade of South Wales, Necessity of Reduction in Wages Bill, Proposals to Men, 489, 545
National Union and Craft Unions, 573
National Union of Railwaymen, Fatuous Ideas of Ex-President, 381 National Wages Board and Sunday Work Claims, 133
New South Wales Railways, Fay-Raven
. Report, 241
New Year Honours for Railwaymen, 47
New Zealand Railways’ Administration, Commissioners’ Recommendations, 15 Niagara River, Proposed New Railway Bridge Over, 435 North Swedish Coast, Progress of Railway, 461 North-Western Quebec, New Railways to Tap Rich Gold Area, 353 ; Refusal of Right of Way, 517 Northern Parliament Powers and the Bally- castle Railway, 15 Nova Scotia, Automatic Control, New Invention, Company Formed, 353
P.L.M., New Line in Algeria, 47
Peace River Country, Alberta, Settlement, Railway Prospects, 161
Pekin Tramcar Company’s Third Route, 435
Persian Concession for New Line from Teheran to Tabriz, 132 Piccadilly-circus New Station and Subways, 215 Platform Automatic Indicators, New Installations, 407 Poland and Yugo-slavia, Direct Railway Conference, 435 Polish Coal Mining District, Long-distance Electric Tramway Construction, 269 Power Brakes and Appliances, American Investigation, 215 Quebec, North-Western, Undeveloped Area to be Opened up by New Railway, 15, 47 Rail-testing on Boston Elevated Railroad, Results, 161 Railway Material Exports Statistics, 161, 269, 327, 435, 573, 681
Railwaymen’s Unions and Demands, 133, 327 Railway Rates Tribunal:
Capital Works, Extravagance of Competitive Schemes, 681
Economies in Railway Working, 649
Schedules of Standard Charges, Speeding- up Settlement, 489 Standard Charges Settlement, 189 Standard Revenue, Basis of Agreement, 517 Bailway Trestles in Time of Floods, F. M. Holmquist, 327 Railways Act, 1921, Its Benefits to Railway Companies, 545
Rainfall, Abnormal, and Railway Damage, 47
Rating of Railways, Complications of the Question, 653 St. Paul’s Safety Measures Sub-committee, Railway Engineers as Members, 381 Sao Paulo Government and Railway Concessions, 47 Sleeping Accommodation, Letters to The Times, 681 South African Railways, Day Colour Light Signals, 77 South African Railways, Good Results Shown by Statistics, 47
Southern Railway :
Bridge Strengthening and Rebuilding, 573
Brighton Section, Electrical Services Extended, 381 Brighton Station, Passenger Statistics for 1924, 346 “ Chatham ” Station at Victoria, Improvements, 77 Conversion of Certain Lines, Difficulties Removed by Grouping, 599 Cross-over Junctions to Facilitate Independence of Electrical and Main Lines, 599 Exeter, Queen-street Station Improvement, 709 Hastings and St. Leonards Tunnels, Projected Widening, 299 Indicators for Railway Platforms, New Type, 517 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Southern Railway (continued):
“ King Arthur ” Class Locomotive, New Bridge to Carry it, 599 Mis-sent Train and the Upshot, 461 Naming of New Engines, 299 Portsmouth Railway Stations, New Proposals, 327
Punctuality of Railway, Statement, 435
Signals, Projected Day Colour Light Automatic, for Portion of London Area, 77, 215 Station’s Name Illumination at Horsham, 709 Vehicles being Prepared for Electrification, 15
Spanish Railway Engines and Cars to be '? Home-made, 15
Statistics, South African and United States, 47 Steel Construction of Railway Vehicles, Pros and Cons, 105
Steel Signal Arms Bent by Wind, 105 Stockholm-Gothenburg Electrification, 299 Subway Car, Improved Type for America, 461 “ Sunny South Special ” and Vacuum Brake, 599
Sweden, Projected Railway and State Loan, 77 Swiss States Subsidy for Completion of Furka Railway, 350 Tasmanian Engineers to Supervise Railway Construction in Spain, 77
Tests of New Roads and Connections to Eliminate any Possibility of Mistakes, 545 Tourist Traffic to Ireland and Kingstown Pier Accommodation, 189
