The Engineer 1923 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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AERONAUTICS ■■ Air Demonstration to Dominion Representatives at Croydon Aerodrome, 559
Monoplane, Portion Picked Up from the Sea near Hythe, 669
New York and San Francisco, Projected Air Mail Continuous Service, 175
Propeller v. Jet System of Propulsion, E.
Buckingham, 175
R 38 Memorial Prize, 466
ALEXANDRIA and Suez Ports, Improvement and Recommendations, 151
Allen-Liversidge, Limited, Staff Dinner, 543
Aluminium Chloride, Properties and Uses of, 311
American Government Purchasing Departments’ Disuse of the Metric System, 395
Antimony from Hunan, Large Export Trade, 201
Argentina, Oilfield Production, 505
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES: Association of Consulting Engineers :
Annual Dinner, 567
Institute, Iron and Steel :
Election of President, 25
Institute of Metals :
Autumn Meeting, 25, 210
Use of Non-ferrous Metals in Engineering, I Second Annual Autumn Lecture, Sir i Henry Fowler, 25, 210
Birmingham Section :
X-rays and Crvstal Structure, Lecture, Dr. H. B. Keene, 587
London Local Section :
American Non-ferrous Metallurgy, Lecture by Dr. Rosenhain, 484
Institute of Physics :
Research in Manufacture, Sir J. J. Thom- | son,41
Institute of Transport :
Awards of Medals and Premium, 325
Transport Adventure in Persia, Lecture by Major T. Salkield, 505
Institution of Automobile Engineers :
Address of New Offices, 112
Crompton Medal Award for Paper, 559
Fourth Annual Dinner, 459
Motor Car Insurance Examination by the Institution, 175
Petrol-electric Propulsion : Its Advantage as Regards Economy, L. Murphy, 615
Special Conference at the Shipping Exhibition, 290
Utility Prize Award, 492
Institution of Chemical Engineers :
Industrial Oxygen, T. Campbell Finlayson, Reprint of Paper on Sale, 356
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Awards for Papers, 466
Vernon Harcourt Lectures on “ River
Training and Maintenance,” R. F. Hindmarsh, 367
Yarrow Scholarship, Applications Invited, 175
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Annual Conversazione, 28
Date of Opening Meeting, 328
Election of New Members of Council, 86
Electrical Aids for the Deaf, C. M. R. Balbi, 693
Formal Meeting to Receive Liquidators’ Report, 55
Meetings at 6 p.m., Votes in Favour, 395
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued): Institution of Electrical Engineers (continued) :
Scholarship Awards, 459
Informal Section :
First Meeting, Engineering Training, Dr. A. Russell, 615
Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers :
Air Cooling and its Purposes, J. Roger Preston, 13
Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Industrial and Shop Lighting Effects, Lecture and Demonstration, 658
New President, Date of Induction and Address, 484
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
Annual Dinner, 677
North-Western Branch :
Annual Dinner, 655
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers :
Meeting, Two Days’, at Nottingham, Programme, 58
Institution of Naval Architects :
Awards Announcement, 227
Further Scholarship Awards, 484
Institution of Railway Signal Engineers :
Elections of Honorary Member, also of First Lady Member, 93
“Proceedings” Issued Twice Yearly, 451 Theory of Interlocking, J. S. Moore, 97
Institution, Royal, of Great Britain : Juvenile Christmas Lectures by Sir William Bragg, Subjects of, 543, 677
Meetings and Elections, 25, 630
Programme of Lectures Before Easter, 708
Institution of Water Engineers : Winter Meeting and List of Papers, 615
Society of Engineers :
Premium Awards for Papers, 682
Society of Glass Technology :
Titania Glasses Compared with Lime and with Magnesia Glasses, 477
Society, Royal, of Arts :
World’s Copper Control Largely in One Company’s Hands, Sir R. Redmayne, 41
Society, Royal Meteorological : Award of Symons Gold Medal, 705
Society of Technical Engineers :
Mr. Richard Hazleton, 371
Societies, Physical and Optical : Exhibition, 702
ASWAN Dam, Discharge of Sluices, New Instrument for Measurement, 358
Atlantic Cable, Largest and Fastest Ever Laid, 41
Atom in Collision, Photographed After 21,000 Attempts, 97
Australia, Accelerated Service to Fremantle, 395
Australia, Four New Bridges Across Murray River, 505
Australia, Locks on Murray River, to Cost Ten Millions Sterling, 253
Australian Trade Statistics, 341
Australia’s Largest Reciprocating Engine, 669
BALTIC to the North Sea, Deepening the Flintraennan Passage in the Oeresund, 423, 451
Barium Sulphate, Enormous Crystal from Mine near Appleby, 423
Basingstoke Canal, Reported Purchase of, 71
Bauxite, Large Deposits Reported in Permsk Province, 281
Belt Conveyor, New Type, 227
Bengal Ropeways Bill Becomes Law, 477
Bengal Scheme for Storm Water Disposal, 451
Birmingham Tramway System Extension, 395 Blast-furnaces—see Iron and Steel
Boilers Fired with “ Lopulco ” Pulverised Fuel, Efficiency Results, 13
Boilers for Use with Refuse Coal, Result of Tests, 97
Bombay Government Regulations for Boiler Attendants, 505
Bombay Government to Spend £6,000,000 on
Sea Front Reclamation, 531
Book of the Thornycroft, 599
Boulogne Harbour Improvement, Dredging and Deepening the Inner Part, 311
Brake Operation on Motor Vehicles, Difficulties, and a New Patent, 311
Breaking-up of Scrap Metal, 682
Bricks Made from Gold Mine Dumps, Value of, 125
Bridge Centuries Old at Last Being Destroyed in India, 531
Bridge Foundations, Caisson Position Electrically Ascertained, 227
Bridge with Record Main Span, 125
Bridge, Valuable, at Springfield, Mass., Completely Destroyed by Fire, 395
British Chemical Standards Movement, 253
British Engineering Standards Association :
British Engineering Standards Specifications, Withdrawal from Circulation of B.S. Specification 72—1917, Revision in Progress, 41
British Forestry Commissioners’ Extensive Schemes, 41
British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association :
