The Engineer 1923 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous
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BELL, Sir Westcott S., on Loadlines, Deck Cargoes and Safety of Life Regulations, 174 Abell, Sir Westcott S., on Mechanical Problems of Safety at Sea, 500
AERONAUTICS : Aero-engines—see also Engines
Aeroplane Design, Roy Chadwick, 504
Air Congress, International, 5, 32
Control of Aeroplanes at Low Speeds, R. ' McKinnon Wood, 32
Crude Oil Aero-engine, A. E. L. Chorlton, 6 Development of Aero-engine Materials,
Leslie Aitchison, 7, 74
Experimental Determination of Aircraft i Stability, T. N. Barlow, 33
Longitudinal Stability, Control and Manoeuvrability of Air-planes, Professor I E. P. Warner, 33
Nature of Lubricants in Engineering Prac- | tice, Dr. T. E. Stanton, 34, 73
Reliability of Model Data, R. McKinnon Wood, 33
Research and Experimental Department of
, the R.A.E., Recent Work, Wing Com- ! mander Hynes, 6
Static Radial Air-cooled Aero-engines, A. I H. R. Redden, 6
Technical Development of the Aeroplane, • J. D. North, 5
Testing of Aircraft Structures and Com- i ponents, Wm. D. Douglas, 33
Air Transport, Major-General Sir S. Brancker, I 305
Besson Commercial Seaplane, 346
Kite Balloons and Airships in Naval Warfare, Captain P. H. Sumner, 194
Seaplane Hangar at Copenhagen, 176, 180
Zeppelin Passenger Airship. LZ 126, 604, 616
{Two-page Supplement, December 1th, 1923)
AGRICULTURAL Appliances and Machinery at the Royal Show, Newcastle, 17, 34
Agricultural Implements in India, 236
Ahrons, E. L., Short Histories of Famous Firms. I
194, 231, 548 ; (Letters), 223, 614
Ainslie, A. F., Engagement and Loading of Involute Gearing, 685
Air Compressing Plant, Reavell-Aster, 338, 339
Air Compressor, Portable, Electric-driven, Reavell and Co., Limited, 624
Air Compressors, Power-driven; Air Com- I pressors, “Typhoon” Self-contained Gear-! driven, Broom and Wade, Limited, 624
Air Compressors at the Shipping Exhibition, !
Worthington-Simpson, Limited, 225
Air Heaters versus Economisers, 480
Air Pollution in Towns of the United Kingdom, , John B. C. Kershaw, 128
Air Pre-heater, Howden-Ljungstrom, 40
Air Pump—see Pumps
Aitchison, Leslie, on Development of Aeroengine Materials, 7, 74
Alkali, &c., Works Report, 95
Alloys— see also Quarternary
America, Science and Industry in, Dr. Walter Rosenhain, 271, 298, 312, 330, 358, 384, 412, ' 440, 468, 494, 522
AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS : 25, 210, 237, 703
American Galvannealed Wire, 703
American Shipbuilding, 703
I Booster Engine on Locomotive Tenders, 210 Bridge Piers Built to Stand Hurricanes, 703 Cast Iron and Steel Railway Wheels, 210 Coal Shipping Plant, 211 Concrete Paving in American Cities, 703 Diamond Drills for Oil Wells, 25 Dockyard Crane, 50-Ton, for U.S. Navy, 210 Double-deck Concrete Arch Bridge, 237 Geared Locomotives, 210
| Loading Machines in Coal Mines, 703 Low Temperature Coking Plant, 25 Motor-driven Plate Mill, 210 Six-mile Railway Tunnel, 237
i Standardising American Construction Machinery, 237
! Twelve-hour Day at American Steel Works, 237
j AMERICAN Foundrymen, Visit of, 230
■ American Rivers, Protecting Banks by Current
I Retards, 689
Andrews Apparatus for Classifying Finely Ground Materials, 68
Annealing, 203 ; (Letter), 223
Area Regulator and Mox Cold Starter, Welin Davit and Engineering Company, 306
l Argentina, New Public Works in, 159
| ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES: Association, British :
i Meeting in Liverpool, 284, 302, 333, 370 Presidential Address, Sir Henry Fowler, Transport and its Indebtedness to Science, 314
Presidential Address, Professor Sir Ernest Rutherford, Electrical Structure of Matter, 284
Section A :
Structure of Atoms, Professor P. Langevin, 304
Sections A, B, and G :
Joint Discussion, Cohesion and Molecular Forces, 302
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Association, British (continued) :
Section G :
Transport:
Air Transport, Major-General Sir S. Brancker, 305
Future of Sea Transport, A. T. Wall, 305 Railway Transport, Colonel E. O’Brien, 305 Road Transport, A. E. Berriman, 305
Complex Stress Distributions :
Group of Papers, 333
Graphical Determination and Fatigue. Professor L. N. C. Filon, 334
Stresses in Bridges, J. S. Wilson and Professor B. P. Haigh, 333
Stresses in Connecting-rods, W. J. Kearton, 333
Stresses in Pipes, Professor Gilbert Cook, 333
Stresses in Round Bars, Professor W. Mason, 333
Conservation and Control of Water Resources, Joseph Parry, 335
Electric Propulsion of Ships, F. IL Clough, 334
Glare in Industrial Lighting, Dr. G. IT. Miles, 334
Mercury Arc Rectifiers, 370
Squirrel-cage Induction Motor, Dr. T. F. Wall, 370
Teaching of Dynamics, Sir J. Henderson, 370
Wireless Telegraphy and Shipping, Commander J. A. Slee, 335
Sections G and J :
Joint Discussion, Vocational Tests for Engineering Trades, 304
Visits to Works, 370
Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Aeroplane Design, Roy Chadwick, 504
Institute of Chemistry :
Anniversary Dinner, 650
Institute, Iron and Steel:
Autumn Meeting at Milan, 184, 319, 346
List of Papers, Visits, &c., 184
Institute of Metals :
Autumn Meeting in Manchester, 150, 287, 317
Behaviour of Metals under Compressive Stresses, H. I. Coe, 318
Brinell Hardness Numbers, IT. W. Browns-don,288
Cause of Red Stains on Sheet Brass, E. A. Bolton, 287
Change of Volume in Metals during Solidification, Hikozo Endo, 288
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institute Of Metals (continued) :
Constitution and Age-hardening of Quarternary Alloys, Miss Marie L. V. Gayler, 317
Cooling of Metals and Alloys, R. C. Reader, 288
Copper Wire, Experiments with, Douglas H.
Ingall, 318
Crystallisation Effect on Galvanised Iron Sheets, E. L. Rhead and J. Dickson Hannah, 288
Effect of Oxygen on Copper, Miss Grace Ford and others, 318
Electro-chemical Character of Corrosion, Ulick R. Evans, 317
Equilibrium in the Gold-zinc System, Professor P. Soldau, 318
Hardness Tests on Crystals of Aluminium, Hugh O’Neill, 318
Henry Cort, 319
Light Alloys of Aluminium, A. M. Portevin and Pierre Chevenard, 318
Nickel in Bearing Metals, A. H. Mundey and
C. C. Bissett, 288
Non-ferrous Metals in Engineering, Lecture, Sir Henry Fowler, 287, 288
Programme and List of Papers, 150
Stereotyping, A. H. Mundey and John Cartland, 288
Institute of Transport:
Ideal Seaport, Presidential Address, Sir J. G. Broadbank, 374
Institution of Automobile Engineers :
New Offices of the Institution, 513
Standardisation of Motor Car Parts, Presidential Address, H. G. Burford, 402
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Conversazione, 68
Deterioration of Structures Exposed to Sea Action, 91
Examination of Meriai Suspension Bridge, Henry T. Tudsbery and Alec R. Gibbs, 78
October Examinations, 1923, Pass List (Interim), 571
Presidential Address, Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan, 508
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
French Midi Railway Electrification, Monsieur
A. Bachellery, 588, 595
Presidential Address, Dr. Russell, 458
Pulverised Fuel and Efficient Steam Generation, David Brownlie, 665
Wireless Section :
Oscillating Valve Circuit, Model of, R. C. Clinker, 583
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
Clvde Marine Oil Engines, Dr. A. L. Mellanby, 120, 620
Discussion at Manchester, 622
Contrivances for Storage and Distribution of Water, E. Bruce Ball, at Glasgow Summer Meeting, 47
Exhaust Valve and Cylinder Head Temperature in High-speed Petrol Engines, Professor A. H. Gibson and Mr. 11. W. Baker, 663, 675, 700
Possibilities of Mercury as a Working Substance for Binary Fluid Turbines, W. J. Rear ton, 560, 563
Presidential Address, Sir John Dewrance, Patents, Research, Standardisation, 445
Thomas Hawksley Lecture on Mechanical Problems of Safety at Sea, Sir Westcott S. Abell, 500
Institution of Naval Architects :
Internal Combustion Engines Exhausting into Low-pressure Turbines, 274, 290
Mechanical Stokers on Marine Water-tube Boilers, W. J. Muller, 274, 279
Motherland Shipbuilding Company’s Yard at Amsterdam, 275, 282
Programme, 200
Rotterdam Nautical Institution and Museum, 258
Steam Turbines for Marine Propulsion in Holland, Professor Dresden, 274
Subdivision of Large Passenger Ships, A. C. F. Henderson, 257, 261
Summer Meeting in Holland, 200, 256, 258, 261, 272, 279, 282, 290
Theory of Bending, Professor W. Hovgaard, 275
Visits and Entertainments in Holland, 275
Water-tight Subdivision of Ships, Sir A. Denny, 256
Institution of Petroleum Technologists :
Origin of Petroleum, E. H. Cunningham-Craig, 530
Institution of Welding Engineers :
Opening Meeting, 430
Society, Ceramic :
Autumn Meeting, Drying of Refractories, 401
Society of Glass Technology :
Visit to France, Particulars of Programme, Papers Read and Visits Paid, 183
Society, Norwich Engineering :
Inauguration Meeting, Programme of Papers, 527
AUSTRALIAN Engineering Notes, 55, 109, 187, 199, 320, 431, 517, 599
Auto-Klean Strainer, 306
B BALL, E. Bruce, Contrivances for Storage and Distribution of Water, 47
Balloons—see Aeronautics
Barges—see Ships
Barrage, The Sukkur, 459
Barton .Power Station—see Electrical Matters
“ Beama ” Annual Dinner, 567
Belfast—see Electrical Matters
Bending, Theory of, Professor W. Hovgaard, 275
Bengough, Guy D., and R. May, on Rapid Corrosion of Condenser Tubes, 7
Berriman, A. E., on Road Transport, 305
Bilton Silent Steam Water Heater, Hydraulic Pipe-bending Machine, 307
Birmingham, Past Great Men of, Dud Dudley and Others, 474
Blast-furnaces—see Iron and Steel
Boiler, Clarkson Thimble-tube, 621
Boiler Feed-water Circuits, James J. Weir, 372
Boiler, Haw thorn-Wyber, 365
Boiler-house and Equipment at Barton Power
Station, 391
Boiler-house and Equipment for Belfast Power Station, 415
Boiler-house Equipment at the Wayagamack
Paper Mill, Quebec, 206, 207
Boiler, Mellanby Exhaust Gas, 621
Boiler, The Multitubular, Marc Seguin, 638, 661
Boiler Tube Cleaning Blower, C. P. Parry, Limited, 350
Boiler Water Alarm, The Hilo, 363
Boilers, Gas-fired and Other, Spencer-Bone-court, Limited, 307
Boilers, High-pressure Steam, D. S. Jacobus, 400
Boilers, Scotch Marine, Uptake Superheater for, T. Sugden, 134
Boilers, Series, Babcock and Wilcox, 400
Bolivia—see Railways
Books of Reference, 353
Boring Machines—see Machine Tools
Boundary Lubrication, 73
Brakes, Railway—see Railways
Brancker, General Sir S., on Air Transport, 305
