The Engineer 1925 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs
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ABERDEEN University Engineering Department, Construction and Equipment, 299
Acid Tanks, Ingredients Used in Coating Interiors, 625
AERONAUTICS:
Aerial Surveys in Canada, 133
Aerodrome with Aviation School for Capital of Shansi Province, China, 709
Air Service Proposed between Kisumu, on Lake Victoria Nyanza and Khartum, 435
Airship Service to India, Base at Ismailia, 105
Aviation : Its Commercial Value by Timesaving, 299
Flying Boat for Mr. H. Vanderbilt, 681
Light Planes, Design of, and Engine Limits, 435
Navigraph, Apparatus for Steering, 573
R 36, 200ft. Mooring Mast for, at Ismailia, 517
Recorders for Aeroplanes, British and American Practice, 489
Royal Air Force Display, 473
Scholarship and Prize Awards by Air Ministry, 215
Seaplanes for Dutch Government, Napier Lion Engines, 105
Six and a-Half Days’ Airship Service between England and New Zealand, Commander Burney’s View, 489
Sweden, Manufacture of Aeroplanes in, 47
Two New Air Routes between Belfast and Great Britain, 133
Two Problems in Aeroplane Design, 299
United States Naval Seaplane Flight, Endurance Record, 517
Wright Aeroplane to Remain at Washington, 653
ALBERTA Main Highways Rapid Increase, 133
All-metal Roofs and Immunity from Lightning, 47
Alloy of Copper and Silicon, Resistance to Corrosion, 407
Alloys, Pyrophoric, Production of, Dr. M. F. Bugden, 47
Alluvial Platinum Fields Worked by Dredging, 461
Aluminium Alloys, Two New, 573
Aluminium Obtained by Hoope Electrolytical Process, 625
Aluminium as Protection of Metals Against High Temperature, 517
American Lead Pencils, 381
Ammonia, Synthetic, Plant for Manufacture by Claude Process, 161
Antimony and Bismuth, Imperial Institute Monographs, 189
Apprentices, Scholarships for, 523
Arsenic Output in Southern Rhodesia, 461
Asphalt Discovery in Manitoba, 133
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
Association, British :
Annual Meeting, Date and Presidents, 585
Association, British Acetylene and Welding :
Fluxes, Need for Scientific Examination and Price Reduction, Professor Darling, 133
Association of Engineers, Manchester : New Process for Mild Stainless Steel Production, H. S. Primrose, 15
Association of Mining Electrical Engineers :
North of England Branch :
Pole-mounted Outdoor Sub-stations, A. Bannister, 327
Association, Women’s Electrical :
Three Lectures, Miss M. Partridge, 309
Institute, Iron and Steel :
Annual Meeting and Dinner, 145, 447 ;
Programme, 447
Autumn Meeting, 145
Institute of Marine Engineers :
Fuel Economy, E. W. L. Nicol, 299
Student Graduate Examination Passes, 143
Institute of Metals :
Journal of Institute, Lectures and Papers, 169
Numerous Elections of Members and Students, 47
Institute of Physics :
Annual General Meeting, Annual Report, Elections of Officers, 625
Institution of Automobile Engineers :
President and Vice-presidents Elected, 105
Institution of Chemical Engineers :
Annual Meeting at Leeds, 595
Industrial Water Supply and Stream
Pollution, Symposium on, 595
Library Being Formed for the Institution, 685
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
Institution of Civil Engineers :
Annual General Meeting, Election of Council, 585
Awards for Papers, 529
Association of London Students :
Forty-fourth Annual Dinner, 365
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Annual Dinner, 227
Awards of Premiums for Papers, 557
Awards of Students’ Premiums, 696
Engraved Plate for Production of Presidential Certificate, Present from Institution of Gas Engineers, 133
Examination for Associate Membership, 69, 256
Faraday Medal Award, 145; and Presentation, 309,353
International Conference on Extra High-tension Supply Systems, 327
Model Form of General Conditions of Contract (Export), 724
Permanent Magnets in Theory and Practice, S. Evershed, 309
War Memorial Book, 501
Institution of Gas Engineers :
Election of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and also of the Lord Mayor of Manchester as Honorary Members, 227
Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers :
Summer Meetings, 696 ; Programme, 696 Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
Acceleration of Work, Speed versus Haste, Dr. Russell, 215
Annual Dinner, 541
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
North-Western Branch :
Annual Dinner, 365
Institution of Mining Engineers :
Scholarship in Mining, Mavor and Coulson, Award, 337
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy :
Awards of Medal, Premium and Prizes, 473 Institution of Naval Architects :
Annual Meetings, Annual Dinner, Offers of Medal and Premium for Papers, 170
Awards of Gold Medal and Premium, 155
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
Limiting Possibilities in Steam Plants, Professors A. L. Mellanby and William Kerr, 327
ASSOCIATIONS. INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institution of Petroleum Technologists : Election of President and Vice-presidents, 221
Institution, Royal :
Annual Meeting, Reports, Election of Officers, 532
Benzene Centenary Celebration, “ Faraday as a Chemist,” 668
General Meetings and Elections, 170, 283, 447, 557, 668
Programme of Lectures, 557
Sir Humphry Davy’s Letters, Valuable Gift to Association, Legacy, 447
Institution of Structural Engineers : Formation of Sectional Committees of the
Science Committee, 227
Officers and Council for Session, 668
Society of Chemical Industry :
Birmingham and Midland Section :
Iron in Antiquity, by Dr. J. Newton Friend, 215
London Section :
Tar Distillation, Breaking-up Pitch by Novel Method, C. O. Condrup, 215
Society, Faraday :
General Discussion at Oxford, Photochemical Reactions in Liquids and Gases, 693
Joint Meeting, Symposium and Discussion, 579
Physical Chemistry of Steel-making Processes, 579
Society, Royal, of Arts :
Fothergill Prize for Essay, 557
Joint Meeting :
Non-stop Flight to the Netherlands East Indies, Mr. T. a Thuessink van der Hoop, 517
AT AL ANT A, Ltd., Works Run Entirely by Women, 681
Atmospheric Conditions, Effect on Workers, Experiments, 269
Australian Eucalyptus Timber and Paper Manufacture, 681
Australia’s Deficiency in Underground Water, Fresh and Salt Water from Neighbouring Bores, 545
Automobile Club, The Royal, Demonstration of Anti-dazzle Headlamps and Devices, 215
BEET Sugar Factory at Wellington, Farmers' Undertaking to Grow Beet, 489
Beet Sugar Factory near Yeovil to Work on Next Year’s Crop, 133
Beet Sugar Factories, ^Estimated Cost and Proportion Expended in this Country, 709
Beet Sugar Filtered with Bone Charcoal, No such Plant yet Available in Britain, 133
Belfast Association of Engineers, 554
Bell, 10 Tons in Weight, Fourth Largest in the
Country, at Bristol University, 461
Bentonite, Canadian, for Soap-making, 381
Bentonite Used in Wet Grinding of Asphalt 77
Bideford Fourteenth Century Bridge Reopened, 653
Bihar and Orissa, Attempt to Force Back River to its Old Channel, 407
Birmingham Fire Brigade New Equipment for Emergencies affecting Breathing, 15
Birmingham to the Sea Canal Scheme, Parliamentary Assistance Question, 653
Birmingham University Establishing School of Sugar, 133
Birmingham University New Buildings, 77
Black Country Reminiscences, Duncan J. Shedden, 353
Black Country Waste Dumps, Proposals for Utilisation, 133
Boiler Accident, Unusual, on Dredger, 545
Boiler Ashes in a Wet State, Test of Water
Consumed in Handling, 161
