The Engineer 1928 Jan-Jun: Index

The Engineer 1928 Jan-Jun: Index.

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Names

A

Adamson, Daniel, and Co., Ltd., Automatic Underground Sewage Pumping Plant, 525
A.D.C. Aircraft, Ltd., A.D.C. Nimbus-Martinsyde Fighting Scout, 5, 7
Airship Guarantee Co, Airship R 100, 35,:36
Albert Edward Dock on the Tyne, New Riverside Quay at, 664. 665
Allen, W. H.. Sons and Co., Ltd., and Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Six-cylinder Oil Engine Generator Sets, 301
Amazon, H.M. Destroyer, 2
American Experimental Arch Darn, 478
American Laboratory of Insurance Engineering, 676, 704
American Railway Pageant., 64—for List of Locomotives Exhibited see Subjects. Railway Pageant
Armstrong. Sir W. G. Whitworth and Co., Ltd.. H.M. Battleship Nelson, 2 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Askania Regulator Controlling Steam Boiler Furnaces, 598
Ateliers do Constructions Electriques de Charleroi, 15-Ton Electro-Hydraulic Ingot Casting Crane, 240, 244
Augustus, World's Largest Motor Liner, Italian, 9, 11
Avonmouth Docks Extension, 539, 546, 563, 574; Grain-handling Appliances, &c., 603
A. V. Roe and Co., Ltd., Avro " Avian " Light Aeroplane, 35, 46; Avro Buffalo Deck-landing Torpedo Carrier, 35, 36, 46; Avro Cierva " Autogiro," 36, 46

B

Babcock and Wilcox High-duty Boilers for Sawmill Refuse, 692
Bagnall, W. G., Ltd. Side-tank Engine for 2ft. 6in. Gauge Railway, 22
Beames, Captain H. P. M., Reorganisation of Crewe Locomotive Works, 312. 314
Beardmore " Inflexible " All-metal Monoplane, 544
Beardmore Oil Engine, 1500 B.H.P., 900 r.p.m., 11
Beardmore, William. and Co., Ltd., and the English Electric Co, Ltd., 500 B.H.P. Oil-Electric Train for L.M. and S. Railway, 514. 518
Bermuda, Quadruple-screw Motor Liner, 11 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Berwick, Old and New Road Bridges Over the Tweed, 542
Beyer, Peacock and Co Ltd., "Garratt" Locomotive, San Paulo Railway, 16, 20, 21
Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., Hole and Expansion Link Grinding Machines, 600, 608
Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co Ltd., Blackburn "Ripon" Torpedo Plane, 36, 46; Blackburn "Bluebird" Light Seaplane, 34. 46
Blackie, Captain A., Heat-loss Gauge, 44
Booth, Joseph, and Brothers, Ltd., 3-Ton Level-luffing Crane, 684
Bottcher and Gessnor, Wood-planing and Mortising Machine, 285, 286
Boulton and Paul, Ltd., " Sidestrand " Day Bomber, 34, 46
Brett's Patent Lifter Company, Ltd., 110
Brighton, Automatic Electric Sub-stations at, 578, 579
Bristol Aeroplane Co, Ltd., Bristol Bulldog Single-seater Fighter, 34, 46; Bristol Type 101 Two-seater Fighter, 34
British Industries Fair - see Separate Section of Index
British Thomson-Houston Company, Transformers for the Coventry Power Station, 460
Broadstairs Waterworks, Rumfields Pumping Station, 017, 630
Brown, Boveri and Co. 20,000-kW Turbo-generator at Rotterdam, 506, 549 (Two-page Supplement, May 11th, 1928)
Brown-Firth Research Laboratories, " H.R. Crown " Steel Wire, " H.R. Crown " Steel, " Staybrito " Steel and Firth Stainless Steel, 100
Brown, John, and Co., Ltd., Canadian Pacific Liner Duchess of Bedford, 594
Brown, John, and Co., Ltd., C.P.R. Geared-turbine Passenger Steamer Princess Elaine, 314
Building Trades Exhibition. 430, 451—For Names of Exhibitors and Exhibits, Nee Miscellaneous Index, Building Trades

C

Calcutta Waterworks, 394, 406, 423, 434
Cambridge Instrument Co, H.T. Duddell Oscillograph and Condenser, 43. 44; periodicity Vibrograph, 42, 43; 1..Low-tension Schering Bridge, 43, 44; Moullin-Thermionic Voltmeters, 72; Recording Potentiometer. 72, 73; Temperature Deviation Indicators, 101; Wave Form Indicator, 72
Cammell, Laird and Co, Ltd., H.M. First-class Battleship Rodney, 2 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Canadian National Railways, Passenger Locomotive, 16, 20, 22
Canadian Pacific Cargo Ship SS Beaverburn, William Denny and Brothers, Ltd.. 23. 53 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
C.P.R. Liner Duchess of Bedford, John Brown and Co., Ltd., 594
Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Australia,Re-engined, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co, Ltd., 23
Canadian Passenger Steamer SS Princess Elaine, 314
Carlton-Sutton, T., Apparatus for Measuring Energy Emitted by Explosives' Detonation, 99
Carrara Marble Quarry, Aerial Ropeway, 180, 181
C. F. Casella and Co. Ltd., Now Form of Cathetometer, 412
Cedars Rapids Power Station on the St. Lawrence River, 313
Chester, Rural Electrification at, 649
Clarkson Thimble-tube Waste Heat Boilers for Submarines. 205
Coalfax. Self-discharging Collier, Furness Ship-building and Engineering Company, Ltd., 24
Cooke, Troughton and Simms Ltd.. Levelling and Stadia Staff, 657
Cooksley, A., Combination Wood -working Machine, Planing Machine, 454
Coventry Power Station, Transformers for. 460
Crewe Locomotive Works, Reorganisation of, Captain H. P. M. Beames, 312, 314
Crompton Parkinson Ltd., Portable Multi-range Ammeter, 42, 43
Croydon Aerodrome Aircraft Sheds at, 490, 493

D

Davey, Henry (Portrait), 437
Dearne Valley Water Board, New Pumping Plant for, 373
Dominion Iron and Steel Co Ltd., Sydney Steel Plant, Nova Scotia, 681, 688
Doulton and Co Ltd., Stoneware Pipe Works at Erith, 534; (Letter), 571; (Addendum), 674 (Two-page Supplement, May 18th, 1928)
Dubilier Condenser Company, Ltd., " Toroid " H.F. Transformer, Variable Condenser, 100, 101
Dunstable Portland Cement Works, 92, 104, 120

E

Elax Motor Tanker, Netherland Shipbuilding Co, 156
Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd., Current Transformers, Portable A.C. Voltmeters, Vacuum Thermo-couples, 73
Erith Stoneware Pipe Works, Doulton and Co., Ltd., 534; (Letter), 571; (Addendum), 674 (Two-page Supplement, May 18th, 1928)
Escher-Wyss Oil Pump Unit and Gate-cleaning Apparatus, Water Turbines and Generator for Shannon Power Plant, 318, 341
Etimuco, 24-Ton Air Hammer, 5-Ton Drop Hammer, 284
Everett, Edgcumbe and Co., Ltd.; Synchronous Motor, Induction Ammeter, Current Transformer, 99
Evershed and Vignoles, bionic Water Tester, 73

F

Fairey Aviation Co, Ltd., Fairy III General Service Aeroplane, 5, 6 Fairey III. F Seaplane, 6 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Fairey-Reed Schneider Trophy Metal Airscrew, 6
Fairey-Reed Silent Metal Airscrew, 6
Ferranti Transformers with Tapping Changing Gear, 13, 14
Ferrybridge Electric Power Station, Turbo-generator House at, 12 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Foster Instrument Co. Captain A. Blackie's Heat Loss Gauge, 44
Fraser and Chalmers and General Electric Company, Large Oil-driven Generator Set, 200
French Liner 'Ile de France', 26 (Supplement,January 6th, 1928)
French State Railways, " Pacific " Locomotive, 592
French Tidal Power Schemes, Defour Scheme, 326

G

General Electric Company, Ltd., and Fraser and Chalmers, 1750 13.H. I'. Six-cylinder Heavy Oil Engine for Driving Generator, 200
General Electric Company, Vacuum Switch, 73
Gercke, M., Peak Load Problem, &,c., 406
Gisborne, New Zealand, Now Harbour Works, 174, 184.; Concrete Caisson for Breakwater Construction, 174
Gloster Aircraft Co. Ltd., Gloster " Goring " Long-distance Day Bomber, 4, 5. Gloster IV. Racing Seaplane, 4 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Gough, Dr. H. J., and A. J. Murphy. Failure of Wrought Iron Chain. 455, 468
Granberg, V. W.. High-duty Boilers for Saw-mill Refuse, 692
G.W. Railway, Four-cylinder Express Locomotive King George V., 18, 20 (Supplement,January 6th, 1928)
Gregson, Major W., Waste Heat Recovery, 204,216
Guildford, Electric Generating Station at, C. A. Parsons and Co, Ltd., 590, 634

H

Haigh, Professor B. P., The Static Balancing of Rotors, 310. 338, 350
H. G. Hawker Engineering Company, Ltd.: Hawker Horsley Long-distance Machine, 34,46. Hawker Horsley Torpedo Carrier, 34, 35
Hellgate Power Station, New York. low-pressure Turbine Cylinder for, 638
Herbert. Alfred, Ltd., Heavy Duty Vertical Milling Machine, 494, 495
Herbert, Alfred. Semi-automatic Lathe, 284,285
Herbert, E. G., " Cloudburst " Hardness Tester, 696
Heywood, S. H., and Co., Ltd., 30-Ton Duplex Overhead Travelling Crane, 354
Hilger, Adam, Acoustic Resonator " Muto-chrome," 74
H.M. Aircraft Carrier [[[HMS Courageous|Courageous]] 230
H.M. Armoured Cruiser London, 2 (supplement, January 6th, 1928)
H.M. Destroyer Amazon, 2
H.M. First Class Battleship Nelson, 2 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
H.M. First Class Battleship Rodney, 2 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
HMS Sussex, Launch of, 249
Horne Copper Mine and Smelter at Noranda, Quebec, 376, 378
Horseferry-road Sub-station, 188
Howden Marine Boiler, 315 lb. Pressure, James Howden and Co Ltd., 25
Hudson River Bridge, 426
Hulse and Co, Ltd., Drilling, Boring and Milling Machine, 382

I

"Inflexible" All-metal Monoplane, 544
Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Steam Nozzle Research Committee's Report, 95
Isenthal and Co, Ltd., Aegir Depth Indicator, Electric Alarm or Voltage Regulator, 98
Isle Maligne Power-house on the Saguenay.River, 71
Isle of Man Steamer Ben-my-Chree. Cammell, Laird and Co, Ltd., 24
Italian Motor Liner Saturnia, 11 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Italian State Railways, 'Decapod' Locomotive, 593; 'Mikado' Locomotive, 593, 'Pacific' Locomotive, 593

J

Johnson, B., and Son, Pavement Breaking Machine, 440

K

Kayser, J. Ferdinand, Geometry. Wear and Testing of Safety Razor Blade Edges, 621
Kip's Bay, New Boiler at, 220
Kitson-Still Locomotive, 484, 491, 581; (Letters), 554, 572
Kitson-Still Steam and Internal Combustion Locomotive, 16. 19, 21
Krupp, Fried., Aktiengesellschaft, 50-Cycle Single-phase Electric Locomotive, 219

L

Laidlaw-Drew Oil Burners for Kitson-Still Locomotive, 581
Leipzig, Technical Fair at, 284
Lentz Marino Engine, 1700 I.H.P. Double Compound, John Dickson and Son Ltd.,25
Lockheed Hydraulic Brake System Fitted to " Inflexible " Monoplane, 544
London, H.M. Armoured Cruiser, 2 (Supplement, .January 6th, 1928)
L.M. and S. Railway, Garrett., Locomotive Beyer-Peacock, 18, 19
L.M. and S. Railway, Tank Engine, 18, 19
L.M. and S. Railway, 500 B.H.P. Oil-electric Train, William Beardmore and Co Ltd., 514, 518
L.M. and S. Railway, Three-cylinder Express Locomotive " Royal Scot," 18, 19 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
London and North-Eastern Railway, New Steam Coach, 722
L. and N.B. Railway, Corridor Tender, 666, 667
L. and N.E. Railway Three-cylinder Locomotive with Woodard Connecting-rod, 18, 19, 20(Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Longridge, Michael (Portrait), 107
Lubeck-Travetnunde Flying Boat Service. 100-Ton Floating Dry Dock for, 320

