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ABERDEEN University Engineering Department, Construction and Equipment, 299

Acid Tanks, Ingredients Used in Coating Interiors, 625

AERONAUTICS:

Aerial Surveys in Canada, 133

Aerodrome with Aviation School for Capital of Shansi Province, China, 709

Air Service Proposed between Kisumu, on Lake Victoria Nyanza and Khartum, 435

Airship Service to India, Base at Ismailia, 105

Aviation : Its Commercial Value by Timesaving, 299

Flying Boat for Mr. H. Vanderbilt, 681

Light Planes, Design of, and Engine Limits, 435

Navigraph, Apparatus for Steering, 573

R 36, 200ft. Mooring Mast for, at Ismailia, 517

Recorders for Aeroplanes, British and American Practice, 489

Royal Air Force Display, 473

Scholarship and Prize Awards by Air Ministry, 215

Seaplanes for Dutch Government, Napier Lion Engines, 105

Six and a-Half Days’ Airship Service between England and New Zealand, Commander Burney’s View, 489

Sweden, Manufacture of Aeroplanes in, 47

Two New Air Routes between Belfast and Great Britain, 133

Two Problems in Aeroplane Design, 299

United States Naval Seaplane Flight, Endurance Record, 517

Wright Aeroplane to Remain at Washington, 653

ALBERTA Main Highways Rapid Increase, 133

All-metal Roofs and Immunity from Lightning, 47

Alloy of Copper and Silicon, Resistance to Corrosion, 407

Alloys, Pyrophoric, Production of, Dr. M. F. Bugden, 47

Alluvial Platinum Fields Worked by Dredging, 461

Aluminium Alloys, Two New, 573

Aluminium Obtained by Hoope Electrolytical Process, 625

Aluminium as Protection of Metals Against High Temperature, 517

American Lead Pencils, 381

Ammonia, Synthetic, Plant for Manufacture by Claude Process, 161

Antimony and Bismuth, Imperial Institute Monographs, 189

Apprentices, Scholarships for, 523

Arsenic Output in Southern Rhodesia, 461

Asphalt Discovery in Manitoba, 133

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:

Association, British :

Annual Meeting, Date and Presidents, 585

Association, British Acetylene and Welding :

Fluxes, Need for Scientific Examination and Price Reduction, Professor Darling, 133

Association of Engineers, Manchester : New Process for Mild Stainless Steel Production, H. S. Primrose, 15

Association of Mining Electrical Engineers :

North of England Branch :

Pole-mounted Outdoor Sub-stations, A. Bannister, 327

Association, Women’s Electrical :

Three Lectures, Miss M. Partridge, 309

Institute, Iron and Steel :

Annual Meeting and Dinner, 145, 447 ;

Programme, 447

Autumn Meeting, 145

Institute of Marine Engineers :

Fuel Economy, E. W. L. Nicol, 299

Student Graduate Examination Passes, 143

Institute of Metals :

Journal of Institute, Lectures and Papers, 169

Numerous Elections of Members and Students, 47

Institute of Physics :

Annual General Meeting, Annual Report, Elections of Officers, 625

Institution of Automobile Engineers :

President and Vice-presidents Elected, 105

Institution of Chemical Engineers :

Annual Meeting at Leeds, 595

Industrial Water Supply and Stream

Pollution, Symposium on, 595

Library Being Formed for the Institution, 685

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Annual General Meeting, Election of Council, 585

Awards for Papers, 529

Association of London Students :

Forty-fourth Annual Dinner, 365

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

Annual Dinner, 227

Awards of Premiums for Papers, 557

Awards of Students’ Premiums, 696

Engraved Plate for Production of Presidential Certificate, Present from Institution of Gas Engineers, 133

Examination for Associate Membership, 69, 256

Faraday Medal Award, 145; and Presentation, 309,353

International Conference on Extra High-tension Supply Systems, 327

Model Form of General Conditions of Contract (Export), 724

Permanent Magnets in Theory and Practice, S. Evershed, 309

War Memorial Book, 501

Institution of Gas Engineers :

Election of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and also of the Lord Mayor of Manchester as Honorary Members, 227

Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers :

Summer Meetings, 696 ; Programme, 696 Institution, Junior, of Engineers :

Acceleration of Work, Speed versus Haste, Dr. Russell, 215

Annual Dinner, 541

Institution of Mechanical Engineers :

North-Western Branch :

Annual Dinner, 365

Institution of Mining Engineers :

Scholarship in Mining, Mavor and Coulson, Award, 337

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy :

Awards of Medal, Premium and Prizes, 473 Institution of Naval Architects :

Annual Meetings, Annual Dinner, Offers of Medal and Premium for Papers, 170

Awards of Gold Medal and Premium, 155

Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :

Limiting Possibilities in Steam Plants, Professors A. L. Mellanby and William Kerr, 327

ASSOCIATIONS. INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

Institution of Petroleum Technologists : Election of President and Vice-presidents, 221

Institution, Royal :

Annual Meeting, Reports, Election of Officers, 532

Benzene Centenary Celebration, “ Faraday as a Chemist,” 668

General Meetings and Elections, 170, 283, 447, 557, 668

Programme of Lectures, 557

Sir Humphry Davy’s Letters, Valuable Gift to Association, Legacy, 447

Institution of Structural Engineers : Formation of Sectional Committees of the

Science Committee, 227

Officers and Council for Session, 668

Society of Chemical Industry :

Birmingham and Midland Section :

Iron in Antiquity, by Dr. J. Newton Friend, 215

London Section :

Tar Distillation, Breaking-up Pitch by Novel Method, C. O. Condrup, 215

Society, Faraday :

General Discussion at Oxford, Photochemical Reactions in Liquids and Gases, 693

Joint Meeting, Symposium and Discussion, 579

Physical Chemistry of Steel-making Processes, 579

Society, Royal, of Arts :

Fothergill Prize for Essay, 557

Joint Meeting :

Non-stop Flight to the Netherlands East Indies, Mr. T. a Thuessink van der Hoop, 517

AT AL ANT A, Ltd., Works Run Entirely by Women, 681

Atmospheric Conditions, Effect on Workers, Experiments, 269

Australian Eucalyptus Timber and Paper Manufacture, 681

Australia’s Deficiency in Underground Water, Fresh and Salt Water from Neighbouring Bores, 545

Automobile Club, The Royal, Demonstration of Anti-dazzle Headlamps and Devices, 215

BEET Sugar Factory at Wellington, Farmers' Undertaking to Grow Beet, 489

Beet Sugar Factory near Yeovil to Work on Next Year’s Crop, 133

Beet Sugar Factories, ^Estimated Cost and Proportion Expended in this Country, 709

Beet Sugar Filtered with Bone Charcoal, No such Plant yet Available in Britain, 133

Belfast Association of Engineers, 554

Bell, 10 Tons in Weight, Fourth Largest in the

Country, at Bristol University, 461

Bentonite, Canadian, for Soap-making, 381

Bentonite Used in Wet Grinding of Asphalt 77

Bideford Fourteenth Century Bridge Reopened, 653

Bihar and Orissa, Attempt to Force Back River to its Old Channel, 407

Birmingham Fire Brigade New Equipment for Emergencies affecting Breathing, 15

Birmingham to the Sea Canal Scheme, Parliamentary Assistance Question, 653

Birmingham University Establishing School of Sugar, 133

Birmingham University New Buildings, 77

Black Country Reminiscences, Duncan J. Shedden, 353

Black Country Waste Dumps, Proposals for Utilisation, 133

Boiler Accident, Unusual, on Dredger, 545

Boiler Ashes in a Wet State, Test of Water

Consumed in Handling, 161

Boiler Explosion, Cause of Failure, 77

Boiler Explosion and Danger of Replacing

Rivets by Bolts, 545

Boiler Explosion, Formal Investigation, 709

Boiler Water Gauges, Board of Trade Notice, 299

Bomb, Live German, Retrieved from Thames

Mud at Waterloo Bridge, 573

Brassfounders in China, Their Poor Pay, 709

Brick Walls, Relative Strength Tests with

Different Mortars, 407

Bridge at Boothferry Over the Ouse, Cost of, 133

Bridge-building Rivets, Unsatisfactory, and the Remedy, 469

Bridge to Connect Montreal with South Shore, 573

Bridge, Damoodar River, near Telmueho, Opened for Traffic, 77

Bridge, Highway, Over Copenhagen Harbour, 335

Bridge, New, Over the Derwent at Baslow

Opened, 545

Bridge Over the Dee at Q.ueensferry, 105

Bridge Over the Hudson at Castleton, New

York, 545

Bridge Over the White Nile at Khartum, 189

Bridge Renewal at Hampton Court, 653

Bridge Replacement at Sunderland, 189

Bridges, Two, to Connect Staten Island with

New Jersey, 47

Brighton Sewers Board Loan, 573

Brinell Hardness Numbers, Table of, 309

British Chemical Standards, Non-ferrous

Standard Samples, 614

British Columbia, Second Narrows of Burrard

Inlet, Road and Railway Bridge under Construction for, 435

B.E.A.M.A. Scholarships, 567

British Embassy at Tokyo to Replace that Damaged by Earthquake, 599

British Engineering Standards Association : \

Building Materials, Sectional Committee and

Sub-committees to be Appointed, 240

Election of Officers and Members, 573

Standard Specifications:

