Engineering 1949 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX. Illustrated Subjects are Marked with an Asterisk after the Number of the Page.

ABBEY STEELWORKS, Port Talbot, Construction of, 112 ; All-Welded Plate Girder for, 185* ; All-Welded Structures at, 367
Abbott, Dr. W., on Rotary Motion, 39 Absorptiometer, Spekker, for Particle-Size
Determination, 117, 425
A.C. Cars, Ltd., Electric Trains for Southend Pier, 379*
Accelerated-Weathering Machine for Paints (Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd.), 285*
Acceleration, Electronic Tube for Measuring (Mullard Electronic Products, Ltd.), 92

Accidents :

Electrical Accidents and Their Causes, 1947, Report, 277
Road Accidents, Recent Statistics, 326 Wrecks, Lloyd’s Register Wreck Statistics, 332
— of S.S. Magdalena, 399 Acetylene Welding. See WeZd'mg
“ Acheron,” H.M. Destroyer, Machinery of, 87, 190
Acid, Cresylic, Specification, 82
— Hydrochloric, Methods of Manufacture and Conveying, 520, 599*
?— Sulphuric, Methods of Manufacture, 520, 597*
Ackermann, A. S. E., on Soil Mechanics, 208. See 50
Acoustics, Noise Reduction in Power-Station Offices, 459*
Acton Works, London Transport Executive, Car-Body Shop at, 319
Adderley, J. W., on German Gas-Turbine Developments During 1939-45, 293
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address Adkins, B., on Polyphase Commutator Machines, 90
Admiralty. See Warships
Aerial Masts for Skelton Broadcast Transmitting Station (J. L. Eve Construction Co., Ltd.), 7*
— Navigation. See Aeronautics
— Propellers. See Propellers under AeronaaZics
— Transport. See Aeronautics Aerodynamics. See Aeronautics Aeronautical Sciences, Institute of, New York.
Joint Conference with Royal Aeronautical Society, Programme, 255
— Society, Royal, New York Joint Conference
with Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, Programme, 255; Eormation of South- African Division, 258; First Issue of Aeronautical Quarterly, 360, 507 ;
Annual Garden Party, 447; Wright Lecture on Aeronautical Research Scene— Goals, Methods and Accomplishments, by Dr. H. L. Dryden, 525*, 549*; Awards for 1948, 552; Inauguration of Charter Scholarship, 584

Aeronautics :

Aeronautical Conference, Anglo-American, New York, Programme, 255
— and Maritime Technical Association,
French, Paris Conference Programme, 519
— Quarterly, First Issue of, 360, 507
— Research Scene—Goals, Methods and Accomplishments, 525*, 549*
Aeroplane “Chipmunk,” de Havilland Pilot-Training Aircraft, 271
— Passenger, Jet-Engined, D.H.106, de Havilland, 304
Air-Raid Damage to Reinforced-Concrete Warehouse, Liverpool, 222*
— Transport, Influence of Records on, 159 Aircraft Communication, 50-Watt Radio Transmitter for (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 534
— Construction, Light Alloys in, 357*
— Four-Engined, Synchroscope for (Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd.), 315*
— Industry, British, Standardisation in, 79
Position and Prospects, 172
— Investigations in the United States, 525*, 549*
— Launching Equipment in H.M. Ships, 213
— Split Cotter Pins for, Specification, 466
— Washers for, Specification, 466 Airport, Orly, Use of Pre-Stressed Concrete at, 182
— Schiphol, Aero-Engine Test Houses at, 295*
Balance, Aerodynamical, for Wind Tunnel (Sir H. Grubb, Parsons and Co.), 175*, 223*, 272*
Brabazon Assembly Hall at Filton, 63 British Aircraft Constructors, Society of, Standardisation by, 79
“ Chipmunk,” de Havilland Pilot-Training Aircraft, 271
de Havilland, D.H. 106, Jet-Engined Air Liner, 304
Engine, Aeroplane, Developments Since 1917, 333
Aeronautics—-continued.
Engine, Aeroplane, Export of, 172
Gas-Turbine, German, Developments in 1939-45, 293
— Jet, Developments in, 381
— “ Mamba ” Twin Gas-Turbine (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 415* — Portable Hangar for Doing Maintenance Work, 457*
—' — Recent Investigation in United States,, 525*, 549*
Flight, Transonic and Supersonic, Wing Configuration for, 551
Flying Boat, “Princess” (Saunders-Roe, Ltd.), 321
Hangar, Portable, for Aero-Engine Maintenance, United States Navy, 457*
Helicopter Rotors, Testing Tower, 584*
Mamba Twin Gas-Turbine Aeroplane Engine, 415*
Navigation, Aerial, Radio, Distance- Measuring Equipment for, 187
Orly Airport, Use of Pre-Stressed Concrete at, 182
“ Princess ” Flying Boat, 321
Propeller Testing Tunnels, de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., 248*
Researches by United States Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 525*, 549*
Royal Air Force and Industry, Man-Power for, 495
— Aircraft Establishment, Aerodynamical Balance for Wind Tunnel, 175*, 223*, 272*
Schiphol Airport, Aero-Engine Test Houses, at, 295*
Test Houses, Aero-Engine, at Schiphol Airport, 295*
Testing Tunnels for Aircraft Propellers, de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., 248*
Wind Tunnel, High-Speed, Farnborough, Aerodynamical Balance for, 175*, 223*, 271*
High-Speed, at National Physical Laboratory, 521
Investigations by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 525*, 549*
Tests on Models of Bailey Bridge, 578, 580
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics
Agricultural Electrification in United States, 535
— Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects
51, 271, 349
— Motors. See Tractors
— Tractors. See Tractors
Agriculture. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Air Compressors for German Gas Turbines, 293
— Petrol-Driven, Portable (Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 388*
— Conditioning Equipment for House of Com
mons, 208
— Plant, S.S. Caronia, 129
— Cooling for High-Power Radio Valves, 258
— Force, Royal. See Aeronautics
— inlets for Aircraft Power Plants, Investi
gations on, 550
— Jets, Investigations on, 528*
— Pollution. See Atmospheric Pollution
— Pump. See Pump
— Raid Precautions. See Aeronautics
— Screws. See Propellers under Aeronautics
— Temperature-Entropy Chart for, 375
— High, Effects of Working in, 229
— See also AZwiospfeere
Aircraft. See Aeronautics
— Establishment, Royal. See Aeronautics Alarm, Electricity, Warning of Approach of
Maximum Demand (Ferranti, Ltd.), 137* Albright and Wilson, Ltd., Silicone Rubber, 464 Aldington, Dr. J. N., on Gas Arc: A New
Light Source, 140*
Alexander, G. H. Machinery, Ltd., Gauge for Measuring Internal Diameters for Cylinders, 258*
“ Alframe ” Transportable Building, 501* Alkali, Etc., Works, Annual Report on, 254,
See LETTER, 304
Allcock, H., on Metric System, 472. See LETTERS, 16, 88, 400, 448, 496, 544, 568. See Erratum, 496
Allen, C. T., on Young Engineers in South Wales 112
Allen, W. H., Sons.1, and Co., Ltd., 1,100-kW
Turbo-Generators, S.S. Caronia, 128* Allen West and Co., Ltd., Repeater Fuse for
Rural Electrical Circuits, 442 Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauges Alloys. See Metallurgy; Microphotographs;
PARAGRAPH INDEX
Allsop, H., on Grain Growth in Silicon-
Chromium Steel, 474
Alpha Brass, Effect of Grain Size on Damping
Capacity of, 329
Alternating Current. See Electric
— Stress. See Fatigwe under Tests (Materials) Alternators. See Generators, Electric; Turbo-
Generators
Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— in Buildings, Structural Uses of, 501*
Aluminium Development Association, Symposium on Aluminium Alloys for Marine Use, Proceedings, 327; Glassification Societies and Aluminium Alloys, by R. B. Shepheard, 327, 384 ; Economics of Alu- minium-Alloy Superstructures, by W. S. Hinde, 327, 391; Shipbuilding Research in Aluminium Alloys, by J. Lenaghan, 327,1 571
— Production at Rogers tone Aluminium
Works, South Wales, 125
— Sheathed Electric Cables, Wiped Joints for,
93
— Sheet, Recovery and Recrystallisation, 424
— Welding of, 317, 341
— Wrought, Specification; 202
— See also Metallurgy
America. See America; United States American Foundrymen’s Society, Work on Bronze Castings, 557
— Housing, District Heating in, Report on, 350
— Navy. See United States under Warships
— Society of Mechanical Engineers. See
MecAamcaZ Engineers
of Naval Engineering. See Na»aZ Engineers
for Testing Materials. See Testing
— See also United States
Amersham Radiochemical Centre, Supply of Gamma Rays for Industry, 591
Ammeter. See Meter under Electric
Amonton’s Law of Friction, Limitations of, 193, 218
Amplifiers, Magnetic (Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd.), 315
(Ferranti, Ltd.), 338
— for Skelton Broadcast Transmitting Station,
8*, 32*
Amsterdam, Schiphol Airport, Aero-Engine Test Houses at, 295*
Analyser, Delivery-Rate, for Diesel-Engine Injection Systems, 307*
— Low-Frequency (Standard Telephones &
Cables, Ltd.), 340
Analysis, Dimensional, Review of, 533, 556.
• See Erratum, 587
— Harmonic, Derivation of Formulae for, 64* Anchor Cables, Dimensions of, Specification,
370
Andrew, Prof. J. H., Award of Bessemer Medal to, 399; 427
Anemometer, Hand (Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd.), 315*
Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference, New York, Programme, 255
Council on Productivity, Report of Second Session, 413, 421
Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd., Fawley Refinery, 552
Annealing. SeeHeat Treatment underMetallurgy Annual Publications. See LITERATURE INDEX
— and Reference Books, 139, 168, 216, 360,
548. See LITERATURE INDEX
Anti-Friction Metals. See Alloys under AfetaZ- Zwrgy
— Knock Fuel for Automobile Engines, 546 Apparatus, Electrical, Accidents with, 277
— Scientific, Physical Society’s Exhibition,
184, 313*, 337*
Appleton, Sir E., Award of Ewing Medal to, 303; Presentation of Poulson Medal to, 399; on work of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 523
Appointments. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Apprenticeship. See Hdacatwro
Arc. See Electric; Welding
Archer, S., on Screwshaft Casualties, 497 Architect in Industry, Conference on, 183
— Naval. See Naval Architects
Architecture,Cast Ironin, History (Review), 340
— Industrial, Exhibition, 183
Argentina, Engineering and Trade Notes from, 126, 487
Argon for Gas Arc Lamps, 140*
Armoured Ships. See Warships
Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd., X-Ray Examination of Gas-Turbine Blading, 79; “Mamba” Twin Gas-Turbine Propeller Aeroplane Engine, 415*
Army, Technical Corps, Reserve of Officers, 351
Arnold, T. H., on Non-Destructive Testing of Steel, 39
Arresters, Grit, for Power Stations, 254. See LETTER, 304
Arterial Roads. See Roads
Arts, Royal Society of, Industrial Design and Engineering Industries, by M. H. Thomas, 126; Cantor Lectures on Recent Research on Corrosion, by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon, 211; Cadman Lecture on Reconstruction of British Mining Industry, by Sir C. C. Reid and Dr. W. Reid, 366; 390 ; Aldred Lecture on Scientific Information Services, by Sir A. Egerton, 541; Exhibition of Bramah Relics, 567. See 351
Asbestos-Covered Copper Conductors, Specification, 298
Asea Electric Ltd., Control Panel for Railway- Signalling Circuits, 331*
Ash, Fuel, Land Reclamation with, 114 Ashbridge, Sir N., on Television, 159 Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal Railway, 573*.
See jErratwn, 596
Ashmore; Benson; Pease and Co., Ltd., 3,000,000 Sub. ft. Gasholder for Johannesburg, 268
Askham and Palin, Railway Bridge Reconstruction, 115*
Association, British. See British Association
— Engineering. See Institutions
Astronomy, Geodetic, Manual of (Review), 98
— Stellar, Use of Radio Wavelengths in, 522 Atkins, W. S., on Welding in General and
Constructional Engineering, 367
Atlantic Liners. See Steamers
— Origin of Steam Navigation Across, 1819-
1833, 40, 54
Atlas Electric Devices Co., Weather-ometer for Testing Paints, 285
Atmospheric Coolers for Circulating Water, 21*. See Erratum, 55. See LETTERS, 64, 88
— Pollution, Annual Report on Alkali, etc.
Works, 254. See LETTER, 304
of Paint Coatings, Tests of, 285*
See also Smoke Abatement
Atoms, Electrons, Metals and Alloys (Review), 316
Atomic Energy Commission, Work of, 295
Possibilities of Utilisation of, 202
Research Establishment, Harwell, Conference on Chemical Developments in Atomic Energy, 207; Production of Plutonium at, 231
Utilisation of, Versus Coal-Derived Power, 137
Attree, V. H., Galvanometers, 522
Austin, S. P., and Son, Ltd., Steam Collier “ Pompey Power,” 344*
Australia, Linseed Cultivation in, 162
— New South Wales, Welded Road Bridges in,
529*
— Western, Rainfall and Water Supply in, 535
Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Frictional Forces in Dial Gauges, 169*. See LETTER, 208
Austria, Liinersee and Otztal Hydro-Electric Schemes, 87
Auto Diesels, Ltd!., Portable Petrol-Driven 1-kW Generator, 461*; Portable Petrol- Driven Centrifugal Pump; 461*
Autogenous Welding. See Welds and Welding Automatic Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Signalling. See Signalling
— Stokers. See Stokers
Automobile Testing Ground, Lindley Airfield, 424
— See Motor Gars
Automotive Products Co., Ltd., Vacuum-Assisted Hydraulic Brakes, 11
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine. See Marine
Aveling-Barford, Ltd., “ Calfdozer ” with Two-Line Ripper, 412* ; Diesel-Engined Road Rollers, 412
Aviation. See Aeronautics

BABCOCK and WILCOX, LTD., Renfrew Works of, 546
Bailey, Sir D. C., Development of Bailey Bridge, 577*
Bailey, Dr. E. G., on Invention and Sifting-Out of Engineering Facts, 399, 445
Bailey, G. L., on Melting and Casting of Non- Ferrous Metals, 356. See 378, 402
— Bridge, Development of, 577*
Over Whiteadder Water, Northumberland', 152*. See Erratum, 209
Baker, Dr. J. F., on Behaviour of Steel Frames in Plastic Range, 38
Baker, W. A., on Melting and Casting of Non-Ferrous Metals, 356. See 378, 402
Balance, Beam, for Testing Frictional Forces in Dial Gauges, 169*. See LETTER, 208
Ball Bearings. See Bearings
Band Conveyors. See Conveyors
Bannister, Dr. L. C., on Spectrographic Determination of Copper in Lead Alloys, 287
Barbara Road Bridge, New South Wales, Welded Span for, 529*
Barker, A., on Grain Size of Powders Used for Hard Metal, 117* See 425
Baron, H. G., on Large Crystal Grain Size in Silicon-Chromium Steel, 474
Barr and Stroud, Ltd., Stereo-Mapping Equipment, Multiplex, 337*
Barrage, Severn, and Tidal Power, 133
Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, Tests of “Silal” Heat-Resisting Cast Iron, by W. H. White and A. R. Elsea, 101 Battleships. See Warships
Baumann, K., Award of Clayton Prize to, 159; on Heat Engines, 309', 333*, 381, 405*
Baxter, B., on Early Railways in Derbyshire, 573*. See Erratum, 596
Beacham, T. E., on Rotary and Oscillating Seals, 183
Bearing, Bail and Roller, Production of, 270
— Lubrication, and Crankshaft Damping, 205.
See LETTER, 256
— for Marine Diesel Engines; 430*, 453*
— Metals. See Alloys under MetaZZurgp
— Rocker, of Bailey Bridge, 579*
— Roller, Standardisation of, Need for Reduc
tion in Sizes, 519
Belgium, Applications of Pre-Stressed Concrete in, 181
Bell, J., on Water-Cooling versus Air-Cooling for High-Power Valves, 258
Belt Conveyors. See Conveyors
Bending Moment. Diagram for Vierendeel Girder, 25*
Benson and Partners, Ltd., Single-Pass Soil
Stabilising Machine, 114*
Benzoates as Corrosion Inhibitors, 211 Berlin, Frey Bridge over River Havel, 392* Bessel Functions, Tables of (Review), 171 Bessemer Medal, Award to Prof. J. H. Andrew, 399, 427
Betatron, 16-MEV, at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, 55*
Bibby, J., and Sons, Ltd., Continuous Rotary Evaporators, 417*
Bibliography, National, British, Plans for, 423 Bicentenary of J. Bramah, Celebration of, 351, 567
“ Bimec,” Fault Locator, 438* Binary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Biological Percolating Filters, Media for,
Specification, 82
Birlec, Ltd., Electrically-Heated Carburising Furnace, 439*
Birmingham, British Industries Fair, 385*, 409*, 437*, 461*
— Hams Hall Power Station, Land Reclama
tion with Fuel Ash, 114
Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., Rolling Stock for London Transport, 308
Bismuth in Copper, Effect on Working Behaviour, 6, 42, 329
Bituminous Materials, Road Construction. See Roads and Tar ,
Blackpool Conference, Incorporated Plant Engineers, 288
Blading, Gas-Turbine, X-Ray Examination of (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 79
— Turbine, Efficiency of, 334
Blair, R., the Late, 418
Blaw-Knox, Ltd., Design for Transmission- Line Towers, 489*
Blazey, C.,on Flow of Metal in Tube Extrusion, 355
Blind, Exhibition for, Science Museum, 567 Blisworth to Roade Railway Line, Repairs to
Brick Facing Walls of Cutting, 187 Blom, Capt. C., on Sea Speeds and Steering and
Hull Form, 472 Blow-Pipe. See Gutting Blower, Scavenge, for Marine Diesel Engines,
429*, 453*, 477*
— Turbo-, for Diesel Engines (D. Napier &
Son, Ltd.), 43*
Board of Trade, Report on United Kingdom Engineering Mission to Canada, 134,163; Patents and Designs Bill, Proposed, 255; Research in Industry (Review), 301
Boat Building, Relaxation of Timber Restriction for, 183
— Flying. See Aeronautics
— Motor. See Motor Boat
Boiler, Coal-Burning, Researches on, 480
— Development in Royal Navy, 1922-49, 87,
188*
— Feed Water. See Feed and Water
— Foster-Wheeler, S.S. Magdalena, 367*
— Furnaces. See Stoker
— Marine, Corrosion and Deterioration of, 135
— — S.S. “ Pompey Power,” 344*
— Oil-Fired, Deposits on, Investigations of,
361*
— Plants, Flue-Gas Deposits and Corrosion in,
Causes of, 231
Industry, Position and Prospects, 99 Poole Power Station, 476
for Power Stations, Developmentsin, 335*
— — for Power Stations, Shortage of, 569, 589 Practice for Power Stations, 186
—Thermax’’-Type, for Buckingham Palace
(Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 274
— Yarrow, S.S. Caronia, 15, 81,104*
— See also Engines and Boilers in PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Bolt and Nuts, Load Distribution in, 63
Bomb, Aluminium-Killed, Method for Oxygen Determination in Steel, 448
Bond-Williams, N. I., on Flux-Degassing of
Cast Phosphor Bronze,- 377. See 378, 402 Bondy, O., on Bailey Suspension Bridge, 577* Books, New, Notes on, 24, 48, 72, 96, 119, 144,
192, 216, 264, 288, 336, 384, 408, 432, 480, 504, 528, 552, 576. See LITERATURE INDEX
— Publishing, Centenary of, 1848-1948 (Re
view), 460
— Received, 10, 34, 58, 82, 106, 130, 154,178,
226, 250, 274, 298, 322, 346, 370, 394, 418, 442, 466, 490, 514, 538, 562, 586
Boot, H., and Co., Ltd., Extensions to Thorn- cliffe Works, Sheffield, 523
Bore-Measuring Micrometer (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 272*
Borger, H. E. A., on Metric System, 568. See LETTERS, 16, 88, 400, 448, 471, 496, 544. See Erratum, 496
Bournemouth, Conference, Coil Spring Federation, 543
Bowden, Dr. F. P., on Seizure of Metals, 325 Brabant, A. C., Electric-Power Exhibition, 396 Brabazon Assembly Hall at Filton, 63 Bradbury, E. J., on Melting and Casting of
Nickel Silver, 378. See 402
Bradford Engineering Society, Jubilee Dinner 473
Bradley, R., on Engineer’s Work in Japanese Prison Camps, 1*
Bradley and Turton, Ltd., 100-ton Plastic- Moulding Press, 412*
Braidhurst Railway Viaduct, Repairs to, 534 Brake-Lining Materials, Frictional Behaviour of, 193*, 217*
— Motor-Car. See Motor-Gar Details Braking, Rheostatic, for Trolley Omnibuses
(Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 240*
Bramah, J., Celebration of Bicentenary of, 351;
Exhibition of Relics of, 567
Bramwell, F. H., on Mechanical Engineering in Chemical Industry, 597*. See 520
Brass, Alpha, Effect of Grain Size on Damping Capacity of, 329
— Fittings, Effect of Chlorinated Water on, 302
— Melting and Casting of, 377, 378, 402, 456 Brazil, Engineering and Trade Notes from, 126,
487
Breakdowns. See Accidents
Brickwork in Engineering Structures, 233
Bridge, Bailey, Suspension, Origin and Development, 577*
Over Whiteadder Water, Northumberland, 152*. See Erratwjn, 209
— Frey, over River Havel, Berlin, 392*
— Pre-Stressed Concrete, Design of, 181
— Railway, in the Netherlands, Reconstruction of, 535
Reconstruction, London Area, 115*
— Road, Reconstruction in the Netherlands,
535
— — Reinforced-Concrete, Standard Design of (Review), 76
— — Welded in New South Wales, 529*
— Steel, Simply-Supported, Code of Practice for, 517
— Story of (Review), 148
— See also Viadwct; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Brisby, M. D., on Vierendeel Girder Analysis,
25* ; on Mathematics as a Tool, 39
Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., Testing Tower for Helicopter Rotors, 584*
— Brabazon Assembly Hall at, 63
Bristow, Dr. J. R., on Measurement of Kinetic Boundary Friction, 325
Bristow, Lieut.-Col. W. A., the Late, 305
British Aircraft Constructors, Society of, Standardisation by, 79
British Aluminium Co., Ltd., Wiped Joints on Aluminium-Sheathed Electric Cables, 93
— Architects, Royal Institute of, Conference
on Architects in Industry, and Industrial Architecture Exhibition, 183

British Association (Brighton Meeting) :

Section G—(Engineering):
Railway Rolling Stock and Tendencies in Design, by O. V. S. Bulleid, 68*, 94*. See 86
(Newcastle Meeting, 1949) :
Invitation of Papers by Young Engineers, 79, 329
British Broadcasting Corporation, Skelton Short-Wave Transmitting Station, 7*, 32*
— Cast Concrete Federation, Annual Luncheon,
547 ; Research in Building Industry, by , R. Fitzmaurice, 547
— — Iron Research Association, Tests of
“ Silal ” Heat-Resisting Cast Iron, 101
— Columbia, Water Power in, Statistics, 422
— Corporation Register of Shipping, Fusion
with Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 303
— Electrical and Allied Industries Research
Association, Annual General Meeting and Luncheon, 160; Annual Report, 365; Severity of Circuit-Breaker Test Conditions, by F. O. Mason, 342
and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Report, 500

British Electrical Power Convention:

Torquay Meeting:
Programme, 231
Inaugural Proceedings, 568
High-Voltage Transmission in Great Britain, by T. G. N. Haldane, 559. See 569, 589
Presidential Address by Lord Citrine on Position of British Electricity Industry, 569. See 568, 589
Meeting Needs of Consumer in Electricity Supply Industry, by C. T. Melling, 569 Switchgear for Systems of 200 kV and Above, by B. H. Leeson, 569, 589,593
Power Transformers for Systems of 200 kV and Above, by H. S. Holbrook, 569, 589, 593, 594
High-Voltage Research and Development in British Cable-Making Industry, by T. R. Scott, 569, 589, 593
Electrical Contractor’s Place in Industry and His Service to Public, by P. G. Wallis, 594
Dinner, 594
British Electricity Authority, Joint Advisory Councils for, 111; Grit-Arresting Plant at Fulham Power Station, 186; Electricity Tariffs, 303; Steam Collier “ Pompey Power,” 344* ; Rural Electricity Supply, 374. See LETTER, 472; Electric-Power Exhibition, London, 396; 330-b.h.p.
Diesel Shunting Locomotive for Carrington Power Station, 451*; Poole Power Station, 476; Transmission-Line Tower, 489*; Statement on Efficiency of Power Stations, 519; Portobello Power Station, 545; Work of Authority, 569, 589
— Foundrymen, Institute of, Annual Con
ference, Cheltenham Spa, Programme, 342; Problems in Bronze Foundry Practice, by Prof. A. J. Smith, 557; Annual Report, 592; Annual Dinner, 592
— Gear Manufacturers’ Association, Luncheon,
351
— Industries Fair, Birmingham, 385*, 409*,
437*, 461*
Federation of. See Federation
— — Report of Anglo-American Council on
Productivity, 413, 421
British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd., Equipment for Skelton Broadcast Transmitting Station, 7* ; Spectrographic Determination of Copper in Lead Alloys, 287; 220-kV Impregnated Pressure Cable, 288; “ Bimec ” Fault Locator, 438*
— Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee; Re
ports on Electrical Power Engineering in Germany, 1939-45, 470; on German Gas- Turbine Developments, 1939-45, 293
British Iron and Steel Research Association, Conference on Optical Techniques in Metallurgical Microscopy, 207 ; Investigation on Measurement of Torque in Shafts, 481*, 505*
British Jeffrey-Diamond, Ltd., Self-Cleaning Tail End for Belt Conveyor, 152* ; Swing- Hammer Pulveriser, 461*
— Mining Industry, Reconstruction of, 366,390
— National Bibliography, Plans for, 423
— Navy. See H.M. under Warships
— Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association,
Working Behaviour of Phosphorus-De- oxidised Copper Containing Bismuth, 6, 42, 329
British Oxygen Co., Ltd., “ Cutogen ” Oxygen Cutting Torch, 413*; Argon-Arc Welding Equipment for Aluminium, 413
— Railways, Standardisation of Rolling Stock
fol, 20 ; Gas-Turbine Locomotives, 31* ; Electrical Interlocking of Signals at Doncaster Station, 41* ; Rolling Stock for, 68*, 86, 94*, 123, 200*, 210*, 211, 274, 528, 536*. See 20 ; Tilbury Radar Station, 72; Standard Flat-Bottom Rails, 113*, 563; Bridge Reconstruction by, 115*; Pre- Stressed Reinforced-Concrete Sleepers for, 138* ; Renewal of Track in Watford Tunnel, 185; Repairs to Brick Facing Walls of Roade Cutting, 187; Wagon for Transporting Stators of Turbo-Alternators, 200*; Double-Deck Railway Carriage, 210* ; Operation of Vehicles, 1948, 211; 1,470- h.p. Mixed-Traffic Electric Locomotive, 234* ; Glass-Carrying Wagons, 274 ; Accelerated Weathering Tests of Paints, 285*; Radio Control at Whitemoor Marshalling Yard, 306 ; Frequency-Correction Equipment for Railway-Signalling Circuits, 331*; Rolling-Stock Building Programme for, 528 ; Repairs to Braidhurst Viaduct, 534; Welded All-Steel Railway Carriage, 536* ; “ Royal Scot ” Non-Stop Run with Diesel- Electric Locomotives, 543
British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co., Ltd., Reinforced-Concrete Warehouse at Gladstone Docks, Liverpool, 222*
— Rubber Development Board, Rubber
Linings for Chemical Plant, 271
— Shipbuilding Research Association, Annual
Report, 183
See Shipbuilding
— Shipping. See Shipping
—? Standards Institution. See Standards
British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Equipment for Skelton Broadcast Transmitting Station, 7*, 33* ; Summer School, Rugby, 55; 16-MEV Betatron, 55* ; Gas-Leak Detector, 339* ; 80-kW Generating Set and Motors, S.S. “ Pompey Power,” 345; 275-kV 3,500-MVA Oil Circuit-Breaker, 413* ; Lead-Sulphide Cell, 522
— Trade. See Trade
— Welding Research Association, Conference
on Economics of Welding, Programme, 159 ; Conference on Welding as Aid to Saving of Steel and Man Power, 367
Brittle Fracture of Mild-Steel Plates, 16. See LETTERS, 209, 304, 352, 424, 472, 520, 568 in Ship Plates, 289*
Broaches, Keyway-Cutting (W. H. Marley and Co., Ltd.), 559
Broad, L., on Flow of Metal in Tube Extrusion, 355
Broeze, Prof. Ir. J. J., on Combustion in Spark- Ignition and Compression-Ignition Engines, 207
Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd., Electrically- Driven Guillotine Shearing Machine, 388* Bronze Foundry Practice, Problems of Solidification, 557
— Work on Chill and Sand-Casting by Tin Re
search Institute, 583
Brookhirst-Pearson Voltage-Regulating System, 215*
Brookhirst Switchgear, Ltd., Brookhirst-Pearson Voltage-Regulating System, 215*
Brotherhood, P., Ltd., 700-kW Turbo-Generator, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 369
Browett, A. H., the Late, 511
Brown, J., and Co., Ltd., S.S. “ Caronia,” 15, 80*, 104*, 128*
Brown, Boveri and Co., Ltd., Gas-Turbine Locomotive for British Railways, 31*
Bruce, C. F., on Frictional Forces in Dial Gauges, 169*. See LETTER, 208
Bruce Peebles and Co., Ltd., East Pilton Works, 545
Bruges, E. A., on Energy Charts for Dissociated Gas, 73*, 97*
Buckingham Palace, “ Thermax ’’-Type Boiler for (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 274
Buckling of Deck Plating, Stresses in, 426 “ Builder’s Mate ” Dumper Truck, 461* Buildings, Aluminium in, Structural Uses of, 501*
— Construction. See also Concrete, Reinforced
and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Industry, Fixing Accessories for, Specifica
tion, 418
Research in, Types and Value of, 547
— Research, 1940-1945 (Review), 244 Board, Report for 1946, 327
and Development Advisory Council, Report, 513
— — Station, Report on Cavity Party Walls
for Sound Insulation, 161; Work on Heating and Ventilation, 199
Bulkheads. See Water-TiyAt Subdivision
Bulleid, O.V.S., on Railway Rolling Stock and Tendencies in Design, 68*, 94*. See 86; 1,470-h.p. Mixed-Traffic Electric Locomotive, 234
Burden, H., on Grain Size of Powders Used for Hard Metal, 117*. See 425
Bureau of Standards. See United States Burma, River Shweli Suspension Bridge, 581* Burrill, Prof. L. C., on Developments in Reversible Propellers, 237*
Bus Bars. See Electric
Busignies, H., on Radio Distance-Measuring Equipment for Aerial Navigation, 187
Bygate, P. W., on Grain Growth in Silicon- Chromium Steel, 474

