The Engineer 1924 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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ABERDEEN, Robert Gordon’s Colleges, Proposed Courses of Instruction, 555
Acoustic Design of Musical Practice Rooms, Changes Needed to Benefit by Sound-proof Walls, 185
Aerial Ropeway in Colombia, Preliminary Survey for, and Details of Scheme, 45
AERONAUTICS :
Air Defence of Great Britain, 525
Aircraft Apprentices, Vacancies for, 223
Airship, Five Million Cubic Feet, for Egypt and India Service, 75
Belfast to Gretna or Carlisle, Daily Aeroplane
Service Projected, 265
Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 200
Circumnavigation of the World by Air, Conclusions to Reckon With, 351
Hangar, Aeroplane at Mukden, Largest in Asia, 555
Helicopter Inventor’s New Record and Prize, 351
Imperial Airways Monthly Traffic Returns, June and July, 274
Light Aeroplane Competitions, Lecture by Major J. S. Buchanan, 555
Napier-Blackburn Torpedo-carrying Aeroplanes, 1000 Horse-power, Launch of the First, 211
R 38 Memorial Prize, Award for 1924, 628
Seaplane for Transport of Fever Patients in British Guiana, 465
World’s Gliding Record Broken by Lieutenant Thoret, St. Remy, 265
World’s Largest Passenger Flying Bout, 585
AGRICULTURAL Fortnightly Bulletin to be Broadcasted from London, 185
Alien-Liversedge, Limited, Staff Dinner, 512
Alloys Aging Effect and Increased Room Temperature, 525
Aluminium Alloy Road Wheel, Satisfactory
Results of Experiments, 159
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers, 130th Meeting, 252
American Stone Quarries Workers, Shifts and
Accident Statistics, 613
Anodes for Brine Electrolysis, 437
Apprentice Scholarships, “ D. B. Morison,”
Engineering, 449
Asbestos Exports from Canada, 13, 237
Asbestos Mills, Montreal, Two New, 295
Asbestos Mino near Barberton, Formation of
Minerals, 613
Asphalt, Liquid and Solid, Throughout the whole of Cuba, 105
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
Association, Diesel Engine Users’ :
Significance of Exhaust .Temperature, P. H. Smith, 408
Institute of Transport :
Gold Medal Awards for Railwaymen’s Papers, 381
Institution of Automobile Engineers :
Annual Dinner, 593
Medal Awards for Papers and Service, 584
Pneumatic Tires, A. Healey, 669
Institution of Chemical Engineers :
Self-balancing Centrifugals, Eustace A. Alliott, 133
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Awards for Papers, 396
Joint Meeting with other Associations :
Results of Heat Engine and Boiler Trials, 625
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
A.M.I.E. E. Examination, 145
Annual Conversazione, 27
Award of Premiums to Students, 62
New Wiring Regulations, F. C. Raphael, 725
Sir Oliver Lodge, Honorary Member, 555
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
North Wales (Liverpool) Centre :
Art of Communication Engineering, Address by H. H. Harrison, 525 Informal Section :
“ Walk Round Pretoria Power Station,” Lecture, G. M. Clark, 697
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
Janies Watt Annual Dinner, 625
Institution of Gas Engineers :
Annual Meeting in 1925, 507
Presidential Election , 185
Storage of Silica Refractories, Lecture, W. J. Rees, 13
. Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers :
Awards for Competition to Encourage Education in the Industry, 335
Prizes Offered for Papers, 696
Institution, Junior, of Engineers : Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and
Apparatus, 640
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
H.R.H. Prince of AV ales to Attend Annual Dinner, 555
Institution of Naval Architects :
Scholarships Offered for 1925, 612
Scholarships and Prize Awards, 304, 479
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
Girders in Ships, J. Foster King, 585
1 nstitution of Petroleum Technologists : Award of Institution Scholarship, 605 Awards of Medals and Scholarships, 479
Institution of Production Engineers : Annual Dinner, 322
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
Institution of Railway Signal Engineers :
“Proceedings”; Survey of Indian Signalling,” 2k. C. Rose, 437
Signalling on the London Underground Railways, W. S. Every, 613
Three-position Signalling, 724
Institution, Royal :
Before-Easter Lecture Arrangements, 640, 696
General Meeting ; Christinas Lectures, &c., 539
Institution of Water Engineers :
Annual Mee.ing and List of Papers, 609
Society of Engineers :
Awards for Papers, 712
Plumbago, A verage Annual Export of, from Ceylon, T. G. Hunter, 351
Society, Faraday :
Annual General Meeting, 117
Report, 117
Society, Illuminating Engineering :
Paper by Mr. G. L. Jennings, 185
Society, Optical :
Extraordinary General Meeting ; Student Members, Rules, 649
Filpi Picture Production, Optical and Mechanical Problems of, H. Dennis Taylor, 436
Society, Royal, of Arts :
Award of Medals for Papers, 62
ASTURIAS Mines and Factories to bo Controlled by Krupps, 641
Atlas Works, Sheffield, 129
Atomic Energy, Freeing, At Present an Elusive Secret, Dr. Wall’s Quest, 525
Auckland (New Zealand), New Works and Improvements by Harbour Board, 725
Australia, Proposed Enlargement of Hume
Reservoir on the Murray River, 351
Australian Engineers in Government Service, Question of Increase of Pay, 45
Australian Imports, Quarter’s Analysis, 105
Australian Sea Carriage of Goods Act, 725
Australia’s Rich Radium Deposits, 697
Avery, W. and T., Limited, Recognition of
Long Service, 27
Avonmouth Spelter Works, Feared Closing after Heavy Expenditure, 185
Avonmouth Spelter Works, Postponement of Closing Down, 323 ■
B BALL Bearings Made of Stainless Steel, Carrying Capacity of, Axel Hultgren, 351
Barranquilla, Colombia, Contract by London Syndicate for Construction of Streets, Tramways and Waterworks, 669
Bath, Rapid Steam Plant Erection at, 678
Beet Sugar Factory in Alberta, Proposed, 669
Beet Sugar Factory on the Wissey River, Another Projected, 351
Belgian Congo, Cobalt Ore in Various Places ' with Manganese, 265
Valuable Recent Discovery, 409
Belgian Congo, List of Recently Discovered I Minerals, 211
Birmingham Post Office, .Alterations for Accommodation of Automatic Telephone, 725 i
Blast-furnaces—see Iron and Steel
Blue Finish to Handles of Pliers, &c., New ’
Method for Applying, 323 ,
Boiler Explosion in Small Steamer, Some Peculiar Features, 641
Boiler Explosions, Report for 1923, 525
Bombay, Back Bay Reclamation Progress, 437 I
Bradford Engineering Society, Programme of I
Lectures, 365
Bradshaw, Eighty-fifth Anniversary of, 469
Brazilian Government Outlay on Port Improvements, 351
Bridge Across the Tees at Newport, Scheme Opposed, 323
Bridge,’ Hooghly, Proposed New, at Howrah, Committee Suggestions, 697
Bridge, Newcastle and Gateshead, Tender Accepted, 725
Bridge Over the Ouse at Boothferry, 75
Bridge Over Richmond River, New South Wales, 697
Bridge Span Too Much Expanded by Sun to be Reclosed, 409
British and American Mining Departments, Exchange of Information, Tests of British Explosives, 555
British Columbia, The Third Industrial Province in Canada, 237
British Engineering Standards Association :
Acceptance of Invitation from German Standards Committee, 641
Automobile Steels, Publications on, 99
Coal Mining and Industrial Standardisation, Address to be Given in Four Centres by Secretary of the Association, 418
Glossary of Electrical Engineering Terms, 117
Standard Keys, Keyways and Keybars, Publication Regarding, 709
Standard Specifications :
Cast Iron Piston Rings, 479
Conductors for Overhead Power Transmission, 609
Copper, Raw, Five Specifications Issued, 310
Fuel Oils, Four Grades, 572
Magnetos for Internal Combustion Engines, 105
Metallic Resistance Materials, 507
Metallic Resistance Materials Specification Revision, 613
Solders, Silver, Tin-lead and Brazing; Brasses, Special, for Ingots for Castings, for Actual Castings, 89
Spanners, Dimensions of, 593
British Foundrymen, Institution of :
Birmingham Branch :
Lecture on “ The Iron Age,” Presidential, 555
Pure Aluminium Unsuitable for Castings, C. Dickens’ Lecture, 641
Scottish Branch :
Bulk Electricity Supply, Schemes in connection with Foundry Operations, James A Week, 461
c CADMIUM, Inhalation of Fumes and Resulting Accident, 45
Canada, Crude Petroleum Production Statistics, 465
Canada, Reclamation of Waterless and Waterlogged Areas in, 494
Canada’s Sulphide Ores Abundance and Variety, 437
Canada and the United States, New Railway
Bridge at Niagara Falls, 555
Canadian Copper Output for 1922 and 1923, 323
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto,
World’s Record Building for Cost and Size, 409
Canadian Natural Gas Light, Heat and Power
Company, Big Well’s Output, 211
Canadian Patent Law, New, 533
Canadian Trent Canal, Completion Urged on the Government, 105
Cape Copper Smelting Works in South Wales Bought, 381
Carbon Black, Its Manifold Uses, 21 I.