Bus-bars and Connections, 473, 681

Marine Flanges, 61

Non-ferrous Locomotive Material, Re

vision of Specifications for, 309

British Foundrymen, Institution of :

Birmingham Branch :

Pyrometric Control of Annealing Temperatures, D. Wilkinson, 104

Lancashire Branch :

John Wilkinson Medal Examination, 468

Sheffield and District and East Midland Branches :

Visit to Yorkshire Ironworks, 337

Broadcasting—see Wireless

Building Material, “ Celotex ” Manufactured from Sugar Cane Residue, 47

Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 473

c CABLE Ploughing Tackle, British versus German in France, 133

Cables, Four New Rapid-transmission Transoceanic, Projected, 599

Calcutta Canal Bridges Replacement to Carry Heavier Traffic, 407

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Conversazione, 360

Canada, Proposed Hydro-electric Power Plant, 435

Canada, Water Power Resources of, 240

Canadian Roads and Federal Aid System, 407

Carbide Lamps or Candles Underground, Carbon

Dioxide Dangers, 407

Carbon Black Manufacture from Oils by Electrical Process, 133

Carillon, Largest in the World, 517

Cars, Pleasure and Commercial, Increased

Export from the United States, 269

Catalogues for Palestine, 611

Causeway to Cost 12 Million Dollars near New

Orleans, 189

Cauvery Dam (Krishnarajasagara), Grant from Mysore Government, 241

Cauvery Dam, Revised Estimates for Works Sanctioned, 545

Cement Factory to be Built near Cambridge, 299

Cement Factory Erection at Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 77

Cement Factory near Northfleet, Proposed

Largest in the Country, 201, 241

Central Heating Experiments in Berlin, 241

Central Heating for Institutional Buildings in Canada, 133

Chefoo Harbour All-steel Cargo Sheds, 517

Chemical Work? on the Tyne, Projected, 105

ChTCa¥°’STAbS^aCti.?n of Wafcer Great rvi Loss Entailed, 299

Scheme,G^ernment Construction

Chimney Collapse, Fatal, near Leipzig, 709

Chimney, Reinforced Concrete, 300ft. High in

Australia, 189 ®

Chimney’s Resistance to Demolition by Dynamite, 653 J J

China, Official Estimate of Population, 15

China s Two Largest Zinc Mines, 625

Chinese Cities, Widening of Streets, 327

COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :

Accidental Coal Discovery at Ilkeston, 105 Alberta s Coal Production, 327

Anthracite Coal, Excellent Seam Struck in New Glanamman Colliery, 381

Argada Colliery, First Opened on Karanpura Coalfield, India, 687

Bengal Coal Quality and Quantity, Increasing Importations, 15

Bentley Colliery Starting New Seam Below Barnsley Bed, 133

Bly th, New Coaling Staithes Equipment, 435 Boring Operations at Sutton, South of Doncaster, 299

British India Coal Output Statistics, 161

Brodsworth Colliery, New Third Shaft Working, 189

Carboscope for Estimation of Ash Content in Coal, 15

C1?09 C°al Seam Discovery Near Suiyuan,

Coal Dust in Mines, Methods of Control, 189 Coal Getting, The Best Method, Mavor and

Coulson’s View, 709

Coal-handling Plant at Port Sudan, 133

Coal Mme Fire Ended by a Year’s Labour, 353

Coal in New South Wales, New Discoveries, 407

Coal Output of the United Kingdom in 1924, Steadily Diminishing Quantity, 189 Out put-of Coal, Further Big Decrease, 709

Coatbridge Sewer Excavation and Coal Seam Discovery, 189

Coal Prospects at Winslow, Bucks., 681

Coal Shipping at Rapid Rate, 709

Coke Competition with View to Improving Gas Coke, 215, 573

Coke Production Recommended at Fernie British Columbia, 381

Coke Samples Pulverisation, Various Methods, 461

Daily Output of Coal in Some Canadian Mmes, 625

Discovery of Coal near Worksop, 545

Durban Navigation Collieries, New Coal-bearing Ground Acquired, 381

Emergency Speed of Hoisting from Mines, 77

Garforth Colliery at Barnbow, Steady Progress with Construction, 105

German Coal Industry Crisis, 269

Kamasamndram, South India, Coal Discovery, 299

Kent Collieries, Suggested Deep-water Port for Shipping Coal, 133

Lamps for Coal Miners, Electric, Replacing Flame Lamps in America, 241

Low Temperature Carbonisation, Result of Coal Tests, 269

Plant to Carbonise 1000 Tons of Coal Daily, 573

Mysore Government’s Important Coal Dis-covery, 381, 573

New Pits and Colliery Villages Projected at Awkley and Micklebring, 461

Powdered Coal Objected to as being an Explosive, 653

Pulverised Coal-fired Boilers, Favourable

Test Against Mechanical Stokers, 241

Richmond Main Colliery, Australia, Record Output, 15

Seven Lines Cable, New, to Link Up Yorkshire Collieries, 161

Ship Coaling Record in New South Wales Harbour, 241

South African Coal,Output for March, 625

South Australian Government Investigating

Possibilities of Utilising Brown Coal, 625

South Wales Coalfield, Support of Underground Workings, 105

Spitzbergen Coal Production, Anticipations for this Season’s Output, 545

Stone Dusting in Coal Mines, Best Materials for, 189

United States Collieries, Fatality Rate Statistics, 15

Valuable New Seam of Coal in the Erewash Valley, 105

Victorian State Coal Mine at Wonthaggi,

Estimate of Coal Still in Mine, 625

Winslow, Possibility of Coal Mining Near, 517

World’s Record for a Day’s Coal Output,’ 161

World’s Record Broken, 327

Yorkshire Collieries, Meeting Underground

of Two Sets of Workers, 299

COALITE ” as Motor Fuel Tested and Triumph over Imported Spirit, 353

Cochin Harbour Development Loan, 189

Commercial Developments in Europe, Ten Lectures at City of London College, 27

Commercial Motor Vehicles Parade, Thornv-croft Successes, 435, 447

Company Registered as Limited by Guarantee and Not Having a Capital, 517

Compressed Air Explosions, 189

Concrete Houses and .Cement Factory, 201

Concrete Vessels Rendered Impervious to Acid by German Process, 77

Consulting Engineers, Association of, Annual Dinner, 393

Copper, Conductivity of Crystallised Form of, Compared with that of Pure Electrolytic Copper, 241 J

Copper Discovery in Newfoundland, 15

Copper Mines, Congo-Rhodesia Borderland, Predictions as to Value, 105

Copper Ore Prospecting in Algeria, 15

Copper Ores from the Belgian Congo, Electrolytic Treatment, 381

Copper Output Increased from Katanga, Congo, 15 °

Copper-Steel Alloy as Possible Non-corrosive Iransmission Line Pole, 461

Corrosion Institute in America, 517

Corrosion, Nature and Prevention of, 117

Corrosion Ravages, Effort to Check, by Formation of New American Institute, 489

Crane, 80-Ton Floating, for Lyttle ton, N.Z., Harbour Board, 545

Creosoting Plant in Alberta, Output of, 47

Crystal Palace Old Students’ Society :