Boiler Explosion, Cause of Failure, 77
Boiler Explosion and Danger of Replacing
Rivets by Bolts, 545
Boiler Explosion, Formal Investigation, 709
Boiler Water Gauges, Board of Trade Notice, 299
Bomb, Live German, Retrieved from Thames
Mud at Waterloo Bridge, 573
Brassfounders in China, Their Poor Pay, 709
Brick Walls, Relative Strength Tests with
Different Mortars, 407
Bridge at Boothferry Over the Ouse, Cost of, 133
Bridge-building Rivets, Unsatisfactory, and the Remedy, 469
Bridge to Connect Montreal with South Shore, 573
Bridge, Damoodar River, near Telmueho, Opened for Traffic, 77
Bridge, Highway, Over Copenhagen Harbour, 335
Bridge, New, Over the Derwent at Baslow
Opened, 545
Bridge Over the Dee at Q.ueensferry, 105
Bridge Over the Hudson at Castleton, New
York, 545
Bridge Over the White Nile at Khartum, 189
Bridge Renewal at Hampton Court, 653
Bridge Replacement at Sunderland, 189
Bridges, Two, to Connect Staten Island with
New Jersey, 47
Brighton Sewers Board Loan, 573
Brinell Hardness Numbers, Table of, 309
British Chemical Standards, Non-ferrous
Standard Samples, 614
British Columbia, Second Narrows of Burrard
Inlet, Road and Railway Bridge under Construction for, 435
B.E.A.M.A. Scholarships, 567
British Embassy at Tokyo to Replace that Damaged by Earthquake, 599
British Engineering Standards Association : \
Building Materials, Sectional Committee and
Sub-committees to be Appointed, 240
Election of Officers and Members, 573
Standard Specifications:
Bus-bars and Connections, 473, 681
Marine Flanges, 61
Non-ferrous Locomotive Material, Re
vision of Specifications for, 309
British Foundrymen, Institution of :
Birmingham Branch :
Pyrometric Control of Annealing Temperatures, D. Wilkinson, 104
Lancashire Branch :
John Wilkinson Medal Examination, 468
Sheffield and District and East Midland Branches :
Visit to Yorkshire Ironworks, 337
Broadcasting—see Wireless
Building Material, “ Celotex ” Manufactured from Sugar Cane Residue, 47
Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 473
c CABLE Ploughing Tackle, British versus German in France, 133
Cables, Four New Rapid-transmission Transoceanic, Projected, 599
Calcutta Canal Bridges Replacement to Carry Heavier Traffic, 407
Cambridge University Engineering Department, Conversazione, 360
Canada, Proposed Hydro-electric Power Plant, 435
Canada, Water Power Resources of, 240
Canadian Roads and Federal Aid System, 407
Carbide Lamps or Candles Underground, Carbon
Dioxide Dangers, 407
Carbon Black Manufacture from Oils by Electrical Process, 133
Carillon, Largest in the World, 517
Cars, Pleasure and Commercial, Increased
Export from the United States, 269
Catalogues for Palestine, 611
Causeway to Cost 12 Million Dollars near New
Orleans, 189
Cauvery Dam (Krishnarajasagara), Grant from Mysore Government, 241
Cauvery Dam, Revised Estimates for Works Sanctioned, 545
Cement Factory to be Built near Cambridge, 299
Cement Factory Erection at Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 77
Cement Factory near Northfleet, Proposed
Largest in the Country, 201, 241
Central Heating Experiments in Berlin, 241
Central Heating for Institutional Buildings in Canada, 133
Chefoo Harbour All-steel Cargo Sheds, 517
Chemical Work? on the Tyne, Projected, 105
ChTCa¥°’STAbS^aCti.?n of Wafcer Great rvi Loss Entailed, 299
Scheme,G^ernment Construction
Chimney Collapse, Fatal, near Leipzig, 709
Chimney, Reinforced Concrete, 300ft. High in
Australia, 189 ®
Chimney’s Resistance to Demolition by Dynamite, 653 J J
China, Official Estimate of Population, 15
China s Two Largest Zinc Mines, 625
Chinese Cities, Widening of Streets, 327
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
Accidental Coal Discovery at Ilkeston, 105 Alberta s Coal Production, 327
Anthracite Coal, Excellent Seam Struck in New Glanamman Colliery, 381
Argada Colliery, First Opened on Karanpura Coalfield, India, 687
Bengal Coal Quality and Quantity, Increasing Importations, 15
Bentley Colliery Starting New Seam Below Barnsley Bed, 133
Bly th, New Coaling Staithes Equipment, 435 Boring Operations at Sutton, South of Doncaster, 299
British India Coal Output Statistics, 161
Brodsworth Colliery, New Third Shaft Working, 189
Carboscope for Estimation of Ash Content in Coal, 15
C1?09 C°al Seam Discovery Near Suiyuan,
Coal Dust in Mines, Methods of Control, 189 Coal Getting, The Best Method, Mavor and
Coulson’s View, 709
Coal-handling Plant at Port Sudan, 133
Coal Mme Fire Ended by a Year’s Labour, 353
Coal in New South Wales, New Discoveries, 407
Coal Output of the United Kingdom in 1924, Steadily Diminishing Quantity, 189 Out put-of Coal, Further Big Decrease, 709
Coatbridge Sewer Excavation and Coal Seam Discovery, 189
Coal Prospects at Winslow, Bucks., 681
Coal Shipping at Rapid Rate, 709
Coke Competition with View to Improving Gas Coke, 215, 573
Coke Production Recommended at Fernie British Columbia, 381
Coke Samples Pulverisation, Various Methods, 461
Daily Output of Coal in Some Canadian Mmes, 625
Discovery of Coal near Worksop, 545
Durban Navigation Collieries, New Coal-bearing Ground Acquired, 381
Emergency Speed of Hoisting from Mines, 77
Garforth Colliery at Barnbow, Steady Progress with Construction, 105
German Coal Industry Crisis, 269
Kamasamndram, South India, Coal Discovery, 299
Kent Collieries, Suggested Deep-water Port for Shipping Coal, 133
Lamps for Coal Miners, Electric, Replacing Flame Lamps in America, 241
Low Temperature Carbonisation, Result of Coal Tests, 269
Plant to Carbonise 1000 Tons of Coal Daily, 573
Mysore Government’s Important Coal Dis-covery, 381, 573
New Pits and Colliery Villages Projected at Awkley and Micklebring, 461
Powdered Coal Objected to as being an Explosive, 653
Pulverised Coal-fired Boilers, Favourable
Test Against Mechanical Stokers, 241
Richmond Main Colliery, Australia, Record Output, 15
Seven Lines Cable, New, to Link Up Yorkshire Collieries, 161
Ship Coaling Record in New South Wales Harbour, 241
South African Coal,Output for March, 625
South Australian Government Investigating
Possibilities of Utilising Brown Coal, 625
South Wales Coalfield, Support of Underground Workings, 105
Spitzbergen Coal Production, Anticipations for this Season’s Output, 545
Stone Dusting in Coal Mines, Best Materials for, 189
United States Collieries, Fatality Rate Statistics, 15
Valuable New Seam of Coal in the Erewash Valley, 105
Victorian State Coal Mine at Wonthaggi,
Estimate of Coal Still in Mine, 625
Winslow, Possibility of Coal Mining Near, 517
World’s Record for a Day’s Coal Output,’ 161
World’s Record Broken, 327
Yorkshire Collieries, Meeting Underground
of Two Sets of Workers, 299
COALITE ” as Motor Fuel Tested and Triumph over Imported Spirit, 353
Cochin Harbour Development Loan, 189
Commercial Developments in Europe, Ten Lectures at City of London College, 27
Commercial Motor Vehicles Parade, Thornv-croft Successes, 435, 447
Company Registered as Limited by Guarantee and Not Having a Capital, 517
Compressed Air Explosions, 189
Concrete Houses and .Cement Factory, 201
Concrete Vessels Rendered Impervious to Acid by German Process, 77
Consulting Engineers, Association of, Annual Dinner, 393
Copper, Conductivity of Crystallised Form of, Compared with that of Pure Electrolytic Copper, 241 J
Copper Discovery in Newfoundland, 15
Copper Mines, Congo-Rhodesia Borderland, Predictions as to Value, 105
Copper Ore Prospecting in Algeria, 15
Copper Ores from the Belgian Congo, Electrolytic Treatment, 381
