The Engineer 1921 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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ACCIDENTS Due to Poisoning by Gases, 131
Accountants, Institute of Costs and Works, Examinations, 519
Aerodrome, Shrewsbury, Sale of, 248
Aeronautical Research Committee, Two Technical Reports, 455
Afghanistan, Present of Telegraph Material from British Government in India, 595
Air Compressors, Bursting of Cooling Coils, 75
Air Council Approval of Grissell Prize Offer, 455
Air Ministry, Fuel Tanks Competition, 621
Air Ministry Gives Up Certain Service Stations. 217
Air Moisture at, and 100ft. Above, Ground Level, 483
Alaska, Mineral Output Report, 265
Alkali in Western Australia, Suggested Exploitation of Large Deposits, 193
Alloy, New Light, Silicon and Aluminium, 679
Alloy, Self-lubricating, for High-speed Bearings, 265
Alloys of Nickel and Chromium, 319
Alloys Research Committee Report, 240
Aluminium Production from Bauxite on the West Coast of India, 241
American Association for Advancement of Science, Meeting in Toronto, 119
American Copper and Brass, Research Association, 240
American Ports, Foreign Trade Zones in, 338
Anatolia Forests, A Neglected Industry, 67
Apprentices, Engineering, in South Africa, Supply Exceeding the Demand, 649
Apprenticeship Training in Bengal, 567 "‘Archibald Dawnay ” Scholarships, 230, 472, 576
Architects, Training of—see Institute, Royal, of British Architects
Armstrong-Whitworth Ships, 206
Asbestos Discovery on Canadian Railway Main Line, 293
Asbestos Factory in Quebec, 93
Asbestos Mines of Russia, Soviet Concession to American Corporation, 511
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES :
Association of Consulting Engineers (Incorporated):
Annual Dinner, 607
Election of Chairman, 108
Institute of Chemistry :
Training and Examination of Chemistry Students, 544
Institute, Iron and Steel :
Autumn Meeting in Paris, List of Papers, 168
Institute of Marine Engineers :
Remarkable Boiler Failure, 13
Institute, Royal, of British Architects :
Airship Mooring Mast, Grissell Prize Offered for Best Design, 455
“ Archibald Dawnay ” Scholarship, 576 Membership of the Institute, Training for, 572
Institute of Transport :
Annual Dinner, 407
South African Railways’ Coal Traffic Wagons, Mr. Kelway-Bamber, 595
Urban Electric Railway Services, J. P. Thomas, 595
Institution of Automobile Engineers :
Awards for Papers, 567
Dinner, 454
Informal Meetings to Introduce and Discuss New Accessories, 241
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Internal Combustion Engines with Large Cylinders, Sir J. McKechnie, 293
Institution of Civil Engineers (Ireland) : Water Power Resources of Ireland, Need of Proper Storage, Sir J. P. Griffith, 705
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Conversazione, 54
Election of Lord Southborough as Honorary Member, 539
Examination for Associate Membership, 105
Meetings, Future Arrangements, 155
Model General Conditions for Contracts, 575
Notice of Dinner, 551
Offer to Benevolent Fund, 39
Students’ Section :
Lecture : Single-phase and Direct-current Railways, Comparison of Equipment Cost, Sir Philip Dawson, 621
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
Double Bottoms of Ships, Importance of Ventilation, J. L. Adam, 679
Institution of Gas Engineers :
Annual General Meeting, 372
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Loughborough Section Established. 394
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
Alloys "Research Committee Report, 240
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers :
Mechanical Transport, A. R. Galbraith. 39
Institution of Naval Architects :
Scholarships and Prize Awards, 248, 361. 408
Scholarships for Competition in 1922, 616
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
Mile-posts, Hartley, Reconditioning and Re-measurement, 427
Officers for Session, 1921-22, 79
Institution, Permanent Way :
President for 1922, 500
Institution of Petroleum Technologists :
Elimination of Oilfield Waste, A. Beeby Thompson, 566
Oil Resources of the World. A. Beeby Thompson, 539
Institution of Railway Signal Engineers :
Automatic Train Control, Problems of’ W. J. Thorrowgood, 119
First Summer Meeting, 67 “Three-position Signalling,” A. E. Tattersail, 539
Northern Section :
Establishment and Opening Meeting, 547
Recent Developments in the Token System for Single Lines of Railway, W. S. Roberts, 547
Institution, Royal :
Christmas Course of Juvenile Lectures, 511 Meetings and Elections, 54, 633 Programme of Lectures for Before-Easter Session, 691
Institution of Rubber Industry :
First Meeting of New Society. 427
Institution of Surveyors :
Annual Meeting in 1922, 595
Legacy for Prize, 595
Society of Chemical Industry :
Chemical Engineering Group Invites Institution of Gas Engineers to a Lecture, 539 Claude Synthetic Ammonia Process and Plant, J^H. West, 539
Society of Engineers :
Annual Meeting, Award of Gold Medal and other Premiums, 688
Crystal Palace Engineering Society :
Geen Premium Award, 688
Society, Royal, of Arts :
Annual Meeting, Awards for Papers, Elections, 54
Work of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board, D. R. Wilson, 567
Society of Technical Engineers :
General Policy, 241
Societies, Physical and Optical :
Annual Exhibition, 705
AUDIBILITY of Sound and the Oppau Explosion, 347
Australian Electrolytic Zinc Company’s Contract with British Board of Trade, 319
Australian Working Week, Reduction Claim Refused, 621
Automobile Standardisation, 54
Aviation, Civil, Great Progress of, Night Flying, Lighthouses, and Wireless, 705
Aviation, Commercial, French Offer of Prize for Suitable Motor, 427
Awards to Inventors, Claim by Magnetic Compass Makers for Outlay on Radium, 193
B BALL and Roller Bearings, Demand for Tests at National Physical Laboratory, 217
Ball and Roller Bearings, Standardisation Advised, 155
Bamboos and Tropical Grasses for Paper Pulp, 539
Barrage, Sukkur, Scheme, on the Indus, 595
Bascule Bridge Wrecked by Carelessness, 705
Batchelor’s Cost of Living in Various Towns in
China, 319
Belgian Congo Copper Mine, Analysis of
Uranium Ore from, 265
Belgian Regulation with Regard to Building Specifications, 293
Bengal, Apprenticeship Training in Mechanical Engineering, 567
Benzol Recovery from Gas by Use of Wood Charcoal, 539
" Black Nickel ” for Small Brass Articles, 119
Blackpool Suitable for Electric Vehicles, 621
Blast-furnaces—see Iron
Boiler Explosions and Necessary Precautions for Prevention of, 427
Boiler Plant, Economical Working of, 13. 158
Boilers Under Pressure and Protection of Employees in America, 293
Bombay, Reclamation Scheme at Back Bay, 483
Bombay and Sewage Disposal, 265
Bombay Water Power, Investigation with View to Development of. 67
Bordeaux Purchase of Basseno Docks with
American War Equipment, 347
Bosch Magneto New Company, 373
Breaking Up Frozen Ground, Pavement, &c..
New Machine for, 13
Brest Harbour Deep-water Quay, 399
Brickworks for Dutch East Indies, Large Output Expected, 265
Bridge to Connect Canada and the United States, 88
Bridge to Cost 25,000,000 Dollars Projected for San Francisco, 93
Bridge, New Kidderpore Road, to be One of Finest in India, 67, 93
Bridges, Ancient Stone or Modern Steel, Question of Durability, 679
Brighton to London Road Widening Scheme. 621
Briquetting Plant, German, for Victorian Coal Mines, 293
British Catalogues for Riga, 108
British Columbia Works for Wood Alcohol.
Charcoal and Acetate of Lime, 347
British Commercial Gas Association, Conference, 334
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Dinner, 454
British Empire Exhibition—see Exhibitions
British Engineering Standards Association :
Annual Meeting. Various Suggestions for Consideration, 145
Creosote for Timber. Standard Specification for, 362, 399
Motor Car Parts, Seven Sub-committees to Deal with, 13, 54
Railway Rolling Stock Construction, Revision of Specifications for Material, 28
Standardising Fire Hose Couplings and Ball and Roller Bearings, 155
Tramway Axles. Standard Specification for.
372
British Engineering Students in France, 674
British Engineering Trade Success in China, Americans on Tour of Inquiry into the Reasons, 93
British Industries Fair—see Exhibitions
British Machine Tool Export Trade Recovery. 39
British Manufacturing Undertakings in Australia and Tasmania, 373
Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Additions to Plant, 25
Brush Electrical Engineering Company.