Annual Dinner, 557

Cyanide in Mysore, Electrical Plant for Production, 105

D

DAM, Experimental Arch, in Southern California, 625

Dar-es-Salaam Wharf Facilities to be Improved, 15

Death of Mr. W. W. Bradfield, 353

Death of Professor Henry M. Lamb, 461

Delco-Remy and Hyatt, Ltd., Staff Dinner, 473

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research :

Fuel Research Board :

Technical Paper No. 10 Continues Report on Carbonisation of Coal, &c., 47

Technical Paper No. 12, Heating of Rooms, 709

Third Memorandum, 653

Dictionaries, Illustrated Technical, British Office Opened for Schlomann-Oldenbourg Series, 230

Distilling Plant for Treating Shale in Tasmania, 241

Dock, New Graving, at Durban, 189

Docks, Graving and Floating, at Vancouver Island, 545

Doncaster Corporation Allotments for Numerous Schemes, 545

Douglas Motor Cycle’s Climbing Feat, 381

Dredging Fleet on the St. Lawrence River, 681

Drop-stamped Railway Wheels, 557

Dry Dock, Large New Proposed, at Launceston, Tasmania, 77

Duralumin, Die-stamping, H. A. Whiteley, 189

Durban Harbour Entrance Improvement, Recommendations, 545

Dust Removal in Briquetting Plants, Electrical Compared with Water Cleaning, 407

Dust Removal from Potters’ Shops, 573

E

EBBW VALE Ironstone Mines, Reopening, 215

ELECTRICAL MATTERS:

Alternating Currents in Sheathed Cables, Losses Involved in Distribution, 489

Automatic Rotary Converter Sub-station, Third Completed in Durban, 545

Berlin, Proposed New Electric Power Station, 681

Birmingham’s Profit on Electric Supply, 653

Botany, N.S. Wales, Suggested as Site for New Power-house, 625

Buenos Aires Projected Big Electric Power Installation, 709

Cable between Vancouver and Fiji to be Doubled, 161

Canada, Big New Power Plant and Transmission Line to Winnipeg, 15

Canadian Montmorency Power Company,

Projected 6000 H.P. Development, 407

Capetown, New Generating Station for, 625

Chinese Government, Shansi Province, to Erect Steam-electric Power Plants, 709

Darlington Electricity Undertaking, Output and Working Cost, 105

Earth Connection, American Method of Making, 241

Electrical Industry and Prices in Prussia, Poor Trade, 105

Electric Main Underground Haulage, 517

Electricity Production by Public Utility Power Plants in 1924, 709

Explosions in Electrical Conduits and Sodium Salt, 517

Farms’ Need of Electric Power and Excessive

Cost of Application, 545

Fireproofing Medium for Protection of Switchboard Wire, 625

Halifax and Huddersfield Electricity Undertakings, Linking-up Scheme Proposed, 435

Huddersfield and Halifax Corporation Power Plants, 461

Insulated Electric Wire, Flame-proofing by Selenium, 299

Insulating Varnish for Prevention of Flashovers, 489

International Conference in Paris, on Extra High-tension Systems, 327

Johannesburg Power Station Cooling Towers, 85

Measuring Tape and Live Circuits, Protective Apparatus, 161

Million-Volt Arc, 326

Motors, Large, for Rolling Mill Drive, 461

Mysore, Generation of Power from Gersoppa Falls, 15

New Electric Lighting Plant at Agra, 681

New York Edison Company’s Projected 700,000-K.W. Generating Station, 625, 653

Plympton, Divided Opinion as to Erection of Power-house, 599

Power-house Extension at Bendigo, Victoria, 133

Power Line Interference with Radio Broadcast Reception, 241

Power Plant, Large, for Alaskan-Canadian Border, 435

Power Plants Used in Danish Agriculture, 686

Power Supply for Siddick Colliery, 517

Power Transmission, 100,000-Volt, to be

Brought Across the Narrows, Puget Sound, 381

Prague and Kolin, Laying Long-distance Cable, 161

Rural Electrification in Michigan, 381

Shawinigan Company’s Power Development on Batiscan River, Quebec, 77

Snake River, Idaho, Survey with View to Power Development, 381

South Africa and Electricity Supply, Interruptions by Lightning, 681

Steam-driven Large Power Station to Replace Tokyo Stations Destroyed by Earthquake, 269

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ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):

Tafjord Power Development Scheme in Norway, 161

Traffic Control by Spot-lighting Apparatus, Experiment in Leicester, 435

rr?x1r.SMOr“iei’ Load» Device for Indicating, While m Motion, 545 b

Trichinopoly, Small Electrical Power Supply for, 133 1 J

Trolley Omnibuses to Supersede Electric Trams in Singapore, 105

Trucks, Electric, Charging Facilities for, 327 lunne! under Ben Nevis to Carry "Water for New Power-house, 269

Turbo-alternator, 5000-K.W., Metropolitan-Vickers, for Durban, 681

Turbo-generator, 7500-K.W. Set for Wolverhampton, 489

Walsall Electric Supply, Charges Reduced in Consequence of Low Cost, 299

Warwick Electricity for Coventry, 133

Water-tube Boilers, Vickers-Spearing, for Bloemfontein Power Station, 407

West Bromwich Electricity Department, New Showrooms and Stores, 461

Worksop Electric Power Plant Extension, 653 70()W ^lver Fower Development

ELECTRO-FARMING, 442

Engine, Double-acting Marine Oil

Built in Great Britain, 461

Engineering Standards—see British

Engineers in Canada, Overcrowded experienced Profession, 241

Engineers and Chemists, Status of, 89

Esquimalt Dry Dock, 447

EXHIBITIONS:

Augsburg, Germany, Historical Model Ex-hibition in Water Power and Pumping, 625

Basle, 1925 International Exhibition, 89 Basle, 1926 International Exhibition, 169 Birmingham and Midland Building and

n Allied,Trades’ Exhibition, 517 btiraday’s Discovery of Benzene, Exhibition

to Commemorate Centenary, 709

Grenoble, International Exhibition at, 461 Institute of Patentees, Third Exhibition, 112, 133

International Trade Exhibition at New Orleans, 573

Manchester Ironmongery Exhibition, 435

Marine and Small Craft Exhibition and Congress, 201

Model Railway Club Exhibition, 461

Radio Apparatus Exhibition at Zurich, 681

Radio Exhibition in Oslo, 653

Turin, National Exhibition of Chemistry 293

Turning in Wood and Metal, Specimens,

I 1 hirty-eighth Exhibition, 461

Wembley Exhibition, Palace of Engineering, Housing, Display of Methods and Materials, 9^lriS> Transport, Years’ Progress,

EXPLOSION, Unusual, of Tar Heater, 269 Explosion, Very Unusual, of Steam Receiver,

Explosion, Very Violent, in American Mine, Night Shift of Thirty-four Men Killed, 435

Explosion of Water-tube Boiler, 653

F

FACTORY near Melbourne to Produce 50 , Tons, of Fibre Weekly from Bark, 105

Failure of Hillside Reservoir in Ayshire, 461 Faraday House, Annual Scholarship Examinations, 176, 447

Old Students’ Association, Annual Smoking Concert, 440, 529

Scholarship and Prize Awards, 447

Faraday Society—see Associations

Faroe Islands, Seven New Harbours in Course of Construction, 189

Fatalities Due to Carbon Monoxide from Want of Proper Care with Gas, 299

Federation of British Industries and Others Ask

Railway Companies for Reduction, 443

Fighting Fogs and Smoke, 143

Fire-fighting Appliances in Japan, 173

Fire Float for Hong Kong Government, 435 lure Resistance of Concrete Columns, Tests of 653 ’