Alloys Used in Die-casting, Investigation of, 13
First Experimental Report, 615, 643
0 CABLE Between United States and France.
Said to be World’s Largest, 587
Calcutta, King George’s Dock, Water Area and Other Dimensions, 125
Canada, Automobile Manufacture in, Statistics. 13
Canada’s Greatly Increased Trade, Statistics for Past Year, 367
Canada’s Mineral Production Recovery, Statistics, 227, 367
Canada’s Production of Gold in 1922, 151
Canada, Striking Growth of Water Power Development, 13
Canadian Great Lakes, Complaints of Excessive Diversion of Water by United States, 97
Canadian Iron Ore Mining, Position of, Government Committee’s Report, 311
Canadian Islands of the Arctic Circle, Investigators from Quebec, 71
Canadian Patents Issued, A Record Year, 693
Canadian Westinghouse Company’s Works, Factory Extension, 97, 175
Canal to the Baltic Sea, Polish Scheme, 451
Canal, Rochdale, Sale of All its Reservoirs and
Water Supplies, 201
Canals under Consideration in Belgium, 71
Carbon Black from Surplus of Natural Gas, 451
Catalogues, British, for Constantinople and
Towns in the Interior, 669
Catalogues, British, Lack of, in Canada, 268
Catalogues, British, for Mexico, 253
Catalogues for Turkey, 543
Cement Manufacturing Company in China, 151
Cement from Spent Shale from Scottish Oilfields, 13
Central Steam Heating for Winnipeg, 599
Ceylon River, Extensive Electric Power Capacity, 13
Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society, Endowment of Research in South Africa, 227
China, Modern Highway Planned in, 151
Chinese Cruisers’to Promote Chinese Trade, 227
Chinese Government Bureau of Economic Information, 13
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES:
American Coal Mines, Fatal Accidents in, 643 Anthracite and Bituminous Coal in the
United States, State of Reserves, 71
“ Application of Stone Dust in Coal Mines,” 451
British Coal Output Statistics, 227
Canadian Coal Production, 643
Canadian Collieries, Limited, Results of
Boring in the Sable River District, 41
Centrifugal Machines for Drying Coal, 669
Coal Bed Reached After Two Years’ Sinking Operations, 531
Coal Dust, Explosive Qualities of, Demonstration, 201
Coal Find, Valuable, at Cape Breton, 227
Coal in India, Suggested Import Duty, 311
Coal Mining by the Chinese, 587
Coke Ovens Battery at Sydney, Nova Scotia, to Begin Work, 669
Colliery Officials’ Federation Annual Conference, Electricity in Mining Work, 175
Drainage of Coalfields in Yorkshire and Other Counties, Bill to be Deposited for Next Session of Parliament, 693
Fatal Coal Mine Accidents in the United States, 175
Great Britain’s Weekly Coal Production, 669, 693
Louren^o Marques Coal Traffic Development, 505
Low Temperature Carbonisation of Coal, 41
Maltby Colliery Disaster Relief Fund, 210
Maryport District, New Boring by Garswood
Hall Colliery Company, 693
Natal Navigation Collieries Equipment, Exceptionally Fine, ]25
New South Wales, Coal Development, 505
Pressure and Explosion Demonstrations with
Different Varieties of Coal, 395
Pulverised Coal in Open-hearth Furnaces, Its
Utility Still Uncertain, R. H. Lowndes, 559
Reopening of Old Collieries Projected at Grangemouth and Gartshore, 451
Saghalien, North or Russian ■, Reserves of First-class Coal, 423
Stone Dusting in Coal Mines, Dr. J. S. Haldane, 643
Swiss Coal Imports, German and Otherwise, 693
Underseas Coal, Bore-hole at Seaham Harbour, 451
Zambesi Basin Coal, Satisfactory Tests, 367
COBALT, World’s Supply of, in 1922, 151
Cold Storage in Australia, New Zealand, and United States, 311
Colombia, Various Mineral and Oil Discoveries by Geologists, 505
Colombian Government Projected Oil Pipe Line, 669
Colour Test Papers for Detection of Hydrocyanic Acid Vapour in Air of Tanks, Ships, Buildings, &c., after Fumigation, 281
Coloured Paints and Evaporation from Oil Tanks, 341
Concrete Roads, Surfacing, Sodium Silicate for, 643
Condenser Tube Coatings, Alloy Investigations in Germany, 505
Congress at the British Empire Exhibition—see Exhibitions
Congress of Swedish Engineers at Gothenburg
Conveyors, Use of, in Coal Mine Workings
Discussion, W. G. Burt, 451
Coolidge and X-ray Tubes Insurance 477
Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize, 190
Co-ordination between Mortar Manufacturers
and Shipbuilders, 175
Copper Casting, J. Edgar. 643
Copper Production in Chile, 341, 367
Copper Works at Burry Port Restarted, 151
Corrosion—see British Non-ferrous, &c.
Cotton Ginnery in South Africa, 505
Cotton Mills in China, 13
Cotton Mills for Tasmania, Question of Starting the Industry, 281
Crushing Plant for Gold Mine, Transvaal, 693
Crystal Palace School of Engineering, Distribution of Certificates, 669
Crystalline Form of Electro-deposited Metals,
201
D DAM, Wilson, Across the Tennessee River, Largest in the World, 669
Deafness, Electrical Aids for, C. M. R. Balbi, 693
Deafness and the Marconi Instrument, 505 Deafness—see also Electrical Matters Death of Mr. R. W. Hunt, 151
Deepest Gold Mines, Brazil and Witwatersrand, 587
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research :
Committee Report of Investigations on Deterioration by Sea Water, 367
Licence Issued to Research Association of British Flour Millers, 375
Deutz-Diesel Compressorless Engine, 125
Diamond Cutting Industry in Kimberley, Suggested, 227
Distillation of Tar, Large Plant for, in Winnipeg,
Dock, Dry, at St. John, New Brunswick, New, One of Largest in the World, 559
Durban New Graving Dock, Sliding Caissons made by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, 97
Durban, Very Large Graving Dock Under Construction, 71
E EARTH Tremors and Mining on the Rand, 367
Earthquake Action and Popular Misconceptions, J. W. Doty, 531
Egg Preservation, Rapid New Treatment, 587
Einstein and Relativity Theory, Device for Interpretation, 97
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
American Post Office Lighting to be Reconstituted, 201
Austrian Electrical Industry and Deflation, 587
British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Plans for Great Water 'Power Development, 41
British India and Japan, Trade in Electrical Apparatus, 175
Central Station Design, Duplication of Equipment and Installation of Safeguards, 97
Circuit Breakers, Automatic Re-closing, History of Three, 151
Cleethorpcs Urban Electricity Supply, Proposal to Electricity Commissioners Refused, 643
Concession and Licence Asked for Storage of Water and Supply of Electric Energy,
Dental Apparatus Material, Superiority of Electricity over Gas in Japanning, 125
Des Quinze River, Ontario, Sixty Years’ Lease of Group of Rapids, 201
Direct Current, Three-wire, System, Dangers of, for Private Use, 97
Electric Furnace Under Construction at Ford Company’s Detroit Works, Details of, 71
Electrical Storage Battery Locomotive for Use in Coal Mines, Prize Offered for Best Vehicle, 395
Electricity Commissioners’ New Regulations for Overhead Lines, 615
Estonia, Large Power Station Completed at Ellainaa for State Railways and Other Purposes, 505
Experimental Station at Geltow, Details of High-tension Direct-current Machine, 151
Explosion Due to Cracked Insulator, 615
Ford Factory in Ontario and Large Electrical Equipment, 505
French Experiments in Wider Use of Electrically Driven Vehicles, 367
Furnace, the Electro-thermic Accumulator, A Swedish Invention, 693
Fynn-Weichsel Alternating Current Motor, 587
Gas-filled Lamp and Glare Elimination, Advantage of Larger Candle-power, 201
Generating Set, 50,000-Kilowatt, by C.