M

MacDonald, R. C.. Defective Welds, 457
Maentwrog Power-house of North Wales Power Company, 151, 152; (Addenda), 195
Marconi Co, Short-wave Wireless Receiver, Portable Wireless Receiver, 98
Markham and Co Ltd., Large Steam Winding Engines, 458, 459; (Correction), 501
Martin Mercury Contact Manometer, 181
Martin Rotor Balancing Machine, 338, 340, 350
Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., Twin-screw Fire Float for Rangoon, 558, 660
Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd., 100-kW Auxiliary Generator Set, 347
Mitchell Conveyor and Transporter Co, Ltd., Locomotive Coaling Plants at Doncaster, Feltham, King's Cross, Nine Elms, Ramsgate, Whitemoor, Willesden, 291, 294
Moltke. Ex-German Battle-cruiser, Salving of, 605
Montreal, Grain Elevator System at, 714, 717

N

Nalder Brothers and Thompson. Ltd., Voltmeters and Wattmeters, Induction Instruments, Ammeters, &c., Reverse Current Relay, Combined Power Factor and Induction Wattmeter, 99, 100
Nasmyth, Wilson and Co, Ltd., Nigerian Railway's Tank Locomotive, 21; Barsi Light Railway, 2ft. 6in. Gauge Engine, 21, 22
Negretti and Zambra, Temperature Indicator (Dial Thermometer with Signalling Device), 101; Surface Thermometer, 102
Nelson, H. M. First Class Battleship, 2 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Newcastle-Gateshead New Road Bridge, 206
New Holland Pier, Reconstruction of, 228
Niagara Falls, Preservation of, 368

O

Oerlikon Steam Turbine Driven Alternator, 25,000 H.P.. Report on, 366k
Orient Turbine Liner Orford, Vickers-Armstrong, 439

P

P.L.M. Railway, 4-8-4 Tank Engine. 414
Parsons Oil Engine Company, Ltd., Eight-Cylinder Oil Engine for High Latitudes, 357
Paugan Falls Power Plant on the Gatineau River, 523
Peckett and Sons Ltd., Saddle Tank Engine, 21, 22
Physical and Optical Societies' Exhibition, 42, 72, 98-For Exhibits. see Subjects Index,
Scientific Instruments
Pickles. John, and Son (Engineers). Ltd.,
Panel Planing Machine, Planing And Moulding Machine, Three-drum Sander, 453, 454
Plenty-Still Engine, 210 B.H.P., 10
Pointe du Bois Power Plant on the Winnipeg River. 189
Poplar, 10,000-kW Turbo-generator, 12 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928):,
Port Gisborne, Commonwealth Dominion Line Motor Cargo Ship, 11 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Post Office Tube Railway, London, 153 (Two-page Supplement, February 10th,)928)
Power Plant Co, Ltd., Urge Double Helical Gear Generating Machine, 462, 466, 467
Pressure Piling Company, Ltd., Air Pressure Piling System, 441
Pulsometer Engineering Co, Ltd., New Pumping Plant for the Dearne Valley Water Board, 373

Q

Quebec, Hydraulic Power Developments in, 313, 322

R

R101, Constructional Details, Lieut.-Colonel V. C. Richmond, 398, 399, 410; (Letters), 459, 516, 554, 598
Ransome, A., and Co., Ltd., Log Cross-cutting Saw, 441
Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., High-speed Navvies and Drag Line Excavators. 272
Reavell-Askania Automatic Control Gear, 596
Reavell and Co, Ltd.. Air Compressor for Six-cylinder Heavy Oil Engine, 203
Richmond, V. C., Lieut.-Colonel, Developments in Rigid Airship Construction, 398, 399, 410 (Letter), 459
Robinson, Thomas, and Son, Ltd., Heavy Double-spindle Moulder, Panel Planing and Thicknessing Machine. Straight Edging and Ripping Saw Bench, 451, 452
Rodney, H.M., First Class Battleship, 2 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Rotterdam Lloyd Motor Liner Sibajak. 192; (Correction), 253
Rottle Hydro-electric lower Station. Sweden, 258, 268, 290
Rowland, B. R., and Co., Ltd., Double Electrically Driven Wet Tool Grinder, 84
Royal Dutch Navy, Torpedo Boat S.M. 2, John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., 238
Rumfields-see Broadstairs
Ruston Steam Caterpillar Digger, 93, 104
Ryburn Pipe Line for Wakefield Waterworks, 135

S

Sagar. J., and Co., Ltd., Chain-feed Edging and Sawing Machine, Heavy Planing and Thicknessing Machine, 452, 453
St. Francis Dam, Collapse of, 380, 438, 568
Saratoga, United States Aeroplane Carrier, 2 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Saturnia, Italian Motor Liner, 11 (Supplement. January 6th, 1928)
Schiess-Defries, Cutter Head Grinding Machine, Tool Grinding Machine, 285
Schiess-Defries, Horizontal Boring Machine, 285
Schiess-Defries Machine Tool Company, New Lathe and New Tool, 158, 166
Schmaltz, Friedrich, Portable Grinder for Locomotive Repair, 285, 286
Schmaltz, Friedrich, Saw-sharpening Machine, 285
Schmidt Super-pressure Locomotive, Henschel and Sons, 20, 21
Schmidt-Henschel High -pressure Two-pressure Locomotive, 80, 81, 82; (Correction), 223 (Two-page Supplement, January 20th, 1928)
Schwab, Charles M., Portrait, 510, 519
Scotland, 11,000-Volt Electric Transmission Lines in, 710
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd., Twin-screw Cargo Motor Vessel Eurybates, 345 (Two-page Supplement, March 30th, 1928)
Scott-Still Oil Engine, 3000 B.H.P., 10
Scott-Still 2500 S.H.P. Engine for Motor Vessel Eurybates, 345 (Two-page Supplement, March 30th, 1928)
Sentinel-Cammell Geared Steam Rail Car, 551
Shanks, Alexander, and Son, Ltd., 80 B.H.P. Oil Engine, 639
Shannon Power Plant, 318, 341; Turbines foi the Shannon Hydro-electric Power Station, 318, 319
Shannon Power Scheme. Concrete Work at Generating Station Site, 34-kV Transmission Lines, 50, 51
Siam, Irrigation in, Prasak Barrage, 147
Singapore. 50,000-Ton Floating Dock for, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd., 68, 69
Singapore Floating Dock, Electrical Equipment, E. T. Williams, 486
Smith, Professor S. Parker, Report on n. Three-phase Turbo-alternator, 366, 402; (Letter), 459
Societte des Engrenages Citroen, Gear-driven Train Lighting Set, 276
Southampton, Port of, F. E. Wentworth - Sheilds, 705
Southern Railway Express Goods Engine, 19 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Stephenson, Robert, and Co., Ltd., Metre-gauge Locomotive, Kenya—Uganda Railway, 21, 22
Stonebyres and Bonnington Hydro-electric Stations, 13 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Stourport Electric Power Station and Turbo-generators, 22,500 kVA, 12 (Supplement, January 6th. 1928)
Streamline Filter Co Ltd., 200-Ton Oil Separator for the Japanese Navy, 112
Sturrock Universal Pipe Frame, L. Ferguson, Ltd., 414
Sugden, T., Ltd., " Stets " Boiler Feed Controller for High Pressures. 582
Sulzer Brothers, 2000 B.H.P. Experimental Oil Engine, 138
Sulzer 7000 S.H.P. Two-stroke Marine Oil Engine, 375
Superheater Co Ltd., " M.L.S." Super-heater Header and Regulator, 320
Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd., Super-marine S 5 Raring Seaplane, 5, 6
Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works. High-pressure Steam Locomotive, 274
Sydney Steel Plant, Nova Scotia, Dominion Iron and Steel Co Ltd., 681, 688

T

Talbot Open-hearth Furnace with Auxiliary Hearths, 483
Tangent Tool and Engineering Co. Ltd., 1-Ton Motor Roller, 83
Thornycroft, John I., and Co., Ltd., Coastal Motor Torpedo-boat for the Dutch Navy, 238
Thornycroft, John I., and Co., Ltd., H.M.Destroyer Amazon, 2
Thring High-pressure Indicator for Guns and Rifles, 298
Tinsley, H., and Co., Resistance Box Switch, 98
Treforest Power Station, Interior, 12, 13

U

Uniflow Pump Company, Ltd., " Uniflow " Pump, 526
United States Aeroplane Carrier Saratoga, 2 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)

V

Vickers Ltd., Vickers " Valiant " General Service Military Machine, 7 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928); Vickers " Vivid " Military Two-seater, 5, 7
Vickers-Armstrong's Naval Construct ion Works, Orient Liner Orford, 439; Vickers • Armstrongs, Ltd., 33-Ton. Hydraulic Coal Hoist.
Vinycomb, T. B., Wave Model, John Griffin and Sons, Ltd., 100
Voith and Co., Turbines, Turbine Runner, Speed Ring, Spiral Casing, Thrust Bearing, for Shannon Power Scheme, 318, 341
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Broad-gauge Standard Locomotive for India, 16, 20

W

Wadkin and Co, Canting-spindle Dimension Saw Bench, Motor-driven Automatic Cross-cut Saw. Motor-driven Cross-cutting and Trenching Machine, 431
Warner-Swasey Pneumatic Tool. 525
Weir, G. and J.. Ltd., High-pressure Turbine-driven Feed Pump, 640
Werkspoor Works, Extra High-pressure Steam Engine at. 130, 134
West Templeton Paper Mills, Canada. 212, 216
Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Co Ltd., Metal Rectifiers, 684
Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company, Ltd., Pressed Steel Vacuum Brake Cylinders, 109
Westland Aircraft Works, Westland "Wapiti" General Service Military Machine, 4 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928); Westland "Widgeon III" Light Two-seater, 4, 5
Weyburn Engineering Co, Ltd., Completely Submersible Lifeboat Engine, 162, 163
White Star Liner Laurentic, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 24 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
"Wico" Magneto, 385
Wigan's Hoscar Sewage Disposal Works, Bacteria Beds, Settling Tanks, 39, 40
Williams, Ernest T., Electrical Equipment of Singapore Floating Dock, 486
Willow Holme Power Station, Interior, 12
Winget (1924), Ltd.. 10/7 Open Drum Concrete Mixer, Kerb and Channel Moulder, 430
Woodbridge--see Guildford
Work Meters, Ltd., Work Meter Electrical Contact Maker, 328; (Addendum). 361
Workman-Sulzer Oil Engine, 3500 B.H.P., Workman, Clark and Co, Ltd., 10

Y

Yarrow and Co, Ltd., 400 lb. Pressure Boiler Steam Drum, 460
Yarrow Boiler Combustion Chamber, 23
Yarrow Boiler with Erith-Roe Stoker, 23

Z

Zoelly Turbine, 12,000 KW, Blading of, 177

Subjects

A

Aerial Ropeway at the Sagro Quarries, Carrara, 180, 181
Air Compressor for Large Heavy Oil Engine, Reavell and Co., Ltd., 203

AERONAUTICS

- See also Miscellaneous Index, Annual Articles
- Some Aeroplanes of 1927. 4, 5 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928) 4
- Aircraft Sheds at Croydon Aerodrome, 490. 493
- Hydraulic Brakes for Aeroplanes, Lockheed System, 544
- Rigid Airship Construction, R 101, Lieut=Colonel V. C. Richmond, 398, 399, 410; (Letters). 459, 516, 554, 598
Automatic Control Gear for Gasworks, Boiler Plant, &c., Reavell-Askania, 596

B

Balancing Machine. Rotor, Martin, 338, 348, 350
Boiler Feed Controller, " Stets," for High Pressures, T. Sugden, Ltd., 582
Boiler, 315 lb. Pressure, Howden Marine, James Howden and Cb., Ltd., 25
Boiler, New, at Kip's Bay, 220
Boiler Steam Drum, 400 lb. Pressure, Yarrow and Co.. Ltd., 460
Boiler, Yarrow, with Erith-Roe Stoker, Yarrow Boiler Combustion Chamber, 23
Boilers, High-duty, for Sawmill Refuse, V. W. Granberg, 692
Boilers, Thimble-tube Waste Heat, for Submarines, Thomas Clarkson, 205
Boring Machines—see Machine Tools
Brick-set Harrington Stoker on Yarrow Boiler at Barking, 247
Bridge, Hudson River, 426
Bridge, New Road, Newcastle-Gateshead, 206
Bridges, Old and New Road. Over the Tweed at Berwick, 542
Building Trades—see Miscellaneous Index