Fish Canning Factory Suggested for Tasmania,

Fish Escalator for Salmon and Trout Spawning, Experimental, 161

Floating Islands, Four French, as Bases for Aerial Transport, 461

Floors with Joists Embedded in Concrete, Great Superiority of, 133

Floors Settlement Detection by Ingenious Device, 15 &

Folkestone Harbour Steamboat Piers Roofed,

Foochow Company’s Projected Hydro-electric

Power Plant on the Min River, 599

Forest Planting in Victoria, 15

Forging Machine Dies, Steel for, E. R. Frost, 189

Frozen Meat for Spain, 105

Fuel in Central Canada, Developing Coke Industry, 653

Fuel Economies, Various Ways of Saving Coal,

Fuel Research—see Department

G

GAS Engine Breakdowns and Connecting-rod

Bolts, 105 °

Gas Used at Wembley, Enormous Amount, 709

Gas versus Electrical Undertakings, Gas Share

holders’ Troubles, 269

Gas versus Electricity in Stepney, 709

Genoa’s Commercial Importance Rivalling that of Marseilles, 269

Geological Museum Moved to Secure Safety in Foundations, 353

German Machine Tool Convention Renewed, 353

German Machinery Works, New, in China, 15

German Tube Trade Syndicate, 573

Glasgow Technical College Benefactions, 241

Glass Factory, Large New, in Pas-de-Calais, 269

Glue “ Pearls ” Manufacture, 161

Gold Mine, Regina, in Canada, Projected Reopening, 381

Gold Mines, Cost of Winding Ore, 15

Gold Production from Mercury, Experiments, 599

Gold from Witwatersrand, Total Output, 299

Grain Elevator, Another Million-bushel, for

Canada, 517

Grain-handling Wharves, Manchester Ship Canal, 100

Grand Falls Project in New Brunswick, 545

Grangemouth Six Dock Gates, Repaired and

Replaced, 653

Great Britain’s One and a-half Men and Public

Ownership, 140

Great Lakes Water Levels, Serious Lowering, 625

Great North Road Improvement, 133

Greenock Harbour and Garvel Graving Dock, 15

Gum Swamp Products, Projected Utilisation of, 327

Gutta-percha Estate Development in Sumatra,

105

H

HEAD Lamps, Motor Car, Reduced Size to Avoid Glare, 407

Heating Paper Machine Rolls, Electric Steam Generators for, 659

Helium-oxygen Mixtures and Decompression for Divers and other Workers, 299

Holiday Pay Plan at Fort Dunlop, 189

Holyhead Development as a Herring Port, 681

Hungarian Customs Tariff on Imports, 47

Huxley Lecture, Professor E. B. Poulton,

Huxley Centenary Celebrations, 447

Hydraulic Turbines of Niagara Falls Power

Company, Accident to, 15

Hydro-electric.Development in Canada, 77

Hydro-electric Plant, Novel Type, for China, 653

Hydro-electric Plant, Reported Largest in South America, 653

Hydro-electric Power, Control of Export, by Canadian Government, 709

Hydro-electric Power in Ontario, Needed

Expenditure for New Plant, 299

ICE Cover to Protect from Ice, 161

India and Millwall Docks Improvement, 517

Indicating Instruments in Boiler-rooms, Method of Keeping them Clean, 215

Institutes and Institutions—see Associations

Insulating Material, “ Poured-in-place-on-the-Job,” 709

Irish Free State Investigation of Question of Crude Alcohol Production for Power Purposes, 461

IRON AND STEEL :

Blast-furnace About 1748, Halfpenny Token Portrait of Ironmaster, 77

Blast-furnace Output Affected by Shape of Hearth, 353

China, New Loan Required for Largest Ironworks, 599

Commercial Carbon and Alloy Steels, Temperature Changes, 299

Egryn Manganese Ore Mines near Barmouth Reopened, 47

Extrusion Process for Iron and Steel, R. Genders, 47

German Steel Works and Rolling Mills, Projected Erection in Bochum, 47

Hacksaw Blades and Tungsten Steel, 47

Heavy Cast Iron Fly-wheels Cut up by

Acetylene Blow-pipe, 545

Iron in Antiquity, Dr. J. Newton Friend, 215

Iron Mines in Italy, War-time Feat, 327

Iron Trades Employers’ Insurance Association, 573

Manganese Investigations in Banffshire, 681

National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers :

Pig Iron and Steel Production in December, 105

Pig Iron and Steel Production in January, 215 J

Pig Iron and Steel Production in February, 353 J

Pig Iron and Steel Production in March, 489

Pig Iron and Steel Production in April, 569

Pig Iron and Steel Production in May, 681

New Zealand Customs Decision Regarding British Possessions Iron and Steel, 161

Ontario, Large Steel Works, but no Iron Ore Mining, 517

Pig Iron at Sabara, Brazil, Increased Output, 299 1

Polono-Upper Silesian Iron and Steel Cartell, 435

Record Blast-furnace Output at South Manchurian Works, 407

Record Rolling of Steel Rails in Canada, 521

Rhodesia as Leading Producer in the World of

Chrome Iron Ore, 625

Seamless Hollow Steel Balls for Bearings, 133

South Africa, Large Percentage of Iron in Ore Deposits, 77

Sponge Iron Experiments by United States Bureau of Mines, 215

Sponge Iron Production in Utah, U.S.A., 517

Stainless Steel, Mild, New Process for Production, H. S. Primrose, 15

Steel Manufacturing Plant Transfer from Kobe to South Manchuria, 133

Steel Production Direct from Iron Ore, Two Experimental Methods, 215

Sydney Steel Plant, Nova Scotia, Record Output, 381

Tasmania, Electric Smelting of Iron and Steel, Company Formed for, 653

W elded Steel Pipe Factory Opened at Williamstown, Victoria, 133

Wellingborough Urban Council Reduces Royalties on Ironstone to Prevent Stoppage . pf Blast-furnaces, 709

IRON AND STEEL (continued):

Working Stress for Structural Steel, American Engineer’s Recommendation, 189

IRRIGATION Project in Malabar, 681

Italy, and International Telephone Installations, 407

JAPAN’S Synthetic Ammonia Capacity by Casale Process, 517

Journal of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, 419

K

KHYBER, 19 Miles Ropeway to be Sold, 709

Kovno, Russia, Tenders Invited for Locomotive

Spare Parts, 599

Krupps, Contradicted Report of Factory near Dublin, 599

L

LAMP, Combination Oil and Safety, 327

Lamps, Factory Turning Out 2000 Daily, 77

Lantern Slides Illustrating Stothert and Pitt’s

Cranes, Winches, Pumps, &c., for Loan, 249

Lead Mines in Flintshire to be Reopened, 653

Lead Mines of Upper Teesdale, New Company for Working, 599

Leicester Street-cleansing Proposals, 379

Leith Dock Extension, Government Assistance, 77

Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Financial Support for, 489

Lift and Crane Makers’ Association, General Meeting, 256

Lignite Carboniser, Hopeful Results Expected from its Use, 15

Lignite Industry in Germany, Dust Removal in Briquetting Plants, 599

Lime-burning and Slaking, 517

Liquid Fuel, Investigation of New Method of Obtaining, 573

Liquid Fuel and Scottish Shale Oil, Dr. C. H. Lander, 489

Locomotive for Underground Haulage, Electric, Official Tests for, Prize Offered, 489

L.C.C. and Lambeth Bridge Design, 599

Lopulco Pulverised Fuel Plant, Largest in the

Empire, 672

Loughborough College, Annual Presentation Day, 585

Low-temperature Carbonisation—see Coal

M

McGILL University, Montreal, Engineering

Curriculum Improvement Sought, 599

Machine Tool Trades’ Association Dinner, 311

Madras Harbour, New Shipping Berths, 77

Magnesite, Cartel Formed of Works to Control

99 per Cent, of European Output, 299

Magnesium Oxychloride for Binding Woody or Fibrous Material, Excels as Flooring and Very Inexpensive, 625

Manchester Steam Users’ Association, Seventieth Annual Report, 337

Manganese—see Iron and Steel

Marine Flanges—see British'Engineering

Maw, Dr. W. H., Publication of Biography of,

Metallic Sodium and Red Phosphorus, Projected Manufacture in Norway, 105

Metric System Established in Netherlands East Indies, 262

Middlesbrough’s Application for Loan for

Petrol-electric Trolley Vehicles, 381

Mineral Deposits in Anatolia and Branch Line of the Baghdad Railway, 299

Mines, Devices to Prevent Over-winding, W. L.