Breaking-up Large Masses of Steel, 530;
(Paragraph), 682
“ Brentford By-pass,” 609
BRIDGES: Bascule Bridge at Norwich, 424, 428
Menai Suspension Bridge, Examination of, H. T. Tudsbery and A. R. Gibbs, 78
Stresses in Bridges, J. S. Wilson and Professor B. P. Haigh, 333
BRINELL Hardness Numbers, H. W. Browns-don, 288
British Commercial Gas Association :
Annual General Meeting, 371
British Engineering Standards Association :
British Standard Electrical Specifications :
“ Moulded Flat Top Insulating Bushes,” 419
“ Oil-immersed Switches and Circuit Breakers for Alternating Current Circuits,” 419
“ Slate Slabs for Electrical Purposes,” 419
BRITISH Patent Working, 501
Brownlie, David, on ■ Pulverised Fuel and Efficient Steam Generation, 665—see also Fuel
Building—see Railways
Burford, H. G., Standardisation of Motor Car Parts, 402
Burton-Alexander, J. T., on Locomotive Practice and Performance in France, 119, 143, 178
Burton-Alexander, J. T., on Some British Locomotive Performances, 684
c CABLE Ship—see Ships
Canada, Mining in, 323
Canadian Patent Law, 347
Canals Converted into Railways, 362
Capstan Controllers, Explosion-proof Controllers, &c., Electro-Mechanical Brake Company, Limited, 252
Castings or Forgings, 74
Casting—see also Iron and Steel
Catalogues, 86, 161, 187, 213, 325, 353, 407 435, 484, 574, 705
Centrifugal Treatment of Petroleum, 668
Chadwick, Roy, on Aeroplane Design, 504
Cherbourg, Improvements at the Port of, 350
Chile, Port Improvements in, 208
China, Technical Education in, 345
Chinese Engineering Notes, 78
Chorlton, A. E. L., on the Crude Oil Aeroengine, 6
Clarke, J. B., on Polar Diagrams for Riveted Connections, 639
Clinker, R. C., Oscillating Valve Circuit, Model of, 583
Clydebridge—see Works
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES : Advantages of Powdered Coal as a Fuel, 222
Belfast Power Station, Coal Handling at, 415
Coal Dust Explosions, 129
Coal Meter, George Kent, Limited, 226
Coal-winding Plant, Large Electric, 103
Cronton Colliery and Others, Electrical
Winding and Equipment, 88, 116, 117, 126
Lea Recorder Coal Meter, 308
Motors in Collieries—see Electricity in Mines
Russian Coal Industry, 529
“ Strong-arm ” Coal Getter, 36
COHESION, 302, 343
Commercial Motors—see Motor Vehicles, also Exhibitions
Complexity of Natural Phenomena, 507
Concrete—see also Ferro-concrete, Reinforced Concrete
Concrete or Clay Moulding Machine, Ransome Machinery Company, Limited, 624
Concrete Mixers, John Fowler and Co., Limited, 584
Concrete Mixers, Winget, Limited, 584
Concrete Piling—see Sheet
Concrete and Reinforced Concrete, 66
Concrete, Tools, Power-driven, for Breaking Up, Broom and Wade, Limited, 624
Concreting the Bed of the Lake, St. James’s Park, 62
Condenser Tubes, Rapid Corrosion of, Guy
D. Bengough and R. May, 7
Conferences at the British Empire Exhibition, 209, 403, 555
Congress, International Air, 5, 32
Congress, International Railway, 1925, 480
Congress, Public Works, Roads and Transport, 473, 565, 584, 594, 618—see also Exhibitions, and for Papers, Public Works
Contracts, 28, 58, 112, 140, 164, 190, 210, 328, 382, 407, 435, 463, 489, 520, 543, 567, 599, 622, 655, 679
Copper, Effect of Oxygen on, Miss Grace Ford and Others, 318
Copper in the United States, 79
Corrosion, 313, 317
Corrosion, Electro-chemical Character of, Ulick
R. Evans, 317
Corrosion in Sea Water, 91, 99
Cort, Henry, Tablet Portrait, 319
Crane, 15-Cwt. Electric Runabout, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Limited, 38
Crane Navvy, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 623
Cranes, Large Bridge-erecting, for India, Ransomes and Rapier, Limited, 566
Cranes at Penistone Works, 2, 14, 30 (Two Two-page Supplements, July 6th, 1923)
Crewdson, Eric, on Velocity of Flow in Pipes, 635
Cunningham-Craig, E. H., Origin of Petroleum, 530
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 26, 57, 84, 110, 138, 162, 188, 214, 240, 266, 294, 326, 354, 380, 408, 436, 464, 490, 518, 544 572, 600, 628, 656, 680, 706
Current Retards on American Rivers, 689
Cutting Machines—see Machine Tools
D DAMS, Earth, Design of, 100
Dangers of Sulphuretted Hydrogen, 99
Davy Lamps, Tests of, 199
Degory Carburetter, 307
Dehydrating Apparatus on Fruit Farms, 651
Depression Effect in Nozzle Flow, Henry A.
Hepburn, 691
Deschamps, Jules, on Gas Turbines, 646 ; (Letter), 676
Deterioration of Structures Exposed to Sea Action, 91, 99, 399
Diesel Engines—see Engines
Dock, Government Graving, at Esquimalt,
B.C., 530, 532
Docks—see also London, Port of
Dodd, K. S., on Design of Pontoons, 331
Douglas, Wm. D., on Testing of Aircraft
Structures and Components, 33
Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools
Drive Method—see Petroleum
Dust Treatment, Special Emulsion for, Sir George Scott-Moncrieff, 68
Dyke, F. S., on the Lethbridge Irrigation Enterprise in Western Canada, 114, 146, 147
EARTH Dams, Design of, 100
Earthquake Disaster in Japan, 258, 455, 577
Economic Speeds—see. Railways
Economic Use of Wood, 153
Educational Intelligence, 140, 190, 242, 268, 513 Elastic Limit, 590 ■
ELECTRICAL MATTERS : Arc Welding Exhibits, Various, 365
Barton Power Station of the Manchester Corporation, 391, 396
Belfast New Power Station, 415
Cargo Winch, 3-Ton Worm-geared, Electrical Steering Gear, &c., Laurence, Scott and Co., 278
Cascade Motor Driving in Mines for Haulage Gear, Winding Engine, Fan, Air Compressor, Sandycroft, Limited, 286
Charging Electric Batteries, Portable Plant for, Hesco, Limited, 209
Coal-winding Plant, Large Electric, 103
Diesel-electric Ship La Playa, Electrical Equipment for, Cammell Laird and Co., Limited, 420, 456
Direct-current Generator, 12,000-Volt, 568
Dynamo and Battery Regulator, British Lighting and Ignition Company, Limited, 375
Dynamo Coil-winding Machine, Midland Dynamo Company, 309
Furnaces with Internal Electric Heaters, Wild-Barfield, New Type, 159
Gas-driven Alternators for S. Africa, Electric Construction Company, 44, 64 ; (Letter), 70
Halifax Electricity Works, Extensions at, 419 Harworth Main Colliery and Hilton Collieries,
Metropolitan-Vickers Winding Plant at, 359, 368
Haulage Gear, D. Ashton and Co., Limited, 235
Heating, Electric, New System, Grierson, Limited, 431
High-tension Interconnector, General Electric Company, 340
Johannesburg, Electric Power Scheme for, 133
Lighting, Electric, 107
Lighting Plant, Stuart Turner, Limited, 336
Lighting Plants, Small, with Paraffin Engines, Boulton and Paul, 37
Lighting and Power Set, 1200-Watt Combined, Worthington-Simpson, Limited, 18
Linton Lock Power Station for City of York, 148, 149
Locomotives and Trucks, Electric, British Electric Vehicles, Limited, 276
Manufacture of Ferro-vanadium by Electric Furnace, E. Kilburn Scott, 636
Mines, Electricity in, 88, 116, 117, 126, 142, 166, 198, 234, 259, 286, 316, 359, 368
Mining Switchgear, Ferguson, Pailin, Limited, 316
Minister of Transport and Electricity Supply, 134
Motors, Starting Controllers and Winders for Mine Work, Bruce Peebles and Co., Limited, 198
Oil Circuit Breaker, Three-phase Oil, A Large, Ferguson, Pailin, Limited, 200
Oscillating Valve, Circuit, Model of, R. C. Clinker, 583
Parsons Motor Company’s Lighting Set, 250 Pen is tone Works of Cammell Eaird and Co.,
Limited, 19,000 H.P. Motor and Other Electrical Equipment, 62, 72 {Two-page Supplement, July 20th, 1923)—for Description of Works, &c., see Works
Polar Magnetos, British Thomson-Houston Company, 308
Power-house and Electrical Equipment at Plate Mill, Clydebridge Steel Works, English Electric Company, 247, 254
Propeller for Ships—see Ships
Seattle, New Electric Sub-station for, 183
Small Lighting Set, National Gas Engine Company, Limited, 18
South African Electricity Supply Commission, 158
South-East Lancashire Electricity Supply, 93
S.P. Winding Equpiment for Mines, Metro-politan-Vickers Electrical Company, 88, 359
Sperry Searchlight, 249
Structure of Matter, Electrical, Professor Sir
E. Rutherford, 284
Switchgear, Line Sectioning Switch, Transformer Cabin, &c., Sprecher and Schuh, 276, 277
Three-phase Variable-speed Commutator Motor, Shunt-wound and Other Motors, Swedish General Electric Company, 364
Transmitting Electrical Energy from Norway to Denmark, 223
Truck, Electric Run-about Tipping, Electricars, Limited, 642
Trucks, Cranes, and Tractors, Electrical, Various Exhibits, 365
Trucks and Jib Crane Trucks, Lansing Equipment Company, 183
Tubular Electric Heating System, Lightfoot Brothers, 614
United States Power Station, New Generating Plant, 197
Ward-Leonard Direct-current Winder for Mines, 260, 261
Waste Heat Recovery in a Power Station, 622
Welding Plant, Multiple Arc D.C., Premier Electric Welding Company, Limited, 226
West Flanders, Electrification of, 320
Winders, Reel Type with Direct Current, Winders, Reel Type with Alternating Current, 259, 261
ENERGY of the Future, Dr. Charles Steinmetz, 67
Engagement and Loading of Involute Gearing, A. F. Ainslie, 685
ENGINES AND MOTORS : Aero-engine Failures, 258
Aero-engine Materials, Development of, Leslie Aitchison, 7
Ailsa Crag Marine Motor, New Types, 335
Air-cooled Aero-engines, A. H. R. Fedden, 6
Blackstone’s Crude Oil, Lampless Paraffin Engines, &c., 37
“ Bolinder ” Heavy Oil Engine, James Pollock, Sons and Co., 366
ENGINES AND MOTORS (continued):
Browett-Lindley Gas Engines for Driving Alternators, 44, 64 ; (Letter), 70
Camellaird-Fullagar Engines for the La Playa, 420 456
Cargo Boat Type Marine Diesel Engines
J*500 B.H.P., Schneider et Cie., 152, 156^
Clyde Marine Oil Engines, Dr. A. L. Mellanbv 120,620; (Letters), 676
Cold Starting Engine, 165 B.H.P., Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 308
Cold Starting Heavy Oil Engine, L. Gardner and Sons, Limited, 276
Crude Oil Aero-engine, A. E. L. Chorlton, 6
i Crude Oil Hot-bulb Engine for Road Roller, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Limited, 640*
, 644
Diesel Engine Power Plants, 55
Double-acting Four-cycle Marino Diesel Engine, Burmeister and Wain, 79
Engines Referred to in Dr. Mellanby’s Paper : Beardmore Engine, New Type : North British Double-acting Two-cycle Engine ; Scott-Still Engines, Twin Set ; Vickers-Petter Engine with Clarkson Thimble-tube Boiler, 621
Exhaust Valve and Cylinder Head Temperature in High-speed Petrol Engines, Professor A. H. Gibson and Mr. H. W. Baker 663, 671, 675, 700
Fairfield-Sulzer Diesel Engines, 649
French Submarine Engines, 1500 B.H.P.
