The Engineer 1924 Jul-Dec: Index: British Empire Exhibition
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A zIdamson, Daniel, and Co., Limited :
Sewage Ejection Plant, Pneumatic, 151
Steam Turbine, Adamson-Rateau, and Turbo -Compressor, 150, 151
Aiton and Co., Limited :
Pipe Work of Various Types, 398 ; Corrugated Pipes for Straight or Bent Purposes, 398, 399 ; Evaporator, P. and B., for Completely De-aerated Supply of Perfectly Pure Distilled Water, 398, 399
Allen. W. H., Sons and Co., Limited :
Condensing Plant, Electrically Driven Circulating and Condensate Pumps Combined with Compactum Air Pump and Deaerator, 3, 4
Diesel Engine, 320 B.H.P., Burmeister and Wain Type, 2
Emergency Lighting Set, 36-Kilowatt, Driven by Hot-bulb Engine, 2
Marine Circulating and Sanitary Motor-driven Pumps, 3
Mine, Irrigation, Boiler Feed and Marine Service Pumps, 3
Steam Generating Set, High-speed, 3
Turbine-driven Boiler Feed Pumps, 3
Turbo-generator, 250-Kilowatt, 3
Allen West and Co., Limited :
Control Equipment for 1500 H.P. 3300-Volt Alternating-current Winder, Liquid Controller for Rotor Circuit, High-tension Air Break Contractor, &c., 372
Auto-transformer Starters, Oil-immersed Star-delta, 373
Circuit Breakers, Oil-immersed Flame-proof, 373
Ironclad Distribution Switchboard, 374
Lifting Magnet, 55in. Circular, 373
Three-phase Dimmer Control Equipment, 373, 374
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co., Limited ■:
Locomotive, Eight-coupled, for Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, “ Best ” Oil Burner, 94
Arundel, Coulthard and Co.:
Quick-traverse Winding Frame, 205
Ashworth, Elijah :
Non-flexible Bend Revolving Flat Carding
Engine, 203, 204
Atherton Brothers:
Overpick Loom for Fancy Textiles, 206, 208
B Baker Perkins, Limited :
Automatic Biscuit-making Machinery : Reversing Dough Brake, Automatic Continuous Dough-cutting and Embossing Machine, Automatic Oven, 6 (Two-page Supplement, July 4th, 1924)
Baker Perkins, Limited {continued) :
Automatic Bread-making Factory in Operation, 8
Automata nd Semi-automatic Confectionery-making Plant : Chocolate Melangeur, Chocolate Refiner, Chocolate Kettle, Chocolate Conche, Chocolate Eurober, 7 (Supplement, July 24th, 1924)
Other Machines for Use in Food Preparation : Brotherhood 5-Ton Refrigerating Plant, Wafer-making, Mixing, Kneading, Cooking and Wrapping Machines, Bonecourt Gas-fired Boiler for Steam Used in Certain Processes, &c., 8
Belliss and Morcom, Limited :
Air Hose Couplings, 5
1500-Kilowatt Beiliss Steam Turbine, 5
1500-Kilowatt High-pressure Turbine for Turbo-alternator, 284
Condenser, Jet Type, 5
High-speed Two-stage Compressor of 2000 Cubic Feet Free Air Capacity, 5
Single-stage Single-acting Compressor, Driven by Squirrel-cage Motor, 5
Twin Air Compressor for Motor Ships, 4, 5
Two-crank Five-stage Air Compressor, 5
No. 1 Quick-revolution Engine, built 1890, 5 High-speed Engines, 5
Three-cylinder, 20 B.H.P. Paraffin Engine, 5
Bentley and Jackson, Limited :
Beating Engines for Model Paper-making Plant, 97
Marshall Refining Engine, for Paper-making Plant.. 97, 98
Boby, Robert, Limited :
Le Gardian Flax De-seeder, 343
Flax Breaking and Scutching Machine, 343
Braby, F., and Co., Limited :
All-metal Building on Two Floors, of Steel, Copper, Bronze and Zinc, 486
British Electric Plant Company, Limited : Six-stage Motor-driven High-lift Pump, 399 Bin. Single-stage Pump, 400
Boiler Feed Pump Driven by 50 B.H.P.
Steam Turbine, 400
Motor, New Type, Totally Enclosed Induction, 90 B.H.P. ; Motor, Similar Type, Squirrel Cage, 22 B.H.P.; Various Other Motors, Direct and Alternating Currents ; Grid Resistances, “ Service Resistance Type,” 400, 401
British Insulated and Helsby Cables, Limited :
Cables, Electric, Super-tension, for Three-phase Working ; Cables for Power and Lighting, for Telephones, and for Use on Motor Cars, 33, 34
Welders, Electric, Spot, Butt and Seam ; Current Limiting Reactance ; Static Condensers for Power Factor Improvement, 32, 33
Wires, for Electric Work, Very Fine Diameters ; Trolley Wires ; Enamelled Wires ; Railway and Tramway Overhead Constructional Materials, &c., 34
British Thomson-Houston Company,Limited: Circuit Breaker, Large Oil Immersed, 115,000-Volt Three-phase Outdoor, 256
Synchronous Motor, 275 H.P. Salient Pole, 258
British Thomson -Houston Company,Limited, and Markham and Co., Limited :
Model Colliery Electric Winding Equipment, Air Break High-tension Reversing Contactors, Winding Engine, and Electrically Driven Compressor, &c., 65, 66, 67
Brooks and Doxey, Limited :
Intermediate Frame, 204, 205
Ring-doubling Frame, 205
Browett, Lindley and Co., Limited :
Air Compressor, Steam-driven, with Automatic Speed-reducing and Control Gear, 455, 456
Gas Engine, Four-crank, Four-cylinder, Coupled to Dynamo, Ignition by High-tension Magnetos, 454, 455
Steam Engine, Forced Lubrication Doubleacting Vertical Type, for Driving 100-Kilowatt Dynamo, 455
Bruce Peebles and A. Reyrolle, Limited : Automatic Motor Converter Sub-station Equipment, 231-233—for Details see Electrical Engineering Exhibits.
Butterley Ironworks :
Coal-washing Plant, Rheolaveur System, 455, 456
c Callenders, Limited :
Automatic Protective Gear, Four-conductor Equipment for 11,000-Volt Four-core Cable, 126
Super-tension Cable Accessories, 126
Super-tension Cable Under Water with Submerged Joints, 127
Transformer Pillar for 100-Kilovolt-amp-re Three-phase Transformer; Low-tension Fuse Equipment, 127
Wall Insulator, 55,000-Volt, 127
Carmichael, James, and Co , Limited :
Uniflow Steam Engine with Auxiliary Exhaust Valves, Geared Turbine and Pump, 458
Cochran and Co., Limited :
Boilers, Horizontal Flue Tube Vortical, Largest and Smallest Sizes, 35
Cooper Brothers, Limited :
Shirting Cloth Loom, 206, 212
Turkish Towel Loom, 206, 212
Colley Expressors, Limited :
Depericarping Machine and H and-power Depericarper and Press, 122, 123
Steam Turbine-driven Centrifugal, 122, 123
D Dickinson, Wm., and Sons Loom, 207
Dobson and Barlow, Limited :
Ring Spinning Frame, 204, 205
Roving Frame, 205
Dorman, Long and Co., Limited :
British Standard Sections, Complete Series of, Beams, Channels, Angles and Tees, Various Bars, Rails, Plates, &e.; Watercolour Drawing of Sydney Harbour Bridge, 95
Materials and By-products, Wide Range, from Firm’s own Mines and Furnaces ; Basic Steel, Unmanufactured or Semifinished, 95
Doxford Exhibits—see Richardsons, Westgarth and Co.