Copper Output Increased from Katanga, Congo, 15 °
Copper-Steel Alloy as Possible Non-corrosive Iransmission Line Pole, 461
Corrosion Institute in America, 517
Corrosion, Nature and Prevention of, 117
Corrosion Ravages, Effort to Check, by Formation of New American Institute, 489
Crane, 80-Ton Floating, for Lyttle ton, N.Z., Harbour Board, 545
Creosoting Plant in Alberta, Output of, 47
Crystal Palace Old Students’ Society :
Annual Dinner, 557
Cyanide in Mysore, Electrical Plant for Production, 105
D
DAM, Experimental Arch, in Southern California, 625
Dar-es-Salaam Wharf Facilities to be Improved, 15
Death of Mr. W. W. Bradfield, 353
Death of Professor Henry M. Lamb, 461
Delco-Remy and Hyatt, Ltd., Staff Dinner, 473
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research :
Fuel Research Board :
Technical Paper No. 10 Continues Report on Carbonisation of Coal, &c., 47
Technical Paper No. 12, Heating of Rooms, 709
Third Memorandum, 653
Dictionaries, Illustrated Technical, British Office Opened for Schlomann-Oldenbourg Series, 230
Distilling Plant for Treating Shale in Tasmania, 241
Dock, New Graving, at Durban, 189
Docks, Graving and Floating, at Vancouver Island, 545
Doncaster Corporation Allotments for Numerous Schemes, 545
Douglas Motor Cycle’s Climbing Feat, 381
Dredging Fleet on the St. Lawrence River, 681
Drop-stamped Railway Wheels, 557
Dry Dock, Large New Proposed, at Launceston, Tasmania, 77
Duralumin, Die-stamping, H. A. Whiteley, 189
Durban Harbour Entrance Improvement, Recommendations, 545
Dust Removal in Briquetting Plants, Electrical Compared with Water Cleaning, 407
Dust Removal from Potters’ Shops, 573
E
EBBW VALE Ironstone Mines, Reopening, 215
ELECTRICAL MATTERS:
Alternating Currents in Sheathed Cables, Losses Involved in Distribution, 489
Automatic Rotary Converter Sub-station, Third Completed in Durban, 545
Berlin, Proposed New Electric Power Station, 681
Birmingham’s Profit on Electric Supply, 653
Botany, N.S. Wales, Suggested as Site for New Power-house, 625
Buenos Aires Projected Big Electric Power Installation, 709
Cable between Vancouver and Fiji to be Doubled, 161
Canada, Big New Power Plant and Transmission Line to Winnipeg, 15
Canadian Montmorency Power Company,
Projected 6000 H.P. Development, 407
Capetown, New Generating Station for, 625
Chinese Government, Shansi Province, to Erect Steam-electric Power Plants, 709
Darlington Electricity Undertaking, Output and Working Cost, 105
Earth Connection, American Method of Making, 241
Electrical Industry and Prices in Prussia, Poor Trade, 105
Electric Main Underground Haulage, 517
Electricity Production by Public Utility Power Plants in 1924, 709
Explosions in Electrical Conduits and Sodium Salt, 517
Farms’ Need of Electric Power and Excessive
Cost of Application, 545
Fireproofing Medium for Protection of Switchboard Wire, 625
Halifax and Huddersfield Electricity Undertakings, Linking-up Scheme Proposed, 435
Huddersfield and Halifax Corporation Power Plants, 461
Insulated Electric Wire, Flame-proofing by Selenium, 299
Insulating Varnish for Prevention of Flashovers, 489
International Conference in Paris, on Extra High-tension Systems, 327
Johannesburg Power Station Cooling Towers, 85
Measuring Tape and Live Circuits, Protective Apparatus, 161
Million-Volt Arc, 326
Motors, Large, for Rolling Mill Drive, 461
Mysore, Generation of Power from Gersoppa Falls, 15
New Electric Lighting Plant at Agra, 681
New York Edison Company’s Projected 700,000-K.W. Generating Station, 625, 653
Plympton, Divided Opinion as to Erection of Power-house, 599
Power-house Extension at Bendigo, Victoria, 133
Power Line Interference with Radio Broadcast Reception, 241
Power Plant, Large, for Alaskan-Canadian Border, 435
Power Plants Used in Danish Agriculture, 686
Power Supply for Siddick Colliery, 517
Power Transmission, 100,000-Volt, to be
Brought Across the Narrows, Puget Sound, 381
Prague and Kolin, Laying Long-distance Cable, 161
Rural Electrification in Michigan, 381
Shawinigan Company’s Power Development on Batiscan River, Quebec, 77
Snake River, Idaho, Survey with View to Power Development, 381
South Africa and Electricity Supply, Interruptions by Lightning, 681
Steam-driven Large Power Station to Replace Tokyo Stations Destroyed by Earthquake, 269
Scheme,
Largest
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ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):
Tafjord Power Development Scheme in Norway, 161
Traffic Control by Spot-lighting Apparatus, Experiment in Leicester, 435
rr?x1r.SMOr“iei’ Load» Device for Indicating, While m Motion, 545 b
Trichinopoly, Small Electrical Power Supply for, 133 1 J
Trolley Omnibuses to Supersede Electric Trams in Singapore, 105
Trucks, Electric, Charging Facilities for, 327 lunne! under Ben Nevis to Carry "Water for New Power-house, 269
Turbo-alternator, 5000-K.W., Metropolitan-Vickers, for Durban, 681
Turbo-generator, 7500-K.W. Set for Wolverhampton, 489
Walsall Electric Supply, Charges Reduced in Consequence of Low Cost, 299
Warwick Electricity for Coventry, 133
Water-tube Boilers, Vickers-Spearing, for Bloemfontein Power Station, 407
West Bromwich Electricity Department, New Showrooms and Stores, 461
Worksop Electric Power Plant Extension, 653 70()W ^lver Fower Development
ELECTRO-FARMING, 442
Engine, Double-acting Marine Oil
Built in Great Britain, 461
Engineering Standards—see British
Engineers in Canada, Overcrowded experienced Profession, 241
Engineers and Chemists, Status of, 89
Esquimalt Dry Dock, 447
EXHIBITIONS:
Augsburg, Germany, Historical Model Ex-hibition in Water Power and Pumping, 625
Basle, 1925 International Exhibition, 89 Basle, 1926 International Exhibition, 169 Birmingham and Midland Building and
n Allied,Trades’ Exhibition, 517 btiraday’s Discovery of Benzene, Exhibition
to Commemorate Centenary, 709
Grenoble, International Exhibition at, 461 Institute of Patentees, Third Exhibition, 112, 133
International Trade Exhibition at New Orleans, 573
Manchester Ironmongery Exhibition, 435
Marine and Small Craft Exhibition and Congress, 201
Model Railway Club Exhibition, 461
Radio Apparatus Exhibition at Zurich, 681
Radio Exhibition in Oslo, 653
Turin, National Exhibition of Chemistry 293
Turning in Wood and Metal, Specimens,
I 1 hirty-eighth Exhibition, 461
Wembley Exhibition, Palace of Engineering, Housing, Display of Methods and Materials, 9^lriS> Transport, Years’ Progress,
EXPLOSION, Unusual, of Tar Heater, 269 Explosion, Very Unusual, of Steam Receiver,
Explosion, Very Violent, in American Mine, Night Shift of Thirty-four Men Killed, 435
Explosion of Water-tube Boiler, 653
F
FACTORY near Melbourne to Produce 50 , Tons, of Fibre Weekly from Bark, 105
Failure of Hillside Reservoir in Ayshire, 461 Faraday House, Annual Scholarship Examinations, 176, 447
Old Students’ Association, Annual Smoking Concert, 440, 529
Scholarship and Prize Awards, 447
Faraday Society—see Associations
Faroe Islands, Seven New Harbours in Course of Construction, 189
Fatalities Due to Carbon Monoxide from Want of Proper Care with Gas, 299
Federation of British Industries and Others Ask
Railway Companies for Reduction, 443
Fighting Fogs and Smoke, 143
Fire-fighting Appliances in Japan, 173
Fire Float for Hong Kong Government, 435 lure Resistance of Concrete Columns, Tests of 653 ’
Fish Canning Factory Suggested for Tasmania,
Fish Escalator for Salmon and Trout Spawning, Experimental, 161