A. Parsons and Co., Ltd. for Commonwealth Edison Company, Details of, 13
Hackney Borough Council and Electric
Vehicles for House Refuse Collection, 41
High-tension Transformers, Drying Out, 395
House Wiring for Electricity, Free Installation Advocated in Newport (Mon.), 201
Immunity from Electrical Current, Great Differences in Capacity of Human Beings, 281
Industrial and Shop Lighting Effects, Demonstration Lecture at British Thomson-Houston Company’s Rooms, 658
Irish Water Power for Electricity, Demand for Purposes of Agriculture and Rural Industry, 201
King Opens Super-supply Station, 125
Lesser-known Electrical Utilities, James Orr, 615
Low-voltage Release Equipment Advantage, 615
Microscope Work by Electric Lamp, 125
ELECTRICAL MATTERS {continued):
Mines in France, Belgium, &c., Great Deficiency in Use of Electric Signalling, 281
Motor at Work Continuously for . Twenty -seven Years, 367
Neon Lighting Installation in London, First in Great Britain, 227
New York’s Electric Advertising Signs, and Over a Million Lamps, 201
New York Electrical Exhibition, Great Growth in Use of Electricity, 477
Nitrogen Fixation, Electrical Aspect of, P. Bunet, 451
North Wales and South Cheshire Joint Electricity Authority, 395
Poplar’s Electricity Finance, 669
Porcelain Insulator Testing and Gases Liberated, 587
Power Station for the British Empire Exhibition, 367, 423
Power Station for Lighting Problems, 587 Pretoria Power-house New Plant, 669 Quebec, Power Plant for Bryson, 423
Russian Power Stations’ Restoration, Orders for Electrical Plant, 423
Saskatchewan, Increasing Demand for Electric Light in Yorktown, 437
Saskatchewan, Yorktown, Local Electric Improvement Scheme, 693
South African Large Electric Power Schemes, 341, 423
Southern India River, Conference Between Travancore Durbar and Madras Government on Harnessing Question, 151
Spinning Machines Driven by Electric Motors. 615
Swedish Rural Electrification, 395
Synchronous Convertor and Power Factor Correction, 587
Synthetic Grey Iron, Tests for Making, in a Special Electric Furnace, 227
Transmission Line Altered to Obtain Much Increased Energy, Remarkable Achievement, 477
Transmission of Power Systems, Large, Value of Interconnection, 559
United States’ Use of Incandescent Lamps Equals that of the Rest of the World, 693
Ventilation and Electrical Apparatus, 643
Voltages, Very High, Laboratory Demonstration, 693
Water-cooling Coils in Transformers, Scale Trouble, 587
EMPIRE Mining and Metallurgical Congress of Societies Interested, Arranged for the British Empire Exhibition, 367
Employment Exchanges’ Statistics, 477
Esquimalt Dry Dock, Large Contract for Electrical Pumping Machinery, 281
EXHIBITIONS : British Empire Exhibition :
Electric Power Station for Light and Driving, also as an Exhibit, 367, 423
Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress Arranged, 367, 562
Hours of Opening and Closing, 622
World Power Conference, 311, 622
Brussels Commercial Fair, The Fifth, Growth of, 693
Leipzig Fair, III Success of, 253
Physical and Optical Societies Exhibition, 702
Public Works, Roads and Transport Exhibition, 86, 112
Royal Agricultural Show, Awards at, 13 Shipping and Engineering Exhibition, 291 Special Conference Inaugurated by Institution of Automobile Engineers, Programme, 291
Tercentenary Jubilee Exhibition at Gothenburg, 281
F FACTORIES and Workshops, Report for 1922, 125
Fairs—see Exhibitions
Fans, Standardisation of, 140
Faraday House Old Students’ Association, Annual Dinner, 367, 463
Federation of British Industries :
Final Report of Committee on Inter-Imperial Trade, 423
Smoke Abatement, Professor J. O. Arnold, 71
Taxation and Rating of Machinery, Heavy Handicap on Industrialists, 693
Waste of Heat Detection in Boiler-houses, 41 Finsbury Old Students’ Association, Twelfth
Annual Dinner, 438
Flame Temperature of 3000 deg. Cent., 227
Flood and Ice, Remarkable Accident, 97
Flour Milling Research, 375
Ford Motor Company, Big Plant at Toronto, 311
Forest Fires in the United States, Annual Loss Averages, 41
“ Forest Resources of the World,” Comprehensive Work Published by U.S. Government Authority, 559
Foundrymen. British, Institute of, 213
Foundry Sand, Method of Coal Removal Wanted, 477
Frozen Pipe and the Remedy, 97
Fuel Board of Canada, Valuable Suggestions, 477
Fuel Problem of Canada, Poor Prospects from Oil or Natural Gas, 477
Fuel Research Board Committees in Lancashire and Yorkshire, 13
Fuel Research Board Report on Wigan Arley Coal, 477
Fuels for House-heating Boilers, Tests of, 341
Furnace, Automatically Controlled Heat-treating for Large Turbine Castings, 41
Fusible Alloys for Soldoring Purposes, 201
G GAS for Firing Coppers at Breweries, 559
Gas for the Home Counties, Reports on Fulfilment of Statutory Requirements, 97
Gas Producers, Battery of, for Glasgow, 451 Gas, Town, Board of Trade Return, 201. Gasworks at Marple, Cost of Extension, 451 Gear Grinding Company’s Catalogue, 382
Gearing, Absence of Patterns for, 643
G.P.O. Engineers’ Examination, 190
Geological Survey of Great Britain, Report for 1922, 531
German Liquid F uel Industry, Trust for Control of, 97
German Offer to Take Over Steel Companies in South Africa, 423
German Purchases of Aluminium from Switzerland, Denial of Report, 477
Germany Increases Fees for Patents and
Trade Mark Registration, 395
Glass in Factories and Proper Ventilation, 175
Gold Mine, Brakpan, South Africa, Plant Extension and its Cost, 451
Gold Ore Reserves of Hollinger Mines, Considerable Estimated Value, 559
Gold in the Transvaal, New Discovery, 505
Gothenburg Harbour Improvement, 311
Grain Elevators at Capetown, Port and Inland, to be Opened in March, Varying Capacities,
Grain Elevators, Reinforced Concrete, Record Rate of Construction, 595
Grain Trans-shipment, Improvement of Facilities at Fort William, Ontario, and Port Arthur, 253
Greece, Big Wireless*Schemes Projected, 531
Gretna Government Factory Real Estate for Sale, 693
Grinding of Metals and Cleaning of Castings, Home Office Report, 71
Grinding and Proper Size of Pebbles for, H. F. Kleinfeldt, 531
Grinding Thin Planing Knives, 190
Gwalior, Schemes Projected in, Irrigation, 41 ;
Road Railways, 71
Gypsum, Immense Deposit 99.8 per cent.
Pure, Discovered in Northern Ontario, 281
H HAFNIUM in Manufacture of Audion Lamps, 227 1
Harbour, the Beyt Scheme, on Bombay Coast Line, 263
Hartlepool Scheme for New Harbour, 559
Heat Transmission Through Walls, Building
Research Board Report, 367
High-capacity Wagons—see Miscellaneous Index, Railways
Howrah Bridge, Calcutta, Cantilever Design
Decided Upon, 201
Hyderabad Irrigation Project, 395
Hydraulic Turbine of Faulty Design, 559
Hydro-electric Commission, Ontario, Steam
Power Plant Proposals, 669
Hydro-electric Development of New Zealand River near Christchurch, “ Waimakariri Empowering Bill,” 367, 423
Hydro-electric Output of Canada in Excess of any other Country, 477
Hydro-electric Power Commission of Ontario, Order for Large Turbines, 253
Hydro-electric Power Shortage in Northern Ontario, 222
Hydro-electric Station at Narowa Falls, Estonia, 311
Hydrographic Bureau, International Proposals for Demarcation of Seas, 395
I ICE Factory and Cold Storage Capacity Increase in Dublin for Trawlers, 281
Ice Pressure Relief Apparatus, 227
Ice Trouble on Canadian Reservoir, 49
Imperial Institute “ Map and Diagrams of Metal Resources,” 423
India, Mineral Licences and Mining Leases, Amended Rules for Grant of, 451
India and Unemployed Englishmen, 505
Industrial League and Council, Weekly Lectures Resumed, 404
Insect Damage to Cables, 586
Institutions—see Associations, &c.