Electric Control, Limited :
Automatic Machine Tool Controller, 176
100 H.P. Machine Tool Controller, 176, 177
Lift Controller, 176
Graded Rod Lightning Arrester, 177
Indoor and Outdoor Isolating Switches, Various, 177
Three-phase Switch, Extra High-tension, with Choke Coils and Fuses, 177, 178
Elliott Brothers (London), Limited :
Thomas Averaging Electric Recorder, 34
Erskine, Heap and Co., Limited :
Cubicle and Truck Type Switchgear ; Three-unit Type Ironclad Switchboard ; Autotransformer Starter ; Stators and Rotor Starters, 489
F Ferguson, Pailin, Limited :
Circuit Breaker ; Outdoor 600-Ampere,
135,000-Volt Three-phase Automatic, 429, 430
Switchgear, Armour-clad, Compound-fitted, 428, 429
Galloways, Limited :
500 I.H.P. Uniflow Steam Engine, with Oil-operated Valve Gear, 5, 14
General Electric Company, Limited :
Alternating-current Single-phase Railway Traction Motor, 127
Signal, Hall Colour Light, 490, 491
General Engineering Company, Limited :
Pumps, Centrifugal Stuff, and Vacuum, for Paper-making Plant, Feuerheerd Tvpe, 99
Slitting and Re-winding Machine for Papermaking Plant, 96, 97, 98
Glover, W. T., and Co., Limited :
Cable, Electric, Patented Test Sheath, with Detective and Protective Apparatus, 34
Goodbrand and Co., Limited :
Yarn-measuring Machine, Wrap Reel and Wrap Block, 205, 207
Yarn Strength-testing Machine, 205, 207
Greenwood and Batley, Limited :
Anderson Oil Expeller, 36, 37
“ Atomiser,” 37
Oil Mill, Anglo-American, 36
Gregson and Monk, Limited :
Six-shuttle Circular Box Loom, 206, 212
Gresham and Craven, Limited :
Ejector, Super-Dreadnought, for Vacuum Brake, 312—see also page 276
Injector, Reversible, 312
Hacking and Co.:
Automatic Cloth Plaiting Machine, 207, 208 Hall Colour Light Signal, General Electric
Company, 490, 491
Hall, J. and E., Limited :
Refrigerating Machinery:
Compressors :
Carbon Dioxide, Horizontal Tandem Steam-driven, 178
High-speed Vertical Ammonia, 178, 179 Small Ammonia, 178, 179
Hall, Robert, and Sons (Bury), Limited : Looms :
Automatic Loom with “ Steinen ” Mechanism, 341
Double Plush and Velvet Loom, 342
Heavy Belting Loom, 342
Hose Pipe Loom, 341
Loom for Weaving Short Horse Hair, 342
Single-action Hand Loom for Wounded Soldiers, 341, 342
Other Looms, Winding Machines and Clothfolding and Measuring Machine, 341
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Hardaker, John T., Limited :
Jacquard Machines for Fitting to Looms for Weaving Lettering, Trade Marks, &c., on Selvedge of Fabrics, Border and Patterncutting Machines, &c. 342
Harland Engineering Company, Limited : Motors, Differential Gear and Differential
Regulator for Harland Electric Drive, for Paper-making Plant, 99
Hetherington, J., and Sons, Limited :
Lap and Combing Machines :
Sliver Lap Machine, 203, 204
Ribbon Lap Alachine, 204
Nasmith Comber, 204
Hick, Hargreaves and Co., Limited :
Bailey and Jackson’s Rotary Water Strainer, 229
Double-cylinder Barring Engine, 229
Multi-jet Condenser with Hick-Breguet Airextracting Apparatus, 229, 230
Three-cylinder 120 B.H.P. Airless Injection Oil Engine, Engine-starting Mechanism, Fuel Injection System, &c., 230, 231
Uniflow Steam Engine, Valve Gear, Governor, &c., 228
Water Extraction Pump, 230
Hodgson, George, Limited :
Over-pick Loom, 206, 208
Over-pick Fast Reed Cotton Loom, 206, 208
Holden and Brooke, Limited :
Multi-stage, Motor-driven Centrifugal Pump, 151
Howard and Bullough, Limited :
Revolving Swift Air-drying Sizing Machine, 340, 341
Howden, James, and Co., Limited, and Subsidiary Companies :
Impulse Steam Turbine, Howden-Zoelly, Coupled to 1500-Kilowatt Three-phase Alternator, General Electric Company, Limited ; 240-Kilowatt Ship’s Lighting Set with Direct-current 220-Volt Generators, High-speed Engines for Pumping and Fan Driving ; Howden-Ljungstrom Air Preheater ; Graham “ Single-davit ” for Ships’ Boats, 487 Associated Companies :
Furnaces for Melting, Reheating, Shipyard Work, Burdons, Limited ; Furnace on Howden-Burdon Oil-gas System, 487
High-pressure Boiler Mountings, Valves, Full-bore Parallel Slide Valve, Isolating Valve, Alex. Turnbull and Co., Limited, 488
Hughes and Lancaster, Limited : Wool-washing Machine, 343, 344
J Johnson and Phillips, Limited :
Cables, Samples of Single-core and Three-core, Tested at Extra High-tension for Single-phase and Three-phase Working. 314
Transformer Oil-testing Apparatus, 314
Transformer Coils, Cross-over and Spiral, 314
Transformer with Tapping Switch, 315, 316
Transformers fitted with Cambridge and Paul Distance Thermometers, 315
“ P ” Type Oil Switch, 315
Truck Type Switch, 316
L Lees, Asa, and Co., Limited :
Drawing Frame, 204
Stubbing Frame, 205
Self-acting Mule for Spinning Weft Yarn, 205
Mule for Spinning Waste Cotton, 205
Livesey, Henry, Limited :
Four-shuttle Drop-box Loom, 206
M Mather and Platt, Limited :
Pumps :
Condenser Circulating Pump, Condenser Extraction Pump, 125
Fire Protection and Alarm Installation, 125 Turbine Pumping Installations :
Pump, “ Medivane ” Electric-driven, 124
Pump, Multi-stage Turbine, 1876, 125
Six-stage Turbine “ Plurovane ” Mining Pump, 124, 125
Textile Machinery :
Bleaching Solution Electroliser, 342, 343
Compressed Paper Bowls ; Model of Three-colour Calico Printing Machine, 343
Weft Straightener and Compensator, 342, 343
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Limited :
Air Pump Plant Driven by 45 B.H.P. Three-phase Motor, 254
Geared Turbine, 1350 B.H.P., for Mill Driving, with Leblanc Jet Condenser and Air Pump, 254
High-tension Chamber with High-voltage Control Gear, 370, 371, 372
Line and Resistance Switches and Cam-operated Switches, 371, 372
Locomotive, 3000-Volt Direct-current Electric, for South African Railways, 370, 382 Main Motors, 370, 372 Motor Generators, 370, 371
Pneumatically Operated Pantographs, 371
Split Casing Condensate Pump, Leblanc Steam Ejector, 255
Steam Turbine, 15,000-Kilowatt, Metro-politan-Vickers Rateau Impulse Type, 254
Turbines and Gearing.for Marine Purposes, 255
Vacuum and Compressed Air Brakes, 370
Working Model of Large Turbo-alternator for Ventilation, 254
Morrison Eliminair Exhibits—see Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Limited
N Nalder Brothers and Thompson, Limited :
Ammeter, Flame-proof, 402
Beard-Hunter Compensated Pilot System,
Fawsset-Parry Ultra Sensitive Relays, 402
Merz-Price Protection System, 402
Meters, Moving Iron Power Factor, New, 400, 401
Meters, Frequency ; Meter, Graphic Recording Frequency, 401
Synchroscopes, Synchroscopes with Lamps,
401,402
Jobel Industries, Limited :
Cartridge Case Gauging Machine, Auto matic, 426
Coining Press, 426
Jorris, Henty and Gardners, Limited :
29-31 B.H.P. Cold-starting Heavy Oil Engine, 153, 154
Four-cylinder, 72 B.H.P. Vertical Marine Type Heavy Oil Engine, 152, 153
Petrol-paraflin Marine Engine, 38 B.H.P., 154
Petrol-Paraflin Vertical Engine, 3 B.H.P., 154
Heavy Oil Engine, 18 B.H.P., 154
<orth-Eastern Marine Engineering Company, Limited :
Eight-cylinder Marine Oil Engine, Working Model, 427, 428
Locomotive Superheater, Internal Steam Separator, Special Service Pumps, Feed-water Heaters, Model of North-Eastern Balanced Stop Valve, 428
Models of Marine Reciprocating Steam Engines, 4000 I.H.P. Quadruple-expansion Surface-condensing Engine and Marine Scotch Boilers, 428
Wrapper Plate for Marine Boilers, Specimens of Cast Iron, Small Models of Tripleexpansion Marine Engine and Six-coupled Bogie Locomotive, 428
P Pemberton and Sons, Limited :
Loom for Striped Fabrics, 206
Pilling, John, and Sons, Limited : Over-pick Single-shuttle Loom, 207