Two-stroke Cycle, Schneider et Cie., 152 157, 158
Gas Engine, Four-cylinder Vertical, National Gas Engine Company, Limited, 18
Geared Turbine Machinery, Geared Oil Engine Models, &c., Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Limited, 365
Gleniffer Paraffin Marine Motors and Lubricating System, 308, 309
“ Harmonic Six** Marine Motor, Small, Slack and Parr, Limited, 366
Hot-bulb Engine, with Vertical Fuel Pump, Anglo-Belgian Company, 338
Internal Combustion Engine for Driving Road Roller, Blackstone and Co., Limited. 640
Internal Combustion Engine Phenomena, 671 Internal Combustion Engines Exhausting into Low-pressure Turbines, Lieut.-Colonel F. Modugno, 274, 290
“ King-of-All ” Engines, Petrol, Paraffin or Gas, Bradford Gas Engine Company, Limited, 37
Kromhout Engines at the Shipping Exhibition, 249, 250
Marine Diesel Engines, Working Costs, 177
Marine Oil Engines, Trials of, 20
Marine Paraffin and Other Engines at the Shipping Exhibition, J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Limited, 224
Motor Car and Commercial Motor Vehicle Engines and Accessories at Olympia :
See also Motor Cars
Aster Six-cylinder Motor Car Engine, 498
Four-cylinder Monobloc Engine for 14
H.P. Bean Car, 497
Loyd-Lord Valveless Engine, 528
Ruston-Hornsby Motor Car Engine, 529 • (Note), 571
“ Sentinel ” Wagon Works Steam Engine for Commercial Vehicles, 612, 613
Thermostat for Pump-cooled Engines.
Delco-Remy, Limited, 528
Thornycroft, J. I. and Co., Limited, Motor Lorry Engines, 581, 582
Trojan Motor Vehicle Engine, 10 H.P, Four-cylinder, Leyland Motors, Limited* 580, 581
Wolseley Four-cvlinder Motor Car Engine.
498
Oil Engine, 12-14 H.P., Petters Limited, 37 Paraffin and Petrol Engine, Small, Sir W. G.
Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, 36
Paraffin Two-cylinder Lighting Set, A. G.
Mumford, Limited, 158
Parsons Paraffin Marine Engines, 250, 251
Petrol, 2| H.P. Vertical, Engine, R. A.
Lister and Co., Limited, 37
Quadruple-expansion Marine Engine, North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company. Limited, 277
Record Solid Injection Engine, 310
Saunders-Clarkson 5 B.H.P. Two-stroke
Inboard Motor, 184
Saunderson Tractor Engine and Gear-box, 35, 36
Scott-Still Marine Oil Engine, 556, 592
Single-cylinder High-speed Vertical Engine,
Robey and Co., Limited, 225
Solid Injection Oil Engine, J. S. White and
Co., 339
Two-cycle Oil Engine of the Motor Tanker Arnus, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 485
Varying Specific Heats and Gas Engine Mixtures, Telford Petrie, 361
Vickers-Petters Solid Injection Oil Engine 37, 52 b
“Willing Worker” Paraffin Engine, Drum
mond Bros., Limited, 366
ENGINEERING Materials, Prices of, during the First Half of 1923, 22
Engineering News—see also French, Indian. &c.
Engineers and the Future, 508 ; (Letter), 538
Engineers of the Future, 672
Evans, Click R., on the Electro-chemical
Character of Corrosion, 317
Exhaust Valve, &c.—see Engines
EXHIBITIONS : British Empire Exhibition, Conferences at.
209, 403, 555
Signalling, for the Exhibition, 390
World Power Conference, Programme,
List of Papers, 403, 555
Commercial Motor Exhibition, 580, 608, 609
—see also Motors, Commercial
Gas Exhibition in Birmingham, 40
Motor Car Show at Olympia, 469, 496, 506, 528—see also Motor Cars
Public Works and Transport Exhibition, 473, 565, 584, 623, 640; also Miscellaneous Exhibits, 642—for. Exhibits, see Various Headings
EXHIBITIONS (continued):
Royal Agricultural Show at Newcastle, 17, 34
Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 224, 249, 276, 306, 335, 363
Shoe and Leather Fair, 449, 452
Smithfield Club Show, 646
Wireless Exhibition, 502, 524, 553
EXPERIMENTAL—see Ships, Propeller Cavitation
F FAIRFIELD-—see Engines
Fair—see Exhibitions
Fed den, A. H. R., on Air-cooled Aero-engines, 6 Feed Heater—see Railway Locomotives
Ferries—see Ships
Ferro-concrete Warehouse at Manchester, 322
Ferro-vanadium, Manufacture of, by Electric Furnace, E. Kilburn Scott, 636
Files Reconditioning, Vikings-Tenax Company, 366
Filter, Feed-water, Robey and Co., Limited, 226
Filter, Stream-line, Dr. Hele-Shaw, Stream
Line Filter Company, 68, 339
Fir versus Pine Timber, 515
Fire-box Stays and the Metallurgist, 645; (Letter), 702
inns, Famous, Short Histories of, E. L. Ahrons, 194, 231, 548
Kitson and Co., Limited, Airedale Foundry, Leeds, 548
Sharp, Stewart and Co., Limited, 1806, Manchester and Glasgow, 194, 231 ; (Letter), 223—for List of Locomotives, see Railway Locomotives
Flow Meter, Britannia Lathe and Oil Engine Company, Limited, 540
Forthcoming Engagements, 28, 58, 86, 112, 140, 164, 190, 216, 242, 268, 296, 328, 356, 382, 410, 438, 465, 492, 520, 546, 574, 602, 630, 658, 682, 708
Forward, E. A., Links in the History of the Locomotive, 638, 661
Fowler, Sir Henry, Lecture on Non-ferrous Metals in Engineering, 288
Fowler, Sir Henry, on Transport and its Indebtedness to Science, 305, 314
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES : 27, 57, 85, 1U, 139, 163, 189, 215, 241, 267, 295, 327, 355, 381, 409, 437, 465, 491, 519, 545, 573, 601, 629, 657, 681, 707
Aeronautics, 85
Air Resistance, 139
Airships, 215
Alma Bridge, 629
Armoured Cars, 573
Automatic Couplings, 573
Benzol from Peat, 657
British Unemployment, 681
Cable Ploughing, 381
Canadian Exhibition, 163
Coke and Iron Ore, 295
Coke Problem, 85
Coke Reparations, 437j
Coke Supply, 139
Cold Storage, 491
Commercial Aeroplanes, 327
Commercial Policy, 545
Commercial Propaganda, 267
Commercial Vehicles, 491
Competition, 707
Continuous Brakes, 27, 465
Dehydrating Alcohol, 327
Desert Transport, 437
Direct Process Steel, 57
Electric Locomotives, 657
Electric Traction, 139
Electric Train Lighting, 545
Electrical Distribution, 681
Electrification, 139
Engines and Transmissions, 409
Ferro-concrete, 111
Floating Exhibition, 111
Foreign Contracts, 295
Foreign Exchanges, 111
Foreign Orders, 437
Foreign Trade, 465
Foundry Congress, 327
Franco-British Co-operation, 465
Fuel Problem, 381
Harbour Works, 267
Haulage Economy, 491
Heavy Motor Traffic, 27
Helicopters, 295, 629
High-compression Engines, 163
Higher Prices, 241
Industry and Agriculture, 267
Iron Production, 57
Iron and Steel Production, 189, 295, 573
Light Aeroplanes, 215
Merchant Marine, 189
Miners’ Wages, 545
Motor Cars, 409
Motor Trade, 519
Moving Platforms, 241
Naval Manoeuvres, 139
New Cruiser Type, 215
New Fuels, 409
Oil Engineering, 657
Oil Research, 215
Olympic Engineering, 707
Paris a Seaport, 601
Paris Traffic, 629
Paris Transports, 267, 601
Paris Water Supply, 85
Power Alcohol, 295
Protection and Trade, 437
Reconstruction, 657
Rail Motors, 545
Reduced Tariffs, 85
Refloating the France, 189
Regulating the Seine, 27, 707
Road Depreciation, 163
Rolling Stock, 27, 519
Ruhr Situation, 573
Ruhr Stocks, 163, 491
Ruhr Supplies, 465
Stainless Steel, 111
State Railway Works, 355
Street Paving, 57
Suction Gas Lorries, 241
Suction Gas Tractors, 355
Suction Gas Wagons, 519
Tanks, 681
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES (continued):
Tractors, 381
Trade Compromise, 629
Trade and Employment, 355
Trade Fluctuations, 27
Trade Improvement, 601
Trade Opportunities, 327
Trade Position, 57, 267, 519
Trade Profits, 629
Trade Reconstruction, 657
Wagons, 163, 573
Water Pollution, 707
What to do with Stocks, 189
FUEL, Powdered, 695
Fuel, Pulverised, 665
Fullagar Engines—see Engines
Furnace, Muffle Rivet-heating, Charles Burrell and Sons, Limited, 335
Furnaces, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Furnaces at Penistono Works, 2 (Two Two-page
Supplements, July 6 th, 1923)
Future Supply of Skilled Workers, 255 : (Letters), 319, 375, 403
GAS Engines—see Engines
Gas Exhibition—see Exhibition
Gas Producers, Double-draught, Dowson and Mason Gas Plant Company, Ltd., 44, 64 ; (Letter), 70
Gas Producers, Morgan-Sahlin, 30
Gas Supplies, Testing the Calorific Value of, 48
Gas Turbines, Jules Deschamps, 646 ; (Letter),
Gauges, Brookes and Sears “Generator Comparator ” for Measurement of, Precision Tool Company, Limited, 363
Gayler, Miss Marie L. V., on the Constitution and Age-hardening of Quarternary Alloys,
Gear, Variable Speed, Adapted for Planers, Williams-Janney, 441
Geared Drive, 283*; (Letter), 555
Gearing, Involute, Engagement and Loading of, A. F. Ainslie, 685
“Generator Comparator,” Brookes and Sears 363
Germany, Engineering Position in, 322
Gibson, Professor A. H„ and Mr. H. W. Baker, on Exhaust Valve and Cylinder Head Temperature in High-speed Petrol Engines, 663, 671, 675, 700
Glasgow and the Activated Sludge Process, 204
Glasgow Tramways, 20
Glass—see Society of Glass Technology
Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools
! Gyroscopic Stabiliser—see Ships
H
| HACKSAW Blade, New Type, Edward G. Herbert, Limited, 431
Hadfield, Sir Robert, on the History and Progress of Metallurgical Science, 474, 510, 536, 578 ’
Hamburg, Smoke Abatement in, 107
Hangars—see Aeronautics
Harrows at the Royal Show, 36
Haulage, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Hawksley, Thomas, Lecture—see Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Haymaking Without the Sun, R. Borlase Matthews’ Method, ]7
Heating, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Henderson, A. C. F., Subdivision of Large
Passenger Ships, 257, 261
Hepburn, Henry A., Depression Effect in Nozzle Flow, 691
Herbert Pendulum Hardness Tester, Mathematical Theory of, Wm. J. Walker, 244 • (Letters), 21, 70, 248
High-pressure Steam Boilers, D. S. Jacobus, 400
High-speed Planing—see Machine Tools
Histories, Short—see Firms
History of the Locomotive—see Rail wav Locomotives
History and Progress of Metallurgical Science, Sir Robert Hadfield, 474, 510, 536, 552, 578
for Illustrations, see Subjects Index, History, &c.