C

Cathetometer, New Form of, C. F. Casella and Co., Ltd., 412
Chain, Wrought Iron, Failure of. Dr. H. J. Gough and A. J. Murphy, 455, 468
Coal Hoist, 33-Ton Hydraulic, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., 694
Commercial Road Vehicle Hall at Leipzig, 284
Concrete Mixer, 10/7 Open Drum, Winget (1924), Ltd., 430
Copper Mine and Smelter at Noranda, Quebec, Horne Copper Corporation, 376, 378
Corridor Tender, L. and N.E. Railway, 666, 667
Crane, 15-Ton Electro-hydraulic Ingot Casting, 240, 244
Crane, 30-Ton Duplex Overhead Travelling Crabs, Travel Motor and Gearing, and Brake, Crab Position Indicator, S. H. Heywood and Co., Ltd., 354
Crane, 3-Ton Level-luffing, Joseph Booth and Brothers, Ltd., 684

D

Dam, St. Francis (Los Angeles Water Supply ), Collapse of. 380, 438, 568
Dam, Stevenson Experimental, 478
Digger, Ruston Steam Caterpillar, 93, 104
Dock Extension at Avonmouth, 539, 546. 563. 574; Grain Handling Appliances, dc., 603
Drilling—see Machine Tools
Drop Hammer Plant, Converted, Brett's Patent Lifter Company, Ltd., 110

E ELECTRICAL MATTERS

Alternator, Oerlikon, Temperature Detectors in Stator, 367
Automatic Electric Sub-stations at Brighton, 578. 579
Chester, Rural Electrification at, 649
Ferranti Transformers with Tapping Changing Gear. 13. 14
Gear-driven Train Lighting Dynamo, Societe des Engrenages Citroen. 276
Guildford, 1Voodbridge-road Electric Generating Station. 590, 634
Horseferry-road Sub-station, 188
Isle Maligns Power-house on the Saguenay River, 71
Maontwrog Power-house of North Wales Power Company, 151, 152; (Addenda), 195
1200-kW Oil-driven Generator Set for Short's Gardens Station,General Electric Company and Fraser and Chalmers, 230
Rottle Hdyro-electric Power Station, Sweden, 258. 268. 290
Scotland, 11,000-Volt Electric Transmission Lines in, 710
Shannon Power Scheme, Concrete Work at
Generating Station Site. 34-kV Transmission Lines, 50, 51
Singapore Floating Dock, Electrical Equipment, 486
Stonebyres and Bennington Hydro-electric Stations, 13 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Stourport Electric Power Station, 12 (Supplement, January 6th. 1928); Turbo-generators, 22,500 kVA. at Stourport, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 12 (Supplement. January 6th. 1928)
Synchronous Motors for Driving Grinders at Paper Mills, 212. 216
Transformers for the Coventry Power
Station. British Thomson-Houston Company, 460
Treforest Power Station, Interior of, 12. 13
Turbo-alternator, Three-phase, Report on, Professor S. Parker Smith. 366, 402; (Letter). 459
Turbo-generator. 20.000-kW Brown-Boveri, at Rotterdam, 506. 549 (Two-page Supplement, May 11th, 1928)
Turbo-generator, 10,000-kW, at Poplar. 12 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Turbo-generator House. Ferry bridge Electric Power Station, 12 (Supplement, January 6th. 1928)
Willow Reline Power Station, Interior of, 12
ENGINES AND MOTORS :
Completely Submersible Lifeboat Engine, Weyburn Engineering Company, Ltd., 162, 163
Double Compound Lentz Marine Engine, 1700 I.H.P. John Dickinson and Sons, Ltd., 25
Experimental Oil Engine, 2000 B.H.P., Sulzer Brothers. 138
Extra-High-Pressure Steam Engine at Werksspoor Works. 130, 134
High-speed Navvy Hoisting Engine, 272, 273; Racking Engine, Two-cylinder, 272, 273, Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd.
Marine Oil Engine, 7000 S.H.P. Two-stroke, Sulzer, 375
Marine Oil Engines in 1927. 8; Beardmore Oil Engine, 1500 B.H.P., 900 r.p.m., 11; Plenty-Still Engine, 210 B.H.P., 10; Scott-Still Oil Engine, 3000 B.H.P., 10; Workman-Sulzer Oil Engine. 3500 B.H.P., 10
Mirrlees Auxiliary Engine and Generator Set for the Eurybates, 347
Oil Engine, Eight-cylinder, for High Latitudes. Parsons Oil Engine Company, Ltd., 357
Oil Engine Generator Set, 300-kW, 450 B.H.P.. Six-cylinder, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., and W. H. Allen, Sons and Co. Ltd., 301
Oil Engine, 80 B.H.P.. for a Woollen Mill, Alexander Shanks and Son, Ltd., 639
1750 B.H.P. Six-cylinder Engine for Driving Generator Sot at Electric Supply Station, Fraser and Chalmers and General Electric Company, Ltd., 200
Scott-Still 2500 S.H.P. Engine for Motor Vessel Eurybates, also Auxiliary Engine and Generator Set, 345, 347 (Two-page Supplement. March 30th, 1928)
Winding Engines. Deep Steam, for South Africa, Markham and Co., Ltd., 458, 459; (Correction), 501

EXHIBITIONS

British Industries Fair — see Separate Section of Index
Building Trades Exhibition, 430. 451
Physical and Optical Societies' Exhibition, 42, 72, 98—For Exhibits, see Scientific Instruments
Technical Fair at Leipzig. 284

F FAIRS—see Exhibitions

Fire Float for Rangoon. Twin-screw, Merryweather and Sons. Ltd., 558, 660
Floating Dock. 50,000-Ton, for Singapore, Swan. Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., 68, 69
Floating Dry Dock. 100-Ton, for Flying Boats, Lubeck-Travemunde Service, 320

G

Gate-cleaning Apparatus for Shannon Power Plant, Escher-Wyss, 342
Gear-driven Train Lighting Set, Societe des Engrenages Citroen, 276
Gear Generating Machine, Large Double Helical. Power Plant Company. Ltd., 462, 466, 467
Geometry, Wear and Testing of Safety Razor Blade Edges. J. F. Kayser, 621
Grain Elevator System at Montreal, 714, 717
Grain-handling Appliances at Avonmouth, 603
Grinders—see Machine Tools

H

Hammer, Air, 2I-Ton. Eumuco, 284
Hammer, Drop. 5-Ton, Eumuco, 284
Harbour Works, Now, for Gisborne, New Zealand, and Concrete Caisson for Breakwater Construction. 174, 184
Hardness Testing Machine, 'Cloudburst', E. G. Herbert, 696
High-speed Navvies and Drag Line Excavators, Ransomes and Rapier. Ltd., 272
Hydraulic Power Developments in Quebec, 313, 322
Hydro-electric Power Station, The Wittle, 258, 268, 290

I

Indicator, High-pressure, for Guns and Rifles, Leonard G. P. Thring. 298
Indicators-see Scientific Instruments
Irrigation in Siam, 147; Prasak Barrage. Head Regulator of Southern Main Canal, 148, 149

K

Kerb and Channel Moulder, Winget (1924) Ltd., 430

L

Laboratory of Insurance Engineering, American, 676, 704
Lathes-see Machine Tools
Levelling and Stadia Staff. Cooke, Troughton and Simms, Ltd., 657
" Load Mountain " Model, M. Gercke. 496

LOCOMOTIVES

Bagnall, W. G.. Ltd., Side Tank Engine for 2ft. bin. Gauge Railway for Sugar Plantation, 22
Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd., " Garratt " Locomotive, San Paulo Railway, 16, 20, 21
Canadian National Railways, Passenger Locomotive, 16, 20, 22
Fifty-cycle Single-phase Electric Locomotive, Fried. Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, 219
Great Western Railway. Four-cylinder Express Locomotive. King George V., 18, 20 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
High-pressure Locomotive, Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, 274
High • pressure Two - pressure Locomotive, Henschel and Sohn, 80, 81, 82; (Correction), 223 (Two-page Supplement, January 20th, 1928)
Kitson-Still Steam and Internal Combustion Locomotive, 16, 19, 21, 484. 491. 581; (Letters), 554, 572
Locomotive, General Development of the, 396, 422, 450, 481. 508. 562, 592, 616. 648
French State Railways, " Pacific " Locomotive, 592
Italian State Railways, " Decapod Locomotive, 593; " Mikado " Locomotive, 593; " Pacific " Locomotive, 593
L.M. and S. Railway, " Garratt " Locomotive, Beyer-Peacock, 18. 19
L.M. and S. Railway, Tank Engine, 18. 19
L.M. and S. Railway. Three-cylinder Express Locomotive Royal Scot, 18, 19 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
L. and N.E. Railway, Three-cylinder Engine, with Woodard Connecting-rod. 18, 19, 20 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Nasymth, Wilson and Co., Ltd., Nigeria, Railways Tank Locomotive, 21; Barsi Light Railway, 2ft. 6in. Gauge Locomotive, 21, 22
Peckett and Sons, Ltd., Saddle Tank Engine, 21, 22
P.L.M. Railway, 4- 8-4 Tank Engine, 414
Schmidt Super - pressure Locomotive, Henschel and Sons, 20, 21
Southern Railway Express Goods Engine, 19 (Supplement, January 6th. 1928)
Stephenson, Robert, and Co., Ltd., Metre-gauge Locomotive, Kenya-Uganda Railway, 21. 22
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Indian Broad-gauge Standard Locomotive, 16, 20
Locomotive Coaling Plants. Doncaster, 292, 294; Feltham, 292; King's Cross, 292; Nine Elms, 291; Ramsgate, 292. 294; Whitemoor, 292, 294; Willesden, 292, 294; Mitchell Conveyor and Transporter Company, Ltd.
Locomotive Repair Portable Grinder, Friedrich Schmalz, 285, 286
Locomotive Works at Crewe. Reorganisation of, Erecting Shop, Gas Machines, etc., Captain H. P. M. Beames, 312. 314
Low-pressure Turbine Cylinder for Hell Gate Power Station, New York. 638

M MACHINE TOOLS

Boring Machine, Horizontal, Schiess-Defries, 285
Drilling, Boring and Milling Machine, Hulse and Co., Ltd., 382
Extra High-speed Lathe, Schiess-Defries Machine Tool Company. 158, 166
Grinder, Double Electrically Driven Wet Tool, B. R. Rowland and Co., Ltd., 84
Grinder, Pneumatic Fettling, Warner Swasey Company, 525
Grinding Machine, Cutter Head; Grinding Machine, Tool, Schiess-Defries, 285
Hole and Expansion Link Grinding Machines, Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., 600, 608
Lathe, Semi-automatic, Alfred Herbert, 284. 285
Milling Machine. Heavy Duty Vertical, Alfred Herbert. Ltd., 494, 495
Saw Sharpening Machine, Friedrich Schmalz, 285
Magneto. A Simple, The " Wico," 385
Manometer, Improved Mercury Contact, H. Martin, 181

MAPS

Maentwrog Scheme. Area Covered by, 151
Map of Post Office Tube Railway, 153
Position of Hudson River Bridge. 426
Southampton Docks, 706
Mechanical Motions, Special, Models of, 286
Metal Rectifiers, Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company. Ltd.. 684
Milling Maehines-see Machine Tools Mills, Conveyors, Boiler-house Machinery. &c., at Doulton and Co., Ltd., Erith, 534 (Two page Supplement, May 18th, 1928)
" M.L.S." Superheater Header and Regulator, Superheater Company, Ltd., 320

O

Oil Burners for Kitson-Still Locomotive, Laidlaw-Drew, 581
Oil-electric Train. 500 B.H.P., for L.M. and S. Railway, William Beardmore and Co., Ltd.. 514. 518
Oil Engines-see Engines
Oil Pump Unit and Pressure Chamber, Escher-Wyss, 342
Oil Separator, 200-Ton, for the Japanese Navy, Stream-Line Filter Company, Ltd., 112
Open-hearth Process, The Basic. B. Talbot, 482