Floating Islands, Four French, as Bases for Aerial Transport, 461
Floors with Joists Embedded in Concrete, Great Superiority of, 133
Floors Settlement Detection by Ingenious Device, 15 &
Folkestone Harbour Steamboat Piers Roofed,
Foochow Company’s Projected Hydro-electric
Power Plant on the Min River, 599
Forest Planting in Victoria, 15
Forging Machine Dies, Steel for, E. R. Frost, 189
Frozen Meat for Spain, 105
Fuel in Central Canada, Developing Coke Industry, 653
Fuel Economies, Various Ways of Saving Coal,
Fuel Research—see Department
G
GAS Engine Breakdowns and Connecting-rod
Bolts, 105 °
Gas Used at Wembley, Enormous Amount, 709
Gas versus Electrical Undertakings, Gas Share
holders’ Troubles, 269
Gas versus Electricity in Stepney, 709
Genoa’s Commercial Importance Rivalling that of Marseilles, 269
Geological Museum Moved to Secure Safety in Foundations, 353
German Machine Tool Convention Renewed, 353
German Machinery Works, New, in China, 15
German Tube Trade Syndicate, 573
Glasgow Technical College Benefactions, 241
Glass Factory, Large New, in Pas-de-Calais, 269
Glue “ Pearls ” Manufacture, 161
Gold Mine, Regina, in Canada, Projected Reopening, 381
Gold Mines, Cost of Winding Ore, 15
Gold Production from Mercury, Experiments, 599
Gold from Witwatersrand, Total Output, 299
Grain Elevator, Another Million-bushel, for
Canada, 517
Grain-handling Wharves, Manchester Ship Canal, 100
Grand Falls Project in New Brunswick, 545
Grangemouth Six Dock Gates, Repaired and
Replaced, 653
Great Britain’s One and a-half Men and Public
Ownership, 140
Great Lakes Water Levels, Serious Lowering, 625
Great North Road Improvement, 133
Greenock Harbour and Garvel Graving Dock, 15
Gum Swamp Products, Projected Utilisation of, 327
Gutta-percha Estate Development in Sumatra,
105
H
HEAD Lamps, Motor Car, Reduced Size to Avoid Glare, 407
Heating Paper Machine Rolls, Electric Steam Generators for, 659
Helium-oxygen Mixtures and Decompression for Divers and other Workers, 299
Holiday Pay Plan at Fort Dunlop, 189
Holyhead Development as a Herring Port, 681
Hungarian Customs Tariff on Imports, 47
Huxley Lecture, Professor E. B. Poulton,
Huxley Centenary Celebrations, 447
Hydraulic Turbines of Niagara Falls Power
Company, Accident to, 15
Hydro-electric.Development in Canada, 77
Hydro-electric Plant, Novel Type, for China, 653
Hydro-electric Plant, Reported Largest in South America, 653
Hydro-electric Power, Control of Export, by Canadian Government, 709
Hydro-electric Power in Ontario, Needed
Expenditure for New Plant, 299
ICE Cover to Protect from Ice, 161
India and Millwall Docks Improvement, 517
Indicating Instruments in Boiler-rooms, Method of Keeping them Clean, 215
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations
Insulating Material, “ Poured-in-place-on-the-Job,” 709
Irish Free State Investigation of Question of Crude Alcohol Production for Power Purposes, 461
IRON AND STEEL :
Blast-furnace About 1748, Halfpenny Token Portrait of Ironmaster, 77
Blast-furnace Output Affected by Shape of Hearth, 353
China, New Loan Required for Largest Ironworks, 599
Commercial Carbon and Alloy Steels, Temperature Changes, 299
Egryn Manganese Ore Mines near Barmouth Reopened, 47
Extrusion Process for Iron and Steel, R. Genders, 47
German Steel Works and Rolling Mills, Projected Erection in Bochum, 47
Hacksaw Blades and Tungsten Steel, 47
Heavy Cast Iron Fly-wheels Cut up by
Acetylene Blow-pipe, 545
Iron in Antiquity, Dr. J. Newton Friend, 215
Iron Mines in Italy, War-time Feat, 327
Iron Trades Employers’ Insurance Association, 573
Manganese Investigations in Banffshire, 681
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers :
Pig Iron and Steel Production in December, 105
Pig Iron and Steel Production in January, 215 J
Pig Iron and Steel Production in February, 353 J
Pig Iron and Steel Production in March, 489
Pig Iron and Steel Production in April, 569
Pig Iron and Steel Production in May, 681
New Zealand Customs Decision Regarding British Possessions Iron and Steel, 161
Ontario, Large Steel Works, but no Iron Ore Mining, 517
Pig Iron at Sabara, Brazil, Increased Output, 299 1
Polono-Upper Silesian Iron and Steel Cartell, 435
Record Blast-furnace Output at South Manchurian Works, 407
Record Rolling of Steel Rails in Canada, 521
Rhodesia as Leading Producer in the World of
Chrome Iron Ore, 625
Seamless Hollow Steel Balls for Bearings, 133
South Africa, Large Percentage of Iron in Ore Deposits, 77
Sponge Iron Experiments by United States Bureau of Mines, 215
Sponge Iron Production in Utah, U.S.A., 517
Stainless Steel, Mild, New Process for Production, H. S. Primrose, 15
Steel Manufacturing Plant Transfer from Kobe to South Manchuria, 133
Steel Production Direct from Iron Ore, Two Experimental Methods, 215
Sydney Steel Plant, Nova Scotia, Record Output, 381
Tasmania, Electric Smelting of Iron and Steel, Company Formed for, 653
W elded Steel Pipe Factory Opened at Williamstown, Victoria, 133
Wellingborough Urban Council Reduces Royalties on Ironstone to Prevent Stoppage . pf Blast-furnaces, 709
IRON AND STEEL (continued):
Working Stress for Structural Steel, American Engineer’s Recommendation, 189
IRRIGATION Project in Malabar, 681
Italy, and International Telephone Installations, 407
JAPAN’S Synthetic Ammonia Capacity by Casale Process, 517
Journal of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, 419
K
KHYBER, 19 Miles Ropeway to be Sold, 709
Kovno, Russia, Tenders Invited for Locomotive
Spare Parts, 599
Krupps, Contradicted Report of Factory near Dublin, 599
L
LAMP, Combination Oil and Safety, 327
Lamps, Factory Turning Out 2000 Daily, 77
Lantern Slides Illustrating Stothert and Pitt’s
Cranes, Winches, Pumps, &c., for Loan, 249
Lead Mines in Flintshire to be Reopened, 653
Lead Mines of Upper Teesdale, New Company for Working, 599
Leicester Street-cleansing Proposals, 379
Leith Dock Extension, Government Assistance, 77
Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Financial Support for, 489
Lift and Crane Makers’ Association, General Meeting, 256
Lignite Carboniser, Hopeful Results Expected from its Use, 15
Lignite Industry in Germany, Dust Removal in Briquetting Plants, 599
Lime-burning and Slaking, 517
Liquid Fuel, Investigation of New Method of Obtaining, 573
Liquid Fuel and Scottish Shale Oil, Dr. C. H. Lander, 489
Locomotive for Underground Haulage, Electric, Official Tests for, Prize Offered, 489
L.C.C. and Lambeth Bridge Design, 599
Lopulco Pulverised Fuel Plant, Largest in the
Empire, 672
Loughborough College, Annual Presentation Day, 585
Low-temperature Carbonisation—see Coal
M
McGILL University, Montreal, Engineering
Curriculum Improvement Sought, 599
Machine Tool Trades’ Association Dinner, 311
Madras Harbour, New Shipping Berths, 77
Magnesite, Cartel Formed of Works to Control
99 per Cent, of European Output, 299
Magnesium Oxychloride for Binding Woody or Fibrous Material, Excels as Flooring and Very Inexpensive, 625
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, Seventieth Annual Report, 337
Manganese—see Iron and Steel
Marine Flanges—see British'Engineering
Maw, Dr. W. H., Publication of Biography of,
Metallic Sodium and Red Phosphorus, Projected Manufacture in Norway, 105
Metric System Established in Netherlands East Indies, 262
Middlesbrough’s Application for Loan for
Petrol-electric Trolley Vehicles, 381
Mineral Deposits in Anatolia and Branch Line of the Baghdad Railway, 299
Mines, Devices to Prevent Over-winding, W. L.