CABLES, Anchor, Dimensions of, Specification, 370
— See also Wire Ropes and Electric
Cadman Lecture on Reconstruction of British Mining Industry, 366, 390:
“ Calfdozer ” with Two-Line Ripper (Aveling-Barford, Ltd.), 412*
Callis, G. T., on Melting and Casting of Aluminium-Bronze Ingots, 356. See 378, 402
“ Cam-o-Matic ” Camshaft-Grinding Machine, 584*
Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd., Exhibits of Galvanometers at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 316 ; Mirror Galvanometers and Lindemann Electrometers, 316
Camera, Electron Diffraction (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 313*
Camps, Prison, Japanese, Engineer’s Work in, 1*
Campbell, Dr. N. R., the Late, 529
Camshaft Grinding Machine, “ Cam-o-Matic,” 584*
Canada, Agricultural Electrification in, 535
— Dominion Water and Power Bureau, Annual Report, 184
— Locomotive Building in, 390
— Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission,
Annual Report, 14 •
— United Kingdom Engineering Mission to,
Report on, 134,163
— and United States, Use of Electric Power in,
422
— Water-Power Resources in, Report, 422
Canal, Derbyshire, Railways Connected with, 573*. See Erratum, 596
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cantor Lectures on Recent Research on Corrosion, by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon, 211
Canvas Cover for Portable Hangar for- AeroEngine Maintenance, 457*
Cars, Motor. See Motor Cars
— Rail. See Carriages, Railway.
Cars, A.C., Ltd., Electric Trains for Southend Pier, 379*
Carbides in Alloy Steels, Structure of, 475 Carburisation. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Cargo Steamers. See Steamers
Carlisle, S. S., on Electrical Pressure Meter for Open-Hearth Furnace, 448
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Annual Report of Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (Review), 244
“ Caroline,” S.S., Crossing of Atlantic by, 40, 54 “ Caronia,” S.S., Cunard-White Star Liner, 15, 80*, 104*, 128*
Carriage, Railway, All-Steel, Welded, 536* for British Railways, Tendencies in Design of, 71
— •— British, Standardisation of, 20
British, Statistics of Production, 123, 211 Double-Deck, for British Railways, 210*
— — Development of Oil Engines for Railcars,
309,333
Electric and Diesel-Electric, Netherlands Railways, 247
— — Electric, Southend-on-Sea Pier, 379* Motor-Driven, for London Transport
Executive, 78, 308
Nineteenth-Century (Review), 172
Repair Shop at Acton Works, 319
Carrington Power Station, 330-b.h.p., Diesel Shunting Locomotive for, 451*
Case Hardening. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Cast Iron in Architecture, History of (Review), 340
— — Crankshafts, Fatigue Strength of, 375 Heat-Resisting, " Silal,” Tests of, 101 Industry, Results of Research in, 524 Pipes for Water Supply, 45
Research Association, British, Tests of “ Silal ” Heat-Resisting Cast Iron, 101
Water Mains, Microbiological Corrosion Of, 211
Casting, Aluminium-Alloy, Brittleness in, 424
— Bronze, Production of, 557
— Iron, Production of 270
— Light-Alloy, in Aircraft Construction, 359
— and Melting of Non-Ferrous Metals, 356,378,
402, 456
— Steel, Non-Destructive Testing of, 3
Chromium-Molybdenum, Specification, 298
Castner and Kellner, Work on Chlorine Processes, 520, 598
Catalogues, 48, 96,119,168,192, 240, 264, 312, 336, 360, 408, 432, 456, 480. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Catarole Petroleum-Cracking Process, Furnace for, 153
Caterpillar Tractor. See Tractor
C.A.V., Ltd., Fuel-Injection Pump with Hydraulic Governor, 261*; Door-Operating Equipment for Passenger Vehicles, 463
Cavitation in Reversible Propellers, 238
Cavity Party Walls for Sound Insulation, Report on, 161
Cells. See Electric
Cement and Concrete Association, Formation of Pre-Stressed Concrete Development Group, 248
— Industry, British, Progress in, from 1939 to
1949, 87
— Makers’ Federation, Review of Progress in
Cement Industry, 87
— Works, Atmospheric Pollution from, 254.
See LETTER, 304
— See also Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX Centenaries, Engineering, in 1949,15
— of “ The Gas Journal,” 543. See ERRATUM,
562
— of G Wynnes Pumps, 573
— of D. van Nostrand Co. in Book Publishing
(Review), 460
— See also Bicentenary
Central Office of Information, Parliamentary Debate on, 493
Centrifugal Pumps. See Piwnps
Chain, Mild-Steel, Electrically-Welded, Specification, 370
— Track Tractor. See Tractor
Charging Machine, Open-Hearth Furnaces, Clydesdale Steelworks, 127
— of Open-Hearth Furnaces, 498
Charing Cross1, Underground Station, Escalators at, 303
Charts, Energy, for Dissociated Gas, Construction of, 73*, 97*
— Temperature-Entropy, for Air, 375
Chatley, Dr. H., on Metric System; 448. See LETTERS, 16, 88, 400, 471, 496, 544, 568. See Erratum, 496
Chelsea Water Works Co., Works of, 45*
Chemical Developments in Atomic Energy, Conference on. 207
— Engineers, Institution of, Annual Dinner,
399 ; Annual Report, 399 ; North-Western Branch, Cooling of Circulating Water, by J. Leyland, 21*. See ErraZtwn, 55. See LETTERS, 64, 88
— Engineering, National Certificates in, 399
— — Research Committee, Appointments to,
471
— Industry and Coal Processing, 151
— — and International Economic Co-opera
tion, 37
— — Mechanical Engineering in, 520, 597*
?— — Society of, Manchester Section, Cooling of Circulating Water, by J. Leyland, 21*. See Erratum, 55. See LETTERS, 64, 88
— Plant, Rubber Linings for, 271
— Research Laboratory, Investigations on Cor
rosion, 211; Discovery of Ion-Exchange Resins, 523
—- Structures and Dielectric Properties of Materials, Investigations on, 521
Chemistry, Applied, Thorpe’s Dictionary of, Vol. IX (Review), 364
— of Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Research Board Report for 1947, 518
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Chesterfield Canal Railways, 573*
Chile, Engineering and Trade Notes from, 126, 487
Chimneys, Smoke Discharge from, Investigations on, 521
Chinese Weights and Measures and Metric System, 400. See LETTER, 448
“ Chipmunk ” de Havilland Pilot-Training Aircraft, 271
Chlorination of Water Supply, Introduction of, 47
Chlorine, Methods of Manufacture, 520, 598
— in Water, Effect on Brass Fittings, 302
Chorley Royal Ordnance Factory, Manufacture of Pre-Stressed Reinforced-Concrete Sleepers at, 138*
Chromium, Electro-Deposited, Effect of Heat on, 241*, 265*
Chuck. See Machine Tools
Cinema Television Equipment, Film Showing Development, 337
Circular Saws. See Saws under Machine Tools
Citrine, Lord, on British Electricity Supply Industry, 569, 589. See 568
Civil Aviation. See Aeronawiics

Civil Engineers, Institution of :

Presidential Address by Sir J. Davidson on Public Water Supply, 18, 44*
Review of Recent Investigation into Behaviour of Steel Frames in Plastic Range, by Dr. J. F. Baker, 38
Brabazon Assembly Hall at Filton, by C. B. H. Colquhoun, 63
Tidal Power and Severn Barrage, by H. Headland, 133
Applications of Pre-stressed Concrete in Belgium, by Prof. G. Magnel, 181
Exhibition of Pre-Stressed Concrete, 288 Ewing Medal, Award to Sir E. Appleton, 303
Code of Practice for Simply-Supported Steel Bridges, 517
Joint Summer Meeting with Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland. Dublin :
Opening Proceedings, 592
Types of Plant in Use by Civil Engineering Contractors in Great Britain, by A. P. Lambert, 592
Study of Road Traffic, by Dr. W. H. Glanville, 592
Hydro-Electric Development on Electricity Supply Board’s System in Ireland, by J. A. O’Riordan, 593
Water-Power Development in Great Britain, by J. Williamson, 593
Dinner, 593
Visits and Excursions, 592, 593
Road Engineering Division:
Research on Road Safety and Traffic Flow, by Dr. R. J. Smeed and G. T. Bennett, 326
Civil Engineering Contractors’ Plant, Types Used in Great Britain, 592
— — Trends in, 186
Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, 16-MEV Betatron at, 55*
Clarke, C. R., on Layout of Electrical Substations, 115
Classification Societies and Aluminium Alloys, 384
Clay, S. R., the Late, 90
Clayton Lecture on Invention and Sifting-Out of Engineering Facts, 399, 445
Clerke, Major A. B. H., The late, 473
Cleveland and Northern Counties, Notes from, 11, 34, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Climie, A., the Late, 442
Clocks and Watches, Production of,> 269 —— Timing Equipment for Testing (Salford
Electrical Instruments, Ltd.), 340
Clydesdale Steelworks, Open-Hearth Furnaces at (Wellman Smith Owen Engineering Corporation, Ltd.), 127*
Coaches, Railway. See Carriages .
Coal Consumption in Power Stations, 333*, 398, 405*
— Economy. See also Fuel
— Fields, Geologists’ Survey Work in, 207
— — New, in Staffordshire, 495
— Gas. See Gas
— Handling Plant, Poole Power Station, 476
— Industry and European Economic Co
operation, 37
Reconstruction of, 366, 390
— Machinery Industry, Position and Pros
pects, 99. See LETTER, 280
— Mine. See Colliery
— Need for Greater Production, 278
— Oil Production from, Economics of, 17
— — Production from, by Fischer-Tropsch
Process, 258
— Opencast, Mining of, Film on (J. Laing &
Son, Ltd.), 295
— — Production and Marketing, Report, 469
— Pulverised. See Pulverised Coal
— Resources of Great Britain, 137, 151
World, Statistics of, 157
— Tar Liquid Fuels, Specification, 58
— for Underfeed Stokers, Report on, 259
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Coalfields, Geologists’ Survey Work in, 207
— New, in Staffordshire, 495
“ Coborn ” 50-ton Moulding Press, 462*
Cock, C. M., 1,470-h.p. Mixed-Traffic Electric Locomotive, 234*
Codes of Practice, Standard. See Standards
Cohen, G., Sons and Co., Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 438*; 50-ton Moulding Press, 462*
Cohen, J. E., the Late, 418
Coil Spring Federation, Bournemouth Conference, 543
Coke for Underfeed Stokers, Report on, 259
Collectors, Dust, Cyclone, Investigations on, 111, 165*
Flue-Gas, Centrifugal-Type (Davidson and Co., Ltd.), 465*
— Soot, S.S. “Caronia,” 106*
College. See Education
Collie Torsionmeter, 481*
Colliery Locomotives, Regulations for, 416
— See also Mines and Coal
Collisions Through Liquid Layers, 145* Colombia, Engineering Notes from, 126 Colorimetry, Visual, Techniques of, 199 Colour Identification for Gas Cylinders, Specification, 538
— and Light, Measurement of, 199
Colquhoun, C. B. H., on Brabazon Assembly Hall at Filton, 63
Colthurst, Capt. E., and London Water Supply, 19, 44*
Columbia University, Trends in Engineering Education (Review), 98
Columbus, Ohio, Battelle Memorial Institute, Tests of “ Silal ” Heat-Resisting Cast Iron, by W. H. White and A. R. Elsea_, 101
Columns, Model, for Hawkesbury River Bridge, Tests of, 530*
Combined Stress. See under Tests (Materials) Combustion Appliances, Researches on, 480
— Chamber for Marine Diesel Engines, 455*
— in Spark-Ignition and Compression-Ignition
Engines, 207
— Theory and Spectroscopy (Review), 291
— See also Fuel; Gases
Commerce. See Trade-. See also Industries and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Commercial Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Motor Cars. See Motor Commonwealth. See Australia
Commutator, Jet-Chain, Principles and Applications of, 433*
Compacts, Metal, Flow of Gases Through, 291* Companies. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Compressed-Gas Cylinders. See Gas Compressor, Air. See Air Compressor Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives Concrete in Building Industry, Research on, 547
— Consistometer, Wigmore, 283*
— Pre-Stressed, Development Group, of
Cement and Concrete Association, Formation of, 248
Exhibition of, 288
Use in Belgium, 181
— Reinforced, Association, Formation of
North-West Branch, 231
— — Experimental Method for Research in,
553*
Road Bridges, Standard Design of (Review), 76
— — Sleepers, Manufacture, 138*
Testing Tunnels for Aircraft Propellers, 248*
Warehouse at Gladstone Docks, Liverpool, 222*
— Thermic Drilling of, 89*. See Addendum,
114
— Vibrator (C. H. Johnson (Machinery)
Ltd.), 463
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
“ Conde de Palmella,” S.S., History of, 40
Condenser Plant for Power Stations, Developments in, 335
— Surface, S.S. “ Caronia,” 104
— See also Electric
Condensing Plant, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367 Conduction, Heat, with Engineering and
Geological Applications (Review), 28
Conemaugh River Dam, Stainless-Steel Clad Gates for, 348
Conference, Anglo-American Aeronautical, New York, Programme, 255
— Architect in Industry, 183
— Chemical Developments in Atomic Energy,
207
— Coil Spring Federation, Bournemouth, 543
— Economics of Welding, 159
— Engineering, World, and! Status of British
Engineers, 136
— of Incorporated Plant Engineers at Black
pool, 288
— International, Gas, London, Programme, 495 on Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, 353
— on Man-Power for Royal Air Force and
Industry, 495
Conference, Management, of Council of Iron- foundry Associations, 509
— Optical Techniques in Metallurgical Micro
scopy, 207
— Royal Society’s on Scientific Information, 541
— Scientific and Technical, Organisation of,
182. See LETTER, 233
—- Shipbuilding, Review of Shipbuilding Industry, 16
— United Nations Scientific, Plan for Conser
vation and Utilisation of Resources, 423
— World Power; Fourth, London, 15; Statis
tical Year Book (Review), 157
Congress, Mining and Metallurgical, Empire, London and Oxford, Programme, 88, 471
Connectors, Gas, Plug-and-Socket, Specification, 10
Conservation of Coal. See Coal; FweZ
— and Utilisation of Resources, United
Nations Scientific Conference on, 423
Consistometer, Concrete, Wigmore, 283* Constructional Engineering Industry, Position and Prospects, 269
— — Welding in, 367
Consultative Councils, Electrical, Work of, 112 Consulting Engineers, Association of, Annual Dinner, 495
Containers, Acid, Rubber Linings for, 271
Contracts, 10, 34, 58, 82, 130, 154, 178, 202, 250, 274, 298, 322, 346, 370, 394, 418, 467, 491, 515, 539, 562, 587. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Contractor, Electrical, His Service to Public 594
— Plant, Civil-Engineering, Types Used in
Great Britain, 592
Control Cubicle, Skelton Broadcast Transmitting Station, 7*
— Gear for 1,470-h.p. Electric Locomotive,
234*
—- of Marshalling-Yard Traffic by Radio, 306
— Orders, Ministry of Supply. See IndwsZries
ancZ Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— and Regulating Systems, Automatic, Stan
dard Glossary of Terms Used in, 538
— Room for Transmission-Line Tower-Testing
Station, 488*
— System, “ Metrolock,” for Direct-Current
Motors (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 410*
— Unit, Trolley-Omnibus (Metropolitan-Vick
ers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 409*
Controllers, Electric Motor. See Motors, Electric
Conveyor, Belt, Self-Cleaning Tail End for (British Jeffrey-Diamond, Ltd.); 152*
Cook, Dr. M., on Melting and Casting of Brass, 456. See 377, 402
Cooling of Circulating Water, 21*. See Erratum, 55. See LETTERS, 64, 88
— Tower, Developments in, 335
Cooper, A. R., the Late, 233
Copper Alloys. See Brass; Bronze; and Alloys under Metallurgy
— Conductors, Asbestos-Covered, Specifica
tion, 298
— Containing Bismuth, Working Behaviour of,
6, 42. See 329
— in Lead Alloy, Spectrographic Determina
tion of, 287
— Phosphorus-Deoxidised, Containing Bis
muth, Working Behaviour of, 6, 42, 329
— Shapes, Refined, Production, 356, 378, 402
— Surface, Impact of Steel Sphere on, 146*
— Tube, Seamless, Specification, 106
— See also Metallurgy
" Copymatic ” Centre Lathe, 595*
Corlett, E. C. B., on Light-Alloy Cross-Channel Ship Design, 449
Cornish Engines Preservation Society, Film of Cornish Engines, 208
Coronet Tool Co., Watchmaker’s Combined Lathe and Drill, 461*
Corrosion, Flue-Gas, in Boiler Plants, Causes, 231
— Handbook (Review), 61
— of Marine Boilers, Investigation of, 135
— of Metals, Recent Research and Theories, 61
— Metallic, Introduction to (Review), 61
— — Promotion by Micro-Organisms, 355
— in Oil Tankers, 450
— of Propellers. See Propellers
— Research on, Cantor Lectures by Dr. W. H. J.
Vernon, 211
by Chemistry Research Board, 518
— Tests of Aluminium Alloys, 501
— of Water Mains, Influence of Developments
in Plastics, 547
Cossor Radar, Ltd., Tilbury Radar Station, 72 Cotter Pins, Split, for Aircraft Purposes, Specification, 466
Coulomb’s Law of Friction, Limitations of, 193 Councils, Consultative, Electrical, Work of, 112 Counter, Photo-Electric, Magnetic (Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd.), 315*
— Revolution, Electronic Precision (Plessey
Co., Ltd.), 339
Coupling, Hydraulic, for Marine Gas-Turbine Plants, 254
Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd., Bore-Measuring Micrometer, 272*
Cox, R., on Exports of Mining and Electrical Machinery, 280. See 99
Cracking of Electro-Deposited Chromium, Investigations on, 241*, 265*
— of Mild-Steel Plates, 16. See LETTERS, 209,
304, 352, 424, 472, 520, 568
— in Ship Plates, 289*
Crane, Mobile, 6-ton, Lorry-Mounted (R. H. Neal and Co., Ltd.), 409*
— —Lorry-Mounted (T. Smith and Sons (Rod-
ley), Ltd.,) 386*
4-ton Lorry-Mounted (K. and L. Steelfounders and Engineers, Ltd.), 438*
— Overhead Electric, Plate Girder for Runway
(Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd.), 185*
Crankcase Explosions in Marine Diesel Engines, Causes of, 477
Crankshafts, Cast-Iron, Fatigue Strength of, 375
— Damping, Investigations on, 205. See LET
TER, 256
— for Marine Diesel Engines, 430*, 453*
Crates, Pickling, Monel Metal (H. Wiggin &
Co., Ltd.), 487
Cresylic Acid, Specification, 82
Crews’ Accommodation on Ships, Watts’s Prize for Improving, 187
Crewe Locomotive Works, Manufacturing
Methods at, 259
— Toll Works, Edinburgh, 545
Crockett, J. H. A., on Dynamic Principles of Machine Foundations, 351, 373. See LETTER, 544
Cromford Canal Railways, 573*
Crompton-Lanchester Medal, Award to Dr. P. de
K. Dykes, 135
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., Nelson System of Electric Stud Welding, 33; Rheostatic Braking for Trolley Omnibuses, 240*; Resilient Wheels and Electrical Equipment for Southend Pier Trains, 379*
Crookshank, C. X., on Metric System, 400. See LETTERS, 16, 88, 448, 471, 496, 544, 568. See ErraZwm, 496
Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 330-b.h.p. Reversing Diesel Engines for Locomotives, 451*
Crowther, E., on Gas Industry, 570. See 567 Crucible Steel Co. of America, “Hy-Tuf”
Alloy Steel, 431
Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil Cruisers. See WarsAips
Crystals and X-Rays (Review), 172 Crystalline Structure of Metals. See Microphotographs
Cunard-White Star Line, S.S. “ Caronia,” 15, 80*, 104* 128*
Cunningham, Lord, on Current Shipbuilding
Practice, 328
“ Curasao,” SS., Crossing of Atlantic by, 54
“ Curacoa,” H.M. Cruiser, and S.S. “ Queen Mary,” Model Investigations of Collision Between, 401
Current, Electric. See Electric
Cutting Torch, Oxygen, “ Cutogen ” (British
Oxygen Co., Ltd.), 413*
Cycles for Marine Gas Turbines, Partial-Load Characteristics of, 230. See LETTER, 424
Cyclone Dust Collectors, Investigations on 111, 165*
Cylinder, Gas. See Gas
— Gauge for Internal Measurement of (G. H. Alexander Machinery, Ltd.), 258*
— for Marine Diesel Engines, 429* ,453*

“ DAILY MAIL ” Ideal-Home Exhibition, Olympia, 208
Dalton, G. 0. J:, on Nuclear Reactors as Possible Power Source, 391
Dam, Conemaugh River, Stainless-Steel Clad Gates for, 348
— Owen Falls, Uganda, 496
Damage, Air-Raid, to Reinforced-Concrete
Warehouse, Liverpool, 222*
Damping Capacity of Alpha Brass, Effect of Grain Size on, 329
of Metals in Transverse Vibration, 329
— Crankshaft, Tests in Compression-Ignition
Oil Engine, 205. See LETTER, 256
Daniel, G., on International Conference on
Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, 353
Daniels, T. H. and J., Ltd., 125/28-ton Transfer
Moulding Hydraulic Press, 411*
Danish Academy of Technical Science, Poulson
Medal, Award to Sir E. Appleton, 399
Davidson, Sir J., on Public Water Supply, 18 44*
Davidson and Co., Ltd., Centrifugal-Type Flue- Gas Dust Collectors, 465*
Davies, I., on Water Supply in Western Australia, 535
Davis, A. W., on Marine Reduction Gearing, 253 Davis, R. F., on Steam and Air Turbine Generating Plants, 49*
Day, C., the Late, 592*
Decca Navigator Co., Ltd., Decca Navigator
System, 439*
Deck Plating After Buckling, Theory of
Behaviour of, 426
— Water-Tight. See Water-Tight Subdivision Defence Services Research Facilities Committee, 111
Deformations in Metals During Impact, 145* Degreasing Plant, Metal (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 437*
de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., Testing Tunnels for Aircraft Propellers, 248* ; D.H.106 Jet-Engined Airliner, 304
de Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Ltd., “ Chipmunk ” Pilot-Training Aircraft, 271
Delay in Delivery of Machinery, Court Decisions on, 566
Delft Technical High School, Investigations of Cyclone Dust Collectors, 111, 165*
Demulsification of Oil Fuel and Water, 361* Denmark. See Danish
Deposits, Flue-Gas, in Boiler Plants, Causes of
231
Derby Canal Railways, 573*
Derbyshire, Early Railways in, 573.* See -ErraZiwn, 596
Design, Industrial, and Engineering Industries, 126
— and Patents Bill, Proposed, 255 Destroyers. See W’arsMps
Detector, Gas-Leak (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 339*
Devereux, Col. W. C., on Structural Uses of Aluminium in Buildings, 501*
Diamond, E. L., on Charging of Open-Hearth Furnaces, 498
“ Diana II,” Motor Launch, Use of Aluminium Alloy in, 384
Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Thorpe’s, Vol. IX (Review), 364
Die-Casting Machine, Reed Prentice Pressure (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 385*
Diesel, Dr. E., on R. Diesel and His Work, 257, 281
— Engines. See Engines, Oil Diesel; Marine
Propulsion.
Diesel Engine Users Association, Report on Heavy-Oil Engine Working Costs, 85. See LETTER, 160 ; Principles of Diesel Engine Waste-Heat Recovery, by T. R. Houston, 280 ; Annual Luncheon, 400
Diffraction of X-Rays, Optical Principles of (Review), 581
Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX Disputes, Trade. See Labour
District Heating in American Housing, Report on, 350
Domestic Electric Space Heating, Code of Practice, 202
— Electrical Appliances, Production of, 245
— Heating, Gas and Electricity for, 17
and Ventilation, Efficiency of and Research on, 199
Donaldson, Capt. J. M., Election as Honorary Member of Institution of Electrical Engineers, 63, 399
Doncaster Station, Electrical Interlocking of Railway Signals at, 41*
Door, Crankcase, for Marine Diesel Engines, 478*
— Operating Equipment for Passenger Vehicles
(C.A.V., Ltd.), 463
— Water-Tight. See Water-Tight Subdivision
Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., All-Welded Plate Girder for Overhead-Crane Runway, 185* ; 3,000,000-cub. ft. Gasholder for Johannesburg, 268
Double-Reduction Gears, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
Douglas, A., on Measurement of Torque in Shafts, 481*, 505*
Dover, A. E., the Late, 64
Dow Coming Corporation, Silicone Rubber Manufacture, 464
Downing, A. C., Galvanometers, 522
Drake, Sir Francis, Connection with Plymouth Water Supply, 18
Draminsky, Dr. P., on Crankshaft Damping, 205. See LETTER, 256
Drawbench for Tubes, Triple-Draw Push? Pointing (Head Wrightson Machine Co., Ltd.), 512*
Drewry Merchant-Navy Scholarships, Particulars of, 283
Drill Chuck. See Machine Tools
— and Drilling Machines, See Machine Tools Grinding Machine. See Grinding Machine
under Machine Tools
Drilling, Thermic, of Concrete and Stone, 89*. See Addendum, 114
Dryden, Dr. H. L., on the Aeronautical Research Scheme, 525*, 549*
Drying and Mixing Plant, Tar Macadam. See Tar Macadam
Dubh, Loch, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 135
Dumper, 10-cwt. Petrol-Engined (G. Fowell, Ltd.), 461*
Duncan, Prof. W. J., on Review of Dimensional Analysis, 533, 556. See Erratum, 587
“ Dunnottar Castle,” M.S., Reconditioning of, 143
Durham University, Power-Gas Corporation Scholarships, 379
Dust, Coal. See Pulverised Coal
— Collectors, Cyclone, Investigations on, 111, 165*
Flue-Gas, Centrifugal-Type (Davidson and Co., Ltd.), 465*
Dutch. See Holland
Dykes, Dr. P. de K., Award of Crompton- Lanchester Medal to, 135
Dynamos. See Generators, Electric; Turbo-Generators
Dynamometer. See Torsionmeter