Limited, Results of Recent Fire, 145
Building Trades Association Reduces Wages and Charges to Public, 705
Bulgarian Agriculture, Economic Commission to Study Important Questions. 347
c CANADA Orders Marking of Imported Goods to Indicate Country of Origin, 705
Canada’s Need of Applications of Principles of Chemistry, Metallurgy, &c., S. J. Cook, 483
Canada’s Oilfields, Favourable Points of, 93
Canadian Machinery Company to Open Manufactory in Australia, 595
(..’anal Improvement in France, 427
Canal, Main Danube, Scheme, Discussion in the
Bavarian Diet, 93
Carbide Storage with Explosives, Dangers of
Acetylene, 649
Carbon Monoxide in Gas, 241
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Precautions and
First Aid, 567
Cars in Holland, 217
Catalogues for China and British Trade. 377
Catalogues for Honduras, 240
Catalogues for the Malay States, 254
Catalogues fo.’ Riga, 108
Celluloid Manufacture and Storage. Home
Office Regulations, 319
Celtic Tomb Discovered in Gravel Pit, Doubtful
Conclusions, 145
Cement Factory at Owen Sound, Ontario, 483
Cement Plant at Darra, Queensland, Extensive
Addition, 13
Centering of a Reinforced Concrete Arch
Washed Away, 13
Channel Tunnel, French Plans Complete, 539
Chauny Sewerage and Waterworks, Competition Awards, 519
Chemical Engineers, Formation of Institution. 483
Chemistry Students, Training and Examination of, 544
Chilian Government Bill for Harbour Improvement and Railway Extension, 621
China and British Manufacturers, 377
China, Investigation of Geology in Vicinity of Railways, 67
China as a Market for Motor Cars, 13
China’s Cotton Spinning Industry, Great Enlargement of, 511
China’s Great Increase in Metal Imports, 705
Chinese Capitalists from Abroad, Schemes for
Exporting Native Products and Importing
Foreign Machinery, 455
Chinese Foreign Trade, British Share Larger than that of Others, 119
Chinese Mining Licences, 169
Chinese New Mining Regulations, 265
Chinese New Port and Power Station Projected near Tientsin, 39
Cleveland Technical Institute Bulletin, 621
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
Borings for Coalfields Flushed by Petroleum Instead of Water, 567
British Coal Mining, Success Due to High Ideals, Dr. J. S. Haldane, 567
British Columbia, Development of Coal
Deposit at Fraser Lake, 13
Coal Exports from the United States, Statistics of, 539
Coal Tub Filling, Forks or Shovels. Leicestershire Miners’ No j ice, 595
Coke by New Process from Unmixed Sarre Coal, 679
Coke Shortage and Oil Substituted for Cupola Furnaces in Austria, 193
Explosion at Hampstead Colliery, Birmingham, 511
Indian Coal Mines, Total Production of. in 1919-1920 and 1920-1921, 455
Indian Coal, Reduced Output of, 455
Liquefaction of Coal Reported, 119
Mexico, Important Coal Deposits, 511
Natal Coal Supply Far from Unlimited, 455
Natal, Suggested New Port Equipped for
Coal Handling, 407
Norwegian Railways’ Coal Orders for Newcastle, 705
Output of Coal, Comparative Figures, 319
Output of Coal, Week's Comparison, 217
Pocohontas Coal Mines, No Strike and Better
Earnings since Break-up of Trade Union, 169
Portugal, Coalfield Discovery on the East
Railway, 145
Pretoria, Near, Coal Discovery, 39
Sarre Coal for Coke Making by New Heating
Method, Monsieur Baille-Barrelle, 145, 679
Spanish Navy and British Coal, 629
Spontaneous Combustion of Coal in Mines,
Final Report of Committee, 217
Strike, Coal Mined during Period of, 119
Transvaal and Natal Coalfields, Serious Waste in Working, 7
Turkestan Coal Deposits, Extensive, 319
COIL Springs, Large, Tests by Magnetic Induction Methods, 217
Cold Storage in France, Purchase of Wagons in England and America, 217
Colloidal Clay, Valuable Discovery for Various Industries, 93
Coloured Crayons Preferred to Water Colours, 13
Colourless Gems, Experiments in Tinting by Radium, 145
Commercial Research Fellowships, 551
Concrete Eight-storey Building in Melbourne as Eleccricity Commission Headquarters, 169 Concrete Mixture, Crusher Screenings and
Limestone, 241
Concrete Pavement, Cleaning .Joints and Cracks before Filling with Tar, Method Advised, 511
Concrete Piles, Reinforced with Wired Bamboo. 119
Concrete Pipe, Hume Centrifugally Cast, 427
Concrete, Reinforced, Building, Collapse, 347
Concrete Roads for Southwark, 422
Concrete Work with Record Rapidity in New
York City, 705
Condenser Feed Water and Injury by Leakage, 293
Condenser Leakage Cured by Rubber Rings, 145
Continental Short Sea Route vid Zeebrugge, 47
Contracts, Public, Placed Abroad, 407
Copenhagen and Island of Amager, Improvement of Communications, 657
Copper Discovery in the Island of Yell, Shetland, 113
Copper, Metallurgy of. and Importance of Byproducts, E. P. Mathewson, 483
Copper Mine, Messina, South Africa, Govern ment Aid to Working, 67
Copper Sulphides, Valuable Hill Discovered in Manitoba. 119
Costing Systems and Wasteful Expenditure, 11J
Cotton Transportation from Liverpool and Manchester, Arthur Watson, 13
Cracks in Aluminium Alloy Castings, R. J.
Anderson, 483
Crawfish Damage to Canal Bank, 649
Creosote for Timber, Standard Specification for 362, 399
Crystal Palace, Co-partnership Exhibition and Congress, 39
Crystal Palace School of Engineering :
Address to St udents, Colonel Morgan. 134
Geen Premium Award, 688
Papers Read During the Session. 674
Wilson Premium Award, 674
Customs Duty on Machinery for State Works Remitted bv Federal Government, 193
DAM, Masonry, Record foi* Size, Built in 1700 b.c., 427
Damming a Stream by Use of Canvas Hose, 13
Danish Electro-chemical Industry, Resumption of Work, 399
Dew Reservoirs, S. B. Russell, 688
Diesel Engine Insurance Against Breakdown. 576
Diesel Engine Repair, 28
Diesel Oil and Boiler Fuel Oil, Comparison in Price and Quality, 487
Dorman, Long and Co., Limited, Annual Meeting, High Railway Rates and Effect on Iron and Steel Trade, 678
Drop Forgers, Improved Drawings Recommended for, 511
Drop Forging Dies, Heat Treatment of, 539
Durban Harbour Improvement Scheme. 236
E EARTH Dam, Highest Ever Made, Under Construction in America, 679
East Africa, late German, Gold and Coal Possibilities but Poor Health Conditions, 265
Ebbw Vale Works Magazine, 649
Egyptian Government Contracts, 277
Einstein’s Theory on a Cinematograph Film, 319
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
Auckland, New Zealand, New Electric Power Board, 483
Ayr Corporation Electrical Scheme, Water from Loch Doon, 241
Battery Traction Demand, Hopeful Future for Electric Vehicles, 193
Birmingham Power Station at Nechells, Good Progress. 621
Blackburn Electric Locomotive on Railway Siding, Valuable Service of, 649
Bradford’s Electricity Undertaking and Hiring Out of Motors, &c., 539
60-Kilowatt Brass Melting Furnace at University of Wisconsin, 193
British Electrical Industry, Improved Prospect, 621
Cheapened Electricity and Swedish Steelmaking Material, 345
China, Demand for Current Exceeds Supply,
China as a Market for Electrical Machinery, 118,119
Conduits Cleared by Blank Cartridge, 265
Cooking and Lighting in Dublin, Electrical, 595
Coventry Corporation Electricity Accounts. 13
Current Transmission at Pressure of Over a Million Volts, 319
Czechoslovakia, Electrical Industries of, 319
Disabled Ex-Service Men Construct Large Transformer, 119
Edison Vehicles for Refuse Collection, Valuable Utilisation of Waste, 13
Electrical Energy, Pros and Cons in its Use, A. Beeby Thompson, 511
Electric Vehicles’ Great Push in New York City, 705
Electricity Commissioners’ Report. 455
Electrolytic Lighting Arresters, W. A. Coates, 328
Emergency Lamp for Use in Darkness Caused by Accident, 211
Furnaces, Re-starting of, for Steel Trade. Cheapened Current, 345
General Electric Company’s House-warming at the Kingsway Offices? 93
Generating Plant, Plan for Heating Dams, Valves and Gates to Ward off Ice Formation, 644, 705
Generating Stations in Province of Liege, Reorganisation, 217
Glasgow- Electricity Accounts, 241
Glaucus River, Greece, Possible Power Supply for Patras, 13
Heating Dams, Machinery, &c., of Generating Plants to Prevent Freezing, 644. 705
High-tension Transformers and Converting Plant, Dr. W. Reichel, 319
High-tension Transmission Systems, International Conference in Paris, 511, 567
Japan, Large Electrical Engineering Works Begun at Nagoya, 13
Japanese Extensive Use of Electric Light, 399
Kunda River Power Scheme Postponed, 93
Kyoto, Japan, New Large Power Station, 346
Lantern Slides for Lectures on Electrical Machinery, 127
Leeds Tramway Powder Station, Coal and Oil Fuel Cost Comparison, 241
Liverpool’s Enormous Electrical Development, 373
Local Supply of Electric Power for Poor Small Village, 265
Locomotive, Storage Battery, in the Isle of Man, 427
Low-tension Paper Insulated Cables, Higher Temperature Limits Wanted, P. Torchio. 39
Mercury Arc Rectifiers for the Electrification of the Midi Railway, 293
Mining Switchgear, Explosion-proof, 408— see also Miscellaneous Index, Electrical Matters
Model General Conditions for Contracts, 575
Nickel and Chromium Alloys in Electrical Heating and Cooking, 319
Oil Circuit Breakers, Tests of Rupturing Capacity, 217
Overhead Distribution, B. Welbourne, 193
Paris International Conference of Electrical Engineers, 511. 567
Poulsen Arc as Applied to Wireless Telegraphy, C. W. Boyle, 595