Grassham, 435
Mines Explosives, British, Tested by American Official Tests, 133
Mines, Fire-damp and Electric Cutting in, Accident Prevention Suggestions, 386
Mine Rescue Oxygen Breathing Apparatus, Training of Miners, 327
Mint, Royal, Coinage Statistics, 47
Monasite Sand Discovery in Tasmania, 133
Montreal New Dry Dock Projected, 407
Motor Car Importation into India, 653
Motor Cycle Efficiency Due to Scientific Research, 353
Motor Fuels, Problems of Supply, Professor J. S. S. Brame, 545
Motor Manufacturers’ and Traders’ Society,
Meeting and Elections, 721
Motor Omnibus Popularity in Shanghai, 15
Moving Three-storey House, 653
N
^AI^S, Holding Power of, Its Importance in Wood Construction, 241
National Physical Laboratory and Weights Verification, 517
National Screw Thread Commission (America) Report Revision, 545
Natural Gas in Canada, Greatly Increased value of Production, 113, 517
Natural Gas Transmission Systems, Efficiency Investigation, 353 J
Newcastle Quay, Additional Berths, 133
New Caledonia Exports, 1924, 625
Newfoundland Public Works, Reconditioning,
New South Wales Increase in Factories and 564nt’ alS° in ^alue of Land and Buildings,
New South Wales, 25,000 H.P. Plant at Junction of Two Rivers, 215
New South Wales, Proposed Floating Dock, 435 New South Wales Water Conservation Schemes,
New Zealand’s Additional Irrigation Schemes,
New Zealand, Arapuni Hydro-electric Scheme, 161
Niagara River, Details of New Bridge Over, 607
Nickel Welding, Possible in Certain Conditions, 77
Nitro-glycerine the Only Suitable Explosive for Shooting Oil Wells, 15
Nitro-glycerine, Possible Substitute for, 15
Norton and Gregory Engineering Scholarships, 541
Norway as Aluminium Producer, 381
Norway, Carbide Factory Furnace for Cyanamide Manufacture, 517
Nottingham’s Projected New Bridge Over the Trent, 381
o OIL Burner Soot, Danger from Salts Content, 47
Oil Cracking Plant at Baku, 517
Oil Distillery at La Plata being Rapidly Completed, 709
Oilfield Emulsions, Method Used for Dehydration, D. B. Dow, 681
Oil-fired Boilers and Oil Temperature, 198
Oil Found near Chittagong, 653
Oil as Fuel, Disadvantages of Any Water Content, 573
Oil Pipe Line, Acetylene Welded, Highly Successful on Test, 189
Oil from Shale, Refineries to be Established at Shansi, China, 709
Oil Shale, Valuable, Overlaying Colliery Main Seam in Manchuria, 15
Oil Storage Plant at Toronto for Fuel Supply to Vessels on the Great Lakes, 133
“ Old Cromptonians ” Association Dinner, 579
Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission, New Power Development Scheme, 327
Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission— see also St. Lawrence River
Ontario Hydro-electric Scheme for Diverting Waters of the Albany River, 105
Ontario Power Shortage Feared, Steam Plant Called for, 299
Oyster Shells for Manufacture of Portland Cement, 15
Oxy-acetylene Cut, Heat Effect of, 625
P
PARKING Motor Cars Beneath Hyde Park Sydney, N.S.W., 57
Patent Applications Decrease, 15
Patent Rights Applications, 681
Patentees, Institute of, Third Annual Exhibition, 112,133
Petrol in Starting Gas Engines, Necessary Precautions in Use, 599
Petroleum Production of Venezuela, 47
Petroleum, World’s Supply and its Waste, 327
Photo-chemical Reactions in Liquids and Gases, 693
Pile Deterioration, Unusual Case, 681
Plantation Destruction, Midland Reafforesting
Association Wound Up, 653
Plaster on Metal Lath for Fire Protection of Structural Steel Work, 517
Platinum and Allied Metals, British Empire and Foreign Countries, Production, 681
Platinum Discovery in the Rustenburg District, South Africa, 299
Platinum Reef Discovery in the Transvaal, 573
Platinum Trust, Ural, Refining Works Progress and Expectations, 241
Plumbago Trade of Ceylon and Madagascar, 327
Portland Cement Production in New South Wales, 517
Portuguese Chamber’s Exemption of Certain Material from Customs Duty, 353
Portuguese Colonies General Agency at Lisbon, 407
Pressure, Horizontal, Effect of Experiments, 241
Pulp and Paper Mill Projected near Quebec, 47 Pupin, Dr. Michael I., Scientific Appointment,
Pyrites Depdsit in Sweden, Probable Formation of Company to Work, 435
Q
QUEBEC Development Company, Hydroelectric Plant Starting Work, 77
Qaiebec, Prize Award for New Bridge, 407
Queensland Bridge Wrecked for the Third Time, 435
R
RADIUM Research Laboratory in Washington,
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
Accidents :
Accidents in 1924, Statistics, 77
Bordeaux to Paris Express, Fatal Derailment, 381
Broken Tire on an Express, 77
Buffer Stop Collision at Glasgow, Severe. 133, 161, 517
Canada, Train Accident Statistics, 1924 461
Charing Cross Loop Accident, Motorman Not to Blame, 489
Collision of Engines After Bridge Testing, Goole and Selby Line, 352, 517
Criterion of Safety, the Number of Accidents Rather than of Fatalities, 709
Derailment at Lytham, Another Fatality, 105
Derailments and Collisions Compared, 709
Disastrous Derailment of Special Train near Rockport, U.S.A., 709
Engine Equipment Failures, 189
Fatal Accident from Broken Coupling, 483
I atal Derailment on Rhymney Section, Great Western Railway, 47, 407
Fog Causes Death of Driver, 105
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued):
Accidents {continue i):
Goods Train Fatal Buffer Stop Collision at Luddendenfoot, 381 .
Haymarket, Edinburgh, Accident Inal, Driver Acquitted, 161, 241
Konisberg-Berlin Express Disaster, 545
Letterkenny and Burtonport Railway, Owencarrow, Fatal Accident due to Wind, 161 ; Inquest Result, 189 ; Report, 333
Light Engine Collision in a log, 10a
Passenger Train Wholly Derailed, 299
Preston Station Fatal Accident Report, 241
Previous Accidents Pvecalled, 573
Prosecution for Attempted Entry of Train in Motion, 215
Report on Collision at Cogan, Great Western Railway, 653
Roof-repairing Accident, Fatal, at Manchester, Report on, 653
Safety First and Accident Reductions, 215
Train, Whole of, Leaves Rails at Lostock Junction, 47, 439
Trains Overthrown by Gales, 2 la
United States Accident Statistics, Comparatively Satisfactory Figures, 625
Workman’s Ticket, Accident Liability, 189
Algeria, New Railway, 327
Appointments and Staff Changes, 15, 77 10a, 133, 215, 224, 327, 339, 43a, 545, 709
Arbitration, Compulsory, Decision Against;
Automatic Signalling, Economy of, la
Automatic Signalling a Pronounced Success,
H. A. Watson, 189
Automatic Train Control Apparatus, Organised Sales of, 105
Automatic Train Control, Difference of
Opinion, 241
Ballycastle Railway Transference, la
Barcelona and Electric Railways, Level
Crossings and Street Railway Traffic Suppressed, 443
Belgian Congo Railway Electrification, 161
Board of Trade Requirements, New List, 2ba
Bolivar, Department of (Colombia), Central
Railway Construction Projected, 381
Bombay Harbour Electrical Service Opened, G.I.P. Railway, 161, 189
Brazil, State of Sergipe, Embarking on Railway and Canal Construction, 77
Bridge, Memorial, Across the Hudson River, 105
Bridge, New, at Niagara Falls, Michigan Central Railway, 299
Canadian National Railways, Branch Line Construction from Macanik to Rouyn, 353, 517 T •
Canadian National Railways, Branch Lines, 299
Canadian National Railways, List of <New
Lines Decided Upon, 599
Canadian National Railways’ Report, 517
Canadian Pacific Railway, Lining Tunnel
5 Miles in Length, 517
Canadian Railways, Demand for Abolition of
Costly Duplication, 545
Canal Legislation Not Contemplated, 435
Canals (Continuation of Charging Powers)^ Bill, 15
Capital and Revenue, Which Should Pay Cost of Betterment, 407
Cattle and Sheep Conveyance by Road and Railway, 517
Central London and City (South London)
Railways, Completion of Bank Station Alterations, 573
Chicago, Milwaukee and Sb. Paul Railway, Bankruptcy of, 381
China, Szepingkai-Taonan Railway, 77
Chinese Railway Extension in Honan Province, 709
City and South London Extension Sections, Accuracy of Measurements, 405
City and South London Railway, Pneumatically Opened Doors, 215
Clapham-Tooting Section of Morden Extension, Underground Company, 105
Code Words for Correspondence as well as
Telegraphy on Certain Railways, 387
Coppernob Locomotive as Exhibit, 545
Cost of Living and Increased Pay for Railwaymen, 15
Cost of Some Railway Projects in and near London, 461
Death of Mr. J. E. Charnley, 241
Death of Mr. John Davies, 435
Death of Mr. James Holden, 625
Death of Mr. Logan McPherson, 435
Delaware and Hudson Railway Car Shops, Ijnmunity from Accident to Employees, 407
Divisional or Departmental Railway Control, 581 - .