Hoisting Cables, Magnetic Tests of, 431
Holland, Shipbuilding and Engineering in, 124
Hoile Four-wheel Driving and Steering Motor
Car, 666, 667, 670
Hot Bulb—see Engines
Humphrey Pumps—sec Pumps
Hydraulic Press, 250-Ton Open-sided, and
Four-cylinder Radial Pump for, Tangent
Tool and Engineering Company, Limited, 338
Hydro-electric Power Station at Linton Lock, 148, 149
I
INDIA, Agricultural Implements in, 236
INDIAN ENGINEERING NOTES : 22
Hyderabad State Railways, 22
Hydro-electricity in Ceylon, 22
Irrigation Projects, 22 |
Sukkur Barrage, 22
INDICATOR, Distant-reading Water Level, |
Aster Engineering Company, Limited, 431
Indicators, Temperature, Recorders, &c., Cambridge and Paul Instrument Company, Limited, 251 J
Injector—see Railway Locomotives
Interlocking Rubber Road Surfacing Blocks,
C. W. Read’s System, 651
Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines
International Air Congress—see Aeronautics
International Navigation Congress, 10, 38, 65 —for Details, see Ships
International Railway Congress—see Railways
Inventions, Patents for, 453 ; (Letters), 484*
IRON AND STEEL : Blast-furnaco Labour-saving Equipment, 131 Blast-furnaces, The Tayeh, China, 48
Breaking Up Large Masses of Steel, 530 ;
(Paragraph), 682
Canada, Production of Iron and Steel in, 419
Casting Spun Iron Pipe, Stanton Ironworks Company, Limited, 104
Cold Brittleness, 534
France, Production of Iron and Steel in, 179
Iron and Steel Works—see Works
New Steel, Park Gate Iron and Steel Company, Limited, 319
Nickel Rolling Mill, Huntington, U.S.A., 330
Rolling Mills at Penistone Works, 32, 42
Steel Melting Department at Penistone Works, 2, 14, 30 {Two Two-page Supplements , July 6th, 1923)
IRRIGATION Enterprise, Lethbridge, Western Canada, F. S. Dyke, 114, 146, 147
J JACOBUS, D. S., High-pressure Steam Boilers, 400
Japan, Earthquake Disaster, 258, 455, 577
Johns, A. W., on Ship Form and Steering, 551, 576
Johore Causeway, 537 {Two-page Supplement, November Y6th, 1923)
Joint Patentees, 562
Joint, Victaulic Company, Limited, 310
K KEARTON, W. J., on Mercury Vapour, for Binary Fluid Turbines, 560, 563
Kershaw, J. B. C., on Air Pollution in Towns of the United Kingdom, 128
Kromhout Engines—see Engines
L LABOUR NEWS, STRIKES, AND WAGES QUESTIONS: 101
Boilermakers’ Dispute — see Seven-day J ournal
Payment by Results, 283; (Letter), 223, 483, 513, 538, 555
Railway Labour, 696
Skilled Workers, Future Supply of, 255 ; (Letters), 319, 375, 403
Unemployment, 101
LAKES — see St. James’s
Lathes—see Machine Tools
Latin-American Engineering Notes, 323
Launches and Trial Trips, 28, 58, 140, 190, 213, 293, 325, 356, 375, 435, 543, 567, 599, 677,705
Lead Mines, Ore-loading Machines for, 209
LEADERS: Air-heaters v. Economisers, 480
Annealing, 203
Automatic Couplings for Railway Wagons, 229
Boundary Lubrication, 73
Castings or Forgings ? 7 4
Cohesion, 343
Cold Brittleness, 534
Complexity of Natural Phenomena, 507
Corrosion, 313
Corrosion in Sea Water, 99
Cruising Ships of the Navy, 425
Dangers of Sulphuretted Hydrogen, 99
Economic Railway Speeds, 15
Economic Use of Wood, 153
Elastic Limit, 590
Engineers and the Future, 508
Engineers of the Future, 672
Extended Piston-rods, 618
Fire-box Stays and the Metallurgist, 645
Future Supply of Skilled Workers, 255
Geared Drive, 283
High-capacity Wagons, 397
Individuality in Locomotive Engineering, 454
Internal Combustion Engine Phenomena, 671
Locomotive Booster, 369
Locomotive Driving, 562
Locomotives and Trains, 203
London’s Water Supply, 177, 696
Main Line Electrification, 313
Marine Diesel Engine Working Costs, 177
Marine Engineers and Oil Engine Certificates, 229
Master and Mechanic, 343
Mercury-vapour Prime Mover, 561
Multi-cylinder Locomotives, 255
Naval Programme, New, 533
Navigation Congress Results, 43
Notches and Scratches, 397
One-wire and Three-wire Systems for Railway Telegraphy, 426
Optical Stress-strain Recorders, 479
Patents for Inventions, 453
Payment by Results, 283
Powdered Fuel, 695
Railway Accidents, 44
Railway Electrification, 589
Railway Labour, 696
Railway Rates and Railway Wages, 154
Research Associations, 398
Singapore Naval Base, 127
Smithfield Club Show, 646
Specifications : Their Use and Abuse, 15
State Railways, 369
Tensile Test, 128
Waste Heat Recovery on Ships, 617
LEATHER, Machines Used in Preparation of, 449, 452
Leonardi da Vinci, 647
Lethbridge Irrigation Enterprise in Western Canada, F. S. Dyke, 114, 146, 147
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS : England, North of, 24, 54, 82. 1087136, 161, 186, 212, 239, 265, 292, 324, 352, 378, 406, 434, 462, 488, 516, 517, 542, 570, 598, 626, 654, 678, 704
Lancashire, 23, 53, 82, 108, 136, 160, 185, 211, 238, 263, 291, 323, 351, 377,405,433, 461, 487, 515, 541, 569, 597, 625, 653, 677, 703
Midlands and Staffordshire, 23, 53, 81, 107, 135, 159, 185, 21 1, 237, 263, 291, 323, 351, 377, 405, 433, 461, 487, 489, 515, 541. 569, 597, 625.653,677, 703
Scotland, 25, 55, 83, 109, 137, 161, 187, 212, 239, 265, 293, 325, 353, 379, 407, 435. 463, 489, 517, 542, 571, 598, 627, 655, 679, 705
Sheffield, 24, 54, 82, 108, 136, 160, 186, 212, 238, 264, 292, 324, 352, 378, 406, 434, 462, 488, 516, 542, 570, 598, 626, 654, 678, 704
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 25, 55, 83, 109, 137, 161, 187, 213, 239, 265, 293, 325, 353, 379, 407, 435, 463, 489, 517, 543, 571, 599, 627, 655, 679, 705
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : Akroyd-cycle Engine, J. L. Chaloner, 96
Alfred A. Scott, C. Mustill, 248
Annealing, A. F. Woodcock, 223
Belfast Union, C. E., 555
Booster Locomotives: Utilisation of the Main Engine’s Exhaust Steam, C. R. King, 403
British Beet Sugar Machinery, British Empire Sugar Machinery Manufacturers’ Association, 702
Clyde Marine Oil Engines, W. A. Tookey, 673 ; Chas. Day, 673
Electricity Generated by Safety Valves, F.
A. Fleming, 248, 319 ;’ H. S. Whiteley, 350 Emigration of Workmen, Ex-Service, 319, 422 ; Clyde Engineer, 375, 483 ; W. Collinson, 403
Empire Development and Employment,
D. S. M., 223
Engineers for Motor Ships, X. Y. Z., 248
Fire-box Stays, E. Cecil Poultney, 702
Firing Locomotives, R. C. Prescott, 583— see also Locomotive Driving
Future of Engineering, Well Sinker, 538
Gas-driven Alternators for South Africa, Campbell Gas Engine Company, Limited, 70
Gas Turbine, Henry A. Hepburn, 673
Geared Drive, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Limited, 555
Government Policy of Electricity Supply, H. T. Day, 555 ; T. Mahn, 614
Herbert “ Pendulum ” Hardness Tester, S. Timoshenko, 21, 248; Edward G. Herbert, 70
Isherwood and the American Navy, Hector C. By water, 702
Lagging Watch* Mains, G. Brian Hersey, 614
Locomotive Driving, R. C. Prescott, 583 ;
F. W. Brewer, 613
Locomotives and Trains, W. B. Thompson, 248
Losses in Reduction Gears, M.I.M.E., 150
Main Line Electrification, E. O’Brien, 375
Marine Engineers’ Certificates, Extra First, 319
Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, and Vickers Limited, 513
Multi-cylinder Locomotives, F. P., 319;
Chas. W. Dauncey, 375
National Profit-Sharing, Hugh Reid, 484
Oil Engine Nomenclature, H. Akroyd Stuart, 403
One-wire and Three-wire Systems for Railways, Signal and Telegraph Superintendent 554
Patents for Inventions, Edward Carpmael, 484 ; J. W. Fussell, 484 ; Stradium, 484
Payment by Results, H. T. Fowler, 223—see also Piecework System
Piecework System, Superintendent of Production, 483, 513 ; Vectis, 538; Ratefixer, 555; William B. Pinching, 613—see also Payment by Results
Port of. London: Improvements, J. F. Ramsbotham, 513
Production of Process Steam, E. C. IL, 484
Railway Electrification, W. B. Thompson, 96 ; J. Sayers, 614
Railway Speeds, John Riekie, 49 ; W. T. Taggett, 49 ; Horace Myers, 70 ; C. R. King, 96 ; J. Jackson, 96 ; F. W. Brewer, 124
Shop Temperatures and the Heat Wave, A. W. Farnsworth, 49
Short Histories of Famous Firms, E. L. Ahrons, 223
Spark Quenching Funnels for Solid Injection Engines, Bliss, 124
Starting and Accelerating Peculiarities of Electric Rolling Stock, J. Austin Baker, 21
Traffic Congestion in London, J. D. Roots, 124
LIFEBOATS—see Ships
Light Rail Traction in South Africa, 647
Lighthouse Apparatus for Australia, Chance Brothers and Co., Limited, 513
Lighting and Beaconing of Coasts, 66
Lighting, Industrial, Glare in, Dr. G. H. Miles, 334
Lighting Set, Two-cylinder Paraffin, A. G. Mumford, Limited, 158
Lighting and Lighting Sets, Electric—see also Electrical Matters
LITERATURE: Reviews: Brassey’s Naval and Shipping Annual, 1924, Sir Alex. Richardson and Archibald Hurd, 672
Century of Locomotive Building by Robert Stephenson and Co., 1823-1923, 426; (Correction), 458
Deterioration of Structures in Sea Water, 399 Friction, T. E. Stanton, 315, 450
Great War, Official History of the : Naval Operations, Vol. III., Sir Julian S. Corbett, 526
Hackworth, Timothy, and the Locomotive, Robert Young, 344
Production of Air-dried Peat, Fuel Research Board Report, 1922-23, 527
Properties of Engineering Materials, W. C Popplewell and H. Carrington, 450
LITERATURE {continued):
Reviews {continued):
Railways of Spain, George L. Boag, 371
Statistical Bibliography in relation to the Growth of Modern Civilisation, E. Wyndham Hulme, 371
Text-book of Ore Dressing, S. J. Truscott, 16
White, Sir William, Life of, Frederic Manning, 591
Short Notices:
Automatic Telephone Systems, Vol. II., William Aitken, 205, 450
Electrical Measuring Instruments and Supply Meters, D. J. Bolton, 315, 428
Engineers’ Pocket Technical Dictionary, French-English, Mark Lvoff, 205, 619
Hiitte, des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch, Vol. II., 509
Laminated Springs, T. II. Sanders, 315, 509
Lighting Circuits and Switches, Terrell Croft, 315, 428
Mechanics of Machinery : Mechanism, R. C.