Ionic and Thermionic Valves—see University College, London
“ Irish Engineering,” 458
IRON AND STEEL:
American Standardisation of Steel Flanges and Flanged Fittings, 587
Austrian Large Iron and Steel Works to bo Re-started, 125
Blast-furnace, Largest of North-East Coast, Completed near Middlesbrough, 451
Blast-furnace Linings, 41
Blast-furnaces on the North-East Coast, 48 now in Blast Against the Normal 70, 693
Blast-furnaces and Pig Iron Production in France, Statistics, 281
Blast-furnaces Working in France, Year’s Statistics, 643
Breakdown Tests on Various Steels, 41
British Cast Iron Research Association :
America’s Efforts to Increase Production of Malleable Castings and to Obtain their Adoption, 201
Cast Iron to Resist Corrosion, Research Projected, 395
Foundry Sands Investigation Projected, 201
Carburisation of Steel, Investigation, 341
Carburisation Tests for Synthetic Grey Iron
Manufacture, 227
Cast Iron Pipe, 'Life of, Investigations, 125
Cast Iron with Small Percentage of Nickel, Experiments with, 71
Cast Steel Axle-boxes, Importation into India, 451
Chilean Iron and Steel Industry, Proposed Provision of State Aid, 395
Crystalline Areas as an Indication of Steel in Iron Bars, 395
Enamelling Castings, Investigations by the
American Bureau of Standards, 505
Explosion of Cast Iron Steam Pipe, 125
Gas Samples from Blast-furnaces, American Study of Reactions, 505
High-speed Steel, Cause of Red Hardness of, 423
Iron and Steel, When Ignited, Contrasted with Brass and Copper, 540
Lapland’s Considerable Iron Ore Resources, 669
IRON AND STEEL (continued):
Manganese Ore Discovery in Krugersdorp, 227 ; Also Near the Vaal River, 566
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers : Production of Pig Iron and Steel in June, 71 ; July, 201, 258 ; August, 311; September, 423; October, 531; November, 693
Nickel Orc Discovery in Alaska, Experiments in Treating, 13
Nickel Output in Ontario, 315
Ontario Government Committee’s Report and Recommendations on Iron Orc Industry, 28]
Paint for iron, Question of the Best, 253
Pig Iron and Ferro-alloys in the United States, Imports Greatly in Excess of Exports, 693
Pig Iron and Steel Production in Canada, 151, 693
Poland, Iron Ore Production Statistics, 227
Silicon Steel, Limitations to its Usefulness, 151
Spectroscopic Equipment for Sorting Steel, 395
Spinning Spindles, Advantages of Blue Steel, H. Scholey, 423
Sponge Iron and Synthetic Cast Iron, Result of Experimental Work on, 669
Stacks of kBlast-furnaces, Experiments with Regard to Height of, 505
Stainless Iron and Steel Production, 587
Stainless Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 151
Steel Pipes, Transmission of Heat Through, Study of, 505
Swedish Iron Alloy, New Rustless, 451
Swedish Output of Iron and Steel, Old Times and Present Contrasted, 451.
Synthetic Grey Iron Made in Electric Furnace, Tests, 125, 227
Valenciennes Iron and Steel Works Reconstruction Scheme, 125
Wastage in Steel Manufacture, Suggestions for Avoidance, 125
IRRIGATION in Gwalior, Big Project by the Maharajah, 41, 227
Irrigation Scheme, Very Large, in Nizamia Saugor District, 341
Italian Public Works Planned and Started under the Fascista Regime, 423
Italian Scheme for Sale of Engineering Products, 477
J
JAPANESE Earthquake, Results, and Chief Requirements, 451
Japanese Patent Office Documents Reported Destroyed by Earthquake, 587
Japanese Purchases from Great Britain and Canada for Reconstruction Work, 505
Japanese Reconstruction to be Gradual and Reduce Amount of Foreign Loan, 559
Japanese Restrictions on Use of Telegraph Codes Withdrawn, 477
Johannesburg Observatory, Optical Discs for Large Refractor being Ground at St Albans, 97
Journal of Scientific Instruments, Publication Arrangcmon ts, 227
KING’S College Exhibition for Benefit of
Hospitals to be Repeated, 531
L
LAMBETH Bridge to be Replaced by Steel
Arch Bridge, 559
Lantern Slides, Offers for Lectures:
Fuel Consumption, &c., Meldrums, Limited, 435
Mechanical Stokers, &c., Ed. Bennis and
Co., Limited, 379
Latvian Government About to Introduce the
Metric System, 311
Lead Pipe, Sheet Load, &c., Large Plant for Manufacture of, at Seattle, 13
Leeds University Chair of Mining, 190
Lightning Damage to Telephones in the London
Area, 71
Lightning Risks and Oil Tank Protection, 341
Lights, Visible and Invisible, Abnormal Con
ditions of Refraction, 367
Lignite Beds in the Ural, 71
Lignite, Nigerian, as Fuel, 615
Lime-burning and Popping in Plaster, 643
Limonite Deposits in Breconshire, Discovery
and Reported Development, 395
Lincoln, Projected Improvement of Bridges, &c., 559
Linseed Oil Varnish, Protective Properties, 227
Liquid Oxygen Explosive in Mine Blasting and
Road Construction, Successful Experiments, 531
Liquid Oxygen, Properties of, 311
Logwood, Cutting and Exportation of, for Use in Dyes Manufacture, 201
Lumber Production in British Columbia, A Record Year, 693
M MANCHESTER University Metallurgical Department, New Quarters, 175
Manganese—sec Iron and Steel
Mansion House Association on Railway and
Canal Traffic, 125
Marine Oil Engine, Low-powered, 615
Marine Sounding by Hydrophone, 13
Mercury Mine in China Since Fourteenth
Century, 175
Metal Deposition by the Schoop Process, 71
Metric System, Special Reference to Chemical
Manufacture, A. E. Malpas, 477
Meurthe-et-Moselle, Mining and Metallurgical Statistics, 341
Microscope Work by Electric Lamp, 125
Mine Shafts, Speed for Winding Men, 125
Mines, Safety in, Experiments, 253
Mining Accidents in the United States, 97, 367
Mining Development at Cannock Chase, 253
Mining Film in the United States, Story of Rock Drilling, 41
Mining Machinery, Explosion-proof, Great Lack of, in America, 97
Monopoly Patent, Disadvantage of, 476
Montreal Harbour Terminal Facilities, Projected Improvements, 71
Montreal, Highway Bridge Projected at, 71
Mortar or Bricks, New and Valuable Binding
Material for, from Limestone, found in Sweden, 559
Motor Car and Cycle, Private, Annual Increase in the United Kingdom, 693
Motor Car Increase in the United States, 559
Motor Car Lighting and Starting, 643
Motor Car Production, Mr. Ford’s Self-containing Policy, 587
Motor Cars for Canada from the United States, Protests from Canada, 253
Motor Cars, Modern, Prevalent High Speeds of, 38
Motor Cars in Ontario, 615
.Motor Cycle Lighting Deficiency, 587
.Motor Fuel of Petrol and Water Mixture, 477
.Motor Track, Italian, A Model, 451
Moving Platform, Experimental Typo, 669
N NAILS, Holding Power of, 41
Natural Gas Industry in Roumania, 320
Neon Lighting—see Electrical Matters
Now York and Rome, Projected Cable to
Joint Station, Probably the Azores, 125
Niagara Falls, More Electrical Power from, by Two Largest Generators yet Built, 13
Nickel—see Iron and Steel
Nigeria Lignite as Fuel, 615
Nitrogen Fixation and Electrical Supply,
P. Bunet, 451
Nitrogen, Fixed Inorganic, Analysis of World’s Production, 505
Nitro Starch in Manufacture of Safety Explosives, 41
Nuneaton Mining School Extensions, 253
o OIL-BORING, Mozambique Company Formed for, 531
Oil Engine, Two Types in America and their Relative Popularity, 13
Oil Find, Largest in Australia, at Sassafras, Mersey Valley, 663
Oil Pipe Line in Columbia, Estimated Cost of Three Millions Sterling, 531
Oil Production Hazards and Benefit of Science, 175
Oil Production in Roumania, Statistics, 97
Oil Shale Deposits in Tasmania, 227
Oil Shale Samples, Result of Tests in Indiana, 175
Ontario and Federal Governments to Hand Over Peat Plant for Private Company Working, 693
Ontario, Gold and Silver Increased Output, 693
Ontario’s Record Block of Silver Ore, 341
Ontario, Value of Metalliferous Ores in, 71
Orc-crushing Plant in South Africa, 13
Ore Sampling and Testing Laboratory at Cobalt, 13