Power Factor Correction on Small Loads, 39
Power Plant Machinery Transport in California, 399
Power Station Projected for Isleworth and Ealing, 217
Rafting by Electrical Power, 119
Rectifier, Mercury Arc, High Efficiency of, 455
Rosario, Santa F€, Large Number of Separate Lighting Installations in, 455
Shanghai).Municipal Electrical Report, 241
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):
Single-phase Locomotives tor Swiss Railways, 355
South-East Lancashire Electricity District 119
Southern California, Surveys with View to Power Development, 117
Steam-driven Generating Plant for Calgary, Canada, 260
Storage Battery, Superior Out put and Fewer Defects than Standard Type, 39
Surplus and Waste Heat in Power Stations. Blast-furnace Gas for Steam Raising, 217
I oy and Model Operation, Invention for Safe and Constant Supply of Current, 145
'Transformer Oil Sludges, Tvpes of, C. -I. Rodman, 511
Transmission of Power from Norway to Denmark, 169
Turbine Reduction Gears versus Electric Propulsion for Ships, Eskil Berg, 373
Unemployment in Electrical Industry, Joint Councils to Take Measures for Restoration, 511
United States Government Scheme for Generating and Transmitting Electric Current, 644
Vienna Electrical Supply, Water Power Development, 241
Walsall’s Scheme for Electrical Extension, Government Grant Needed, 539
Welding, Successful Electric, of Large Boiler, by Kjellberg Process, 427
Winnipeg River, Electric Power Development Projected, 373, 399
Wiring Cost Reduction Suggested to Revive Trade and Lessen Unemployment, 649
Yaroslav, Concession for Electricity Works, 567 ’ „
ENGINEERS-IN-CHARGE, Association of, Annual Dinner, 408
Engineering Standards—see British
Engineering Students, Manchester, Two Years’ Free Course in City Engineer’s Department,
English Capital to Finance Oil Shale Fields.
Development in Picton County, 705
Exhaust Steam and Gases, Waste of. at Sheffield, 39
EXHIBITIONS :
Agricultural Machinery, International Exhibition at Paris, 649
British Empire Exhibition and Commercial Research Fellowships, 551
British Industries Fair, 1922, 158, 206
Cardiff, National Exhibition Next Year, 319
Dinner at Olympia, Shipping Engineering and
Machinery Exhibition, 342
Foundry Exhibition at Birmingham, 308
Foundry Machinery Exhibition at Li6ge, 319
Lyons Autumn Fair Failure. Lessons for the Future, 483
Malayan-Borneo Industries Exhibition in Singapore, 649
Marseilles, Colonial Exhibition, 67
Motors and Tractors Burning Palm Oil, Exhibition and Trials of, 131
Physical Society and Optical Society, Annual Exhibition, 705
Scottish Trade Exhibition in Amsterdam, 679
Strasburg, Exhibition of Hygiene, 1923, 522
Tokyo, International Peace Exhibition, 483
Trieste, Samples Fair Postponement, 241
Utrecht Fair, Analysis of Exhibitors, 193
Wireless Exhibition in Birmingham, 539
EXPLOSION of Brewer’s Copper, Report on Causes, 119
Explosion-proof Mining Switchgear, 408
Explosion of Tube in Water-tube Boiler, 169
Explosion of Vulcanising Pan, 73
F FACTORIES, Workshops and Employees, Statistics, 217
Fairs—see Exhibitions
Federal Power Commission of the United States.
Issue of Licences,* 560
Federated Malay States Development, Townplanning, &c., 28
Federation of British Industries :
Boilers with Stationary Grates, Cleaning of Fires, 649
Fuel Economy Monographs, Boiler Plant, Economical Working of, 13, 158
Finsbury Technical College, Old Students’ Association, 308, 408
Fire-damp, Tests of Instrument for Detection, 169
Fire Hose Couplings and Standardisation, 155
Fire Prevention During the War, 54
Fire Resistance of Wooden Stave Piping, 399
Fires on Board Ship, Board of Trade Circular, 373
Fires, Comparison of Gas and Coal, J. W. Lusky, 399
Fires in Timber-lined Tunnels, 567
Flax-pulling Machines, Public Trials in France 93
Flexible Shafting, Fraser and Glass, 694
Foochow. China, Irrigation Work Projected, 627
Foreign Exchanges and their Influence on Industry, 108
Franco-British Trade Index Prepared by British Chamber of Commerce in Paris, 539
French Colonial Development in Africa, 13
French Foreign Trade, Fluctuations in Money Values, 145
French Import and Export Statistics, 13.- 679
Fresh-water Supply by Barge, 373
Fuel Saving Appliances Exhibition at Cardiff. 427
Furnaces, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Fusain. Lecture on. F. S. Sinnatt. 455
GAS Association, British Commercial, Conference, 334
Gas, Blast-furnace, Utilisation of, for Steam Raising, 217
Gas from Blast-furnaces and Producer Cleaned by Dry Process, 455
Gas versus Coke for Domestic Use, 705
Gas and Electrical Industries, Linking-up of Works and Stations, J. Mogford, 705
Gas Main Utilised After Being Buried for Twenty-six Years, 193
Georgian Soviet Government and Foreign-owned Goods, 39
German Agricultural Machinery, liaised Prices, 382
German Machinery for Japan, 595
German Protest Against Bridge Destruction.
567
German Shipping in Flourishing Condition, 373
German Successes in Argentine Markets, 679
German Telegraph Lines’ Poor Condition, Part
Replacement by Wireless, 217
German Trade Papers in Spanish for Vigo, Contrasted with English Methods, 595
Germany’s Expected Revival of Trade in
Prismatic Field Glasses, 168
Germany’s Lost Markets, Efforts to Regain, 193
Glass Factory at Rio de Janeiro, 119
Gold Bars Recovery from the Wrecked Lau-rentic, 169
Gold Test, New, in the United States, 539
Golf Clubs, Stainless Steel, Reduction in Cost, 293
Grinding Heads for Small Internal Grinding. 319
Gunpowder Factory Explosion in Wales, Official Report, 373
Gypsum for Plastering, Plastic Form of, 93
H HEALTH and Industrial H ygiene, Lectures, 399
Hoist for Transvaal Mine, One of the Largest in the World, 67
House Building for London County Council, Reduction in Cost, 595
Houses, Chimneyless, Electric Equipped, 427
Howrah Bridge, Calcutta, Proposed New,
Question of Opening Span, 67, 93
Hydraulic Stowing, Professor G. Knox. 539
Hydro-electric Plant, Large, in Bathurst, Canada, 265
Hvdro-electric Power from the Colorado River, 62
Hydro-electric Power from Iguazu Falls, 373
Hydro-electric Power Stations in Granada, New Company for Erection and Working, 93
I IGUAZU Falls, Possible Immense Amount of Hydro-electric Power, 373
Imperial College of Science and Technology :
Old Students’ Dinner, 607
India, Hydro-electric Surveys in Bengal and Travancore, 649
Indian Government Grant to Irrawaddy Petroleum Syndicate, 265
Indian Industries and Labour, 131
Indian Institute of Engineers, Rapid Growth of Membership, 679
Indian Jute and Silk, 182
Indian Timbers and Paper Materials, 54
Industrial League and Council Becomes a
Limited Liability Company, 511
Industrial League Week-ends for Employers and Trade Union Officials, 373
Industry Welfare Society :
Lecture Conference at Balliol College. Oxford, 308
Institutions—see Associations
Insurance of Diesel Engines Against Breakdown, 576
Irish Textile Mills and Factories Improvement, 399
IRON AND STEEL :
Alloys of Nickel and Chromium for Electric Cooking and Heating. 319
American Iron Company’s Reductions in Price of Pipe, 319
Argentine, First Blast-furnace Installed, 483
Autoclave, Cast Steel, Explosion and Cause, 649
Belfast, Steel Foundry Started, 679
Bihar and Orissa Iron Ore Deposits. New Company to Work, 511
Blast-furnace Completion, Newcastle Iron and Steel Company, Natal, 145
Blast-furnace Erection in Nelson Province, New Zealand, 649
Blast-furnace Record at Ford Works, 13
Blast - furnace Works, Kling - Weidlein Cleaner, 119
Blast-furnaces near Hankow, 327
British, American and German Irons, Variation in Toughness, 614
British and Belgian Methods of Rolling. Excessive Use of Scrap, 595
Broken Hill, Australia, Additional Iron and Steel Plant, 67
Broken Hill Iron and Steel Works. Australia, Third Blast-furnace Started, 483
Burnt Steel, H. A. Whiteley, 567
Canton-Hankow Railway Bridge, Steel Plates Cheaper at Home than from America, 169, 241
Chromite, Steel Alloy, Jxjw Cost of Manufacture, A. H. Coplan, 319
Combined Iron and Steel, Dr. Percy Long-muir, 483
Corrosion of Cast Iron Water Pipes, Nelson Smith, 621
Cutting Cast Iron by Special Blow-pipe, 173
Dowlais Steel Works Sets to Work, 679
Electric Steel Foundry for Newfoundland. 13
Explosion of Cast Iron Steam Chest on ExGerman Vessel, 293
Ferro-chrome, Extensive Supply from Norway, 427
French Steel Industry, Signs of Revival, 567
Germany, Steel Prices in, 331
Hardened Steel Ring Gauge Tests at the National Physical Laboratory, 241
Heat Treatment of Small Engine Parts, Oxidation Remedy, E. R. Taylor, 705
IRON AND STEEL {continued):
High Railway Rates and Iron and Steel Trade, Sir Hugh Bell, 678
Iron Mine Opened in Johore, 39
Iron Ore Deposits on Island in Gulf of Finland, 679
Iron Ore Deposits of Russia and Siberia, 67
Iron Ore, Expected Large Output of, in Tasmania, 265
Iron Ore Output in Soviet Russia Before the War and After, 399
Iron Oxide Reduction, Investigation, 621
Iron Standpipe, Unusual Failure, 487
Japanese Process for Conversion of Magnetic Sand into Pig Iron and Steel, 293
Newcastle Iron and Steel Company, South Africa, Smelting to be Started Shortly, 39, 145
Nickel Ore, Rich Deposit Discovery in the Barberton District of Pretoria, 483
Nickel Ores from China Assayed in London.