P

Paper Mills, West Templeton, on the Ottawa River. 212. 216
Pavement Breaking Machine, B. Johnson and Son, 440
Pipe Template, Sturrock Universal, L. Ferguson, Ltd., 414
Port of Southampton, F. E. Wentworth-Sheilds, 705
Portland Cement Works, Dunstable. 92, 104, 120
Bates' Valve-bag Cement Packers, 122, 123
Cement Storage Silos, 121
Clinker Measuring Device, 120. 122
Coal Handling Plant, 121
Coal Pulverisers, 120, 122
Combination Cement Grinding Tube Mills, 121, 122
Digger, Slurry Pump and Separators. &c., 93, 94, 104
Kilns at Dunstable Works, 120, 121
Slurry Force Pump. Three-throw, 94, 104
Slurry Separators, Battery of, 94, 104
Portrait, Henry Davy, 437
Portrait, Michael Longridge, 107
Portrait, Charles M. Schwab, 510, 519
Post Office-see Railways
Power Plant. Paugan Falls, Gatineau River Company, 523
Power Plant, Turbines, &e.. for Shannon Power Scheme, 318, 319, 341
Preservation of Niagara Falls, 368

PUMPS

Force Pumps at Everbill Pumping Station, Pulsometor Engineering Company, Ltd., and F. A. Parkinson, Ltd., 375
Pumping Plant, Now, for the Dearne Valley Water Board, 373
High-pressure Turbine-driven Feed Pump, G. and J. Weir, Ltd., 640
Pumps and Pumping Station for Calcutta Waterworks, 394, 406, 423. 434
Rumfields Pumping Station, Broadstairs Waterworks, 617, 630
'Uniflo' Pump, Uniflow Pump Company, Ltd., 526

Q

Quay, New Riverside, at the Albert Edward Dock on the Tyne, 664, 665

R

Rail Care Geared Steam, Sentinel Waggon Works, Ltd., and Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 351

RAILWAYS

Post Office Tube Railway, London. 153 (Two-page Supplement. February 10th, 1928)
Rotary Converter. Rotary Converter Sub-station and Motor Generator Connections, Motor Wagon Electrical Connections. 154
Tunnel with Two Tracks. Main Loop Line and Car Depot Line. 153
Railway Pageant, American, 64
Pageant. and Exhibition, Grounds, 64

The Locomotives

G.W.R. Express Locomotive, King George V., 64
The Atlantic. 1832, 65. 76
The Lafayette, Later the William Galloway, 1837, 65, 76
The Memnon, 1848, 65
The Ross Winans, 1869, 65. 66
The Thatcher Perkins, 1862, 64, 05
The Toni Thumb, 1829, 65, 76
The William Mason, 1856, 65, 66
The York, 1831, 65, 76
Reconstruction of New Holland Pier, 228
Reservoir, Ten-million, at Talllah for Calcutta Water Supply. 423. 424. 425
Roller. 1-Ton Motor, Tangent Tool and Engineering Company, Ltd., 83
Ropeway—see Aerial

S

Salving of the Ex-German Battle-cruiser Moltke, 605

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Exhibits of the Physical and Optical Societies 42, 72, 98
Acoustic Resonator. Adam Hilger, 74
Aegir Depth Indicator, Electric Alarm, or Voltage Regulator. Isenthal and Co., Ltd., 98
Ammeter, Portible Multi-range, Crompton, Parkinson. Ltd., 42, 43
Cambridge Low-tension Schering Bridge, Cambridge Instrument Company, 43, 44
Combined Power Factor and Induction Watt-meter, Laboratory Wattmeter, Reverse Current Relay. Nalder Brothers and Thompson. Ltd., 99, 100
Current Transformer, Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd.. 73
Current Transformer, Induction Ammeter, Synchronous Motor, Everett Edgcumbe and Co.. Ltd.. 99
Detonation of High Explosives, Apparatus for Measuring Energy Emitted, T. Carlton-Sutton. 99
Diomic Water Tester, Evershed and Vignoles, 73
Duddell Oscillograph, H.'T., and Condenser, Cambridge Instrument Company, 43, 44
Heat Loss Gauge. Foster Instrument Company, 44
Moullin Thermionic Voltmeters, Cambridge Instrument Company, 72
Mutochrome," Seventeen -colour, Adam Hilger, Ltd., 74
Portable Alternating-current Voltmeter, Elliott Brothers. Ltd., 73
Receivers, Short-wave Wireless and Portable Wireless, Marconi Company, 98
Recording Potentiometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, 72, 73
Resistance Box Switch, H. Tinsley and Co., 98
Steel, " H.R. Crown," " Staybrite," and Firth Stainless " H.R. Crown " Steel Wire, Brown-Firth Research Laboratories, 100
Temperature Deviation Indicators, Cambridge Instrument Company. 101
Temperature Indicator, Surface Thermo-meter, Negretti and Zambra, 101, 102
Toroid " H.F. Transformer, Variable Condenser, Dubilier Condenser Company Ltd., 100, 101
Vacuum Switch, General Electric Company, Ltd., 73
Vacuum Thermo-couples, Elliott Brothers, Ltd., 73
Vibrograph, Low-periodicity, Cambridge Instrument Company, 42, 43
Wave Form Indicator, Cambridge Instrument Company, 72
Wave Model. T. B. Vinycomb, John Griffin and Sons. Ltd., 100
Sewage Disposal Works, Wigan's Hoscar, Bacteria Beds. Settling Tanks. 39, 40
Sewage Pumping Plant, Automatic Underground, Daniel Adamson and Co., Ltd.. 525
Shannon Scheme—see Electrical Matters
Siam—see Irrigation

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS

British Navy
H.M. Aircraft Carrier Courageous, 230
H.M. Armoured Cruiser London, 2 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
H.M. First-class Battleship Nelson, 2 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
H.M. First-class Battleship Rodney, 2 (Supplement, January 6th. 1928) 11.M. Destroyer Amazon, John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., 2
H.M.S. Sussex, Launch of, 249
Foreign Navies :
Royal Dutch Navy, Torpedo Boat S.M. 2, John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., 238
United States Aeroplane Carrier Saratoga, 2 (Supplement, January 6th. 1928)
Miscellaneous Vessels :
Canadian Pacific Cargo Ship Beavorburn, William Denny and Brothers, Ltd., 23, 53 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
C.P.R. Liner Duchess of Bedford, John Brown and Co.. Ltd., 594
Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Australia, Re-engined, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. Ltd., 23
C.P.R. Geared Turbine Passenger Steamer Princess Elaine, 314
Commonwealth Dominion Line, Motor Cargo Ship Port Gisborne, 11 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
French Liner lle de France. 26 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Isle of Man Steamer Ben-My-Chree, Cammell Laird and Co.. Ltd., 24
Italian Motor Liner Saturnia, 11 (Supplement. January 6th, 1928)
Motor Tanker Elax, Netherland Shipbuilding Company. 156
Orient Turbine Liner Orford. Vickers-Armstrong, 439
Quadruple-screw Liner Bermuda, 11 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Rotterdam Lloyd Motor Liner Sibajak, 192; (Correction), 253
Scott-Still Motor Vessel Eurybates, 345 (Two-page Supplement, March 30th, 1928)
Self-discharging Collier Coalfax, Furness Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Ltd., 24
White Star Liner Laurentic, Harland and Wolff Ltd., 24 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
World's Largest Motor Liner Augustus, 9, 11
Static Balancing of Rotors, Professor B. P. Haigh, 310, 338. 350
Steam Coach. London and North-Eastern Railway. 722
Steam Engines—see Engines
Steam Nozzles, 95. 96
Steel Plant. Sydney. Nova Scotia, 681, 688
Stoneware Pipe Works of Doulton and Co., Ltd., at Erith, 534; (Letter), 571; (Addendum). 674 (Two-page Supplement, May 18th, 1928)
Sykes Double Helical Gear Generating Machine, Power Plant Company, Ltd., 482, 466, 467

T

Tidal Power Schemes, French, 326
Traffic Signal, A Now, 498
Train Lighting Set, Gear-driven, Societe des Engrenages Citroen, 276
Train—see Oil-Electric Turbine, 12,000-kW Zoelly. Matting of, 177
Turbines for Generating Seta at, Guildford, 590, 634
Turbines—see Water Turbines
Turbo-alternators and Turbo-generators—see Electrical Matters

V

Vacuum Brake Cylinders. Pressed Steel, Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company, Ltd., 109
Valve Gear, Caprotti, 720

W

Waste Heat Recovery, Major W. Gregson, 204, 216
Water Power Development in Canada. 189

WATER SUPPLY

Calcutta Waterworks, Pumps and Pumping Station for. 394. 406. 423, 434
Ryburn Pipo Line, New, for Wakefield Waterworks, 135
Waterworks, New, for Broadstairs, 617. 630
WATER Turbines and Generator for the Shannon Power Plants, Escher-Wyss, Voith and Co., 318. 341
Welds, Defective, R. C. MacDonald. 457
Winding Engines—see Engines

WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY

Automatic Cross-cut Saw, Crosscutting and Trenching Machine. Motor-driven. Canting-spindle Dimension Saw Bench, Wadkin and Co., 431
Chain-feed Edging and Sawing Machine, Heavy Pinning and Thicknessing Machine, J. Sager and Co.. Ltd., 452, 453
Combination Woodworking Machine, • Planing Machine, A. Cooksley. 454
Log Cross-cutting Snw. A. Ransom' and Co., Ltd., 441
Moulder, Heavy Double-spindle and Spindle Bearing; Panel Planing and Thicknessing Machine; Straight Edging and Ripping Saw Bench. Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd., 451, 452
Panel Planing Machine, Planing and Moulding Machine, Three-drum Sander, John Pickles and Son (Engineers), Ltd.. 453, 454
Wood - planing and Mortising Machine, Hatcher and Gessner. 285, 286
Work Meter. Electrical Contact Maker, Work Meters, Ltd., 328; (Addendum), 361

Supplements

British Industries Fair at Birmingham (Sixteen-page Supplement. February 17th, 1928) (Eight -page supplement. February 24th, 1928)
Electrical Engineering in 1927 (January 6th, 1928)
Post Office Tube Railway, London (February 10th, 1928)
Schmidt-Henschel High•pressure Two-pressure Locomotive. Henschel and Son (Supplement, January 20th, 1928)
2500 S.H.P. Scott-Still Engine for the Motor Vessel Eurybates (March 30th, 1928)
Some Aeroplanes of 1927(January 6th. 1928)
Some British Locomotives of 1927 (January 6th, 1928)
Some Civil Engineering Works of 1927 (January 6th, 1928)
Some Motor Ships of 1927 (January 6th, 1928)
Some Steamships of 1927 (January 6th, 1928)
Some Warships of 1927 (January 6th, 1928)
Steam Turbine and Generator, 20,000-kW, at Rotterdam (May 11th, 1928)
Stoneware Pipe Works of Doulton and Co., Ltd., at Erith (May 18th, 1928)

A

Allen, Edgar. and Co., Ltd.. Suppt., 17.2.28. xii
Automatic and Electric. Furnace"., 1.td., Suppt. 17.2.28, ix
Avery, W. and T.. Ltd., Suppl.. 17.2.28. i

B

Blackstone and Co., Ltd.. 209
British Oxygen Company. Ltd., Suppt.. 17.2.28. iii; (Correction), 237
British Thomson-Houston Company. Ltd.. 209 '
Brown, S. G.. Ltd.. Suppt.. 24.2.28, iii
Bull Motors, Ltd., 264

C

Callender's Cable and Construction Company Ltd.. 263
Canning and Co., Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, iv
Chloride Electrical Storage Company, Ltd.,Suppt.. 17.2.28. xii
Crossley Bros.,,Ltd., xiv Suppt.. 17.2.28. xiv
Crypto—see Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Company, Ltd.