H. Heck, 399, 509
Popular Fallacies, Explained and Illustrated, A. S. E. Ackermann, 619
Poulsen Arc Generator, G. F. Elwell, 371, 428
Practical Tests for the Electrical Laboratory,
C. H. Johnson and R. P. Earle, 205, 428
Railway Signalling : Mechanical, Fr. Raynar Wilson, 509
Small Electric Lighting Sets, C. F. Caunter, 230, 428
Your Railway Rates, 619
Books Received :
Advancement of Science, 1923, 399
American Petroleum Refining, H. S. Bell, 129
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 480
Blasting with High Explosives, W. Gerard Boulton, 480
Boiler Chemistry and Feed-water Supplies, J. H. Paul, 591
Book of the Ford, 44
British Acetylene and Welding Handbook, 315
British Cast Iron Research Association, Bureau Bulletin, 315
Calculations in Heating and Ventilation, G. S. Coleman, 205
Car Lighting by Electricity, C. W. T. Stuart, 480
Carenes de Formes Nuisibles ou Favorables a leurs Grandes Vitesses, &c., M. le Vice-Ami ral F. E. Fournier, 205
Capital and Steam Power, 1750-1800, .John Lord, 673
Cargo Handling at Ports, Brysson Cunningham, 527
Chemistry as a Career, 230
City and Guilds of London Institute, Department of Technology, &c., 230
Clouds and Smokes, William E. Gibbs, 673
Coal Tar Distillation and Working-up of Tar Products, Arthur R. Warnes, 509
Coke and Its Uses, E. W. L. Nicol, 509
Concrete Roads, 371
Conferences de Chimie Minerale (Mbtaux) faites & la Sorbonne, Marcel Guichard, 673
Contribution it la Theorie des Moteurs a Combustion Interne, M. Rrutzkus, 647
Converting a Business into a Private Company, H. W. Jordan, 44
Department of Scientific and Industrial
Research:
Building Research Board :
Heat Transmission through Walls, Concretes and Plasters, Special Report, No. 7, 205
Food Investigation Board :
Special Report No. 12, Brown Heart, Functional Disease of Apples and Pears, Franklin Kidd and Cyril West, 205
Fuel Research Board :
Physical and Chemical Survey of the National Coal Resources, No. 2 Interim Report on Analysis of Coal, 591
Report for 1922-3: First Section, “Production of Air-dried Peat,” 205, 527
Technical Paper No. 7, “ Low-temperature Carbonisation of Coal, &c., 248
Dictionary of Applied Physics, Vol. V., Aeronautics-Metallurgy, 179
Die Gesetze zum Schutze Gewerblichen Eigen t urns, Dr. Erwin Huttner, 129
Diesel and Oil Engine Handbook, Julius Rosbloom, 129
Domestic Sanitation and House Drainage, Henry C. Adams, 205
Elasticity and Strength of Materials, Sec. III., Torsion in Shafting, &c., C. A. P. Turner, 527
Electrical Engineering Practice, J. W.
Meares and R. E. Neale, 509
Electro-chemistry Related to Engineering, j W. R. Cooper, 44
Engineering Kinematics, W. G. Smith, 371
Engineering Mathematics, Part I.. R. W. M. | Gibbs, 673
Engineering Non-ferrous Metals and Alloys, I
Leslie Aitchison and W. R. Barclay, 10£ I
Engineering Science, A. G. Robson, 673
Engineer’s Draughtsman, H. Varley, 527
Fair Wage, Reflections on the Minimum
Wage, &c., Edward Batten, 101
Forecasting Weather, Sir Napier Shaw, 509
Gas Manufacture, W. B. Davidson, 371
Graphic Statics, Elements of, Clarence W.
Hudson and Edward J. Squire, 315
Henry Ford : The Man and his Motives, Wm.
L. Stidger, 647
How to Organise and Conduct an Export and Import Business, R. Osborne, 129
“ Hiitte,” Des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch, 179
Hydraulic Principles Governing River and
Harbour Construction, Curtis and Townsend, 399
Hydraulics^ E. H. Lewitt, 647
Hydraulics for Engineers, F. C. Lea, 44
Income Tax, Super Tax, Corporation Profits
Tax, &c., Charles H. Tolley, 205
Indian Railway Bridge Committee, Vol. III., of Fourth Report, C. W. Lloyd-Jones, 179
Industrial Arts Index, Periodicals, 248
Industrial Furnaces, Vol. I., W. Trinks, 129
LITERATURE (continued):
Books Received (continued):
Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Treatise on, Vol. IV., J. W. Mellor, 591
Inspecting and Testing of Materials, Apparatus and Lines, F. L. Henley, 527
International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, 509
Iron, and Steel Institute : Carnegie Scholarship Memoirs, Vol. XII., 480
Jordan’s Tabulated Weights of Iron and Steel Sections, 101
Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Vol. CVII., 480
Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Research Association :
Determination of Carbon Monoxide in Vitiated Air, &c., F. S. Sinatt and L. Slater, Bulletin XIII., 205
Transparent Preparations of Coal for Microscopical Investigations, J. and J. R. Lomax, 205
Lathe Users’ Handbook, C. M. Linley, 480
Lathes, their Construction and Operation-G. W. Burley, 673
Law of the Car, W. Gordon Aston, 509
Law of the Car, Private and Commercial,-L. G. Redmond Howard and Harold Crane, 673
Law and Practice of Town Planning, Sydney Davey and F. C. Minshull, 509
Lead : Its Occurrence in Nature, &c., J. A. Smythe, 673
L’Eclairage, E. Darmois, 129
Leeds Technical School, Department of Engineering Day Courses, 1923-4, 248
Les Economies de Combustibles, &c., Pierre Appell, 205
Les Isotopes, A. Damien, 179
Les MSthodes Modernes d’Organisation In-dustrielle, M. L. Benoist, 129
Life of Sir William White, Frederick Manning, 480
L’Industrie du Gaz, Distillation de la Houille, Rene Masse and Auguste Baril, 527
L’Industrie du Gaz, Traitement des Produits et Sous-Produits, Rene Masse and Auguste Baril, 509
Liverpool Shipping, Who’s Who ? 1923, 230 London Shipping, Who’s Who ? 1923, 230 Machine Construction and Drawing, First
Course in, T. M. Naylor and W. Tattersail, 399
Manchester, College of Technology, Prospectus, 248
Materials and their Application to Engineering Design, E. A. Allcut and E. Miller, 527
Mechanical Engineering Formula?, E. W. Huddy, 129
Mechanical Road Transport, C. J. Conradi, 509
Mechanical Stoking, David Brownlie, 673 Mercantile Calculation Tables, A. Kirchner, 527
Metals and Metallic Compounds, Vol. III., Transition Elements; Vol. IV., Metals of the “ B ” Group, Ulick R. Evans, 101
Metallurgy of Steel, Vol. I., Metallurgy; Vol. II., Mechanical Treatment, F. W. Har-bord and^John W. Hall, 673
Meteorological Office, Air Ministry, Atmospheric Pollution, 248
Microscope, Part II., Conrad Beck, 647
Ministry of Public Works, Egypt, Index to Annual Reports, Irrigation Department, 1884-1920, 44
Modern Electro-Plating, W. E. Hughes, 527 Motor Vehicles and their Engines, E. S.
Fraser and Ralph B. Jones, 480
Nickel Ores, W. G. Rumbold, 399
North-East Coast Shipping, Who’s Who ? 1923, 230
Oil Fuel Burning at Sea and on Land, J. S. Gander, 205
Petroleum Technologists’ Pocket Book, A.W. Eastlake, 205
Petroleum Year Book, 1923, Sidney H. North, 205
Photography as a Scientific Implement, A. E. Conrady, C. R. Davidson and Others, 205
Practical Control of Electrical Energy, A. G. Collis, 205
Practical Moulding, S. Jones Parsons, 509
Principal Factors in Freight Train Operating, Philip Burtt, 129
Problems of the Obelisks, R. Engelbach, 673 “Proceedings” of American Society of Engineers, 205
‘Proceedings” of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, January-April, 1923, 480 “ Proceedings ” of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, Vol. XXXVIII., No. 8, 509
Radio and High-frequency Currents, E. T. Larner, 480
Radio Telegraphy and Telephony, E. W. Marchant, 480
Railways for All, J. F. Gairns, 315
Scottish Shipping, Who’s Who ? 1923, 230
Sexton’s Pocket Book on Boilermaking, Shipbuilding and Steel and Iron Trades, P. W. McGuire, 509
Shop Kinks, Robert Grimshaw, 205
Silica in Canada, Its Occurrence, &c., Part I., Eastern Canada, L. Heber Cole, 315
Smoke Inspectors’ Handbook on Economic Smoke Abatement, Herbert G. Clinch, 673 Society of Engineers, Journal and “Transactions,” 101
Standard Conditions and Rules for Shafts of Marine Steam Engines, 248
Strength and Structure of Steel and other Metals, W. E. Dalby, 480
Studies in Tidal Power, Norman Davey, 591 Study of Alternating Currents, Albert E.
Clayton, 591
Successful Wireless Reception, Paul D. Tyers, 480
Technical Arithmetic, R. W. M. Gibbs, 673 Technisches Hilfsbuch, Schuchardt and Schutte, 527
Technology Reports, Tokoha Imperial University, Sendai, Japan, Vol. TIL, No. 3, 248
Typical Mechanisms, Details of, C. M. Linley, 44
University College of Swansea, Prospectus of Department of Engineering, 1923-4, 248
LITERATURE {continued):
Books Received {continued):
Ventilation of Public Buildings, Robert Boyle, 129
Wireless for the Amateur, J. Roussel, 647
Wireless Facts and Figures, A. V. Ballhatchet, 480
LLOYD’S Register—see Ships
Loadlines, &c.—see Ships
Locks, Elevators, and Inclined Planes, 39
Locomotive, Internal Combustion, Baguley,
Limited, 609
Locomotive, Novel Petrol, Lake and Elliot, 145
Locomotive, Oil Rail, Blackstone and Co., Limited, 37
Locomotive Tools—see Machine Tools
Locomotives, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Locomotives, Railway—see also Railway Locomotives
London, Port of, Improvements, 130 ; (Letter), 513
Lorries—see Motor Vehicles
Lubrication—see Boundary
M MACHINE TOOLS : Boring and Turning Mills and other Machines at Penistone Works, 4 {Two 'Two-page Supplements, July 6th, 1923)
Crank Pin Grinding and Quartering Machine, Churchill Machine Tool Company, Limited,
Crank Pin Turning Machine, Geo. Richards and Co., Limited, 460
30in. Drilling, Tapping and Studding Machine, Kitchen and Wade, 210
Hand-operated Table for Punching Machines, D. C. Endert and H. W. Curchin, 539
Old Punching and Shearing Machine, Laird and Kitson, 548
Oxy tome Metal-cutting Machine, Alfred Herbert, Limited, 404