Non-magnetic Iron of High Specific Resistance, Ferranti, Limited, 595
Phosphorus Content of Iron Ore, R. M. Winslow, 373
Pig Iron Output in Canada, 373
Pig Iron. Production Statistics, 427, 679
Rolling, Forging and Tilting Trades Society, 705
Rustless Iron Adaptations, Gramophone Fittings, Motor Trade Use, &c., 649
Spanish Iron Ore, Proposed Export Tax, 293
Steel Billets and Railway Trucks in the United States, 145
Steel Casting Developments in Australia, 169
Steel Castings, Hollow Cylindrical, Tests at Washington, 293
Steel Manufacture by Direct Process, A. E. Bourcound, 621
Steel Mills, 60-Cycle Preferred to 25-Cycle Current for, B. G. Lamme, 347
Steel Scrap from England for American Steel Makers, 595
Steel Trade, Hopeful Outlook and Its Causes, 345
Swedish Iron Export Trade, Great Depression, 265
Swedish Iron Ore Statistics, 595
Swedish Orefields, Very Rich in Iron, 39
Tata Iron and Steel Company’s Metallurgical School at Jamshedpur, 679
Tungsten Ores Exploitation in Kiangsi, China, 679
ITALIAN Customs Tariff, 280
Italian Public Tenders and Foreign Firms Suggestion to British Manufacturers, 293
J JACK Hammers, Dry and Wet, 621
Japanese Government New Wireless Stations, 241
Journal of Indian Industries and Labour, 709
Jugo-Slavia, Imports and Impecuniosity, 319
KARACHI Harbour Reclamation Work Postponed, 483
Kimberley District of South Africa, Report of Inspector of Machinery, 455
King’s College Engineering Society. Twentyfourth Annual Dinner, 633
L LAMPS, Electric -see Electrical Matters
Lantern Slides for Lectures, Offer by Ed. Bennis and Co., Limited, 472
Lantern Slides for Lectures, Offer by Boving and Co., Limited, 582
Lantern Slides Offer by Marshall, Sons and Co., 168
Lantern Slides for Lectures, Offer by Tangyes, Limited, 280
Lead Mines, Derelict, in Derbyshire, Renewed
Operation of, Expected, 483
Lead Paints and the Workers, Fresh Investigation of Dangers, 293
Leafield and Northolt Wireless Stations, Post
Office Opinions, 217
Lifeboat, Motor, New Type for Launching without Slipway, 145
Lighting, Artificial, in Mines, W. H. Jones, 483
Lightning Arresters, Electrolytic, W. A. Coates, 328
Loads, Transitory, or Steady, on Wooden
Floors, Effects Compared, 119
Locomotives, American and European Compared, 119
London “ Toll ” Exchange, 108, 427, 455
Low-temperature Carbonisation of Fuel. Phillip Gee, 589
M MACAO Harbour and Neighbouring Channels, Silting Up, 373
Made in Germany. French Purchase from England, 241
Magnesium, Various Uses of, 427
Manchester Gas Price to be Reduced. 567
Manchuria, Magnesite and Talc Deposits,
Valuable Discovery, 67
Marconi’s Approval of New Method Developed
by Ono of the Company’s Engineers, 193
Metal Corrosion, J. Newton Friend, 621
Metal Trades’ Pension Society Annual Dance, 633
Metal Transmutation Claims by Dr. C. B. Davis, 67
Metal-working Machines. Driving Power Required for, R. M. Robertson, 679
Metals or Alloys at High Temperatures, Prevention of Surface Oxidation, 679
Metals in the British Empire, Map of Chief
Sources of, 469
Metals, The Working of, Dr. F. Johnson, 455
Metallurgical Plant Extension at South African Gold Mines, 145
Methanometer for Detection of Fire-damp, Tests of, 169
Micrometer. Metre-inch, Veran de St. Gervais, 411
Miners’ Phthisis, Mechanical Causes of, 93
Miners’ Safety Lamps, Wire Gauzes for, Experiments, 595
Mines’ Fires Extinction, The Emergency Fan, 67
Mining Efficiency and Loss of Time in South Africa, F. C. W. Ingle, 265
Monel Metal, Hot-rolled, Proportional Limit Variation, 67
Motor Car Manufacture in China, 621
Motor Car Parts, Sub-committees to Deal with, Appointed by British Engineering Standards Association, 13, 54
Motor Car, Single-seated Electric, for Use in Factories, 511
Motor Cars and Polished Surfaces, Disadvantages of, 93
Motor Cars and Trucks for Canada, American Goods Preferred on Ground of Price and Standardisation, 399
Motor Fuel, New, Monsieur Mailhe, 399
Motor Lifeboat for Wexford, 217
Motor Lifeboats, Increasing Construction of, by
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 217
Motor Service, Goods and Passenger, Between Hangchow and Yuhang, China, 679
Motor Spirit from Vegetable Oils, Monsieur Mailhe, 217
Motor Vehicle Radiators, Device for Prevention of Freezing, M. F. Cesbron, 13
Motor Vehicles, Electric and Petrol, Comparison.
A. R. Galbraith, 39
Motorists, Pilots’ Service for, for the Metropolitan Area, 93
Municipal Electrical “ Old Stagers,” Reunion, 694
N NASSAU, Opening for Shipbuilding and Repairing Yard, 22
Natural Gas, Huge Supply Discovered and Oil
Hoped for near Vaux, 506
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Scholarships, 47
Naval Continuous Wave Wireless Station Pro
jected near Vancouver, 319
Newcomen Society, Constitution and Rules.