Dukeries Proposed Railways, Great Opposition, 241, 299
Dutch Railways, Petrol-driven Motor Carriages for Certain Lines, 489
Ecuadorian Government, New Railway, 435
Egyptian State Railway Freight Wagons Order, 517
Egyptian State Railways Inviting Tenders for Steel Coaches and Bridge, 545, 625
Egyptian State Railways, New River Steamer Required, 407
Egyptian State Railways, Tenders Invited, 15
Egyptian State Railways, Tenders for 400
Goods Trucks Wanted, 299
Electric Locomotives, New Type Becoming Popular in America, 625
Electric Tramway to Connect San Lorenzo and El Libano, Colombia, 105
Electrification of Railways, Doubtful Advantage of, 189
Engine Exchange between Two Railways for Testing Purposes, 407
Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, Men’s Misconceptions, 133
• Freeland, Major-General Sir Harry, Retirement, 653
George Stephenson Locomotive of 1823 Sent to Take Part in Railway Centenary Celebrations, 681
. German Railways’ Administrative Board, Appointment, 625
German Railways and Competition with River Shipping Companies. 489
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
German Train Telephonic Service, 406
Glasgow Tramway Material from United States, 489
Goldfields Traffic in Canada, 353, 517
Government Surplus Locomotives Bought by Several Railways, 653
Great Western Railway :
Agreement Arrangements with Regard to Reduction of Staff, 681
Automatic Control System, 241
Branch Lines, Non-paying and Possible Closing, 299
Coal Trade, Export, Serious Effect of its Condition on the Railway, 704
Electric Lighting on the Railway, 299
Gross Receipts and Decreased Rates, Increased Wages Percentage of Expenditure, 269 r
National Union of Railwaymen and Reduction of South Wales Staff, 545
Oxley and Kingswinsford New Line Opened, 573
Paddington — Plymouth Fast Afternoon Trains to be Restored, 214
Safety First on the Great Western, 215
Signals, Battery-operated, 600 Installed, 215
Summer Train Service, Opening Antedated, 625
Time-saving by Through Running of Engines, 105
Torquay and Paignton Station Platforms, Arrangement, 215
Guard’s Look-out Window on Passenger Trains, 278
Halwill-Torrington Railway Opening, 461
Headlamps of Locomotives and Road Vehicles, 407
Holyhead Inner Harbour Deepening Completed, 299
Indian Government Railway Department, Change in Bridge Rules, 77
Indian Railway Accident Statistics, 407
Indian Railway Budget, Proposed Capital Expenditure, 327
Irish Free State Railway Combination, 353
Ishover Light Railway Opened for Public Traffic, 435
Italian Railwaymen’s Offering to British Railwaymen at Centenary Celebrations, 431
Jubilee of Newark Brake Trials, 625
Khyber Railway, India, Construction and Progress, 573
Labour Leaders’ Joint Conference, Agreement Doubtful, Mr. J. H. Thomas’ Views, 653
Listowel Mono-railway, Dismantling, 105
Locomotive Manufacturers’ Association, Condition of Industry Pronounced Desperate, 681
Locomotives, Cluj, 122
London, Midland and Scottish Railway :
Appointment of President, 517
Closed Stations, Demand for Reopening, 133
Coal Tips at Gars ton Docks, Increase of Capacity, 545
Cranes, Two 50-Ton Overhead Travelling, for Horwich Ordered. 77
Crewe Locomotive Works, Important Alterations and Additions, 381
Derby and Wolverton Works, Rapid Work in Assembling Rolling Stock, 269
Electrification Schemes, New Department, 327
Engines and Rolling Stock Ordered from Five Firms, 77
Euston to Glasgow Night Express Divided to Travel to Different Stations, 681
Excursion Trains with Restaurant at Inclusive Fares, 632
Fleetwood Boat Train Alteration, 241
Goods Stations Booklet with Map Issued, 133
Horwich Locomotive Works Busy, 133 10,000 Locomotives Renumbered, 161.
241
Permanent^ Way Diversion on to New Bridge, Leeds-Holbeck, 489
Rivalry with London and North-Eastern, 353
St. Pancras and Bradford Express, 215
Sherwood Forest, Railway Proposal Withdrawn, Joint Railway Projected, 353, 435
Sir Guy Granet’s Remarks, 327
Turbine Steamer, Glen Sannox, 507
London and North-Eastern Railway :
Bill for Proposed Railway from Nottingham to Retford, 381 ; Scheme Withdrawn and Joint Railway Projected, 435 Cambridge Railway Station, Extensive Alterations Started, 133
Escalators at Liverpool-street, 599
Great Northern Section Suburban Lines Electrification Question, 489
Harwich Boat Expresses, Coach Improvements, 461 ■ ,
Harrogate Pullman’s Change of Route, 545 Hull, Level Crossings Abolition, 653
Hull Corporation and Level Crossings, Scheme Agreed Upon, 599
King’s Cross and Bradford Express, 215
Parliamentary Fight Probable with London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 353 Presentation of Relics of Early Railway to L. and N.E. Museum, 353
Punctuality Shown by Train Run Records, 599
Railway in the Dukeries, Rival Bills, 241 “ Sheffield Pullman’s ” Change of Route.