D

Davey. Paxman and Co., Ltd.. 232
Drayton Regulator and Instrument Company, Ltd.. Suppt., 24.2.28. v

E

Edwards, F. J., Ltd., 237
Electrical Power Engineering Company (Birmingham). Ltd.. Suppt.. 17.2.28. x
Electric Transmission. Ltd.: Taylor Tunnicliff and Co.. Ltd.; Micanite Insulators Company. Ltd., Suppt.. 17.2.28. x
Ellin. Thos. R., Suppt., 17.2.28. i
Ellison, George. Suppt.. 24.2.28. iv

F

Fielding and Platt. Ltd.. 207
Firth. Thos.. and Sons. Ltd., 233
Fowler, John, and Co. (Leeds). Ltd.. 230
Fraser and Chalmers Engine'ring Works, 207

G

General Electric Company. Ltd., Stipp.. 17.2.28. vi, vii
Gibbons (Dudley), Ltd. 237
Goodwin, Barnsby and Co.. Ltd.. Suppt.. 17. xiii
Green, E.. and Son, Ltd., Suppt.. 17.2.28. i
Grice, Wm. and Sons, Suppt.. 17.2.28. i
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd.. Suppt.. xvi
Gutta Percha Company, Suppt.. 17.2.28. xi

H

Hackbridge Electrical Construction Company, Ltd., Suppt.. 17.2.28. xi, xii
Hands, John. and Sons, Ltd.. 234
Harmer, A. F.—see Long and Crawford, Ltd.
Harvey. G. A., and Co.. Ltd., 237
Heatly-Greshain Engineering Company. Ltd., Suppt., 28.2.28. viii
Hewittic Electric Company. Ltd.. Suppt.. 17.2.28, xi
Holden and Hunt, 236
Hollings and Guest. Ltd., &wt., 17.2.28. vii
Hordern, Mason and Edwards, Ltd.. 263

I

Incandescent Heat Company. Ltd.. 231
International Combustion. Ltd., Suppi.. 17.2.28, ii

J

Jackson and Schofield. Ltd.. Suppt.. 17.2.28 v. vi
Johnson, Rd., Clapham and Morris. suppt. 17.2.28. i

L

L.M. Magneto Syndicate. Ltd.. suppi. 17.2.28. x
Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Company, Ltd. 264
Liptak Furnace Arches, Ltd.. '233
Long and Crawford, Ltd., 262

M

Mallett and Day, 235
Marryatt and Place. 264
Marshall, Sons and Co.. Suppt.. 17.2.28. xvi
Meldrums, Ltd., 235
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., Suppt.. 24.2.8. i
Midland Saw and Tool Company. Suppt.. 17.2.28, ii
Mirrlees 'Watson Company, Ltd.. 209
Manometer Manufacturing Company, Ltd.. 207

N

National Gas Engine Company. Ltd., Suppt., 24.2.28, vi
Negretti and Zambra, 233
Norris. Henty and Gardners. Ltd.. Suppt.. 24.0.28,

O

Oldfield and Schofield Company. Ltd.. 236

P

Petters Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, vii
Pneulec Company, Ltd.. Suppt., 17.2.28. v
Pritchett and Gold, Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28. ix
Pulsometer Engineering Company. Ltd.. Su ppt.. 17.2.28, i

R

Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies., Suppt.. 17.2.28, ix
Reavell and Co., Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28. xv
Reyrolle, A.. and Co.. Ltd., Suppt.. 17.2.28, xi
Ring Breaker, Mete co (A. F. Harmer), Long and Crawford, Ltd., 262
Robey and Co., Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28. xiii
Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.. Suppt., 17.2.28. xv

S

Salter, Geo.. and CO, Ltd.. Suppt., 17.2.28. ii
Sheffield Steel Products, 2. 3 2
Stone, J. B., and Co.. Ltd- 232
Super Suctor Sales, Ltd 23 4

T

Tangyes. Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, iv
Taylor and Challen, Ltd.. Suppt.. 17.2.28. iii
Thompson Brothers (Bilston), Ltd., 235

W

Wadkin and Co., Suppt., 24.2.28. ii
Ward, H. W., and Co., Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28. xii
Ward, James (Worcester). Ltd.. 237
Weir, G. and J., Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28. xii
Wesco Products Company. 232
White, Edward, Suppt., 17.2.28, xii
Wigglesworth. F., and Co.. Ltd...236
Winn, Charles, and Co., Ltd.. 236
Other Exhibitors, 265

Subjects

B

Blow-pipe Cutting Machine, Universal British Oxygen Company. Lid., Suppt.. 17.2.2$ iii; (Correction). 237

C

Casting Machines and Metal Melting Furnaces; Tilting Furnace, Oil-fired. Centrol Axis, for Melting Brass. &c.; Oil-fired Furnace for Melting Aluminium; Manometer White Metal Melting and Refining Furnace; Pressure Casting Machines; Pressure Casting Plant for White - Metalling Bearing Brasses, Manometer Manufacturing Company, Ltd., 207-209
Cement Testing Machine, Geo. Salter and Co. Ltd.. Suppe, 17.2.28, ii. iii
Coal Pulvertser, Impact Type Vortex Burner : Turbine Wheels, Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, 207
Concrete Mixer. Open-drum Type. Petrol Engine Driven : Portable Stonebreaker; "Acme" Granulator Goodwin, Barsby and Co.. Ltd.. 237
Concrete Mixer, Portable : Contractors' Hoist, &c. John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 236
Core-drying Ovens. Pnenlec Company, Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28. v

E

Economiser, Vertical, with Automatic Scraping Gear; Economiser, High Velocity Gilled Tube. E. Green and Son. Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28. i

Electrical Matters

Accumulators. " Closed-top " Cells for Country House Lighting. Pritchett and Gold. Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, ix
" All-electric " Contactors; Motors, Traction, 240 H.P.; Motor, Squirrel-cage Induction; Motor. Slip-ring; Star-delta Starter. General Electric Compatily, Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, vi, vii
Arc Welding Set, Portable; Motors. Alter-ratting and Direct-current, Squirrel-cage, Repulsion. Loom Driving, &c.; Starting and Control Equipment. Circuit Breakers, Low-tension Switchboard, &c., Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., Suppt. 24.2.28. ii
Circuit Breaker, Oil, Mounted in Truck Switchgear Unit; Mining Circuit, Breaker; Automatic Transformer Starter, George Ellison. Suppt. 24.2.28. iv, v
Electric Rivet. Heating Machines, Portable. Marryat and Place, 264
Electric Soldering Iron Heater; 8-kW Spot. Welder, Holden and Hunt, 236
Electro-megaphones; Steering Gyro-compass. S. G. Brown, Ltd., Suppt, 24.2.28, iii, iv
House Lighting, Sealed-in Cells for Open Typo Cells; Complete Battery for; Plates. " Chloride Plante " and " Chloride Rosette " Type; Wireless Battery Exhibits. Chloride Electrical Storage Company, Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, xii
I.T. Battery Charging Rectifier, Hewittic Electric Company, Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, xi
"Metesco" Ring Breaker (A. F. Harmer), Long and Crawford, Ltd., 262
Miners' Pneumatic Electric Lamp; Electric Generators, Small, with Permanent Magnets; Motor Double-current Generator, &c., L.M. Magneto Syndicate, Ltd., Suppt.. 17.2.28. x
Motors. Alternating and Direct-current, Horizontal and Vertical; Control Gear, Many Types, for Alternating and Direct-current Motors : Circuit Breaker, Ironclad Oil-immersed : also Double-break Circuit Breaker, British Thomson-Houston Company Ltd., 209. 210
Motor. Epicyclic Geared; Charging Set, Constant. Potential Battery; Warwick Lighting Set. Electric Power Engineering Company. Ltd.. Suppt.. 17.2.28, x
Motor Generator, High-tension, for Ships' Wireless Sets. Bull Motors, Ltd., 264
Motors. " Maxtorq," and New Direct-current Motor; Rectifiers, Commutator. Crypto Electrical Company, Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Company, Ltd.. 264
Overhead Transmission Lino Material; Air Break Switchgear; Electric Transmission, Ltd.; Porcelain Outdoor Typo Transformer Bushing. Taylor, Tunnicliff and Co.. Ltd.; Mica and Micanito Commutator End Rings; Insulators Made from " Paxolin," Micanite and Insulators Company, Ltd., Suppt, 17.2.28. x
Self-aligning Fuses; Air Break Switches; Switches, Three-phase, Double-pole; Protecting Electrical Machinery by Giving Temperature Indications at a Distance. Instrument for; Thermostat, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.. Suppt., 17.2.28, xi
Transformer. 2000-kVA Single-phase Oil-cooled; Voltage Regulating Equipment, Hackbridge Electrical Construction Corn-party, Ltd., Supple, 17.2.28, xi, xii
Electro-plating, Warm, Plant; Barrels; Chromium Vats; Otter Dryer, Canning and Co.. Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, iv

Engines

Engine. Cold-starting Oil, 28 H.P., Robey, and Co.. Ltd., Supple. 17.2.28, xiii
Heavy Oil Engine; 1750 H.P. (Model of), Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, 207
Engine. Three-cylinder, 150 H.P. Oil; Engine. Two-stroke Cycle Type Vertical, 10 H.P. Oil; Engine. 3 B.H.P. Hopper-cooled Petrol-paraffin for Farm Use and Small Electric Lighting Plants, Crossley Bros.. Ltd.. Suppt., 17.2.28. xiv
Engines. Cold-starting Oil, 20 B.H.P. Horizontal; 57 B.H.P. Three-cylinder Vertical; Air Compressor. Two-stage; Excavator, Petrol-paraffin Engine-driven, Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, xv, xvi
Engine. Cold-starting, Three-cylinder Oil, 195 B.H.P.; Fuel Injection, Spring-operated System; Single-cylinder 150 B.H.P. Engine; Oil Engine-driven 3-kW Generator Set; Hopper-cooled Type, Single-cylinder. Spring-injection Engine. 10 B.H.P.; Petrol Engines; Pumps, "Unchokable" Centrifugal; 12in. Vertical. &c., Blackstone and Co.. Ltd. 209
Engines, 60 B.H.P. Cold-starting Oil, Fielding and Platt, Ltd., 207
Engines. Group of Heavy Oil : 60 B.H.P. Vertical Engine, M.V. Series; 16 B.H.P. Horizontal Engine. Marshall. Sons and Co.. Ltd.. Suppt., 17.2.28. xvi
Engines. National-Michell Crankless Gas; Twin-cylinder 100 B.H.P. Oil Engine : Gas Engine, 13 B.H.P. Town's Gas, or 107 B.H.P. Producer Gas : Petrol-paraffin Portable Engine. 5.5 B.H.P.. with Pump; Petrol Engine-driven Air Compressor Set, National Gas Engine Company. Ltd., Suppt.. 24.2.28. vi, vii
Engines. Oil. Horizontal. Cold-starting, 65-09 B.H.P.. with Air Bottle or Air Compressor Four-cylinder Petrol-paraffin Unit; Four-cylinder Vertical Two-stroke Motor, 48 B.H.P., with Fuel Spray; Norris. Henty and Gardners. Ltd.. Suppt., 24.2.28, vii, viii
Engines, Oil, 12 H.P. and 18 H.P. Single-cylinder Vertical: Two-cylinder Marine Type; 5 B.H.P.. for Electric Lighting Service; 5 B.H.P. Petrol and Paraffin : 3 B.H.P. Petrol for Farm Work : Heavy Oil Engine. Twin.cylinder Stationary. Petters. Ltd., Suktpt., 17.2.28. vii, viii, ix
Engines. Single-cylinder Set. Oil : 360-420 H.P. Six-cylinder Oil, Davey. Paxman and Co.. Ltd.. 232
Engines. Small Power Oil. Four-cylinder Rational " Marine Oil Engine. 16 B.H.P.; Small Lighting Equipment for Use with Various Fuels; Vacuum Exhauster Set. Capacity 120 Cubic Feet per Minute; Grey Iron Castings. &c.. Heatly-Gresham Engineering Company. Ltd.. Suppt., 24.2.28. viii

F

Files. Flexible Warding File. Sheffield Steel Products. 232
Film. Demonstrating Blasting of Iron Ore : Coal Mining for Coke Supplies, &c., Guest. Keen and Nettlefolds. Ltd.. Suppt.. 17.2.28, xvi
Fire Door for Fitting on Vertical Boilers Apparatus for Disinfecting Clothes by Steam, Meldrums. Ltd.. 235
Furnaces. Wild-Barfield Electric, Horizontal Electro-magnetic Standard Horizontal and Standard Vertical; Internally, Heated; Wild-Barfield Air Temperature Oven; Soldering Iron Heater; Automatic and Electric Furnaces, Ltd.. Suppt., 17.2.28, ix
Furnace Wall. Bigelow, Suspended, Liptak Furnace Arches. Ltd.. 233
Furnaces. Recuperative. Gas-fired; Continuous. Bright Annealing. Incandescent Heat Company. Ltd., 234
Furnaces—sec Casting Machines