Otophone, Marconi Instrument for the Deaf, 505
Overhead Line Work, Accident Prevention, 151
Oxygen, Electrolytic and Atmospheric, for Blow-pipe Use, 505
Oxygen, Liquid, Metal Vacuum Flask for Carriage of, 451
Oxygen Manufacture at Low Cost by New Method, 227
Ozone Formation in Flames, Professor Manchot, 643
p PAINT, The Best, for Iron, 253
Painting of Iron and Steel, Old and New, Result of Elaborate Tests on, 559
Papermaking, Straw and Esparto Grass for, Trials, 120
Patentees’ Institute, Additional Suggestions Presented, 253
Peking Institute of Industrial Research, 151
Petrol Generation of Static Electricity, 341
Petroleum Discovery on the Lake Albert Flats, 669
Pipe—see Iron
Platinum Discoveries in the Transvaal, 253
Platinum and Gold Production in the Ural Region, 423
Plumbago Exports from Ceylon, Satisfactory Increase in, 97
Pneumatic Drills for Blasting Holes in Granite, 693
Polishing by Metallic Chromium, New Process, 423
Port of London Docks, Inadequate Approaches, 423
Portland Cement Company’s Big Plant at Vancouver, 531
Portland Cement in United States, Record Monthly Output, 693
Post Office Activities in the City as an Interruption to Traffic, 669
Post Office Pneumatic Tubes System, Development of, 311
Postal Traffic to China by Trans-Siberian Railway, 395
Power Demand in Canadian Eastern Townships, 41
Power Plant, St. Maurice, Quebec, Rapid
Progress of Construction, 311
Power, Price of, in City of Fort William, End of Long Controversy, 253
Presentation to Mr. J. H. Narbeth, 538
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Projected Communication with Alaska, 395
Public Works, Roads and Transport Congress, 86,112—see also Exhibitions
Pulp Mill near Quebec, 505
Pulp and Paper Mills in Newfoundland, Concession to Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, Details, 71
Punching Machine to have Electric Light , 643
QUEBEC Congress on Co-operation in Care of Roads, 505
Quebec, Mineral Production Statistics, 71
Quebec Power Schemes, Ten Dams for Water
Storage, 62
R RzVDIATION from Hot Surface Affected by Shape and Surroundings, 559
Radio-telegraphy and Telephony—see Wireless
Radio Waves Designation, New Method, 227
Radium Deposit, Large, in Turkestan, 403
Radium Production from Oelem, Campine, 669 Rail Saws, 25
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS: Aberdeen and Penzance Service vid West Coast and Severn Tunnel in Addition to Existing East Coast Route, 13, 41
Accidents:
Accidents to Railway Servants, Inquiries, 550
Anniversaries of Serious Accidents, 97, 125, 201, 227, 311, 367, 423, 477, 559, 625, 669 ; (Correction), 253
Blue-book on Railway Accidents, Fatalities Among Railway Servants, 693
Bray Head Accident Report, 473
Buffer-stop Collision at Euston, 395
Buffer-stop Collision at Pollokshaws, Driver’s Prompt Action, 70
Christmas Railway Accidents, 692
City and South London Railway, Subsidence, and Inquiry, 615
Collision at Boston, London and North-Eastern Railway, 451
Collision at West Hartlepool, Report, 531
Death of Workman’s Ticket Holder in a Collision, and Company’s Liability, 559 Derailment Caused by Distortion Due to
Heat, 276
Derailment at Walsall, Probable Cause of, 151
Electric Explosion Due to Cracked Insulator, 615
Fatal Collision on London, Midland Railway at Diggle, 13 ; Verdict, 97
Fatal Derailment on Chichester and Selsey Light Railway, 253
Goods Train Out of Control at Stubbins Junction, 208
Great Western Passenger Train Divided, 227
Leeds Tramway, Serious Accident, 451
L. and N.-Eastern Locomotive Connecting-rod Failure, Men Scalded, 423
New Zealand’s Worst Railway Accident, 76
Selby, Another Accident at, 587
Serious Goods Train Collision on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 395
Three Minor Mishaps, 587
Three Minor Railway Mishaps, 311
Twentieth Century Express and its Adventurous Career, 643
United States Accident Statistics, 367, 643
United States Bridge Collapse and Terrible Train Disaster, 395
Amalgamation Tribunal:
Absorption Schemes for Four Railways, 227 Caledonian, also North Staffordshire, Cease as Separate Companies, 13
Midland and South Junction Railway, Absorption Objections Over-ruled, 367
Death of the Amalgamation Tribunal Chairman, 395
American Observer on Features of English Railways, 341
American Railroad Centennial, 253
Anatolia, New Railway to be Jointly Constructed, 227
Appointments and Staff Changes, 71, 125, 175, 197, 201, 281, 311, 349, 341, 477, 531
Argentine Railway, Proposed New,. 200
Arlberg Railway, First Electrified Portion Opened, 125
Austrian Railways’ Finances, S. W. Acworth’s Report, 227
Automatic Train Control, Tests on the Pennsylvania Railway, 207
Aviemore Line, Highland Railway, Breached by Floods, 41, 97
Belgian Congo, Railway Electrification Scheme, 643
Bills for Next Sessions, Proposals for Railway Police Force and Other Objects, 643
Birkenhead to London Traffic, Rivalry of Two Railways, 341
Birmingham, Proposed Road Over Newstree t Station, 559
“ Bradshaw,” Railway Map Anomalies, 125
Brent Station, 112
Brighton Railway, Presentation to Colonel Billington, 395
British Railway Passenger Journeys and
Reduced Fares, Figures, 615
Burgess, Mr. H. G., 615
Canadian Firms to Construct Locomotives for Canada, 41
Canadian National Railways, Government Bill Rejected by the Senate, 97 ; Government Gives Notice of Bill, 125
Canadian Railways, Their Transference to the State, 651
Canal, Rochdale, and the Bridgewater Canal, 201
Ceylon Railway, Badulla Extension, 175
Cheshire Lines Committee Order for Coaches, 587
Chile, Project for New Railway Construction, 281
Chinese 1200-Mile Railroad Contracts for Winnipeg, 253 •
City and South London Extensions, Total Cost, 505
City and South London Railway and Clapham Common Extension, Royal Assent to Bill, 201, 505
City and South London Tube, Compromise with the Southern Railway, 97
Coal Conveyance Charges, Longer Routes and Higher Rates, 226
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Colliery Workman’s Train Accident and Compensation Question, 587
Colours of Rolling Stock of Different Groups, 135
Concrete Manufacturing Depots for Railways, 311
Continental Mail Service to and from France, Probable Transference to Newhaven and Dieppe Route, 41
Continental Night Mails Route Change, 341 Cost of Living and Railwaymen’s Pay, 341 Cross-country Train Service, London and Manchester vid Midland to Yarmouth, Lowestoft, &c., 13, 175
Death of Mr. W. G. Boonzaier, 451
Death of Mr. G. H. Burrows, 151
Death of Mr. H. Copperthwaite, 367
Death of Sir William Mackenzie, 651 Death of Mr. Waldo H. Marshall, 311 Death of Mr. Lionel R. Wood, 669
Ealing and Shepherds Bush Railway Opens Two New Stations, 531
Electric Locomotive for France, Trial of, 643
Electric Railway Network in Polish Coal Area, 531
Electrical Rolling Stock Repaired at Wolverton, 559
Fastest London to Paris Express Restored, 395
Federation of British Industries and Reduction of Rates, 367
Fifty Millions Loan, Second, Authorised in Great Britain for Indian Railways, 41
First-class Empty Compartments on an Excursion Train, 367
Forth Bridge, Grouping Anomaly, 109
Furness Railway Chief Engineer Retires from Railway to Private Engineering, 125
Gauge Changes on Indian Railways, Recommendations of the Railway Board Engineer -in-Chief, 151
Golders Green Extension, 253 ; Opening, 531 Great Central, | per cent. Dividend, 185
Great Western Railway: Additional Siding Accommodation and Other Improvements Authorised, 13
Agricultural Areas to have New Lines if State Aid be Granted, 643
Arm Rest, Improved Type, 367
Bridge, Vehicular and Railway, Over the Severn at Beachley, Application to Ministry of Transport, 451
Cambrian Section, Further Widening, 669 Cambrian Section, Reported Extension.