Grassham, 435

Mines Explosives, British, Tested by American Official Tests, 133

Mines, Fire-damp and Electric Cutting in, Accident Prevention Suggestions, 386

Mine Rescue Oxygen Breathing Apparatus, Training of Miners, 327

Mint, Royal, Coinage Statistics, 47

Monasite Sand Discovery in Tasmania, 133

Montreal New Dry Dock Projected, 407

Motor Car Importation into India, 653

Motor Cycle Efficiency Due to Scientific Research, 353

Motor Fuels, Problems of Supply, Professor J. S. S. Brame, 545

Motor Manufacturers’ and Traders’ Society,

Meeting and Elections, 721

Motor Omnibus Popularity in Shanghai, 15

Moving Three-storey House, 653

N

^AI^S, Holding Power of, Its Importance in Wood Construction, 241

National Physical Laboratory and Weights Verification, 517

National Screw Thread Commission (America) Report Revision, 545

Natural Gas in Canada, Greatly Increased value of Production, 113, 517

Natural Gas Transmission Systems, Efficiency Investigation, 353 J

Newcastle Quay, Additional Berths, 133

New Caledonia Exports, 1924, 625

Newfoundland Public Works, Reconditioning,

New South Wales Increase in Factories and 564nt’ alS° in ^alue of Land and Buildings,

New South Wales, 25,000 H.P. Plant at Junction of Two Rivers, 215

New South Wales, Proposed Floating Dock, 435 New South Wales Water Conservation Schemes,

New Zealand’s Additional Irrigation Schemes,

New Zealand, Arapuni Hydro-electric Scheme, 161

Niagara River, Details of New Bridge Over, 607

Nickel Welding, Possible in Certain Conditions, 77

Nitro-glycerine the Only Suitable Explosive for Shooting Oil Wells, 15

Nitro-glycerine, Possible Substitute for, 15

Norton and Gregory Engineering Scholarships, 541

Norway as Aluminium Producer, 381

Norway, Carbide Factory Furnace for Cyanamide Manufacture, 517

Nottingham’s Projected New Bridge Over the Trent, 381

o OIL Burner Soot, Danger from Salts Content, 47

Oil Cracking Plant at Baku, 517

Oil Distillery at La Plata being Rapidly Completed, 709

Oilfield Emulsions, Method Used for Dehydration, D. B. Dow, 681

Oil-fired Boilers and Oil Temperature, 198

Oil Found near Chittagong, 653

Oil as Fuel, Disadvantages of Any Water Content, 573

Oil Pipe Line, Acetylene Welded, Highly Successful on Test, 189

Oil from Shale, Refineries to be Established at Shansi, China, 709

Oil Shale, Valuable, Overlaying Colliery Main Seam in Manchuria, 15

Oil Storage Plant at Toronto for Fuel Supply to Vessels on the Great Lakes, 133

“ Old Cromptonians ” Association Dinner, 579

Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission, New Power Development Scheme, 327

Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission— see also St. Lawrence River

Ontario Hydro-electric Scheme for Diverting Waters of the Albany River, 105

Ontario Power Shortage Feared, Steam Plant Called for, 299

Oyster Shells for Manufacture of Portland Cement, 15

Oxy-acetylene Cut, Heat Effect of, 625

P

PARKING Motor Cars Beneath Hyde Park Sydney, N.S.W., 57

Patent Applications Decrease, 15

Patent Rights Applications, 681

Patentees, Institute of, Third Annual Exhibition, 112,133

Petrol in Starting Gas Engines, Necessary Precautions in Use, 599

Petroleum Production of Venezuela, 47

Petroleum, World’s Supply and its Waste, 327

Photo-chemical Reactions in Liquids and Gases, 693

Pile Deterioration, Unusual Case, 681

Plantation Destruction, Midland Reafforesting

Association Wound Up, 653

Plaster on Metal Lath for Fire Protection of Structural Steel Work, 517

Platinum and Allied Metals, British Empire and Foreign Countries, Production, 681

Platinum Discovery in the Rustenburg District, South Africa, 299

Platinum Reef Discovery in the Transvaal, 573

Platinum Trust, Ural, Refining Works Progress and Expectations, 241

Plumbago Trade of Ceylon and Madagascar, 327

Portland Cement Production in New South Wales, 517

Portuguese Chamber’s Exemption of Certain Material from Customs Duty, 353

Portuguese Colonies General Agency at Lisbon, 407

Pressure, Horizontal, Effect of Experiments, 241

Pulp and Paper Mill Projected near Quebec, 47 Pupin, Dr. Michael I., Scientific Appointment,

Pyrites Depdsit in Sweden, Probable Formation of Company to Work, 435

Q

QUEBEC Development Company, Hydroelectric Plant Starting Work, 77

Qaiebec, Prize Award for New Bridge, 407

Queensland Bridge Wrecked for the Third Time, 435

R

RADIUM Research Laboratory in Washington,

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :

Accidents :

Accidents in 1924, Statistics, 77

Bordeaux to Paris Express, Fatal Derailment, 381

Broken Tire on an Express, 77

Buffer Stop Collision at Glasgow, Severe. 133, 161, 517

Canada, Train Accident Statistics, 1924 461

Charing Cross Loop Accident, Motorman Not to Blame, 489

Collision of Engines After Bridge Testing, Goole and Selby Line, 352, 517

Criterion of Safety, the Number of Accidents Rather than of Fatalities, 709

Derailment at Lytham, Another Fatality, 105

Derailments and Collisions Compared, 709

Disastrous Derailment of Special Train near Rockport, U.S.A., 709

Engine Equipment Failures, 189

Fatal Accident from Broken Coupling, 483

I atal Derailment on Rhymney Section, Great Western Railway, 47, 407

Fog Causes Death of Driver, 105

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued):

Accidents {continue i):

Goods Train Fatal Buffer Stop Collision at Luddendenfoot, 381 .

Haymarket, Edinburgh, Accident Inal, Driver Acquitted, 161, 241

Konisberg-Berlin Express Disaster, 545

Letterkenny and Burtonport Railway, Owencarrow, Fatal Accident due to Wind, 161 ; Inquest Result, 189 ; Report, 333

Light Engine Collision in a log, 10a

Passenger Train Wholly Derailed, 299

Preston Station Fatal Accident Report, 241

Previous Accidents Pvecalled, 573

Prosecution for Attempted Entry of Train in Motion, 215

Report on Collision at Cogan, Great Western Railway, 653

Roof-repairing Accident, Fatal, at Manchester, Report on, 653

Safety First and Accident Reductions, 215

Train, Whole of, Leaves Rails at Lostock Junction, 47, 439

Trains Overthrown by Gales, 2 la

United States Accident Statistics, Comparatively Satisfactory Figures, 625

Workman’s Ticket, Accident Liability, 189

Algeria, New Railway, 327

Appointments and Staff Changes, 15, 77 10a, 133, 215, 224, 327, 339, 43a, 545, 709

Arbitration, Compulsory, Decision Against;

Automatic Signalling, Economy of, la

Automatic Signalling a Pronounced Success,

H. A. Watson, 189

Automatic Train Control Apparatus, Organised Sales of, 105

Automatic Train Control, Difference of

Opinion, 241

Ballycastle Railway Transference, la

Barcelona and Electric Railways, Level

Crossings and Street Railway Traffic Suppressed, 443

Belgian Congo Railway Electrification, 161

Board of Trade Requirements, New List, 2ba

Bolivar, Department of (Colombia), Central

Railway Construction Projected, 381

Bombay Harbour Electrical Service Opened, G.I.P. Railway, 161, 189

Brazil, State of Sergipe, Embarking on Railway and Canal Construction, 77

Bridge, Memorial, Across the Hudson River, 105

Bridge, New, at Niagara Falls, Michigan Central Railway, 299

Canadian National Railways, Branch Line Construction from Macanik to Rouyn, 353, 517 T •

Canadian National Railways, Branch Lines, 299

Canadian National Railways, List of <New

Lines Decided Upon, 599

Canadian National Railways’ Report, 517

Canadian Pacific Railway, Lining Tunnel

5 Miles in Length, 517

Canadian Railways, Demand for Abolition of

Costly Duplication, 545

Canal Legislation Not Contemplated, 435

Canals (Continuation of Charging Powers)^ Bill, 15

Capital and Revenue, Which Should Pay Cost of Betterment, 407

Cattle and Sheep Conveyance by Road and Railway, 517

Central London and City (South London)

Railways, Completion of Bank Station Alterations, 573

Chicago, Milwaukee and Sb. Paul Railway, Bankruptcy of, 381

China, Szepingkai-Taonan Railway, 77

Chinese Railway Extension in Honan Province, 709

City and South London Extension Sections, Accuracy of Measurements, 405

City and South London Railway, Pneumatically Opened Doors, 215

Clapham-Tooting Section of Morden Extension, Underground Company, 105

Code Words for Correspondence as well as

Telegraphy on Certain Railways, 387

Coppernob Locomotive as Exhibit, 545

Cost of Living and Increased Pay for Railwaymen, 15

Cost of Some Railway Projects in and near London, 461

Death of Mr. J. E. Charnley, 241

Death of Mr. John Davies, 435

Death of Mr. James Holden, 625

Death of Mr. Logan McPherson, 435

Delaware and Hudson Railway Car Shops, Ijnmunity from Accident to Employees, 407

Divisional or Departmental Railway Control, 581 - .