353
Sunday Travel, Chairman’s Views on Public Demand, 635
London Underground Railways, New Electrical Equipment Programme, 327
London Underground Railways, New Escalators, 492
Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway, Financial Trouble, 573
Madras Suburbs’ Railway Lincs Improvement, 517
Madrid, Proposed Central Railway Station, 299
Madrid, Proposed Further Facilities. 435
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued):
Madrid Railway and Station Construction, 461
Manchester, Victoria and Exchange Stations
Alterations, 573
Maritzburg-Glencoe Section of Natal Main Line Electrification Cost, 299
Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Line Automatic Signals, 46
Metropolitan Railway Dividend, 189
Ministry of Transport:
Application for Power to Construct New Line made by London Electric Railways Company, 269
Automatic Train Control, Experts Examining the Question, Accident Inspectors’ Recommendations, 269
Bridges, Difficulty for Highway Authorities, 47
Debate on the Vote for the Ministry, Differing Views as to Progress of Electrification, 625
Light Railway Order for Liverpool, 681
Live Wire or Live Rail in Railway Electrification, 461
Ministry’s Railway Statistics for September, 1924, 15 ; for October, 133 ; for December, 353
Preliminary Statement, 435
Railway Returns for 1924, Passenger and
Freight Statistics, 133
Railway Results for January, 1925, 488
Railway Results for February, 1925, 653
Railway Results for March, 1925, 709
Pneumatically Operated Doors on London Tube Railways, 461
South-East London and Railway Facilities, Minister’s Reply to Deputations, 269
Motor Omnibuses to Replace Tramways in America Reported, 709
National Union of Railwaymen :
All-grades Programme and the Companies, 327, 573
Coal Trade of South Wales, Necessity of Reduction in Wages Bill, Proposals to Men, 489, 545
National Union and Craft Unions, 573
National Union of Railwaymen, Fatuous Ideas of Ex-President, 381
National Wages Board and Sunday Work Claims, 133
New South Wales Railways, Fay-Raven Report, 241
New Year Honours for Railwaymen, 47
New Zealand Railways’ Administration, Commissioners’ Recommendations, 15
Niagara River, Proposed New Railway Bridge Over, 435
North Swedish Coast, Progress of Railway, 461
North-Western Quebec, New Railways to Tap Rich Gold Area, 353 ; Refusal of Right of Way, 517
Northern Parliament Powers and the Bally-castle Railway, 15
Nova Scotia, Automatic Control, New Invention, Company Formed, 353
P.L.M., New Line in Algeria, 47
Peace River Country, Alberta, Settlement, Railway Prospects, 161
Pekin Tramcar Company’s Third Route, 435
Persian Concession for New Line from Teheran to Tabriz, 132
Piccadilly-circus New Station and Subways, 215
Platform Automatic Indicators, New Installations, 407
Poland and Yugo-slavia, Direct Railway Conference, 435
Polish Coal Mining District, Long-distance Electric Tramway Construction, 269
Power Brakes and Appliances, American Investigation, 215
Quebec, North-Western, Undeveloped Area to be Opened up by New Railway, 15, 47
Rail-testing on Boston Elevated Railroad, Results, 161
Railway Material Exports Statistics, 161, 269, 327, 435, 573, 681
Railwaymen’s Unions and Demands, 133, 327
Railway Rates Tribunal :
Capital Works, Extravagance of Competitive Schemes, 681
Economies in Railway Working, 649
Schedules of Standard Charges, Speeding-up Settlement, 489
Standard Charges Settlement, 189
Standard Revenue, Basis of Agreement, 517
Railway Trestles in Time of Floods, F. M. Holmquist, 327
Railways Act, 1921, Its Benefits to Railway Companies, 545
Rainfall, Abnormal, and Railway Damage, 47
Rating of Railways, Complications of the Question, 653
St. Paul’s Safety Measures Sub-committee, Railway Engineers as Members, 381
Sao Paulo Government and Railway Concessions, 47
Sleeping Accommodation, Letters to The Times, 681
South African Railways, Day Colour Light Signals, 77
South African Railways, Good Results Shown by Statistics, 47
Southern Railway :
Bridge Strengthening and Rebuilding, 573
Brighton Section, Electrical Services Extended, 381
Brighton Station, Passenger Statistics for 1924, 346
“ Chatham ” Station at Victoria, Improvements, 77
Conversion of Certain Lines, Difficulties Removed by Grouping, 599
Cross-over Junctions to Facilitate Independence of Electrical and Main Lines, 599
Exeter, Queen-street Station Improvement, 709
Hastings and St. Leonards Tunnels, Projected Widening, 299
Indicators for Railway Platforms, New Type, 517
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued'):
Southern Railway (continued):
“ King Arthur ” Class Locomotive, New Bridge to Carry it, 599
Mis-sent Train and the Upshot, 461
Naming of New Engines, 299
Portsmouth Railway Stations, New Proposals, 327
Punctuality of Railway, Statement, 435
Signals, Projected Day Colour Light Automatic, for Portion of London Area, 77, 215
Station’s Name Illumination at Horsham, 709
Vehicles being Prepared for Electrification, 15
Spanish Railway Engines and Cars to be Home-made, 15
Statistics, South African and United States, 47
Steel Construction of Railway Vehicles, Pros and Cons, 105
Steel Signal Arms Bent by Wind, 105
Stockholm-Gothenburg Electrification, 299
Subway Car, Improved Type for America, 461 “ Sunny South Special ” and Vacuum Brake, 599
Sweden, Projected Railway and State Loan, 77
Swiss States Subsidy for Completion of Furka Railway, 350
Tasmanian Engineers to Supervise Railway Construction in Spain, 77
Tests of New Roads and Connections to Eliminate any Possibility of Mistakes, 545
Tourist Traffic to Ireland and Kingstown Pier Accommodation, 189
Tramway Renewal, A Night’s Work in Glasgow, 189
Tramway Route, New, in Edinburgh, 489
Underground Poster, Analysis of Receipts and Expenditure, 299
Unemployment Alleviation Methods, 15
Venezuela and Colombia, Junction under Construction to Unite Railways in, 77
Viaduct, First Example of its Kind in the World, Great Northern (of Ireland) Railway, 269
Victoria Government Railway, Electrifying Part of, 653
Victoria Railway, Experiments with New Rail Motor, 709
Wagons for Mineral Traffic, Profits on Letting Out for Hire, 625
Walsall Tramway’s Increased Profits, 638
Warsaw, Projected 28 Miles Long Electric Tramway, 517
Water Power in Austria, Development, and Railway Electrification, 461
Welsh Local Authorities’ Request for Doubling of Single Lines, 709
Western Canada, Railway Goods Charges in, 353
RECLAMATION Work in Italy, 269
Ribble River, Preston, Training Walls to be Constructed, 709
Rock-fill Dam, Kentucky, Largest in the World, 461
Roofing Material Pyropruf, Testing, 489
Roving Steamer for Extraction of Bromine from Sea Water, 461
Rubber Research Institution in Malaya, 105
Russian Agriculture and Electric Ploughs, 435
Russian Great Waterway Projected, 320
Russian Soviet Government’s Agreement with
British Firm for Erection of Oil Cracking Factory, 625
Russian Visitors to America for Works Inspection and Equipment Orders, 215
s “SAFETY First” Device by Model Van, J.
Lyons and Co., 517
St. Lawrence River Power Development, 215
San Joaquin River Water Diverted by Tunnel, 545
Sawdust Roads, Experiments with View to Making, 599
Scholarships for Apprentices, 523
Scholarships, B.E.A.M.A., 567
Scholarships. Engineering, Norton and Gregory, 541
Science Museum at South Kensington, Stationary Engine Exhibits Catalogue, 256
Scientific and Industrial Research, New Members of Advisory Council, 215
Seismograph Station, A Sixth Established in Quebec, 625
Sewerage Scheme, Extensive, for Knutsford, 653
Shanghai, Single-deck Motor Omnibus Statistics, 517
Shannon Power Scheme Report, Dr. H. H.
Jeffcott, 653
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :
American Ships, Conversion of Fourteen Steamers to Motor Ships, 489
Barrow and New York Steamer Service to Cease, 133
Bulkheads and Water-tight Subdivision of Passenger Steamships, Board of Trade Report, 241
Chauncy Maples Steamer on Lake Nyassa, Thirty Years Old and Still Valuable, 105
Commonwealth Lighthouse Service, Launch of Two Steamers for, 133
Conciliation Machinery for Shipbuilding Federations, 299
Corrugated-sided Ships, Greater Efficiency of, 599
Cunarder Saxonia Sold for Breaking-up, 299
Deck Equipment of the Discovery, Pacific Exploration Vessel, 709
Diesel-electric Tanker, New Arrangement of Engine-room, 215
Fifty Years of Yacht Designing, G. L. Watson and Co., 544
Flettner Rotor Ship, Report of Another, 599
Flettner Rotor Ships, Two New, Ordered, 105
Funnel Markings of Destroyer Flotillas, 545
German Naval Administration, First Large Rotor Ship, 517
Glatton, Monitor, Wreck of, to be Removed from Harbour, 15
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued):
Grain Cargo-loading Record, 327
Japanese, Large, Ship Taken up River to Shanghai, 517
L.M.S. Turbine Steamer Glen Sannox, Official Trials, 625
Majestic, Reported Crack Discovery, 15 Montrose Liner, Quick Overhaul, 489
Motor Boat, Fast, Races on the Thames, 545
Motor Lifeboat Construction Progress, 77
Motor Vessel Production Increasing, Chiefly on the Continent, 381
Ocean Towing, Record Long Distance, 435 Railway-owned Vessels—see Railways Rotor Ship, Arrival of the Plettner," 227 Scapa Flow Salving of German Destroyers,
Progress, 407, 517, 573, 709
Shipbuilding Trades’ Investigation, 637
Signal by Combined Visible and Whistle
Device for Motor Ships, 269
Tees Shipbuilding Order, 573
Tyne Shipbuilding Output Statistics, 15
United Stales Steam Ship to Motor Ship, Conversion. 415
Vancouver Harbour Ship Traffic Statistics, 161
Wellfield, Steamer, Little Damaged by Dockflooding, 489
SIDMOUTH, Estimated Cost of Breakwater, 599
Silkworm Cocoon Chrysalis as Food, 215
Slag Accumulations in Cement Kilns Dislodged by Shooting, 461
Slide Rules, Constructional Improvement in, J. Davis and Son (Derby), Ltd., 309
Snow in the Streets, New System of Disposal,
1 269
Soapstone Discovery in Calcutta District, 241 Solid Silver, Effort to Increase Use in America 269
South African'Irrigation, 122
South African’s Production of Base Metals, 681
South African Year Book, 473
Southampton University College, Open Engineering Exhibitions Offered, 422
Soviet Government and White Lead Paints, 161
Standards—see British
Steel—see Iron
Stone for Sharpening Tools Discovered near Orbost, Australia, 599
Straw Packing Without Purity Certificate, Dominion Government Insists on Return of Important Goods, 435
Subways in St. Louis, 189
Suez Canal Annual Statistics, 489
Sugar Growers’ Association’s Suggestion of United Reference to Expert Opinion, 625
Sulphur Ores Roasting and a New Alloy, J.