373
New York Church Front Cut Away and Moved
30ft., 567
New Zealand, Hydro-electric Developments in,
567
New Zealand War Memorial, 426
Nitrates from the Atmosphere, Mr. Henry Ford’s Offer, 119
Norway Free Ports Question, 455
o OIL Boring at Vancouver, 145
Oil Borings in the United Kingdom in Progress and Suspended, 319
Oil Deposits in the Andes, 93
Oil Extraction by Cheap Process from Australian Shale, 679
Oilfield of Northern Canada, Mineral Wealth in Addition to Oil, 169
Oilfield Operations, Pumping Power Required,
W. G. Taylor. 13
Oil Fuel for Bunkering Ships, P.pe Laid at Bombay, 595
Oil Gas Burner, Demonstration of. Mr. Cleary. 522
Oil Mill Explosion, Unusual Type of, 567
Oil Near the Benguella Railway, Africa, 399
Oil Pipe Line 190 Miles Long Across Tehuantepec Isthmus, 169
Oil Prospects in Mozambique, 621
Oil Resources of the World, A. Beeby Thompson, 539
Oil Sands Exploitation by Anglo-Swiss Company in Canton of Geneva, 39
Oil Shale Discovery, Valuable, in South Africa. 169
Oil Shales, Experimental Plant in New Brunswick, 119
Oil Wells Output Capable of Extension by Proper Operation, A. F. Dabel, 705
Olympia, Dinner at, 342
Oppau Explosion Investigation, Unsuspected
Danger Revealed, 373
Oppau Explosion and its Lesson, M. Georges
Claude, 373
Optophone, Modification of, J. W. Giltay, 700
Output Increase to Avoid Dismissals by Spanish
Company, 193
Oxy-acetylene Torch, Improved Form for Use Under Water, 93
Oxygen Factory in Ceylon. The First, Blowpipe Welding by Natives. 705
P PAINT Spraying or Paint Brushing, Results of Comparative Tests, 119
Papermaking and Use of Tropical Grasses, 539
Paris Improvements on Wholesale Scale, 679
Peat Bricks for Building Purposes, Expected Reduction in Building Costs, 293
Peat Cheaper than Coal for Use with Gas Producers in Ireland, 193
Peat in Locomotive Boilers Used for Power Generation in Ireland by Marconi Company. 193
Pekin Museum for China’s Minerals, 39
Pekin Tramways and French Agreement. 347
Petroleum Shale Search in Australia, Commonwealth’s Offered Reward, 347
Philippines, Trade in, Information Inquiries, 293
Picture-hanging Wire. Suitable and Unsuit able, 93
Pile Renewal by Special Rig, 119
Pneumatic Scratch Brush, 442
Poland’s Export of Alcohol, 67
Port Lincoln, South Australia, New Pier Construction, 293
Powdered Fuel and Lost Heat, Professor F.
Bacon, 93
Power Plant for Pretoria, 67
Presentation to Colonel Saxton White. 131
Pretoria, Power Plant for, 67
Prussian Chambers of Commerce Trade Report, 169
Pulpwood Chips, Moisture Content, 67
Pumping Plant, Joint Installation for Two Transvaal Mines. 39
RAI MO-CONTROLLED Motor Car. Captain R. E. Vaughan, 217
Radium Development in Czecho-Slovakia, 265
Radium, Recommendations for Safe Handling of. 39
Rafting by Electrical Power in New Brunswick. 119
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
Aberdeen to Penzance, Through Coaches for Twenty-two Hours’ Journey, 347 373 ; Criticism. 705
Accidents :
Abermule Accident Claims for Compensation, 483
Abermule Accident and Telescoping, Colonel Pringle’s Report, 13
Accident Reports, Issue for January to June, 1921, 265
Accident Returns, Comparison between Figures for 1913 and for 1920. 649
Batignolles Tunnel Disaster, Release of Arrested Signalman, 427
Beaumont Hamel Disastrous Derailment, 13
Board of Trade Accident Inquiries Department. Additional Sub-inspector Appointed, 217
Buxton Locomotive Boiler Explosion, 539, 711
Collision at Dawlish* 347, 648
Collision at Newcastle, North-Eastern Railway, Report, 567
Collision, Serious, at Selby, North-Eastern Railway, 169, 192. 319, 373
Excursion Train Fatal Accideiit to Passenger, 241
Fatal Collision on the East London Railway, 67, 93, 427
Fatal Collision at New-street Station, Birmingham, 595, 649, 679
Fatal Fire Accidents in Sleeping Cars, 483
French Railway Accidents Statistics, 140, 427
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Derailment, Mistake by Experienced Man, 319
London and North-Western Goods Engine. Bursting of Boiler and Loss of Life. 539. 711
Manchester, Slight Collision at Victoria Station, 125
North British Railway Accident Due to Wind, 621
Platelayers Run Down, Six Men Killed, 373
Shunting Accident Report, 67
Tramway Accident, Fatal, at Tynemouth. 399
Acworth Committee and the Indian Government, 567
Amalgamation and the Railways Bill, 145 — see also Grouping
Appointments and Staff Changes, 39, 373, 406, 621, 649, 705
Argentine Narrow-gauge lanes Construction Projected, 539
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, 466
Australian Gauge Question, Report of Commission, 427
Australian North-South Transcontinental Railway, 241
Australian Railway Rails and Fish-plates.
Orders to Standard Specifications, 265
Australian Railways, Supreme Control of, Expert to be Appointed, 217
Australian State Railways’ Annual Reports, Uniform System, 705
Australian Transcontinental Railway and the Mails, 714
Automatic Railway Control, W. J. Thorrow-good, 119
Automatically Controlled Machinery, 679
Baker-street Station, Metropolitan Railway, 634 Cars Handled per Hour at Rush Periods, 427
Baronetcy for Railway Official, 649
Barrow Docks, Proposed Enlargement of, as Relief Work, 511
Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, Restoration Postponed, 193
Belfast Tramways Reconstruction, Employment for Local ex-Service Men, 217
Bengal-Nagpur Railway Survey for Coalfield Railway near Cuttack, 265
Board of Trade General Panel, Selection of Representatives of Trading Interests, 539
Board of Trade—see also Ministry of Transport
British Railways and the Great War, E. H.
Pratt, 13, 127
Browne, Mr. Balfour, The Late, 373
Bulgaria, New Railway Opened by the King. 628
Burma Railways’ Collision. Large Number of Fatalities, 193
Burntisland Harbour Transfer, 265
Cabs at Railway Stations. Question of Id.
Charge, 217
Canadian Government and Grand Trunk Award, 621
Canadian Pacific Line Extended and Branch Added, 399
Canal Ownership and Administration Not Yet Settled, 67
Canton-Hankow Railway Bridges, Steel Plates for, 169, 241
Cardiff Docks and Harbours, Charges for Tonnage, Use of Cranes, &c., Reduced from 150 per cent. Above Pre-war Level to 125 per cent., 483
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued :
Census of Railway Servants, 236
Central Europe Railways and Allocation of Rolling Stock, Sir F. Dent’s Work, 687
Ceylon Government Railways Report, 455 ; Settlement of Differences with South Indian Railway, Condition of Railway and of its Finances, 455
Chalk Farm Widening, 145
Chester Corporation Tramway Accounts, 241
Chilian Government Award of Contract for Electrification, 427
Chilian Government Loan for Railway Electrification, 241
Chilian Loan to be Spent in the United Kingdom, 119
Chuchow-Hengchow Section of Canton-Hankow Railway, 241
City and South London Railway, Agitation for Extension, 705
Clearing House Returns, Resumed Activities, 217
Coal Dispute and Loss to Railways, 217
Coal and other Goods Traffic Statistics. 292, 427
Competition Between Railways, Restored Express Services, 265
Conference at Olympia, Road Transport by Railways, Question, 455
Congestion on Metropolitan District Trains Going East, Midland Railway Concerned, 347
Control, Cessation, and Jubilee of the Earlier Railway Control Acts, 131
Control of Railways Expiry and the Railways Bill, 39
Cotton, Transportation of, and Railway Haulage at Liverpool and Manchester, Arthur Watson, 13
Creosoted Timber Bridge and Question of Fire Risks, 455
Czecho-Slovakia, Skoda Works Hundredth Railway Engine in Three Years, 319
Death of Mr. J. A. Bowes, 399
Death of Lieut.-Colonel P. G. von Donop, R.E., 511
Death of Mr. F. Huth Jackson, 624
Death of Monsieur Albert Sarpiaux, 427
Death of Monsieur’ Louis Weissenbruck, 217
Death of Mr. Wilson-Fox, 567
December Train Alterations, Better Connections, 621
Demerara Railway Sale to British Honduras Government, 13
Detonator, New Form of, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 595
Dispute Settlement by Accident, 511
District and Midland Railways, Rolling Stock Dispute and Settlement, 347, 511
District Railway Installs Train Starting by Electric Bell, 39
Dwina, Railway Bridge Over, to be Reopened, 595
Ealing, Shepherd's Bush and Liverpoolstreet Expedited Service, 649
Economy in Passenger Train Mileage, 319
Eight-hour Day to Cease on South African Railways, 595 .