G

Gauge, Draught; Temperature Recorder. Drum Type; Gauges. Air Pressure and Draught.. Recording : Barometers. Recording; Thermo-couple (Resistance Recording Thermometer), New Type. Negretti and Zambra, 233

H

Hack Saw, also for Filing. Slotting. Shaping, &c., Super Suctor Sales. Ltd.. 234
Hack Sawing Machine with Special Guide; Hand Lever Press Wire Straightening and Cutting-off Machines. &c.. James Ward (Worcester). Ltd., 237
Hose Coupling. Simcup. for Air. Water and other Fluids, for Numerous Applications, Mallett and Day, 235
Hydraulic Press for Insulating Materials (Electric Industry); Hydraulic Tire Press; Bundling Press. Hollings and Guest, Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28. vii

I

Ingot Moulds for Non.ferrotts Alloys, Wm. Chico and Sons, Suppt.. 17.2.28. i

J

Jacks. Car Jack : Hydraulic Ship Jack* Pumps. Tangyes. Ltd.. Suppt.. 17.2.28. iv

L

Lawn Mowers, Electrically Driven, Ransomes. Sims and Jefferies. Ltd.. Suppt.. 17.2.28. ix

M

Metal. Sheet. Working Machines : Shearing Machine for Light-gauge Metal : Sheet Metal Working in Wheeling and Raising. F.J. Edwards, Ltd.. 237
Metal Work, Perforated; Perforated Cable Plates; Steel Storage Bins; Steel Office Furniture and Equipments, G. A. Harvey and Co., Ltd., 237
Monel Metal for Engineering, Chemical and Allied Industries, G. and J. Weir, Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, xii
Mumetal and Rhometal; Nickel-chromium Resistance Alloys; Pyromic Alloys, Gutta Percha Company, Suppt., 17.2.28, xi

N

Nibbling Machine,. Improved; Nibbler, Small, with Motor, J. B. Stone and Co., Ltd., 232, 233

O

Oilcan with Pump, Novel Type, Wesco Products Company, 232

P

Paints and Varnishes, Group of Companies, Suppt., 17.2.28, xvi
Plumbing Apparatus, Automatic, Three-phase Cable Joint, Callender's Cable and Construction Company, Ltd., 263
Powdered Coal Burner, New Type; Feeder for Pulverised Coal Burners, International Combustion. Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, ii
Press, A. H. F. Peri, Jackson and Scholfield, Suppt., 17.2.28, v
Presses, Bakelite and Deep Metal Drawing, Hordern, Mason and Edwards, Ltd., 263
Presses, Taylor and Challen, Ltd., Suppt.. 17.2.28. iii
Pressing Machines, Percussion and Various Other Typos, John Hands and Sons, Ltd., 234
Pulveriser—see Coal
Pumps, Centrifugal, with Mirrlees-Leblanc Air Injector; Steam-operated Air Ejector; Sextuple-effect Distiller, &e., Mirrlees Watson Company, Ltd., 209
Pumps, Ring; Refrigerating Plant; Filtering Plant, Pulsometer Engineering Company, Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, i, ii

R

Reavell-Askania Regulator for Gas, Water, Steam, Machinery Control, &c., Reavell and Co., Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, xv
Refractory Materials; Bricks and Tiles in Fireclay, Aluminous Clay, Silica, &c.; Recuperative Gas Furnace with Carborundum Hearth, Gibbons (Dudley), Ltd., 237
Rivet Heating Machines, Portable Electric, Marryat and Place, 264
Rotary Pump, Hollings and Guest, Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, vii

S

Sand Mixing Machine, Foundry, Pneulec Company. Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28. v
Screwing Machines with Pneumatic Cylinder for Operating Chuck. Charles Winn and Co., Ltd., 236
Shaping Machine, Universal; Press for Straightening Shafts and Spindles, Oldfield and Schofield Company, Ltd., 235
Sheet Metal—bee Metal Staybrite Steel. Further Developments and Applications, Thos. Firth and Sons, Ltd., 233
Steel, High-speed, New, for Machine Tools; Imperial Stainless Steel, Non-rusting; Coal Pulveriser Machine, Steel, Edgar Allen and Co., Ltd., Suppt., 17.2. 28, xii
Stone Breaker; Concrete Mixer; Model of Bituminous Macadam Plant, Goodwin, Barsby and Co., Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, xiii

T

TEMPERATURE Regulator; Time-temperature Regulator; Humidity Regulator; Recorders, &c., Drayton Regulator and Instrument Company, Ltd., Suppt., 24.2.28, v, vi
" Texrope " Drive; Friction Clutch, F. Wigglesworth and Co., Ltd.. 236
Tools, " Footprint," Thos. R. Ellin, Suppt., 17.2.28, i
Tools, Small, and Attachments for Capstan and Turret Lathes; High-speed Automatic Chuck, H. W. Ward and Co., Ltd., Suppt., 17.2.28, xii

W

Warm Electro-plating—sec Electro
Weighing Machine, Crane. Geo. Salter and Co., Ltd., Suppt.. 17.2.28, ii
Welded Steel Plate Work, Tanks, Thompson Brothers (Bilston), Ltd., 235
Wire Loom, Overpick, Flying Shuttle. Anderston Foundry Company, Suppt.. 17.2.28. i
Wire Straightening Machines, Edward White, Suppt., 17.2.28, xii, xiii
Woodworking Machinery, Semi-automatic
Wood Milling Machine : Boring, Recessing
and Housing Machine; Surfacing and Thicknessing Machine, Wadkin and Co., Suppt., 24.2.28, ii, xii
Woodworking Machine, Universal; Circular Saw Bench; Band Sawing Machine; Sanding Machine; Surface Planing, &c., Machine, Midland Saw and Tool Company, Suppt., 17.2.28, ii
Other Exhibits, 265

Miscellaneous Articles

A

ADMIRALTY—see Ships, Naval Matters
Advice to Boys, Frederick E. Johnson, 628
Aerial Ropeway at a Carrara Marble Quarry, 180, 181

AERONAUTICS

See also Annual Articles
All-metal Aeroplane " Inflexible," with Lockheed Brake System, 544
Developments in Rigid Airship Construction, Lieut.-Colonel V. C. Richmond, 398, 399, 410; (Letters), 459, 516, 554, 598
Hydraulic Brakes for Aeroplanes, Wm. Beardmore and Co., Ltd., 644
London Terminal Aerodrome, Croydon, 490, 493
Variable Pitch Airscrew, Dr. H. S. HeleShaw and T. E. Beacham, 432
Vortex Theory of Propellers, W. G. A. Perring, and Cavitation, John Tutin, 400
AGRICULTURAL Engineering, 131
Agricultural Engineers, 712
Air Compressor for Large Heavy Oil Engine,
Reavell and Co., Ltd., 200, 203
Air Pressure—see Piling
Air Resistance of Trains—see Railways

AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS

Mississippi River Control, 722
One-Ton Open-hearth Furnace, 722
Powerful Shunting Engines, 722
Proportioning Concrete by Weight, 722
Steel for Aeroplane Construction, 722
AMERICAN Laboratory of Insurance Engineering, 676, 704
American Pageant—see Railway Locomotives