Platt Brothers and Co., Limited :
Cotton Gins :
“ Macarthy ” Cotton Gins, Hand and Power-driven, with Automatic Hopper Feeder, 202, 203
Double-acting Cotton Gin, showing Hopper Feed, 202, 203
Breaking and Opening :
Hopper Bale Breaker, Hopper Opener, Brighton Opener, Opener Lap Machine, 203 Platt and Wilkinson Lattice Feeding Machine, 202, 203
Grid Dust Trunk, 202, 203
R Ransomes and Rapier, Limited :
Models of Breakdown Cranes, Traveysers, &c., 94
Petrol-electric Mobile Crane, 94
Reyrolle, A., and Co., Limited :
Switch Panel, Metal-clad, for Super-power Stations, 313, 314
Richardson, Tver and Co., Limited :
Under-pick Loom, 207
Richardsons, Westgarth and Co.. Limited :
Doxford Engine, Model of, and Doxford Control Panel, 255
Morrison Eliminair De-aerator, Morrison Eliminair Joints with Capitol Nuts, &c., 256
Richardsons-Tosi Marine Oil Engine Cylinder, Working Model of ; Glandless Fuel Valve, &c., 255
Unity Crank Shaft, Contraflo Auxiliary Condenser, Compactum Air Ejector, 256
Robey and Co., Limited :
Various Steam and other Engines ; Road Roller, Air Compressor, &c.; Fibre Decorticating Machine for Sisal Hemp and other Fibre-producing Plants, 484
Ruston and Hornsby, Limited : 250-Kilowatt Electric Generating Set with
Heavy Oil Engine, 37, 46
s Siemens Brothers and Co., Limited : Broadcast Wireless Receiver, 154, 155 Continuous Wave Wireless Transmitter, l|-Kilowatt, 154, 155
Electric Cable Indicator, 32
^-Kilowatt Wireless Cabinet Station, 154
Simon, Henry, Limited :
Carter Disc Grain Separator, 35
Paddy Eliminator, 35
Sowden, David, and Sons :
Double-cylinder Card Motion Loom, 206, 208
Steam Fittings Company, Limited :
Feed-water Regulator, 124
Transfer Valve and Reducing Valve, 123, 124
Stubbs, Joseph, Limited :
High-speed Pirn Winder, 205
Quick Traverse Gassing Frame, 205, 206
Quick Traverse Close Winder, 205, 206
Rabbeth Spindle Winder, 205
Summerson, Thomas, and Sons, Limited :
Anti-creep Flexible Heel Block, 490
Switch Connecting-rods, 490
Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Limited, and Associated Firms :
Marine Oil Engine, 22|in. Cylinder, 486
Models of B.I. Co.’s Motor Ship Kistna, Cunard Liner Mauretania, Cable Ship, Ferry Steamer, Ice-breaker, Triple-screw Turbine-driven Steam Yacht, 17,000-Ton Floating Dry Dock, 486
Associated Companies :
Hickman Sea Sled, Philip and Son, Limited, 487
Models of Steamship Flandria and Motor Ship Jutlandia, Barclay, Curie and Co., 487
Working Model of Double-acting Opposed-piston Engine, North British Diesel Engine Works, 487
Swinburne, M. W., and Sons, Limited :
Fittings for Lighting, Heating and Ventilating Ships, 484
Marine Engine and Boiler Fittings, Cabin Heating Apparatus, Deck Equipment for Deck Washing, Fire Extinguishing, &c., 484
Pivoted Side Scuttle, a Fitting for Lighting and Ventilating Cabins, 484
Switchgear and Cowans, Limited :
Induction Regulators for Pressure Testing and for Feeder Regulation, Safety Gate-end Switches for Mines, Williams-Rowley System of Earth Circuit Protection, 489, 490
Tangyes Limited :
Cold Starting Heavy Oil Engine, 427
Tatham, William, Limited :
Waste Carding Machines, 205, 206
Thornycroft, John I., and Co., Limited :
Four-cylinder Launch Motor, Paraffin or Petrol, Motor Launch of Timber from India and Burmah with 9 B.H.P. Motor, 485
Marine Engines, River and Sea-going, Stationary Engines for Lighting, Pumping, Salvage, &c., 485
Tweedales and Smalley :
Cotton Plant :
“ Crighton ” Opener, Revolving Flat Carding Engine and Philipson’s Combination Brush for Cleaning Flats of Engine, 340
Drawing Frame, Stubbing, Intermediate and Roving Fly Frames, 340
Ring Spinning Frame, 340 ; Ring Doublin Frame, 340, 341
Tyer and Co., Limited :
Key Token Apparatus, 312
One-wire and Three-wire Position Instruments, Permissive Block Instruments, &e., 312
Roller Bearing, Anti-friction for Railway Signals, 312
V Vacuum Brake, Limited :
Vacuum Brake Equipment for Electric Trains, 312
Vickers Limited •
16in. Naval Gun, Full-scale Model, Military and Sporting Guns and Rifles, 285
Box-making Machinery, Roadside Petrol Pump, Machine Tools and Small Tools, 286 Main Reduction Gear Wheels for Steam Turbines, Engine and Boiler Auxiliaries and Deck Machinery, 420-Ton Electric Winder, 285
Models of Monitor and of Submarines, Japanese Battle-cruiser Kongo and Brazilian Battleship Sao Paulo, 285
Model of 20,000-Ton Orient Liner Orama, Model of Donaldson Motor Ship Moveria, 285
“ Pavic ” Pump for Viscous Fluids, 285
Unbreakable All-steel Winding Drum, Gyratory Crushers, Complete Oil Well Drilling Plant, Vickers Aeroplanes, Petrol Accessories, &c., 285
Vickers-Petters, Limited :
Four-cylinder Unit Coupled to 110-Kilowatt Metropolitan-Vickers Direct-current 220-Volt Generator, 457
Single-cylinder Model of Cold-starting Engine for Heavy Fuel Oil, Petters, Limited, 457
Four-cylinder Marine Type Oil Engine, Two-stroke Cycle Type,’ Electric Starting Apparatus, 457
Firms Associated with Vickers Limited :
Docker Brothers, Limited, Paints, Enamels, 286
Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company, State Saloon for King Fuad, of Egypt, 286
Taylor Brothers, Axles and Tires, 286
Vickers Research Building, 285, 286
Vickers “ Fusion ” Rotary Retort for Low-temperature Distillation Tests of Coals, Carbonates and Shales, Experimental, 286 Magneto and Small Electrical Machinery Manufacture, Apparatus for Detection of Leakage, British Lighting and Ignition Company, Limited, 286
Steel and Non-ferrous Alloys, Instruments for Controlling the Manufacture of, Callender Recording Installation, Vertical Muffle Furnaces for Special Heat Treatment, Electrical Furnaces with Automatic Temperature Recorders, &c., 286 Material Testing Machines :
Vickers Projection Microscope, 287
Vickers Diamond Hardness Testing Machine, 286
Vickers Hardness Comparator, 287
Adam Hilger, Limited, Special Spectrometer for Detection of Nickel and Chromium in Steel Bars, 287
Nutting Colorimeter for Colour Measurement, 288
Strain Viewer for Detecting Strains in Glassware, Low-Hilger Audiometer, Quartz Spectrograph, &c., 288
Cook, Troughton and Simms, Precise Surveying Instruments, Internal Recording Telescopes, Direct-reading Tachometer, 288 Fereday-Palmer Stress Recorder, Theodolite for Balloon Observation, &c., 288
Gillett and Johnston, Twenty-three Bells Carillon, 287, 288 ; Hand Clavier, 287, 288
Walmsley, Charles, and Co., Limited : Fourdrinier, Papermaking Machine, Model, 95, 97, 106
Ward Brothers :
Dobbies, Various, and Special Motions, 207 Dobson “ Reacher-in,” Textile Mill Accessory, 207
Watford Engineering Works, Limited : “ Tremor ” Strainer for Papermaking Plant, 97, 98
Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company, Limited :
Brakes, Railway, Compressed Air and Vacuum, 125
Colliery Tub Retarder, Electro-pneumatic, 126
Electrically Driven Air Compressor for Electrical Train Brakes, 125
Points and Signals, Double-wire Operated, 126
Rower-operated Brake for Road Vehicles, 125, 126
Signalling Details, Mechanical, Power, Automatic, &c., 126
Whipp and Bourne, Limited :
Circuit Breakers, Automatic, Magnetic Blowout, Semi-protected Traction Breakers, Flame-proof Mining Breakers, 6000-Ampdre Air-break Circuit Breaker, Switchgear, High-tension Steel-clad Cubicle, Unit Type 6600-Volt Cubicle Switchgear, 488
White, W. B., and Sons :
Six-shuttle Circular Box Loom, 206
WlLLAN AND MILLS :
Over-pick Loom, 207
Worthington-Simpson, Limited :
Large 48in. Centrifugal Pump, 398
Surface Condensing, Self-contained Plant, 398
British Empire Exhibition.