EARTH’S Magnetism. See Magnetism Earthometer “ Megger ” Tester, 260
East Pilton Works, Bruce Peebles and Co., Ltd, 545
Eccentrics for Marine Diesel Engines, 430*
Economic Commission for Europe, International Power Committee, Geneva Meeting, 375
— Co-operation, International, Programme, 37
— State of Nation, Government Statement, 87
— Survey for 1949, 255, 278
Economics, Industrial. See Labour
— of Power Generation, 405*
Economiser, Foster Extended-Surface, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367*
— in Royal Navy, 189*
Eeonomy, Fuel. See Fuel Economy Edinburgh, Crewe Toll Works, 545
— Heriot-Watt College, Connection of J. Watt with, 111

Education :

Apprenticeship, Industrial, in United States, 160
British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Summer School, Rugby, 55
Chemical Engineering, National Certificates in, 399
College of Technology, Manchester, Courses in Engineering Metrology, 304; Scholarships Tenable at, 352
Drewry Merchant-Navy Scholarships, Particulars of, 283
Durham University Power-Gas Corporation Scholarships, 379
Education of Electrical Industry Personnel, Memorandum on, 212
Engineering Education, Trends in: The Columbia Experience (Review), 98
in the United States, Report on, 542 Federation of British Industries Report on Education and Training of Technologists, 591
Heriot-Watt College, Connection of J. Watt with, 111
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Luncheon to Livery Companies, 256
International Association for Exchange of Students for Technical Experience, Annual Report, 39
Manchester College of Technology, Course in Engineering Metrology, 304; Scholarships Tenable at, 352
Maudslay Scholarship, Founding of, 446
Mechanical Engineering Degrees, Academic Regulations and Practical Considerations, 508
Pease Readership in Telecommunications, Imperial College, London, 532
Royal Aeronautical Society Charter Scholarship Inauguration, 584
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Edwards, F. J., Ltd., 36-ton Press Brake, 437* ;
Turret-Type Multiple Punch, 437* Efficiency of Boiler Plants. See Boiler Plants — of Engines. See Engines
Egerton, Sir A., on Scientific Information Services, 541
Egypt, Agreement on Owen Falls Hydro- Electric Scheme, 496
Einstein, Prof. A., 70th Birthday Celebrations, 279
Ejector Action, in Wind-Tunnel Operation, Investigations on, 521

Electric :

Alarm, Warning of Approach of Maximum Demand (Ferranti, Ltd.), 137*
Alternating-Current Machines (Review), 219
Use in S.S. “ Pompey Power,” 345 Alternator. See Generator and Turbo Amplifier for Skelton Broadcast Transmitting Station, 8*, 32*
Apparatus, Accidents with, 277
Arc, Gas, Development of, 140*
— Welding. See Welding
Betatron, 16-MEV, at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, 55*
British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, Annual General Meeting and Luncheon, 160 ; Severity of Circuit-Breaker Test Conditions, by F. O. Mason, 342 ; Annual Report, 365
and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Report, 500
— Electricity Authority, Joint Advisory Councils for, 111; Grit-ATresting Plant at Fulham Power Station, 186 ; Electricity Tariffs, 303; Steam Collier “ Pompey Power,” 344* ; Rural Electricity Supply, 374. See LETTER, 472 ; Electric-Power Exhibition, London, 396 ; 330-b.h.p. Diesel Shunting Locomotive for Carrington Power Station, 451* ; Poole Power Station, 476; Transmission-Line Tower, 489* ; Statement on Efficiency of Power Stations, 519 ; Portobello Power Station, 545; Work of Authority, 569, 589
’Bus-Bar, National, Proposal for, 559, 569, 589
Cable, Aluminium-Sheathed, Wiped Joints for (Johnson and Phillips, Ltd.), 93
— Connector for Welding Set (Lincoln Electric Co., Ltd.); 312*
— Continuous Lead-Extrusion Machine for (Pirelli-General Cable Works, Ltd.), 319*
— 220-kV Impregnated Pressure, 288
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 245
— Making Industry High-Voltage Research in; 569, 593
— Underground and Overhead, Cost of, 569
Cell, Lead-Sulphide (British Thomson? Houston Co., Ltd.), 522
Circuits, Communication, Pulses and Transients in (Review), 507
— Railway-Signalling, Frequency-Correction Equipment for, 331*
Commutator., Jet-Chain, Principles and Applications of, 433*
Conductor, Copper, Asbestos-Covered, Specification, 298
— Overhead-Line, Regulations for, 330 Cranes. See Cranes
Dielectric Properties and Chemical Structures of Materials, 521
Dynamo. See Generator ; Turbo-Generator Earthing Faults, Accidents Due to, 277
— “ Megger ” Tester for (Evershed &
Vignoles, Ltd.), 260
Electrical Accidents and Their Causes in 1947, 277
— Apparatus Industry, Position and Prospects, 245
— Consultative Councils, Work of, 112
— Contractor’s Service to Public, 594
— Engineering Industry, Position and Prospects, 99. See LETTER, 280
Summer School, Rugby (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 55
— Researches at National Physical Laboratory, 521
Electricity Commissioners, Statistics for 1947 of Electricity Supply and Fuel Consumption, 279
Electrometers (Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd.), 316
Electronic Apparatus, Accidents from, 277
— Control System, “ Servodyne ” (Ferranti, Ltd.), 463
— Simulator (Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd.), 314*
— Speed Controls of Machine Tools, 780. See LETTER, 136
Electronics, Experimental, Techniques in (Review), 268
Electroplating. See Electro
Fault Locator, “ Bimec ” (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 438*
Frequency Changers, Commutator, Polyphase, Construction and Winding of, 90
— Correction Equipment for Railway- Signailing Circuits, 331*
Furnaces. See Furnaces
Fuse, Repeater, for Rural Electrical Cir- . cults (Allen West and Co., Ltd.), 442
Electric—continuerf.
Galvanometers (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 316
— New Types of, 522
— at Physical Society’s Exhibition (Cam
bridge (Instrument Co., Ltd.), 316
Gauge, Capacitance, Use in Torque Measurement, 483*
Generating Stations. See power Stations Generator. See Generator and Turbo High-Voltage Transmission in Great Britain, 559, 569, 589
Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
Installations, Electrical, General, Standard Code of Practice for, 274 O'
Instruments at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 184, 313*, 337*
— Super High-Frequency Standardised (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 114
Lamp, Fluorescent, Spectral Energy Distribution, 521
— Gas-Arc, Development of, 140*
Lifts, Electric (Review), 96. See LETTER 352
Lightning, Investigations by British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, 365
Locomotives. See Locomotives, Electric Machines, Alternating-Current (Review) 219
— See Generators ; Motors ; Turbo
Mains. See Cables (above)
Meter, Ammeter, Square-Dial (Ferranti, Ltd.), 338*
— Circuit-Magnification (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 315*
— Maximum-Demand (Ferranti, Ltd.), 137*
— Sensitive, Electrical, for Open-Hearth Furnace Differential Pressures, 448
— Wattmeter, Ammeter and Voltmeter Set, Electronic, 521
Motors. See Motors, Electric
Oil Switch. See Switchgear Photo-Electric Cells, Use in Photometers, 199
Power. See Power
— Stations. See Power Stations Railways. See Raitways Rays. See X-Rays; Gamma Rays Rectifier, 500-Ampere (Electric Construction Co., Ltd.), 463
— Jet-Chain, Six-Phase, 433*
— 600-kW 17-kV Pumpless Grid-Control
led (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 388*
— and Semi-Conductors, 510*
— 500-kW, for Skelton Broadcast Trans
mitting Station, 33*
Rontgen Rays. See X-Rays
Rural Electricity Supply, Parliamentary Debate on, 374. See LETTER, 472
Supply, Repeater Fuse for (Allen West and Co., Ltd.), 442
— Electrification in United States, 535 Semi-Conductors and Rectifiers, 510* Street Railways. See Tramways Substation. See Substation Switchgear. See Switchgear; Motors, Electric
Telegraphy. See Telegraphy Telephony. See Telephony
Tester, Earthometer, “ Megger ” (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 260
Traction. See Locomotives, Electric; Trolley ’Bus ; Railways ; Tramways
Tramways. See Tramways Transformers. See Trans/ormers
Tube, Electronic, for Measuring Acceleration (Mullard Electronic Products, Ltd.), 92
Turbo-Generators. See Turbo-Generators Voltage-Regulating System, Brookhirst- Pearson (Brookhirst Switchgear, Ltd.), 215*
Welding. See Wetdiny Wire, Insulated, Industry, Position and
Prospects, 245
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy; Radar; Radio; Television
— Telephony. See Telephony, Radar; Radio ; Television
Wiring Installations, Aluminium- and Zinc-Base Alloys for, 455
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Electric Construction Co., Ltd., 500-Ampere Rectifier, 463
Electrical Contractor’s Service to Public, 594

Electrical Engineers, Institution of :

Faraday Medal, Award to C. S. Franklin, 63, 399
Election of Captain J. M. Donaldson as Honorary Member, 63, 399
Tidal Power and Severn Barrage, by H. Headland, 133
Faraday Lecture on Television, by Sir N. Ashbridge, 159
Annual Dinner, 207
Memorandum on Personnel of Electrical Industry, 212
Causes of Flue-Gas Deposits and Corrosion in Modern Boiler Plants, by W. F. Harlow, 231
Electric and Diesel-Electric Traction on Netherlands Railways, by H. J. Van Lessen, 247
Effect of Overloads on Life Expectancy of Transformers, by V. M. Montsinger, 255
Poulson Medal, Presentation to Sir E. Appleton, 399
Annual Report, 439
Memorandum on Aluminium- and Zinc- Base Alloys for Electric-Circuit Installations, 455
Kelvin Lecture on Semi-Conductors and! Rectifiers, by Professor N. F. Mott 510.* See 399
Summer Meeting in Scotland, 243, 519,545
Measurements Section:
Small-Power Transformers for Aircraft, by A. L. Morris, 103
Measurement of Light and Colour, by G. T. Winch, 199
Apparatus for Limitation of Maximum Demand, by A. H. Gray, 522
Radio Section:
Small-Power Transformers for Aircraft, by A. L. Morris, 103
Water Cooling versus Air Cooling for High Power Valves, by J. Bell, 258
Development of Magnetic-Tape Recorders by B. E. G. Mittel, 264
Supply Section:
Factors Influencing Design of High- Voltage Air-Blast Circuit Breakers, by C. H. Flurscheim and E. L. L’Estrange, 93
Small-Power Transformers for Aircraft, by A. L. Morris, 103
Substations, with Particular Reference to Yorkshire Practice, by L. H. Fuller and C. H. Clarke, 115
Overhead-Line Regulations, by H. W. Grimmitt, 330
Utilisation Section:
Polyphase Commutator Machines, by B. Adkins and W. J. Gibbs, 90
Some Aspects of Agricultural and Horticultural Electrification in North America, by F. E. Rowland, 535 Electrical Engineers, Supervising, Association of. See Supervising, Electrical Engineers, Association of
— Engineering Industry, Position and Pros
pects, 99. See LETTER, 280
Electricity Commissioners. See under Electric Electro-Hydraulics, Ltd., Three-Wheeled Elevating Motor Truck, 438*
Electrolytic Corrosion. See Corrosion Electrons, Atoms, Metals and Alloys (Review), 316
— Diffraction Camera (Metropolitan-Vickers
Electrical Co., Ltd.), 313*
— Microscope (Philips Electrical, Ltd.), 339* Electronic Apparatus, Accidents from, 277
— Control System, “ Servodyne ” (Ferranti,
Ltd.), 463
— Simulator (Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd.), 314*
— Speed Controls of Machine Tools, 780. See
LETTER, 136
Electronics, Experimental, Techniques in (Review), 268
— Industry, Exhibition of Components for, 210 Electroplated Coatings, Tin and Speculum,
Applications, 583
Electroplating, Chromium, Effect of Heat on, Investigations on, 241*, 265*
Electrostatic Precipitation for Power Statioi s 254. See LETTER, 304
Electrotechnical Commission, International, Effect of Overloads,on Life Expectancy of Transformers, by V. M. Montsinger, 255 Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd., Magnetic Photo-Electric Counter, 315*; Magnetic Amplifiers, 315; Steam Flowmeter, 439* Elsea, A. R., on Tests of “Silal” Heat- Resisting Cast Iron, 101
Embrittlement of Boiler Plates, Causes of, 135 Emery Wheels. See Grinding under ATacAine Tools
Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress, London and Oxford, Programme, 88, 471 Employment. See Labour
Emulsions of Oil Fuel and Water, Formation and Properties of, 361*
Endurance Tests. See J’atiywe under Tests (Materials')
Energy Charts for Dissociated Gas, Construction of, 73*, 97*
Engines, Aero. See Aeronautics
— Diesel. See Engines, Oil, Diesel; Marine
Propulsion: Motorships
— Heat, Developments since 1917, 309, 333*,
381, 405*
— Indicators. See Indicators
— Internal-Combustion, Combustion in, 207 Combustion, Developments since 1917,
309, 333, 381, 405
Combustion, Investigations on Crankshaft Damping in, 205. See LETTER, 256
Combustion, Pisclunger’s Vol. IX (Review), 484
Combustion, in Royal Navy, 1922-49,213 Combustion, Test Bed for (Esso European (Laboratories), 407*
Combustion, Use of Exhaust Gas from, 381
Combustion. See also Turbines, Gas
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Car. See Engines, Petrol
— Oil, Developments since 1917, 309, 333, 381 Diesel, Delivery-Rate Analyser for Injection Systems, 307*
Diesel, Design of (Review), 555
Diesel, Invention of by R. Diesel, 257,281 Diesel, Marine, Current Types of, 429*, 453*, 477*;. See 279
Diesel, 360-kW Six-Cylinder, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 369
Diesel, 330-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Reversing (Crossley Brothers, Ltd.), 451*
Diesel, Turbo-Blowers for (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 43*
Diesel, Waste-Heat Recovery from, 280 Diesel. See also Motorships; Marine Propulsion; Diesel Engine Users Association
Fuel-Injection Pump with Hydraulic Governor for (O.A.V., Ltd.), 261*
Heavy, Report on Working Costs, 85. See LETTER, 160
Single-Cylinder, Investigations on Crankshaft Damping in1, 205. See LETTER, 256 Work of R. Diesel on; 257, 281 See also Tractors and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Engines, Petrol, Aeroplane. See Aeronautics Six-Cylinder, 67-h.p., Meadows for Electric-Welding Set, 312*
Motor-Car, Fuel Anti-Knock Requirements for, 546
See also Aeronautics ; Motor Cars
— Steam, Cornish, Film of, 208
Developments since 1917, 309, 333, 381, 405
Marine, 850-i.h.p. Triple-Expansion, S.S. " Pompey Power,” 344*
Marine. See also Marine Propulsion; Turbines
Still, Use of, 381
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Engineers-in-Charge, Institution of, Annual Dinner, 447
— Education. See Education
— Guild, Formation of North-Eastern Branch,
348; Formation of Western Branch, 568
— Institutions. See Institutions
— in Land Warfare, 279
— Present Status of, 136
— and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of,
Flame-Spraying of Metals and Plastics in Engineering and Shipbuilding, by F. A. Rivett, 143, 418
— Society of, Presidential Address by E. S.
Waddington on Present Status of Engineers, 136
— Work in Japanese Prison Camps, 1* Engineering Apprentices. See Education
— Association of Ministry of Supply, Gas Tur
bine for Road Transport, by J. Hodge, 63
— Centenaries in 1949,15
— Conference, World, and Status of British
Engineers, 136
— Contracts. See Contracts; Legal
— Education. See Education
— Industries Association, Engineering Manu
facturing Methods as Applied to Small Units of American Industry, by Prof. W. R. Woolrich, 159
— — Development Shown by Economic Sur
vey, 278
— -- and Industrial Design, 126
and International Economic Co-operation, 37
— Information, Sources of (Review), 340
— Laboratories. See Laboratories; National
Physical
— Legal Society, Formation of, 112
— Manufacturing Methods in United States,
159
— Optics, Principles of Optical Methods in
Engineering Measurement (Review), 244
- Outlook, 4, 28, 51, 76, 99,123,148,172,196, 220, 245, 269. See LETTERS, 136, 280
— with Rubber (Review), 507
— Societies. See Institutions
?*— Standards. See Standards Institution —? Works. See Works
English Electric Co., Ltd., Equipment for Skelton Broadcast Transmitting Station, 7*; Electrical Equipment for 1,470-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 234*; Frequency- Correction Equipment for Railway-Signalling Circuits, 331* ; 600-kW, 17-kV Pumpless Grid-Controlled Rectifier, 388*; Air- Insulated Metalclad Circuit Breaker, 389* Entwistle, Dr. K. M., on Damping Capacity of Metals in Transverse Vibration, 329; on Effect of Grain Size on Damping Capacity of Alpha Brass, 329
Erewash Canal Railways, 573*
Escalators at Charing Cross and Waterloo Underground Stations, 303
Escapements, Watch (Review), 555 Escher-Wyss Reversible Propeller, 237; Hot- Air Turbine, Developments, 381
“ Essex ” Omnibus-Washing Machine, 92 Esso European Laboratories, Test Bed for Internal-Combustion Engines, 407*
Estimating, Process Engineering (Review), 219 Estuary, River Thames, Survey of, 543
“ Etzel,” M.S., with Reversible Propeller, 237 Europe, International Electric Power Supply in, 375
European Arterial Roads, Developments of, 351
— Economic Co-operation, Organisation for,
Influence on Engineering Industries, 4, 28, 37, 51, 76, 99, 123,148,172,196, 220, 245, 269. See LETTERS, 136, 280
Evaporator, Continuous Rotary (Rose, Down and Thompson, Ltd.), 417*
Eve, J. L., Construction Co., Ltd., Aerial Masts for Skelton Broadcast Transmitting Station, 7*
Everett, Prof. H. A., on Temperature-Entropy Chart for Air, 375
Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., "Megger” Earth- ometer Tester, 260; Quick-Response Recorder, 338*
Ewing Medal, Award to Sir E. Appleton, 303 Exhaust Gas. See Engines, Internal-Combustion
— Liner Joint for Marine Diesel Engines, 479* —? Steam Turbine. See Turbine, Steam
—? Valves. See PaZces
Exhibition for Blind, Science Museum, 567
—? Bramah Relics at Royal Society of Arts, 567. See 351
— British Industries Fair, 385*, 409*, 437*,
461*
— “ Daily Mail” Ideal-Home, Olympia, 208
—• Electric-Power, London, British Electricity Authority’s, 396
— Festival of Britain, 1951, 109, 303. See
LETTER, 184
— Industrial Architecture, London, 183
— of Kelvin Instruments, Royal Scottish
Museum, 162
— Pre-Stressed Concrete, Institution of Civil
Engineers, 288
— Radio Components, Grosvenor House,
London, 210
— Scientific Apparatus, Physical Society’s,
184, 313*, 337*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Experimental tank. See Tanfc Explosions, Crankcase, in Marine Diesel
Engines, Causes of, 477
Export Trade. See Trade; and Industries in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Exposure, Photographic, Standard Tables for, 322
Extrusion Machine, Lead, Continuous, for Electric Cables (Pirelli-General Cable Works, Ltd.), 319*
— Tube, Flow of Metal in, 355

FABER, DR. O., on Construction of House of Commons, 208
Factory Accidents. See Accidents
— Buildings of Aluminium Alloy, 504*
— High Air Temperatures in, Physiological
Effects of, 229
— Light Engineering, Motherwell, Opening of,
519
— Management. See Works Management
— Textile, Ghent, Use of Pre-Stressed Concrete in, 182
— in Trading Estates in South Wales, 210 Fair, Trade. See Exhibition
Fairmile Marine Co., Ltd., 112. See LETTER, 160
Fan, Centrifugal, for Testing Tunnels for Aircraft Propellers, 249*
— Forced- and Induced-Draught, S.S. “ Car
onia,” 105*
— Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Lun
cheon, 327
Faraday Lecture on Television, 159
— Medal, Award to C. S. Franklin, 63, 399 Farming. See Agriculture ; Tractors Farnborough, Royal Aircraft Establishment,
Aerodynamical Balance for Wind Tunnel, 175*, 223*, 272*
Farrell, L. R.,the Late, 490
Fatigue Tests of Metals. See Fatigue under Tests (Materials)
Fault Locator, “ Bimec ” (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 438*
Fawley Petroleum Refinery, Southampton, 552 Federation of British Industries, Report on Education and Training of Technologists, 591
— of Coated Macadam Industries, Annual
Luncheon, 496
Feed Heating Developments Since 1917, 333
— Water and Marine-Boiler Deterioration, ,135
— — System, S.S. “ Caronia,” 104 System, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367 See also Water
Ferodo, Ltd., Investigations on Friction of Brake Linings, 193*, 217*
Ferranti Ltd., Maximum-Demand Meter and Alarm, 137* ; Square-Dial Ammeter, 338*; Magnetic Amplifier, 338 ; “ Servodyne ” Electronic Control System, 463; Crewe Toll Works, Edinburgh, 545
Ferro-Concrete. See Concrete, Reinforced, and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Festival of Britain, 1951, Planning of, 109, 303. See LETTER, 184
Film, Cinema, on Opencast Coal Working (J. Laing and Son, Ltd.), 295
— Showing Development of Cinema Television
Equipment, 337
— Liquid, Effect on Impact Between Metals,
145*
Filters, Percolating, Biological, Media for, Specification, 82
Filton, Brabazon Assembly Hall at, 63 Filtration of Water Supply, History of, 45* Findlay, A., and Co., Ltd., Poole Power Station, 476
Finishes, Metallic, Nomenclature of, Specification, 274
Finney Presses, Ltd., 200-ton Hobbing Press,- 411*; 50-ton Dual-Transfer Moulding Press, 412*
Fire in Houses, Precautions Against, Specification, 10
— Protection in Ships, 353
— Research Board, Report for 1947, 494 Flscher-Tropsch Process of Oil Production,
Investigations on, 258 Fisher, J. H., the Late, 164 Fitting of Shafts in Holes. See Gauges Fitzmaurice, R.,on Researchin Building Indus
try, 547
Fixing Accessories for Building Purposes, Specification, 418
Flame Propagation in Gas Streams, 528
— Spraying of Metals and Plastics, 143, 418 "Flamestart” Photo-Electric Control of
Furnace Flames, 596
Fleet. See Warships Fletcher, N. F., on Melting and Casting of
Brass, 456. See 377, 402 Flight. See Aeronautics Flow of Gases Through Porous Metal Compacts,
291*
— of Metal in Tube Extrusion, 355 Flowmeter, Steam (Elliott Brothers (London),
Ltd.), 439*
Flue-Gas Deposits and Corrosion in Boiler Plants, Causes of, 231
Dust Collectors, Centrifugal-Type (Davidson and Co., Ltd.), 465*
Fluid Friction. See Friction
— Mechanics, Investigations on, 525*, 549*
— Mixing of, Application of Free Jets to, 111 Fluorine Emissions, Atmospheric Pollution
from, 254, See LETTER, 304
Flurscheim, C. H., on High-Voltage Air-Blast
Circuit Breakers, 93
Flux-Degassing, Applied to Casting Phosphor Bronze, 356, 378, 402
Flying Boat. See Aeronautics
Foldes, G., on Metric System, 568. See LETTERS, 16, 88, 400, 448, 471, 496, 544. See ERRATUM, 496
Ford, Dr. H., on Measurement of Torque in
Shafts, 481*, 505*
Forging, Steel, Non-Destructive Testing of, 39 Forsyth, I. O., on Development in Locomotive
Workshop Practice, 1939-48, 259 Fossett, H., on Application of Free Jets to Mixing of Fluids, 111
Foster-Wheeler Boilers, S.S. “Magdalena,” 367*
Foster, Yates and Thom, Ltd., 250-ton Moulding Press, 463; Mixing Machines, 463
Fottinger Torsionmeter, 481*..
Foundations for Bailey Bridge Towers, 579
— for House of Commons, 208
— for Machines, Dynamic Principles of, 351,
373. See LETTER, 544
Foundry Practice, Bronze, Problems in, 557
— Steel, at Crewe Locomotive Works, 259
— Work. See also Die Casting
— See also Castings ; Moulds
Foundrymen, Institute of British. See British Fowell, G., Ltd., 10-cwt Petrol-Engined Dumper, 461* •
Fowler, J., and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 40-h.p. Diesel- Engined Crawler Tractor, 102* ; 40-h.p. Diesel-Engined Locomotive, 387*
Foy, E., on Rubber Machinery and Its Uses, 163 Fracture, Brittle, of Mild-Steel Plates, 16. See LETTERS, 209, 304, 352, 424, 472, 520, 568
— — in Ship Plates, 289*
Frames, Steel, Behaviour in Plastic Range, 38 for Portable Hangar for Aero-Engine Maintenance, 457*
Frankau, A. M., on Charging of Open-Hearth Furnaces, 498
Franklin, C. S., Award of Faraday Medal to, 63, 399
Freezing of Bronze Castings, Factors Affecting, 557
French; W. and C., Ltd., Railway Bridge Reconstruction, 115*
Frequency-Correction Equipment for Railway Signalling Circuits, 331*
Frey Bridge Over River Havel, Berlin, 392*'
Friction Effects on Electro-Deposited Chromium, 241*, 265*
— Internal, and Crankshaft Damping, 205.
See LETTER, 256
— Kinetic Boundary, Measurement of, 325 Frictional Behaviour of Engineering Materials
193*, 217*
— Forces in Dial Gauges, Investigations on,
169*. See LETTER, 208 "
Fuel, Anti-Knock, Requirements for Automobile Engines, 546
— Ash, Land Reclamation with, 114
— Consumption of British Power Stations, 519 —of British Railways Locomotives, 211
— — for Domestic Heating, 199
in Heavy-Oil Engines, 85. See LETTER, 160
in Power Stations, Statistics for 1947, 279, 398
— Institute of, Efficiency of House Heating,
by Dr. J. C. Weston, 199; Annual Report, 407 ; Annual Luncheon, 423; Presidential Address by Dr. D. T. A. Townend on Fuel Research, 480
— Liquid, Coal-Tar, Specification, 58
See also Oil Fuel
— Motor. See Motor
— Oil. See Oil Fuel
— and Power, Ministry of, Statistics for 1947 of
Electricity Supply and Fuel Consumption, 279; Report on District Heating in American Housing, 350 ; Report on Coal Mining, 366; Rural Electricity Supply,
374. See LETTER, 472; Engineering and
Financial Statistics of Electricity Supply, 1946-47, 398; Regulations for Mine
Locomotives, 416; Vesting Date for Nationalisation of Gas Industry, 423; Opencast Coal Production Statistics, 469
— Pumps. See Pump
— Research at Leeds University, Report, 447
— — Station, Investigations of Fischer-
Tropsch Process, 258
— Resources of Great Britain, 137,151
— Technology, Progress in, 480
— See also Coal; Oil; Gas; Pulverised Fuel Fulham Power Station, Grit-Arresting Plant
at, 186
Fuller, L. H., on Layout of Electrical Substations, 115
Fulmer Research Institute, Annual Report, 380 Furnace, Boiler. See Stoker
— Carburising, Electrically-Heated (Birlec,
Ltd.), 439*
— Gas-Heated, Photo-Electric Control of, 596
— Industrial, Waste-Heat Recovery from
(Review), 268
— for Melting Brass, 378, 456
— Oil-Fired, for Melting Nickel Silver, 378, 402
— Open-Hearth, at Clydesdale Steelworks
(Wellman Smith Owen Engineering Corporation, Ltd.), 127*
Hearth, Meter for Differential Pressure in, 448
Hearth, Park Gate Works, Conversion to Oil Firing, 427
Hearth, Present Methods of Charging, 498 Hearth, for Tube Steel, Slag Control in, 294, 343
— Petroleum-Cracking, “ Catarole ” (Petrochemicals, Ltd.), 153
— Sesci Rotary, Steel-Melting, Life of Lining, 259
Fumess-Withy Liner “ Queen of Bermuda,” Reconditioning of, 122
Fuse, Repeater, for Rural Electrical Circuits (Aden West and Co., Ltd.), 442
Fyne River Hydro-Electric Scheme, 135

