The Engineer 1925/08/28

1925 August 28th PDF

• Contents, p 217.

Main Subjects

• A Seven-Day Journal, p 205.
  • Profit-Sharing in the Engineering Trades - Walsall Locks and Cart Gear.
  • Glasgow Electricity Supply.
  • A New Marine Oil Engine - W. B. Smith Whaley.
  • Underground Railway Extensions.
  • Railway Accidents in France.
  • The Cunard Liner Carinthia.
  • The Restoration of the Houses of Parliament.
  • Aeronautical Research.
  • Naval Economies.

• British Association, (No. I), p 218 - p 219.
  • Professor Horace Lamb.

• Coal Dust Explosions in Mines, p 222.

• Editorial, p 217 - p 218.
  • Irrigation in Sudan.
  • The New Battleships.

• Fifty Years' Evolution in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, by Sir Archibald Denny, p 221 - p 222.
  • British Association.
  • Alexander Carnegie Kirk.
  • Robert Napier.
  • Walter Brock.
  • Charles Parsons.
  • Armstrong Whitworth.
  • Hawthorn, Leslie and Co.
  • Sir John Biles.
  • Werkspoor.
  • Barclay, Curle and Co.
  • James Weir.
  • R. E. Froude.

• Hydraulic Turbines for New Zealand, p 223 - p 224.
  • Gilbert Gilkes and Co.
  • Metropolitan-Vickers.

• Interference with Broadcast Reception by Oscillating Receivers, p 210.

• Launches and Trial Trips, p 230.
  • 'Nigerian; single-screw steamer by Barclay, Curle and Co tot he order of the African and Eastern Trade Corporation.
  • 'Bebington' vehicle ferry steamer by Cammell, Laird and Co to the order of the Birkenhead Corporation.
  • 'Lochgoil' motor vessel by Harland and Wolff to the order of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.

• Letters to the Editor, p 210.
  • 'Compound Locomotives' by Charles W. Dauncey.
  • 'The Webb Three-Cylinder Compound Locomotives: "Dreadnought" Class' by F. W. Brewer.
  • 'Early Bogie Locomotives and Valve Gears' by J. G. H. Warren.
  • 'Cupola Design.'
  • 'A Flexible Valve Gear' by C. F. Dendy Marshall.

• Main Line Railway Electrification, by Sir Philip Dawson and S. Parker Smith, (No. VIII - Austria), p 208 - p 210.
  • Austrian Federal Railways.
  • Vienna-Pressburg Railway.

• Obituary, p 214.
  • Sydney Walker Barnaby.

• Pacific Railway of Colombia - Eight-Coupled Locomotive, p 224. (Illustrated).
  • P. C. Dewhurst.
  • Kitson and Co.

• Rectifiers, (No. VI), p 220 - p 221.
  • H. D. Holler.
  • J. P. Schrodt.

• Sixty Years Ago, p 214.
  • SS Great Eastern.

• South African Engineering Notes, p 225.
  • Steel Pipe Contract for the Continent.
  • Big Railway Orders.
  • Huge Printing Press.
  • Prince and S. A. Enterprises.
  • Proposed New Railways.

• Test of a Beardmore-Blake Oil-Fired Boiler, p 224 - p 225.

• The British Steam Railway Locomotive from 1825 to 1924, by Ernest Leopold Ahrons, (No. XXXV), Period 1882-1889: Compound Locomotives, p 206 - p 207. (Illustrated).
  • London and North Western Railway.
  • North Eastern Railway.
  • Francis William Webb.
  • Great Eastern Railway.
  • T. W. Worsdell.
  • James Holden.
  • London and South Western Railway.

• The Frictional Resistance of Ships, by G. S. Baker, p 207 - p 208.
  • R. E. Froude.

• The Gezira Irrigation Scheme, p 211 - p 214 and p 216. (Illustrated).
  • Sennar Dam.
  • Coode, Fitzmaurice, Wilson, and Mitchell.
  • O. L. Prowde.
  • H. V. C. Johnstone.

• Wreck Statistics for 1924, p 222.
  • Lloyd's Register of Shipping.

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