Part II.
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ENGINEERING EXHIBITS, GENERAL.
2. 35, 94, 122, 150, 178, 228, 254, 284, 398, 426, 454, 484
A Air Compressors :
Beiliss and Morcom, Limited :
High-speed Two-stage Compressor with 2000 Cubic Feet Free Air Capacity, 5
Single-stage Single-acting Compressor Driven by Squirrel-cage Motor, 5
Twin Air Compressor for Motor Ships, 4, 5
Two-crank Five-stage Air Compressor, 5
Browett, Lindley and Co., Limited:
Steam-driven Air Compressor, with Automatic Speed-reducing and Control Gear, 455, 456
Air Hose Couplings :
Beiliss and Morcom, Li mi ed, 5
“ Atomiser ” :
Greenwood and Batley, Limited, 37
Boilers :
Horizontal Flue Tube Vertical, Largest and Smallest of Stock Sizes, Cochran and Co., Limited, 35
^Brakes :
Colliery Tub Retarder, Electro-pneumatic, 126
Compressed Air and Vacuum Railway Brakes, 125
Motor-driven Air Compressor for Electric Train Brakes, 125
Points and Signals, Double-wire Operated, 126
Power-operated Brake for Road Vehicles, 125, 126
Signalling Details, Mechanical, Power Automatic, &C;, 126
Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company, Limited, 125
c Coal-washing Plant :
Rheolaveur System, Butterley Ironworks, 455, 456
Condensing Plant :
Circulating and Condensate Pumps ; Two-stage Centrifugal Pump with Compactum Air Pump and De-aerator, W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Limited, 3, 4
Bailey and Jackson’s Rotary Water Strainer for Circulating Water of Surface-condensing Plants, Working Model, 299
Condenser, Jet Type, Beiliss and Morcom, 5
Multi-jet Condenser with Hick-Breguet Air-extracting Apparatus, Hick, Hargreaves and Co., Limited, 229, 230
Self-contained Surface-condensing Plant, Electric-driven, Worthington-Simpson,
Limited, *398
Crane, Petrol-electric Mobile ; Cranes, Breakdown, Traversers, &c., Models of, Ransomes and Rapier, Limited, 94
Engines :
Allen, W. H., Sons and Co., Limited :
Diesel Engine, Four-cylinder, 320 B.H.P., Burmeister and Wain Type, 2
Hot-bulb Two-cycle Engine for 36-Kilowatt Emergency Lighting Set, 2
Two-cylinder Compound Vertical Engine for Steam Generating Set, 3
Beiliss and Morcom, Limited :
High-speed Engines, 5
No. 1 Quick-revolution Engine, Built 1890, 5
Three-cylinder 20 B.H.P. Paraffin Engine, 5
Browett, Lindley and Co., Limited :
Gas Engine, Four-crank Four-cylinder, Coupled to Dynamo, High-tension Magnetos for Ignition, 454, 455
Steam Engine, Forced Lubrication Doubleacting Vertical Type, for Driving 100-Kilowatt Dynamo, 455
Carmichael, James, and Co., Limited :
Uniflow Steam Engine, with Auxiliary Exhaust Valves, Geared Turbine and Pump, 458
Galloways, Limited :
Uniflow Steam Engine, 500 I.H.P., with Oil-operated Valve Gear, 5, 14
Hick, Hargreaves and Co., Limited :
Double-cylinder Barring Engine, 229
Three-cylinder 120 B.H.P. Airless Injection Oil Engine ; Engine-starting Mechanism, Fuel Injection System, &c., 230, 231
Uniflow Steam Engine, Valve Gear, Governor, &c., 228
Norris, Honty and Gardners, Limited :
Cold-starting, 29-31 B.H.P. Heavy Oil Engine, 153, 154
Four-cylinder 72 B.H.P. Marine Type Heavy Oil Engine, 152, 153
18 B.H.P. Heavy Oil Engine, 154
3 B.H.P. Vertical Petrol-paraffin Engine, 154
38 B.H.P. Petrol-paraffin Marine Engine, 154
North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company, Limited:
Models of Eight-cylinder Marine Oil Engine, Working, 427, 428
Marine Reciprocating Steam Engines, 428
4001.H.P. Quadruple-expansion Surface Condensing Engine and Marine Scotch Boilers, 428
Locomotive Superheater; Internal Steam Separator ; Special Service Pumps ; Feed-Water Heaters ; North-Eastern Balanced Stop Valve ; Wrapper Plate for Marine Boilers, 428
Specimens of Cast Iron ; Two Small Models, (1) Triple-expansion Marine Engine; (2) Canadian Six-coupled Bogie Passenger Locomotive, 428
Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Limited :
Doxford Engine, Model of, and Doxford Control Panel, 255
Marine Oil Engine Cylinder, Working Model, and Glandless Fuel Valve, &c., 255
Ruston and Hornsby, Limited :
Heavy Oil Engine for 250-Kilowatt Electric Generating Set, 37, 46
Tangyes Limited :
Cold-starting Heavy Oil Engine, 427
Thornycroft, John I., and Co., Limited :
Four-cylinder Launch Motor, Paraffin or Petrol ; Motor Launch of Timber from India and Burmah, with 9 B.H.P. Motor, 485
Marine Engines, River and Sea-going ; Stationary Engines for Lighting, Pumping, Salvage, &c., 485
Vickers-Petters, Limited :
Four-cylinder Marine Type Oil Engine, Two-stroke Cycle Type ; Electric Starting Apparatus, 457
Four-cylinder Unit for Main Lighting Set, Coupled to 110-Kilowatt Metropolitan-Vickers Direct-current 220-Volt Generator, 457
Single-cylinder Model of Cold-starting Engine for Heavy Fuel Oil, Driving 12-Kilowatt Dynamo, Petters, Limited, 457
Evaporator, P. and B., for Completely Deaerated Supply of Perfectly Pure Distilled Water, Ait-on and Co., Limited, 398, 399
Grain-cleaning Machinery :
Disc Grain Separator, The Carter ; Paddy Eliminator, Henry Simon, Limited, 35
L Locomotive, Eight-coupled, with “ Best ” Oil Burner, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Limited, 94
M Miscellaneous Exhibits :
Air Compressor ; Various Steam and Other Engines ; Road Roller, 484
Fibre Decorticating Machine for Sisal Hemp and Other Fibre-producing Plants, 484.