ANNUAL ARTICLES

Aeronautics in 1927, 4, 34 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
A.D.C. Aircraft, Ltd.: A.D.C. Nimbus Martinsyde Fighting Scout, 6, 7
" Cirrus " Mark II. Light Aeroplane Engine, " Nimbus," 300-330 H.P. Engine, 7
Armstrong, Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.: Additions to Workshops and Number of Workpeople Employed, Research
Work, 34
A. V. Roe and Co.. Ltd.: Avro " Avian " Two-seater Light Aeroplane, Several Improvements Made, 35
Avro " Buffalo " Deck-landing Torpedo Carrier, 36
Avro Ciorva Autogiro, 36, 46
Beardmore, William, and Co., Ltd.: Largest Aeroplane Ever Built, 34
Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd.: " Iris II." (with All-metal Hull), Triple-engined Flying Boat, Armament, Three Machine Guns, 36
Blackburn " Bluebird," New Form with Armstrong-Siddeley 65 H.P. " Gennet " Engine, Convertible into Light Seaplane, 36, 46
Blackburn " Ripon " Torpedo Plane, Two-seater Land Machine or Sea-plane, Bomber or Reconnaissance
Machine, 36, 46
Boulton and Paul, Ltd.:" Sidestrand " Day Bomber, 34. 46
Metal Framework for H.M. Airship 101, 34
Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.: Bristol Type 101 Two-seater Fighter, 34
Bristol " Bulldog " Single-seater Fighter, 34, 46
Bristol " Lucifer " and Other Flying School Machines, 34
De Havilland Aircraft Company, Ltd.: New Types of Machine--The Hound " Two-seater Military Aeroplane, " Tiger Moth " Light Aeroplane, D.H. 61
Six-eight-Passenger Commercial Aeroplane, Great Progress with " Moth " Aeroplane, 35
Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd.: Fairey III.F Seaplane, Fairey ULF General Service Aeroplane, 4 (Supplement January 6th, 1928)
Fairey-Reed Schneider Trophy Metal Airscrew, Fairey-Reed Silent Metal Airscrew, 6
Gloster Aircraft Company, Ltd.: Gloster " Goral " Two-seater General Purpose Machine, 6
Gloster " Goring " Long-distance Day Bomber, 4, 5
Gloster " Guan " Single-seater Fighter, 6
Gloster IV., Racing Seaplane, 4 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Handley Page, Ltd.: Slotted Wing System Development, New Machines, 35
H. G. Hawker Engineering Company, Ltd.: Hawker " Horsley " Torpedo Carrier. 34, 35
Hawker " Horsley " Long-distance Machine, 34
Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd.: Supermarine S 5 Racing Seaplane, 5, 6
Vickers Ltd.: Vickers Valiant " General Service Military Machine, 7 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Vickers Vivid " Two-seater Military Machine, 5, 7
Westland Aircraft Works, Ltd. Hill " Pterodactyl," Improved Model, 4
Westland " Wapiti " Military Machine, 4 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Westland " Widgeon " Mark III., 4, 5
Airships :
Airship Guarantee Company : Airship R 100, Six Engines Disposed in Three Cars, Accommodation for 100
Passengers besides Crew, Mooring and Other Arrangements, 36
BRIDGE ENGINEERING IN 1927, 7
Grantham, Bridge Reconstruction at, 8
Newcastle-Gateshead Bridge, 7
Northern Rhodesia, Lifting a Railway Bridge, 8
Shrewsbury, New English ridge at, 7
Strengthening a Railway Bridge Over the River Don, 8
Sydney Harbour Bridge, 7
Various Bridge Items, 8
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1927, 13, 49
Electric Motors, 50
Electrical Plant : Turbo:generators, Large; Continuous-current Dynamo, Record Size; Ferranti transformers with Tapping Changing Gear; Transformers, Very Large, 13, 14
Electric Traction, 50
Electro-Farming, 14
Power Stations : Birmingham (Hams Hall), Deptford, Ferrybridge, Guildford, Stonebyres and Bonnington, Stourport, Treforest, Willow Holme, 12, 13 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Research, 49
Shannon Power Scheme, 50, 51
Switchgear, 49
Miscellaneous :
Converting Plant Orders, 51
Electric Lamps, High Candle-power with Automatic Control for Lighthouses and Lightships, 51
Erection of Small Stations, 51
Protection, Relay, New Systems of, 51
Turbo-electric Drive for 23,000-Ton Passenger Ship, 51
Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony,
HARBOURS AND WATERWAYS IN 1927, 66
United Kingdom :
Bristol Channel and South Wales Ports, 66
British Waterways, 67
London, Port of, 66
Mersey, The, and the Manchester Ship Canal, 66
North-East Coast and Humber Ports, 66
Southampton and Newhaven 66,
Other Ports, 67
Fog Signals, 67
Africa, 68
Australasia, 68
East, The, 68
Floating Dock for Singapore, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 68, 69
European Ports and Waterways, 67
North and South America, 67
IRON AND STEEL IN 1927, 83
LOCOMOTIVES, PRIME MOVER, OF 1927, 18
British Makers' Engines, 20
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co., Ltd., Engines for Queensland and for Argentine Railways, 21
Bagnall, W. G., Ltd., Engines for Indian Company, Side-tank Engine for Sugar Plantation Railway, 22
Beardmore, William, and Co., Ltd., Tank Engines for L. and N.E. RailWay and for L.M. and S. Railway, 22
Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., " Garratt " Engines and " Pacific " Metre-gauge for Federated Malay States
Railways, 20
" Garratt " Locomotives for San Paulo Railway, 16, 21
Hunslet Engine Company, Ltd., Various Engines for L.M.S. Railway. Ceylon and Sudan Railways. 21
Nasmyth, Wilson and Co., Ltd., Nigerian Railways Tank Locomotives, 21;
Barsi Light Railway 2ft. 6in. gauge Locomotive, 21, 22
North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., Engines for L.M. and S.R., also for Various Foreign Countries, 21
Peckett and Sons, Ltd., Saddle Tank Engines for Gasworks and for Cement Company, 21, 22
Stephenson, Robert, and Co., Ltd., Metre-gauge Locomotive for Kenya—Uganda Railway, 21, 22; Also Engines for South Indian Railway, Sudan Government, and for Other Countries, 21
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Indian Broad-gauge Standard Locomotive, 16, 20;
Three-cylinder Compound Engines for the L.M. and S. Railway, 20; Other Engines for India, Tank Engines for Tanganyika, 20
Canadian National Railways, Passenger Locomotive, 16, 20, 22
Great Western Railway, 18, 20 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Four-cylinder Locomotive, King George V., 18, 20 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Kitson-Still Locomotive, Steam and Internal Combustion, 16, 19
London, Midland and Scottish, 18, 19 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
"Garratt " Engines, Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd., 18, 19
" Sentinel-Cammell " Steam Rail Motor Coaches, 18
Tank Engines for L.M.S. Railway, 18, 19
Three-cylinder Express Engine Royal Scot, 18, 19 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
London and North-Eastern Railway, 18, 19, 20 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Three-cylinder Locomotive, with Woodard Connecting-rod, 18, 19, 20 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Narrow-gauge Three-cylinder Engines, 22
Powdered Fuel Locomotive, German, 19
Schmidt Super - pressure Locomotive, Henschel and Sons, 20, 21
Small Internal Combustion Locomotives, 22
Southern Railway, Express Goods Engine, 19 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Turbine Locomotive, I. A. Maffei A.G., Munich, 22
MOTOR VESSELS AND MARINE OIL ENGINES IN 1927, 8 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Airless Fuel Injection, 11
Combined Oil and Steam Engines, 10
Scott-Still Engine, 3000 B.H.P., 10
Plenty-Still Engine, 210 B.H.P., 10
Continental and American Progress, 11
Double-acting Oil Engines, 8
Electrically Propelled Motor Vessels, 10
Airless Injection Oil Engine, 1500 B.H.P., 9000 r.p.m., Beardmore Oil Engine, 11
Large Motor Passenger Liner, 8
Italian Motor Liner Saturnia. 8, 11 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
World's Largest Motor Liner, Augustus, 8, 9, 11
Marine Motors, Smaller, 11
Opposed-piston Engine, Doxford Type, 11
Motor Liner Bermuda, 11 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Commonwealth and Dominion Motor Cargo "Ship, 11 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Single-acting Four-cycle Engines, 9
Single-acting Two-cycle Engines, 10
Workman-Sulzer Oil Engine, 3500 B.R.P., 10
NAVAL CONSTRUCTION IN 1927, 2
British Empire, 2
France, 3
Germany, 3
Italy, 3
Japan, 3
Spain, 3
United States, 2
Other Navies, 3
RAILWAYS IN 1927, 37; (Correction), 90
Great Western, 37
London, Midland and Scottish, 37
London and North-Eastern 37
Southern, 37
SANITARY ENGINEERING IN 1927. 38
Introduction, 38
Birmingham, 38
North Handsworth Sewerage, 38
Perry Barr Sewerage. 38
River Rea Improvement, 38
Blackpool, 38
Bournemouth, 38
Bradford, :38
Brighton, 38
Camborno, 39
Chatham and Rochester, 39
Doncaster, 39
Leeds, 39
Leicester, 39
London Main Drainage, 38
Extension of Streatham and 13alham
Storm Relief Sewer, 38
Lewisham Branch Sewer, Branch from
Hither Green, 38
Manchester, 39
Davyhulme Sewage Works Extension, 39
Main Drainage, 39
Southend, 39
Uxbridge. 39
Wigan, 39, 40
Works in Progress or in Contemplation, 38
Paris, 40
River Pollution, 40
Taylor, The Late Mr. Midgley, 40
STEAMSHIPS AND STEAM MARINE ENGINEERING IN 1927, 23
Important Ships Constructed Abroad. 26
Hamburg-South American Liner Cap Arcona, Blohm and Voss, 26
Ile de France, French Liner. Penhoet Shipyard, 26 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Matson Liner Malolo, Cramps. Philadelphia, 26
Mercer, Pulverised Coal Burner, American Ship, 26
Statendam, Holland-American Line, Ltd.. Harland and Wolff. Ltd.. 26
Turbo-electric Liner California, Newport News Shipbuilding Company, 26
Improved Marine Condensers, 25
Delas-Ginabat Condenser for French Liner Ile de France, 25 (Supplement January 6th, 1928)
Irish Channel Steamers and Mersey Ferry Boats, 24
Cross-Channel Steamer Duke of Lancaster, William Denny and Brothers, Ltd., 24
Isle of Man Steamer Ben-my-Chree, Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 24
Mersey Channel Ferry Boats Wallasey and Marlow, with Flettner Rudders, Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. Ltd., 24
Marine Boiler Practice in 1927 :
Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.. 24
Howden Marine Boiler, 315 lb. Pressure. 25
Yarrow and Co., Ltd.. 23, 24
Notable Liners and Ships, 23
Arandora, Geared Turbine Liner. Ca i n -mell Laird and Co., Ltd., 23
Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Australia Re-engined, 23
Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 20,000-Ton Liners " Duchess " Class, Beaverburn and Other Cargo Ships,
with Yarrow Boiler and Erith-Roe Stoker, 23 (Supplement, January 6th. 1928)
Vickers-Armstrong lAd.. Orient Passenger Liner Orford and Kedah, Twin-screw Vessel for Singapore-Penang
Service, 24
White Star Liner Laurentic, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 24 (Supplement, January 6th, 1928)
Reciprocating Engine Improvement, 26
Lentz Marine Engine, 1700 I.H.P. Double-compound, John Dickinson and Sons. Ltd.. 25
Oblique Marine Uniflow Engine. Sulzer Brothers, 25
Quadruple-expansion Engines. Central Marine Engine Works. 25
Reciprocating Marine Engine with Beardmore-Caprotti Valve Gear, Wm. Beardmore and Co., Ltd.. 25
Self-discharging Colliers, New Types, 24
Coalfax, Self-discharging Collier. Furness Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Ltd., 24
Valley Camp, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 24
WATER SUPPLY IN 1927, 26, 55
Introduction, 26
Belfast : Silent Valley. 26
Birmingham, 26
Cardiff, 55
Llwynon Reservoir. 55
Taff Fawr Pipe Line. 55
Wenallt Reservoir. 55
Glasgow, 55
Liverpool, 55
Abor Tunnel. 55
Vyrnwy Aqueduct, 55
Londonderry, 55
Manchester, 55
Haweswater Scheme, 55
Heaton Park Reservoir, 55
Distribution. 55
Metropolitan Water Board, 26
Deptford Pumping Station. 26
Works in Connection with the Supply from the Queen Mary Reservoir at Littleton, 26
Works at Hampton, 26
Works for the Improvement of the Supply North of the Thames, 26
Centenary. An Interesting, 56
Mid-Sussex Joint Water Board. 65
Newport. 26
Nottingham, 55
Plymouth. 55
Portsmouth, 55
.Taf Fechan Reservoir and Works, 26 (Supplement, January 6th. 1928)
Wakefield, 55
Reinforced Concrete Bridges. &c., 55
Worthing. 55
Chicago Waterworks Tunnel, Now, 55
France, 56
Singapore Supply from Johore, 56
Other Works Abroad. 56
Water Sterilising Process, New, 56
ARCHITECTURE and the Engineer, 715