Dukeries Proposed Railways, Great Opposition, 241, 299

Dutch Railways, Petrol-driven Motor Carriages for Certain Lines, 489

Ecuadorian Government, New Railway, 435

Egyptian State Railway Freight Wagons Order, 517

Egyptian State Railways Inviting Tenders for Steel Coaches and Bridge, 545, 625

Egyptian State Railways, New River Steamer Required, 407

Egyptian State Railways, Tenders Invited, 15

Egyptian State Railways, Tenders for 400

Goods Trucks Wanted, 299

Electric Locomotives, New Type Becoming Popular in America, 625

Electric Tramway to Connect San Lorenzo and El Libano, Colombia, 105

Electrification of Railways, Doubtful Advantage of, 189

Engine Exchange between Two Railways for Testing Purposes, 407

Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, Men’s Misconceptions, 133

• Freeland, Major-General Sir Harry, Retirement, 653

George Stephenson Locomotive of 1823 Sent to Take Part in Railway Centenary Celebrations, 681

. German Railways’ Administrative Board, Appointment, 625

German Railways and Competition with River Shipping Companies. 489

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

German Train Telephonic Service, 406

Glasgow Tramway Material from United States, 489

Goldfields Traffic in Canada, 353, 517

Government Surplus Locomotives Bought by Several Railways, 653

Great Western Railway :

Agreement Arrangements with Regard to Reduction of Staff, 681

Automatic Control System, 241

Branch Lines, Non-paying and Possible Closing, 299

Coal Trade, Export, Serious Effect of its Condition on the Railway, 704

Electric Lighting on the Railway, 299

Gross Receipts and Decreased Rates, Increased Wages Percentage of Expenditure, 269 r

National Union of Railwaymen and Reduction of South Wales Staff, 545

Oxley and Kingswinsford New Line Opened, 573

Paddington — Plymouth Fast Afternoon Trains to be Restored, 214

Safety First on the Great Western, 215

Signals, Battery-operated, 600 Installed, 215

Summer Train Service, Opening Antedated, 625

Time-saving by Through Running of Engines, 105

Torquay and Paignton Station Platforms, Arrangement, 215

Guard’s Look-out Window on Passenger Trains, 278

Halwill-Torrington Railway Opening, 461

Headlamps of Locomotives and Road Vehicles, 407

Holyhead Inner Harbour Deepening Completed, 299

Indian Government Railway Department, Change in Bridge Rules, 77

Indian Railway Accident Statistics, 407

Indian Railway Budget, Proposed Capital Expenditure, 327

Irish Free State Railway Combination, 353

Ishover Light Railway Opened for Public Traffic, 435

Italian Railwaymen’s Offering to British Railwaymen at Centenary Celebrations, 431

Jubilee of Newark Brake Trials, 625

Khyber Railway, India, Construction and Progress, 573

Labour Leaders’ Joint Conference, Agreement Doubtful, Mr. J. H. Thomas’ Views, 653

Listowel Mono-railway, Dismantling, 105

Locomotive Manufacturers’ Association, Condition of Industry Pronounced Desperate, 681

Locomotives, Cluj, 122

London, Midland and Scottish Railway :

Appointment of President, 517

Closed Stations, Demand for Reopening, 133

Coal Tips at Gars ton Docks, Increase of Capacity, 545

Cranes, Two 50-Ton Overhead Travelling, for Horwich Ordered. 77

Crewe Locomotive Works, Important Alterations and Additions, 381

Derby and Wolverton Works, Rapid Work in Assembling Rolling Stock, 269

Electrification Schemes, New Department, 327

Engines and Rolling Stock Ordered from Five Firms, 77

Euston to Glasgow Night Express Divided to Travel to Different Stations, 681

Excursion Trains with Restaurant at Inclusive Fares, 632

Fleetwood Boat Train Alteration, 241

Goods Stations Booklet with Map Issued, 133

Horwich Locomotive Works Busy, 133 10,000 Locomotives Renumbered, 161.

241

Permanent^ Way Diversion on to New Bridge, Leeds-Holbeck, 489

Rivalry with London and North-Eastern, 353

St. Pancras and Bradford Express, 215

Sherwood Forest, Railway Proposal Withdrawn, Joint Railway Projected, 353, 435

Sir Guy Granet’s Remarks, 327

Turbine Steamer, Glen Sannox, 507

London and North-Eastern Railway :

Bill for Proposed Railway from Nottingham to Retford, 381 ; Scheme Withdrawn and Joint Railway Projected, 435 Cambridge Railway Station, Extensive Alterations Started, 133

Escalators at Liverpool-street, 599

Great Northern Section Suburban Lines Electrification Question, 489

Harwich Boat Expresses, Coach Improvements, 461 ■ ,

Harrogate Pullman’s Change of Route, 545 Hull, Level Crossings Abolition, 653

Hull Corporation and Level Crossings, Scheme Agreed Upon, 599

King’s Cross and Bradford Express, 215

Parliamentary Fight Probable with London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 353 Presentation of Relics of Early Railway to L. and N.E. Museum, 353

Punctuality Shown by Train Run Records, 599

Railway in the Dukeries, Rival Bills, 241 “ Sheffield Pullman’s ” Change of Route.

353

Sunday Travel, Chairman’s Views on Public Demand, 635

London Underground Railways, New Electrical Equipment Programme, 327

London Underground Railways, New Escalators, 492

Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway, Financial Trouble, 573

Madras Suburbs’ Railway Lincs Improvement, 517

Madrid, Proposed Central Railway Station, 299

Madrid, Proposed Further Facilities. 435

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS {continued):

Madrid Railway and Station Construction, 461

Manchester, Victoria and Exchange Stations

Alterations, 573

Maritzburg-Glencoe Section of Natal Main Line Electrification Cost, 299

Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Line Automatic Signals, 46

Metropolitan Railway Dividend, 189

Ministry of Transport:

Application for Power to Construct New Line made by London Electric Railways Company, 269

Automatic Train Control, Experts Examining the Question, Accident Inspectors’ Recommendations, 269

Bridges, Difficulty for Highway Authorities, 47

Debate on the Vote for the Ministry, Differing Views as to Progress of Electrification, 625

Light Railway Order for Liverpool, 681

Live Wire or Live Rail in Railway Electrification, 461

Ministry’s Railway Statistics for September, 1924, 15 ; for October, 133 ; for December, 353

Preliminary Statement, 435

Railway Returns for 1924, Passenger and

Freight Statistics, 133

Railway Results for January, 1925, 488

Railway Results for February, 1925, 653

Railway Results for March, 1925, 709

Pneumatically Operated Doors on London Tube Railways, 461

South-East London and Railway Facilities, Minister’s Reply to Deputations, 269

Motor Omnibuses to Replace Tramways in America Reported, 709

National Union of Railwaymen :

All-grades Programme and the Companies, 327, 573

Coal Trade of South Wales, Necessity of Reduction in Wages Bill, Proposals to Men, 489, 545

National Union and Craft Unions, 573

National Union of Railwaymen, Fatuous Ideas of Ex-President, 381

National Wages Board and Sunday Work Claims, 133

New South Wales Railways, Fay-Raven Report, 241

New Year Honours for Railwaymen, 47

New Zealand Railways’ Administration, Commissioners’ Recommendations, 15

Niagara River, Proposed New Railway Bridge Over, 435

North Swedish Coast, Progress of Railway, 461

North-Western Quebec, New Railways to Tap Rich Gold Area, 353 ; Refusal of Right of Way, 517