Robey and Co., Limited, 484
All-metal Building on Two Floors, of Steel, Copper, Zinc and Bronze, 486
Braby, F., and Co., Limited, 486
Cartridge Case Gauging Machine, Automatic, 426
Coining Press, 426
Nobel Industries, Limited, 426
Materials and By-products, Coal, Coke, Ironstone,. Pig Iron, Basic Open-hearth Steel, Unmanufactured or Semi-finished ; British Standard Sections, Complete Series of. Beams, Channels, Angles, Tees, Bars, Rails, Plates, &c., Water-colour Drawing of Sydney Harbour Bridge, 95
Dorman, Long and Co., Limited, 95
Non-ferrous Metals :
Various Firms :
Brass, Changes in Physical Properties of, After Annealing, Curves, 35
Copper Pipes, Joints for, 36
Copper for Roofing and House Hot and Cold Water Pipes, Economical in Use, 36
Copper Tubes, Extremes of Large and Small Sizes, 36
Copper Wire, Spool Weighing 16J oz., 20 Miles in One Length ; Drum Weighing 2120 lb., 7| Miles Long, 36
o Oil Expeller, The Anderson ; Oil Mill, Anglo-American, Greenwood and Batley, Limited, 36, 37
P Palm Fruit Machinery :
Depericarping Machines, Power and Hand-operated ; Turbine-driven Centrifugal, Hand-power Press, Culley Expressors, Limited, 122, 123
Pipes :
Corrugated Pipes, Straight or Bent, Pipe Work of Various Types, Aiton and Co. Limited, 398, 399
Power-house Auxiliaries :
Air Pump Plant Driven by 45 B.H.P. Three-phase Motor, 254
Split Casing Condensate Pump, Leblanc Steam Ejector, 255
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Limited, 254, 255
Morrison Eliminair De-aerator, Morrison Eliminair Joints with Capitol Nuts, 256
Pumps :
Allen, W. H., Sons and Co., Limited :
Electrically Driven Circulating and Condensate Pumps, 3
Geared Valveless Lubricating Pump, 3
Impulse Type Turbine-driven Boiler Feed Pump, 3
Marine Circulating and Sanitary Pumps, Motor-driveh, Mine and Irrigation Service Pumps, 3
Two-stage Steam Ejector Centrifugal Pump, 4
British Electric Plant Company, Limited :
Boiler Feed Pump Driven by 50 B.H.P. Steam Turbine, 400
Six-stage Motor-driven High-lift Pump, 399
Single-stage Pump, 6in., 400
Hick, Hargreaves and Co., Limited :
Water Extraction Pump, 229
Holden and Brooke, Limited :
Multi-stage Motor-driven Centrifugal Pump, 151
Mather and Platt, Limited :
Condenser, lOin. Circulating Pump and Condenser Extraction Pump, 125
Fire Protection and Alarm Installation, 125
“ Medivane ” Motor-driven Pump, 124
Multi-stage Turbine Pump, 1876, 125
Six-stage Turbine-driven Mining Pump, 124, 125
Worthington-Simpson, Limited :
Large 48in. Centrifugal Pump Driven by 750-II.P. Uniflow Engine, 398
R Refrigerating Machinery :
Compressors :
Compressor, Ammonia, High-speed Vortical, 178,179
Compressor, Ammonia, Small, 178, 179
Compressor, Carbon Dioxide, Horizontal Tandem Steam-driven, 178
J. and E. Hall, Limited, 178, 179
s Sewage Ejection Plant, Pneumatic, Daniel Adamson and Co., Limited, 151
Steam Generators, 220-Volt Direct-current, Driven by Vertical Engine, W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Limited, 3
Shipbuilding and Marine Exhibits—see also Engines
Swan, Hunter and Wigham-Richardson, Limited, and Associated Firms :
Marine Oil Engine, 22|in. Cylinder, 486
Models of British India Motor Ship Kistna, Cunard Liner Mauretania, Cable Ship, Ferry Steamer, 486
Icebreaker, Triple-screw Turbine-driven Steam Yacht, 486; 17,000-Ton Floating Dry Dock, 486
Associated Companies :
Hickman Sea Sled, Philip and Son, Limited, 487
Models of Steamship Flandria and Motor Ship Jutlandia, Barclay, Curie and Co., 487 Working Model of Double-acting Opposed piston Engine, North British Diesel Enginv Works, 487
Howden, James, and Co., Limited, and Sub bidiary Companies :
Impulse Steam Turbine, Howden - Zoelly, Coupled to 1500-Kilowatt Three-phase Alternator, General Electric Company, Limited, 487
240-Kilowatt Ship’s Lighting Set with Direct-current 220-Volt Generators, High-speed Engines for Pumping and Fan Driving, 487 Associated Companies :
Furnaces for Melting, Re-heating, Shipyard Work, Burdons, Limited, 487
Furnace on Howden-Burdon Oil-gas System, High-pressure Boiler Mountings, Valves, Full-bore Parallel Slide Valve, 487
Howden-Ljungstrom Air Preheater, Graham “ Single Davit ” for Ships’ Boats, 487
Isolating Valves, Alex. Turnbull and Co., Limited, 488
Marine Auxiliaries, Models, &c.:
Contraflo Condenser, Compactum Air Ejector, 256
Unity Crank Shaft, 256
Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Limited, 256
Marine Engine and Boiler Fittings, Cabin Heating Apparatus, Deck Equipment for Deck Washing, Fire Extinguishing, &e., 484
Pivoted Side-scuttle for Cabin Lighting and Ventilating, Other Fittings for Ship Lighting, Heating and Ventilating, 484
Swinburne, M. W., and Sons, Limited, 484
T Turbine, Steam, 1500-Kilowatt, Beiliss and Morcom, Limited, 5
1500-Kilowatt High-pressure Turbine for TurboAlternator, Beiliss and Morcom, Limited, 284
Turbine, Steam, 15,000-Kilowatt, Metropolitan-
Vickers Rateau Impulse Type, 254
Turbines and Gearing, Marine Service, 255
Geared Turbine, 1350 B.H.P., for Mill Driving, with Leblanc Jet Condenser and Air Pump, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Limited, 254
Turbo-alternator, Large, for Ventilation, Working Model of, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Limited, 254
Turbo-compressor and Adamson-Rateau Steam Turbine, Daniel Adamson and Co., Limited, 150
Turbo-generator, 250-Kilowatt, W. II. Allen, Sons and Co., Limited, 3
V Valve Gear, Oil-operated, for Uniflow Steam Engine, Galloways, Limited, 5, 14
Valves and other Fittings, Ste/im, 123
Feed-water Regulator, 124
Transfer and Reducing Valves, Steam Fittings Company, Limited, 123, 124
Vickers Limited :
Numerous General Exhibits, Military and Naval, Mercantile Marine, Machinery and Accessories of Various Kinds, Scientific Instruments, Sporting Equipment, &c., 285 16in. Naval Gun, Full-scale Model, 285 Howitzers, Field Guns, Machine Guns, 285 Sporting Guns and Rifles, 285
Models of a Monitor, Submarines, Japanese Battle-cruiser Kongo, Brazilian Battleship Sao Paulo, and 22,000-Ton Floating Dry Dock, 285
Models of 20,000-Ton Orient Liner Orama and Donaldson Motor Ship Moveria, with Double Bottom Construction, 285
Main Reduction Gear Wheels for Steam Tur-. bines, Engine and Boiler Auxiliaries and Deck Machinery, 285
420-Ton Electric Winder, All-steel Winding Drum, Gyratory Crushers, Complete Oil Well Drilling Plant, 285
“ Pavic ” Pump for Viscous Fluids, Oil Separator, 285
Aeroplanes, Models of Petrol Accessories, Rod and Wire Construction, 285
Large and Small Forgings, Motor Car Chassis Parts, Springs, Various Types, Box Manufacturing Machinery, Petrol Roadside Pump, 285, 286
Machine and Small Tools, 286
Firms Associated with Vickers Limited :
Docker Brothers, Limited, Paints and Enamels, 286
Taylor Brothers (Manchester), Axles and Tires, 286
Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company, State Saloon for King Faud, of Egypt, 286
Vickers Research Building, 285, 286
Low Temperature Distillation of Coals, Lignites, Carbonates and Shales, Apparatus for Investigation of, 286
Vickers “ Fusion ” Rotary Retort, 286
Apparatus for Magneto Leakage Detection Tests, British Lighting and Ignition Company, Limited, 286
Steel and Non-ferrous Alloys, Control of Manufacture, Furnace Exhibits, Callender Recording Installation, Vertical Muffle Furnaces, and Electrical Furnaces with Automatic Temperature Recorders, 286 Material Testing Machines :
Vickers Diamond Hardness Testing, 286
Vickers Hardness Comparator, 287
Vickers Projection Microscope, 287
Adam Hilger, Limited :
Special Spectrometer for Detecting Nickel and Chromium in Steel Bars, Nutting Colorimeter for Measuring Colour and Light Values of Flares, 288
Strain Viewer for Detecting Strains in Glassware, Low-Hilger Audiometer, Quartz Spectrograph, 288
Cook, Troughton and Simms :
Precise Surveying Instruments, Internal Recording Telescopes, Direct-reading Tachometer, Fereday-Palmer Stress Recorder, Theodolite for Balloon Observation, 288
Gillett and Johnston :
Twenty-three Bells Carillon, Hand Clavier, 287,‘288
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EXHIBITS.