Carbon Dioxide as Remedy for Carbon Monoxide Gas Poisoning, 725
(Carmichael, The House of, 132
Casablanca Port, Morocco, Approaching Completion, 323
Caustic Soda and Chlorine, Production by Electrolysis, 641
Cement Gun for Stone Dusting, Experiments in a Colliery, 295
Cements Manufactured from Sea Mud l-iine, French Experiments, 75
Chapeltown, Sheffield, Gas Lighting Scheme, 237
Chemical Industries, Tenth Exposition of, 249
Chilean Improvements at Port of Lebu, 211
China, Thirty Mining Areas Staked Out, 75
China, Two of Four Projected Trunk Highways Now Completed, 351 s '
Chinese Registration of Trade Marks Bureau, 13
CWorme Gas Correct Method of Detection of •i>eaRage, 381
Ci vicSteam-heating Plant at Winnipeg Opened,
Clyde Dredging to be Started, 323
| ° 30® Tunnel or Bridge, Question for Glasgow,
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
Argentina, Coal Importations from Great -Britain and Elsewhere, 723
Australian Brown Coal ‘from Morwell, Analysis of Grading, 381
Barnsley Seam at Thorne Colliery, Progress,
Barnsley Bed of Coal Reached by Shaft Started in 1909, 211 J
Binder from Seaweed for Coal Briquettes, New Industry in Orkney, 21]
Brown Coal Briquetting Plant Capacity, Victorian Electricity Commission, 45
Coal Discovery Reported Under a Staffordshire Farm, 409
Coalfield, Rich, Discovered near Madrid, 525 Coal Treated by Modern Scientific Methods.
Immense Possibilities Suggested by Mr. F Hodges, 437
Coal Working Under Sheffield, Application,
Colliery Shafts to be Sunk bv Freezing Process, 697 ‘ °
Consett Iron Company’s Estate Development, Coal Discoveries, 75
Decontrolling the Coal Trade in Czecho-1/8^a<ia’ P°ssibility under Consideration, 105
Franco-Belgian Frontier, Coal Discovery, 105 rrench Undertaking for Economic Utilisation and Conservation of Coal, 495
Great Britain’s Coal Output, Comparative Statistics, 295, 613, 725
Hatfield Moor, Doncaster, Coal Discovery, New Pit to be Sunk, 475
Increased Use of Coal-cutting Machines, 465
Interesting Week-end Work at Marehay
Colliery, 323 J
Manchuria Coal Mines Financed by Russia,
Natal Coal Mines, July Output, 437
Northern Ireland, 200,000,000 Tons Coal-field near Coalisland, 211
Nova Scotia’s New and Excellent Coal Seam at Maccan, 75
Nova Scotia’s Undersea Colliery, 75
, Pulverised Coal for Birmingham Electric Supply Boilers, 105
Pulverised Coal in Industrial Plants, Effect Similar to Coal Dust in Mines, 185
South Australian Brown Coal for Producer Gas Plant, Experiments, 641
Spanish Coal Problem, Proposed Grouping of Mines, 585
Transvaal Coal and Oil Company’s Valuable Coal, 585
Ulster Collieries, New, at Coalisland, Co Tyrone, 105
United States, Production of Bituminous Coal and Anthracite, 620
Unwatering Coal Mines, Investigation of Explosion Hazards, 585
Wellington, New Zealand, Important Coal Discovery, 237
COAST Erosion, Question in the House of
Commons, 45 I
Cobalt in Belgian Congo, 265 ; Valuable
Recent Discovery, 409
Cobalt, Canadian Smelter Output of, Statistics 465 ’
Cobalt Silver Mines Twenty Years’ Record, 691
Colombia, Projected Expenditure on Public
Works, 211
Colombo Harbour Berths, Four, Sufficient for
Present Use, 613
Complimentary Dinner, Yorkshire
Power Company, 734
Concrete Bridge Span Bodily Lifted placed, 133
Concrete Impregnated with Molten Sulphur, Great Increase in Strength Thereby, 409
Concrete, Liability to Heat and Advisable
< Precautionary Measures, 211
Concrete Mixing with Impure Water, 237
Concrete Work, Material for Filling Expansion
Joints, 381 ox
Copper Coins in China, Depreciation of, 137
Copper Company, Leading Producer in the
World, 555
Copper Cost in Germany, Search for Alloys, 323
Copper Ore Treatment Financed by Western
Australian Government, 265
Copper, Pure, Effect of Gradual Heating and
Cooling in an Electric Furnace, 525
Cottages, Steel, Lord Weir’s Type, 421
Crude Oil from Shale, Extracted by Retort at
Burma Pavilion, British Empire Exhibition 265
Crystal Palace School of Engineering, Distribution of Certificates, 709
Cutler, New Master and Mistress, 409
Electric
and Re-
D DAIREN’S Chinese-owned Engineering Works,
Dam Across the St. Lawrence Adovcated, 45
Dam Construction in Orange Free State, 437
Dams, Two Gigantic, in Province of Quebec Progress, 437
De-aoration of Boiler Feed Water in Special
Circumstances, Remarkable Process, 237
Death of Herr Carl Fridolf Carlson, 495 ’
Delaware River Bridge, Suspension Cables for, 381
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research :
First Report on Heat Insulators,‘555
Offers to Undertake Tests on Plant of Low Temperature Carbonisation, 265
Diesel Engine, Double-acting, New Type, Completed in New York, 351
Diesel Engine, 15,000 B.H.P. Stationary, Ordered by Hamburg Electric Light Company, 265
Dock, Appleton, at Melbourne, Details of Projected Construction, 351
Docks Delays Investigation Result, Responsibility Divided, 237
Drought and Salt Water Influx Resulting in Teredo Destruction on Pacific Coast- of America, 613
Dry Dock being Constructed in Calcutta, Will be Largest of its Kind in the World, 585
Dublin Dockyard Opened by Vickers (Ireland), Limited, 409
Dudley Erecting Steel Houses, 613
Dunston and Teams Bridge, Cost of Reconstruction, 105
Durban Large Graving Dock Opening, 669
Durban’s Projected Costly Public Works Programme, 295
E ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
Air Behaviour in High Voltage Transmission, 585
All-electric New Colliery, 495
Australia, Revised Electrical Wiring Rules, 133
Belgium, New Coal Pits Being Electrically Equipped, 525
Birmingham Schools Electric Lighting and the Unemployed, 525
Brundall and District Electricity Supply, Negotiations for, 211
Bursting of New Pipe Line Under Test for Welsh Power Station, 669
Canada’s Export of Electric Power to the United States, 54
Cape Province, Tenders Called for for Power Station Plant, 335
Cape Town Projected Power Station for Suburban Railways, Details of, 697
Cardiff, All-electric Exhibition at, 465
Chicago, Oldest Electric Truck in Active Service, 525
Chili Climate and Problems for Transmission Line Engineers, 13
Chinese Power Station Equipment with British Engines, 381
Conference Internationale des Grands Re-seaux Electriques, &c., Third Session, 185
Current and Voltage, Determination of Characteristic Curves for Loosely-touching Steel Spheres, Fraulein Sz6kely’s Experiments, 159
Direction Finder in Foggy Weather, Great Value of, 525
Distributing System for Current Supply in Italy, 641
Dominion Electric Installation Equipment in Canada, Code of Standardised Rules, to be Prepared and Adopted, 44
Electric Boilers as Load Equalisers, Poplar's Record for Low-priced Electric Power in London, 363
Electrical Transmission in Australia, Need of Research, 525
Electricity at Mines, Regulations as to Installation and Use of, New Edition, 409
Electrolytic Corrosion Test, Accelerated, Results, 380
Greenock Corporation’s Proposed Application to Electricity Commissioners for Extension of Supply Area, 133
Hackney Borough Council and Orders for Electric Vehicles, 525
Haulage, Electric, on French Canals, 465
High-tension Switchgear and Transformers, 250 Million Pounds’ Order, 697
High-voltage Corona and Protection Against Lightning, J. B. Whitehead’s Views, 495
Imports and Exports of Electrical Apparatus, The Hague Report, 74
Inductor Cylinder Dynamo, Development of, W. Brooks Sayers, 159
Industrial Use of Electric Power Extended in Auckland, 525
Instrument Current Transformer with Automatic Compensation Device, 613
Insulator, New Type, for High-pressure Systems, Professor H. B. Smith, 211