Eight-hour Day, Complaints of Exceeding, by Some Railwaymen, 13
Eight-hour Day on the French Railways, 198
Electric Railways in Norway, New Construction, 427
Electrification of Paulista Railway of Brazil, 217
Euston Exhibition of Architectural Drawings by Engineer’s Staff, 705
Euston Station War Memorial Unveiled by Lord Haig, 459
Excursion Fares and Reduction in Charabancs’ Trips. 347, 399
Fares, London Electric Railway’s Obligation, 93
Fares Reduction, but Charges Much Above Pre-war Level, 217
Fares Reduction in Prospect, 67, 101
Finsbury Park and Hammersmith Journey Time Shortened, 399
Fires Due to Abnormal Heat, Wooden Railway Station Burnt, 119
Fish Waste and Railway Charges, 347
Football Special Trains and Fares, 241
French Railways’ Traffic. Finance Statistics.. 399
French State Railways’ Steamer for Joint Cross-Channel Service, 145, 193
Future of British Rail wavs, Sir George Paish, 679
Gas Lighting and Coal Fires to be Removed from French Trains, 455
Goods and Mineral Rates, Reduction, 37.3, 679
Goods Traffic Statistics, 145, 265, 319, 427, 621
Government Special for Holyhead. Slow Time Journey, 649
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, Disastrous Financial Position, 293
Great Eastern Railway Now Sea Route to the Continent, 47
Great Western Railway Magazine, 58
Great Western Railway and South Wales Traders, 101
Gretna Explosives Factoiy and Property, Railway Lines and Sidings, 399
Grouping of Eastern, North-Eastern and East Scottish Companies, Issue of Booklet, 347
Grouping of Railways, but Competition Remains, 39
Grouping of Railways, Meetings of Shareholders of the London and North-Western and of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways, 525, 567
Grouping System, Figures Compared, 145
Groups of Railways, Number of Directors, 119
Halwill-Torrington Light Railway, Government Grant Refused, 241
Harwich-Zeebrugge Route to Continent, 265
Hawaii Railways, Particulars of, 145
Highland Railway Adapts Disused Gas Cylinders as Containers for Engine Oil Fuel, 13
Holyhead Harbour Deepening for Quicker Irish Mails Transit, 567
Holyhead Piers and Quays Taken Over from Ministry of Transport by London and North-Western Railway, 34
India to Adopt Automatic Continuous Vacuum Brake, 39
Indian Loan for Purchase of Railway Material in United Kingdom, 13
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Indian Railways’ Report, Financial Recommendations, 13, 319, 679
Indian Railway Surveys for New Railways, 595, 705
Inland Waterways Development, 595
Institutions, Locomotive and Railway—see Associations
International Railway Congress to be held in Rome in 1922, i69
Ireland, Excursions for Christmas, 679
Irish and British Railways’ Claims Against the Government, 39
Irish Disturbances and Railway Fatalities, 39
Irish Railway Conciliation Board Meetinc. 212
Irish Railways’ Claims and Future Conditions as to Pay, &c., 169, 193, 217
Irish Railways’ Eight-hours Day Question. Arbitration, 265
Iron Ore, &c., for Blast-furnaces and Steel Works, Temporary Reduction in Carriage Rates, 427
Japan, Projected Railway Submarine Tunne between Main Island and Kyushu, 13
Japanese Scheme for Iron Railway Bridge in Tokyo. 193
Kings Lynn Docks and Railway, 217
Labour Party and the Ministry of Transport, 483
Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North-Western Railways, Amalgamation, 525, 567, 649, 679
Letter Posting by Railway for Extra. Fee, 169
Letterkenny to Burtonport Extension, Present Control to Continue, 67
Liverpool and Manchester New Road for Motor Traffic, 705
Liverpool Overhead Railway New System of Signalling, 241
Locomotive Capacity, Data of Various Companies in the United Kingdom, 319
Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Statistics, 427
Locomotive Replaced by Motor Omnibus on French Branch Line, 649
Locomotive, Turbo-condenser, Tested, 455
Locomotive and Wagon Export from the United States, Great Decrease in, 519
Locomotives, Baldwin’s Narrow-gauge, Disposal Board Quotation, 193
London, Brighton and South Coast Train Service Acceleration, 649
London Electric Railways’ Common Fund, 705
London and North-Western Railway, Chalk Farm Widening. 145
London and North-Western Electric Rails Laid, 371
London and North-Western and London, Brighton and South Coast Railways’ Through Train, 567
London and North-Western Railway to Take Over Piers, &c., at Holyhead from Ministry of Transport, 34
London and North-Western Steamer Slieve Donard Launched, 398
London and North-Western Workshops, Short Time and Long Holidays, 621
London and South-Western Railway’s Offer for German Floating Dock, 705
London and South-Western Service between Southampton and Cherbourg. 67
Los Andes, Santiago and Valparaiso. Projected Railway, 595
Lunch Charges on Various Railways, Reduction of, 539
Lunch on the Great Western Railway, 427'
“ Luxurious ” Travelling. Midland and Great Northern Joint Line, 292
Maintenance and Renewal versus Dividends, 455
Manchester Railway Stations and Grouping 539
Melbourne to Start Electric Railless Tram ways, 704
Metropolitan Railway Company’s Bill, Clause Regarding Directors, 595
Metropolitan Railway Engineer’s Improvements. 39
Metropolitaine’s First Deficit, 169
Midland Railway Company’s War Memorial, 705
Midland Railway Discontinues Zone Tickets, 595
Midland Railway Goods Stations Reopened, 241
Midland Railway and Train Control, Voluminous Record, 119
Midland RailwayWorkshops, Short Time an I Long Holidays, 621, 679
.Midland Railwaymen’s Worthy War Memo rial to their Fellow-workmen, 119, 511
Milk Conveyance, Consultation as to Suitable Vehicle, 595
Ministry of Transport. Future Arrangement 13, 539
Motor Car Rail Conveyance Through the Severn Tunnel, 705
Motor Cars Sent by Severn Tunnel, 265
N.U.R. and the Eight Hours’ Day, 595
National Union of Railwaymen, Jubilee Date, 193
Newfoundland Railway Troubles, 319
New Railway Schemes and Unemployment, 483
New South Wales Government Railways, Progress of Automatic Signalling, 511
New South Wales Railway Commissioners’ Annual Report, 483
New Zealand Order for British-built Rolling Stock and Rails, 13
North British Railway Claim Against Ministry of Transport, 93, 265, 539, 621
North Staffordshire Railway and Canai Water Supply, 93
Norway. Electric Railway Construction in, 427 ‘
Oil Fuel Containers Out of Adapted Gas Cylinders, 13
Oil Fuel Locomotives in the United Kingdom, Completed and in Course of Fitting, 13
Oil Fuel Use Extended, 67
Oils, &c., Increase in Tonnage Carried in June, 319
Ontario, Railway Extension in, 483
Osaka Electric Railway, Extension of Lines, Overhead and Underground, 319
Osaka and Kobe New Line, 347
Parcel Rates Reduction to Compete with
Post Office and Firms’ Own Deliveries, 347
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Paris Nord-Sud Railway Purchased by the M€tropolitaine, 119
Passenger Traffic Statistics, 145, 265, 319, 427, 621
Pekin-Hankow Line, Projected Bridge Over the Yellow River, 13
Pekin-Suiyuan Railway, Extension of Various Shops, Stores and Works, 119
Pekin-Suiyuan Railway, Improvements of the Line and Engines Projected, 127
Pekin, Tramways for, 67
Perishable Fruit Traffic in America, 679
Permanent Way Institution, Summer Meeting in Belgium, 39
Pre-war Railway Institution Revival, 293 Privilege Tickets at Home and in Australia, 319
Quinquennial Valuation of Railways to be Revived, 426
Railway Administration by Stockholders, Abandoned Restriction, 8
and Canal Commission, Composition Challenged, 193
Material Export Statistics, 140, 293.
347, 373, 455, 672
New, in Mexico, 649
Pre-war1 Facilities, but at Higher Fares, 13, 119
Rates Advisory Committee, Classification of Returned Empties, 621 ; Committee’s Report on Coastwise Shipping, 39 ; Traders’ Tickets Inquiry, 119, 209, 621
Rates, Cheaper Fuel, and Wages Reduction, 567
Rates, Trade Depression, and the Coal Strike, 567
Rates Tribunal, Annual Report to be Made to Transport Minister. 163
Rates Tribunal, Composition of, 483, 511, 679
Rates Tribunal, Rules of Procedure, 705
Rates Tribunal to be Set Up under Railways Bill, 217
.Rates Tribunal, Salary of Chairman, 241
Returns for 1920, 567
Servants in Britain and in United States, Great Reduction in Number of Grades, 119
Trad§ Union and State Ownership, also De-control, Mr. J. H. Thomas’ Views, 193
Workshops Employees, Pre-war Numbers, 13
Railways Act, Anxiety of the Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Industries, 567
Act, Cessation of Conciliation Boards, 319
Act, Delay in Establishing Councils, Complaints, 705
Amalgamation Tribunal. 621. 679 Anniversaries, Eightieth, in 1921, 399
Bill 39, 67, 93, 119, 123, 145, 163.