Radial Machine for Drilling Plates and Girders, Wm. Asquith (1920), Ltd., 540
32in. Surfacing and Screw-cutting Break Lathe, G. and A. Harvey, Limited, 342, 348
MAGNETIC Tests of Hoisting Cables, 431
Manchester, Power Station for—see Electrical Matters
Manchester University Department of Metallurgy, Opening of New Building, 293
Marine Engineers and Oil Engine Certificates, 229 ; (Letter), 319
Marine Engines—see Engines
Mass Production of Omnibus Bodies, Short Brothers, Limited, 102 {Two-page Supplement, July 21th, 1923)
Mass Production of Railway Coaches and Wagons, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 385, 697 {Two-page Supplement, October 12th, 1923)
Master and Mechanic, 343
Mechanical Stokers on Marino Water-tube Boilers, W. J. Muller, 274, 279
Mellanby, Dr. A. L., on Clyde Marine Oil Engines, 120, 620 ; (Letters), 676
Mercury-vapour Prime Mover, Plant by W. L. R. Emmet, Paper, W. J. Kearton, 560, 561, 563
Mersey, River, Proposed Tunnel Under, 362
Mexico, British Trade with, 340
Michell Oil Deflector, 307
Mineral Statistics, Our, 534
Mineral Wagons, Large, 394, 397
Mines, Electricity in—see Electrical Matters
Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 280
Modugno, Lieut.-Colonel F., on Internal Combustion Engines Exhausting into Low-pressure Turbines, 274, 290
Morgan, Sir C. Langbridge, Presidential Address, 508
Mortiser, Vertical Automatic, Thos. Robinson and Sons, 35
Motorailer, Motorailer Transport Company, 402 Motor Car Engines—see also Engines
Motor Car, Hoile Four-wheel Driving and Steering, 666, 667, 670
Motor Car Parts, Standardisation of, H. G. Burford, 402
Motor Cars at Olympia :
469, 496, 506, 528
All-weather ” 11.4 H.P. Humber Car, 496, 506
Armstrong-Siddeley Six-cylinder Cars, 500, 506
Aster 18-50 H.P. Six-cylinder Car, 498
Austin Cars, 7, 12 and 20 H.P., Mechanical Starter, Loyd-Lord Valveless Engine, 528
Bean Motor Car, 14 H.P., 496, 497
Clement-Talbot Small Car, 529
Ruston and Hornsby Car, 529
Coachwork of Motor Cars, 496
Weymann Construction, 496
Crossley Motors Two-seater Coupe, 500, 506
Rover Company’s New Model Car, 500 Ruston and Hornsby Car, 529 ; (Note), 571 Saloon Car Factory at Coventry, Standard
Motor Company, 497, 498
Standard 14 H.P. Motor Car and Engine, 497, 506
Transmission Systems, New, Lanchestcr and Sunbeam Six-cylinder Cars, 469
Tube, Puncture-proof, A. P. P. Tube, Limited, 528
Wolseley Car, Engine and Details, 498-500
MOTOR Car Works—see Works
Motor Fuel “ Discol,” 101
Motor Vehicles, Commercial, at Olympia :
580, 608, 609—see also Engines
Chassis, Associated Equipment Company, 580 Chassis, Karrier Motors, Limited, 580
Chassis, 30-Cwt. Subsidy, Albion Motor Car Company, 608, 610; Crossley Motors, Limited, 611, 612
Thornycroft, J. I. and Co., Ltd., Six-wheeled Lorry, 6-Ton Brewers’ Lorry, 581, 582
Trojan, 10 H.P. Vehicle, Leyland Motors, Limited, 580, 581
United Automobile Works Triangel Long-frame Six-wheeled Vehicle, 611, 613
MOTOR Vehicles. Speed and Petrol Mixture of, 116
Muller, W. J., Mechanical Stokers on Marine Water-tube Boilers, 274, 279
Multiflow Steam Superheaters, Galloways, Limited, 376
N NAVIGATION Congress—see Ships
Netherland Shipbuilding Company’s Yard at
Amsterdam, 275, 282
Newcastle, Royal Show at, 17, 34
New Orleans Ship Canal, 350
Nickel—see Iron and Steel
Non-ferrous Metals in Engineering, Lecture, Sir Henry Fowler, 288
North, J. D., Technical Development of the
Aeroplane, 5
Notches and Scratches, 397
Nozzle Flow— see Depression
o OBITUARY: Ayrton, Hertha, 230
Barford, James Golby, 16
Bligh, William G., 482
Craven, William Henry Saville, 504
Devitt, Sir Thomas L., 647
Dixon, Charles Frederick, 403
Harker, Dr. John Allen, 419
Ivatt, Henry Alfred (Portrait), 481 ; (Paragraph), 505
Laurence, Reginald, 101
Leblanc, Maurice, 504
Meik, Charles Scott, 49
Mitchell, Herbert E., 124
Nuttall, Sir Edmund, 419
Phillips, James Alexander, 347
Puplett, Samuel, 371
St; George, Percival Walter, 622
Scott, Alfred A., 205 ; (Letter), 248
Stead, Dr. J. E., 482
Steinmetz, Dr. (Portrait), 481
Walker, Edwin Robert, 285
O’BRIEN, Colonel E., on Railway Transport, 305, 313
Oil-burning System, Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company, Limited, 366
Oil Engines—see Engines
Oil Meter, W. D. Fair and Co., 309
Omnibus Bodies, Building, Short Brothers, Limited, 102 (Two-page Supplement, July 21th, 1923)
Optical Engineering and Applied Optics, 121
Optical Stress-Strain Recorders, 479
Ore-loading Machines for Lead Mines, 209
Otira Tunnel, New Zealand, 154
Oxy-acetylene Cutting Machine, Godfrey Engineering Company, 336
Oxytome Metal Cutting Machine, Alfred Herbert, Limited, 404
PADDY Husks for Boiler Fuel, 566
Paint Sprayer, Portable, The Aerostyle, 363
Pan-American Standardisation, 200~
Pantagraphs, Steel, 233ft. Long, 185
Paper Mill and its Steam Plant, Wayagamack,
Quebec, 206, 207
Paraffin Engines—see Engines
“ Parry ” Boiler-tube Cleaning Blower, 350
Patent Action Damages, 21
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, BRITISH: Aeronautics, 267
Batteries and Accumulators, 163, 215, 681
Building, 382
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 86, 163, 355, 465
Cranes and Conveyors, 216, 409, 520, 658
Crushing and Grinding, 27, 296, 328
Dynamos and Motors, 111, 139, 163, 215, 241, *267, 296, 355, 465, 491, 519, 546, 657
Electrical Appliances, 27, 139, 189, 355, 707
Engines, Internal Combustion, 27, 57, 85, 111, 163, 215, 267, 327, 355, 381, 409, 437. 491, 629, 657
Furnaces, 57, 328, 492, 658, 681
Gas Producers, 139, 491, 519 .
Lighting and Heating, 57, 140, 241, 328, 438
Locomotives, 28, 139, 381, 409, 629
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 28, 58.
86, 112, 164, 190, 268, 296, 356, 438, 602, 629, 657, 707
Measuring and Testing Instruments, 58, 85, 140, 381, 438, 466, 492, 601, 629
Metallurgy, 58, 296, 682
Miscellaneous, 86, 140, 164, 190, 216, 242, 268, 296, 328, 356, 382, 410, 466, 492, 520, 546, 574, 602, 630, 658, 682, 707, 708
Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 112, 164, 189, 242, 296, 328, 356, 545, 682
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 28, 58, 216, 242, 296, 381, 438, 466, 546
Ships and Boats, 28, 409, 466, 681
Steam Generators, 111, 241, 355, 437, 573, 601
Switchgear, 85, 111, 267, 295, 327, 381, 438, 465, 491, 574, 601, 707
Telegraphs and Telephones, 85, 11 1, 139, 163, 189, 215, 241, 267, 295, 327, 410, 437, 466, 574, 601, 629, 657, 681, 707
Tramways and Railways, 140, 190, 216, 409, 545, 574, 681
Transformers and Converters, 27, 111, 189, 295, 327
Transmission of Power, 57, 85, 140, 215, 242, 295, 356, 409, 545, 573, 630, 657, 681
Turbine Machinery, 381, 519, 545, 573
Water Purification, 241
Welding, 58, 602
PATENT Working, British, 501
Patents for Inventions, 453 ; (Letters), 484
Patents, Restored, 315
Patentees, Joint, 562
Payment by Results—see Labour
Personal and Business Announcements, 28, 58, 86 112, 140, 161, 213, 242, 268, 328, 356, 382, 435, 463, 484, 517, 543, 574, 599, 622, 655, 682, 708
Petrie, Telford, on the Combined Use of Steam for Power and Other Purposes, 220
Petrie, Telford, Varying Specific Heats an Gas Engine Mixtures, 361
Petrol Engines—see Engines
Petrol Mixture of Motor Vehicles, Speed anc 116
Petroleum, Drive Method of Winning, 454
Petroleum, Origin of, E. H. Cunningham-Craig 530
Piling—see Sheet
Pipe Bends, Some Awkward, Mill wall Engineei ing Company, Limited, 460
Pipe Casting, Stanton de Lavaud Machine am Other Plant, 104
Piston-rods—-see Railway Locomotives
Planing, High-speed Rotary, Stafford Ransome 388, 412, 441
Plate Mill, 36in. Three-high, Davy Brothers Limited, 218, 245 (Two-page Supplement September 7 th, 1923)
Ploughs and Plough Engines, Motor, Motoi Cable, and Steam Cable, John Fowler anc Co., Limited, 18
Ploughs at the Royal Show, 18, 35, 38 Pneumatic Road Wheel, L. Nuttall, 135 Pneumatic Tools, Little Giant Grinder anc Polisher, Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Com pany, 310
Polar Diagrams for Riveted Connections, J. B. Clarke, 639
Pollution, Air, in Towns of the United Kingdom.
J. B. C. Kershaw, 128
Pontoons, Design of, K. S. Dodd, 331
Port Improvements in Chile, 208
Port of London Improvements, 130; (Letter),
Port of San Antonio, Chile, 321
Portland Cement Factory in the Sudan, Henry
R. Tutt on, 447
Powdered Fuel, 695
Power-houses—see Electrical Matters
Power Scrapers for Handling Ore, 391 Power Stations—see Electrical Matters
Power from Waterways, Sir J. Purser Griffiths, 12, 38
Propellers, Marine—see Ships
Public Works, Roads and Transport Congress :
473, 565, 584, 594, 618—see also Exhibitions Programme and List of Papers, 473 Papers Read, Subjects of:
Rivers Pollution and Sewage Disposal, 565 Water Supply ; Refuse Transportation ;
Market Gardening; Bridge Construction ; Reconstruction, Repair, &c., of Main Roads ; Estate Roads and Private Streets; Mechanical Appliances for Road Work, 594, 595
Town’s Gas, Quality and Composition of ; Position of Mains in Highways ; Stray Electric Currents; Charges in Road Construction and Maintenance ; Road Foundations and Carpeting; Evolution of the Road and Transport Thereon; Road Beautiful, 618, 619
PULVERISED Fuel and Efficient Steam Generation, David Brownlie, 665—see also Powdered Fuel
PUMPS : A. G. Browning Pump, 337 ; (Correction), 379 Air Pump, “ Radojet,” John Musgrave and Sons, Limited, 364
Boiler Feed and Other Pumps at the Shipping Exhibition, Worthington-Simpson, Limited, 225
Diesel Engine Pumping Plant in Egypt, 432 Electrically Driven Fuel Oil Pump, A. J.