Johannesburg’s Future Supply of Electricity, Commissioners’ Second Report, 409 Johannesburg Power Station Installation, 45 Johannesburg Projected High-tension Underground Cable to Supply Light to Oaklands District, 437
King William’s Town, South Africa, New Up-to-date Power Station for, 437
Knaresborough Electricity Undertaking, 613 Leek Electricity Works, Prosperous Growth of Trade, 465
Margahao Electric Power Plant, Largest-Generating Station in New Zealand, 525
Mines Using Electricity, Loss of Life Due to, 555, 641
Motor-driven Air Compressor and Variation of Torque, 133
New York Edison Company, New Power Station, 185
Newton Abbott Electric Output, Application for Extension of Station, 725
Oil Circuit Breakers and Explosion Pots, Dr. Garrard, 13
Omnibuses, Electric, Question of Use in Sweden, 725
Ottawa River Power Company Progress, 613
Perfect Lighting near Chicago, 465
Plant Propagation, Forced Growth, by Use of Electric Lamps, 725
Portable Electric Plant for Use in Gaseous Mines, 159
Power-house Chimneys, Nechells, Gritcatching Apparatus for, 725
“ Power Factor ” Booklet, Electrical Apparatus, Limited, 569
Power Station Worked by Steam Projected in Ohio, 697
Queenston-Chippewa Power Plant at Niagara Falls, Progress, 323
Quinze River Power Plant, Growth of, 613
Relay Development in America, Special Features of, 133
Rural Electrification in France, Congress al Lyons, 265
Russian Electric Undertakings, Financing of, 381
Safeguarding Linesmen on Transmission Circuit Work, 495
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
St. Maurice Power Company’s Hydro-electric Development, 555
Salt River, near Cape Town, Large Electric Power Station Projected, 13, 45
Sheffield Electricity Works Statistics, 211
Shock, Electric, Necessary Precautions after
Apparent Resuscitation, 725
South Africa, Union of, Great Growth of Electrical Power in, 613
Spalding Rural Council and Electricity Supply, 697
Spanish Electrical System Unification Question, 641
Static Condenser, Details of New Typo Developed by American General Electric Company, 74
Storage Batteries, Large, New System of Supporting Cells, 465
Storage Battery Locomotive, Largest Yet Built in the United States, 295
Storms, Distant, Detection Equipment Less Expensive than Supposed, 585
Suspension Type Insulator, New Type, Professor H. B. Smith, ] 3
Sydney, N.S.W., Overhead Transmission Lines to be Replaced by Underground Cables at Cost of £5,000,000, 437
Tokyo Electric Light Company’s Earthquake Damage Cost, 185
Transforming Alternating Current and Losses in Energy, 159
Walsall to Supply Electricity in Bulk to Lichfield, 669
West Wiltshire Electricity Scheme, 697
Weymouth Generating Station of Boston Company, Progress Towards Operation, 585
Witbank Power Station of Victoria Falls Company, Capacity and Details of Scheme, 45
Wolverhampton’s Electricity Department, Profit, 75
ELECTPvOLYTIC Corrosion Test, Accelerated, Results, 380
Elevators for South Africa, in Favour with
Farmers, 437
Engineering Standards—see British
Engineers’ Club for Birmingham, 409
England and Bombay, Comparison Between
Mean Dampness and Mean Temperature of the Two Climates, 185
EXHIBITIONS :
American Inventions Exhibition in New York, 105
Birmingham International Foundry Trades Exhibition, 295
British Empire Exhibition, Conference on Illumination, 142
British Industries Fair, Birmingham, in 1925, 525
Cardiff, All-electric Exhibition at, 465
Engineering Exhibition at Cardiff, 585
German Projected Exhibition of Railway
Material near Berlin, 295
Grenoble Forthcoming Exhibition, 625, 668
Lyons Fair, 625
Mining Industries Exhibition, Lima, Peru, 13
New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 641
Scientific Instruments and Apparatus, Exhibition, 640, 684
Third Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition, Board of Trade Announcement, 13
Wireless Exhibition in the Albert Hall, 75
EXPLOSION in a Dairy Steam-jacketed Pan, 585
Explosion, Unusual, in an Economiser, 555
Explosives Factory for Industrial Purposes
Projected at Shantung, 295
F FARADAY House Old Students’ Association, Annual Dinner, 449, 539
Ferrantians, The, Proposed Reunion, 449, 648
Fire-damp Detection Invention in Germanv, 613
Fire Engine, 160 Years’ Old, Still Used, 211
Fitting-up Bolts, T. L. E. Haug, 62
Flame Lamps being Succeeded by Electric
Lamps in American and British Mines, 159
Flax Yarn Production by New Process, Experiments, 697
Floating Dock Sunk on Entry of German Vessel at Dartmouth, Refloated after much Difficulty, 409
Floating Roadway for Goods Traffic at Sea-combe Ferry, 323
Flood Dangers in China, New Works Proposed, 641
Fluorspar Deposits Discovery in the Transvaal 613
Folkestone Road Improvement Scheme, 185
Food Cost and Rail Carriage, 563
Food Investigation Board, Engineering Committee’s Report, 704
French Government Law Pronounced a Snare, 585
Fuel Research Board, Third Report on British Coal Seams, 495
Fuel Research, French Company Formed for Carrying Out, 133
Fuels for Heavy Oil Engines, 572
GARAGE for 10,000 Cars, 105
Garcke’s Manual of Electrical Undertakings,
Gas Holder, Brick Disused, to he Converted into Garage in Berlin, 75
Gas, Natural, Large Flow Discovered in Ontario, 295
Gas Sold in Sheffield, Statistics for 1923, 323
Gas Undertakings of Groat Britain, Nominal
Capital, 669
Gauge Testing, National Physical Laboratory’s
Pamphlet, 709
Gelatine and Glue, Characteristics, 641
Germany’s Prices, Fall in, 13
Gladstone Dock, New Construction, Mersey
Docks and Harbour Board’s Plans, 351
Glasgow New Motor Omnibus Service, 669
Glass-making, A Century of, Chance Brothers and Co., Limited, 148
Glass, Substitute for,[in New Substance, 323
Glassware, Scientific, Millilitre to Supplant Cubic Centimetre, 295
Glycerine Water Solutions as Quenching
Medium, Investigation, 237
Gold Mine on the Rand, New Plant for, 13
Gold Mines of the Rand, Number of White Employees, 641
Gold Mining Congress and Exhibition Suggested for Johannesburg, 697
Goldfields, Transvaal, Output and Other
Records, 323
Gold Output of Ontario, 669
Government and Railway-owned Canal, 113
Grain Elevator with Capacity of 2,000,000
Bushels for Edmonton, Alberta, 105
Grain Growth in Metal, Lecture, Francis S. Dodd, 669
Graphite Deposit, Reported Discovery in Mexico, 323
Great Lakes Water Diversion for Chicago, Strong Protest Against, 697
Greenock Harbour Trust to Proceed with
Scheme for Extension of Graving Dock, 133
Grindstone Bursting, Factories Inspector’s Report, 45
Gypsum, High-grade, Discovery of Undeveloped Deposit in Nova Scotia, 585
H HAILSTONES on Christmas Day of Record Size and Weight, 409
Hankow, Tramway and also Railless Trams Services Projected, 265
Harbour Improvement at Kingston, Ontario, 105
Harland and Wolff, Limited, 142
Harwich-Zeebrugge Train Ferry Service, Its Value for Heavy Machinery Transport, 555
Heat Transmission Research in Canada, 237
Henderson, Mr. A., Factory Bill Changes of Definition, 437
Hotel-building Within Temporary Wooden Shell to Protect Workmen from Extreme Cold, 697
Houses, Concrete, Dutch System, for Liverpool, 550
Houses, Proposed New Typo of, 295
Hull Corporation and London and North-Eastern Railway, Suggested Pontoon and New Pier Construction, 409
Hull and Lincolnshire Traffic, New Pier and Pontoon Scheme, 13
Hydro-electric Generator, Tests of Hydraulic Efficiency, 555
Hydro-electric Plants in Norway, Results of Survey of, 381
Hydro-electric Power in Sweden, 112
Hydro-electric Station near Foot of Lake Windermere, 409
Hydro-electric Works Duplication in New Zealand, Tenders to be Called for, 641
INDIAN Importsand Exports, Statistics, 499,