Northern Parliament Powers and the Bally-castle Railway, 15

Nova Scotia, Automatic Control, New Invention, Company Formed, 353

P.L.M., New Line in Algeria, 47

Peace River Country, Alberta, Settlement, Railway Prospects, 161

Pekin Tramcar Company’s Third Route, 435

Persian Concession for New Line from Teheran to Tabriz, 132

Piccadilly-circus New Station and Subways, 215

Platform Automatic Indicators, New Installations, 407

Poland and Yugo-slavia, Direct Railway Conference, 435

Polish Coal Mining District, Long-distance Electric Tramway Construction, 269

Power Brakes and Appliances, American Investigation, 215

Quebec, North-Western, Undeveloped Area to be Opened up by New Railway, 15, 47

Rail-testing on Boston Elevated Railroad, Results, 161

Railway Material Exports Statistics, 161, 269, 327, 435, 573, 681

Railwaymen’s Unions and Demands, 133, 327

Railway Rates Tribunal :

Capital Works, Extravagance of Competitive Schemes, 681

Economies in Railway Working, 649

Schedules of Standard Charges, Speeding-up Settlement, 489

Standard Charges Settlement, 189

Standard Revenue, Basis of Agreement, 517

Railway Trestles in Time of Floods, F. M. Holmquist, 327

Railways Act, 1921, Its Benefits to Railway Companies, 545

Rainfall, Abnormal, and Railway Damage, 47

Rating of Railways, Complications of the Question, 653

St. Paul’s Safety Measures Sub-committee, Railway Engineers as Members, 381

Sao Paulo Government and Railway Concessions, 47

Sleeping Accommodation, Letters to The Times, 681

South African Railways, Day Colour Light Signals, 77

South African Railways, Good Results Shown by Statistics, 47

Southern Railway :

Bridge Strengthening and Rebuilding, 573

Brighton Section, Electrical Services Extended, 381

Brighton Station, Passenger Statistics for 1924, 346

“ Chatham ” Station at Victoria, Improvements, 77

Conversion of Certain Lines, Difficulties Removed by Grouping, 599

Cross-over Junctions to Facilitate Independence of Electrical and Main Lines, 599

Exeter, Queen-street Station Improvement, 709

Hastings and St. Leonards Tunnels, Projected Widening, 299

Indicators for Railway Platforms, New Type, 517

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued'):

Southern Railway (continued):

“ King Arthur ” Class Locomotive, New Bridge to Carry it, 599

Mis-sent Train and the Upshot, 461

Naming of New Engines, 299

Portsmouth Railway Stations, New Proposals, 327

Punctuality of Railway, Statement, 435

Signals, Projected Day Colour Light Automatic, for Portion of London Area, 77, 215

Station’s Name Illumination at Horsham, 709

Vehicles being Prepared for Electrification, 15

Spanish Railway Engines and Cars to be Home-made, 15

Statistics, South African and United States, 47

Steel Construction of Railway Vehicles, Pros and Cons, 105

Steel Signal Arms Bent by Wind, 105

Stockholm-Gothenburg Electrification, 299

Subway Car, Improved Type for America, 461 “ Sunny South Special ” and Vacuum Brake, 599

Sweden, Projected Railway and State Loan, 77

Swiss States Subsidy for Completion of Furka Railway, 350

Tasmanian Engineers to Supervise Railway Construction in Spain, 77

Tests of New Roads and Connections to Eliminate any Possibility of Mistakes, 545

Tourist Traffic to Ireland and Kingstown Pier Accommodation, 189

Tramway Renewal, A Night’s Work in Glasgow, 189

Tramway Route, New, in Edinburgh, 489

Underground Poster, Analysis of Receipts and Expenditure, 299

Unemployment Alleviation Methods, 15

Venezuela and Colombia, Junction under Construction to Unite Railways in, 77

Viaduct, First Example of its Kind in the World, Great Northern (of Ireland) Railway, 269

Victoria Government Railway, Electrifying Part of, 653

Victoria Railway, Experiments with New Rail Motor, 709

Wagons for Mineral Traffic, Profits on Letting Out for Hire, 625

Walsall Tramway’s Increased Profits, 638

Warsaw, Projected 28 Miles Long Electric Tramway, 517

Water Power in Austria, Development, and Railway Electrification, 461

Welsh Local Authorities’ Request for Doubling of Single Lines, 709

Western Canada, Railway Goods Charges in, 353

RECLAMATION Work in Italy, 269

Ribble River, Preston, Training Walls to be Constructed, 709

Rock-fill Dam, Kentucky, Largest in the World, 461

Roofing Material Pyropruf, Testing, 489

Roving Steamer for Extraction of Bromine from Sea Water, 461

Rubber Research Institution in Malaya, 105

Russian Agriculture and Electric Ploughs, 435

Russian Great Waterway Projected, 320

Russian Soviet Government’s Agreement with

British Firm for Erection of Oil Cracking Factory, 625

Russian Visitors to America for Works Inspection and Equipment Orders, 215

s “SAFETY First” Device by Model Van, J.

Lyons and Co., 517

St. Lawrence River Power Development, 215

San Joaquin River Water Diverted by Tunnel, 545

Sawdust Roads, Experiments with View to Making, 599

Scholarships for Apprentices, 523

Scholarships, B.E.A.M.A., 567

Scholarships. Engineering, Norton and Gregory, 541

Science Museum at South Kensington, Stationary Engine Exhibits Catalogue, 256

Scientific and Industrial Research, New Members of Advisory Council, 215

Seismograph Station, A Sixth Established in Quebec, 625

Sewerage Scheme, Extensive, for Knutsford, 653

Shanghai, Single-deck Motor Omnibus Statistics, 517

Shannon Power Scheme Report, Dr. H. H.

Jeffcott, 653

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :

American Ships, Conversion of Fourteen Steamers to Motor Ships, 489

Barrow and New York Steamer Service to Cease, 133

Bulkheads and Water-tight Subdivision of Passenger Steamships, Board of Trade Report, 241

Chauncy Maples Steamer on Lake Nyassa, Thirty Years Old and Still Valuable, 105

Commonwealth Lighthouse Service, Launch of Two Steamers for, 133

Conciliation Machinery for Shipbuilding Federations, 299

Corrugated-sided Ships, Greater Efficiency of, 599

Cunarder Saxonia Sold for Breaking-up, 299

Deck Equipment of the Discovery, Pacific Exploration Vessel, 709

Diesel-electric Tanker, New Arrangement of Engine-room, 215

Fifty Years of Yacht Designing, G. L. Watson and Co., 544

Flettner Rotor Ship, Report of Another, 599

Flettner Rotor Ships, Two New, Ordered, 105

Funnel Markings of Destroyer Flotillas, 545

German Naval Administration, First Large Rotor Ship, 517

Glatton, Monitor, Wreck of, to be Removed from Harbour, 15

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued):

Grain Cargo-loading Record, 327

Japanese, Large, Ship Taken up River to Shanghai, 517

L.M.S. Turbine Steamer Glen Sannox, Official Trials, 625

Majestic, Reported Crack Discovery, 15 Montrose Liner, Quick Overhaul, 489

Motor Boat, Fast, Races on the Thames, 545

Motor Lifeboat Construction Progress, 77

Motor Vessel Production Increasing, Chiefly on the Continent, 381

Ocean Towing, Record Long Distance, 435 Railway-owned Vessels—see Railways Rotor Ship, Arrival of the Plettner," 227 Scapa Flow Salving of German Destroyers,

Progress, 407, 517, 573, 709

Shipbuilding Trades’ Investigation, 637

Signal by Combined Visible and Whistle

Device for Motor Ships, 269

Tees Shipbuilding Order, 573

Tyne Shipbuilding Output Statistics, 15

United Stales Steam Ship to Motor Ship, Conversion. 415

Vancouver Harbour Ship Traffic Statistics, 161

Wellfield, Steamer, Little Damaged by Dockflooding, 489

SIDMOUTH, Estimated Cost of Breakwater, 599

Silkworm Cocoon Chrysalis as Food, 215

Slag Accumulations in Cement Kilns Dislodged by Shooting, 461

Slide Rules, Constructional Improvement in, J. Davis and Son (Derby), Ltd., 309

Snow in the Streets, New System of Disposal,

1 269

Soapstone Discovery in Calcutta District, 241 Solid Silver, Effort to Increase Use in America 269

South African'Irrigation, 122

South African’s Production of Base Metals, 681

South African Year Book, 473

Southampton University College, Open Engineering Exhibitions Offered, 422

Soviet Government and White Lead Paints, 161

Standards—see British

Steel—see Iron

Stone for Sharpening Tools Discovered near Orbost, Australia, 599

Straw Packing Without Purity Certificate, Dominion Government Insists on Return of Important Goods, 435

Subways in St. Louis, 189

Suez Canal Annual Statistics, 489

Sugar Growers’ Association’s Suggestion of United Reference to Expert Opinion, 625

Sulphur Ores Roasting and a New Alloy, J.