587
Colwall Tunnel, A Second, Projected, 591
Cornish Riviera’s Increased Non-stop Journey, 281
Exeter Loses an Old Landmark, 395
Fishguard and Rosslare Steamship Service Reopened,311
Fowey, Jetty, New, for China Clay Traffic, 395
Interlinking of Signals on the Great Western, 693
Llandrindod Wells and New Railway Connections, 341
New Railway Schemes in Wales, 253
Paddington to Chester and Aberystwyth, Quick Through Train, 125
Plymouth to London Afternoon Train, 341 Rail Motor Trains on Mid-Wales and Cambrian Coast Sections, 116
Rhymney Railway at Cardiff and Station Changes, 693
Road Motor Services, Growth of Twenty Years, 281
“ Safety ” Campaign of the Great Western, New Appointment, 281
Savings Bank Figures, 587
Season Tickets on the Great Western, 367 Severn Tunnel, Suggestion of Scrapping, 341
Shunting by Gravitation, 669
Signalling Arrangements Scheme, 587, 615 South Wales Traders and Railway Agree
Reductions of Charges, 13
Swansea Harbour Trustees’ Property Acquired by the Railway, 151
Unemployment Relief by New Works, Government Commendation of Great Western’s Example, 451
Vale of Rheidol Railway, New Locomotives, 281
Wagon Shortage and How to Meet it, 455 West to North Express from Bristol,
Changes of Timing, 341
Yatton, Relief Lines to be Laid Near, 693
Grouping, Anomalies of, 109
Grouping Arrangements and Unfamiliar Rolling Stock, 151
Grouping, Benefit of, 175, 669
Grouping Involves Re-naming of Certain Stations, 253
Grouping, and New Official Railway Maps, 693
Grouping and Statistics’ Delayed Publication, 281
Halifax Tramways, Loan for Bridge Reconstruction, 615
Hot Weather, Rail Distortion and Greasing, 276
Inchcape Reports Recommend Grouping for Indian Railways, 227
Indian Natives as Railway Servants, Difficulties and Training, 281
Indian Railways, Three Important New Lines, 669
Interlocking, J. S. Moore, 97
Irish Free State Railway Appointment, 473
Irish Railways, Amalgamation and the Free State Government, 175
Irish Railways, Systems Partly in Northern Ireland, Partly in Free State, 97
Ivatt, Mr. H. A., 505
King’s Lynn Docks and Railway Company, Manager Wanted, 477
Landslip and Alternative Routes, 175 Liverpool to Norfolk—see Cross-country Liverpool-street Station Entrance, 531 Liverpool Tramcars I rnprovemen t, 58 7 Lithuanian Railway Estimates, 531 Locomotive • Crews in Long Tunnels, Plan of Relief from Asphyxiation, 158
Locomotives Shipped Almost Ready for Service, 423
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Pamphlet History of the Line, 97
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
L.C.C. and Croydon Tramcars, Suggested Through Running, 615
London, Midland and Scottish Railway :
Absorption of—
North Staffordshire and Caledonian Railways, New Directors, 125
Wirral Railway, Details of Terms, 13 Cattle Wagon, New Type, 201
Conversion of Line to Electric Traction Contemplated, 71
Dining Car Seats, Free of Charge, 71
Directors, Board of, Formal Reconstruction of, 125
Euston-Scotland Train, New Timing, 22
Loan to Employees to Build Houses, Proposed Scheme, 643, 693
London, Midland and Scottish Bill Agreed,
Tilbury Section, Four New Trains, 451 Work of All Kinds in Anticipation of
Future Requirements, 505
London and North-Eastern Railway :
Appointments, 559
Coat-of-Arms Authorised, 669
Great Eastern Section and Mineral Traffic, 693
Hard-worked Trains, 643
Locomotives, Largest and Most Powerful in the Country, 101
New Coaling S tai ths at Bly th, 281
Possible Electrification of Certain Lines, 41
Rolling Stock Under Construction, Depots Engaged, 669
Traffic Returns, Comparative Figures Issued, 133
Watson, Mr. H. A., Retirement of, 477
London Traffic and Government Bill, 151
London Tramway New Rolling Stock and the Unemployment Question, 559
Longridge-Hellifield Proposed Light Railway and West Riding County Council, 559 Lord Loreburn, The Late, and a Railway Inquiry, 615
Ludgate-hiU Resumed Train Services, 201
Madeira, Electric Railway, also Port of Refuge at Funchal, 451
Melbourne’s Projected Extension of Travelling Facilities, 559
Melbourne Tramways, Extended Facilities, 651
Metropolitan Company’s New Station, Hillingdon, 650
Metropolitan District Railway, Fifty New Cars for, 367
Metropolitan-District Railway’s 80 Trains per Hour, 531
Metropolitan Railway in Paris, Flooding from Canal, 253
Milk in Overheated Railway Vans and Railway Rates Question, 71
Ministry of Transport:
Authorisation of Works Bill, Increase of Limit of Costs, 71 ; Royal Assent to Bill Received, 151
Extension of Time for Submission of Proposed Charges to Railway Rates Tribunal, 41 ; Schedule of Charges Submitted, 151
Inter-agreements Among Companies, Powers of the Ministry, 135
Light Railways Authorised in Liverpool 531
Subsidence on the City and South London Railway, Inquiry by the Ministry, 615
Tramway and Trackless Trolley* Undertakings, Committee’s Report, 253
Unemployment Question, Ministry and the Railway Companies, 97
Moscow Projected Underground Railway, 477
Motor Cars at Level Crossings, Railwaymen’s Additional Risks, 175
Names of Stations, Changes due to Amalgamation of Lines, 175
National Union of Railwaymen and Railway Shopmen’s War Bonus, 41, 175, 201, 327, 477
New South Wales Government Seeks British Experts to Investigate Railways Administration, 531
New South Wales, New Railway to be Constructed, 55
New South Wales Railway Signalling Equipment Statistics, 531
New York Central Electric Lines, Running Stopped by Heat Wave, 13
New Zealand Calls for Tenders for New Line Construction, 125
New Zealand Government Railways and Automatic Signals, 505
Newfoundland Railways, Steamers, &c., Pass under Government Control, 253
Niagara River, Vehicular and Electric Railway Bridge Projected, 227
Northern of France, Change of Paddle for Turbine Steamers, 71
Passengers’ Fares, Luggage Charges and Labour Employed, 71
Pennsylvania Railroad, Serious Fire, 13
Piccadilly, New Underground Station, Subways and Escalators, 175
Piecework System Restored on the New York Central for Shop Crafts Workers, 395
Polish Railways New Rolling Stock, Allotment of Contracts, 201
Protection of Coach Manufacture and Steel Industry in India, Manufacturer’s Views, 311
Queensland Government Railways’ Success and its Cause, 693
Railless Trolley Vehicle Systems in Great Britain, Statistics, 41
Railway Benevolent Institution, President, 477
Railway and Canal Commission, ex ojjlcio Members, 419
Railway Charges for Carriage of Fish.