Indian Mines, Report of Coal Dust Committee, 437
Industry and Trade, Meeting of Committee, 495
Information Bureaux and Special Libraries, 113
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations
International Roads Congress, 521
Iron Oxide Reduction by Carbon Monoxide, Experimental Work, 45
IRON AND STEEL :
Automobile Steels, Publications on, 99
Barberton District of South Africa, Discovery of Nickel Ore, 211
Blast-furnace in Canada, Record Output, 105
Blast-furnace Using Coke for Fuel, 13
Cast Iron Research Association :
Annual Meeting, 625
Development, 105, 133
Laboratories Taken Over, 133
Moulding Sands Investigation Arranged for, 351
Cleveland Blast-furnace Practice Defended, 585
Dudley, Iron Works at, Hope of Trade Revival and Re-starting, 295
Electrolytic Iron, Company Formed in Milan for Manufacture of, 133
Experimental Iron Blast-furnace at Minneapolis, 163
Explosions of Cast Iron Hot-plates, 381
Hanyang, China, Large Ironworks Financial Difficulties, 641
Hot-water Tanks, Steel, in America, Reduction in Number of Sizes Made, 13
Iron Ore, Compressive Strength of, Extensive Tests, 323
Manganese Deposits at Insuta, West Africa, Yearly Increase of Output, 613
“ Mechanically Perfect Electrolytic Nickel,” Charles P. Masden, 105
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers :
Pig Iron and Steel Production in June, 105
Pig Iron and Steel Production in July, 237
Pig Iron and Steel Production in August, 351
Pig Iron and Steel Production in September, 437
Pig Iron and Steel Production in October, 585, 613
Pig Iron and Steel Production in November, 697
New* Steel, H. Rossell and Co., Limited, 512
Pig Iron Output of Canada, 608
Pig Iron in the United States, Reduced Output, 295
Redshortness in Wrought Ferrous Metals, 697
Richborough, New Blast-furnace, 613
Seamless Steel Tubing, Manufacture of, W. C. Chancellor, 381
“ Stabrite Silver Steel,” Thos. Firth and Sons, 381
Stainless Steel Ball Bearings, Tests Results, 465
IRON AND STEEL {continued):
Steel Cables for Delaware Bridge, 25,100
Miles of Wire Needed, 697
Steel Houses for Glasgow, Lord Weir’s Offer Accepted, 381
Steel Industry in India, Government Bounty Proposed, 641
Steel, Medium Carbon, with High Manganese Content, Report, J. A. Jones, 437
Steel Production, New Method Reducing Cost by Half, Invented by Swede, 525
Synthetic Cast Iron Making, Tests, 45
Tasmanian Ironworks Projected at Burnie, 105
Weatherproof Iron, Samuel Osborn and Co., Limited, 27
IRRIGATION Association, Western Canada, Annual Convention, 45
Italian Hydro-electric Companies, Prosperity of, in 1923, 381
J JAPAN, Completion of Orito Tunnel and Its Result, 13
Japanese Development at Hakata, Big American Contract Signed for Harbour, Docks, and other Works, 381
KINGSTON (Ontario), Reported Plans for
Very Large New Dry Dock, 211, 265
L LADLES, Bottom-Pour, New Design of Nozzle for, 105
Lanarkshire, Collapse of Old Bridge, 323
Lantern Slides, Offers of, for Lectures, Ed.
Bennis and Co., Limited, 554
Lead Mines in Derbyshire, Work Re-started at, 409
Lever Brothers’ Projected Dock at Bromborough, 265
Light Lorry, Typo Required under Subsidy by War Department, 105
Lightning, Possibilities and Probabilities of Stroke, 495
Locomotive, Storage Battery, Largest Yet Built in the United States, 295
Locusts in Argentina, Protection Against by Galvanised Steel Sheets, 721
Los Angeles Harbour Improvement, 585
Los Angeles Harbour, Improvements in Shipyards, 159
Low-temperature Distillation, H. Nielsen, 555
Lysaght, John, Limited, and Dominion Sheet
Metal Company, 437
M MAGNET Causes Noises to Issue from a Loud Speaker, 669
Manchester Geological and Mining Society, 17
Manchester Ship Canal Receipts, Decrease, 105
Manganese—see Iron and Steel
Manitoba Province, All the Pulp Wood Area for Sale by Dominion Government, 669
Mars under Observation to Settle Question as to Existence of Life on the Planet, 211
“ Mavor and Coulson,” Travelling Post-graduate Scholarship, 449
Melbourne Tramways Question, 75
Melbourne, Widening of Victoria Dock, 381
Mercury Vapour Turbine, Further Development, 105
Mersey Dock for Lever Brothers, Predicted Cost, 437
Metal Moulding Trade in New South Wales, Conditions of Apprenticeship, 75
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company,
Limited, Important Contract, 504
Mexican Government’s Concession for Large Irrigation Dam and other Works, 351
Mica, Its Great Utility, India’s Large Production and Excessive Waste, 495
Mineral Production of Australia for 1922, 351
Mineral Resources of Canada, Dr. C. V. Corless, 211
Miners’ Flame Safety Lamps, Wire Gauze Experiments, 295
Mines Breathing Apparatus, German-made, has Passed Official Tests for British Use, 133
Mines Safety Research Board Report, 237
Mining Subsidence Damage in North Staffordshire, 725
Mining Subsidence, Royal Commission’s Inspection, 323
Minneapolis Methodist Church Displayed by Flood Lights at Night, 185
Montreal, New South Shore Bridge Across the St. Lawrence, 669
Motor Road Building Projects in China, 585
Motor Spirit, Important Now Discovery, 465
Motor Vehicles, Shock Absorber, Prize Competition for, 465
Museum of Engineering Industry, Projected for New York, 105
Mussoorie Improvement, Important Projects for, 555
Mysore Government Projects for Exploitation of State’s Natural Resources, 669
Mysore Survey for Utilising the Gairsoppa Falls, 613
N NAPLES, 200 Million Lire Allotted for Port Enlargement, 185
Natural Gas in Canada, 697
Netherlands East Indies, Deep Sea Harbour at Semarang, 641
Now Brunswick Surveys for Hydro Development Requirements at Grand Falls, 381
Newcastle, Bridge Strengthening to Cope with
Increased Weight of Traffic, 335
Newcastle and Gateshead, Progress of New Bridge Across the Tyne, 265
Newcomen Fire-grate Relic, 697
New Guinea Copper Mines Plans, 13
New South Wales, Details of Proposed Bridge Across the George’s River, 323
New South Wales New Cement-making Plant, 555
New South Wales and New Zealand, Tenders Asked for for Metal Work for Bridges, 304
New Zealand, Arapuni Hvdro-electric Scheme, 351
New Zealand, Hydro-electric Power and Projected Increase, 495
New Zealand, Proposed Harbour Works at Gisborne, 323
Niagara Falls Illumination by Night, Projected Joint Scheme, 555
Niagara Falls, Model to Demonstrate Scenic Effect, 105
Norway’s Solution of Unemployment Trouble, 525
Nottingham as a Port, 295
o OILFIELDS in Argentina, Campbell M. Hunter, 585
Oil-hardening Factories in Norway, 237
Oil Shale in Fushun, Concession Secured by South Manchuria Railway, 265
Oil Still Explosion, Official Report, 585
Oil Well Drilling, Comparison Between Rotary Drilling and Cable Tool Drilling, 323
Oil Wells Sinking in Angola and Near Loanda, 381
Old Tools Replace Binders in Harvesting After Bad Weather, 444
Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission,
Differences of Opinion, 725
Increased Capacity of Nipigon Plant, 323
Increasing Capacity of Cameron Falls Plant, 55
Proposal for Diversion of Waters from Two Rivers, 323
Ore Discovery, Valuable, in Johore, 211
Orc Transport in Mines, Cost and Efficiency of Different Methods, 403
Overhead Equipment, W. Nairn at Congress of Tramways and Light Railways Association, 75
Oxidation Test on Lubricating Oils, 75
p PAINT, Weather-proof, 105
Panama Canal Cargo, United States Ships’ Carrying Share More than Double the English, 13
Paper Making in Quebec, Tremendous Progress, 237
Paper Mill, Greatest in the World, at Quebec, 585
Paraffin Removal from Oil Wells by Use of Sodium Peroxide, Successful Use also for Cleansing Wells and Increasing Output, 409 Parker Hardened Drive Screws, Charles
Churchill and Co., Limited, 62