32, 65, 126, 154, 176, 231, 256, 313, 370, 382, 400, 428, 488
Allen West and Co., Limited :
Auto-transformer Starters, Oil-immersed Star-delta, 373
Circuit Breakers, Oil-immersed Flame-proof, 373
Control Equipment for 1500 H.P. 3300-Volt Alternating-current Winder, 372
Ironclad Distribution Switchboard, 374 Lifting Magnet, 55in. Circular, 373 Three-phase Dimmer Control Equipment, 373, 374
British Electric Plant Company :
Motor, Totally-enclosed Induction, New Type, 90 B.H.P.; Motor, Similar Type, Squirrel Cage, 22 B.H.P.; Grid Resistances, “ Service Resistance Type ” ; Various Other Motors, Direct and Alternating Current, 400, 401
British Insulated and Helsby Cables, Limited : Cables, Super-tension, for Three-phase Working ; Cables for Power and Lighting, for Telephones and for Use on Motor Cars, 33, 34
Current Limiting Reactances ; Static Condensers for Power Factor Improvement, 33 Welders, Spot, Butt and Seam, 32, 33
Wires with Very Fine Diameters ; Trolley Wires ; Enamelled Wires ; Railway and Tramway Overhead Constructional Material, &c., 34
British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited : Large Oil-immersed 115,000-Volt Three-phase Outdoor Circuit Breaker, 256
Synchronous Motor, 275 H.P. Salient Pole, 258
British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, and Markham and Co., Limited :
Complete Electric Winding Equipment for Model Colliery, 65, 66, 67
Bruce Peebles and A. Reyrolle, Limited :
Automatic Motor Converter Sub-station Equipment—500-Kilowatt Motor Converter ; Starting Resistance; Three-phase Motor for Short-circuiting Slip Rings ; High-tension Switch Panel ; Machine and Control Panels ; Multiple Timedelay Unit, 231-233
Callenders, Limited :
Automatic Protective Gear ; Four-conductor Equipment for 11,000-Volt Four-core cable, 126
Super-tension Cable Accessories, 126
Super-tension Cable Under Water with Submerged Joints, 127
Transformer Pillar for 100-Kilovolt-ampere Three-phase Transformer, Low-tension Fuse Equipment, 127
55,000-Volt Wall Insulator, 127
Electric Control, Limited :
Automatic Machine Tool Controller, 176
Graded Rod Lightning Arrester, 177
Indoor and Outdoor Isolating Switches, Various, 177
Lift Controller, 100 H.P. Machine Tool Controller, 176, 177
Three-phase Switch, Extra-high-tension, with Choke Coils and Fuses, 177, 178
Elliott Brothers (London), Limited :
Thomas Averaging Recorder, 34
Erskine, Heap and Co., Limited :
Cubicle and Truck Type Switchgear ; Three-unit Type Ironclad Switchboard ; Autotransformer Starter ; Stators and Rotor Starters, 489
Ferguson, Pailin, Limited :
Circuit Breaker, Outdoor 600-Ampere 135,000 Volt Three-phase Automatic, 429, 430
Switchgear, Armour-clad, Compound-fitted, 428, 429
General Electric Company, Limited :
Alternating-current Single-phase Railway Traction Motor, 127
Glover, W. T., and Co., Limited :
Patented Test Sheath Cable with Detective and Protective Apparatus, 34
Johnson and Phillips, Limited :
Cables, 25 Square Inch Single-core, for Brighton Line ; Other Samples Tested at Very High Tension for Single-phase and Three-phase Working, 314
Transformer Oil, Testing Apparatus, 314
Transformer Coils, Cross-over and Spiral, 314 Transformer with Tapping Switch, 315, 316
Transformers Fitted with Cambridge and Paul Distance Thermometers, 315
“ P ” Type Oil Switch, 315
Truck Type Switch, 316
Mctropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Limited:
Control Equipment, 371, 372
High-tension Chamber with High-voltage Control Gear, 370, 371, 372
Line and Resistance Switches and Cam-operated Switches, 371, 372
Locomotive, 3000-Volt Direct-current Electric, for South African Railways, 370, 382 Motor Generators, 370, 371 Main Motors, 370, 372
Pneumatically Operated Pantographs, 371
Vacuum and Compressed Air Brakes, 370
Nalder Brothers and Thompson, Limited :
Fawsset-Parry Ultra-sensitive Relays ; Merz-Price Protection System ; Beard-Hunter Compensated Pilot System ; Ammeter, Flame-proof, 402
Meters, Moving Iron Power Factor, New, 400, 401
Meters, Frequency, 401
Meter, Graphic Recording Frequency, 401 Synchroscopes ; Synchroscopes with Lamps, 401, 402
Reyrolle, A., and Co., Limited :
Switch Panel, Metal-clad, for Super-power Stations, 313, 314
Siemens Brothers and Co., Limited :
Broadcast Wireless Receiver, 154, 155
Cable Indicator, 32
Continuous-wave Wireless Transmitter, InKilowatt, 154, 155
1-Kilowatt Wireless Cabinet Station, 154
Switchgear and Cowans, Limited :
Induction Regulators for Pressure Testing and for Feeder Regulation ; Safety Gate-end Switches for Mines ; Williams-Rowley System of Earth Circuit Protection, 489, 490
Whipp and Bourne, Limited :
Circuit Breakers, Automatic Magnetic Blowout ; Semi-protected Traction Breakers ; Totally Enclosed Industrial Breakers ; Flame-proof Mining Breakers ; 6000-
Ampsre Air-break Circuit Breaker ; Switchgear, High-tension Steel-clad, Cubicle ; Unit Type 6600-Volt Cubicle Switchgear, 488
FOOD PRODUCTION PLANT.
Automatic Bread-making Factory in Operation, 8
Biscuit-making Plant :
Reversing Dough Brake, Automatic Continuous Dough-cutting and Embossing Machine, Automatic Oven, 6 {Supplement, July 4th, 1924)
Automatic and Semi-automatic Confectionery-making Plant :
Chocolate Melangeur, 7
Chocolate Refiner, 7
Chocolate Kettle, 7
Chocolate Conche, Chocolate Enrober, 7 {Supplement, July 4th, 1924)
Various Machines for Use in Food Production :
Brotherhood 5-Ton Refrigeration Plant ; Wafer-making, Mixing, Kneading, Cooking and Wrapping Machines ; Bonecourt Gas-fired Boiler for Steam used in certain of above Processes, Baker, Perkins, Limited, 6, 7, 8
PAPER-MAKING PLANT, MODEL.
Bentley and Jackson, Limited, 97, 98
Beating Engines, 97
Marshall Refining Engine, 97, 98
General Engineering Company, Limited, 96, 97, 98
Centrifugal Stuff Pumps and Vacuum, Feuerheerd Type, Pump, 99
Slitting and Re-winding Machine, 96, 97, 98
Harland Engineering Company, Limited, 99
Motors, Differential Gear and Differential Regulator for Harland Electric Drive, 99
Walmsley, Charles, and Co., Limited, 95, 97, 106
Fourdrinier, Paper-making Machine, Model, 95, 97, 106
Watford Engineering Works, Limited, 97, 98
“ Tremor ” Strainer, 97, 98
RAILWAY TRACK, SIGNALLING AND SAFETY APPLIANCES.
General Electric Company, Limited :
Signal, Hall Colour Light, 490, 491
Gresham and Craven, Limited :
Ejector, Super-Dreadnought, for Vacuum Brake, 312—see also page 276
Injector, Reversible, 312
Summerson, Thomas, and Sons, Limited :
Anti-creep Flexible Heel-block, 490
Switch Connecting-rods, 490
Tyer and Co., Limited :
Key-token Apparatus, 312
One-wire and Three-wire Position Instruments, Permissive Block Instruments, &c., 312
Roller Bearing, Anti-friction, for Rail wav Signals, 312
Vacuum Brake, Limited :
Vacuum Brake Equipment for Electric Trains, 312
TEXTILE MACHINERY IN THE PALACE OF ENGINEERING.
Cotton Plant :
Boby, Robert, Limited :
Flax De-seeder, Le Gardian, 343
Flax Breaking and Scutching Machine, 343
Hardaker, John T., Limited :
Jacquard Machines for Fitting to Various Looms for Weaving, Lettering, Trade Marks, &c., on Selvedge of Fabrics; Border and Pattern-cutting Machines, 342
Tweedales and Smalley :
“ Crighton ” Opener; Carding Engine, Revolving Flat, and Philipson’s Combination Brush for Cleaning Flats of Engine, 340 Drawing Frame ; Stubbing, Intermediate, and Roving Fly Frames, 340
Ring Spinning Frame, 340
Ring Doubling Frame, 340, 341
Looms:
Hall, Robert, and Sons (Bury), Limited :
Automatic Loom with “ Steinen ” Mechanism, 341
Double Plush and Velvet Loom, 342
Heavy Belting Loom, 342
Hose Pipe Loom, 341
Loom for Weaving Short Horse Hair, 342
Single-action Hand Loom for Wounded Soldiers, 341, 342
Other Looms, Winding Machines and Cloth-Folding and Measuring Machine, 341
Miscellaneous Textile Machines and Accessories :
Greenwood and Batley, Limited; P. D. Mitchell, Limited; White, Child and Beney, Limited ; Wilson Brothers Bobbin Company, Limited, 344
Hughes and Lancaster, Limited : Wool-washing Machine, 343, 344
Howard and Bullough, Limited :
Revolving Swift Air Drying Sizing Machine, 340, 341
Mather and Platt, Limited :
Weft-straightener and Compensator, 342, 343 Bleaching Solution Electroliser, 342, 343 Compressed Paper Bowls ; Model of Three-colour Calico Printing Machine, 343
TEXTILE MACHINERY IN THE PALACE OF INDUSTRY.