Tramway Renewal, A Night’s Work in Glasgow, 189 Tramway Route, New, in Edinburgh, 489 Underground Poster, Analysis of Receipts and Expenditure, 299 Unemployment Alleviation Methods, 15 Venezuela and Colombia, Junction under Construction to Unite Railways in, 77 Viaduct, First Example of its Kind in the World, Great Northern (of Ireland) Railway, 269 Victoria Government Railway, Electrifying Part of, 653 Victoria Railway, Experiments with New Rail Motor, 709 Wagons for Mineral Traffic, Profits on Letting Out for Hire, 625 Walsall Tramway’s Increased Profits, 638 Warsaw, Projected 28 Miles Long Electric Tramway, 517 Water Power in Austria, Development, and Railway Electrification, 461 Welsh Local Authorities’ Request for Doubling of Single Lines, 709 Western Canada, Railway Goods Charges in, 353 RECLAMATION Work in Italy, 269 Ribble River, Preston, Training Walls to be Constructed, 709 Rock-fill Dam, Kentuckv, Largest in the World, 461 Roofing Material Pyropruf, Testing, 489 Roving Steamer for Extraction of Bromine from Sea Water, 461 Rubber Research Institution in Malaya, 105 Russian Agriculture and Electric Ploughs, 435 Russian Great Waterway Projected, 320 Russian Soviet Government’s Agreement with British Firm for Erection of Oil Cracking Factory, 625 Russian Visitors to America for Works Inspection and Equipment Orders, 215 s “ SAFETY First ” Device by Model Van, J.
Lyons and Co., 517
St. Lawrence River Power Development, 215 San Joaquin River Water Diverted by Tunnel, 545 Sawdust Roads, Experiments with View to Making, 599 Scholarships for Apprentices, 523 Scholarships, B.E.A.M.A., 567 Scholarships. Engineering, Norton and Gregory, 541 Science Museum at South Kensington, Stationary Engine Exhibits Catalogue, 256 Scientific and Industrial Research, New Members of Advisory Council, 215 Seismograph Station, A Sixth Established in Quebec, 625 Sewerage Scheme, Extensive, for Knutsford, 653 Shanghai, Single-deck Motor Omnibus Statistics, 517 Shannon Power Scheme Report, Dr. H. H.
Jeffcott, 653
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : American Ships, Conversion of Fourteen Steamers to Motor Ships, 489 Barrow and New York Steamer Service to Cease, 133 Bulkheads and Water-tight Subdivision of Passenger Steamships, Board of Trade Report, 241 Chauncy Maples Steamer on Lake Nyassa, Thirty Years Old and Still Valuable, 105 Commonwealth Lighthouse Service, Launch of Two Steamers for, 133 Conciliation Machinery for Shipbuilding Federations, 299 Corrugated-sided Ships, Greater Efficiency of, 599 Cunarder Saxonia Sold for Breaking-up, 299 Deck Equipment of the Discovery, Pacific Exploration Vessel, 709 Diesel-electric Tanker, New Arrangement of Engine-room, 215 Fifty Years of Yacht Designing, G. L. Watson and Co., 544 Flettner Rotor Ship, Report of Another, 599 Flettner Rotor Ships, Two New, Ordered, 105 Funnel Markings of Destroyer Flotillas, 545 German Naval Administration, First Large Rotor Ship, 517 Glatton, Monitor, Wreck of, to be Removed from Harbour, 15 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued):
Grain Cargo-loading Record, 327
Japanese, Large, Ship Taken up River to Shanghai, 517 L.M.S. Turbine Steamer Glen Sannox, Official Trials, 625
Majestic, Reported Crack Discovery, 15 Montrose Liner, Quick Overhaul, 489 Motor Boat, Fast, Races on the Thames, 545 Motor Lifeboat Construction Progress, 77
Motor Vessel Production Increasing, Chiefly on the Continent, 381
Ocean Towing, Record Long Distance, 435 Railway-owned Vessels—see Railways Rotor Ship, Arrival of the Flettner/ 227 Scapa Flow Salving of German Destroyers,
Progress, 407, 517, 573, 709
Shipbuilding Trades’ Investigation, 637
Signal by Combined Visible and Whistle
Device for Motor Ships, 269
Tees Shipbuilding Order, 573