Permanent Paint, Reputed Many Virtues, 105 Petrol Imported to the Clyde, Products Store, 323
Petroleum Discovered in Department of Heravdt, 381
Platinising, New Process to Prevent Weather Affection of Metals, 525
Platinum, Alluvial, Discoveries in the Transvaal, 697
Platinum Deposits in Waterberg District of the Transvaal, 585
Platinum Exports from Colombia, 45
Platinum Mining in the Transvaal, 613
Platinum Output from Colombia, 409
Poplar, Great Demand for Electrolytic Fluid, 75 Port Construction and Equipment, Contracts
Between Russia and Franco-Polish Group, 75 Portland Cement, Inspection of, J. R. Dwyer and Roy N. Young, 523
Portland Cement, Its Widespread Empire Manufacture, 265
Portugal and South Africa, Agreement as to Lorenzo Marques, 48
Post Office Tube Railway Orders, 479
Power Alcohol from Beet, Committee to Deal with the Question, 409
Premier Diamond Mine, Statistics of Work and Value Realised, 641
Professor Risler’s Experiments with Gas-fdled Tubes at the Sorbonne Laboratory, 669
Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada, Analysis of Use of Water Power in, 159
Pulverised Fuel Utilisation, Quigley Process Rights Purchased, 159
Q QUARRIES in Great Britain and the Isle of Man, List of, 295
Quayside Work, Record Largo Wooden Dummy or Fender for Holding off Leviathan, 295
Quebec Development Company, Progress of Damming Work, 75
Quebec Harbour Improvement, Federal Government Loan, 159, 211
Queensland Government’s Projected Wharves on the Brisbane River, 555
R RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
Accidents :
Accident at Lime-street Station, Liverpool, 495
Broken Coupling Rod, 237
Buffer Stop Collision at London-road Station, Manchester, 351
Collision near St. Helens, and Report, 159
Collision at Stalybridge, 517
Collision, Unusual, on Great Central Section, London and North-Eastern Line, 265
Derailment Caused by Cloudburst, 159
Derailment of East Coast Express Coaches, 13
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued):
Accidents {continued):
Derailment on the London, Midland and Scottish Line, Lieut.-Colonel Mount’s Report, 555
Derailment of Night Express at Buddon, Report, No Definite Cause Discovered, 525
Engine Tire Failure near Weedon, 437
Escape of Express Passenger Train, near Ay cliff e, 613
Fatal Accident at Haymarket Station, Edinburgh, 133, 211
Fatal Collision Outside Preston, 64!
Gravesend Accident, Workmen’s Ticket Accident Liabilities, 669
Inquiries into Railway Accidents and their Results, 265
Level Crossing Accident, but Crossing Owner’s Risk, 697
Lime-street Station, Liverpool, Slight Collision, 133
Lytham Disaster, Adjournment of Inquest, 585 ; Inquest Verdict, Accidental Death, 613
Ministry of Transport Inquiries, 45, 351
Minor Collision Causes Closing of Charing Cross Station, 323
Minor Mishaps on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 241
Montgomery-North-Western Railway of India, Ninety-five Passengers Killed in Collision, 265 ; Increase in Death Roll, 295
Previous Accidents Recalled, 105, 159, 185, 323
Report on Collision at Eastwood, 1 33
Report on Collision at New-street Station, Birmingham, 381
Report on Fatal Collision Outside Euston Station, 295
Reports on Throe Accidents, 668
September’s Bad Record for Railway Accidents, 323
Signalman’s Temporary Aberration of Mind Cause of Collision at Stoke Works Junction, 381
United States Accident Returns for 1923, 725
American Railway Centennial Invitation, 697
American Railway Labour in 1914 and 1924,
Result of Investigation of Wages, Hours, &c., 237
Annual Railway Reports, Statistics, of Ballast, Fencing, Rails and Sleepers, Used in 1923, 555
Appointments and Staff Changes, 45, 105, 185, 211, 465, 585, 669
Associated Society and the Railway Companies, 13
Australia, Northern and Southern Railway to be Built, 555
Australian Commonwealth Parliament, Bill for Construction of Ky ogle-South Brisbane Railway, 641
Australian Commonwealth’s Proposed Construction of Three Goods Lines, 265
Australian New Railway Schemes to be Presented to Federal Parliament, 409
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Centenary, 207 Belgian Congo Railway Electrification, 725 Bombay’s Proposed Underground Railway and Suburban Railway Electrification, 105
Bradshaw, New, Certain Changes Made, 133
British Columbia Electric Railway, Big
Power Tunnel for, 409
British Empire Exhibition and Increased Traffic, 211
British Tender Accepted for British Tramways, though Dearest of Three Offers, 133
Brussels, Metropolitan Railway’s New Planning, 323
Cairo-Suez Standard Gauge Electric Railway, Proposed, 237
Canada, Northern Railway Situation and Future Policy, 45
' Canadian National Railways, Programme, Rejected Bills, 159
C.P.R., New Branch Line, 105
Canal Schemes under Consideration, 113, 185
Capetown-Simonstown Suburban Line Electrification, 641, 697
Cargo Boats, Two New, for Weymouth and Channel Islands Service, 495
Central London Railway, Alteration of Signals and Additional Trains, 105
Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, Request for Tube Railway between South Kensington and South of Thames, 133
Chesterfield to Scrap Electric Tramways and Replace with Trackless Car Service, 669
City Railway, Reopened Section and First Train, 641
City and South London Railway, Reconstruction Approaching Completion, 585
Colombian Government’s Consent to Projected Funicular Railway, 323
Convention of Railway Engineers in Berlin, 279
Cost of Living Higher, but no Change in Wages, 437
Crow’s Nest Pass Railway Rates in Canada, 351
Death of Sir Arthur Anderson, 381
Death of Mr. August Belmont, 725
Death of Brigadier-General Sir Hugh Drummond, 159
Death of Mr. W. Garstang, 437
Death of Mr. F. E. Gobey, 409
Death of Mr. Richard Johnson, 323
Death of Mr. W. L. Meredith, 185
Death of Mr. W. Parker, 45
Death of Colonel H. M. Sinclair, 75
Death of Mr. W. H. Stanier, 45
Death of Mr. H. K. Woodward, 409
Deputation Ask as Work for Unemployed the Building of a Railway between Abergavenny and Talyllin, 133
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, First Electric Locomotive for, 45, 105
District Railway’s New Cars, Great Improvements, 185
East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula Railways, Their Future, 13
East Indian Railway Transferred to the State at End of Current Year, 437
East London Railway, Bill for its Acquisition Deposited by the Southern Railway, 641
Electrical Apparatus, Successful Test on the South African Railways, 585
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Electrification of Lines Between Manchester (Victoria), through Oldham, to Shaw, 585
Engine Tire Failures not Uncommon, 437
Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, Royal
Engineers, Territorial Army, New Commander, 697
Enginemen’s Mileage Increase, Companies Offer, 641
Escalators at Shepherd’s Bush Station, Central London Railway, 525
Excursion Fares, Pre-war, and Present Time, 211, 351
Export Trade Depression Ascribed to Railway Charges, 465
Facing-points Operation by Low-voltage Electrical Mechanism, 585
Fish by Train Ferry, Scotland to Genoa, 555
Footbridges and Level Crossings, 13
French Colonies Development Scheme, 697
German New Railway Board and the Dawes
Report, Names of Four Foreign Members, 409
Glasgow Subway Improvements, 437
Great Eastern ' Train Ferries, Chairman’s
Hopeful Outlook, 295
G.I.P Railway Electrification, Rapid Progress, 409, 641
Great Indian Peninsula’s Successful Half Year, 45
Great Southern (Ireland) Railway Company as Amalgamation of all the Wholly Free State Railways, 725
Great Western Railway :