GALVANOMETERS. See Electric
Gamma Rays for Industrial Radiography, 591
Gas Act, 1948, Terms of, 423
— Arc Lamps, Developments of, 140*
— in Bronze Castings, Effect of, 558
— Conference, International, London, Programme, 495
— Connectors, Plug-and-Socket, Specification, 10
— Cylinders, Colour Identification for, Specification, 538
— Dissociated, Energy Charts for, Construction of, 73*, 97*
Gas Engineers, Institution of, Annual General Meeting, 567; Presidential Address by E. Crowther, 570. See 567
— Fired Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Flow Trough Porous Metal Compacts, 291*
— and Gas Works. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Industry, Nationalisation of, Vesting Date
and Terms, 423
Problems, 570
—- Journal, Centenary of, 543. See ERRATUM, 562
— Leak Detector (British Thomson-Houston
Co., Ltd.), 339*
— and Non-Metallics Sub-Committee of Iron
and Steel Institute, Report, 448
— Producer. See Producer
— Streams, Flame Propagation in, Investiga
tions on, 528
— Supply in Great Britain, 138,151
Oil Synthesis in Relation to, 17
— Tables of Properties, with Dissociation
Theory (Review), 148
— Turbine. See Twrfrine
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Hydrogen ; Nitrogen; Oxygen, etc.
Gasholder, 3,000,000 cub. ft., for Johannesburg (Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd.), 268
Gasification, Underground, of Coal, 138, 151
Gasoline. See Engine, Petrol
Gate, Dam, Stainless-Steel Clad, 348
Gauge, Dial, Frictional Forces in, Investigation on, 169*. See LETTER, 208
— Internal-Measurement for Cylinders (G. H,
Alexander Machinery, Ltd.), 258*
— Limits and Fits in Locomotive Work, 259
— Strain, Acoustic, Use in Torque Measure
ment, 505
— — Electric Resistance (Review), 28
Electrical, Use in Reinforced-Concrete Research, 553*
Resistance, Use in Torque Measurement, 484*
— and Tool Makers’ Association, Craftsman’s
Certificate, 160; British Engineering Mission to Canada, by E. H. Gilpin, 163. See 134
Gaur and Lawers Hydro-Electric Schemes, 594 Gear-Cutting Machines. See Machine Tools Geared Turbines, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
Gearing Transmission, Developments in, 381, 405
General Electric Co., Ltd., Reed Vibrometer 297; Frequency-Correction Equipment for Railway-Signalling Circuits, 331*; Portable Mining Substation, 389* ; High- Tension Reversing Switch, 389* ; 200-ft. Tower for Radio Communication, 455
Generating Plant, Poole Power Station, 476 for Power Stations, Shortage of, 569, 589
— Station. See Power Station
Generator, Electric, 50-kW (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 650*
— — Brookhirst-Pearson Voltage-Regulating
System for, 215*
— — 1,100-kW, S.S. “ Caronia,” 128*
— — Developments since 1917, 333*
— — for Gas-Turbine Locomotives, 31*
360 kW and 700-kW, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 369
1-kW, 110-Volt Petrol-Driven Portable (Auto Diesels, Ltd.), 461*
80-kW, S.S. “ Pompey Power,” 345 Production of, 100. See LETTER, 280 Railway Wagon for Transporting Stators of, 200*
Steam and Air Turbines for, 49*
See also Turbo-Generators
— Ultrasonic (Mullard Electronic Products,
Ltd.), 338*
Gent and Gent, Ltd., Water-Level Recorder, 438* Geodetic Astronomy, Manual of (Review), 98 Geological Survey Board, Annual Report, 207 Geologists, Survey Work in Coal Fields, 207 Geology, Technical (Review), 51
German Gas-Turbine Developments During 1939-45, Report on, 293
Germany, Electrical Power Engineering, 1939- 45, Report on, 470
Ghent, Use of Pre-Stressed Concrete in Textile Factory at, 182
Gibb, Sir C. D., on Britain’s Energy—A New Conception, 137,151
Gibbs, W. J., on Polyphase Commutator Machines, 90
Gilpin, E. H., on British Engineering Mission to Canada, 164. See 134
Girder Analysis, Vierendeel, 25*
— Plate, All-Welded, for Overhead-Crane Run
way (Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd.), 185*
— Steel, Frey Bridge over River Havel, 392*
Gladstone Docks, Liverpool, Reinforced-Con- crete Warehouse at, 222*
Glanville, Dr. W. H., on Study of Road Traffic, 592
Glascarnoch-Luichart-Torr Acbilty Hydro-Electric Scheme, 87
Glascoed Royal Ordnance Factory, Manufacture of Pre-Stressed Reinforced-Concrete Sleepers at, 138*
Glasgow University, Energy Charts for Dissociated Gas, 73*, 97*
— Water Supply, History of, 45
Glass-Carrying Wagons for British Railways, 274
Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd., Kilmarnock Works of, 546
Golden Falls Hydro-Electric Works, 593
Goldschmidt, H. J., on Structure of Carbides in Alloy Steels, 475
Good, P., on Metric System, 471. See LETTERS, 16, 88, 400, 448, 496, 544, 568. See Erratum, 496
Gothenburg, Experimental Tank, Tests of Reversible Propellers, 238
Government, Economic Survey for 1949, 255, 278
— Information Services, Parliamentary De
bate on, 493
— Policy, Effect on Engineering Industries, 4,
28, 51, 76, 99,123, 148, 172,196, 220, 245, 269. See LETTERS, 136, 280
Government Railways. See Railways
— Statement on Economic State of Nation, 87 Governor, Hydraulic, for Fuel-Injection Pump
(C.A.V., Ltd.), 261*
Graham, Dr. R., on Effect of Heat on Electro- Deposited Chromium, 241*, 265*
Grain Size of Powders Used for Hard Metals, Measurement of, 117*, 425
— — in Silicon-Chromium Valve Steel, 474
Grates. See Stoker
Gravesend-Tilbury Ferry Service, Radar Station, 72
Gray, A. H., on Apparatus for Limitation of Maximum Demand, 522
—- Lecture on Marine Engineering in Royal Navy, 1922-49, 87,188*, 213*
Great Britain, Government Statement on Economic State, 87
High-Voltage Transmission in, 559, 569, 589
— — Integrated Steelworks in, Layout of, 499
— Central Railway, Extension to London,
Jubilee of, 231
— Northern Railway, 4-4-2 Type Locomotive, , 68*
— Western Railway, 4-6-0 Type Locomotive,
68*
Green, C., on Heavy-Oil Engine Working Costs, 160. See 85
Greenock Philosophical Society, Watt Lecture on Britain’s Energy—A New Conception, by Sir C. D. Gibb, 137, 151
Greenwich Royal Observatory, Herstmonceux, Pyrex-Glass Disc for Newton Telescope, 490, 534
Grid System and High-Voltage Transmission, 559, 569, 589
Grimmitt, H. W.,on Overhead Line Regulators, 330
Grinding Machines. See Machine Tools Grit-Arresting Plant at Fulham Power Station, 186
— Arresters for Power Stations, 254. See LETTER, 304
Grootenhuis, P., on Flow of Gases Through Porous Metal Compacts, 291*
Grubb, Sir H., Parsons and Co., Aerodynamical Balance for Wind Tunnel, 175*, 223*, 272*; Infra-Red Double-Beam Spectrometer, 315*
Gummer, W. S., on Flow of Metal in Tube Extrusion, 355
Gunboats. See Wars/wys
Gwynnes Pumps, 100 Yeats of, 573

HADEN, G. N., and SONS, LTD., Heating
Boilers for Buckingham Palace, 274 Hadfield, Sir R. A., Unveiling of Bronze Plaque
at Birthplace, Sheffield, 288
Haldane, T. G. N., on High-Voltage Transmissionin Great Britain, 559. See 569, 589
Hall, J. and E., Ltd., Refrigerating Plant, S.S. “ Caronia,” 129; Refrigerating Plant, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367*
Hall, P. de H., on Brittle Fracture of Mild- Steel Plates, 209. See LETTERS, 16, 304, 352, 424, 472, 520, 568
Hallowes, A. P. C., on Working of Coppers Containing Bismuth, 6, 42. See 329
Hammond, R. E. R, on Dynamic Principles of
Machine Foundations, 351, 373. See LETTER,544
Hams Hall Power Station, Birmingham, Land Reclamation with Fuel Ash, 114
Harbour. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Hardening of Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Hardness of Electro-Deposited Chromium, Investigations on, 241*, 265*
— Tests. See Tests (Materials') Hardy, W. B., Work on Friction, 193 Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Reconditioning of M.S.
“ Dunnottar Castle,” 143 ; Marine Diesel Engine Construction by, 279, 429*, 453*’ 477* ; Construction of S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367* ; Loss of S.S. “ Magdalena,” 399 Harlow, W. F., on Flue-Gas Deposits and Corrosion in Boiler Plants, 231
Harmonic Analysis, Derivation of Formulae for, 64*
Harnischfeger Corporation, Soil-Stabilising Machines, 114*
Hartley, H. S., the Late, 209
Hartmann, J., on Jet-Chain Commutator, 433*
Hartmann Rectifier Co., 600-kW Jet-Chain Rectifier, 434*
Hartshorn, Dr. L., on Metric System, 88. See LETTERS, 16, 400, 448, 471, 496, 544, 568. See Erratum, 496
Harvesting Machinery, Statistics of Production, 52
Harwell, Atomic Energy Research Establishment at, .Production of Plutonium, 231
Hattersley, R. E.,the Late, 442
Havel, River, Berlin, Frey Bridge over, 392* Hawkesbury River Road Bridge, New South
Wales, Welded Spans for, 529*
Hawksley Lecture on Heat Engines, 309, 333*, 381, 405*
Hay, Prof. D., the Late, 209* ; Establishment of Medal in Memory of, by Institution of Mining Engineers, 424
Head Wrightson Machine Co., Ltd., TripleDraw Push-Pointing Drawbench for Tubes, 512*
Headland, H., on Tidal Power and Severn Barrage, 133
Health, Ministry of, Annual Report on Alkali, etc., Works, 254. See LETTER, 304
Heat (Review), 3
— Conduction, with Engineering and Geologi
cal Applications (Review), 28
— Effect on Electro-Deposited Chromium,
241*, 265*
— Engines. See Engines; Turbines; Aero
nautics
— Exchanger Coolers for Circulating Water,
21*. See Erratum, 55. See LETTERS, 64,88
Heat, Mechanical Equivalent of, Introduction of, 565
— Resisting Materials for Aircraft, Used in
United States, 551*
— Transfer, Influence on Charging of Open-
Hearth Furnaces, 498
— Treatment of Metals. See Metallurgy
— Waste. See Waste Heat
Heater, Feed-Water. See Feed Heater Heating, District, in American Housing, Report, 350
— Domestic, Gas and Electricity for, 17 and Ventilation, Efficiency of and Research on, 199
— Space, Domestic Electric, Code of Practice
for, 202
— Systems, Hot-Water, Circulating Pump for
(Holden and Brooke, Ltd.), 403*
— and Ventilating Engineers, Institution of,
Annual Dinner, 135; Post-War Research on Heating and Ventilation at Building Research Station, by A. T. Pickles, 199; Summer Meeting, Eastbourne, 489, 591 Heenan and Froude, Ltd., Testing Tunnels for
Aircraft Propellers, 248*; Aero-Engine Test Houses, Schiphol Airport, 295*; Strip-Forming Machine, 463* Helicopters. See AeronaoZics
Herbert, A., Ltd., Reed Prentice Pressure Die- Casting Machine, 385*; Electrically- Operated Three-Jaw Chuck, 385*; Plastic Mould Temperature Controller, 386 ; Automatic Lathe, with Platen Slide, 464*; “ Cam-o-Matic ” Camshaft-Grinding Machine, 584*
Hereford, Testing Station for Transmission- Line Towers, 488*
Heriot-Watt College, Connection of J. Watt with, 111
Herstmonceux, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Transfer of Astronomical Instruments to, 490, 534
Heywood, Dr. R. B., on Tensile Fillet Stresses in Loaded Projections, 63
Hibbert, G. C., the Late, 39
Higgs Motors, Ltd., Alternating-Current Variable-Speed Commutator Electric Motor, 462*
High-Voltage Transmission in Great Britain, 559, 569, 589
Highways. See Roads
Hill, Prof. A. V., Galvanometers, 522
Hinde, W. S., on Economics of Aluminium-
Alloy Ship’s Superstructure, 391 H.M. SS. See under Warships Hobbing Machines, Gear. See (Tear under Machine Tools
Hodge, J., on Gas Turbines for Road Transport, 63
Hodgkin, C. E., the Late, 267
Hodgson, C. C., on Large Crystal Grain Size in
Silicon-Chromium Steel, 474
Holbrook, H. S., on Transformers for Systems of 200-kV and Above, 569, 593, 594
Holden and Brooke, Ltd., Motor-Driven Circulating Pump for Heating Systems, 403* Holes, Fitting of Shafts in. See Gauge Holland, Electric and Diesel-Electric Traction in, 247
— Scientific and Engineering History of, 474 . Homes, Electrical Accidents in, 277
— Office, Report on Electrical Accidents and
Their Causes, 1947, 277
Honeyman, A. J. K., on Brittle Fracture of Mild-Steel Plates, 472, 568. See LETTERS, 16, 209, 304, 352, 424, 520, 568
Honours List, King’s Birthday, 543, 566 New Year’s, 15
Hopkinson-Thring Torsionmeter, 482* Hordern, Mason and Edwards, Ltd., Strip-Feed
Power Press, 437* Horology, Watch Escapements (Review), 555 Hours of Labour. See Labour
House of Commons, Construction of, 208
— Electrical Accidents in, 277
— Fires in, Precautions Against, Specification,
10
— Heating, Efficiency of, 199
— Sound Insulation by Cavity Party Walls,
Report on, 161
Housing, American, District Heating in, Report on, 350
— Progress in the Netherlands, 535 Houston, T. R., on Diesel-Engine Waste-Heat
Recovery, 280
Hughes, F. O., the Late, 583
Hughes, H., and Sons, Ltd., Periscopic Sextant, 338*
Hull Form, Sea Speeds and Steering, 472 Hume-Rothery, Dr. W., Award of Platinum
Medal to, 306
Hydraulic Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Power Plant. See Power Plant
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools
— Pumps. See Pump
— Turbines. See Tur&ines; Power Plant Hydrochloric Acid, Methods of Manufacture
and Conveying, 520, 599*
Hydro-Electric Power Plant. See Power Plant Hydrogen in Bronze Castings, Effect of, 558
— in Steel, Determination of, 449
Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd., Portable Petrol-Driven Air Compressor, 388*
“ Hy-Tuf ” Alloy Steel, 431

IDEAL-HOME Exhibition, “ Daily Mail,” Olympia, 208
Identification Colours for Gas Cylinders, Specification, 538
Illuminating Engineering Society, The Gas Arc: A New Light Source, by Dr. J. N. Aldington, 140* ; Annual Dinner, 471
Illumination. See also Light; Lighting; and Lamps under EZecZric
Impact of Metals Through Liquid Layers, 145*
Imperial Chemical industries, Ltd., Metal Degreasing Plant, 437* ; Mechanical Engineering in Construction of Chemical Plant, 597*. See 520
Imperial College, London, Pease Readership in Telecommunications, 532
Import Trade. See Trade Impulse Turbines. See Turbines
Ince, J. F. R., on Emulsions of Oil Fuel and Water, 361*
Inclusions, Non-Metallic, in Steel, Report, 448 India Rubber. See Rubber
Indicator Gear for Marine Diesel Engines, 477* Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Administration, Institute of, Merger with,
British Institute of Management, 569
— Agreements and Disputes. See Labour and
Trade Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Developments in South Wales, 210,
— Economics. See Labour
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Management. See Works Management
— Research. See Research
Industries, British, Federation of. See Federation
— Influence of European Economic Co-opera
tion Organisation, 37
— and the Nation, Report on, 475
— Research in (Review), 301
— See also Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Information, Engineering, Sources of (Review),
340
— Services, Government, Parliamentary De
bate on, 493
— — Scientific, Interpretation of Conference
on, 541
Ingot, Aluminium-Bronze, Melting and Casting of, 356, 378, 402
Injection Systems, Diesel-Engine, Delivery- Rate Analyser for, 307*
Inland Waterways, British, Statistics of Crafts and Loads Carried, 211
Installations, Electrical—General, Code of Practice, 274
Institute of Transport. See Transport
— See ZnsZiZwZions
Institution, British Standards. See Standards
— Royal. See Royal Institution
— Technical and Scientific. See Aeronautical
Sciences, Institute of ; Aeronautical Society, Royal; Aluminium Development Association ; American Foundrymen’s Society; Arts, Royal Society of; Bradford Engineering Society; British Architects, Royal Institute of; British Association; British Electrical Power Convention ; British Foundrymen, Institute of ; Chemical Engineers, Institution of; Chemical Industry, Society of; Civil Engineers, Institution of; Consulting Engineers, Association of; Cornish Engines Preservation Society ; Diesel Engine Users Association; Electrical Engineers, Institution of; Engineers-in-Charge, Institution of; Engineers' Guild; Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of; Engineers, Society of; Engineering Industries Association ; Fuel, Institute of; Gas Engineers, Institution of; Greenock Philosophical Society; Heating and Ventilating Engineers, Institution of; Illuminating Engineering Society ; Industrial Administration, Institute of; Ireland, Institution of Civil Engineers of ; Iron and Steel Institute; Iron and Steel Institute, West of Scotland; Junior Institution of Engineers; Locomotive Engineers, Institution of; London Association of Engineers ; Management, British Institute of; Manchester Association of Engineers ; Marine Engineers, Institute of; Maritime and Aeronautical Association, French ; Maudslay Society; Mechanical Engineers, American Society of; Mechanical Engineers, Institution of; Metals, Institute of ; Mining Engineers, Institution of; Naval Architects, Institution of; Naval Engineers, American Society of; Newcomen Society; North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders; Physical Society; Physics, Institute of; Plant Engineers, Incorporated; Royal Institution; Royal Society ; Royal United Service Institution; South Wales Institute of Engineers ; Structural Engineers, Institution of; Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of ; Testing Materials, American Society for; Transport, Institute of; Washington Society of Engineers ; Water Engineers, Institution of; Welding, Institute of; Whitworth Society.; York Engineering Society and Status of Engineers, 136 Instrument, Scientific, Industry, Position and Prospects, 269
Physical Society’s Exhibition, 184, 313*, 337*
— Super High-Frequency Standardised (Ples-
sey Co., Ltd.), 114
— Surface-Measuring (Taylor, Taylor and Hob
son, Ltd.), 523*
— Torque-Measuring, 481*, 505*
— See also Aeronautics; Electric Interferometer for Fluid Mechanics Research,
528*
Internal-Combustion Engines. See Aeronautics; Engines; Motor Cars; Motor Boats ; Tractors ; Turbine, Gas
International Association for Exchange of Students for Technical Experience, Annual Report, 39
— Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, 1948,
353
— Economic Co-operation Organisation, Pro
grammes, 37
— Electric Power Supply in Europe, 375
— Electrotechnical Commission, Effect of
Overloads on Life Expectancy of Transformers, by V. M. Montsinger, 255
— Gas Conference, London, Programme, 495 —- Research in Terrestrial Magnetism Department, Carnegie Institution, Washington, Annual Report (Review), 244
— Trade. See Trade
Invention, Future Scope for, 399, 445
— See also Patents
Ion-Exchange Resins, Discovery and Uses, 523 Ireland, Development of Water Power in, 593
Ireland, Institution of Civil Engineers of, Joint Summer Meeting with Institution of Civil Engineers. See Civil Engineers
Iron Alloys. See Metallurgy and SZeeZ
— Case-Hardening. See Heat Treatment under
Metallurgy
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Heat Treatment. See Metallurgy
— and Steel Industry and European Economic
Co-operation, 37
Industry, Nationalisation of, Disadvantages, 351
— — Industry, Position and Prospects, 5, 270
Iron and Steel Institute :
Annual General Meeting :
Programme, 236
Award of Bessemer Medal to Prof. J. H. Andrew, 399, 427
Prizes and Awards, 399, 427
Report of Council, 427
Honorary Treasurer’s Report, 427 Alteration in By-Laws, 427
Changes in Council, 427
Reports of Discussions, 427, 448, 474, 498. Conversion to Oil Firing of Open-Hearth Furnaces at Park Gate Works, by Dr. D. F. Marshall and H. C. White, 427
Electrical Pressure Meter for Measurement of Open-Hearth Furnace Differential Pressures, by S. S. Carlisle and B. O. Smith, 448
First Report of Gases and Non-Metallics Sub-Committee, Presented by W. W. Stevenson, 448
Thermodynamics of Substances of Interest in Iron and Steel Making from 0 deg.
C. to 2,400 deg. C., by Dr. F. D. Richardson and J. H. E. Jeffes, 474
Large Crystal Grain Size in Silicon- Chromium Valve Steel, by C. C. Hodgson and H. G. Baron, 474
Grain Growth in Silicon-Chromium Valve Steel, by H. Allsop and P. W. Bygate, 474
Structure of Carbides in Alloy Steels, by H. J. Goldschmidt, 475
Charging of Open-Hearth Furnaces by , Present Methods, by E. L. Diamond and A. M. Frankau, 498
Influence of Heat Transfer on Open- Hearth Furnace Charging Rate, by M. W. Thring, 498
Layout of Integrated Steelworks in Great Britain, by H. H. Mardon and J. S. Terrington, 499
Luncheon, 499
Iron and Steel Institute, West of Scotland a Application of Slag Control to Manufacture ' of Tube Steel, by J. Monaghan, 294, 343 Research Association, British, Conference on Optical Techniques in Metallurgical Microscopy, 207 ; Measurement of Torque in Shafts, 481*, 505*
Thermodynamics of Oxides in, 474
Works. See Works
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Tests. See Tests (Materials)
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Cast Iron; Steel; Metallurgy Ironfoundry Associations, Council of, Management Conference, 509
Ironwork, Structural. See Columns; Steelwork; Structures

JAPANESE Prison Camps, Engineer’s Work in, 1*
Jeffes, J. H. E., on Thermodynamics of Oxides in’ Steel, 474
Jennings, Dr. P. H., on Tensile Properties of
Cast Aluminium-Silicon Alloys, 424; on Brittleness in Castings and Welds in Aluminium Alloys, 424
Jensen, L. L., on Jet-Chain Commutator, 433* Jets, Air, Investigations on, 528*
— Free, Application to Mixing of Fluids in Bulk, 111
Johannesburg, 3,000,000-cub. ft. Gasholder for (Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd.), 268
Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., Wiped Joints for Aluminium-Sheathed Cables, 93
Johnston, J. H., on Metric System, 448, 544.
See LETTERS, 16, 88, 400, 471, 496, 568. See Erratum, 496
Joints, Wiped, for Aluminium-Sheathed Cables (Johnson and Phillips, Ltd.), 93
Jones, A. A., and Shipman, Ltd., Crush-Forming Attachments for Surface-Grinding Machines, 416*
Jones, E. H. (Machine Tools), Ltd., Offen Centre Locator, 168* ; Centre Lathe with Copying Attachment, 595*
Jones, J. C., on Electronic Speed Controls of Machine Tools, 136. See 78
Joule, J. P., Early Work on Thermodynamics, 565
Joule’s Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Apparatus, 522
Journals. See Bearings
Jubilee of Great Central Railway Extension to London, 231
Junior Institution of Engineers, Annual Dinner, 399; Administration of Maudslay .Scholarship, 446

KAMEWA Reversible Propeller, 237.
Karmalsky, V., on Welded Bridges in New South Wales, Australia, 529*
Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd., Accelerated- Weathering Machine for Paints, 285*; Hand Anemometer, 315 *; Four-Engine Synchroscope, 315* Kelvin Instruments, Exhibition of, at Royal Scottish Museum, 162
— Lecture on Semi-Conductors and Rectifiers
510*. See 399
Kent, J. L., on Causes of Slamming on Ships, 582
Kenward, L. V., the Late, 211
Keyway-Cutting Broaches. See Machine Tools
— in Propeller Shafts, Effect of, 497
Kilmarnock Works of Glenfield and Kennedy Ltd., 546
Kinematograph. See Cinematograph
King’s Birthday Honours List, 543, 566
Kingcome, Engr. Vice-Admiral Sir J., on
Marine Engineering in Royal Navy, 1922-49, 188*, 213*. See 87
Kitchen and Wade, Ltd., Rail-Drilling Machine, 67*
Klinger, R., Ltd., Processing of Silicone Rubber, 464
K.L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines, Aero-Engine Test Houses, Schiphol Airport, 295*
K. and L. Steelfounders and Engineers, Ltd., 4-ton Mobile Lorry Crane, 438*
Koppers, Co., Inc., Stainless-Steel Clad Dam Gates, 348
Krypton for Gas Arc Lamps, 140*
“ Kwickleen ” Food Pump, 462*

LABORATORY, Chemical Research, Investigations on Corrosion, 211; Discovery of Ion-Exchange Resins at, 523
— Esso European, Test Bed for Internal-
Combustion Engines, 407*
— Mechanical Engineering, East Kilbride, 447
— Research, Ferodo, Ltd., Investigations of
Friction of Brake Linings, 193*, 217*
— Water Pollution Research, Survey of Thames
Estuary, 543
— See also National Physical

Labour :

Craftsman’s Certificate of Gauge and Tool Makers’ Association, 160
Employment in Engineering Industries, 4 28, 51, 76, 99, 123, 148, 172,196, 220, 245, 269
Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Apprenticeship in United States, 160
— Disputes, 1947-48, 30
Labour in Coal Industry, 366, 390
—- and National Service, Ministry of, Regulations Affecting Grinding of Metals, 456; Report on Safety in Design and Operation of Gas-Heated Ovens, 596
— Notes, 20, 44, 68, 92,116,140,164,188, 212, 236, 260, 284, 308, 332, 356, 380, 404, 428, 452, 476, 500, 524, 548, 572, 596. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Role of Management in Ironfoundry Industry, 509
— Saving by Welding, 367
Man-Power for Royal Air Force and Industry, 495
Wages in Engineering Industries, 4, -28, 51, 76, 99, 123, 148, 172, 196, 220, 245, 269
Working in High Air Temperatures, Effect of, 229 '
— Hours and Economic Survey, 278 Laing, J., and Son, Ltd., Film on Opencast Coal Working, 295
Lambert, A. P., on Civil-Engineering Contractor’s Plant, 592
Lamps, Electric. See Electric
Lancashire, Road Plan for (Review), 590 Land Reclamation with Fuel Ash, 114
— Warfare, the Royal Engineer in, 279 Lander, Prof. C. H., the Late, 281
Lathes. See Machine Tools
Launch, Motor. See Motor Boat
— and Trial Trips, 10, 34, 67, 82,106,130,154,
178, 202, 226, 250, 284, 298, 322, 360, 370, 404, 432, 452, 466, 490, 514, 538, 562
Law. See Legal; Labour ; Patents
Lawers and Gaur Hydro-Electric Schemes, 495
Lawrie, Dr. J. P., on Rubber Linings for Chemical Plant, 271
Lead Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Extrusion Machine, Continuous, for Electric Cables (Pirelli-General Cable Works, Ltd.) 319*
Leaded Zinc Oxide, Specification, 58
Leathard, J. F., on Methodical Series of Propeller Tests, 472
Lebrun, M., on Thermic Drilling of Concrete and Stone, 89*. See Addendum, 114
Lectures and Publications, Central Committee for Improving, Suggestions for Organisation of Conferences, 182. See LETTER, 233
Lee, P. W., the Late, 563
Lee, River, London Water Supply from 19, 44*
Leeds University, Fuel Researches at, Report on, 447
Leeson, B. H., on Switchgear for Systems of 200-kV and Above, 569, 593

Legal :