169, 217
Works. Short Time and Long Holiday, 621, 679
Railwaymen’s Guaranteed Week, 93
Railwaymen’s Pay and Reduced Cost of Living, 13, 539, 679
Railwaymen’s Pay and Scottish General Managers, 347, 373, 427
Railway-owned Workshops After Grouping, Future Work of, 169
Receipts and Expenditure for May, Effect of the Coal Dispute, 67
Receipts and Expenditure for July, 265
Reduced Goods Rate, Conferences on Question, 427
Reductions Due to Coal Strike, Statistics of, 34, 67
Road Vehicles for Passengers and Goods, Railways Seek Parliamentary Powers for, 621
Rods for Working Points, Effect of Temperature, New Compensator, 399
Rolling Stock Material, Revision of British Standard Specifications, 28
Rumanian Negotiations for German Locomotives, 93
Runaway Catch Points for Accident Prevention, 93
Russian Locomotive Repair, Contract for Balto-British Shipyard at Reval, 483 “ Safety ” Propaganda in New Form Proposed, 203
St. John’s Ambulance, Great Western Men’s Certificates, 539
Salaries of Chief Railway Officers, Economies, 217
Saloon Coaches for Ambulance Trains.
Unwanted Surplus, 101
Sampierdarena-Ovada-Alessandria and the Milan-Bologna Railway Lines to be Electrified, 67
Sand Drag Invention an English One, 140 Scottish Railway Companies and their Men, 347, 373, 427, 621, 649
Scottish Railways. Passing Interim Dividends, 193, 621
Severn Tunnel Ventilating Plant, Renewal, 539
Shopping Tickets to London, 595
Signalling—see also Institution of Railway Signal Engineers
Signalmen’s Wages. Lengthy Negotiations Due to Variety of Work in Different Boxes, 193
Signals with Coloured Lights, 265
Six Months’ Return Tickets, No Action by Ministry of Transport, 13
Sleeping Accommodation between Paddington and South Wales, 649
Snow Clearance at Engine Terminals on Canadian Railways by Use of Steam Coils, 483
Soldiers’ Tickets at Reduced Rates not Resumed, 193
Solway Firth Bridge, Caledonian Railway, Closed Indefinitely, 145
South African Electrification of Railway from Glencoe to Pietermaritzburg, 621, 649
South African Railways Coal Traffic Wagons, Mr. Kelway-Bamber, 595
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued}:
South African Railways’ Electrification, Messrs. Merz and McLellan’s Recommendations, 705
South African Railways’ Electrification a Question of Cost, 199
South African State Railway Electrification, 595
South Indian Railway, Acworth Committee Report, 567
Southern Pacific Railroad, Striking Variety in i.ts Situation Requiring Corresponding Contrasts in its Construction, 193
Southern Pacific Railroad, Wholesale Motor
Car Destruction at Level Crossings, 705
Speed Orders by Railway Companies, 649
Ssupingchieh-Tsenchiatun Railway Extension, 241
Summer Time, Want of International Uniformity and Delay of Trains, 511
Survey for Possible Mail Line from Karachi, 373
Swedish Locomotives for Russia, 293
Swedish Railway Electrification, 145
Swiss Railway Orders for Single-phase Locomotives, 355
Swiss Railways’ Successful Loan for Electrification, 45
Swiss Railways’ Turbine Locomotive Tests, 399
Sydney Tube Railwav, Completion Urged, Cost, 679
Syrens for Underground Railway Stations,
Tablet Exchanging Apparatus. Original Inventor, 39
Tasmanian Railway Locomotives. Purchase, 293
Territorial Army Camps and the Railways, 145
Through Cross-country Service Restored, 567
Through Passenger and Goods Traffic.
Weekly Returns Still Missing, 293
Track Relaying by Contract, 380
Traders’ Tickets, Concession by English
Railway Companies, 209, 621
Traders’ Tickets Increased Cost Referred to Rates Advisory Committee, 119
Traffic Statistics, Goods’. 145, 265, 319, 427
Traffic Statistics, Passenger, 145, 265, 319, 427
Train Alterations and Restored Services, 39
Train Starting Hours, London and South-
Western and Midland, 373
Tramway Axles. Standard Specification for. 372
Transport, Minister of. Lord Peel to Succeed Sir Eric Geddes, 511
Transport, Ministry of, and the Board of Trade, Future Arrangements and Reduction of Staff, 511, 539
Truck Loading in Victoria. Results of Improved Method, 39
Tube Railway for Calcutta, 67
Tube Railways, No More Trains after Midnight, 67
Tunnel, Proposed New, under the Thames, 169
Turbine-driven Locomotive, Swedish, 241
Uganda Railways. Kilindini Deep-water Pier Contract, 67
United Kingdom Railway Dividends. 119
United States Railways :
Accident Bulletins of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, 649
American Railroads and Rail Manufacturers, Rail Defects and Failures, 347
Boston Railway stations, 93
Brake Tests with Heavy Trains, 100, 399
Claims on Government and Counterclaims by Railways, 145
Consolidation of Railway Systems, Plan and Inquiry, 373
Death of Mr. J. F. Wallace, 169
Economical Working and Brighter Outlook for the Railways, 241
Federal Control and Payments to Certain Associations, Divided Opinion, 511
Inter-State Commission and Reduction of Export Rates on Iron and Steel, 241
Motor Omnibus Converted to Run on Railroad in America, 67
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway, Freedom from Accident, 477
New York Terminal Passenger Traffic, Grand Central Record, 293
New York Transit, Municipal Ownership Recommended, 399
“ Pageant of Progress ” in Chicago, Typical Railway Engines, 293
Pennsylvania Railroad “Musts,” 93
Pennsylvania Railroad, New Steel Rails and Sleepers, 93
Perishable Goods Traffic in United States 265
Permanent Way Men on a Western States Railway, Wholesale Abandonment of Work, 539
Railway Servants Reduced Numbers, Comparison of Hours, Pay, &c., 145
“ Short Lines ” in the United States, 145
Sleeper Treating Plant and Locomotive
Crane Work on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, 539
Steel Billets and Railway Trucks in the United States, 145
Track Work and Standard Wages, 380
Turbo-condenser Locomotive Tested, 455
Viaducts, High, on the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway, Unexpected Difficulties. 93
Virginia Railway Locomotive Test, 100, 399
Wages Reduction and Strike Cancelment, 483
Wagon Repairs on United States Railwavs, 293
UNPAINTED Carriages Requisitioned. 145 Urban Electric Railway Services, J. P.
Thomas, 595
Victorian Railways Locomotive, “Cl ” Class. 594
Victorian Railways New Locomotive Construction, 483
Wages Reduction by Sliding Scale, 67
Wagons, Privately Owned, Sir Eric Geddes'
Views, 93, 169
Wagons, Privately Owned, Mr. E. H. Pratts’ Views, 127
Wagons, Railway Owned, Under Repair, Number at Pre-war Level, 73
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
■ War Claims of Railways, Terms of Division of Settlement Money, 119
War Memorial, London and North-Western Unveiled by Lord Haig, 459
War Seal Foundation, London and North-Western, Staff and Servants’ Contribution, 399
Week-end Cheap Tickets, Revival of, 427
Welsh Railway Proposals, Inquiry by Light Railway Commission, 455
Youths’ Payment as Men Deferred to Former Age of Twenty Years, 511
RAIN Making, Artificial, What it Would Mean in Horse-power, 67
Refractory Silica Brick Industry in the United States, 539
Reinforced Concrete Bridge, Deterioration and Cause, 705
Research Association of British Motor and Allied Manufacturers, 102
Research Work in the Colonies, Committee Report, 241
Road Improvements and Unemployment in Oldbury District, 511
Rochdale Canal Ceases Carrying Business, 13
Rock Drill, Leyner Type, Phthisis Dangers of, 265
Royal Agricultural Show at Cambridge in 1922, 633
R.A.C. Official Demonstrations, 277
Rubber for Papermaking, F. Kaye, 511
Rubber Situation in British Colonies and Protectorates, Committee to Investigate, 483 522
Russian Industry, Review of, 543
Russo-German Trade, Increasing Activity, 319
Rust-proofing of Small Automobile Parts, 265
s SAFETY Foot Valve, Key's Patent, 128
Scholarships, Archibald Dawnay, 230, 472, 576
Scholarships in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 47
Science Library at Science Museum, Classification Volume, 158
Scientific Expedition from Norway to Jan Mayen, 169
Scientific and Industrial Research, MS. Copy of Bibliography of Lubricants, 399
Scientific Industries Club in Newcastle to be Started, 483
Scientific Research. Beit Fellowships Awarded, 145
Scientific Test House in Sydney, 347
Seventy Years Old Survey Stakes for Abandoned Railway, 595
Sewage Systcxn for Kobe, Japan, 319
Shafting, Flexible, Fraser and Glass, 694
Shale, Waste, from Mines, Experiments in Oil Distillation, 567
Shanghai, New Dockyard Projected, 145
Shanghai, Port Improvement Schemes, 455, 649
Sheep and Dairy Farms in New Zealand, Electrical Power on, 217
Shells Magazine Exploded by Accidental Fire at Versailles, 169
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :
American Shipbuilding, 227
Armstrong-Whitworth Ships, 206
Australian Navigation Act Enforces Use of Wireless Equipment, 93
Cristobal Colon Constructed at Ferrol Naval Yards, 539
Cunard Liner Berengaria, Formerly Hamburg-American Imperator, Conversion to Oil Fuel Burner, 347
Diesel-engined Motor Ships, Economical Running of, 169
Ex-German Steamer Columbus Purchased by White Star Line, 13
Fires on Board Ships, Lloyd’s Investigations, 679
Four Battleships, Extension of Time for Sending in Tenders, 427
French State Railways’ Steamer Versailles for Joint Service, Newhaven and Dieppe, 145, 193
Fuel Cost of Geared Turbine Steamer with Oil-fired Boilers Compared with that of Turbo-electric Drive and also with Motor Vessel, 319
German New Mercantile Fleet, 427
Japanese Steamer Bunkered with 2050 Tons of Coal in Twenty-six Hours. 483
London and North-Western Steamer Slieve Donard Launched, 398
Maryland, United States Super-Dreadnought, Official Trials, 193
Motor Boat’s Record Non-stop Run, 705
Motor Launches at Mudros, 347
Motor Lifeboat, New Type for Launching from Carriage, 145
Motor Ship for British Trade Exhibition Purposes, 455, 576
Motor Ships, Growth in Size and Power of, 169
Passenger Steamships Fitted for Oil Fuel, Board of Trade Requirements, 373
Patches for Ship's Plating Shot on to the Holes, 347
Poseidon, New Danish Motor Ship, 347
Progress of the Motor Ship, James Richardson, 373
Quest’s Wireless Equipment for the Antarctic, 319
Reinforced Concrete Baltic Ferry Steamer Projected for Stockholm-Finland Route, 621
Sydney, Ferry Steamers under Construction at, 539
Trade Ship—see Motor Ship, &-c.