Birmingham District, New Trains for Suburban Traffic, 555
Caerphilly Castle, from the Exhibition, Back to Work, 585
Contracts, Important Constructional, for
Sheds at Stourbridge and Evesham, 211 Decrease in Traffic in Coal, Diminished
Receipts and Much-increased Wages Bill, 641
Devon and Cornwall Sections, Reconstruction Schemes, 697
Fast Timing on the Great Western, 495
Great Bear Re-named, 437
Great Bear Engine, Repair and Reconstruction, 105
Iver, New Station Opened, 641
Railway Servants, Low Average of Accidents to, 237
Record Speed by Mauretania Special to Paddington, 725
Saltney, near Chester, Projected Alterations at, 237
South Wales, Bad Trade Conditions and Effect on Railwaymen, 669
Swindon to Paddington Quick Run, 405 Unemployment Relief Work, 211
Wagons, Further Fifty, for Coal, Delivered, 409
Windsor Castle, with the King as Driver, Commemoration Plate, 585
Grouping, and Closing of Works, 13
Hull Corporation Tramways Rails, British, though Highest, Tender Accepted, 133
Hull Purchase of Tram Rails from Germany, A Saving of £3000, 211
India, Railway Board, Conference on Standardisation, 613
Indian Railways, A Serious Situation, 323 ;
Compromise Arrived at, 351
Institutes and Institutions, Railway and Transport—see Associations
Interim Dividends and their Signification, 133
International Railway Congress in 1925, 381
Inter-State Commerce Commission Orders for Automatic Train Control, 265
Irish Free State, Railway Tribunal Members, 409
Irish Free State Railway Unification Difficulties, 237, 265 ; New Appointment, 409
Irish Port for America, Blacksod or Galway, Distances to Dublin and Belfast, 377
Irish Railway Tribunal, Free State, Enforced Reduction of Rates for Passengers and Goods, 495
Irish Railways Amalgamation, The Great Southern Railway (Ireland), 613
Irish Trade Union Strike Ended, 323
Japanese Mount Fujiyama, Proposed Cable Railway for, 381
Level Railway Crossings, Proposed Abolition of Some, 185
Light Railway Orders—see Ministry of Transport
Light, A Third, for Railway Signals, Investigation by National Physical Laboratory, 264
Listowel and Ballybunion Railway Closed, 437
Living Link, The Only, with the World’s First Railway Engine, 75
Locomotive Construction in Russia, Soviet Programme, 351
Locomotive, Electric, First Built in Spain, 465
Locomotive Enginemen’s Threatened Strike, 613
Locomotive Repairs on British Railways in 1923, 525
Locomotives for China, Order Given to British Firm, 363
Locomotives of this Country, Their Coal and Oil Consumption in 1923, 525
Locomotives for Egypt, 649
London Electric Railways :
Hendon to Edgware Extension, 133, 159, 237,409
Improvements During the Past Year, 465 New Under-the-River Connection, Four Shafts Sunk, 323
London, Midland and Scottish Railway :
Bally castle Railway to be Taken Over by the Northern Counties System, 159
Caledonian Section, Strathaven and Darvel Branch, Question of Closing, 45
Census of Employees on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 409
Cinematograph Lectures for Instruction of Railwaymen, 585
Cost of Living and Superannuitants, 75
Crewe Railwaymen’s War Memorials, 613 Destructive Fire at Stoke-on-Trent Works, 105
RAILWAYS ANDJTRAMWAYS (continued) :
London, Midland and Scottish Railway (continued) :
“ Engine-drivers’ Hotel,” Camden Town Hostel, 697
Girders, Huge, Successfully Transported from Reddish to Chesterfield, 377
Glasgow Underground Electrification Question, 140
Government and Railway-owned Canal, 113, 185
Inverness Railway Shops, No Reduction at Present, 381
Kitchen Cars, Independent, New Type, Provided, 265
Long Service and Unbroken Records, 344
Lytham Accident and Grouping Changes, 622
Overcrowding on Trains Between Glasgow and London, 133
“ Prevention Better than Cure,” 159
Removal of Knott Spit Promontory to Improve Navigation of Fleetwood Boats, 261
St. Pancras and Nottingham, Fast Nonstop Train, 351
Signalling Changes on the Line, 381
Single Line Loop and Bridge Projected to Connect with Colliery, 295
Sleeping Car Train for Stranraer Starting from Euston Instead of St. Pancras, 356 Staff Changes, 211
Steel and Jarrah Non-inflammable Timber, Projected Use of, for Passenger Cars, 390 Track Circuits on London and North-Western Section, 390
Turbine Steamer Order for the Clyde, 185 Wolverton and Wagon Repair, 75
London and North-Eastern Railway :
Coaling and Sanding Electric Automatic Plant for Locomotives at Doncaster, 437 Eight Largest Locomotives to Test a Bridge, 613
Falling Reserves, Trade Depression and Weak Partners, 159
Hull and Barnsley’s Springhead Works to Close and Locomotive Work to Concentrate at Darlington, 13, 237
Locomotion No. I., 1825, and Flying Scotsman Exhibited at York, 613
Series of Appointments, 185, 669
Sheffield Pullman to Sleep at Sheffield Instead of in London, 13
Sir Ralph Wedgwood’s Appeal for Coal Economy, 159
Six-mile New Line and Nine New Bridges Required, 669
Standardisation of Equipment Used by Men, 525
Stockton and Darlington Railwaymen Still Living, Names Wanted, 641
Terminal Changes Consequent on Grouping, 528
Timber to be Replaced by Girder Bridge, 13
London to Peking in Sixteen Days, 669
London Underground Railway, Extension of Hampstead and Highgate Line from Hendon to Edgware, 158
Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, New Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Shops at Perarnbur, 237
Melbourne Goods Yard of the Victorian Government, 105
Melbourne’s New Railway Lines, 555
Metropolitan District Railway New Rolling Stock, 647
Metropolitan District Railway Time-saving by Faster Train Running, 265
Metropolitan Junction, London Bridge, Collision Resulting from Misread Signal, 351
Metropolitan Railway Bonus of 10 Per Cent, to Men of all Grades for Extra Work due to British Empire Exhibition, 39
Metropolitan Railway Rolling Stock, Lettering of Vehicles, 105
Ministry of Transport:
Ashover Light Railway Extension, &c., Inquiry, 105 ; Ministry Order Made, 265 Census of Railway Employees, 409
Facing Points Distance from Signal-boxes, Ministry’s Regulations, 495
Kingston Down (near Calstock) Light Railway Order, 185
Lancashire and Yorkshire Loop Line Order, Time Limit Extension Sought, 258
Statistics for April, 1924, 133
Statistics for June, Passenger and Freight, 211, 350, 381
Statistics for July, 474
Statistics for August, 697
Statistics for September, 725
Mornington-crescent Station Reopened, 45
Motor-rail Cars on Country Railway Lines in Australia, Successful Running and Introduction to be Tried in New Zealand, 351
National Union of Railwaymen :
Demands Placed in the Hands of the Railway Companies, 725
Forty-eight Hours’ Week ; Washington Convention Resolution, 75
Nationalisation of Railways, 75
Netherlands East Indies, New Electrification Schemes, 669
New South Wales, Proposed Railway Extension and Electrification, 105
New South Wales Railways, Report by Sir Sain Fay and Sir Vincent Raven, 437
New Zealand, Projected Railway Improvement Scheme, 409
New Zealand Railways’ Inquiry About to be Made, 265
Nidd Valley Light Railway, Proposed Electrification Economically Impracticable, 669
Night Expresses to Scotland, Recent Addition, 105
Nord-Sud Trains in Paris, Loud Speakers Installed to Announce Stations, 105
North-South Transcontinental Railway, Australian Opinion Divided, 75
North of Spain Railway Electrification, 585
Old Pneumatic Tube Railway, Projected
Utilisation for Underground Trunk Telephone Cables, 525
One Man Tramcar, 578
Overcrowding in Long-distance Trains, 75
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Line, Contemplated New Line Shortening Journey between Paris and Marseilles, 669