A Complete Cotton Mill :
Accessory Machines :
Automatic Cloth-Plaiting Machine, Hacking and Co., 207, 208
Ward Brothers :
Dobbies, Various, and Special Motions, 207
Dobson “ Reaeher-in,” 207
Breaking and Opening :
Platt Brothers and Co., Limited :
Hopper Bale Breaker; Hopper Opener ; Crighton Opener ; Opener Lap Machine ; Platt and Wilkinson Lattice Feeding Machine ; Grid Dust Trunk, 202, 203
Carding Process :
Elijah Ashworth:
Non-Flexible Bend Revolving Flat Carding Engine, 203, 204
Waste Carding Machines :
William Tatham, Limited, 205, 206 ,
Cotton Gins :
Platt Brothers and Co., Limited :
“ Macarthy ” Cotton Gins, Hand and Power-driven, with Automatic Hopper Feeder, 202, 203
Double-acting Cotton Gin, Showing Hopper Feed, 202, 203
Drawing Frame :
Asa Lees and Co., Limited, 204
Lap and Combing Machines :
J. Hetherington and Sons :
Sliver Lap Machine, 203, 204
Ribbon Lap Machine, 204
Nasmith Comber, 204
The Looms:
Silk, Cotton, Artificial Silk Weaving, 205
Over-pick Loom for Fancy Textiles, Atherton Brothers, 206, 208
Shirting Cloth Loom, Turkish Towel Loom, Cooper Brothers, Limited, 206, 212
Looms, Willan and Mills, William Dickinson and Sons, Limited, 207
Six-shuttle Circular Box Loom, Gregson and Monk, Limited, 206, 212
Over-pick Loom, Fast Reed Over-pick Cotton Loom, George Hodgson, Limited, 206, 212
Four-shuttle Drop-box Loom, Henry Livesey, Limited, 206
Loom for Striped Fabrics, Pemberton and Sons, Limited, 206
Over-pick Single-shuttle Loom, John Pilling and Sons, Limited, 207
Under-pick Loom, Richardson, Tuer and Co., Limited, 207
Double-cylinder Card Motion Loom, David Sowden and Sons, 206, 208
Six-shuttle Circular Box Loom, W. B. White and Sons, 206
Spinning Plant :
Asa Lees and Co., Limited :
Stubbing Frame, 205
Self-acting Mule for Spinning Weft Yarn, 205
Brooks and Doxey, Limited :
Intermediate Frame, 204, 205
Ring Doubling Frame, 205
Dobson and Barlow, Limited :
Roving Frame, 205
Ring Spinning Frame, 204, 205
Testing and Measuring Machines :•
Goodbrand and Co., Limited :
Wrap Reel and Wrap Block for Measuring Yarn, Yarn Strength Testing Machine, 205, 207
Winding and Thread-finishing Machines :
Arundel, Coulthard and Co.:
Winding Frame, Quick Traverse, 205
Joseph Stubbs, Limited:
Rabbeth Spindle Winder, 205
Quick Traverse Gassing Frame, 205, 206
Quick Traverse Close Winder, 205, 206
High-speed Pirn Winder, 205
Part I.
CITY OF DERBY’S EXHIBITS.
“Britannia Foundry,” Established 1818 and
Still Working, Handyside and Co., 65
Derby, Engineering History of, Since Before the Norman Conquest, 65
Derby, Modern Engineering Firms :
Aiton and Co., Pipe Work for Power Stations, 65
Ewart Chainbelt Company, Chains, Conveyors and Elevators, 65
Haslam Foundry Company, Refrigerating and Ice-making Plant, 65
Hill, Isaac, and Son, Malleable and Steel Alloy Castings, 65
Macintosh Cable Company, Electric Cable, 65
Newton Brothers, Electric Generators, Motors, &c., 65
Part II.
CITY OF DERBY’S EXHIBITS.
City of Derby’s Exhibits :
Civic Hall Devoted to Municipalities of Different Cities for Few Weeks Each in Turn, 65
Engineering History of Derby from Eighteen Years before Norman Conquest, 65
Cement Works, Shot Tower, Factory for Making Red and White Leads, “ Britannia Foundry” Started 1818 and Still Survives, First Silk Mill in England, Iron and Copper Smelting Works and Rolling Mills, Large Clocks, Fireproof Cotton Mill, Water-power Driven Mills, Weaving and Dyeing, Mechanical Appliances, Lead and Leather Articles, 65
Modern Engineering of Derby :
Chains, Conveyors and Elevators, Ewart Chainbelt Company, 65
Electrical Cable, Macintosh Cable Company, 65
Electrical, Generators, Motors, &c., Newton Brothers, 65
Malleable and Steel Alloy Castings, Isaac Hill and Son, 65
Pipe Work for Power Stations, Aiton and Co., 65
Refrigerating and Ice-making Plant, Haslam Foundry Company, 65
SOUTH AFRICAN AND RHODESIAN EXHIBITS.
South Africa.
Part I.
South African Mining Section : 64
Cullinan Diamond, Full-size Replica, 64
Diamond Producers’ Union of South Africa, Diamond Washing Plant, in Motion, 64
Kimberley “ Blue Ground,” 64
M. Van Moppes and Sons, Diamond-cutting Machinery in Motion, 64
South African Railways : 64
Ferguson Brothers, Model of Twin-screw Suction Cutter Hopper Dredger for Harbour Work, 64
Metropolitan-Vickers Company, Limited, Electric Passenger and Freight Locomotive with Four Large Motors for Train de Luxe, 64
Sundry South African Exhibits :
64
Delfos Company, Pretoria, Rock Drills, Jack Hammers, &c., 64
Lane, W. C., Anvils, &c., 64
South African Iron and Steel Corporation, Iron Manufactured Locally from Native Ore, 64
Vereeniging Estates, Limited, Bars, Flats, Round and Square ; Rails ; Channels ; Angles ; Fish-plates ; Dies ; Cams, &c.; Fire and Silica Bricks ; Pipes and other Earthenware for Engineering Use, 64
Wright, Boaz and Co., Johannesburg, “ Robeson-Davidson ” Slimes Pumps, 64
Part II.
South African Mining Section :
Collieries, Parts of, Modelled in Coal, and their Products, 64
Diamond Industry, Tools of all Kinds, 64
Machinery in Motion, Value of : Diamondcutting Machinery, M. Van Moppes; Diamond-washing Plant, Diamond Producers’ Union of South Africa, 64
Maps Showing Position of all Minerals with Specimens of Each, Replica of Cullinan Diamond, &c., 64
South African Railways :
64
Ancient Stage Coach Used with Eight Horses in Time of Kimberley Diamond Rush, 64
Dredger, Twin-screw, for Harbour Work, Model of, Ferguson Brothers, 64
Locomotive, Fore Part, Emerging from Tunnel, Life-size Model, 64
Models of Locomotive and Rolling Stock, 64
Train de Luxe, with Electric Passenger and Freight Locomotive, Metropolitan-Vickers Company, Limited, 64
SOUTH AFRICAN AND RHODESIAN
EXHIBITS (continued) :
Sundry South African Exhibits :
64
Anvils, &c., AV. C. Lane, 64
Bars, Various ; Rails ; Channels ; Angles ; Fish-plates ; Dies ; Cams, &c., Fire and Silica Bricks ; Pipes and other Earthenware for Engineering Use, Vereeniging Estates, Limited, 64
Films Showing Working of Mines, Railways, Grain-handling, Irrigation Work and Other Developments, 64
Iron Manufactured Locally from Native Ore, South African Iron and Steel Corporation,64 “ Robeson-Davidson ” Slime Pumps, Wright,
Boaz and Co., 64
Rock Drills, Jack Hammers, &c., Delfos Company, 64
Part I.
Rhodesian Exhibits :
Globe and Phoenix Mine, Model of, 65
Wankie Colliery, Representation of Section of Famous Coal Seam, 65
Part II.