Coal Industry Nationalisation Act, 366,390 Delay in Delivery of Machinery, Court Decisions on, 566
Engineering-Legal Society, Formation of, 112
Gas Act, 1948, Terms of, 423
Patent Law. See Patents
Reservoirs (Safety Provisions) Act, 1930,. Need of Revision, 547
Wireless Telegraphy Bill, 111 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Legislation. See Legal; Labour ; Patents Lenaghan, J., on Shipbuilding Research in
Aluminium Alloys, 571. See 327 L’Estrange, E. L., on High-Voltage Air-Blast Circuit Breakers, 93
Letters to Editor, 16, 39, 64* ,88,112,136,160, 184, 208, 233, 256, 280, 304, 352, 400, 424, 448, 471, 496, 520, 544, 568
Lewis, W. G. E., on Partial-Load Characteristics of Marine Gas Turbines, 280. See LETTER, 424
Leyland, J., on Cooling of Circulating Water, 21*. See jErratwm, 55. See LETTERS, 64, 88
Life-Saving Appliances in Ships, 353
International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, 353
Liffey, River, Water-Power Developments, 593
Lift, Compressed-Air Operated, for Testing
Tunnels for Aircraft Propellers, 249*
— Electric (Review), 96. See LETTER, 352 Light Alloys. See AZZoys under Metallurgy
— and Colour, Measurement of, 199
— Sources, Spectroscopic, Symposium on
(Review), 484
— See also Diffraction
Lighting. See Lamps under Electric
Lightning. See Electric
Limits and Fits in Logomotive Works, 259
— Gauges. See Gauges
Lincoln Electric Co., Ltd., 67-h.p. Petrol-
Driven Welding Set, 312*
Lind, P., and Co., Ltd., Reinforced-Concrete Warehouse, Gladstone Docks, Liverpool, 222*
Lindemann Electrometers (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 316
Linden, Prof. A. J. ter, on Cyclone Dust Collectors, 165*. See 111
Lindley Airfield Automobile Testing Ground, 424
Liners. See Ships; Steamers ; Motorships Lining Materials for Brakes, Frictional Behaviour of, 193*, 217*
— Rubber, for Chemical Plant, 271
Linseed Cultivation in Australia, 162 Liquid Fuel. See Oil Fuel. See also Motor
— Layers, Collisions Through, 145* Literature, 3, 28, 50, 75, 98,123,148,171,196,
219, 244, 268, 291, 316, 340, 364, 460, 484, 507, 532, 555, 581. See LITERATURE INDEX
— Technical (Review), 120. See LETTER, 136 Litigation. See Legal; Labour; Patents Liverpool Chemical Industry, History and
Development, 520, 597*
— Gladstone Docks, Reinforced-Concrete
Warehouse at, 222*
— Steam Ship Owners’ Association, Annual
Report, 303
Ljungstrom, Dr. F., Award of Watt International Medal to, 87, 423
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Statistics of
Vessels Under Construction, 64, 423;
Rules and Tables of Scantlings for Construction of Steel Ships, 110 ; Fusion with British Corporation of Shipping, 303; Wreck Statistics, 332; Aluminium-Alloy Specifications, 384
Load Factors for Structural Steelwork, 38
Loch Dubh Hydro-Electric Scheme, 135
— Sloy Hydro-Electric Scheme, 135, 545 Locomotive, British Railways, Statistics of, 211
— Building Programme for British Railways,
528
in United States and Canada, Trends in, 390
— Diesel-Electric, British, Non-Stop Run,
London, to Glasgow, 543
Electric, on North American Railways, 390
— — Engined, 40-h.p. (J. Fowler and Co.
(Leeds), Ltd.), 387*
— Design, Trends in, 201
— Electric, for British Railways, Tendencies in
Design of, 68*, 86, 94*
and Diesel-Electric (Review), 341
1,470-h.p. Mixed-Traffic, British Railways, 234*
— Engineers, Institution of, Developments in
Locomotive Workshop Practice, 1939-48, by I. C. Forsyth, 259
— Great Northern Railway 4-4-2 Type, 68* Western Railway 4-6-0 Type, 68*
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 123
— London Midland and Scottish Railway
4-6-2 Type, 69*
and North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 Type, 69*
— Mine, Regulations for, 416
— Oil-Engined, Developments of, 309, 333
— Shunting, 330-b.h.p. Diesel-Engined (R.
Stephenson and Hawthorns, Ltd.), 451*
— Standardisation on British Railways, 20
— Steam, for British Railways, Tendencies in
Design of; 68*, 86, 94*
Efficiency of, 138
— Workshop Practice at Crewe, 259
— See also RatZways in PARAGRAPH INDEX Lodge and Shipley Co., Centre Lathe with Copying Attachment, 595*
London Association of Engineers, Anniversary Festival, 447
— County Council, Wall on South Bank of
River Thames, 63
— Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress
Programme, 88, 471
— Fourth World Power Conference, 15
— Great Central Railway Extension to,
Jubilee of, 231
— Imperial College, Pease Readership in Tele
communications, 532
— International Gas Conference, Programme,
495
— Midland and Scottish Railway, 4-6-2 Type
Locomotive, 69*
— and North Eastern Railway, 4-6-2 Type
Locomotive, 69*
— Transport Executive, Light-Weight Rolling
Stock of, 78; Bridge Reconstruction, 115*; Rolling Stock, Statistics of, 211; Development Schemes, 231; Preparation for 1951 Festival, 303; Railway Carriage for, 308; Car-Body Shop at Acton Works, 319
— Underground Railways. See Underground
and London Transport Executive
— University College, Combustion in Spark-
Ignition and Compression-Ignition Engines, by Prof. Ir. J. J. Broeze, 207
— Water Supply, History of, 18, 44
Longitudinal Bulkheads. See WaZer-TtyW Subdivision
Lorries. See Motor Vehicles
Love, R. J., on Fatigue Strength of Cast Crankshafts, 375
Lowery, Dr. H., on Engineering Education in the United States, 542
Lubricating Nipple, Specification, 106
— Oils. See OiZs
— System for Marine Diesel Engines, 430*,
453*, 477*
Lubrication Damping and Crankshaft Damping, 205. See LETTER, 256
—- and Seizure of Metals, 325
Luichart-Glascarnoch-Torr Achilty Hydro- Electric Scheme, 87
Liinersee Hydro-Electric Scheme, 87
Lurenbaum Torsionmeter, 482*
Lyall, E., the Late, 135

MACADAM. See Roads and Tar Macadam Machine, Accelerated-Weathering, for Paints (Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd.), 285*
— Alternating-Current (Review), 219
— Foundations and-. Ground, Dynamic Prin
ciples of, 351, 373. See LETTER, 544
— Shops. See WorAs and Machine Tools
— Testing. See Testing Machine and Tests (Materials)

Machine Tools :

Broaches, Keyway-Cutting (W. H. Marley and Co., Ltd.), 559
Centre Locator (Offen and Co., Ltd.), 168* Chuck, Three-Jaw, Electrically-Operated (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 385*
Drill and Lathe, Watchmakers’ Combined (Coronet Tool Co.), 461*
Drilling Machine, Rail- (Kitchen and Wade, Ltd.), 67*
Electronic Speed Controls of Machine Tools, 78. See LETTER, 136
Extrusion Machine, Lead, Continuous, for Electric Cables (Pirelli-General Cable Works, Ltd.), 319*
Gear-Hobbing Machine for Marine Reduction Gearing, 253
— — Machines, Specification, 250 Grinding Machine for Camshafts, Automatic (Norton Co.), 584*
— — End-Form (A. Scrivener, Ltd.), 161* Surface, Crush-Forming Attachments for (A. A. Jones and Shipman, Ltd.), 416*
for Twist Drills (A. Scrivener, Ltd.), 479*
— of Metals, Regulations Affecting, 456 Hydraulic Press. See Press (below) Keyway-Cutting Broaches (W. H. Marley
and Co., Ltd.), 559
Lathe, Automatic, with Platen Slide (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 464*
— Centre, with Copying Attachment, (Lodge and Shipley Co.), 595*
— and Drill, Watchmaker’s Combined
(Coronet Tool Co.), 461*
— Made in Japanese Prison Camp, 1*
— 6-in. Wood-turning (Metalclad, Ltd.),
438*
Limit Gauging. See Gauges Machine-Shop Management. See Works Management
— Tool Industry, Position and Prospects, 76. See LETTER, 136
Trades Association, Annual Luncheon, 519
War Disposal, Problems of Use, 88
— Work, Tolerances in. See Gauges Notching Machine, Saw-Tooth (Turner Brothers (Birmingham); Ltd.), 411*
Press Brake, 36-ton (F. J. Edwards, Ltd.), 437*
— Hydraulic, Hobbing, 200-ton (Finney Presses, Ltd.), 411*
50-ton Moulding (G. Cohen, Sons and Co., Ltd.), 462*
Moulding,125/38-tonTransfer(T. H. and J. Daniels, Ltd.), 411*
Moulding, 50-ton Dual-Transfer (Finney Presses, Ltd.), 412*
250-ton Moulding (Foster, Yates and Thom, Ltd.), 463
Plastic-Moulding, 100-ton (Bradley and Turton, Ltd.), 412*
— Power, Strip-Feed (Hordern, Mason and Edwards, Ltd.), 437*
Punch, Multiple, Turret-Type (F. J. Edwards, Ltd.), 437*
Saw, Circular, Attachment and Drive of, Specification, 226
— Tooth Notching Machine (Turner Brothers (Birmingham), Ltd.), 411*
Shaving of Marine Reduction Gearing, 253 Shearing Machine, Guillotine, Electrically-
Driven (Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd.), 388*
Surface-Measuring Instruments (Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd.), 523*
Woodworking Machinery, Lathe, 6-in. Wood-turning, 438*
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Machine Work. See MacAiwe TooZs Machinery, Delays in Delivering, Legal Decisions on, 566
— Market, 70th Anniversary of First Publication, 304
MacKinnon, J. P., the Late, 522
Macklojv-Smith, A., Ltd., Wigmore Concrete
Cohsistometer, 283* Mac. See also Me.
“Magdalena,” S.S., Twin-Screw Royal Mail Liner, 367* ; Loss of, 399
Magnel, Prof. G., on Application of Pre- Stressed Concrete in Belgium, 181
Magnesium Alloys. See AZZoys under Metallurgy
Magnetic Amplifiers (Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd.), 315
(Ferranti, Ltd.), 338
Magnetic Materials, Investigations by British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, 365
— Tape Recorders, Development of, 264
Magnetism, Terrestrial, International Research in, Annual Report on (Review), 244
Maher, W. K., on Work of Atomic-Energy Commission, 295
Maihak, A. G., Acoustic Strain Gauges, 505 Main, H., the Late, 352
— Electric. See Cables under Electric
Mallinson, D. H., on Partial-Load Characteristics of Marine Gas Turbines, 280. See LETTER, 424
“Mamba” Twin Gas-Turbine Aeroplane Engine, 415*
Management, British Institute of, Merger with Institute of Industrial Administration, 569
— Conference of Council of Ironfoundry Asso
ciations, 509
— of Works. See Works Management Manchester Association of Engineers, Rubber
Machinery and Its Uses, by E. Foy, 163
— College of Technology, Course in Engineer
ing Metrology, 304; Scholarships Tenable at, 352
Manitoba, Water Power in, Statistics, 422
Manufacture, Scientific Methods in. See Worlcs Management
Manufacturing Methods and Anglo-American Council on Productivity, 413, 421
Mapping Equipment, Stereo, Multiplex (Barr and Stroud, Ltd.), 337*
Marconi Instruments, Ltd., Circuit-Magnification Meter, 315* ; Moisture Meter, 315*
Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., Equipment for Skelton Broadcast Transmitting
? Station, 7*
Mardon, H. H., on Layout of Integrated Steelworks in Great Britain, 499
Margam Steelworks, Port Talbot, Construction of, 112; All-Welded Plate Girder for, 185* ; All-Welded Structures at, 367
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, S.S. “Caronia,” 104*, 128*
Machinery, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367*
Machinery, S.S. “ Pompey Power,” 344* Machinery in Royal Navy, 1922-49, 87, 189, 213
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Engines. See .Engines; Turbines ; Marine
Propulsion
— Engineers, Institute of, Non-Destructive
Testing of Steel Castings and Forgings, by J. Rhodes, T. H. Arnold and H. S. Peiser, 39; Developments in Reversible Propellers, by Prof. L. C. Burrill, 237* ; Trends in Development of Marine Reduction Gearing, by A. W. Davis, 253 ; 60th Anniversary Dinner, 255
— Engineering Industry, Position and Pros
pects, 196
Research and Development, 328
in Royal Navy, 1922-49, 87, 188*, 213*
— Propulsion, Gas-Turbine Cycles, Partial-
Load Characteristics of, 280. See LETTER, 424
— —- Gas Turbines and Reversible Systems for,
253
Geared Turbines in Royal Navy, 1922-49, 87, 188*, 213*
• Gearing, Double-Reduction, S.S." Magdalena,” 367*
Gearing, Reduction, Marine, Developments of, 253
Gearing, Reduction, in Royal Navy, 1922-49, 191*, 215*
Marine Machinery Developments since 1917, 309, 333, 381
Naval Machinery Progress, 1922-49, 87, 188*, 213*
18,000 s.h.p. Parsons Geared Turbines,
S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367*
Parsons-Type Geared Turbines, S.S. “ Caronia,” 15, 81*, 104*, 128*
Trends in Machinery for, 201
850-i.h.p. Triple-Expansion, S.S. “Pompey Power,” 344*
— — See also Engines; Turbines; Propellers ;
Torsionmeters and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine
Propulsion
Maritime and Aeronautical Technical Association, French, Paris Meeting, Programme, 519
Markets. See Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Marley, W. H., and Co., Ltd., Keyway-Cutting Broaches, 559
Marshall Aid and Engineering Industries, 4, 28, 51, 76, 99,123,148,172,196, 220, 245, 269. See LETTERS, 136, 280
Marshall,- Dr. D. F., on Conversion to Oil Firing of Open-Hearth Furnaces, 427
Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., Diesel Road Rollers, 387
Marshalling Yard, Whitemoor, Radio Control of Traffic at, 306
Mason, C. A., on Noise Reduction in Power- Station Offices, 459*
Mason, F. O., on Severity of Circuit-Breaker Test Conditions, 342
Masts, Aerial, for Skelton Broadcast Transmitting Station (J. L. Eve Construction Co., Ltd.), 7*
Materials, Strength of. See Stress and Tests (Materials)
Mathematical Functions, Five-Figure Tables of (Review), 532
Mathematics, Bessel Functions, Tables of (Review), 171
— Dimensional Analysis, Review of, 533, 556.
See Erratum, 587
— as a Tool for Engineers, 39
"Matrix Micro-Maag” Internal Micrometer, 272*
Maudslay Scholarship, Founding of, 446
— Society, Annual Luncheon, 446
Maximum Demand, Electrical, Apparatus for Limitation of, 522
May Lecture on Work of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 523
Mayer, J. R., Early Work on Thermodynamics, 566
Maya, Major R. H., on Influence of Records on Air Transport, 159
McAlpine, Sir R., and Sons, Ltd., Poole Power Station, 476
McGregor Fund, Michigan University, Gift of Pyrex-Glass Disc for Newton Telescope, 490, 534
McMurtrie, F. E.,the Late, 209
Me. See also Mac
Measurement, Engineering, Principles of Optical Methods in (Review), 244
— of Stress and Strain in Solids (Review), 4

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of :

Watt International Medal, Award to Dr. F. Ljungstrom, 87, 423
Prizes and Awards, 135
Clayton Prize, Award to K. Baumann, 159
Council Retirements and Nominations, 183
London Meetings, Winter Session:
Rotary. Motion, by Dr. W. Abbott, 39 Application of Free Jets to Mixing of
Fluids in Bulk, by H. Fossett and L. E. Prosser, 111
Investigations into Cyclone Dust Collectors', by Prof. A. J. ter Linden, 165*. See 111
Rotary and Oscillating Seals, by T. E. Beacham, 183
Reciprocating Seals, by F. H. Towler, 183
Gray Lecture on Marine Engineering in Royal Navy: Review of Progress During Last Twenty-Five Years, by Engr. Vice-Admiral Sir J. Kingcome, 188*, 213*. See 87
Crankshaft Damping, by Dr. P. Draminsky, 205. See LETTER, 256
Causes of Flue-Gas Deposits and Corrosion in Modern Boiler Plants, by W. F. Harlow, 231
Hawksley Lecture on Heat Engines, by K. Baumann, 309, 333*, 381, 405*
Seizure of Metals, by Drs. F. P. Bowden and D. Tabor, 325
Measurement of Kinetic Boundary Friction, or Experimental Investigation of “ Oiliness,” by Dr. J. R. Bristow, 325
Dynamic Principles of Machine Foundations and Ground, by J. H. A. Crockett and R. E. R. Hammond, 351, 373. See LETTER, 544
Clayton Lecture on Invention and Sifting Out of Engineering Facts, by Dr. E. G. Bailey, 399, 445
Some Current Types of Marine Diesel Engine, by C. C. Pounder, 429*, 453*, 477*. See 279
Liverpool Summer Meeting:
Programme, 471
Opening Proceedings, 520
Visits and Excursions, 520, 546
Fuel Anti-Knock Requirements of Automobile Engines, by Dr. C. G. Williams, 546
Dinner, 546
Mechanical Engineering in Chemical Industry, by F. H. Bramwell, 597*. See 520
Applied Mechanics Group:
Distribution of Load in Screw Threads, by • Dr. D. G. Sopwith, 63
Tensile Fillet Stresses in Loaded Projections, by Dr. R. B. Heywood, 63
Automobile Division:
Crompton-Lanchester Medal, Award to Dr. P. de K. Dykes, 135
Fatigue Strength of Cast Crankshafts, by Dr. H. R. Mills and R. J. Love, 375
Steam Group:
Marine Boiler Deterioration, by Dr. I. G. Slater and N. L. Parr, 135
Mechanical Engineers', American Society of, Temperature-Entropy Chart for Air, by Prof. H. A. Everett, 375; Report on Trends in Locomotive Building, 390
— Engineering in Chemical Industry, 520, 597* Degrees, Academic, Regulations and
Practical Considerations, 508
Laboratory, East Kilbride, Research at, 447
— Equivalent of Heat, Introduction of, 565 of Heat, Joule’s Apparatus for Determining, 522
— Stoker. See Stoker
Mechanics, Soil, in Engineering Practice (Review), 50. See LETTER, 208
Fundamentals of (Review), 75
“ Megger ” Earthometer Tester, 260
Melting and Casting of Non-Ferrous Metals, 356, 378, 402, 456
Merchant-Navy Scholarships, Drewry, Particulars of, 283
— Ships. See Ships ; Steamers ; Motorships
— Shipbuilding. See SAipfeitiMwiy Mercury-Vapour Turbine Plant, Development
of, 381
Merz and McLellan, Poole Power Station, 476 Messenger, P. H., on Fairmile Marine Co., Ltd., 112. See LETTER, 160
Metals, Alloys, Electrons and Atoms (Review) 316
— Anti-Friction. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Basic, Price Control in World War II, His
tory of (Review), 364
— Compacts, Flow of Gases Through, 291*
— Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Degreasing Plant (Imperial Chemical Indus
tries, Ltd.), 437*
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue under Tests (Ma
terials)
— Grinding of, Regulations Affecting, 456
— Hard, Grain Size of Powders Used for,
Measurement of, 117*, 425

Metals, Institute of:

Robertson Medal and Premium, 111
Metallurgical-Engineering Committee, Appointment of, 159
May Lecture on Work of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, by Sir E. Appleton, 523
Annual General Meeting:
Programme, 55
Report of Council, 305
Honorary Treasurer’s Report, 305
Election of Officers, 305
Platinum Medal, Award to Dr. W. Hume- Rothery, 306
Reports of Discussions, 329, 355, 377, 402, 424
Annual Dinner, 403
Working Behaviour of Phosphorus-De- oxidised Coppers Containing Bismuth, by A. P. C. Hallowes, 6, 42. See 329
Damping Capacity of Metals in Transverse Vibration, by Dr. K. M.Entwistle, 329
Effect of Grain Size on Damping Capacity of Alpha Brass, by Dr. K. M. Entwistle, 329
Flow of Metal in Tube Extrusion, by C. Blazey, L. Broad, W. S. Gummer and
D. B. Thompson, 355
Promotion and Acceleration of Metallic Corrosion by Micro-Organisms, by T. H. Rogers, 355
Recovery and Recrystallation of Rolled Aluminium of Commercial Purity, by Major P. C. Varley, 424
High-Temperature Tensile Properties of Cast Aluminium-Silicon Alloys and Their Constitutional Significance, by W. I. Pumphrey and Dr. P. H. Jennings, 424
Consideration of Nature of Brittleness at Temperatures Above Solidus in Castings and Welds in Aluminium Alloys, by W. I. Pumphrey and Dr. P. H. Jennings, 424
Consideration of Nature of Brittleness at Temperatures Below Solidus in Castings and Welds in Aluminium Alloys, by W. I. Pumphrey and D. C. Moore,
425
Measurement of Grain Size of Tungsten and Tungsten-Carbide Powders Used for Manufacture of Hard Metal, by H. Burden and A. Barker, 117*. See 425
Symposium on Metallurgical Aspects of Non- Ferrous Metal Melting and Casting of Ingots for Working:
Melting and Casting of Non-Ferrous Metals by G. L. Bailey and W. A. Baker, 356. See 378, 402
Production of Refined-Copper Shapes, by R. H. Waddington, 356. See 378, 402
Melting and Casting Aluminium-Bronze Ingots, for Subsequent Working, by
A. J. Murphy and G. T. Callis, 356. See 378, 402
Application of Flux Degassing to Commercially-Cast Phosphor Bronze, by N. I. Bond-Williams, 377. See 402
Melting and Casting of Nickel Silver at Works of H. Wiggin and Co., Ltd., by
E. J. Bradbury and P. G. Turner, 378. See 402
Melting and Casting of Brass, by Dr. M. Cook and N. F. Fletcher, 456. See
377, 402
Papers for Written Discussion:
Priming Paints for Light Alloys, by Dr. J. G. Rigg and E. W. Skerrey, 91
Effect of Melting Conditions on Spectrographic Determination of Copper in Lead Alloys, by Dr. L. C. Bannister and R. H. Price, 287
London Local Section:
Some Metallurgical Problems of Imports ance to Aircraft, by Dr. H. Sutton, 357*
Structural Uses of Aluminium in Buildings, by Colonel W. C. Devereux, 501* Metals, Non-Ferrous, Melting and Casting of 356, 378, 402, 456
Ferrous Sampling, Specification, 466
— and Plastics, Flame-Spraying of, 143, 418
— Products, Export Trade in, 4
— Seizure of, 325
— Spraying and Sprayed Metal (Review), 51
— Structure of. See Microphotographs
— Surfaces, Impacts Occurring Through Liquid
Layers, 145*
— in Transverse Vibration, Damping Capacity
of, 329
— in Tube Extrusion, Flow of, 355
— Welding. See Weldiny
— See also Metallurgy ; Microphotographs Metalclad, Ltd., 6-in. Woodturning Lathe, 438* Metallic Finishes, Nomenclature of, Specification, 274
— Surfaces, Sliding, Seizure of, 325 Metallography. See Metals; Metallurgy;
Microphotographs
Metallurgical Microscopy, Conference on Optical Techniques in, 207
— and Mining Congress, Empire, London and
Oxford, Programme, 88, 471
Metallurgy :
Alloys, Aluminium, in Aircraft Construe tion, 357*
Brittleness in Castings and Welds, 424
Bronze, Melting and Casting of, 356,
378, 402
— — and Classification Societies, 384 for Cross-Channel Ship, 449
— — for Electric Conduit Installations,
Regulations for, 455
— — for Light-Weight Motor-Driven Rail
way Coaches, 78
Metallurgy—continued.
Alloys, Aluminium, for Marine Use, 327
— — Shipbuilding Research in, 571 Silicon, Tensile Properties of, 424 Structural Uses of, 501*
Use in Ship Superstructures, 391
— — Welding of, 317, 341
— — Wrought, Specification, 202
— Bearing, Tin-Base, Research on, 583 — Chromium-Molybdenum Steel Castings
Specification, 298
— Copper. See Brass ; Bronze, etc.
— Lead, Copper in, Spectrographic Determination of, 287
— Light;, in Aircraft Construction, 357* Priming Paints for, 91
— Metals, Electrons and Atoms (Review),
316
— Tin, Researches on Manufacture and Utilisation, 583
— Zinc, for Electric-Circuit Installations,
Regulations for, 455 Brass. See Brass Bronze. See Bronze Cast Iron. See Cast Iron Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion Deformation in Metals during Impact, 145* Foundry. See Foundry; Moulds Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces ?— Metallurgical. See Furnaces Heat Treatment, Carburising Furnace,
Electrically-Heated (Birlec, Ltd.), 439*
of Copper Containing Bismuth, 6, 42,
329
of Marine Reduction Gearing, 253 Metals, Tests of. See Tests (Materials) Nuffield Fellowship in Extraction Metallurgy, Rules for, 143
Optical Techniques in Metallurgical Microscopy, 207
Rolling Mills. See Bolling Mills Slag Control in Manufacture of Tube Steel, 294, 343
Steel Furnaces. See Furnaces Welding. See Welding
See also Iron and Steel Institute; Metals, Institute of ; Microphotographs; Foundry ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Meter, Circuit-Magnification (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 315*
— Moisture (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 315*
— Pressure, Electrical, for Open-Hearth Fur
nace, 448
— See also Electric Methley, B. W., the Late, 67
Metric System, Advantages and Disadvantages, 16, 88, 400, 448, 471, 496, 544, 568. See Frraftzm, 496
“ Metrolock ” Control System, 410* Metrology, Engineering, Course in, at Manchester College of Technology, 304
Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., Motor-Driven Railway Coaches, 78
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Gas- Turbine Locomotive for British Railways, 31* ; 100-MVA 220-kV Transformer, 151; Electron Diffraction Camera, 313* ; Limited-Range Mass Spectrometer, 314 ; Trolley-Omnibus Control Unit, 409* ; “ Metrolock ” Control System for Motors, 410*; Motherwell Factory, 519
Michigan University, Gift of Pyrex-Glass Disc for Newton Telescope, 490, 534 ; Researches in Bronze Castings. 558
Micrometer, Bore-Measuring (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 272*
Micro-Organisms, Promotion of Metallic Corrosion by, 355
Microphotographs, Electrodeposited Chromium 241*, 265
— Electron, of Powders for Hard Metal, 118*,
425
— Emulsions of Oil Fuel and Water, 361* Microscope, Electron (Philips Electrical, Ltd.),
339*
— Methods for Determination of Particle Size,
118
Microscopy, Metallurgical, Conference on Optical Techniques in, 207
Microstructure of Metals. See Metallurgy; Microphotographs
Microwaves, Theory and Application of (Review), 317
Mill, Dr. H. R., on Fatigue Strength of Cast Crankshafts, 375
Mills-Packard Sulphuric-Acid Chambers, 520, 597*
Mills, Rolling. See Rolling Mills
Milliken Brothers, Ltd., Design for Transmission-Line Towers, 489*
Mines, Coal. See Collieries
— See also Coal; Collieries; Mining and
PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mineral Oils. See Oils
— See also Coal; Mining and! PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Mining Engineers, Institution of, Establishment of Douglas Hay Medal, 424
— Industry, British, Reconstruction of, 366,
390
— Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects,
99. See LETTER, 280
— and Metallurgical Congress, Empire, London
and Oxford, Programme, 88, 471
— Subsidence and Water Reservoirs, 547
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Ministry of Health. See Health
— of Labour and National Service. See under
La&our
— of Supply. See Supply
— of Transport. See Transport
Mint (Birmingham), Ltd., Push-Pointing Triple-Draw Tube Drawbench, 512*
Mittell, B. E. G., on Magnetic-Tape Recorders, 264
Mixing and Drying Plant, Tar-Macadam. See Tar-Macadam
— Machines for Dry Ingredients (Foster, Yates
and Thom, Ltd.), 463
Model Columns for Hawkesbury River Bridge, Tests of, 530*
Model Experiments. See also Aeronautics; _ Tank Experiments
Moisture Meter (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 315*
Monel Metal Pickling Crates (H. Wiggin and Co., Ltd.), 487
Mono Pumps, Ltd., “ Kwickleen ” Food Pump, 462*
Montsinger, V. M., on Effect of Overloads on Transformer Life, 255
Monypenny, J. H. G., the Late, 233
Moore, D. C., on Brittleness in Castings and Welds in Aluminium Alloys, 424
Morison, W. J., “Essex” Omnibus-Washing Machine, 92
Morris, A. L., on Small-Power Transformers for Aircraft, 103
Motherwell, Opening of Light-Engineering Factory at, 519
Motor Boat, Use of Aluminium Alloy in Motor Launch “ Diana II,” 384

Motor Car Details :