Passengers and Mileage in July, 465
Pietermaritzburg, First Electric Locomotive Leaves for Glencoe Junction, 295
Pilfering, Railway, Action by the Men’s Unions, 233
Polish Railway Schemes, Large Electrical, 211
Post Office Tube Railway, Orders, 479
Power Signalling Apparatus and Tracks Alterations, Central Argentine Railway, Buenos Aires, 725
Rail Car for Paris Suburban Line, New Arrangement of Machinery, 437
Railroad Priority in America, 555
Railway Bills Deposited for Next Session by Various Lines, 641
Railway Centenary in September, 1925, Railway Companies’ Association’s Invitation to International Railway Congress, 13, 237
Railway Material Exports Statistics, 56, 236, 295, 437, 525, 669
Railwaymen in New Parliament, List of Names, 525
Railwaymen’s Unions, Size and Wealth, 45
Railwaymen’s Wages, 465
Railway Rates Tribunal, Standard Charges Question, 13, 185
Railway Returns for 1923, 189
Railway Servants Rating Figures, 45
Rolling Stock, British Railway, Analysis for 1923, 555
Rope-hauled Trains and the Regulations, 465
Santander and Calatayud, Railway Projected Between, 45
Seven Electric Locomotives, New Type, Ordered in America, 585
Shanghai-Nanking Railway, Increase in Passengers, 585
Shortened Funnels for Running on the North British System, 725
Shunting, Gravitational, German and American Devices, 665
Signal and Telegraph Branch of the Victorian Government Railways, 613
Signalling, Three-position, 724
Signalmen’s New Union, 105
South Africa Rolling Stock Order to Go Abroad, 193
South Africa, Union of, Minister of Railways Commission on Railway Workshops Question, 465
South Africa, Union of, Over 400 Miles of New Lines to be Opened Shortly, 295
South Australian Government Proposes Electrification in Adelaide Area, 351
Southern Railway :
Basingstoke and Alton Branch Line Reopened, 185
Brighton Section Electrification Progress ; also South-Eastern from Victoria to Orpington, 585
Brighton Section Vehicles Fitted with Vacuum Brake, 437
Cross-Channel Steamer, Company’s New, 585
Eastbourne Complaints and Company’s Promise, 585
Route of Trains from Waterloo to Portsmouth, 13
Sir Herbert Walker on Work of Staff and on Improved Revenue, 169
Ventnor, Projected Funicular Railway, 585
Spanish New Railway Policy, New Rolling Stock Orders, 495
Spanish Railway Electrification, Tenders Called for, 295
Steam and Electric Trains in Manchester Area, Comparison in Timing, 323
Strikes and Government’s Powers, 13
Suggested Land Purchase for Stone Quarry Extension, 669
Summer Train Services, 75
Sunderland Docks, Projected Railway Sidings Adjoining, 725
Sunderland Replaces Tramways by Motor Omnibuses, 465
Sweden, North, Rapid Railway Development, 295
Swedish State Railways’ Budget Demands, 351
Swiss Federal Railways Prohibit the Use of Gas-lighted Vehicles, 211
Swiss Railway Electrification, Locomotive Mechanical Parts, 17
Tasmanian Railways’ New Appointment, 159
Tattenham Corner Signal-box Completely Destroyed by Fire, 105
Timber Railway Viaducts Disappearing, 613
Toronto, Railway Viaduct and Union Termini Completion Projected, 101
Toronto’s Street Railway System, 706
Trackless Trams on Rotherham System, 697
Traffic Receipts of Four Grouped Companies, Decrease Due to Strikes, 45
Trams, Electric, Proposed Substitution of Trolley Omnibuses 697
Tube Railways, Doors of New Rolling Stock, 133
Tubes, Suggested New, but Unprofitable, 725
Turbo-condensing Locomotive’s Record Journey, 159
United States Defective Percentage of Rolling Stock and Violations of Safety Appliance Acts, 351
United States Representation at the International Railway Congress, 555
Victoria Railways, Proposed Change of Sites for Certain Works, 725
Wagons, Railway-owned, Annual Reports, 525
War-time Railways by British Engineers in France, Order for Preservation for Public Use, 437
Watford New Line, Remodelling of Station Yard of Metropolitan and London and North-Eastern Joint Railways, 495
Welsh Highland Railway and Passenger Traffic, 677
West Hartlepool Light Railways Orders, 697
West Somerset Mineral Railway Sold by Auction, 185
Wireless Telegraphy, Experiments in its Applications to Railways, 45
Woolwich Locomotives, Twenty Sold to Southern Railway, 465
RAND Record for Shaft-sinking, 555
Remington Typewriter Company Starting Plant in Toronto, 697
Resin from Oporto, Crude Distillation Methods, 265
Rhodesia, Mulungushi Falls Hydro-electric Scheme, 585
Rhodesian Museum, Bulawayo, Government
Grant for Geologist, 585
Rio de Janeiro Docks Improvement, Further Contracts for, 159
Road Congestion at Westminster, 495
Road Surfaces, Complaints of Slipperiness and
Investigation, 295
Roads Bill, New, Introduced, 105
Roads in Quebec, Steady Improvement Reported, 237
Roumanian Market for British Goods, 13
Royal Technical College, Glasgow, Amalgamation of Departments, 62
Royal Technical College, Glasgow, Electrical
Engineering Equipment, 363
Rubber Latex, Results of Tests on, 265
Rubber in Liquid Form, Increased Shipments of, to America, 409
Russian Geological Committee Reports Coal Discoveries in Petchora Region, 697
Russia’s First Steam Turbine Since the Revolution, 13
s .ST. LAWRENCE Waterways Project, Proposed Treaty between Canada and United States, 295
Sandalwood Oil Refineries at Bangalore and Mysore City, Prosperous Pioneer Industry, 211
San Francisco, Projected Water Front Extension, 295
Santa Fe, Reported New Dock Project at, 555
Sault St. Marie, Combined Traffic in Various Canal Systems at, 409
Scholarship, Entrance, University College, 220
Scholarships, “ D. B. Morison ” Engineering Apprentice, 449
Scholarships in Engineering, Awards by “ Beams,” 600
Scholarships, “ Mavor and Coulson ” Travelling Post-graduate, 449
Screws, Drive, Parker Hardened, Charles Churchill and Co., Limited, 62
Severn Barrage Scheme, Private Report, 75
Sewage Pump, Electrically Driven, for Calcutta, Tenders Invited, 641
Shanghai Automatic Telephones on Trial in View of Further Installations, 323
Sheffield’s Unemployment Relief, Projected Expenditure, 351
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :
Allentown, 8000-Ton Tanker, Conversion from Steam to Diesel-electric Propulsion, 159
Anchor Liner Ordered for Indian Service, ] 85 Australia’s Two New Cruisers, Plans for Floating Dock and Building Cruisers in England, 133 ; Tenders to be Called for from England and Australia, 295, 381
British Submarine’s Record Voyage, 185
Cable Ship, New, The Cable, for Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, 495
Clyde Tonnage Launched in August, and for Eight Months of Current Year, 265
Cruiser, New, Keel Laid, Vickers Limited, 464
Cruisers, First of the Five New, Started, 409
Cunard Liner Franconia’s Mishap, 133
Egremont Castle, Successful Salving of, After Fire and Explosion, 45
Electric Passenger Ship, Reputed Largest in the World, Under Construction, 105, 159 Gyro-compass Position on New Canadian Pacific Steamers, 465
H.M.S. Lion Broken Up, 555
Isle of Wight, Motor Lifeboat for, 542
Itchen, Ship and Yacht Building Yard at, 127
Largest Turbine-electrically Propelled Seagoing Liner, Projected Construction, 105, 159
Laurentic’s Gold Salving Progress, 237
Mauretania’s Record Speed, 75
Mauretania’s Speed Record Beaten by Herself, 211
Notable Ship Reconstruction by Swedish Company, 323
Oil Tanker for New Zealand, 381
Orient Liner Oronsay Fitted with Duct Keel, 237
Rio Dorado’s Construction, Exceptional, Details, 13
Scapa Flow Sunken German Vessels, Progress of Salving, 237, 265, 295, 381, 437
Steam Trawler Fatal Accident Due to Stop Valve Failure, 555
Submarine L 53 to be Commissioned for Service, 669