Turbine Reduction Gears versus Electric Propulsion for Ships, Eskil Berg, 373
Twin-screw Motor Ships Launched at Chester;
Pa., U.S.A., 649
United States Coastguard Cutter Tampa, Electrically Driven, 621
Versailles’ First Trip, Newhaven-Dieppe Joint Service, 145, 193
White Star Line New Steamer Homeric, 511
SHOVELS, Wear of, Machine for Testing, 241
Silver-bearing Area in the Yukon, Rapid Development, 119
Skoda O'\Rlch> Discovery in Vancouver, 567 Skoda W orks and United Machinery Company
Limited, Amalgamation, 3+7 P y>
P™J}r Rrancis. Pettit. Early Marine Screw 1 ropeller Invention, 9.3
Societies—see Associations
'SO±lon^293fiCial T°Ur °f Chief Trade Com-
SOcUencetfr;C+5n ReP"b'iC’ Late' Remini-
South Manchuria Mining Possibilities Explored by American Experts, 265 1
Spanish Chambers of Mines, Formation Obligatory, 399
Spanish Concession to British Company for Oil supply to Steamers at Las Palmas, 119
Sparking Plug, The “ Igna, ’ Brown Brothers, Limited, 442
Speech Projection Equipment with Nearly Four Miles Range, 265
Staff Testimonial to Mr. C. E. Town, 79
Standard Slip Gauges, Growth Variations and
Impaired Efficiency, 265
Steam, High-pressure, Utilisation of, Otto H Hartman, 347
Steam Pressures, Rapid Increase in Amount of, 1 »7t>
Steam Raising, Yesterday, To-day and To-morrow, Daniel Wilson, 193
Stoping, World’s Record in, in South African Gold Mme, 483
Submarine Telephone Cable to Connect Eastern
Prussia with Germany, 13
Sugar Mill, Large, Electrification, 13
Sukkur Barrage Scheme, 217
Swedish Fuel Supply in Position to Renew Exports, 373
Swedish Government Loan for New Brick Manufacture, 293
Swedish Industries and Wage Reduction, 293
Swedish Telephone System, British Desire for
‘Statistics with View to Home Improvement,
Swiss Water Power, Efforts at Development, 39
Sydney Harbour New Bridge, Tenders to be
I Invited for Construction, 293
Synthetic Combination of Vegetable Oils to
Replace Petrol, Experiments, 217
Syrian Trade and Electric Power from Lebanon
Streams, 293
T
TABASCO, Mexico, Immense Oil Deposit Existing in, 145
Exfcension of Equipment, 97
J. able Bay Harbour Development, 427
Tasmanian Hydro-electric Scheme Approaching a 595 ; ^eavy Importation of British and American Machinery, 193
Tata Company’s Proposed Construction of Railway and other Plant, 119
Technical Engineering Films, Request for Loan Ot, 1 bo
Telephone Connection between Madras and Ootacamund Postponed, 93
Telephone Exchange, London “Toll,” Great Success of, 108, 427, 455
Theatre for Auckland, N.Z., Proposed Disappearing Shops Frontage, 319
Thread-spinning Machine of Greatly Increased
Capacity Invented in Norway, 567
Tidal Bore, Cause and Effect, 399
Tidal Power Utilisation, Experimental Power
Station to be Started in Brittany, 193
Tientsin and Peking, Projected Road Construction between, 145
Timber in Burma, 93
Timber Conveyance to Japan from Canada in Form of Raft, 169
Timber from Dead Trees may be Useful for Structure, 67
Tin Exports from the Federated Malay States 455
Tin Mines in China, Rich Deposits, 455
Tractor, Agricultural, Competitions to be Held m Turkey, 93
Tractor Trials in Turkey, 25
Tractors for Western Canada. British Trade Opportunity, 399
Trade Possibilities in the Union of South Africa,
Trades Unions and Health of Workers, 39
Tramways—see Railways
Travancore, Hydro-electric Schemes, 649
Tungsten—see Iron and Steel
Turbine Reduction Gears for Ships—see Ships Inrbines, Francis, at Kern River Power Plant,
Twist Drills Fracture, Causes of, 539
u
Diminution in France, statistics, 193
Unemployment and Wireless Station Erection
Robert Donald, 399
United States Locks and Hardware Firm to
Start a Factory in Germany, 705
United States Trade Conditions, 39
University of London, University College :
Lectures, 368
Uranium Ore from the Belgian Congo, Analysis,
V w at Barrow-in-Furness, 539
Waste Timber and Cotton Stalks, Utilisation of, ZVO
Water Gauges, Walker, Crosweller and Co., 407
Waterproofing of Irrigation Canals, F. W.
Woods, 705
WATER SUPPLY :
Boryslaw Water Supply, Importance for
Petroleum Boring, 595
Drought and Water Restriction, 88
Kedah, Malay Peninsula Supply Scheme. 649
Lahore Water Supply, New Scheme, 67
Manchester to Construct Part of Fourth Pipe Line from Thirlmerc Reservoir, 241
Nanking, Projected Waterworks Company for, 483
Sydney, N.S.W.. Scheme for Increased Water
Supply, 504
Water Improvement in China. Commission Appointment, 567
Whitehaven and Harrington. Important Water Supply Scheme, 595
WATER Turbines for High Heads, 265
Waterway between North Sea and Black Sea, Scheme Under Discussion at Munich, 93
Wattle Bark, Spent, for Papermaking, 241
Waygood-Otis Sports, 79
Welfare Work in Trade and Industry, 427
Welland Canal Construction Contracts, 265
White Lead Prohibition at Geneva, 595
Wireless Communication, Direct, between
Australia and Great Britain, Proposed Scheme, 455
Wireless Equipment for the Quest, 319
Wireless Service Interruptions, G. Marconi on, 241
Wireless Station, High-power, in Warsaw. 217
Wireless Stations in Australia and New Guinea, 217
Wireless Stations and Unemployment. Robert Donald, 399
Wireless Telegraph Service between London and
Madrid, Improvement, 483
Wireloss Telegraph Station. Large, near Moscow, 373
Wireless Telegraphy for Communication Camps in California, 119
Wireless Telegraphy, International Committee Arrangements, 169
Wireless Telegraphy to Supplement Submarine Cable between Cochin China and Tonkin, 67
Wireless Telephony between Birmingham and London, Progress of Experiments, 39
Wireless Telephony in India, 241
Wireless Telephony Neglected in England, Senatore Marconi, 649
Women’s Engineering Society, Competition for Improvements in Home Working, 679
Wood Alcohol, Charcoal and Acetate of Lime.
New Works for, 347
Wood Chemicals, South Africa, Company’s Anticipations, 145
Wooden Floors, Testing of Different Loads, 119
Works Plant, II. M. Robertson, 679
YELLOW River Conservancy, Scheme for Prevention of Overflow, 169
Yellow River Contract Awarded to Belgian Firm, 347
Yellow River, Designs for New Bridge Examined, 265 ; (Letter), 372
Yukon and Federal Highways Const ruction, 241
z ZINC Concentrates from Australia. Board of Trade Shipment, 483
Zinc in Solutions After Gold Precipitation, Utilisation of, 649
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Sources of Information