Harris, 435

Super-power Systems of the United States, Growth of, 606

Suspension Bridge Across the Firth of Forth at Queensferry, Projected, 161

Sydney Harbour Bridge, £16,000 Tool for Testing Cableways, 573

TANK Failure in Boston, U.S.A., Six Years’

Litigation to Decide on the Cause, 189

Tansa Pipe Line Progress, 47

Tariffs and their Object in Latin-America,

A. C. Rouse, 189

Technical College and Polytechnic Times, First Issue, 133

Technical Institute at Coventry, Generous Gifts of Machinery, 489

Telephone Damage by Snowstorm at Falkirk,

Underground System Advantages, 407

Telephone Diaphragm, New Type, 161

Telephone Exchange tor Cairo, 299

Telephone Industry’s Effect in Stimulation of

Numerous ' Othei’ Industries Involved in Manufacture, 269

Telephone Kiosk, New Prize Design by Sir Gilbert Scott, 381

Telephonic, Through, Connection Established between Bombay and Delhi, 381

Tests of Flow of Water through Long Concrete

Pipes, Formulae Values, 681

Thermo-electric Pyrometers, Use of Platinum, 461

Thin-lead Coloured Pencils, Alpco Pencils, Ltd., 554

Titanium Industry Suggested for Eastern Canada, 461

Tornado Effect on Big Railway Span, 407

Toronto, Association of "

neers, Progress, 219

Toronto's Rate of ~

Storeys, 709

Trade Unions, Statistics of Membership and Funds, 47

Transit Sheds at Trafford Wharf, Two, for £300,000, 105

Transport, Goods and Passenger, Increasing

Use of Roads in United Kingdom, 489

Treasury Guarantees under the Trade Facilities

Act, 545

Tunnel under the Mersey, Government Grants, 189

Tunnel Under the Thames, Postponement of Consideration of Scheme, 709

Turbo-generator, Experimental, in California

to Test Use of Natural Steam, 435

Tyne Commissioners Report Decrease in Out

put of Ships and of Coal Shipments, 353

Tyne Pollution Inquiry, 599

Professional Engi-Building Twenty-one ‘

UGANDA Oil Expectations, 15

Underpinning Concrete Columns of High

Building, 189

University of London :

Four Advanced Lectures in Mining, 227

Four Advanced Lectures on Chemical Combination in Metallic Alloys and its Nature, Professor C. A. Edwards, 245

University of Pittsburgh, Project for New 52-Storey Building, 161

VANADIUM Extraction from Iron Ore in Sweden, £>17

Vanadium from Swedish Phosphorus-bearing Ores, 435

Vancouver’s Largest Grain Elevator, Rapid Construction of, 554

Vancouver New Canadian Pacific Pier, 545

Venezuela Petroleum Production, 47

V.D.I. Meetings in Augsburg, 422

Vickers Westminster Amateur Operatic Society, 554

w WAR Department Motor Van, 342

Washington, National Museum of Engineering, 299

Water Energy, Potential, of the World, Estimate, 489

Water Power Plant Completed at Elko, British Columbia, 545

WATER SUPPLY :

Bacteria in Water at Different Depths, 407 j Barnsley Supply Increase, New Pumps, 489 Batley Corporation’s New Reservoir, 599 Birmingham New Reservoir and Pumping

Engines, Work Started, 625

Birmingham Water Committee's New Pipe Line, 407

Buenos Aires, Neighbouring Districts of, Extensive Government Scheme for Water Supply and Drainage, 709

California, New Supply for East Bay Cities, 15

WATER SUPPLY {continued}:

Esthonia, Up-to-date Waterworks for, 241

Fourth Pipe Line from Thirlmere to Manchester, 517

Karachi New Water Supply, 105

Madras Supply, Measures for Increasing, 189

Manchester Supply, Another Lake Requisitioned, 189

Melbourne Water Supply, the Maroondah Dani, 188

New South Wales, Wollongong and Port Kembla, Additional Supply, 215

Port Sudan Supply, Completion of Pipe Line, 489

Quebec, Storage Reservoir at Lake Metis, 189

Sheffield, Additional Water Supply Scheme, 77

Sydney, N.S.W., Scheme-to Supplement Supply, 545

Toronto, Supplementary Waterworks System, 47, 105

Tsingtao Waterworks, Predicted End of German Plant and Japanese Pumps, 15

Vancouver Waterworks System Extension, 592

Water Consumption in Sydney, N.S.W., 189

Water Waste in America, Uncharted Discharges, 353

Wooden Water Main Laid in 1874, 15

WELDING Aluminium, New German Process, 189

Welland Canal, Big Contract for Canadian Company, 15, 545

West Australian Oil Hunt Pronounced Hopeless, 15

Western Australia, Engineers Wanted, 461

Whitworth Society, Annual Dinner, 27

I Windmill, 200 Years’ Old, near Hastings, Collapse of, 709

Wire Rope Vibration Dangers, G. H. Griffiths, 299

Wire Rope Works, New, at Newcastle, N.S.W., 407

Wire Weaving Loom, Largest in the World, 269

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY:

American and Swedish Wireless Amateurs’ Two-hour Test, 161

Austrian Broadcasting Developing, 327

Belgium’s One Broadcasting Station, 681

Big Ben Broadcasting Microphone, 681 Broadcast Transmitting Apparatus at Marconi House Re-established, 681

Broadcasting Conference of European Authorities, 373

Broadcasting and Interference, Northolt Station Accused, 105

Broadcasting Receiving Apparatus, Lecture, G. E. Jones, 353

Canada, North-Western Section of North-West Territories, Completion of Wireless System, 435

China and Amateur Radio Work, 327

Colombo, Modern High-power Broadcasting Station, 461

Greenland’s New Wireless System, 161

Indian Radio Telegraph Company, Prospectus and Objects, 353

Indian Station for Commercial Service with United Kingdom, 327

Institute of Patentees’ Assistance Sought by B.B. Company, 435

Japan and San Francisco, Wireless Communication Over 4500 Miles, 77

Japanese and American Wireless Schemes, 407

Listening-in, Near and Distant Reception, 403

Marconi Clifden Station, Ireland, to be Dismantled, 709

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY (continued):

Marconi House, Change-over of Aerial to Oxford-street, 456

Miners and Signals by Wireless, 47

North-West Territories and Yukon Wireless

System, Most Northerly Main Station, 625

Oscillating Receiver Disturbance Tests, 407

Radio Apparatus Exhibition at Zurich, 681

Radio Direction Finding Stations for Indian

Ports, Experimental Receivers, 435

Rating of Storage Batteries for Wireless Service, 189

Rugby High-power Wireless Station Progress, 353, 517

Russian Wireless Development and Exhibition at Moscow, 599

Tracking Criminals by Wireless, Police Vans Equipped, 105

Transmission of Wireless Messages, Reported Valuable Invention, 105

Wireless Bill, Strong Objections to its New Provisions, 269

WOLVERHAMPTON Local Sewage Plant Extension, 709

Woman Member, The First, of Society of Engi-neers (Incorporated), 269

Woolwich Research Report on “ Gun-wire,” Imperfect Elasticity, 77

z ZINC Ore Smelted in Retorts, Residues from, 353

Zinc, Pure, for Alloy Purposes, Belgian Works Largely Increased Production, 269

Zoological Gardens, Casualties Among Tropical Birds in London, 241

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