Rhodesian Exhibits :
Chromo Iron Ore Production Exceeds that of Any Other Country ; Asbestos Production Second Only to Canada, 65
Mi neral Specimens ; Gold as Staple Product ; Model of Globe and Phoenix Mine; Vertical Section of Famous Coal Seam at Wankie Colliery, Largest in the World, 65
WORLD POWER CONFERENCE.
8, 40, 68, 100
Opening Ceremony, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 8
Power Resources of the British Empire and the United States (Twenty Papers), 8
Coal Resources of the World, Sir Richard Redmayne, 8
Reports—British Empire :
Oil Production in relation to the Resources and Needs of the British Empire, Sir George Beilby, 8
Power Resources of Australia and New Guinea, Institution of Engineers of Aus-
I tralia, 8
i Resources of the British Empire in Metals Employed in Power Machinery, Professor Henry Louis, 8
Water Power Problem in Great Britain and Ireland, Professor Gibson, 8
Water Power Resources of Scotland, Dr.
Crowley and Mr. Bergstrom, 8
Waters of Canada, &c., J. B. Challier, 9
Fuel Resources of Canada, B. F. Haanel, 9
Papers on British Guiana, Indian Empire, New Zealand, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, 9
Reports—United States :
United States of America, Power Resources in (Five Papers), National Review, O. C. Merrill and others, 9
Central States, Samuel Insall, 9
North-Eastern States, John W. Lieb, 9
Pacific Coast States, A. H. Mark wart and
H. A. Barre, 9
South-Eastern Power Zone, W. S. Lee, 9
European, Asiatic and South American Resources (Thirty-five Papers) :
Central Europe : Power Resources of Hungary ; Sources and Use of Energy in Czecho-Slovakia; Power Resources of Yugo-Slavia, 9
France and Italy, 9
Russia and Scandinavia, 9
Swiss Report, 9
Economic Aspect of Power Resources :
Economics of World Power, Major-General Sir Philip Nash, 10
WORLD POWER CONFERENCE {continued) :
Steam Generation :
40, 41
Blast-furnace Gas Economy in Ironworks, Herr K. Rummel, 40
Coke as Fuel for Steam Raising, E. W. L. Nicol, 40
Fuel Economy and the Measurement of High Temperatures, Sir Robert Hadfield, 40
Furnace for the Combustion of Peat, Professor T. Makariew, 40
German Practice in Exhaust Steam Engineering, Herr H. Treitel, 40
National Economic Power of Solid Fuel in Relation to Scientific Utilisation, Leonard Harvey, 40
Pulverised Fuel for Boilers, W. M. Selvey, 40
Reciprocal Utilisation of Waste Energy, Oberbaurat Ing. Bernhard Gerbel, 40
Waste Heat Economy, Seven Papers on, 40
Complete and Incomplete Combustion and Combustion Economy, 40
Steam Power Production, P. Junkersfeld and George Orrock, 41
Steam Generation (2) :
41
High-pressure Steam, &c., Influence of, in Large Steam Boiler Plant, Dr. Fried. Munziger, 41
High-pressure Steam in Power and Heating Plants, Herr H. O. Hartmann, 41
High-pressure Water-tube Boilers, Mr. Wiberg, 41
Power from Mercury Vapour, W. L. Emmett, 40, 41
Steam Generation, Sir James Kemnal, 41
Steam Generation at Extra High Pressure, Mr. Blomquist, 41
Steam Generation in the United States, Mr. Jacobus, 41
Steam at High Pressures and High Temperatures in Central Stations, W. S. Monroe, 41
Steam Utilisation (Four Papers) :
41
Steam Flow, Law Governing, Mr. Poko-bradsky, 42
Steam Turbines, Sir Charles Parsons, 42, 140
Steam Turbines for High Pressures, C. F. Stork, 42
Extra High-pressure Steam Turbines, Mr. Nordstrom, 42
Water Power Production (Twenty-four Papers): 41
Hydro-electric Development, Factors of Efficiency in, Lieut.-Colonel C. M. Norrie, 41
Power Developments in Navigable Rivers, Colonel Charles Keller, 41
Regulation of Hydro-electric Energy, Messieurs Arbelot and Dupin, 41
° Water Turbine, Eduard Suess, 41
Water Power Production (2) :
41
Water Power Development, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Aspects of :
Hydraulic Reaction Turbine, Birchard Taylor, 41
Large Low Head Water Power Developments, Lawaczeck Propeller Turbine, Dr. Ing. Franz Lawaczeck, 41
Modern Tendencies in Water Wheel Design, Hjalmar O. Dahl, 41
Kaplan Turbine, Lawaczeck Turbine, 41
Propeller Turbine in Austria, Federation of Austro-German Engineers, 41
Water Power Production (3) :
Ice Troubles in Water Power Plants, Practice in Norway, Arvid Ruths, 42 ; Practice in Sweden, Mr. A. Frey, 42
Prevention of Rubbish from Reaching Turbines, Cornelio Arellano, 42
Power Transmission and Distribution :
43
Electric Cables for Extra High Tensions, Ing. Luigi Emanueli, 43
Frequency Converter, Professor Ur. Paul MiiIler, 43
Improvement of Power Factor, Professor Miles Walker, 43
Large-scale Power Distribution in Sweden, Mr. W. Borgquist, 43
Power from Other Sources (Five Papers) : Alcohol as a Source of Power, Sir Charles
Bedford, 43
WORLD POWER CONFERENCE (continued) :
Power from Other Sources (Five Papers) (continued) :
Lardarello Natural Steam Power Plant, Prince Piero Ginori Conti, 43
Wind Power :
Calculations Regarding Wind Power, &c., Professor Schou, 42
Modern Wind Motors. Mr. P. Vinding, 42
Modern Plants for Wind Electric Power Stations, R. John Jensen, 42
Power Transmission : 68
High-tension Cables, Llewclvn B. Atkinson, 68 ; (Letter), 113
Loading Limits for Electric Power Cables, E. Fawssett and Others, 68
internal Combustion Engines : 68
Gas Engines, Large, in German Power Economy, Paul R. Meyer, 69
Gaseous Explosions within Closed Vessels, Professor R. V. Wheeler, 69
internal Combustion Engine, Professor C. E.
Lucke, 69
Internal Combustion Engine, Development in Sweden, Professor Hubendick and Others, 69
Internal Combustion Engines, James Richardson, 69
Internal Gas Engines, Large, Ing. G. F. Tosi, 69
Road and Air Transport :
69
Air Transport, Application of Power to, Alec Ogilvie, 69
Road Transport, Power Applied to, Colonel R. E. Crompton, 70
Variable Transmission Gears, Dr. H. 8. Hele-Shaw, 69
Power in Agriculture : 70
Electro-farming Economics, R. Borlase Matthews, 70
Power for Rail Transport : 70
Electric Railways in Great Britain, Roger Smith, 71 ; (Letter), 132
Electric Traction in Italy, Professor Tajani, 70
Electrification of the Austrian Federal Railways, Dr. Arthur Hrushka, 70
Electrification ot Railways in the Dutch East Indies, Dr. De Gelder, 70
Electrification of Railways in Norway, Mr. Schreiner, 70
Financial Aspects of Main-line Electrification, Sir Philip Dawson, 70
Internal Combustion Engine for Transportation, Mr. Lucke, 70
Main Line Electrification on the State Railways of Germany, Wilhelm Wechmann, 70
Power Problems on the Swedish Railways, Mr. Of verholm, 70
Power Questions relating to Swedish Tramways, 70
Power Saving Through Anti-friction Bearings, Mr. Forsberg, 70
Railway and Tramway Traction, Development of, Professor Franco, 70
Testing Locomotives on the Great Western Railway, C. B. Collett, 70 ; (Letter), 444
Power for Water Transport :
Diesel Auxiliary Machinery, R. W. Allen, 100 Electric Transmission of Power for Pro
pelling Machinery, W. J. Belsey, 100
Four-cycle Type of Diesel Engine, 100
Hull Resistance and Power for Propulsion, G. S. Baker, 100
Marine Fuels and Fuel Consumption, F. J. Leathers, 100
Motor Ship, Development and Present Position, A. P. Chalkley, 100
Propulsion of Ocean-going Ships in Holland, General Data, W. J. Muller, 100
Sail, Its Early History and Development, Basil Lubbock, 100
Sea Speeds and their Costs, Alexander Gray, 100
Shipowners and Shipbuilders, Lord Inchcape, 100
Steam and the Measurement of Power, Hector C. Bywater, 100
Two-cycle Diesel Engines, Robert Traill, 100
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