Tees Much Increased Shipbuilding, 725
Thames Proposed Passenger Fleet, Sir George Hulme’s Views, 323
Thorny croft Motor Boat, 551
United States Naval Programme for Ships and Aircraft, 613
White Star Liner Arabic, Change of Service, 133
Wooden War-time Ships, American, to be Burnt at Sea, 351
Yarrow’s Designs for Dutch Destroyers Accepted, 265
SISAL Hemp Production in the Empire, 21
Slag Sand Used for Concrete, 409
Smoke Abatement Bill Deferred, 6 9
Societies—see Associations
Standards—see British
Steam Pipe, Copper, Fatal Failure of, 211
Steam Retort for Experimental Purposes, New Features, 323
Steam Turbines, Proposed Maximum Sizes, 75
Storage Dams on Quebec Rivers, Plans now under Review, 105
Subsidy Type Light Lorries, War Department Specification, 89
Subsoil Water Rising, Preventive Means, 697
Subway in Brussels, Surveys Started for, 525
Sugar Mill, Large, for Jamaica, Duncan
Stewart and Co., 347
Sugar and Motor Spirit Factory in Mysore, 697 Sulphur Content of Organic Substances, Method of Estimation of, 45
Sulphur Production Increase in Japan, 10
Sulphuric and Hydrochloric Acids, Commercial, Simultaneous Production of, Differing Processes Suggested, 265
Sweden’s Hydro-electric Power but Continued Need for Fuel, 133
Swedish Immense Hydro-electric Resources, Possibilities of Much Increased Use, 495
Swedish Telegraphs and Broadcasting, 237
Sydney, Two Automatic Telephone Exchanges for, 105
TANGANYIKA Mines, Copper Production, Great Expectations, 409
Tasmanian Proposed Canal at Ralph’s Bay Neck, 75
Telegram Despatch from Unattended Public Call Boxes in Birmingham, 265
Telephone Exchange, Automatic, for Berne, 185
Telephone Exchanges under Construction and
Projected, 295
Telephone Exchanges in India, Statistics of, 185
Telephone Subscribers in Paris, Administration’s Lesson in Patience, 159
Telephones in Durban, Conversion to Automatic Working, 159
Telephones in Italy, Cession to Private Industry, 381
Terrestrial Magnetism Department of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, Report of Work Done, 53
Testing Work by United States Bureau of Standards, 237
Thames Longitudinal Bridge Scheme Rejected, 669
Thames-Severn Canal, Projected Abandonment, 75
Tibet Seeks Engineering Instruction from England, 237
Tinfoil Manufacture in Chekiang, China, 465
Tokyo, Projected Construction of Subways, 265
Town Hall, New, for Nottingham, 641
Train Ferry at Grafton, Clarence River, New South Wales, 641
Train Ferry Service Between Harwich and Zeebrugge, Question of Winter Service, 133
Tramway from Southend to Eltham, Proposed to Apply for Authority for Construction, 133
Trelleborg, Sweden, Harbour Extension, 613
Tunnel, Pedestrian, Under the Liffey, 13
Tunnel, Shandaken, for New York Water Supply, Longest in the World and Quickest Excavated, 265
Turbine, Critical Vibrations and Speeds, 351
u ULTRA-VIOLET Rays Effect on Polished Metal, 211
Unemployment, Great Increase in, 133
United States Company’s Loan for Buenos
Aires Rebuilding and Development, 237
United States Metal Mining Industry Statistics, 669
University College Entrance Scholarship, 220
V VALVES, Steam or Water, Controlled by Electric Motors, 75
Vancouver, Port of, Shipping in and out of, Statistics, 45
Ventilating Fan for Gold Mines, South Africa, Largest in the World, 613
Vermilion Manufacture and Trade in Hong Kong, 295
Victoria Quay, Fremantle, W.A., Construction of, 327
w WAGON and other Wheels, Gears, &c., Constructed by Stroh Process, 75
War Department Subsidy Type Light Lorries Scheme, Enrolment of Vehicles, 185
Water Gauges for Marine Boiler Testing, Causes of Rise and Fall of Water in the Glass, 437
WATER SUPPLY :
Edmonton Supply from Pigeon Lake, 45
Lead Mine Furnishes Pure Water Supply, 525
New South Wales Water Supply Scheme, 613
New York Water Supply, New Tunnel of Record Length and Speed in Excavation, 265
New Zealand, Proposals for Auckland Water Supply, 495
Pumping Station Below Ground Level to Increase Water Supply in Chicago, 409
Rand Water Board’s Supply Scheme, 13
South Africa’s Various Schemes for Water Supply, 697
Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company’s Undertaking Sold, 13
Surface Water Supply of Canada, 380
Vernon Hooper Dam for Durban Water Supply, 45
WATER SUPPLY {continued) :
Victorian Rivers and Water Supply Commission. Great Storage Increase. 697
Worthing Proposes New Waterworks. 669 WATER-TUBE Boiler Explosion. Comparison of American and British-made Tubes. 641 Water-tube Boiler Explosion. Report, 697 Water Wheel Used Since 1847 Replaced by
Turbine, 725
Waygood-Otis Club. Annual Sports, 89
Weathering Properties of Building Stone, Tests and Results, 185
Well Sinking in China. Government Rewards Offered for, 555
Wembley Excursion from Presoot, Lancashire, 421
Western Australia, Mining Statistics of. 492 Westminster Bridge Deflection, Experiments, 211
Wharf to be Constructed Beside Cannonstreet Station, 351
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY:
Aerials and Lightning, Earthing Precautions, 237
Amateur Experimental Work, Need for Guidance, 1$5
Amplification of Received Wireless Signals, 245
Bombay, Butcher Island, Projected Direction Finder Installation for Ships, 555
British Broadcasting Company’s Chelmsford Station Heard on a Crystal at Algiers, 185
Broadcasting in England and America Compared, 555
Broadcasting at Sea, Specially Designed Apparatus for, 465
Crystal Set Experiments, Parts of Human Body Possible to Replace Crystal, 159
Farmer’s Home-made Wireless and an Electric Power Company, New Point in Law, 495
Greece, Wireless Telephony in, 465
High-tension Wireless Batteries, Hart Accumulator Company, Limited, 194
Johannesburg, Tests from New Broadcasting Station, 159
Lectures on Radio Telephony and Broadcasting, 465
Life-saving in Mines, Experiments in Progress, 133
Lighthouses, British Wireless Transmitting Apparatus for, 323
Marconi, Senatore, Return to London After Development of New Beam System, 525 Peking and Tientsin, Tientsin and Shanghai, German Wish to Install Wireless Telephones Between, 437
Post. Office and Radio Society of Great Britain, Difference of Opinion, 495
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY (continued) :
Post and Telegraph Department, South Africa, Rapid Growth of Telephones and Broadcasting, 613
Radio Bearings of Transmitting Stations, Observations of. 641
Radio Club for Poland, The First to be Founded, 641
Radio-telephonic Communication for Mersey Lightships, 725
Radio Transmission Important Results, Claimed from New Development, Dr. J. H. Hammond, jun., 133
Railways and Wireless, Experiments. 45
Regeneration by Inductive Feedback. C. B.
Jollife and Miss J. A. Rodman, 245
Seven Big Wireless Stations for Great Britain and the Continent for Direction of Aircraft Navigation, Reported Scheme for. 295
Ships’ Lifeboats’ Wireless Set, Successful Tests off Melbourne, 409
Transmitter Experiments Between Vienna and British Broadcasting Stations. 13
Wireless Frame Aerial. Reputed Largest in the World. Erected in Aldwych for United States Shipping Board. 75
Wireless Installation, Very Effective, for New Zeppelin, 159
WOOD Distillation in India. Modern Plant, 566
Wood Distillation Plant of Ford Motor Company, 613
Wood Pulp Industry, Large, for North-West Tasmania, 323
Wreckage Two and Half Centuries Old Dredged Up, 409
X-RAYS in Industry, J. F. Driver, 381
YALU Timber Company, New Mill Projected, 13
Yokohama Harbour, Further Enlargement Projected, 75
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ZINC Mine in British Columbia, Said to bo World’s Largest, 641
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