Tyne Shipbuilding Output Statistics, 15
United States Steam Ship to Motor Ship, Conversion. 415 Vancouver Harbour Ship Traffic Statistics, 161 Wellfield, Steamer, Little Damaged by Dockflooding, 489 SIDMOUTH, Estimated Cost of Breakwater, 599 Silkworm Cocoon Chrysalis as Food, 215 Slag Accumulations in Cement Kilns Dislodged by Shooting, 461 Slide Rules, Constructional Improvement in, J. Davis and Son (Derby), Ltd., 309 Snow in the Streets, New Svstem of Disposal, 269 Soapstone Discovery in Calcutta District, 241 Solid Silver, Effort to Increase Use in America 269 South African Irrigation, 122 South African’s Production of Base Metals, 681 South African Year Book, 473 Southampton University College, Open Engineering Exhibitions Offered, 422 Soviet Government and White Lead Paints, 161 Standards—see British Steel—see Iron Stone for Sharpening Tools Discovered near Orbost, Australia, 599 Straw Packing Without Purity Certificate, Dominion Government Insists on Return of Important Goods, 435 Subways in St. Louis, 189 Suez Canal Annual Statistics, 489 Sugar Growers’ Association’s Suggestion of United Reference to Expert Opinion, 625 Sulphur Ores Roasting and a New Alloy, J.
Harris, 435
Super-power Systems of the United States, Growth of, 606 Suspension Bridge Across the Firth of Forth at Queensferry, Projected, 161 Sydney Harbour Bridge, £16,000 Tool for Testing Cableways, 573 T TANK Failure in Boston, U.S.A., Six Years’ Litigation to Decide on the Cause, 189 Tansa Pipe Line Progress, 47 Tariffs and their Object in Latin-America,
A. C. Rouse, 189
Technical College and Polytechnic Times, First Issue, 133 Technical Institute at Coventry, Generous Gifts of Machinery, 489 Telephone Damage by Snowstorm at Falkirk,
Underground System Advantages, 407
Telephone Diaphragm, New Type, 161 Telephone Exchange tor Cairo, 299 Telephone Industry’s Effect in Stimulation of
Numerous Other Industries Involved in Manufacture, 269
Telephone Kiosk, New Prize Design by Sir Gilbert Scott, 381 Telephonic, Through, Connection Established between Bombay and Delhi, 381 Tests of Flow of Water through Long Concrete
Pipes, Formulae Values, 681
Thermo-electric Pyrometers, Use of Platinum, 461 Thin-lead Coloured Pencils, Alpco Pencils, Ltd., 554 Titanium Industry Suggested for Eastern Canada, 461 Tornado Effect on Big Railway Span, 407 Toronto, Association of Professional Engineers, Progress, 219 Toronto’s Rate of Building Twenty-one * Storeys, 709 Trade Unions, Statistics of Membership and Funds, 47 Transit Sheds at Trafford Wharf, Two, for £300,000, 105 Transport, Goods and Passenger, Increasing Use of Roads in United Kingdom, 489 Treasury Guarantees under the Trade Facilities Act, 545 Tunnel under the Mersey, Government Grants, 189 Tunnel Under the Thames, Postponement of Consideration of Scheme, 709 Turbo-generator, Experimental, in California to Test Use of Natural Steam, 435 Tyne Commissioners Report Decrease in Output of Ships and of Coal Shipments, 353 Tyne Pollution Inquiry, 599 u UGANDA Oil Expectations, 15 Underpinning Concrete Columns of High
Building, 189
University of London :
Four Advanced Lectures in Mining, 227
Four Advanced Lectures on Chemical Combination in Metallic Alloys and its Nature, Professor C. A. Edwards, 245 University of Pittsburgh, Project for New 52-Storey Building, 161
V VANADIUM Extraction from Iron Ore in Sweden, 317 Vanadium from Swedish Phosphorus-bearing Ores, 435 Vancouver’s Largest Grain Elevator, Rapid Construction of, 554 Vancouver New Canadian Pacific Pier, 545 Venezuela Petroleum Production, 47 V.D.I. Meetings in Augsburg, 422 Vickers Westminster Amateur Operatic Society, 554 w WAR Department Motor Van, 342 Washington, National Museum of Engineering, 299 Water Energy, Potential, of the World, Estimate, 489 Water Power Plant Completed at Elko, British Columbia, 545 WATER SUPPLY : Bacteria in Wrater at Different Depths, 407 Barnsley Supply Increase, New Pumps, 489 Batley Corporation’s New Reservoir, 599