Brakes and Clutches, Friction of Lining of, 193*, 217*
— Hydraulic, Vacuum Assisted (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 11
Engines. See Engines, Petrol, Motor Car Motor-Car Engines. See .Engines, Petrol Engineers. See Automobile Engineers Fuels. See Motor Fuels Production of, 4,148
See also Motor Vehicles; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Motor Carriages, Railway. See Carriages
— Electric, Alternating-Current, S.S. “ Pompey Power,” 345
Alternating-Current Variable-Speed Commutator (Higgs Motors, Ltd.), 462*
— — “ Metrolock ” Control System for (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 410* Polyphase Commutator, Construction and Winding of, 90
17-h.p., for Southend Pier Trains, 379 Traction, for British Railways, 71, 94 Traction, for Gas-Turbine Locomotives, 31*
— — Traction, 245-h.p., for Locomotive, 234*
— Fuel, Anti-Knock Requirements for, 546
— Industry, Handbook of Standards for, 178 Research Association, Investigation on
Fatigue Strength of Cast Crankshafts, 375 ;
Lindley Airfield Automobile Testing Ground, 424'
— Internal-Combustion. See Aeronautics;
Engines; Motor Cars; Motor Boats; Tractors
— Launches. See Motor Boats
— Lorries. See Motor Vehicles
— Marine. See Engines ; Marine Propulsion ;
Motorships
— Omnibus Services, London, Improvements
in, 231
— — Washing Machine, “ Essex ” (Stratstone,
Ltd.), 92
— Paraffin. See Engines, Oil
— Petrol. See Aeronautics ; Engines, Petrol;
Motor Boats ; Motor Cars; Tractors
— Road Rollers. See Road Rollers
— Spirit. See Motor Fuel
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Truck, Elevating, Petrol-Driven, Three-
Wheeled (Electro-Hydraulics, Ltd..), 438*
Industrial, 1-h.p. Petrol-Driven (Wessex Industrial (Poole), Ltd.), 297*
— Vehicle with Crane Mounted (R. H. Neal &
Co., Ltd.), 409*
with Crane Mounted (T. Smith and Sons (Rodley), Ltd.), 386*
— — with Crane Mounted, 4-ton (K. and L.
Steelfounders and Engineers, Ltd.), 438* Gas Turbines for,. 63
Industry, Position and Prospects, 4, 148 Statistics of Production, 4,148
— Wagons. See Motor Vehicles; Tractors Motorships under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 64, 423
— “ Dunnottar Castle,” Reconditioning of, 143
— “ Etzel ” with Reversible Propeller, 237
— Oil-Tank, under Construction, Lloyd’s Sta
tistics, 64,196, 423
Tank, Corrosion in, 450
Tank, Production of, 64,196, 423
— See also Marine Propulsion
Mott, Prof. N. F., on Semi-Conductors and Rectifiers, 510*. See 399
Mott, Hay and Anderson, Poole Power Station, 476
Moulds for Brass Castings, 378, 456
Muckle, W., on Behaviour of Deck Plating After Buckling, 426
Muirhead and Co., Ltd., Valve-Maintained Tuning Fork, 339*
Mullard Electronic Products, Ltd., Electronic Tube for Measuring Acceleration, 92; Ultrasonic Generator, 338*
Multitubular Boilers. See Boilers Municipal Tramways. See Tramways Murphy, A. J., on Melting and. Casting of
Aluminium-Bronze Ingots, 356. See 378, 402
Museum, Royal Scottish, Exhibition of Kelvin Instruments, 162
— Science, Exhibition for Blind, 567
—- Scientific and Engineering, in Holland, 474
Myddleton, Sir H., and London Water Supply, 19, 44*

NAPIER, D., and Son, Ltd., Turbo-Blowers for Diesel Engines, 43*
Nation, Economic State of, Government Statement on, 87
National Bibliography, British, Plans for, 423
— Bus-Bar, Proposal for, 559, 569, 589
— Coal Board and Coal Industry, 366, 390
— Physical Laboratory, Stresses in Hardened
and Stabilised Steel, 122* ; Model Investigations on Collision Between S.S. “ Queen Mary ” and H.M.S. “ Curacoa,” 401; “ Noughts and Crosses ” Machine, 522; Open-Day Demonstration, 521; Wind- Tunnel Tests on Models of Bailey Bridge, 578
National Union of Manufacturers, Report on Industry and the Nation, 475
Nationalisation of British Coal Industry, 366, 390
— of Gas Industry, Institution of Gas Engineers
Under, 570
— of Gas Industry, Vesting Date and Terms,
423
— of Iron and Steel Industry, Disadvantages
of, 351
— of Iron and Steel Industry, Possible Effects
of, 5
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics

Naval Architects, Institution of :

Watts’s Prize, Conditions of, 187
Spring Meeting, London:
Report of Council, 328
Election of Officers, 328
Presidential Address by Lord Cunningham on Current Shipbuilding Practice, 328
Reports of Discussions, 353, 376, 401, 426, 449, 472, 497
Annual Dinner, 355
International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, by G. Daniel, 353
Merchant Ship Subdivision, by H. E. Skinner and J. Phillips, 376
Interaction Between Ships, by Prof. A. M. Robb, 401
Theory of Behaviour of Deck Plating After Buckling, by W. Muckle, 426
A Light-Alloy Cross-Channel Ship Design, by E. C. B. Corlett, 449
Sea Speed and Steering as Influenced by Differences in Hull Form Above and Below Load Water Plane at Rest, by Capt. 0. Blom, 472
Theoretical Study of Methodical Series of Propeller Tests, by J. F. Leathard, 472 Screwshaft Casualties—Influence of Torsional Vibration and Propeller Immersion, by S. Archer, 497
Joint Meeting with Institute of Marine Engineers:
Developments in Reversible Propellers, by Prof. L. C. Burrill, 237*
Naval Architecture, Water-Tight Subdivision of Ships. See Water-Tight
. See Warships
— Construction. See Warships
— Engineers, American Society of, 60 Years’
Publication of Journal of, 39
— See Warships
Navigation, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Decca Navigator System, for Ships at Sea,
439*
Navigational Equipment, S.S. “ Caronia,” 129 Navy, British. See H.M. under Warships
— Estimates, Debate on, 230
— German. See German under Warships
— United States. See United States under
Warships
— See also Naval; Warships ; and PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Neal, R. H., and Co., Ltd., 6-ton Lorry-Mounted Mobile Crane, 409*
Nelson System of Stud Welding, 33
Netherlands Power Supply, 100-MVA 220-kV Transformer, 151
— Railways, Electric and Diesel-Electric
Traction on, 247
— Reconstruction in, Report on, 535
New River, London Water Supply from, 19, 44
— South Wales, Department of Main Roads,
Welded Road Bridges Constructed by, 529*
New Year’s Honours List, 15
— York, Anglo-American Aeronautical Con
ference, Programme, 255
Newcomen Society, Origin of Transatlantic Steam Navigation, 1819-33, by H. P. Spratt, 40, 54; Film of Cornish Engines, 208; Summer .Meeting in Holland, 474; Early Railways in Derbyshire, by B. Baxter, 573*. See Erratwn, 596
Newman Industries, Ltd., versus Victoria Laundry, Court Decision in, 566
Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd., Thorncliffe Works Extensions, Sheffield, 523
— Telescope, Gift of Pyrex-Glass Disc for,
490, 534
Newton Victor, Ltd., Motherwell Factory, 519 Nickel Silver, Melting and Casting of, 378, 402
— in Steel, Analysis of, Specification, 58 Nickols, N. W., on Internal Stresses in Hardened and Stabilised Steel, 122*
Nile, River, Owen Falls Hydro-Electric Scheme, 496
Nipple, Lubricating, Specification, 106 Nithsdale, W., the Late, 496
Nitrogen, Glowing, Flow in Nozzles, 526* Noise Reduction in Power-Station Offices, 459*
— and Vibration from Marine Diesel Engines,
478
Nomography (Review), 484
Non-Ferrous Metals. See Metals ; Metallurgy North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Slamming on Ships, by J. L. Kent, 582
North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. (1938), Ltd., 850-i.h.p. Triple-Expansion Engine,
S.S. “ Pompey Power,” 344
— Notes from, 34, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179,
203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
•— of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, Electricity Tariffs, 31; Glascarnoch-Luichart- Torr Achilty Hydro-Electric Scheme, 87 ; Loch Dubh, Loch Sloy and River Fyne Schemes, 135; Gaur and Lawers Schemes, 495; Power Stations of, 545
Northampton Polytechnic, Researches in Reinforced Concrete, 553*
Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., Rogerstone Aluminium Works, 125
Northumberland, Whiteadder Water, Bailey Bridge Over, 152*. See Erratwm, 209
Norton Co., Automatic Camshaft Grinding Machine, 584*
Notes. See Cleveland; North; South-West; South Yorkshire; Labour. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— on New Books. See Books and LITERATURE
INDEX
“ Noughts and Crosses ” Machine, National Physical Laboratory, 522
Nuclear Physics,- Work of Universities on, 523
— Reactors as Possible Power Source, 391
Nuffield Fellowship in Extraction Metallurgy, Rules for, 143
Nuts and Bolts, Load Distribution in, 63
Nutbrook Canal Railways, 573*

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Observatory, Royal Greenwich, Herstmonceux, Pyrex-Glass Disc for Newton Telescope, 490, 534; Transfer of Astronomical Instruments to, 534
Offen and Co., Ltd., Centre Locator, 168*
Office Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects, 269
— Power-Station, Noise Reduction in, 459*
Officers for Army Technical Corps, Reserves of, 351
Ohio, Battelle Memorial Institute, Tests of “ Silal ” Heat-Resisting Cast Iron, by W. H. White and A. R. Elsea, 101
Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars; Tractors
— Firing of Open-Hearth Furnaces at Park Gate Works, 427
— Fuel and Water Emulsions, Formation and, Properties of, 361*
— Lubricating, Consumption in Heavy-Oil Engines, 85. See LETTER, 160
— Motors. See Engines, Oil; Motor Vehicles ; Motor Boats; Tractors
— Production in Argentina, 126
by Fischer-Tropsch Process, Investigations on, 258
— Refinery, Fawley, Southampton, 552
— Switches. See Switchgear
— Synthesis in Relation to Electricity and Gas Supply, 17
— Tankers Under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 423
— —- Corrosion in, 450
— — Production of, in United Kingdom, 196
— Tractors. See Tractors
— See also Lubrication ; Petroleum
“ Oiliness,” Experimental Investigation of, 325
Old Centralians, Annual Dinner, 447
Olympia. See Exhibition
Omnibus, Motor. See Motor Omnibus
— Trolley. See Trolley Omnibus
Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, Annual Report, 14
— Water Power in, Statistics, 422
Open-Hearth Furnace. See Furnace
Opencast Coal Working, Film on (J. Laing and Son, Ltd.), 295
Optical Instruments, Physical Society’s Exhibition, 184, 313*, 337*
— Principles of Diffraction of X-Rays (Review), 581
— Techniques in Metallurgical Microscopy, Conference on, 207
Orcutt, A. H., on Use of War-Disposal Machine Tools, 88
O'Riordan, J. A., on Hydro-Electric Developments in Ireland, 593
Orly Airport, Use of Pre-Stressed Concrete, 182
Orowan, Dr. E., Negative Spring Mechanism, 522
Otztal Hydro-Electric Scheme, 87
Outlook, Engineering, 4, 28, 51, 76, 99, 123, 148,172,196,220,245,269. See LETTERS, 136, 280
Oven, Gas-Heated, Photo-Electric Control of, 596
Overhead Cranes. See Cranes
— Lines, Power Transmission, High-Voltage in
Germany, 470
Overhead Lines. Power Transmission, High-
Voltage, in Great Britain, 559, 569, 589
— — Power Transmission, Investigations by
British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, 365
Power Transmission, on Netherlands
Railways, 247
Power Transmission, Ontario, Report on, 14
Power Transmission, Regulations for, 330
Owen Falls Hydro-Electric Scheme, Uganda, 496
Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, 16-MEV Betatron at, 55*
— Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress, Programme, 88, 471
Oxy-Acetylene Welding. See Welding Oxygen in Steel, Determination by Aluminium-Killed Bomb Method, 448

PAGE, Sir A., the Late, 232*
Paints, Accelerated Weathering Tests of, 285*
— Priming, for Light Alloys, Investigations on, 91
Painter Brothers, Ltd., Testing Station for Transmission-Line Towers, 488*
Paraffin Engines. See Engines, Oil
— Tractors. See Tractors
Park Gate Works, Conversion to Oil Firing of Open-Hearth Furnaces, 427
Parker, Dr. R. C., on Frictional Behaviour of Engineering Materials, 193*, 217*
Parker, W. A. H., on Rural Electricity Supply, 472. See 374
Parr, N. L., on Marine-Boiler Deterioration, 135
Parsons, C. A., and Co., Ltd., 50-kW Turbo-
Generators for Instructional Purposes, 560*
Parsons, R. H., on Metric System, 16. See LETTERS, 88, 400, 448, 471, 496, 544, 568. See Erratum, 496
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine
Propulsion
Passenger Aeroplane. See Aeroplane under Aeronautics
— Steamers. See Steamers
Patents and Designs Bill, Proposed, 255
Paxman, E. P., the Late, 305*
Peak Forest Canal Railways, 573*
Pease Readership .in Telecommunications, Imperial College, London, 532
Peiser, H. S., on Non-Destructive Testing of Steel, 39
Percy, C. S., the Late, 356
Periodicals, Technical and Scientific, Survey of, 541
Perquin, N., Aero-Engine Test Houses, Schiphol Airport, 295*
Personal, 10, 34, 58, 82,106,130,154,178, 202, 226, 250, 274, 298, 322, 346, 370, 394, 418, 442, 466, 490, 514, 538, 562, 586
Peru, Engineering Notes from, 126
Petree, J. F., on Trends in Engineering, 186,201
Petrochemicals Ltd., “ Catarole ” Cracking Furnace for Petroleum, 153
Petrol Motors. See Aeronautics; Engines; Petrol; Motor Cars
Petroleum Refinery at Fawley, Southampton, 552
— Wedge-Gate Valve for, Specification, 418
—- See also OiI; Engines, Oil
Philips Electrical, Ltd., Electron Microscope, 339*
Philips Metalix, 150-kV X-ray Set, 79
Phillips, J., on Merchant-Ship Subdivision, 376
Phillips, R. S., on Electric Lifts, 352. See 96
Photo-Electric Cells, Use in Photometers, 199 Control of Furnace Flames, 596 Photographic Exposure Tables,- Specification, 322
— Safelight Screens, Specification, 394 Photometer, Exposure (Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd.), 340
—- for Physical Measurements of Light, 199 Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs Physics, Electrons, Atoms, Metals and Alloys (Review), 316
— Institute of, Annual Report, 567
— Work of Prof. A. Einstein, 279
— See also Physical Society and PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Physical Laboratory. See NaiionaZ Physical
— Researches at National Physical Laboratory,
521
— Society, Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus,
184, 313*, 337* ; Acoustics Group, Development of Magnetic-Tape Recorders, by
B. E. G. Mittell, 264
Physiological Effect of Working in High Temperatures, 229
Pickles, A. T., on Research on Heating and Ventilation, 199
Pickling Crates, Monel Metal (H. Wiggin and Co., Ltd.), 487
Pier, Southend-on-Sea, Electric Trains on, 379*
— Timber, for Bailey Bridge Over Whiteadder
Water, 152*. See Erratum, 209
Piling, Timber, Frey Bridge over River Havel, 392*
Pins, Cotter, Split, for Aircraft Purposes, Specification, 466
Pinions, See Gearing ; Marine Propulsion
Pinxton Canal Railways, 573*. See Erratum, 596
Pipes, Iron, Cast, for Water Supply, 45
— Wooden, for London Water Supply, 19, 45
— See also Tubes
Pirelli-General Cable Works, Ltd., Continuous Lead-Extrusion Machine for Electric Cables, 319* ; 200-ft. Lattice-Steel Tower for Radio Communication, 455
Piston for Marine Diesel Engines, 429*, 453*
— Ring for Marine Diesel Engines, 454* Pitting. See Corrosion
Plant Engineers, Incorporated, Blackpool Conference Programme, 288
Plastic Flow, Investigation of, 527*
— Moulding Machine, Mould-Temperature
Controller (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 386
Plastics and Metals, Flame-Spraying of, 143, 418
Plastics, Possible Use for Water Mains, 547
— Use in Chemical Plant, 600
Plate, Mild-Steel, Brittle Fracture of, 16, 289*. See LETTERS, 209, 304, 352, 424, 472, 520, 568
Steel, Ship, Brittle Fracture in, 289*
— Shearing Machine.’ See Machine Tools Plating, Deck, After Buckling, Theory of Behaviour of, 426
— Electro. See Electro
Platinum Medal, Award to Dr. W. Hume- Rothery, 306
Plessey Co., Ltd., Standardised Super High- Frequency Components and Instruments, 114 ; Electronic Precision Revolution Counter, 339
Plug-and-Socket Gas Connectors, Specification, 10
Plutonium, Production at Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, 231
Plymouth Water Supply, History of, 18 Plywood, British-Made, Specification, 154 Pollution, Atmospheric, Annual Report on Alkali, etc., Works, 254. See LETTER, 304 of Paint Coatings, Tests of, 285*
— of Potomac River, 158
— Water, Research Board, Work of, 302
Research Laboratory, Survey of Thames Estuary, 543
Polytechnic. See Education
“ Pompey Power,” Steam Collier, 344*
Ponds for Cooling of Circulating Water, 21*. See Erratum, 55. See LETTERS, 64, 88
Poole Power Station, Construction of, 476
Port Talbot, Abbey Steelworks, Margam, Construction of, 112 ; All-Welded Plate Girder for, 185*; All-Welded Structures at, 367
Portable Engine. See Engine
—? Machine Tools. See Machine Tools Portland Cement. See Cement Portobello Power Station, 545
Post Office, Wireless Telegraphy Bill, 111 Potomac River, Pollution of, 158
Poulaphuca Hydro-Electric Works, 593 Poulsen, V., Invention of Magnetic Recorder, 264
Poulson Medal, Presentation to Sir E. Appleton, 399
Pounder, C. C., on Current Types of Marine Diesel Engines, 429*, 453*, 477*. See 279 Powder, Compact, Copper-Tin, Flow of Gases Through, 291*
— Grain Size of, for Hard Metals, Measure
ment of, 117*, 425
Power Conference, World, Fourth, London, 15; Statistical Year Book (Review), 157
Power-Gas Corporation, Ltd., Endowment of Scholarships at Durham University, 379
— Generation, Economics of, 405*
Power Jets (Research and Development), Ltd.;
Gas Turbines for Road Transport, 63
— Plant, Atomic, Possibilities of, 295 Hydro-Electric, in Canada, 184, 422
— — Hydro-Electric, Developments in Great
Britain, 593
Hydro-Electric, Developments in Ireland, 593
Hydro-Electric, Gaur and Lawers Schemes, 495
— — Hydro-Electric, Glascamoch-Luichart-
Torr Achilty Scheme, 87
Hydro-Electric, Ltlnersee and Otztal, Austria, 87
Hydro-Electric, Ontario Report on, 14 Hydro-Electric, Owen Falls, Uganda, 496 Hydro-Electric, Scotland, Developments in, 87,135, 495, 545
Hydro-Electric, Severn Barrage Scheme, 133
— — Hydro-Electric, South Africa, Growth of,
62
See also Power Stations ; Power, Water ; Substations
— Press. See Machine Tools
— Station, Electric, Atmospheric Pollution
from, 254. See LETTER, 304
Electric, British, Need for More, 569, 589 Electric, British, Rise of Thermal Efficiency of, 519
Electric, Developments since 1917, 309, 333*, 381, 405*
Electric, 330-b.h.p., Diesel Shunting Locomotive for, 451*
Electric, 1946-47 Engineering and Financial Statistics, 398
Electric, Fulham, Grit-Arresting Plant at, 186
— — Electric, Future Developments in, 186 Electric, German, Engineering in, 1939-
1945, 470
Electric, Heavy-Oil Engine in, Working Costs of, 85. See LETTER, 160
— — Electric, High-Voltage, Interconnection
of, 559, 569, 589
Electric, Noise-Reduction in Offices of, 459*
— — Electric, Production of Plant for, 100.
See LETTER, 280
Electric, Poole, Construction of, 476 Electric, Portobello, 545
Electric, South African, Growth of, 62 Electric, Statistics for 1947, 279 Electric, Steam and Air Turbines for, 49* Electric, Use of Brickwork in, 233
— — See also Power Plants ; Substations
— Supply, Electric, British Electricity Autho
rity’s Exhibition, 396
— — Electric, British, Position of Industry
569, 589
Electric, in Canada, 14,184, 422
Electric, Consultative Councils for, 112 Electric, 1946-47 Engineering and Financial Statistics, 398
Electric, in Great Britain, 137, 151 Electric, International, in Europe, Austrian Supply Schemes, 87
Electric, International, in Europe, Developments, 375
— — Electric, Maximum Demand, Apparatus
for Limitation of, 522
Electric, for Netherlands Railways, 247 Electric, North Scotland, Tariffs for, 31
— — Electric, Oil Synthesis in Relation to, 17
Power Supply, Electric, Ontario, Report on, 14 Electric, and Productivity, 414 Electric, for Skelton Broadcast Transmitting Station, 7
— — Electric, in South Africa, Twenty-Five
Years of, 62
Electric, Statistics for 1947, 279 Electric, Tariffs for, 303 Electric, for United States Farms, 535
— — Nuclear Reactors for, 391
— Tidal, and Severn Barrage, 133
— Transmission, Overhead Lines, High-Volt
age, in Britain, 559, 569, 589
Overhead Lines, High-Voltage, in Germany, 470
— —- Overhead Lines, Investigations by Brit
ish Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, 365
— — Overhead Lines, on Netherlands Rail
ways, 247
Overhead Lines, Ontario, Report on, 14 Overhead Lines, Regulations for, in Great
Britain, 330
See also Gearing; Marine Propulsion
— Water, in Canada, Potential, Statistics, 184
— — Resources in Canada, Report, 422 See also Hydraulic; .Power Plants,
Hydro-Electric
World, Statistics of, 157
— Wind, Investigations by British Electrical
and Allied Industries Research Association, 365
Precipitation, Electrostatic, for Power Stations, 254. See LETTER, 304
Presidential Address to British Electrical Power Convention by Lord Citrine, on British Electricity-Supply Industry, 569. See 568, 589
to Institute of Fuel by Dr. D. T. A. Townend, on Fuel Research, 480
to Institution of Civil Engineers by Sir J. Davidson, on Public Water Supply, 18, 44*
to Institution of Gas Engineers by E. Crowther, oh Gas Industry, 570. See 567 to Institution of Naval Architects by
Lord Cunningham, on Current Shipbuilding Practice, 328
—- — to Institution of Water Engineers by J. N. Wood, on Waterworks Developments, 547
to South Wales.Institute of Engineers by
C. T. Allen, on Young Engineers in South Wales, 112
Press. See Machine Tools
— Technical, and Duties of Public Relations
Officers, 397
Pre-Stressing of Concrete, Belgian Applications, 181
Price, R. H., on Spectrographic Determination of Copper in Lead Alloys, 287
— Control of Basic Metals in World War II,
History of (Review), 364 Primary Battery. See Cell under Efeciric “ Princess ” Flying Boat, 321 Printing Machinery, Production of, 270 Prison Camps, Japanese, Engineer’s Work in, 1* Process Engineering (Review), 219 Producer, Gas, Morgan, for Open-Hearth Furnaces, Clydesdale Steelworks, 127 Productivity, Anglo-American Council bn, Report of Second Session, 413, 421 Projection, Loaded, Tensile Fillet Stresses in, 63 Propellers, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Immersion, Influence on Propeller-Shaft
Failures, 497
—Marine, Reversible, Developments in, 237*
— Tests, Study of, Methodical Series of, 472 Prosser, L. E., on Application of Free Jets to
Mixing of Fluids, 111 Propulsion of Ships. See Marine Propulsion;
Engines; Turbines; Propellers Public Relations and Publicity (Review), 397 Publications and Lectures, Central Committee for Improving, Suggestions for Organisation of Conferences, 182. See LETTER, 233 Pulses and Transients in Communication Circuits (Review), 507
Pulverised Fuel Plants, Grit Arresters for, 186, 254. See LETTER, 304
Pulveriser, Swing-Hammer (British Jeffrey- Diamond, Ltd.), 461*
Pumphrey, W. I., on Tensile Properties of Cast Aluminium-Silicon Alloys, 424; on Brittleness in Castings and Welds in Aluminium Alloys, 424
Pumps, Air. See Air Compressors
— Centrifugal, Circulating, for Heating Systems (Holden and Brooke, Ltd.), 403* and Other Rotodynamic (Review), 532
Petrol-Driven, Portable (Auto Diesels,
Ltd.), 461*
— for Chemicals and Corrosive Fluids, 520,
599*
— Food, “ Kwickleen ” (Mono Pumps, Ltd.),
462*
— Fuel-Injection, with Hydraulic Governor (O.A.V., Ltd.), 261*
— — for Marine Diesel Engines, 455*
— Gwynnes, 100 Years of, 573
Pumping Plant, S.S. “ Caronia,” 104 S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367
— Stations for Water Supply in Western Australia, 535
Purification of Sewage. See Sewage
Purnell, W. H., the Late, 79
Pye, Ltd., Radio Control Equipment for Marshalling-Yard Traffic, 306
Pyrites, Iron, Use in Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, 520, 597*

QUEBEC, Water Power in, Statistics, 422 “ Queen of Bermuda,” Turbo-Electric Liner,
Reconditioning of, 122
“ Queen Elizabeth,” H.M. Battleship, Machinery Conversion in, 87,189, 213
“ Queen Mary,” S.S. and H.M.S. “ Curacoa,” Model Investigations of Collision Between, 401
Quicksilver. See Mercury