Vegetables, &c., Pronounced Very Fair, 13 Railway Companies, Men’s Unions, and
Wages Boards, 71, 253, 451, 669—see also Thomas, Mr. J. H.
Railway Fires Act (1905) Amendment Bill Receives Royal Assent, 151
Railway Material Exports Statistics, 70, 151. 289, 395, 505, 643
Railway Mon in Parliament, 669
Railwaymen and the Three Unions, 41, 477
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Railwaymen’s Pay, Comparison of Rates, &c., Return Issued, 477
Railway Rates and Cost of Living, Pamphlet,
Railway Rates Tribunal: Application from Labour Party for Enlargement of the Tribunal, 535
Mansion House Association Form for Lodging of Objections with the Tribunal, 367
Powers of Tribunal, 71
Schedule of Standard Rates and Charges Submitted by the Four Railway Groups, !5!
Season Tickets and Allowances for Disuse, 71
Season Ticket Controversy and the Tribunal, 281, 367
Railway Shopmen’s War Bonus—see National Union
Railway Viaduct over the Blackwater at Mallow, Reconstruction and Opening, 477
Red Coaches in Scotland, 669
Reduction in Fares Followed by Reduction in Receipts, 367
Restaurant Car Staffs, Pay of, 477
Rev al Railway Electrification, 175
Riviera, Shortened Railway Line Proposed to Nice, 615
Rumanian Extensive Railway Construction Schemes, 311, 367
Running Control, Locomotive and Traffic Departments’ Question, H. A. Watson, 423 “ Safety First ” Essay Competition by London Council, 281
St. Gothard Railway Locomotive’s Peculiar Accident, 531
St. Pancras and Glasgow Journey, Acceleration both Ways, 341
Savings Banks for Railway Servants,' 587
Season Ticket Controversy, 281, 367
Sheffield Unemployment and Orders for Railway Material, 615
Shepherd’s Bush Station, Central London Line, Improvements, 477
Siberian Express, Petrograd-Vladivostock, to be Resumed, 97
Signalling, Block, Three-wire and One-wire Systems Compared, 97
Singapore Island, Connection by Johore Causeway, 367
Sleeping Cars, New, Milan to Rome, 395
South African Government and Railway Electrification, 423
South African Proposed New Railway, Different Routes Discussed, 423
South Australian Change of Gauge on the Western Railway, 423
South Australian Railway Reorganisation, 125
South Australian Railways’ Need of New Locomotives, 559
South Australian State Line Earnings, 587
Southern Railway :
Appointments, 281, 340, 423, 531
Dover Improvements Discussion, 451
Electrification Plans to be Proceeded with, 531
Elephant and Castle Station Damaged by Fire, 505
Fresh-water, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, Impediment to Absorption by Southern Railway, 151
“ Go as You Please ” Season Tickets in the Isle of Wight, 151
Grouping, and Retirement of Officials, 340
Isle of Sheppey and Swale Bridge Reconstruction, Communication Restored, 311. 367, 505
Locomotive, Remembrance, Brighton Railway, 395
J .ocomotive Running Department Changes, 423
New Works, Extensive Programme Proposed, New Corridor Coaches, 531, 559
Parliamentary Plans for New Work of the Railway, 693
Ramsgate, New Station Accommodation Proposed, 281
South-Western Lines to Guildford, Electrification not Begun, 48, 106
Suburban Area Electrification to Precede that of Brighton Line, 643
Waterloo Station Reconstruction, 349
South Yorkshire Joint Committee, Contract for Extension of Line, 477
Soviet and Resumption of Through Traffic to China, 227
Stabling Trains Required for Night and Morning Use Only, Cost of, 311
Stations Re-named in Consequence of Grouping, 253
Statistics—see Traffic
Stockholm and Gothenburg Electrification, Material Contracts, 227
Stranraer and Larne Irish Service Resumed, 13
“ Sunny South Special,” Rival Starting, 367 Swedish Locomotives, Fifty Electric, Tenders Called for, 227, 253
Swedish Projected New Railway, 201
Thomas, Mr. J. H., and Railwaymen’s Pay, 505
Timber Unloading from Railway Trucks, Swedish Time-saving Contrivance, 167
Tokyo Tramways Quick Restoration after Earthquake, 583
“Traders’ Guide to Revision of Railway Rates,” 227
AILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Traffic, Passenger and Freight, Statistics :
For January, 125 : March, 253; April, 395 ; May, 423, 477 : June, 446 ; July, 587
Freight Tonnage for August, 613
General Statistics for Half-year, 446
Tramways Safety First Device, 615
Transport—see also Associations, Institute of Transport
Trans-Sahara Railway Bill to be Introduced in French Chamber, 531
Turbo-condensing Locomotive, Ljungstrom, 643
Uganda and Kenya Projected Loan for Railway Extension, 559
Underground Lifts, Audible Interval Indicator, 555
Unemployment and Suggestions for Utilising Railway Reserves, 151
United States Jointly Owned Railway Stations, 236
United States Railway Amalgamation not Compulsory, 693
United States Railways, Increased Pay for Men, 347
Victoria, Australia, Automatic Couplings Decided on, 175
Victoria and Ludgate Hill Service, Restoration Called for, 587
Vosges Tunnelling, Tenders to be Invited, 335 Wagons, Privately Owned, Mr. Holden’s and
Mr. Hill’s Construction Specifications, 13
Wagons, Standard 12-Ton, Drawing, &c., British Wagon Company, 407
Westminster District Railway Station, Reconstruction, 201
West Somerset Mineral Railway, Legal Abandonment of, 201
White Pass and Yukon Railway Company’s Proposed Dam on the Upper Yukon River, 40
Willesden Electric Train Service to Addison-road, Improvement at Willesden, 451
Zeebrugge, Facilities for Groat Eastern Train Ferry Boats, 205
RATING Machinery and Plant, Government Inquiry, 643
Reclamation of Estuary, near Barrow, Proposed, 643
“ Refractories, The Commoner,” E. E. Moore, 615
Refrigeration Research, Suggested Institute for, 311
Reinforced Concrete Girders, Record Length, 97
Research—see Department
Resting Pauses and Efficiency of Manual Workers, G. H. Miles, 151
Rhodesian Congo Border Concession, Important Discoveries of Ore, 669
Rivets, Comparative Test of Copper and Monel. 253
Road Railways in Gwalior, 71
Rotating Magnetic Field and Living Organisms, Experiments, 587
Royal Agricultural Show for 1924, 227
Rubber Compared with Iron as Lining for Tube Mills, 559
Rubber Road Surface from Old Tires, for Bradford, 451
Russia’s Water Power Resources, 97
s SAFETY First, Pamphlet No. 8, 668
Saigon (Cochin, China), Arsenal for Sale, 341
Salt Mines in Nova Scotia, Quality and Output, 227
San Francisco, Projected Bridge across the Golden Gate, Various Schemes, 125, 145
Saw—see also Trepanning
Saws, Rail, 25
Scholarship Award to Ealing County Scholar, 367
Scholarship Research, in Naval Architecture (1923), 58
Scientific Research—see Department
Sea Water Deterioration of Structures of
Timber, Metal and Concrete, 367
Sewerage Scheme for North Toronto, 175
Shafts for Marine Steam Engines, Board of
Trade Rules, 341
Sheffield Traffic Census, 395
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : Barge, Electrically Propelled, Further and Satisfactory Trial, 394—see also Gill Propeller, Illustrated Index
Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company Steamers Launched, 531
Discharge of Cargo, Exceptionally Rapid, 143
Empress of Scotland, Canadian Liner, Collision with Wreckage, 201
French Destroyer Enseigne Gabolde, 367
Hong Kong, Motor Boats for, 705
Minnewaska’s Gross Tonnage, 477
Motor Vessels, Tonnage, Immense Increase Since 1914, 125
R.M.S. Empress of Canada, Record Cruise, 253
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration Award, 477
Ship Repairing at Southampton, J. S.