Harris, 435
Super-power Systems of the United States, Growth of, 606
Suspension Bridge Across the Firth of Forth at Queensferry, Projected, 161
Sydney Harbour Bridge, £16,000 Tool for Testing Cableways, 573
TANK Failure in Boston, U.S.A., Six Years’
Litigation to Decide on the Cause, 189
Tansa Pipe Line Progress, 47
Tariffs and their Object in Latin-America,
A. C. Rouse, 189
Technical College and Polytechnic Times, First Issue, 133
Technical Institute at Coventry, Generous Gifts of Machinery, 489
Telephone Damage by Snowstorm at Falkirk,
Underground System Advantages, 407
Telephone Diaphragm, New Type, 161
Telephone Exchange tor Cairo, 299
Telephone Industry’s Effect in Stimulation of
Numerous ' Othei’ Industries Involved in Manufacture, 269
Telephone Kiosk, New Prize Design by Sir Gilbert Scott, 381
Telephonic, Through, Connection Established between Bombay and Delhi, 381
Tests of Flow of Water through Long Concrete
Pipes, Formulae Values, 681
Thermo-electric Pyrometers, Use of Platinum, 461
Thin-lead Coloured Pencils, Alpco Pencils, Ltd., 554
Titanium Industry Suggested for Eastern Canada, 461
Tornado Effect on Big Railway Span, 407
Toronto, Association of "
neers, Progress, 219
Toronto's Rate of ~
Storeys, 709
Trade Unions, Statistics of Membership and Funds, 47
Transit Sheds at Trafford Wharf, Two, for £300,000, 105
Transport, Goods and Passenger, Increasing
Use of Roads in United Kingdom, 489
Treasury Guarantees under the Trade Facilities
Act, 545
Tunnel under the Mersey, Government Grants, 189
Tunnel Under the Thames, Postponement of Consideration of Scheme, 709
Turbo-generator, Experimental, in California
to Test Use of Natural Steam, 435
Tyne Commissioners Report Decrease in Out
put of Ships and of Coal Shipments, 353
Tyne Pollution Inquiry, 599
Professional Engi-Building Twenty-one ‘
UGANDA Oil Expectations, 15
Underpinning Concrete Columns of High
Building, 189
University of London :
Four Advanced Lectures in Mining, 227
Four Advanced Lectures on Chemical Combination in Metallic Alloys and its Nature, Professor C. A. Edwards, 245
University of Pittsburgh, Project for New 52-Storey Building, 161
VANADIUM Extraction from Iron Ore in Sweden, £>17
Vanadium from Swedish Phosphorus-bearing Ores, 435
Vancouver’s Largest Grain Elevator, Rapid Construction of, 554
Vancouver New Canadian Pacific Pier, 545
Venezuela Petroleum Production, 47
V.D.I. Meetings in Augsburg, 422
Vickers Westminster Amateur Operatic Society, 554
w WAR Department Motor Van, 342
Washington, National Museum of Engineering, 299
Water Energy, Potential, of the World, Estimate, 489
Water Power Plant Completed at Elko, British Columbia, 545
WATER SUPPLY :
Bacteria in Water at Different Depths, 407 j Barnsley Supply Increase, New Pumps, 489 Batley Corporation’s New Reservoir, 599 Birmingham New Reservoir and Pumping
Engines, Work Started, 625
Birmingham Water Committee's New Pipe Line, 407
Buenos Aires, Neighbouring Districts of, Extensive Government Scheme for Water Supply and Drainage, 709
California, New Supply for East Bay Cities, 15
WATER SUPPLY {continued}:
Esthonia, Up-to-date Waterworks for, 241
Fourth Pipe Line from Thirlmere to Manchester, 517
Karachi New Water Supply, 105
Madras Supply, Measures for Increasing, 189
Manchester Supply, Another Lake Requisitioned, 189
Melbourne Water Supply, the Maroondah Dani, 188
New South Wales, Wollongong and Port Kembla, Additional Supply, 215
Port Sudan Supply, Completion of Pipe Line, 489
Quebec, Storage Reservoir at Lake Metis, 189
Sheffield, Additional Water Supply Scheme, 77
Sydney, N.S.W., Scheme-to Supplement Supply, 545
Toronto, Supplementary Waterworks System, 47, 105
Tsingtao Waterworks, Predicted End of German Plant and Japanese Pumps, 15
Vancouver Waterworks System Extension, 592
Water Consumption in Sydney, N.S.W., 189
Water Waste in America, Uncharted Discharges, 353
Wooden Water Main Laid in 1874, 15
WELDING Aluminium, New German Process, 189
Welland Canal, Big Contract for Canadian Company, 15, 545
West Australian Oil Hunt Pronounced Hopeless, 15
Western Australia, Engineers Wanted, 461
Whitworth Society, Annual Dinner, 27
I Windmill, 200 Years’ Old, near Hastings, Collapse of, 709
Wire Rope Vibration Dangers, G. H. Griffiths, 299
Wire Rope Works, New, at Newcastle, N.S.W., 407
Wire Weaving Loom, Largest in the World, 269
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY:
American and Swedish Wireless Amateurs’ Two-hour Test, 161
Austrian Broadcasting Developing, 327
Belgium’s One Broadcasting Station, 681
Big Ben Broadcasting Microphone, 681 Broadcast Transmitting Apparatus at Marconi House Re-established, 681
Broadcasting Conference of European Authorities, 373
Broadcasting and Interference, Northolt Station Accused, 105
Broadcasting Receiving Apparatus, Lecture, G. E. Jones, 353
Canada, North-Western Section of North-West Territories, Completion of Wireless System, 435
China and Amateur Radio Work, 327
Colombo, Modern High-power Broadcasting Station, 461
Greenland’s New Wireless System, 161
Indian Radio Telegraph Company, Prospectus and Objects, 353
Indian Station for Commercial Service with United Kingdom, 327
Institute of Patentees’ Assistance Sought by B.B. Company, 435
Japan and San Francisco, Wireless Communication Over 4500 Miles, 77
Japanese and American Wireless Schemes, 407
Listening-in, Near and Distant Reception, 403
Marconi Clifden Station, Ireland, to be Dismantled, 709
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY (continued):
Marconi House, Change-over of Aerial to Oxford-street, 456
Miners and Signals by Wireless, 47
North-West Territories and Yukon Wireless
System, Most Northerly Main Station, 625
Oscillating Receiver Disturbance Tests, 407
Radio Apparatus Exhibition at Zurich, 681
Radio Direction Finding Stations for Indian
Ports, Experimental Receivers, 435
Rating of Storage Batteries for Wireless Service, 189
Rugby High-power Wireless Station Progress, 353, 517
Russian Wireless Development and Exhibition at Moscow, 599
Tracking Criminals by Wireless, Police Vans Equipped, 105
Transmission of Wireless Messages, Reported Valuable Invention, 105
Wireless Bill, Strong Objections to its New Provisions, 269
WOLVERHAMPTON Local Sewage Plant Extension, 709
Woman Member, The First, of Society of Engi-neers (Incorporated), 269
Woolwich Research Report on “ Gun-wire,” Imperfect Elasticity, 77
z ZINC Ore Smelted in Retorts, Residues from, 353
Zinc, Pure, for Alloy Purposes, Belgian Works Largely Increased Production, 269
Zoological Gardens, Casualties Among Tropical Birds in London, 241
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