RADAR Station, Tilbury, 72
Radiation, Ultra-High-Frequency Transmission and (Review), 317
Radio Apparatus, Physical Society’s Exhibition, 184, 313*, 337*
— Communication, 200-ft. Tower at Wembley
for, 455
for Water-Undertaking Stations, 547
— Components Manufacturers’ Federation,
Exhibition of Radio Components, 210
— Control of Marshalling-Yard Traffic at
Whitemoor, 306
— Decca Navigation System, 439*
— Distance-Measuring Equipment for Aerial
Navigation, 187
— Equipment Industry, Position and Pros
pects, 245
— Industry, Exhibition of Components for, 210
— Microwaves, Theory and Application of
(Review), 317
— Transmitter, 50-Watt, for Aircraft Com
munication (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 534
— Transmitting Station, Skelton, 7*, 32*
— Ultra-High-Frequency Transmission and
Radiation (Review), 317
— Valves, High-Power, Water-Cooling versus
Air-Cooling for, 258
— Wavelengths, Use in Stellar Astronomy, 522
— Wireless Telegraphy Bill, 111
— See also Telegraphy, Wireless; Telephony,
Wireless ; Television ; Radar ; Valves Radiography, Industrial, Government Supply of Gamma Rays, 591
Radiovisor Parent, Ltd., “ Flamestart ” Photo- Electric Control of Furnace Flames, 596
Rail-Drilling Machine (Kitchen and Wade, Ltd.), 67*
— on Early Derbyshire Railways, 573
— Flat-Bottom, Standard, for British Rail
ways, 113*, 563
Railcars. See Carriages, Railway
Railroad. See Railways Railway Bridge. See Bridge
— British, Standardisation of Rolling Stock,
20; Gas-Turbine Locomotives, 31* ; Electrical Interlocking of Signals at Doncaster Station, 41* ; Tilbury Radar Station, 72; Rolling Stock for, 20, 68*, 86, 94*, 123, 200* 210*, 211, 274, 528, 536* ; Standard Flat-Bottom Rails, 113*, 563; Bridge Reconstruction by, 115*; Pre-Stressed Reinforced-Concrete Sleepers for, 138*; Renewal of Track in Watford Tunnel, 185 ; Repairs to Brick Facing Walls of Roade Cutting, 187; Wagon for Transporting Stators of Turbo-Alternators, 200*; Double-Deck Railway Carriage, 210*; Operation of Vehicles, 1948, 211*; 1,470- h.p. Mixed-Traffic Electric Locomotive, 234* ; Glass-Carrying Wagons, 274 ; Accelerated Weathering Tests of Paints, 285* ; Radio Control at Whitemoor Marshalling Yard, 306; Frequency-Correction Equipment for Railway-Signalling Circuits, 331* ; Rolling-Stock Building Programme for, 528; Repairs to Braidhurst Viaduct, 534 ; Welded All-Steel Railway Carriage, 536* ; “ Royal Scot ” Non-Stop Run with Diesel-Electric Locomotives, 543
— Carriage. See Carriages
— Early, in Derbyshire, 573*. See Erratum,
596
— Great Central, Jubilee of Extension to Lon
don, 231
. Northern, 4-4-2 Type Locomotive, 68*
Western, 4-6-0 Type Locomotive, 68*
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— London, Midland and Scottish, 4-6-2 Type
Locomotive, 69*
and North Eastern, 4-6-2 Type Locomotive, 69*
— Motor Carriage. See Carriage
— Netherlands, Electric and Diesel-Electric
Traction on, 247
— North American, Diesel-Electric Locomo
tives on, 390
— and Other Steamers (Review), 291
— Rolling Stock. See also Carriages ; Loco
motives ; Wagons
— Signalling. See Signalling
— Southend Pier, Electric Traction on, 379*
— Street. See Tramways
— Tube. See Underground ; London Transport
Executive
— Underground. See Underground; London
Transport Executive
— Use of Oil Engine Locomotives in, 309, 333
— Wagons. See Wagons
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Rainfall and Water Supply in Western Australia, 535
Randles, W. A., the Late, 187
Rays. See X-Rays
Reactors, Nuclear, as Possible Power Source, 391
Reclamation of Land with Fuel Ash, 114 Reconstruction in the Netherlands, Report, 535 Records, Influence of, on Air Transport, 159 Recorders, Magnetic-Tape, Development of, 264
— Quick-Response (Evershed and Vignoles,
Ltd.), 338*
— Water-Level (Gent and Co., Ltd.), 438* Rectifiers. See Electric
Reduction Gears. See Gearing; Marine Propulsion
Reed Prentice Pressure Die-Casting Machine (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 385*
— Vibrometer (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 297 Reels for Electrical Winding Wire, Specification, 154
Reference Books. See Annuals
Refinery, Petroleum, Fawley, Southampton, 552
Refrigerating Plant, S.S. “ Caronia,” 129
— — S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367*
Refrigerators for Cooling of Circulating Water, 21*. See Erraiwm, 55. See LETTERS, 64,88 Regulating and Controlling Systems, Automatic, Standard Glossary of Terms Used, in, 538
Reheater for 850-i.h.p. Triple-Expansion Engine, S.S. “ Pompey Power,” 344*
Reid, Sir C. C., on Reconstruction of British Mining Industry, 366, 390
Reid, Dr. W., on Reconstruction of British Mining Industry, 366, 390
Reinforced Concrete. See Concrete
Beisser, S. M., on Welded Structures, 367 Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, Trunk Road in South Wales, 162*
Renfrew Works of Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 546 Rennie, J. A., the Late, 256
Report, Agricultural Machinery, Statistics, 349
— Anglo-American Council on Productivity,
Second Session, 413, 421
— Annual, Alkali, Etc., Works, 254. See
LETTER, 304
British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, 365
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, 500
British Shipbuilding .Research Association, 183
Chamber of Shipping of United Kingdom, 183
Department of International Research in Terrestrial Magnetism (Review), 244
Dominion Water and Power Bureau, 184
— — Fulmer Research Institute, 380
Geological Survey Board, 207
Institute of Fuel, 407
Institution of Electrical Engineers, 439 Liverpool Steam Ship Owners’ Association, 303
Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, 14
Tin Research Institute, 583
Water-Pollution Research Board, 302
— Building Research Board, for 1946, 327
— — Research and Development Advisory
Council, 513
— on Cavity Party Walls for Sound Insulation,
161
— Chemistry Research Board for 1947, 518
— District Heating in American Housing, 350
— qn Education and Training of Technologists,
by Federation of British Industries, 591
— Electrical Accidents and Their Causes, 1947,
277
— — Power Engineering in Germany, 1939-45,
470
— Engineering Education in the United
States, 542
and Financial Statistics of Electricity Supply, 1946-47, 398
— Fire Research Board, for 1947, 494
— Fuel Researches at Leeds University, 447
— on Fuels for Underfeed Stokers, 259
— Gases and Non-Metallics Sub-Committee of
Iron and Steel Institute, 448
— German Gas-Turbine Developments During
1939-45, 293
— Heavy-Oil Engine Working Costs, 85. See
LETTER, 160
— Interim, Steel Economy Committee, 206
— Ministry of Fuel and Power, on Coal Mining,
366
— National Union of Manufacturers, on Indus
try and the Nation, 475
— on Reconstruction in the Netherlands, 535
— Select Committee, on Production and Mar
keting of Opencast Coal, 469
— Trends in Locomotive Building, 390
— Unified Screw-Thread Standards, 65*
— United Kingdom Engineering Mission to
Canada, 134,163
— Water-Power Resources in Canada, 422
— See also Board of Trade
Research, Aluminium Welding, Review of, 317, 341
— Association, British Electrical and Allied
Industries, Annual General Meeting and Luncheon, 160; Severity of Circuit- Breaker Test Conditions, by F. O. Mason, 342; Annual Report, 365
— — Cast Iron, British, Tests of “ Silal ” Heat-
Resisting Cast Iron, 101
Iron and Steel, British, Conference on Optical Techniques in Metallurgical Microscopy, 207 ; Investigations, on Measurement of Torque in Shafts, 481*, 505*
Motor Industry, Investigation on Fatigue Strength of Cast Crankshafts, 375; Lindley Airfield Testing Ground, 424
— — Post-War Growth of, 524
Shipbuilding, British, Annual Report, 183 Welding, British, Conference on Economics of Welding, Programme, 159 ; Conference on Welding as Aid to Saving of Steel and Man Power, 367
— Board, Building, Report for 1946, 327
Chemistry, Report for 1947, 518 Fire, Report for 1947, 494
Industrial, Appointments to by Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 303
— — Water-Pollution, Work of, 302
— Building, 1940-1945 (Review), 244
— in Building Industry, Types and Value of,
547
— Centre, Thornton, Effect of Heat on Electro-
Deposited Chromium, 241*, 265*
— Chemical, Laboratory, Investigations on
Corrosion, 211; Discovery of Ion-Exchange Resins, 523
— Committee, Chemical Engineering, Appoint
ments to, 471
— Department, British Railways, Accelerated
Weathering Tests of Paints, 285*
— —- Scientific and Industrial, Research in
Industry (Review), 301; Appointments to Research Boards, 303 ; Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbride, 447; Fire Research Board’s Report for 1947, 494 ; Report of Chemistry Research Board for 1947, 518; History, Organisation and Work of, 523
— and Development, Building, Advisory Coun
cil on, Report, 513
— Establishment, Atomic Energy, Harwell,
Conference on Chemical Developments in Atomic Energy, 207 ; Production of Plutonium at, 231
Research Facilities Committee, Defence Services, 111
— Fuel, at Leeds University, Report on, 447
— — Progress in, Presidential Address to In
stitute of Fuel, 480
— High-Voltage, in Cable-making Industry, 569, 593
— Industrial, Genius of (Review), 13
— in Industry (Review), 301
— Institute, Fulmer, Annual Report, 380 Tin, Annual Report, 583
—- International, in Terrestrial Magnetism, Department, Carnegie Institution, Washington, Annual Report on (Review), 244
— Laboratory, Chemical, Investigations on Corrosion, 211; Discovery of Ion Exchange Resins, 523
— — Ferodo, Ltd., Investigations on Friction
of Brake Linings, 193*, 217*
— Mechanical Engineering, in Scotland, 447
— at National Physical Laboratory, Open-Day
Demonstration, 521
— Organisation of Coil Spring Federation,
Work of, 543
— in Reinforced Concrete, Experimental
Method for, 553*
— Scene, Aeronautical, Goals, Methods and
Accomplishments, 525*, 549*
— Scientific and Industrial, Australian Council
for, Frictional Forces in Dial Gauges, 169*. See LETTER, 208
— Shipbuilding, in Aluminium Alloys, 571
— Station, Building, Report on Cavity Party
Walls for Sound Insulation, 161; Work on Heating and Ventilation, 199
Fuel, Investigations on Fischer-Tropsch Process, 258
— Water Pollution, Laboratory, Survey of
Thames Estuary, 543
— See also National Physical Laboratory Reservoirs (Safety Provisions) Act, 1930,
Need of Revision, 547
— for Water Supply in Western Australia, 535 Resin, Ion-Exchange, Discovery and Uses, 523 Resources, Conservation and Utilisation of,
United Nations Scientific Conference, 423 Reviews. See LITERATURE INDEX
Reyrolle, A., and Co., Ltd., “Megger” Eartho- meter Tester, 260; 132-kV Small Oil-
Volume Circuit-Breaker, 396*
“ Rhadamanthus,” H.M.S., Crossing of Atlantic by, 54
Rheostatic Braking for Trolley Omnibuses, 240*
Rhodes, J., on Non-Destructive Testing of Steel, 39
Richardson, Dr. E. G., Turbidimeter for Particle-Size Determination, 117*
Richardson, Dr. F. D., on Thermodynamics of Oxides in Steel, 474
Rideal, Prof. E. K., on History of Royal Institution, 234
Rigg, Dr. J. G., on Priming Paints for Light Alloys, 91
Rings, Piston. See Piston Rings
Ripon, Bailey Suspension Bridge at, 580*
“ Rising Star,” S.S., Crossing of Atlantic by, 40, 54
River, Conemaugh, Dam Across, Stainless-Steel Clad Gates for, 348
— Fyne Hydro-Electric Scheme, 135
— Havel, Berlin, Frey Bridge Over, 392*
— Hawkesbury, Road Bridge, Welded Spans
for, 529*
— Lee, London Water Supply from, 19, 44*
— Liffey, Water-Power Developments on, 593
— New, London Water Supply from, 19, 44
— Nile, Owen Falls. Hydro-Electric Scheme,
496
— Potomac, Pollution of, 158
— Severn, Tidal Power from, 133
— Shweli, Suspension Bridge, 581*
— Thames, Survey of Estuary of, 543
— — Wall on South Bank, London, 63 Riveting of Aluminium Alloys, 384
— of Aluminium-Alloy Plates, 450
Rivett, F. A., on Flame-Spraying of Metals and Plastics, 143, 418
Road Accidents. ’ See Accidents
— Arterial, European, Developments of, 351
? — Bridges, Reinforced-Concrete, Standard Design of (Review), 76
— — Over River Havel, Berlin, 392*
Welded, in New South Wales, 529*
— Coated Macadam Industries, Federation,
Annual Luncheon, 496
— Plan for Lancashire (Review), 590
— Roller Diesel-Engined (Aveling-Barford,
Ltd.), 412
Diesel-Engined (Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd.), 387
— Safety and Traffic Flow, Problems of, 326
— Traction, Railless Electric. See Trolley
‘Bus
— Traffic, Research on Control, 592
— Transport, Gas Turbines for, 63
— Trunk, in South Wales, 162*
— See also Tar-Macadam
Roade to Blisworth Railway Line, Repairs to Brick Facing Walls of Cutting, 187
Robb, Prof. A. M., on Interaction Between Ships, 401
Robertson, C., on Brittle Fracture of Mild- Steel Plates, 304. See LETTERS, 16, 209, 352, 424, 472, 520, 568
Robertson, W. H. A., and Co., Ltd., Offer of Medal and Premium to Institute of Metals, 111
Rocker Bearing of Bailey Bridge, 57*
Rockets and Space Travel (Review), 316 Rogers, G. F. C., on Stresses in Turbine Rotors
? of Disc Construction, 121*
Rogers, T. H., on Promotion and Acceleration of Metallic Corrosion by Micro-Organisms 355
Rogerstone Aluminium Works, South Wales, 125
Roller Bearings. See Bearings
— Road. See Road Roller
— Rocking, for Launching Bailey Bridge Over
Whiteadder Water, 153*. See Erratum, 209
Rolling of Copper Containing Bismuth, Investigation on, 6, 42, 329
Rolling Mills, Investigation of Torque in Shafts, 481*, 505*
— Stock Building Programme for British
Railways, 528
Design, Trends in, 201
—- for Electrified Netherlands Railways, 247 Industry, Position and Prospects, 123
— — Light-Weight, for London Transport, 78 Standardisation on British Railways, 20
— — See also Camages; Locomotives; Wagons Rontgen Rays. See X-Rays
Roof Structures, Use of Aluminium Alloys for 501*
Ropes, Wire. See Wire Ropes
Rose, Down and Thompson, Ltd., Continuous Rotary Evaporator, 417*; History of Firm, 563
Rotary Blowers. See Blowers ; Turbo-Blowers,
— Engine. See Engine ; Aeronautics
— Motion, Principles of, 39
— Pump. See Pump
Rotol Reversible Propeller, 237
Rotors, Helicopter, Testing Tower for, 584*
— for 50-kW Steam Turbine (C. A. Parsons &
Co., Ltd.), 560*
— Turbine, of Disc Construction, Stresses in,
121*
Rowden, W. F., the Late, 271
Rowell, Dr. H. S., on Metric System, 448, 471, 496. See LETTERS, 16, 88, 400, 496, 544, 568. See Erratum, 496; on Frictional Forces in Dial Gauges, 208. See 169*
Rowland, F. E.,on Agricultural Electrification in North America, 535
Royal Aeronautical Society. See Aeronautical
— Aircraft Establishment. See Aeronautics
— Engineers, Bailey Bridge Over Whiteadder
Water, 152*. See Erratum, 209; Work of in Land Warfare, 279; Frey Bridge Over River Havel, Berlin, 392*
— Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux,
Pyrex-Glass Disc for Newton Telescope, 490, 534; Transfer of Astronomical
Instruments to, 534

Royal Institution:

Anniversary, 150th, of Royal Institution) 234
History of Royal Institution, by Prof. E. K. Rideal, 234
Royal Mail Liner, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367*; Loss of, 399
— Scot Train, Non-Stop Run, with Diesel-
Electric Locomotives, 534
— Scottish Museum, Exhibition of Kelvin Instruments, 162

Royal Society :

Election of Fellows, 279 Ewing Medal, Award to Sir E. Appleton, 303
Election of Foreign Members, 508 Conversazione and Exhibition, 522
Royal Society of Arts. See Arts
— United Service Institution, The Engineer in Land Warfare, by Major-Gen. Sir E. Tickell, 279
“ Royal William,” S.S., Crossing of Atlantic by, 54
Rubber Linings for Chemical Plant, 271
— Processing Machinery, 163
— Silicone, Properties of (Dow Corning Corporation), 464
— Uses in Engineering (Review), 507
Rumford, Count, Role in Foundation of Royal Institution, 234
Runway, Overhead-Crane, All-Welded Plate Girder for, 185*
Rural Electricity Supply, Parliamentary Debate on, 374. See LETTER, 472
Supply, Repeater Fuse for (Allen West and Co., Ltd.), 442
— Electrification in United States, 535
Russell, G., on Planning the Festival of Britain, 1951, 184. See 109
Rusting. See Corrosion
Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Thermax-Type Boiler for Buckingham Palace, 274
Ryle, M., on Use of Radio Wavelengths in Stellar Astronomy, 522
Ryves, R. A., the Late, 256

SADDLE, Tower-Top, of Bailey Bridge, 579*
Safety of Life at Sea. See Life-Saving; Water-Tight Subdivision
— Road, and Traffic Flow, Problems of, 326
Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd., Timing Equipment for Testing Watches, 340 ; Exposure Photometer, 340
Sampling Non-Ferrous Metals, Specification, 466
Sand Filter for Water Supply, Introduction of, 45*
Sarjeant, R. L., on Metric System, 496. See LETTERS, 16, 88, 400, 448, 471, 544, 568. See Erratum, 496
Saunders-Roe Ltd., “ Princess ” Flying Boat, 321
“ Savannah,” S.S., Crossing of Atlantic by 40, 54
Saws. See Machine Tools
Scantlings for Construction of Steel Ships, Rules and Tables, 110
Scavenge Blower for Marine Diesel Engines, 429*, 453*, 477*
Scherbuis Polyphase Commutator Machines, 90
Schiller, P., on Oil Synthesis in Relation to Electricity and Gas Supply, 17
Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Aero-Engine Test Houses at, 295*
Scholarships. See Education
Schrage Polyphase Commutator Machines, 90 Sciaky Electric Welding Machines, Ltd., 100-kVA Three-Phase Seam. Welding Machine, 413*
Science Museum, Exhibition for Blind, 567
Scientific Apparatus Exhibition, Royal Society’s, 522
Physical Society’s Exhibition, 184, 313*, 337*
Shipbuilding, Naval. See Warships
— Practice, Current Activities, 328
— Research in Aluminium Alloys, 571
Association, British, Annual Report, 183
— Rules and Tables for Scantlings of Steel
Ships, 110
— and Safety of Life at Sea, 353
— S.S. “ Magdalena,” 367* ; Loss of, 399
— Steam Collier “ Pompey Power,” 344*
— Trends in, 201
— Vessels Under Construction, Lloyd’s Regis
ter Statistics, 64, 423
— Water-Tight Subdivision. See Water-TigftZ
— Welding in, As Aid to Saving of Steel, 367 in, Current Research, 328
— See also Steamers; Naval; Warships and
PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipping, British, Earnings of, 329
— Chamber of, of United Kingdom, Annual
Report, 183
— Industry and Building Costs, 196
— International Conference on Safety of Life
at Sea, 1948, 353
— Liverpool Steam Ship Owners’ Association,
303
Shock Tests. See Impact Tests under Tests (Materials')
Shop Management. See Works Management Show. See Exhibition
Shweli River Suspension Bridge, 581* Siemens-Halske Co., Torsionmenter, 483*, 506*
— Martin Furnaces. See Furnaces
Siemens Schufckert (Great Britain), Ltd., 220- kV X-Ray Set, 79
Signal, Railway, Electrical Interlocking of, Doncaster Station, 41*
Signalling Circuits, Railway, Frequency-Correction Equipment for, 331*
“ Silal ” Heat-Resisting Cast Iron, Tests of in United States, 101
Silicone Rubber, Properties of (Dow Corning Corporation), 464
Silver, Nickel, Melting and Casting of, 378,402, Simpson, T., Work on London Water Supply, 45*
Simulator, Electronic (Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd.), 314*
Skefko Ball Bearing Co., Ltd., Standardisation of Metric and English Roller Bearings, 519
Skelton Short-Wave Transmitting Station, 7*, 32*
Skerrey, E. W., on Priming Paints for Light Alloys, 91
Skinner, H. E.,on Merchant-Ship Subdivision, 376
Slag. See Metallurgy
Slamming on Ships, Causes and Prevention, 582 Slater, Dr. I. G., on Marine Boiler Deterioration, 135
Sleepers, Reinforced-Concrete, Pre-Stressed Manufacture of, 138*
Sloy, Loch, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 135,’ 545 Smail, Principal J. C.,on Connection of J. Watt with Heriot-Watt College, 111
Smeed, Dr. R. J., on Research on Road Safety and Traffic Flow, 325
Smelting Furnaces. See Furnaces
Smith, Prof. A. J., on Problems in Bronze Foundry Practice, 557
Smith, B. O., on Electrical Pressure Meter for Open-Hearth Furnace, 448
Smith, E. A., the Late, 375
Smith, Eng.-Capt. E. C., on “ Steam Officers,” 485
Smith, T., and Sons (Rodley), Ltd., Lorry- Mounted Crane, 386*
Smoke Abatement for Power Stations, 569
— Discharge from Chimneys, Investigations
on, 521
Societies, Classification, and Aluminium Alloys, 384
— Technical and Scientific. See Institutions
— Trade. See Lafiour ; Labour Notes ; PARA
GRAPH INDEX
Sodium Benzoate as Corrosion Inhibitor, 211
Soil, Dynamic Principles of Machine Foundations, 351, 373. See LETTER, 544
— Mechanics in Engineering Practice (Review),
50. See LETTER, 208
Fundamentals of (Review), 75
— Stabilising Machine, Single-Pass (Hamisch-
feger Corporation), 114*
Soot Collectors, S.S. “ Caronia,” 106*
Sopwith, Dr. D. G., on Distribution of Load in Screw Threads, 63
Sound Insulation, Cavity Party Walls for, Report on, 161
South Africa Electricity Supply Commission, Twenty-Five Years’ Work of, 62
— America, Engineering and Trade Notesfrom,
126, 487
— Kensington, Science Museum, Exhibition
for Blind, 567
—- Wales, Abbey Steel Works, Construction of, 112 ; All-Welded Plate Girder for, 185*; All-Welded Structures at, 367
Industrial Developments in, 210
Institute of Engineers, Presidential Address by C. T. Allen on Young Engineers in South Wales, 112
Rogerstone Aluminium Works, 125
Trunk Road in, 162*
— West, Notes from, 11, 34, 59, 83, 107, 131,
155.179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Yorkshire, Notes from, 11, 34, 59, 83, 107,
131.155.179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Southampton, Fawley Petroleum Refinery, 552 Southend-on-Sea Pier, Electric Trains on, 379* Space Travel by Rockets (Review), 316 Specifications, Standard. See Standards; Standardisation
Spectrographic Determination of Copper in Lead Alloys, 287
Spectrometer, Infra-Red, Double-Beam (Sir H. Grubb, Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 315*
— Mass, Limited-Range (Metropolitan-Vickers
Electrical Co., Ltd.), 314
Spectroscopic Light Sources, Symposium on (Review), 484
Steamships. See Ships; Steamers ; Warships Steel, Alloy, Structure of Carbides in, 475
— Bridges, Simply-Supported, Code of Prac
tice for, 517
— Case-Hardening of. See Heat Treatment
under Metallurgy
— Castings, Chromium-Molybdenum, Specifica
tion, 298
— ?—and Forgings, Non-Destructive Testing
of, 39
Steel Company of Wales, Ltd., Construction of Abbey and Margam Steelworks, 112; All- Welded Plate Girder for, 185*; All- Welded Structures at, 367
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Economy Committee, Interim Report, 206
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue under Tests (Ma
terials)
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Frames, Behaviour in Plastic Range, 38 for Portable Hangar for Aero-Engine
Maintenance, 457*
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Gases and Non-Metallic Inclusions in, Re
port on, 448
— Girders, Frey Bridge over River Havel, 392*
— Hardened and Stabilised, Internal Stresses
in, 122*
— Heat Treatment of. See Heat Treatment
under MeZaZZurgy
— *’ Hy-Tuf,” Properties of (Crucible Steel
Co. of America), 431
— and Iron, Thermodynamics of Oxides in, 474
— Manufacture. See MeZaZZurgy
— Microstructure of. See Microphotographs
— Mild, Brittle Fracture of, 16. See LETTERS,
209, 304, 352, 424, 472, 520, 568
— Plates, Brittle Fracture in, 289*
— Nickel in, Analysis of. Specification, 58
— Rails. See Rails
— Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
— Ropes. See Wire Ropes
— Saving by Welding, 367
— Silicon-Chromium, Large Crystal Grain Size
in, 474
— Stainless, Cladding for Dam Gates, 348 Sheet and Strip, Specification, 394
— Stress Distribution in. See Stress; Tests
(Materials)
— Supplies and Engineering Industries, 4, 28,
51, 76, 99,123,148,172,196, 220, 245, 269. See LETTERS, 136, 280
— Tests of. See Tests (Materials)
— for Tubes, Slag Control in Manufacture of,
294, 343
— Works. See Works
Steelwork, Riveted and Welded, Comparative Costs of, 529
— Structural, Increased Stresses in as Economy
Measure, 206
Load Factors for, 38
Steering, Sea Speeds and Hull Form, 472 Stelcon (Industrial Floors), Ltd., Reinforced-
Concrete Wall Unit, 463*
Stelfox, S. H., on University Degree in Mechanical Engineering, 508
Stephenson, R., and Hawthorns, Ltd., 330-b.h.p. Diesel-Engined Shunting Locomotive, 451*
Stereo-Mapping Equipment, Multiplex (Barr and Stroud, Ltd.), 337*
Sterland, E. G., on Partial-Load Characteristics of Marine Gas Turbines, 280. See LETTER, 424
Stevenson, W. W., on Gases and Non-Metallic Inclusions in Steel, 448
Stewart and Lloyds, Ltd., Open-Hearth Furnace Plant at Clydesdale Steelworks, 127* ;
Slag Control in Manufacture of Tube Steel, 294, 343
Stokers, Mechanical, Underfeed, Report on
Fuels for, 259
Stone, G. D., the Late, 286
— Thermic Drilling of, 89*. See Addendum,
114
Strain Gauge. See Gauge
— in Reinforced Concrete, Determination of,
553*
— See also Stress
Stratstone, Ltd., “Essex” Omnibus-Washing Machine, 92
Strength of Materials. See Stress and Tests
(Materials)
Streets. See Roads
— Railway. See Tramways
Stress, Alternating and Combined. See Fatigue under Tests (-Materials)
— in Aluminium-Alloy Ship, 449
— and Brittle Fracture in Ship Plates, 289*
— and Brittle Fracture in Mild Steel, 16. See
LETTERS, 209, 304, 352, 424, 472, 520; 568
— Buckling, in Deck Plating, 426
— Increased, in Structural Steelwork as Eco
nomy Measure, 206
— Internal, in Hardened and Stabilised Steel,
122*
— in Propeller Shafts, Investigations on, 497
— Repetitions. See Fatigue under Teste (.Ma
terials)
— in Reversible Propellers, 237
— in Screw Threads, 63
— in Simply-Supported Steel Bridges, 517
— and Strain in Solids, Measurement of (Re
view), 4
— Tensile, in Fillets of Loaded Projections, 63
— in Turbine Rotors of Disc Construction, 121*
— in Welded Road Bridges, New South Wales,
530
Stretch-Forming of Light Alleys in Aircraft Construction, 358*
Strip-Forming Machine (Heenan and FroUde, Ltd.), 463*
— Stainless-Steel, Specification, 394
Structural Engineers, Institution of, Thermic
Drilling of Concrete and Stone, by M. Lebrun, 89*. See Addendum, 114; Construction of New House of Commons, by Dr. Oscar Faber, 208; Code of Practice for Simply-Supported Steel Bridges, 517
— and Mechanical Development Engineers,
Ltd., Aluminium-Alloy Structures, 501*
— Steelwork. See Steelwork Structures, Engineering, Brickwork in, 233
— Reinforced-Concrete. See Concrete, Rein
forced
Structures Subject to Repeated Loads, Investigations of, 521
— Use of Aluminium Alloys in, 501*
— Welded, by S. M. Reisser, 367
Struts. See CoZumns
Stud Welding, Electric, Nelson System of, 33 Students, Technical, International Association for Exchange, 39
Stuffing Box, Piston Rod, for Marine Diesel Engines, 455*
Subdivision of Ships. See WaZer-TigAZ Substation, Layout of, 115
— Mining, Portable (General Electric Co., Ltd.)
389*
— for Netherlands Electrified Railways, 247 Sulphur Oxide Discharge from Chimneys, 254.
See LETTER, 304
Sulphuric Acid, Methods of Manufacture, 520, 597*
Superheaters, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 368*
— in Royal Navy, 189*
Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of, Annual Dinner, 327 ; Nuclear Reactors as Possible Power Source, by G. C. J. Dalton, 391
Supply, Ministry of, and Engineering Industries, 4, 28, 51, 76, 99, 123, 148, 172; 196, 220, 245, 269. See LETTERS, 136, 280; Steel Economy Campaign, 206; Industrial Developments in South Wales, 210; Plutonium Production at Harwell, 231; Industrial Gas-Turbine Development Committee, 327; Work of Experimental Bridging Establishment on Bailey Bridge 577* ; Amersham Radiochemical Centre, Supply of Gamma Rays for Industry, 591
Surface Grinding Machine. See Grinding under Machine Tools
— Measuring Instruments (Taylor, Taylor &
Hobson, Ltd.), 523*
— Metal, Impact Through Liquid Layers, 145*
— Metallic, Sliding, Seizure of, 325 Survey, Economic, for 1949, 255, 278
— of River Thames Estuary, 543
Sutton, Dr. H., on Metallurgical Problems of Importance to Aircraft, 357*
Switchgear, Circuit-Breaker, Air-Insulated Metalclad (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 389* Breaker, High-Voltage Air Blast, Design of, 93
Breaker; 3,500-MVA 275-kV OU (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 413*
Breaker, 132-kV Small Oil-Volume (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 396*
Breaker Test Conditions, Severity of, 342
— Design for, Outdoor and Indoor Substations,
115
— Electrical Sequence Interlocking Switch of
Railway Signals; 41*
— German, Manufacture of, 470
— Investigations by British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, 365
— Switch, Reversing, High-Tension (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 389*
— for Systems of 200-kV and Above, 569, 593
Sydney University, Tests of Model Columns for Hawkesbury River Bridge, 530*
Synchroscope, Four-Engine (Kelvin, Bottom- ley and Baird, Ltd.), 315*