Mumford, Limited, 432
Electromersible Pump, J. S. White and Co., Limited, 337
Fire Pump, Trailer, Merryweather and Sons, 38
Force Pump, F. W. Brackett and Co., Limited, 339
Four-cylinder Radial Pump for Hydraulic Press, Tangent Tool and Engineering Company, Limited, 338
High-lift Pump, Lee, Howl and Co., Limited, 558
Humphrey Pumps, Large, for Australia, W. Beardmore and Co., Limited, 673 (Two-page Supplement, December 2.1st, 1923)
Rotary Pumps, Stothert and Pitt, Limited, 310
“ Unchokable ” Pump, 366
Vertical Fuel Pump, Professor R. E. Mathot, 338
Williams-Janney Variable Delivery Pumps, Variable Speed Gears, Limited, 336
PUNCHING Machines—see Machine Tools Purification Plant—see Water Supply
Q QUARTERNARY Alloys, Constitution, &c., Miss Marie L. V. Gayler, 317
Quasi-arc Petrol Generator Welding Set, 310
R RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS: General Matters: Automatic Couplings for Railway Wagons,
Building a Railway Coach in Six Days, 385 (Two-page Supplement, October 12th, 1923)
Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 192; (Correction), 230
Diggle Railway Accident, 49
Economic Railway Speeds, 15 ; (Letters), 49, 70, 96, 124
Head-on Railway Collision, 107
High-capacity Wagons, 397, 422
International Railway Congress, 1925, Reporters, 480
Main Line Electrification, 313 ; (Letter), 375 “ Never-Stop ” Railway at Southend. 94, 95 Paris-London Service, Accelerated, 431 Railway Accidents, 44
Railway Accidents in 1922, 145
Railway Bills in Parliament, 596
Railway Labour, 696
Railway Rates and Railway Wages, 154
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS {continued) :
General Matters {continued):
Railway Returns for 1922, 322
Railway Telegraphy, One-wire and Three -Wire Systems for, 426 ; (Letter), 554
Railway Transport, Colonel O’Brien, 305 Railway Wagon Sides, Machine for Rounding and Cross-cutting Deals for, J. Pickles and Son, Limited, 236
Scemia-Renault Rail Car, 652
Signalling for the Empire Exhibition, 390 State Railways, 369
Stresses in Bridges, Connecting-rods, &c., Papers and Discussion at the British Association, 333
Ticket Machine in Railway Stations, 81 Vermot Shunting Tractor, 687, 694
British, Colonial and Indian :
London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Building Railway Vehicles at Derby, 385 {Two-page Supplement, October \2lh, 1923) Railway Wagon Building, 697
Foreign :
Bolivia, Railways in, 74
French Midi Railway Electrification, 588, 589, 595 ; (Letter), 614
Sahara, Proposed Railway Across the, 515 Sweden and Finland, Railway and Steamer
Service between, 459
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES :
General Matters :
Automatic Control of Locomotive Cut-off, 349
Electric Railway Locomotive for Mines, Shipyards, &c., Joseph Booth and Bros., Limited, 36
Extended Piston-rods, 618
Feed Heater for Small Locomotives, 404 Individuality in Locomotive Engineering, 454 Injector, Introduction of the, Sharp, Stewart and Co., Limited, 1860, 231
Links in the History of the Locomotive, E. A. Forward, 638, 661
Locomotive Booster, 369 ; (Letter), 403 Locomotive Driving, 562 ; (Letters), 583, 613 Locomotives and Trains, 203 ; (Letters), 248 Locomotives Included in Short Histories of Famous Firms, E. L. Ahrons :
The Experiment, 1833, 194; Dublin and Kingstown Railway, Three Engines, 1833, 195 : Hibernia Class Engines, 195 ; Grand Junction Railway, Ten Passenger Engines, 1837, 105 ; The Atlas, circa 1838, 195 ; Standard Single-driver
Engine, circa 1847-8, 195 ; London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Fifteen Engines, 1849, 196 ; German Railway Engines, 1845, 196; Manchester and Birmingham Railway, 1847, 196 ; Manchester and Birmingham and other Railway, 1846-9, 196; Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 1860—62, 196 ; “ Bloomers ” LondonandNorth-Western Railway, 1851-2, 196; Midland Railway, Ten “ Single ” Express Engines, 1868, 196 ; Midland Railway, Goods Engine, 1854-5, 196 ; Various Engines for Continent and Elsewhere, 196 ; Tank Engine, Eight-coupled, Mauritius Railways, 1867, 231 ; Japanese Railways, Passenger Engine, 1871, 231 ; London, Chatham and Dover Express Engine, 1873, 231 ; Express Passenger Engine, Midland Railway, 1874, 231 ; Eight-coupled Goods Engine, Barry Railway, 1886, 231; Paris Exhibition, Four-coupled Express Engine, P.O. Railway, 1873, 232 ; and Various Other Engines, Sharp, Stewart and Co., Limited, 194, 231 ; (Letter), 223 ; Lion and Tiger, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1838, 548 ; Early Engines for England, Germany and France, 1839, 1840 et seq., 548 ; Single Driver, 1845, 548 ; Single Driver, Midland Railway, 1845, 548; Passenger Engine, Madrid and Zaragoza Railway, 1858-9, 548; Bogie Engine, Copiapo and Caldera Railway, Chile, 1860, 548 ; Numerous Engines for English Railways, 1850-2, 549 ; Engines for Indian Railways from 1854 Onwards, 549; Celebrated Single Express Engines for Great Northern Railway, 1860-1, 549 ;
“ Bloomer ” Express Engines and “Mail” Engines, 1861, 549; Great Western Engines, 1862, 549 ; Six-coupled Goods Engines, Midland Railway, 1866—8, 549 ; Russian Railway Engines, 1869-72, 549 ; Engines for the Argentine, 549, 550; Midland, Taff Vale, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 549, 550; Articulated Kitson-Meyer Engines for Chilian Nitrate and Railway Company, 1894, and Others, 550; Kitson and Co., Limited, 548
Marc Seguin and the Multitubular Boiler, 638» 661
Multi-cylinder Locomotives, 255 ; (Letters), 319, 375
British, Colonial and Indian :
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Six-coupled Tank Locomotives, 172
British Locomotive Performances, J. T. Burton-Alexander, 684
Cornish Riviera Limited Express, Another Run with, 685
Great Western Railway Four-cylinder Engine, Caerphilly Castle, 197, 202
London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Eight-coupled Tank Engines, 476
Foreign :
France, Locomotive Practice and Performance in, J. T. Burton-Alexander, 119, 143, 178
Paris-Orleans Railway Eight-coupled Tank Engines, 236
Poland, Small Locomotive and Railway Material for, Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., Limited, 432
RANSOME, Stafford, High-speed Rotary Planing, 388, 412, 441
Ravier System of Sheet Piling, 132
Refuse Collecting Vehicle, Electric, Electricars, Limited, 642
Reinforced Concrete Filter, Pump-house, &c., for Thames Water at Beckton Gasworks, 168 (Two-page Supplement, August 11th, 1923)
Reno Marine Salvage System, 471, 478 (Two-page Supplement, November 2nd, 1923)
Research—see Scientific
Restored Patents, 315
Rhodin, John G. A., on Theories and Hypotheses, 232
Road Fund, Annual Report, 649
Road Roller, Crude Oil Engine-driven, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Limited, 640, 644
Road Roller, Motor, John Fowler and Co., Limited, 584
Road Roller, Tandem Motor, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, 623
Road Roller, 8-Ton Tandem Steam, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 584 ; (Note), 625
Road Roller, Three-wheeled Motor, Aveling and Porter, Limited, 640
Road Rollers, Steam and Tractor Type, Robey and Co., Limited, 19 ; Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, 20
Road Sweeping Machine, Three-wheeled, Lacre Motor Car Company, Limited, 641
Road Transport, A. E. Berriman, 305
Road Wheel, Pneumatic, L. Nuttall, 135
Roller, 8-Ton Motor, Ruston and Hornsby, Limited 37
Roller, Motor, Small, for Special Work, Barford and Perkins, Limited, 586
Rolling Mills—see Iron and Steel
Rosenhain, Dr. Walter, on Science and Industry in America, 271, 298, 312, 330, 358, 384, 412, 440, 468, 494, 522
Rotary Tine Tilling Machine, Simar Rototillers, 17
Rotterdam, Nautical Institution and Museum, 258
Royal Show at Newcastle, 17, 34
Rubber Road Surfacing Blocks, Interlocking, C. W. Read’s System, 651
Ramsey and Fitch, The Work of, Engineer-Captain Edgar C. Smith, 418
Rutherford, Professor Sir E., on Electrical Structure of Matter, 284
s SAFETY at Sea—see Ships
Sahara, Proposed Railway Through, 20, 515
St. James’s Park and Other London Lakes, 60, 92, 93
Salvage, Marine—see Ships
San Antonio, Chile, Port of, 321
Scemia-Renault Rail Car, 652
Schneider-Diesel Engines—see Engines
Scholarship Awards, Beama, 543
Schoop Process of Melting and Atomising Coating Metal, Metallisation, Limited, 339
Science—see also History
Science and Industry in America, Dr. Walter Rosenhain, 271, 298, 312, 330, 358, 384, 412, 440, 468, 494, 522—for Titles of Illustrations see Subjects Index, Bureau of Standards.
Academy and the National Research Council, Washington, 523
Aluminium and Light Alloys, 330 ; Nickel and Monel Metal, 330
Automobile Industry, 358
Bureau of Standards, 495
Chemical Division, 522
Conclusion, 522
Electrical Industries, 358, 384
General Observations, 440, 523
Geophysical Laboratory, 494
Glass, 384, 496
Glass and Ceramic Research, 385
Harvard and Yale, 412 ; Case School, 412 ;
Illinois, 440
McCook’s Field, Dayton, Ohio, 468
Mellon Institute, 469
Michigan, 440
Non-ferrous Metals, 298 ; Copper Refining, 299, 312
Non-ferrous Metal Industries, 331 ; Iron and Steel, 331
Other Departments, 523
Public Institutions, 468
Testing Machines, 495
Tungsten, 358
Universities and Colleges, 412; The M.I.T., 412
Washington Navy Yard, 468
Watertown Arsenal, 468
Scientific and Industrial Research, Abstract of Report, 398
Scott, E. Kilburn, Manufacture of Ferrovanadium by Electric Furnace, 636
Scott-Still—see Engines
Sea Action—see Deterioration
Seaplanes—see Aeronautics
Seaport, The Ideal, Presidential Address, Sir J. G. Broodbank, 374
“ Service ” Black Paint, H. Dodgson White, Limited, 365
Shears, Guillotine (Hydraulic), Sketch Shearing Machine, Bruce Peebles and Co., Limited, 246
Shears, Steam-Hydraulic Slab, Davy Brothers, Limited, 220
Sheet Piling, Ravier System of, 132
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING : General: American Lakes, Large Steamer for, 614
Canal Barge, Electrically Propelled, Gill Propeller Company, 252
Canal Barge, Further Trial, 394
Donkin-Scott Electric Steering Gear, 366
Dutch River Lighters, A. M. Schippers, 257 Electric Propulsion of Ships, F. H. Clough, 334
Gill Shrouded Propeller, 224
International Navigation Congress, 10, 38, 65 Concrete and Reinforced Concrete, 66 Dimensions of Port Works, 11 Inland Navigation Section, 12 Lighting and Beaconing of Coasts, 66 Liquid Fuel for Ships, 66 Limiting Size of Ships, 11
Locks, Elevators and Inclined Planes, 39
Navigation Congress Results, 43
Ocean Transport Problems, 10 Power from Waterways, 12, 38 Resolutions Adopted, 12, 39, 66 Ship and Port Equipment, 40, 65
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING (continued) :
General (continued) :
International Navigation Congress (con-i tinued) : v
Waste Heat Recovery on Ships, 617 Waterways and Power Production, Sir J. Purser Griffith’s Report, 12, 38
I Lifeboat Flooding Experiments, 223 Lifeboats, Wireless Set for, Radio Communication Company, Limited, 251 Lloyd’s Register Book of Shipping, 69 Lloyd’s Register, Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 48, 401 H
^482 S ’R'eg*Sfcer Sapping, Annual Report, Loadlines, Deck Cargoes and Safety of Life, Regulations for, Sir Westcott S. Abell, 174 Mechanical Problems of Safety at Sea, Thomas Hawksley Lecture, Sir Westcott S. Abell, 500
Motor Craft Building at Cowes, S. E. Saunder-son, Limited, 184
Motor Lifeboat, Paraffin-driven, Seamless Steel Boat Company, Limited, 251