White and Co.’s, New Shops, 679
SHOWS—see Exhibitions
Silver, Rich Orc Discovery at Clone urry, Australia, 367
Silver, Rich Ore Discovery in Queensland, 281
Soda Company’s Purchase of Land, 151
South African Cultivation of Fibre from Previously Condemned Weed, 559
South African Government Share of’ Gold Mining Profits, 451
South African Grain Handling, Help from Canadians, 505
South African Woollen Factory Machinery Entirely Supplied by Germany, 97
South-east Borneo, Ironworks to be Established in, 559
South Russian Mining Trust Output, 559
Soviet Government and the Metric System, 643
Speed for Winding Men in Mine Shafts, 125
Spitzbergen, Mineral Wealth of, Discovery of Nickel, 311
Spitzbergen Mining Conditions Pronounced
Ideal in Every Way, 395
Staff Outing, D.P. Battery Company, 55
Standardisation of Fans, 140
Standpipe Failure and Rare Type of Corrosion, 41
Steam Ferry, Powerful, for Vehicular Traffic at Sydney, Australia, 451
Steel—see Iron and Steel
Sugar Beet Factory at Southwold, 669
Sukkur Irrigation Scheme Begun, 451
Sullivan Machinery Company’s Plant, 367
Sweden, Damming Works in, 311
Swedish Agricultural Area, 40 per cent. Supplied with Electric Light and Power, 13
Swedish Scheme for Channel Deepening to Connect the Baltic with the North Sea, 423, 451
Swiss Trade and Industries in 1922, 404
Sydney City Council and Empire Preference, 13
Sydney, Royal Mint to bo Closed, 97
Synthetic Precious Stones, Swiss Manufacture, 253
T TANK Lowered into Deep Pit. without Tackle, 41
Tanks, Comparison Between Variously Welded Riveted and Electric Welded, 477
Tasmanian Huge Reservoir at the Great Lake, 559
Telephone Company, London, Secures Contract from Prague, 669
Telephone District of Exeter, Extensive Range, 587
Telephone Exchanges, Automatic, for the London Area, 97
Temperatures in Shallow Mines, Surface Air Effect on Underground Air, Investigations, 97
Test Codes, American, 517.
Testing Blow-out Taps of Gauge Glasses, 49
Tests on Beams of Limestone, 227
Textile Machinery for China, Respective Imports of Great Britain, America and Japan, 97
Thermometers, 55
Thompson, John, Limited, Boilermakers, Offer of Technical Appointments and Scholarship to their Employees, 395
Tientsin Motor Car Imports, 423
Timber in India, Method of Identification, 367
Tin Stocks Disposal in the Federated Malay States, 341
Tokyo Company Reports Safety of Hydraulic
Power Stations and Transmission Lines, 477
Tool and Cutter Grinding, 190
Tractors for Russia Duty-free, 341
Trepanning Tool, Fry’s (London), Limited, 407
Tungsten Lamps, Greatly Increased Use of, 311
Turin Engine Works, Change of Ownership, 125
u “ UNDERGROUND London,” Lantern Lecture at Cannon-street Hotel, W. J. Liberty, 451
Underground London, Illustrated Lecture on, at Southend-on-Sea, W. J. Liberty, 669
United States’ Metal Mining Industry, General Statistics of, 367
University College, London :
University College Awards, 86
Lectures on Ionic and Thermionic Valves, Professor J. A. Fleming, 375
Engineering Society :
Annual Dinner and Conversazione, 705
University of Sheffield, Recognition of Dr. Ripper, 71
Uruguay, Port of Paysandu, Enlargement Progress, 341
V VAAL River Barrage Opening, 71
Vancouver Grain Storage Capacity Greatly Increased, 559
Vancouver Harbour, Dredging and other Improvements, 693
Vancouver Island, Largest Saw Mill About to be Constructed, 151
Victoria, State of, and “ Safety First ” Bulletins, 71
w WAGONS, Railway—see Railways
Warrington Guardian's Seventieth Anniversary, 395
Water Boring in South-West Africa Results in Coal and Oil Discoveries, 505
Water Leakage, Extension, Discovered by Pitometer Survey, 367
Water-gas Tar Emulsion, 341
WATER SUPPLY : Bethlehem, South Africa, New Water Supply Scheme, 693
Cape Town Water Storage Increase, 227
Capetown Waterworks Scheme, Projected Extensive Outlay, 253
Waterworks Plant, Records of Operation Highly Necessary, Professor Earle Waterman, 615
WATER Turbines for Power Plant at Winnipeg,
Water Users, National Association of, Formed, 669
Waterway, Deep, from Great Lakes to the Atlantic vid the St. Lawrence River, American Suggestion to Canada, 693
Weights and Measures, Suggested Change, 151 Welland Canal Cost, 41
Wheel, Road, Aluminium Alloy, Satisfactory Tests for Omnibus Use, 587
Whitworth Society, 268
Whitworth Society, First Commemoration Dinner, 602
Winding Ropes, Testing by Magnetic Exploration, R. L. Sandford, 281
Winnipeg Company Receives Large Railway Contracts for China, 253
Winnipeg Large Wood Pulp and Paper Mill, 175 Wire Rope and Grooved Drums, Correct Pitch of Grooves, 423
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY : Australian High-power Station Projected for Direct Communication with Great Britain and America, 531
Austrian Government Retains Monopolies of Radio Telephony and Telegraphy, 321
Belfast and French Government Correspondence as to Ships’ Wireless Equipment, 531
British Broadcasting Experiments with the United States, 531
“ Broadcast Central ” Station in Now York, 281
Broadcasting Weather Information for Use of Ships, 615
Canadian Wireless Telephonic Long-distance Communication, 693
Capital Expenditure on Wireless Stations, 71
Chilean, French and American Combination for Installation of Wireless Station, 477
Danish Government to Install Wireless Stations in Greenland, 615
Fog Signal, Wireless, for Another Lightship Station, 643
Hafnium in Audion Lamps, 227
High-power Wireless Station in India, 451
High-speed Wireless Installation between Rangoon and Madras, 505
Kashgar Marconi Station Completed, 151
Leeds Corporation and Control of Aerials, 67
Mexican Stations, Change of Apparatus, 175
Military Wireless Sets Tested in Manoeuvres, 253
New7 Direct Services Established, Favourable Situation of the United States, 311
Norwegian New Wireless Station at Vardoe, 227, 281
Postmaster-General on Wireless Development, Broadcast Advisory Committee, 587 Radio Apparatus and Elementary Schools, 615
Radio-apparatus Installation on the Paris-Bordeaux Express, 41
Radio Broadcasting and Accurate Working, 201
Radio Telephonic Set for Express Trains, 253 “ Reducing the Guesswork to Tuning,” 201 West Flanders Inter-continental Wireless
Transmitting Station, 669
Wireless Direction-finding Station on West Coast of Vancouver Island, 13
Wireless Telephone Equipment for Fishing Boats from Nagasaki, Investigation of Possibilities, 175
WOODEN Bridge, Temporary, Across Middle Harbour, Sydney, Australia, 674
Woodworking Factories, Mechanical Engineers for, W. L. Churchill, 669
World Power Conference in London, 1924, United States Participation, 311, 622
X X-RAY Equipment for Army Veterinary School at Woolwich, 171
X-ray Interference Examination of Strained Metals, Akimasa Ono, 281
X-ray Invention Removes Danger to Operator, 693
YOKOHAMA Reconstruction as a Port, 395 Yokohama Harbour Repair, Estimate of Cost 341
Yugoslavia’s Output of Coal and Copper, 559
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Sources of Information