TABOR, Dr. D., on Collisions Through Liquid Layers, 145* ; on Seizure of Metals, 325
“Talysurf” Surface-Measuring Instruments, 523*
Tank, Acid, Rubber Linings for, 271
— Experiments, Model Tests on Ship Slamming, 582
— Experimental, Gothenburg, Tests of Reversible Propellers, 238
Model Experiments on Collision Between S.S. “ Queen Mary ” and H.M.S. “ Curacoa,” 401
Propeller Tests in, Study of, 472
— Ships; Motor. See Motorships
— Steamers. See Steamers
— Wagons, Road and Rail, for Acids and
Caustic Liquors, 520, 599*
Tape for Magnetic Recorders, 264'
Tar, Coal, Liquid Fuels, Specification, 58
— Coated Macadam Industries, Federation;
Annual Luncheon, 496
Tariff, Electricity, 303
for North Scotland; 31
Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd., Surface-Measuring Instruments, 523*
Teaching. See Education
Technical College and Education. See Education
— and Scientific Periodicals, Survey of, 541
— Societies. See Institutions and PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Teepol for Demulsification of Oil and Water Mixtures, 362*
Telecommunications Industry, Exhibition of Components for, 210
— Pease Readership in, Imperial College, Lon
don, 532
Telegraphy, Wireless, Bill for, 111
See also Valves, Radio ; Radar ; Radiot Television; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Telephony, Wireless. See Valves, Radio; Radar; Radio; Television; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Telescope, Newton, Gift of Pyrex-Glass Disc for, 490, 534
Television Equipment, Cinema, Film of, Showing Development, 337
— Industry, Exhibition of Components for, 210 Position and Prospects, 245
— Principles and Equipment of, 159
Temperature Controller for Plastic Moulds (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 386
— Entropy Chart for Air, 375
Tensile Tests. See Tests (Materials)
Ter Linden, Prof. A. J., on Cyclone Dust Collectors, 165.* See III
TernaryAlloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Terrestrial Magnetism. See Magnetism
Terrington, J. S., on Layout of Integrated Steelworks in Great Britain, 499
Tests, Accelerated Weathering, of Paints, 285*
— Aeronautical. See Aeronautics
— Bed for Internal-Combustion Engines (Esso European Laboratories), 407*
— Conditions of Circuit-Breakers, Severity of, 342
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Load, of 50-ft. Aluminium Roof Truss, 504*

Tests (Materials) :

Fatigue Tests of Cast Iron Crankshafts, 375 Friction Tests of Brake-Lining Materials, 193*, 217*
Hardness Tests, Rockwell and Diamond Pyramid, of Hard Metal Prepared by Tungsten Powders; 119
Mechanical Tests of Aluminium Alloys, 357 of Bronze Castings, 558
of “ Hy-Tuf” Steel, 431
Stresses in Materials and Structures. See Stress
Tensile Tests, Notched, of Ship-Plate Material 289
Testing, Non-Destructive, of Steel Castings, and Forgings, 39
Tests of Model Columns for Hawkesbury River Bridge, 530*
— for Priming Paints for Light Alloys, 91
— Propeller, Study of Methodical Series of, 472
— “ Silal ” Heat-Resisting Cast Iron, 101
— Thermic Drilling of Concrete and Stone (M, Semet and Co., Ltd.), 89*. See Addendum 114
— on Wire Ropes for Bailey Bridge, 580*
Testing Ground, Automobile, Lindley Airfield,
424
— Laboratory. See National Physical
— Machines for Brake-Lining Materials (Ferodo Ltd.), 194, 218*
— Materials, American Society for, Corrosion
Tests of Aluminium Alloys, 501
— Non-Destructive, of Steel Castings and
Forgings, 39
— Station for Transmission-Line Towers,
Hereford (Painter Brothers, Ltd.), 488*
— Tower for Helicopter Rotors, 584*
— Workability of Concrete, Wigmore Appara
tus for, 283*
— See also Tests (Materials); Trials Text-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX Textile Machinery Components, Standardisation of, 16
Industry, Position and Prospects, 220
Thames, River, Survey of Estuary, 543 Wall on South Bank, London, 63
Thermal Efficiency of Diesel Engines, 280 of Heat Engines, 309, 333*, 381, 405* of Power Stations, 1947, 279
Rise of, in British Power Stations, 519 of Steam and Air-Turbine Generating Plants, 49*
— Expansion of Electro-Deposited Chromium,
Investigations on, 241*, 265*
— Treatment, Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
“ Thermax ’’-Type Boiler for Buckingham Palace (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 274
Thermodynamics (Review), 196
— Energy charts for Dissociated Gas, 73*, 97*
— Founding of, by Joule and Others in 1849,565
— of Oxidesin Iron and Steel Manufacture, 474
Thom, R., Work on Water Filtration, 45 Thomas, M. H., on Industrial Design and
Engineering Industries, 126
Thomas, Sir P., Trunk Road in South Wales, 162*
Thompson, D. B., on Flow of Metal in Tube Extrusion, 355
Thornton Research Centre, Effect of Heat on Electro-Deposited Chromium, 241*, 265* ; Delivery-Rate Analyser for Diesel-Engine Injection Systems, 307*
Thomycroft, J. I., and Co., Ltd., Investigations on Emulsions of Oil Fuel and Water, 361*
Thorpe’s Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Vol. IX (Review), 364
Threads, Screw. See Screw
Three-Bridges Station, Control Panel for Railway-Signalling Circuits, 331*
Thring, M. W., on Influence of Heat Transfer on Open-Hearth Furnace Charging Rate, 498
Tickell, Major-Gen. Siir E., on Engineers in Land Warfare, 279
Tilbury Radar Station, 72
Timber Engineers’ Handbook (Review), 123
— Piers for Bailey Bridge Over Whiteadder
Water, 152*. See ErraZwwi, 209
— Piling, Frey Bridge Over River Havel, 392*
— Restriction for Boat Building, Relaxation
of, 183
Timing Equipment for Testing Watches (Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd.), 340
Tin Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Research Institute, Annual Report, 583 Tolerances in Machine Work. See Gauges Tool, Employment of Mathematics as a, by
Engineers, 39
— Grinder. See Grinding under Machine Tools
— Machine. See Machine Tools
Toothed Gear. See Gear; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
Topography (Review); 581 Torpedo Boats and Destroyers. See IFars/nps Torque Meters. See Torsionmeters
— in Shafts, Measurement of, 481*, 505*
Torr Achilty-Glascarnoch-Luichart Hydro- Electric Scheme; 87
Torsionmeters, Types and Descriptions of, 481*, 505*
Tower Base of Bailey Bridge, 579*
— Cooling for Circulating Water, 21*. See
Erratum, 55. See LETTERS, 64, 88
Developments in, 335
— Lattice-Steel, 200-ft., for Radio Communication (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 455
— Testing, for Helicopter Rotors, 584*
— Transmission-Line, Testing Station for (Painter Brothers, Ltd.), 488*
Towers, H., the Late, 509
Towler, F. H., on Reciprocating Seals, 183 Town Gas. See Gas
Townend, Dr. D. T. A., on Fuel Research, 480.
Trackless Trolley System, Road Traction. See . Trolley Omnibus
Traction, Electric. See Railways; Trolley ’Bus; Tramways
Tractor, Agricultural, Crawler-Type,> 40-h.p. Diesel (J. Fowler and Co. (Leeds) Ltd.), 102*
Specification of Details, 250
— -— Statistics of Production, 51, 271, 349 Trade Disputes. See Labour and Trade
Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Economic Survey for 1949, 255, 278
— Electrical Engineering, Heavy Plant, 500
— Engineering and Allied Industries, 4, 28,
51, 76, 99, 123, 148, 172, 196, 220, 245, 269. See LETTERS, 136, 280
— Exhibition. See Exhibition
— Export, Aircraft, 172
— — Boiler Plant, 99. See LETTER, 280
— — Electrical Machinery, 99. See LETTER,
280
and Import, Agricultural Machinery, 51, 271, 349
and Import, South American, 126, 487 and Import, Machine-Tool, 76. See LETTER, 136
Light Electrical Apparatus, 246 Locomotive and Rolling Stock, 123
— — Marine Engineering, 196
— — Metal Products, 4
— — Mining Machinery, 99. See LETTER,
280
Motor-Vehicle, 4,148
— -- Scientific Instrument, 269
— — Shipbuilding, 196
— — Textile Machinery, 220
— Import, Petroleum, 17
— — and Export, Agricultural Machinery, 51,
271, 349
— — and Export, South American, 126, 487
— Unions. See Trade Societies in PARAGRAPH
INDEX
-— United Kingdom, with Canada, Survey of, 134, 163
Traffic, Road, Research on Control, 592
— Flow and Road Safety, Problems of, 326 Train, Electric, Southend-on-Sea Pier, 379*
— “ Royal Scot,” Non-Stop Run with Diesel-
Electric Locomotives, 543
— See also Railway Training. See Education
Tramways, London, Replacement of by Omnibuses, 231
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Transatlantic Steam Navigation, Origin of,
1819-33, 40, 54
Transformer, 100-MVA, 220-kV (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 151
— Accident with, 277
— Design and Layout for Substations, 115
— Effect of Overloads on Life of, 255
— Power, Surge Voltage Tests of, 521
— Small-Power, for Aircraft, 103
— for Systems of 200-kV and Above, 569, 593,
594
Transients and Pulses in Communication Circuits (Review), 507
Transistor (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 340
Transmission, Dynamometer. See Torsionmeter
— Gear. See Gear; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
— of Power. See Marine Propulsion ; Poyier
Transmission
Transport, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— in Argentina, 126
— in Brazil, 127
— Institute of, Brancker Lecture on Influence
of Records on Air Transport, by Major R. H. Mayo, 159 ; Formation of Victorian Section, Australia, 515
— Ministry of, Engineering Association of,
Gas Turbines for Road Transport, 63; Trunk Roadin South Wales, 162* ; Drewry Merchant-Navy Scholarships, 283 ; International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, 353 ; Road Plan for Lancashire, 590
— Motor. See Road
— Railway. See Railway
— Road, Gas Turbines for, 63
— — See Road
Transverse Bulkheads. See Water-Tight Subdivision
Travel,'Space, by Rockets (Review), 316 Travelling Crane. See Crane
Trdfileries et Laminoirs du Havre, 220-kV
Impregnated Pressure Cable, 288 Trent and Mersey Canal Railway, 573* Trial Trips and Launches, 10, 34, 67, 82, 106,
130,154,178, 202, 226, 250, 284, 298, 322, 360, 370, 404, 432, 452, 466, 490, 514, 538, 562
— See also Tests
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines, Steam Trolley Omnibus Control Unit (Metropolitan-
Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 409* Rheostat Braking for (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 240*
Trucks, Railway. See Wagons Truss, Welded, for Road Bridges in New South
Wales, 529* Tube, Boiler, Corrosion and Deterioration, 135
— Condenser, Improvements in, 335
— Copper, Seamless, Specification, 106
— Drawbench for, Triple-Draw Push-Pointing
(Head Wrightson Machine Co., Ltd.), 512*
— Extrusion, Flow of Metal in, 355
— Railways. See Underground Railways;
London Transport Executive
— See also Pipes
Tubular Coolers for Circulating Water; 21*,.
See Erratum, 55. See LESTERS, 64, 88 Tummel-Gary Hydro-Electric Scheme, 545 Tungsten and Tungsten-Carbide Powders, Measurement of Grain Size in, 117*, 425
Tuning Fork, Valve-Maintained (Muirhead and Co., Ltd.), 339*
Tunnel, Watford, British Railways; Renewal of Track in; 85
Turbidimeter for Particle-Size Determination, 117*
Turbine, Gas; Application of, 137
Turbine, Gas, Developments Since 1917, 309, 333, 381, 405
Developments During 1939-45 in Germany, Report on, 293
Future Applications of, 202
Industrial, Development Committee, 327 for Locomotives, 31*, 94
• Marine, CycleB, Partial-Load Characteristics of, 280. See LETTER, 424
in Motor Gun Boat, 87,189, 214*
for Road Transport, 63
X-Ray Examination of Blades (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 79
— Hot-Air, Escher Wyss, Development of, 381
— Hydraulic. See Power Plant
— Mercury-Vapour, Development of, 381
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Steam, 50-kW (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.),
560*
and Air, for Generating Plants, 49* Blading for. See BZading'
Parsons-Type Geared, S.S. “ Caronia,” 15, 81*, 104*, 128*
— — Developments Since 1917, 309, 333*, 381,
405
Marine, Geared. See Marine Propulsion Production of, 100. See LETTER, 280 Stresses in Rotors of Disc Construction 121*
Use of Higher Temperatures in, 137
— — See also Twrfeo-Generators
— Steamers. See Steamers ; Warships Turbo-Blowers for Diesel Engines (D. Napier &
Son, Ltd.), 43*
— Generators, 1,100-kW, S.S. “ Caronia,” 128* Developments Since 1917, 309, 313*
— — German, Manufacture of, 470
50-kW for Instructional Purposes (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 560*
— — 700-kW, S.S. “ Magdalena,” 369
Production of, 100. See LETTER, 280
Railway Wagon for Transporting Stators of, 200*
Turner, P. G., on. Melting and Casting of Nickel Silver, 378. See 402
Turner Brothers (Birmingham), Ltd., Saw- Tooth Notching Machine, 411*
Turning. See Machine Tools
Twist-Drill Grinder. See Grinding Machine under AfacAine Tools

UGANDA, Owen Falls Hydro-Electric Scheme, 496
Underfeed Stoker Manufacturers’ Association,
Report on Fuels for Underfeed Stokers, 259
Underground Railway, London, Light-Weight
Rolling Stock, 78; Development Schemes, 231; Waterloo and Charing Cross Stations, Improvements at, 303 ; Carriage for, 308
—See also London Transport Executive Unemployment. See La&our
Union Castle Liner “ Dunnottar Castle,” Reconditioning of, 143
— Trade. See Labour and Trade Societies in
PARAGRAPH INDEX
United Kingdom, Chamber of Shipping of, Annual Report, 183
— Nations Economic Commission for Europe,
Austrian Hydro-Electric Schemes, 87
Scientific Conference on Conservation and
Utilisation of Resources, Objectives, 423
— States, Agricultural Electrification in, 535
— — Agricultural Tractors in, Statistics, 349
— — Army Engineers Corps, Stainless-Steel
Clad Dam Gates, 348
Bronze Foundry Practice in, 557
— — and Canada, Use of Electric Power in, 422
— — Engineering Educationin, Reporton, 542 Engineering Manufacturing Methods in,
159
— — Industrial Apprenticeship in, 160
Locomotive Building in, 390
— —- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Investigations by, 525*, 549*
— — National Bureau of Standards, Report on
Unified Screw-Thread Standards, 65* Navy. See United States under TFarsAiys Potomac River Basin Commission, Work of, 158
— — Railways. See Railways
— — Synthetic Oil Research in, 17
Visits of Productivity Teams to; 413, 421 See also America
University College, London, Combustion in Spark-Ignition and Compression-Ignition Engines, by Prof. Ir. J. J. Broeze, 207
— Columbia, New York, Trends in Engineering
Education (Review), 98
— Durham, Power-Gas Corporation Scholar
ships, 379
— Glasgow, Energy Charts for Dissociated
Gas, 73*, 97*
— Leeds, Fuel Researches at, Report on, 447
— Michigan, Gift of Pyrex-Glass Disc for New
ton Telescope, 490, 534; Researches in Bronze Castings, 558
— Role in Work of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 523
— Sydney, Tests of Model Columns for Hawkesbury River Bridge, 530*
— See also Education
Uranium, Use in Nuclear Reactors, 391

VACUUM-ASSISTED Hydraulic Brakes for
Commercial Vehicles, 11
— Cooling for Circulating Water, 21*. See
Erratum, 55. See LETTERS, 64, 88
Valve, Ball, Brass, Effect of Chlorinated Water on, 302
— Exhaust, Silicon-Chromium Steel, Grain
Size in, 474
Valve, Fuel, for Marine Diesel Engines, 455*
— Radio, Water-Cooling versus Air-Cooling
for, 258
— and Valve Gear. See also Engines
— Wedge-Gate, for Petroleum, Specification,
418
Van Lessen, H. J., on Electric and Diesel-Electric Traction on Netherlands Railways, 247
Van Nostrand, D., Co., Centenary of Book Publishing (Review), 460
Varley, Major P. C., on Recrystallisation of Boiled Aluminium, 424
Vedeler, Prof. G., on Brittle Fracture in Ship Plates, 289*
Vehicles, Passenger, Door-Operating Equipment for (C.A.V., Ltd.), 463
Ventilating and Heating Engineers, Institution of. See Eeating
Ventilation and Domestic Heating, Efficiency of and Research on, 199
— and High Air Temperatures, Physiological
Effects of, 229
Venturi Tubes for Testing Tunnels for Aircraft Propellers, 248*
Vernon, Dr. W. H. J., on Research On Corrosion, 211
Vessels, Chemical, Rubber Linings for, 271
Vevers, E. G., on Brickwork in Engineering Structures, 233
Viaduct, Railway, Braidhurst, Repairs to, 534
— See also Bridges
Vibration in Machine Foundations and Ground, 351, 373. See LETTER, 544
— and Noise from Marine Diesel Engines, 478 from Power Station Plant, Reduction of,
459*
— Torsional, and Crankshaft Damping, 205
See LETTER, 256
and Propeller-Shaft Failures, 497
Vibrator, Concrete (C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd.), 463
Vibrometer, Reed (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 297
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Reconditioning of
S.S. “ Queen of Bermuda,” 122
Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Co., Work of, 62
— Laundry versus Newman Industries, Ltd.,
Court Decision in, 566
Vierendeel Girder Analysis, 25*
Vivian, A. C., on Brittle Fracture of Mild-Steel Plates, 16, 352, 424, 520. See LETTERS, 209, 304, 472, 568. See 289*
Voltage-Regulating System, Brookhirst-Pearson (Brookhirst Switchgear, Ltd.), 215*

WADDINGTON, E. S., on Present Status of Engineers, 136
Waddington, F. G., the Late, 227
Waddington, R. H., on Production of Refined Copper Shapes, 356. See 378, 402
Wages. See Labour ; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Wageningen Tank, Propeller Tests in, 472
Wagner, H. W., on Atmospheric Pollution, 304.
See 254
Wagons, Motor. See Motor Vehicles
— Railway, for British Railways, Tendencies in
Design of, 95*
— — British, Statistics of, 211
Glass-Carrying, 274
— — Production of, 123
Standardisation of, 20
for Transporting Stators of TurboAlternator, 200*
— Road and Rail, Hydrochloric-Acid Tank,
520, 599*
Wales, South, Steelworks Construction at Port Talbot, 112 ; Trunk Road in, 162* ; All- Welded Plate Grider for Abbey Steel Works, 185* ; Industrial Developments in, 210: All-Welded Structures at Abbey Steelworks, 367
Wall, Facing, Brick, of Roade Cutting, Repairs to, 187
— Load-Bearing, Stuctural Recommenda
tions, Code of Practice for, 226
— Party, Cavity, for Sound Insulation, Report
on, 161
— Retaining, Reinforced-Concrete Unit (Stel-
con (Industrial Floors), Ltd.), 463*
— on South Bank of River Thames, London, 63 Wall, Dr. T. F., on Harmonic Analysis, 64* Wallis, P. G., on Electrical Contractor and His
Service to Public, 594
War Damage Repairs in the Netherlands, 535
Warder, S. B., 1,470-h.p. Mixed-Traffic Electric Locomotive, 234*
Warehouse, Reinforced-Concrete, at Gladstone Docks, Liverpool, 222*
Warfare, Land, the Royal Engineer in, 279
— Naval. See Warships
— Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics

Warships :

Admiralty Investigation on Marine Boiler Deterioration, 135
Aviation, Naval. See Aeronautics German Gas-Turbine Developments, 1939 to 1945, for Torpedo Boat, 293
— Navy, Machinery Developments in, 190 H.M. Battleship “ Queen Elizabeth,” Machinery Conversion in, 87,189, 213
— Cruiser “ Curacoa ” and S.S. “ Queen Mary,” Model Investigation of Collision Between, 401
— Destroyer “Acheron,” Machinery of, 87, 190
— Motor Gun Boat 2009, Gas Turbines of, 214*
— Ship " Rhadamanthus,” 1832, Crossing of Atlantic by, 54
— Steam Vessels in 1849, 485
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics
— Engineers, American Society of, 60 Years’ Publication of Journal, 39
— Engineering Progress, 1922-49, 87, 188*, 213*
Warships—continued.
Naval Officers and Introduction of Steam, 485
— Shipbuilding, Current Activities, 328 Navy Estimates, Debate on, 230 United States Navy, Machinery Developments in, 190
Navy, Portable Hangar for AeroEngine Maintenance, 457*
See also JVamZ in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Washers for Aircraft Purposes, Specification, 466
Washing Machine, Omnibus, “ Essex ’’(Stratstone, Ltd.), 92
Washington Society of Engineers, Work of Atomic Energy Commission, 295
Waste-Heat Recovery from Diesel Engines, 280 Recovery from Industrial Furnaces (Review), 268
— Industrial, Work of Water-Pollution Research Board, 302
Watches and Clocks, Production of, 269
Timing Equipment for Testing (Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd.), 340
— Escapements (Review), 555
Water, Chlorinated, Effect on Brass Ball Valves, 302
— Circulating, Cooling of, 21*. See Erratum,
55. See LETTERS, 64, 88
— Cooling for High-Power Radio Valves, 258
— Engineers, Institution of, Presidential Ad
dress by J. N. Wood on Waterworks Developments, 547
—- Filters. See Filters
— Heaters. See also Feed Heaters
— Level-Recorder (Gent and Co., Ltd.), 438*
— Mains, Cast-Iron, Microbiological Corrosion
of, 211, 518
— — Corrosion of, Influence of Development
in Plastics, 547
— and Oil Fuel, Emulsions of, Formation and
Properties of, 361*
— Pollution of Potomac River, 158
Research Board, Work of, 302
— — Research Laboratory, Survey of Thames
Estuary, 543
— Power in Canada, Potential, Statistics, 184
— — See also Hydraulic; Power Plant; Power,
Water ; Turbine, Hydraulic
— Supply, Public, History of, 18, 44*
— — See also Waterworks
— Tanks. See Tanks
— Tight Subdivision of Merchant Ships, 376
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Power Plant
— Wheels. See Power Plant
Waterloo Underground Station, Escalators, 303 Waterways. See Rivers; Canals
Waterworks, Developments of, 547
— Heavy-Oil Engines in, Working Costs of, 85.
See LETTER, 160
— See also Water Supply and PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Watford Tunnel, British Railways, Renewal of Track in, 185
Watt International Medal, Award to Dr. F. Ljungstrom, 87, 423
Watt, James, Connection with Heriot-Watt College, 111
— Lecture on Britain’s Energy—A New Con
ception, 137,151
Watts’s Prize for Improvement of Crew’s Accommodation in Ships, 187
Wattmeter. See Electric
Vfe&r, Properties of Electro-Deposited Chromium, Investigations on, 241, 265*
Weather-ometer for Accelerated Tests of Paints (Atlas Electric Devices Co.), 285*
Weaving Machinery, Production of, 220 Weighing, Industrial (Review), 3
Weights and Measures, Chinese, and Metric System, 400. See LETTER, 448
Weir, G. and J., Ltd., Feed-Water System, S.S. “Magdalena,” 368
Weld, Aluminium-Alloy, Brittleness in, 424 Welded, as Distinct from Riveted, Structures by S. M. Reisser, 367
Welding of Aluminium and Its Alloys, 317, 341
— Contact Arc, 142*
-— in Crewe Locomotive Workshop Practice, 259
— Economics of, Conference on, 159
— Electric, Stud, Nelson System, 33
— Equipment, Argon-Arc, for Aluminium
(British Oxygen Co., Ltd.), 413
— in General and Constructional Engineering,
by W. S. Atkins, 367
— Institute of, Conference on Economics of
Welding, Programme, 159; Conference on Welding as Aid to Saving of Steel and Man Power, 367
— of Light Alloys in Aircraft Construction,
357*
— Machine, Seam, 100-kVA Three-Phase
(Sciaky Electric Welding Machines, Ltd.). 413*
— Practice for Road Bridges in New South
Wales, 529*
•— Research Association, British, Conference on Economics of Welding, Programme, 159; Conference on Welding as Aid to Saving of Steel and Man Power, 367
?— Set, 67-h.p. Petrol-Electric (Lincoln Electric Co. Ltd.), 312*
— in Shipbuilding, Current Research, 328 Wellman Smith Owen Engineering Corporation,
Ltd., Open-Hearth Furnaces at Clydesdale Steelworks, 127*
Wembley, 200-ft. Tower for Radio Communication at, 455
Wessex Industrial (Poole), Ltd., 1-h.p. Petrol Industrial Truck, 297*
West, Allen, and Co., Ltd., Repeater Fuse for Rural Electrical Circuits, 442
West, Dr. E. G., on Welding of Aluminium and Its Alloys, 317, 341
— of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute. See
Iron and Steel
Western Australia, Water-Supply Improvements, 535
Westinghouse Company of America, Magnetic-
Coupled Torsionmeter, 483*
Weston, Dr. J. C., on Efficiency of House Heating, 199
Westwood, J., and Co., Ltd., Railway-Bridge Reconstruction, 115*
Wheels, Gear. See GearingMarine Propulsion
— Grinding. See Grinding under Afoeftinc
Tools
— Resilient, for Electric Trains, Southend
Pier, 379*
Whibley, R. J. M., the Late, 534
White, H. C., on Conversion to Oil Firing of
Open-Hearth Furnaces, 427
White, W. H., on Tests of “Silal” Heat-
Resisting Cast Iron, 101
— Metal. See Alloys under Metallurgy .Whiteadder Water, Northumberland, Bailey
Bridge Over, 152*. See Erratum, 209 Whitemoor Marshalling Yard, Radio Control of Traffic at, 306
Whitworth Society, Annual Dinner, 280;
Summer Meeting, Newcastle, 591
Wiggin, H., and Co., Ltd., Melting and Casting of Nickel Silver by, 378, 402; Monel-Metal Pickling Crates, 487
Wigmore, V. S., Concrete Consistometer, 283* Wilkins, R. J., on Research in Reinforced
Concrete, 553*
Williams, Dr. C. G., on Fuel Anti-Knock Requirements for Automobile Engines, 546 Williams, G. E, on Technical Literature (Review), 136. See 120
Williams, K. R., on Effect of Heat on Electro- Deposited Chromium, 241*, 265*
Williamson, J., on Water-Power Developments in Great Britain, 593
Willigen, Dr. P. C. van der, on Contact Arc- Welding, 142*
Wilson, R. W., on Effect of Heat on Electro- Deposited Chromium, 241*, 265*
Winch, G. T., on Measurement of Light and Colour, 199
Wind Power, Investigations by British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, 365
— Pressure on Railway Bridges, 517
— Tunnels. See Aeronautics
Wire Ropes for Bailey Suspension Bridge, 577*
— Steel, for Pre-Stressed Concrete, 181
— Winding, Electrical, Reels for, Specification,
154
Wiring Installations, Aluminium- and Zinc- Base Alloys for, 455
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
— Telephony. See Telephony
Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Co., Portable Hangar for Aero-Engine Maintenance, 457*
Wood, B., on Cooling of Circulating Water, 64.
See 21*. See LETTER, 88
Wood, J. N., on Waterworks Developments, 547 Woodrow, C. E., the Late, 419
Woodworking Machinery. See Afocftine Tools Woolrich, Prof. W. R., on Engineering Manufacturing Methods in United States, 159
Works :
Acton Works, London Transport Executive, Car-Body Shop at, 319
Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., Renfrew Works, 546
Bruce Peebles, Ltd., East Pilton Works, 545
Clydesdale Steelworks, Open-Hearth Furnaces at (Wellman Smith Owen Engineering Corporation, Ltd.), 127*
Ferranti, Ltd., Crewe Toll Works, 545
Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd., Kilmarnock Works, 546
Integrated Steelworks in Great Britain, Layout, 499
Thomcliffe Works, Sheffield, of Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd., Extensions, 523 Works, Ministry of, Steel Economy Campaign, 206; New House of Commons, 208; Heating Boilers for Buckingham Palace, 274; Pre-Stressed Concrete Exhibition 288; Report of Advisory Council on Building Research and Development, 513 ; Building Research by, 547
Workmen. See Labour
Workshops. See also Works; Machine Tools ?— Training. See Education
World Engineering Conference and Status of
British Engineers, 136
— Power Conference, Fourth, London, 15 ;
Statistical Year Book (Review), 157
— War II, History of Basic Metals Price
Control in (Review), 364
Wrecks. See Accidents
Wright, E., and London Water Supply, 44
— Lecture on The Aeronautical Research
Scene, 525*, 549* Wrigley Light-Weight Motor Truck, 297*
Wyatt, O. H., Negative Spring Mechanism, 522

X-RAYS and Crystals (Review), 172
— — Diffraction of, Optical Principles of (Review), 581
Examination of Gas-Turbine Blading (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 79
Xenon for Gas Arc Lamps, 140*

YARROW Boilers, S.S. “ Caronia,” 15,81,104*
Year Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
York Engineering Society, Trends in Engineering, by J. F. Petree, 186, 201

ZINC Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Oxide, Leaded, Specification, 58
— Spraying in Shipbuilding, 143

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