Birmingham New Reservoir and Pumping
Engines, Work Started, 625
Birmingham Water Committee’s New Pipe Line, 407 Buenos Aires, Neighbouring Districts of, Extensive Government Scheme for Water Supply and Drainage, 709
California, New Supply for East Bay Cities,
WATER SUPPLY (continued):
Esthonia, Up-to-date Waterworks for, 241
Fourth Pipe Line from Thirlmere to Manchester, 517
Karachi New Water Supply, 105 Madras Supply, Measures for Increasing, 189
Manchester Supply, Another Lake Requisitioned, 189 Melbourne Water Supply, the Maroondah Dam, 188 New South Wales, Wollongong and Port Kembla, Additional Supply, 215 Port Sudan Supply, Completion of Pipe Line, 489 Quebec, Storage Reservoir at Lake Metis, 189 Sheffield, Additional Water Supply Scheme, 77 Sydney, N.S.W., Scheme-to Supplement Supply, 545 Toronto, Supplementary Waterworks System, 47, 105 Tsingtao Waterworks, Predicted End of German Plant and Japanese Pumps, 15 Vancouver Waterworks System Extension, 592
Water Consumption in Sydney, N.S.W., 189
Water Waste in America, Uncharted Discharges, 353
Wooden Water Main Laid in 1874, 15
WELDING Aluminium, New German Process, 189 Welland Canal, Big Contract for Canadian Company, 15, 545 West Australian Oil Hunt Pronounced Hopeless, 15 Western Australia, Engineers Wanted, 461 Whitworth Society, Annual Dinner, 27 Windmill, 200 Years’ Old, near Hastings,
Collapse of, 709
Wire Rope Vibration Dangers, G. H. Griffiths, 299 Wire Rope Works, New, at Newcastle, N.S.W., 407 Wire Weaving Loom, Largest in the World, 269 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY: American and Swedish Wireless Amateurs’ Two-hour Test, 161 Austrian Broadcasting Developing, 327 Belgium’s One Broadcasting Station. 681 Big Ben Broadcasting Microphone, 681 Broadcast Transmitting Apparatus at Marconi House Re-established, 681 Broadcasting Conference of European Authorities, 373 Broadcasting and Interference, Northolt Station Accused, 105 Broadcasting Receiving Apparatus, Lecture, G. E. Jones, 353 Canada, North-Western Section of North- West Territories, Completion of Wireless System, 435 China and Amateur Radio Work, 327 Colombo, Modern High-power Broadcasting Station, 461 Greenland’s New Wireless System, 161 Indian Radio Telegraph Company, Prospectus and Objects, 353 Indian Station for Commercial Service with I United Kingdom, 327 Institute of Patentees’ Assistance Sought by B.B. Company, 435 Japan and San Francisco, Wireless Communication Over 4500 Miles, 77 Japanese and American Wireless Schemes, 407 Listening-in, Near and Distant Reception.
403
Marconi Clifden Station, Ireland, to be Dismantled, 709 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY (continued): Marconi House, Change-over of Aerial to Oxford-street, 456
Miners and Signals by Wireless, 47
North-West Territories and Yukon Wireless
System, Most Northerly Main Station, 625
Oscillating Receiver Disturbance Tests, 407
Radio Apparatus Exhibition at Zurich, 681
Radio Direction Finding Stations for Indian
Ports, Experimental Receivers, 435
Rating of Storage Batteries for Wireless Service, 189 Rugby High-power Wireless Station Progress, 353, 517 Russian Wireless Development and Exhibition at Moscow, 599 Tracking Criminals by Wireless, Police Vans Equipped, 105 Transmission of Wireless Messages, Reported Valuable Invention, 105 Wireless Bill, Strong Objections to its New Provisions, 269 WOLVERHAMPTON Local Sewage Plant Extension, 709 Woman Member, The First, of Society of Engineers (Incorporated), 269 Woolwich Research Report on “ Gun-wire,” Imperfect Elasticity, 77
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