Nautical Institution and Museum at Rotterdam, 258
Netherland Shipbuilding Company’s Yard at Amsterdam, 275, 282
Propeller Cavitation, Experimental Researches on, 590, 605, 632, 660
Reno Marine Salvage System, 471, 478 (Two-page Supplement, November 2nd, 1923)
Sal Log, “Dead-beat” Compass and other Navigating Instruments, Henry Hughes and Son, Limited, 365
Ship Form and Steering, A. W. Johns, 551 576
Shipping Exhibition—see Exhibitions Sperigyro Automatic Helmsman, 249 “ Sperigyro ” Ship Stabiliser, 122 Subdivision of Large Passenger Ships, A. C. F. Henderson, 257, 261
Viking Ships’ Winch, Electric, and Contactor Control Cubicle, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Limited, 337
Waterproof Ventilation of Ships, John Gibbs and Son, Limited, 338
Wireless Telegraphy and Shipping, Commander J. A. Slee, 335
Wreck Statistics for 1922, 131
Naval Matters :
Cruising Ships of the Navy, 425
Guns of the Swedish Battleship Sverige, 76 Gyroscopic Ship Stabiliser for the Navy, “Sperigyro,” Metropolitan-Vickers Company, Limited, 122, 249
Naval Programme, The New, 533
Singapore Naval Base, 127
Foreign Navies :
Swedish Navy, 76
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels :
American Lake and Coastwise Motor Shins 527 ■ 1 ‘ ’
Canadian Diesel-driven Motor Car Ferry Boat Yarrows Limited, 80
Diesel-electric Ship La Playa, Cammell Laird and Co., Limited, 420, 456
Faraday, Siemens Cable Ship, Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Limited, 98, 106
Flying Cloud, Motor Yacht, 37, 50, 51
Hamburg-American Liner Albert Ballin, 27 1 273,299
Lifeboat, H. F. Bailey, and Launching Slip I at Cromer, 81 *
Minnewaska, Atlantic Transport Liner, Harland and Wolff, Limited, 235
Motor Cruiser Lady Clare II., 568
Motor Lifeboat, 60-Foot, for New Brighton,
i 320
Motor Yacht Beryl, S. E. Saunderson, Limited, 184
Peninsular and Oriental Liner Mooltan, 349 i Restless, Steam Yacht, John Brown and Co., I Limited, 155
Sarpedon, Twin-screw Steamer, Cammell Laird and Co., Limited, 374
Twin-screw Motor Tanker, Arnus, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 485
Yacht, 35-Foot Sailing Motor, J. I. Thorny-croft and Co., Limited, 224
SHOWS—see Exhibitions
Signalling, Railway—see Railways
Singapore Naval Base, 127
Sixty Years Ago, 12, 48, 79, 96, 135, 150 174 197, 230, 258, 289, 319, 347, 362, 399* 431 ’ 446, 473, 513, 530, 558, 586, 615, 647,’ 668’. 692; (Letter), 702
Sluice Valve—see Valve
Small Inventions, 199
Smith, Engineer-Captain Edgar C., on the Work of Rumsey and Fitch, 418
Smoke Abatement in Hamburg, 107
South Africa, Light Rail Traction in, 647
Southend, “ Never-Stop ” Railway at, 94, 95 Specific Heats, Varying—see Engines Specifications : Their Use and Abuse, 15 Speed Gears, Hydraulic Variable, and Pumps, Williams-Janney System, Variable Speed Gears, Limited, 336
Sperigyro—see Ships
I Sperry Searchlight, 249
Spotanok,” Taylor, Gibsons, Limited, 226 Spun Iron Pipe, Stanton Ironworks Company, Limited, 104
Stack Feeder, Wm. Foster and Co., Limited, 17, 18
Standardisation, Pan-American, 200
Stanton Spun Iron Pipe, 104
Steam, Combined Use of, for Power and other
Purposes, Telford Petrie, 220
Steam Engines—see Engines
Steam Superheaters, Multi-flow, Galloways Limited, 376 ’ ’
Steam Turbines for Marine Propulsion in Holland, Professor Dresden, 274, 283
Steel—see Iron and Steel
Steinmetz, Dr. Charles, on the Energy of the Future, 67
Stoker, Mechanical Chain Grate, Babcock and Willcox, Limited, 336
Stone Drying and Mixing Plant, Multiple, Frederick Parker, 641
Stone Drying and Tarring Plant, Model, Winget, Limited, 586
Street Gully Emptier, Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Company, 38
Stress Distributions, Complex, Discussion of Group of Papers at the British Association, 333
Stress Indicator, Fereday-Palmer, 68
Submarine Engines—see Engines
Success, Road to, Cecil Bentham, 455
Suction Gas Plant for Anthracite or Coke, National Gas Engine Company, Limited, 18
Sukkur Barrage, 459
Sulphuretted Hydrogen, Dangers of, 99
Sumner, Captain P. IL, on Kite Balloons and Airships in Naval Warfare, 194
Superheater, Uptake, for Scotch Marine Boilers, Thos. Sugden, 134
Surfacing Machines—see Machine 'Fools
T TABLE, Punching—see Machine Tools Tamping Machines, B. Johnson and Son, 642 Tar and Bituminous Macadam Plant, Ransome Machinery Company, Limited, 624 Tar-macadam Mixer, Ord and Maddison, 623 Tar-sprayer and Gritter, Aveling and Porter, Limited, 640
Technical Education in China, 345
Telegraphy, Railway—see Railways
Temperature Indicators, Control, Recorders, &c., Cambridge and Paul Company, Limited, 251
Tensile Test, 128
Theories and Hypotheses, J. G. A. Rhodin, 232 Thermal Storage, C. E. Stromeyer, 583 Thrashing Machine, All-steel, Marshall, Sons and Co., Limited, 20, 38
Thrust Boring Machine, Mangnall Irving, Improved Type, 321
Ticket Machines in Railway Stations, 81
Timber in Eastern Asia, 567
Timber, Fir versus Pine, 515
Timber, Machine for Cross-cutting and Rounding, John Pickles and Son, Limited, 236
Tire Department and Equipment at Penistone Works, 3 (Two Two-page Supplements, July 6/A, 1923)
Tractor Engines—see also Engines
Tractor, Farmer’s Light-weight, Saunderson Tractor and Implement Company, Limited, 35
Tractor, Petrol Shunting, The Vermot, 687, 694 Tractors and Traction Engines at the Royal Show, 18, 19
Tramways, Glasgow, 20
Trailers at the Commercial Motor Exhibition, 609
Trains—see Railways
Transport and its Indebtedness to Science, Sir Henry Fowler, 305, 314
Transport, Land, Sea, and Air, 305
Trucks, Electric—see Electrical Matters Tube Bending Machine, C. R. H. Bonn, 514 Tubular Heating—see Electrical Matters Tudsbery, Henry T., and Alec. R. Gibbs, An
Examination of Menai Suspension Bridge, 78
Tunnel, Otira, New Zealand, 154
Tunnel, Proposed, Under the River Mersey, 362
Turbine Machinery of the Liner Albert Ballin,
Blohm and Voss, 271, 273, 299
Turbine, Steam, Design, New, 76
Turbines, Binary Fluid, W. J. Kearton, 560,
561, 563
Turbines, Gas, Jules Deschamps, 646 ; (Letter),
676
Turning Machines—see Machine Tools
Tutton, Henry, Portland Cement Factory at
Mak war, Sudan, 447
u UNEMPLO¥MENT—see Labour
V VALVE, High-pressure Air, and other Valves and Valve Regrinding Apparatus, Robey and Co., Limited, 225
Valve, Quick-closing Sluice, Alley and Mac-Lellan, Limited, 651
Valve, Wireless—see Works
Valves for High-pressure Superheated Steam, Hunt and Mitton, Limited, 337
Vanadium—see Ferro-vanadium
Velocity of Flow in Pipes, Eric Crewdson, 635
Vermot Shunting Tractor, Petrol, 687, 694
w WAGON, 6-Ton Steam, R. Garrett and Sons, Limited, 37
Wagon, Super-Sentinel Steam, Sentinel Wagon Works, Limited, 19
Wagons at the Commercial Motor Exhibition, Atkinson Uniflow Steam Wagon, 608, 610, 611; Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies 6-Ton Steam, 611, 612 ; Scammell Lorries, Limited, Six-wheeled Tipping Wagon and Turntable, 611, 612; J. and E. Hall, Limited, 612; Sentinel Wagon Works “ Super-Sentinel ” Steam Wagon, 612; Walker Brothers’ Motor Lorry and Horse Wagon Units, 613 ; Fodens’ 6-Ton Steam Wagon, 613
Wagons and Couplings, Railway-—see Railways Wagons, High-capacity, 394, 397
Wagons at the Royal Show, 19, 37, 38
Wagons, Steam, Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Company, Robey and Co., Limited, Wm. Foster and Co., Limited, 642
Walker, Wm. J., Mathematical Theory of the Herbert Hardness Tester, 244
Water Elevator, Cellular Band, Caruelle, Boulton and Paul, Limited, 307, 308
Water Level Indicator, Distant-reading, Aster Engineering Company, Limited, 431
Water Meters, George Kent, Limited, Beck and Co., Limited, 642
Water Softening Installations, Lassen-Hjort and Permutit, United Water Softeners, Limited, 336
WATER SUPPLY : Conservation and Control of Water Resources, Joseph Parry, 335
Contrivances for Storage and Distribution of Water, E. Bruce Ball, 47
London Water Supply, Annual Report, Sir A. C. Houston, 167, 177, 696
Purification Plant for Tidal River Water, United Water Softeners, Limited, 168 {Two-page Supplement, August 11th, 1923) St. James’s Park and other London Lakes, Water Supply of, 60, 92, 93
WAVE-POWER Transmission Set, W. H. Dorman and Co., Limited, 224, 225
Weighing Machines, W. and T. Avery, Limited, 36
Weir, James G., on Boiler Feed Water Circuits, 372
Welding, Quasi-arc Process, 310
Wheel, Pneumatic Road, L. Nuttall, 135
Winch—see Ships
Winding Equipment in Minos—see Electrical Matters
Windlasses, Motor, J. and H. McLaren, Limited, 38
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY : Exhibits at the White City :
British Thomson-Houston Amplifiers, LoudSpeakersand Gramophone Attachment ; Brown, S. G., and Co., Crystalox Loud Speaker and Amplifier, 554
British Thomson-Houston Valves ; 524 ; Penton Valves, 524
Burndept Coil Holder and Crystal Detector 502 ; Siemens Variometer Rotor and Valve Holder, Loud Speakers, &c., 503 Dubilier Condenser Company Accessories, Anti-capacity Switch, Anode and Grid Resistances, &c., 503 ; Marconi Heterodyne Wave Meter and Accessories, 503
Edison Swan Electric Company Two-valve and Four-valve Receivers, Transmitting and Receiving Valves, 554
Graham, Alfred, and Co., Portable and other Loud Speakers, 504
Igranic Electric Company Accessories, &c., Valve Lighting Set, Electric Soldering . Iron, Vario Coupler, Variometer, Intervalve Transformer, Coil Holder, 525, 526 McMichael, L., Limited, Receiving Setsand Accessories; Marconi Company Receiving Sets, Amplifiers, Loud Speakers, New Dull Emitter Power Valves, &c., 554
Metropolitan-Vickers “ Radiobrix ” Units and “ Cosmos ” Valve Sets, 525
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELE PHONY (continued} :
Exhibits at the White City (continued}:
Radio Instruments’ Receiving Sets and Eliminator, 524
Receiving Sets, Burndept, Sterling, 502 ;
General Electric Company, Marconi Portable Set, 503
Telephone Receiver, “ Frenophone,” S. G . Brown and Co., 524
French Wireless Regulations, 133
Instruments for Ships, Wireless Beam Receiver and Aerial for, Wireless for Lifeboat, Marconi International Marine Company, Limited, 277, 278
lifeboats, Wireless Set for, Radio Communication Company, Limited, 251
Three-valve Wireless Receiver and Continuous Wave Wireless Telegraph Transmitter, Siemens Bros., 364, 365
Wireless Telegraphy and Shipping, Commander J. A. Slee, 335
Wireless Valve—see Works
WOOD, Economic Use of, 153
Wood Moulding and Planing Machine, Thos. Robinson and Sons, 34
Wood Planing—see also Planing
Wood, R. McKinnon, on Control of Aeroplanes at Low Speeds, 32 ; and on Reliability of Model Data, 33
WORKS : Clvdebridge Steel Works, David Colville and Sons, Limited, 218, 228, 245, 254 (Two-page Supplement, August 31^, 1923) (Two-page Supplement, September 1th, 1923)
Derby Works, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Building Railway Coaches, 385 (Two-page Supplement, October 12th, 1923) Mass Production of Railway Wagons, 697 Motor Car Works, A.C. Motor Cars, Limited, 77
Penistone Works of Cammell Laird and Co., Limited, 2, 14, 30, 42, 62, 72 (Two Two page Supplements, July 6th, 1923)
Short Brothers, Limited, Omnibus Body Building, 102, (Two-page Supplement, July 21th, 1923)
Wireless Valve Repairing Works, Revalco, Limited, 648, 649
WORLD Power Conference, 403, 555
Wrecks—see Ships
Y YACHTS—see Ships
Yarrow Convalescent Home, 101
York, City of, Hydro-electric Power Station at
Linton Lock, 148, 149
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