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES

Association, British Waterworks :
Annual General Meeting and Conference, 709
Programme and List of Papers to be Read. 709
Association, Diesel Engine Users :
Committee on Heavy Oil Engine Working Costs. Report. 246
High-powered Peak Load Diesel Engines, M. Gercke, 496
Liquid Fuel from Coal. David Brownlie, 414
Association of Engineers, Manchester :
Annual Dinner, 102
Joint Meeting, Inspection Methods, E. J. Parish, 191
Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical :
Thirty-third Annual Conference, 658
Institute of Canada, Engineering :
Forty -second Annual Convention, 441
Institute of Fuel :
Carbonisation Conference, Meeting at Birmingham, 206, 237
Institute, Iron and Steel :
Annual Meeting, 375, 510, 537, 568; Programme, 375; Report. 510
Appleby Iron Company, Ltd., A. Crooke and T. Thomson, 511
Autumn Meeting at Bilbao, 375
Bessemer Medal Presentation, 510
Blast-furnace Data and their Correlation, E. C. Evans and F. J. Bailey, 511
Chromium Steel Rails, Messrs. T. Swinden and P. H. Johnson, 567
Cleaning of Blast-furnace Gas, V. Harbord, 537
Effect of Silicon on Magnet Steel, J. Swan, 513
Fatigue-resisting Properties of Carbon Steel, H. J. Tapsell. 512
Heat-resisting Steels, Part H., Mechanical Properties, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 566
Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, Committee Report. Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 537
Nickel and Ferrous Alloys. A. B. Everest and Dr. D. Hanson, 513
Nickel Steel and Manganese, J. A. Jones. 512
Presidential Address, Basic Open-hearth Process. B. Talbot, 482, 511
Rapid Normalising of Overstrained Steel, W. E. Woodward, 568
Reactivity of Coke, J. H. Jones and Others, 511
Resistance of Overstressed Iron and Steels to Salt Water Corrosion, J. Newton Friend, 568
Institute of Marine Engineers :
Recent Development of the Marine Steam Engine, G. It. Hutchinson, 318
Institute of Metals :
Chemical Properties of Crystals, May Lecture, Professor Cecil H. Desch. 513
Twentieth Annual General Meeting. 261, 266, 286; Annual Dinner, 266; Programme, 156
Alloys of Zirconium, Dr. Allibone and Mr. C. Sykes, 289
Ball Hardness and the Cold Working of Soft Metals and Eutectics, F. Hargreaves, 287
Behaviour of Metals and Alloys during Hot Forging, W. L. Kent, 287
Conductivity of Aluminium Alloys, Dr. Ezer Griffiths and Mr. Schofield, 286
Density Changes Caused by Cold Working of Metals, Hugh O'Neill, 287
Deterioration of Lead Cable Sheathing, S. Beckinsale, 266
Dissolved Gases in Brass Ingots, G. L. Bailey 288
Equilibrium Diagram, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 260, 266
Mechanical Properties of Standard Silver, Dr. A. L. Norbury, 288
Oberhofler-Esser Dilatometer, Improvements in, Dr. Max Haas, 286
Relative Corrodibilities of Ferrous and Non-ferrous Metals, Dr. Friend, 288
Roman Copper Soldering and Welding from Uriconium. Dr. Friend and Mr. Thornycrof t. 288
Season Cracking of Small Arms Cartridge Cases during Manufacture, Major F. S. Grimston, 286
Institution of Chemical Engineers :
Two-days' Conference, 300
Annual Dinner, 300
Annual General Meeting, Election of President, Sir Alexander Gibb, 300
Beet Sugar Effluents, Dr. 0. Spengler, 300
Economics of Power as Applied to Chemical Engineering, Sir Alexander Gibb, 300
Magnetic Separation, Professor Bernard W. Holman. 300
Powdered Coal, Dr. Burrows Moore, 300
Institution of Civil Engineers :
April Examinations, 1928, Interim Pass List, 640
Centenary of Royal Charter, 357, 543; Programme, 543
Centenary Celebrations, Address to the King. 624
The Banquet. 657
Conversazione, 637
Conference, 624, 653. 677
Papers :
Developments in the Use of Materials in Railway Engineering. C. J. Brown. 625
Dimensions of Harbour and Dock Approaches, Sir Cyril R. S. Kirkpatrick, 654
Electric Transmission of Power as Applied to Large Areas. Archibald Page, 654
Filtration and Treatment of Water for Domestic Purposes, Sir Alexander C. Houston and Henry E. Stilgoe, 681
General Trend of Modern Development in Steam Turbine Practice, Henry Lewis Guy, 678
Generation and Utilisation of High-pressure Superheated Steam for Marine Propulsion, Lord Weir and Harold E. Yarrow, 626
Harbour Breakwaters. Hugh H. Gordon Mitchell, 655
Heavy Internal Combustion Engines, Geoffrey Porter, 678
Latest Types of Steam and Internal Combustion Locomotives, Sir Henry Fowler and Herbert N. Gresley, 656. 668
Light High-speed Internal Combustion Engines, H. R. Ricardo. 677
Modern Road and Bridge Construction, Frederick Charles Cook. 655
Present 'Trend in Boiler Practice, William H. Patched', 653
Problem of Road Traffic from the Engineering Point of View, Herbert Raikes Hepworth, 656
Progress in the Adoption of the Internal Combustion Engine for Marine Purposes. Professor Charles J. Hawkes, 627
Progress in Hydro-electric Installations, including Intakes, Leats. Tunnels, Dams &c., James McLellan, 680
Properties of Materials for Use at High Temperatures. with Special Reference to Boilers for Superheated Steam, R. G. C. Batson, 653
Prospective Development in the Generation of Electricity and its Influence on the Design of Station Plant, Standen Leonard Pearce, 679
Railway Design and Maintenance as Affected by the Application of Electricity, George Ellson and A. R. Cooper. 626
Recent Developments in Concrete and Cement for Engineering Structures, F. E. Wentworth-Sheilds, 624
Steel for Shipbuilding, Sir William J. Berry, 626
Tidal Power and Turbines Suitable for its Utilisation, Professor Arnold H. Gibson. 680
Utilisation of Solid and Liquid Fuels, Cecil H. Lander, 628
Election of Members and Associate Members and Admission of Students, 302
James Forrest Lecture, A Century of Inventions. Sir James Alfred Ewing. 619
October Examinations, 1927. Pass List, 71
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Automatic Equipment for Heavy Traction Sub-stations, H. B. Poynder, 269
Insulating Oils for High-voltage Cables. T. N. Riley and T. R. Scott, 581
Kelvin Lecture, Revolution in Physics, Sir Oliver Lode, 428
Large Electric Baking Ovens, W. Ellerd-Styles, 125
Practice and Progress in Combustion of Coal, F. H. Rosenerants, 526
Singapore Floating Dock, Electrical Equipment of, Ernest T. Williams, 486
Summer Meeting, Arrangements. 219
Summer Meeting in Scotland, 414, 710;
Programme, 414
Portobello Power Station, Edinburgh, 712
Transmission Lines, 11,000-Volt Electric, in Scotland, 710
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
Fiat Marine Oil Engine. D. M. Shannon. 525
Pulverised Coal for Steam Raising, G. E. K. Blythe, 243
Institution of Gas Engineers :
Carbonisation Conference of Joint Fuel Committee, 56, 138. 206, 237
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
Annual General Meeting, Council's Report, 204
Causes of Failure of Wrought Iron Chain and Cable, Dr. H. J. Gough and A. J. Murray, 455, 468; MacDonald, R. C., Views on the Subject, 457
George Stephenson Memorial Installation, 312
Reorganisation of Crewe Locomotive Works.
Captain H. P. M. Beanies, 312, 314: (Correction), 361
Report of Steam Nozzles Research Committee, 95
Summer Meeting at Southampton, 330, 718 :
Provisional Programme. 330
Port of Southampton, F. E Wentworth-Sheilds, 705, 718
Southampton and Neighbourhood, Visits Paid by Members at. the Summer Meeting, 718
Third Report of Wire Ropes Research Committee, Dr. W. A. Scoble, 455, 495
Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture, The First. The Marine Oil Engine, Professor C. J. Hawkes, 40
Waste Heat Recovery, Major W. Gregson, 204, 216
NORTH-WESTERN BRANCH :
Cutting Temperatures : Their Effect on Tools and on Materials Subjected to Work, E. 0. Herbert, 82
Experimental Results from a Three-cylinder Compound Locomotive, Lawford H. Fry, 108
Steam Nozzles Research Committee Report. Dr. P. Telford Petrie, 160
Waste Heat Recovery, Major W. Gregson, 205, 213, 216
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers :
Annual General Meeting and Elections, 580, 683; Programme, 580
Chair of Highway Engineering, 641
Paper by Colonel A. Sinclair and Mr. J. W. Burr, 658
Presidential Address, 658
Two Papers Dealing with Distribution I L. Romero, (2) H. F. G. Wouds, 683
Institution of Naval Architects :
Spring Meetings, 302. 343. 370. 397
Annual Dinner, 302. 344; Annual Report. 343; Programme, 302
Bending and Loading of Ships, J. Foster King, 370, 372
Design and Propulsion of Fast Double-ended Screw Vessels, E H. Mitchell, 371
Experimental Diesel Engines, Engineer-Captain Turner, 371, 383
Experiments on the Propulsion of a Single-Screw Ship Model, G. S. Baker and J. L. Kent, 400
Fuel for Ships. Present Position of the Question, Sir John H. Biles, 343, 355, 370
Model Propellers Working in Air and in Water, W. Sprague. 397
Modern Developments in Rigid Airship Construction. Lieut.-Colonel V. C. Richmond. 398. 399, 410
Relative Strength of Fine and Full Cargo Vessels. E. L. Champness and Frank McAlister. 397
Sir Philip 1Vatts' Bust. Unveiling of, 372
Statistical Analysis of Voyege Abstracts, J. Lockwood Taylor, 401
Stresses in the Hulls of Stranded Vessels, Professor E. G. Coker, 397
The Effective I. of H.M.S. Wolf, G. H. Hoffmann. 398
Vortex Theory of Propellers, W. G. A. Petting; and Cavitation, John Tutin, 400
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders : Diesel Engine Drive for Generators and Other Auxiliary Machinery on Board Ship, J. Calderwood. 83
Institution of Water Engineers :
Thirty-third Summer General Meeting at Torquay, 386; Programme. 386
Society of Chemical Industry :
Conference, Joint. 441.580; Programme, 441
Joint Fuel Committee, Carbonisation Conference with Various Other Associations, 56
Society, Liverpool Engineering :
Developments in Steam Turbine Propulsion. R. J. Walker, 289
Society, Newcomen :
Summer Meeting. 572; Programme, 572
Society, Royal :
Conversazione. 576
Ammeter for Currencies of Extremely High Frequencies, E. B. Moullin. 577
Artificial Telephone Traffic Machine, International Standard Electric Corporation, 576
Automatic Control of Humidity, Apparatus for, Cambridge Instrument Company, 576
Demonstration of Faraday's Experiments on Crispations of Fluids, Sir William Bragg, 576
Demonstrations and Exhibitions by Sir Robert Hadfield, Messrs. Oertling, Professor G. I. 'Taylor, 577
Furnace, High-temperature Electric Resistance, Dr. W. Rosenhain and Mr. W. E. Prytherch, 576
Silk Fibres, Apparatus for Measuring Strength and Elasticity of, British Silk Research Association, 576
Theodolite, Oldest in the World, Humphrey Cole, Shown by Mr. G. Gabb, 576
Society, Royal Aeronautical:
Variable Pitch Airserew, Dr. H. S. Hole-Shaw and T. E. Beacham, 432
Societies, Physical and Optical :
Exhibition. 42—For Details, see Separate Heading. Physical and Optical Exhibits
AUTOMATIC Control Gear for Gasworks. Boiler Plant, &c.. Reavell-Askania. 596
Avonmouth Dock Extension, 539, 546, 563, 574. 603

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Baker, G. S., and J. L. Kent. Experiments on the Propulsion of a Single-screw Ship Model, 400
Baker. G. S., Industry, Science and Men, 408; (Letter). 571
Baking Ovens, Large Electric, 125
Beames, Captain H. P. M., Reorganisation of Crewe Locomotive Works. 312, 314
Bessemer—see Iron and Steel
Biles, Sir John H., Question of Fuel for Ships. 343, 355. 370
Birminghain Conference—see Carbonisation Blythe. G. E. K., Pulverised Coal for Steam
Raising, 243
Boiler Explosion on the Clyde Turbine Steamer King George V.. 320
Boiler Feed Control for High Pressures, T. Sugden, Ltd.. 582
Boiler Feed Pumps—see Pumps
Boiler Steam Drum, 400 lb. Pressure, Yarrow and Co.. Ltd., 460
Boilers, High-duty, for Sawmill Refuse, V. W. Greenberg, 692
Boilers, Large, Furnaces of, 214; (Letter). 247
Boilers, Steam, Strength of, 351
Boilers, Waste Heat, Discussion, Clarkson Thimble-tube Waste Heat Boilers for Submarines, 205
Books of Reference, 125. 219, 372, 497, 608, 690
Boring Machines—see Machine Tools
Bradford, S. C.. Engineering Information Service at the Science Library. South Kensington, 176
Bradford, S. C., Logical Principles of Classification, 357
Bradford, S. C., The Brussels Classification, 685
Bridge. New Road, Between Newcastle and Gateshead, 206
Bridge. Road, Old and New, Over the Tweed at Berwick, 542
Brighton, Automatic Sub-stations, at.. 578. 579

BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION

Specifications :
Broken Stone Chippings, No. 03, 1928. 348
Colliery Materials, 348
Cup and Countersunk Bolt Heads, Nuts and Washers, 348
Electric Power Switchboards, 238
Electrical Performance of Rotary Convertors, 52
Field Rheostats, 220
Fire Hose Couplings, 697
Grey Iron Castings, 348
Painting Materials, 52
Pipe Flanges, 401
Plug-in Coils, 109
Special Trackwork for Tramways. 177
Standard Paints and Driers, 609
Standard Tolerances for Reamer Diameters, 520
Steel Fishplates for Bull-head and Flat-bottom Railway Rails. 220
Translucent Glassware Fittings, 220
Two-pin Wall Plugs and Sockets. 52
BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR—see Separate Section of Index
Brown, J. 8., Oil Engine Performance on Coal Oils. 274
Brownlie, David, Liquid Fuel from Coal, 414
Brussels Classifieation, 8. C. Bradford. 685
BUILDING TRADES EXHIBITORS AND EXHIBITS :
Acme Stonebreaker, Open-drum Concrete Mixer, &es, Goodwin, Barsby and Co., Ltd., 430
Chilled Iron Single-roller Mill with Reduction Gearing, ace., for Grinding Ready Mixed Paints, Enamels, &e.; Two-roller and Three-roller Chain-driven Mills; Combined Plants, Twin Paste Mixer and Two-roller Mill; Edge Runners; Whirlpool Mixers. &c., Sidney Smith and Blyth, Ltd., 431
Concrete Making and Working Machines, Burn-Lancaster Drum Type Open Mixers, Concrete Kerb and Channel Making Machine, Winget (1924), Ltd., 430
Concrete Mixers, Slab and Block Making Machines, Flag Moulds, &c., Liner Tilting Drum Machine, Liner Concrete Machinery Company. 430
Concrete Placing Equipment, " Insley " " Rex " Concrete Mixers; " Rooshors " Self-locking Shores; " Berg " Concrete Surfacing Machines, Cowan, Hulbert, Ltd.. 430
" Hercules " Press for Manufacture of Sandlime Brick. H. Alexander and Co., Ltd., 430
High-speed Roller Mill for Grinding Paints, &c.; 81Q Triple-roller Mill with Porphyry Rolls; Micrometer Adjustments and Worm Reducing Gear; Micro-twin Machines. " Full," " Middle." and " Baby," for Grinding_ and Cleansing Enamels and Paints; " Vortex " Mixer for Rapid Dilution of Paints; Horizontal Mixer for
Cellulose and for Mixing and Dilution of Paints, Enamels, &c., Torrance and Sons, Ltd.,431
Lifts, ranes, Hoists or Conveyors, Waygood-Otis, Ltd.; Marryat and Scott, Ltd.; Medway's (Safety Lift) Company, Ltd.; Wm. Wadsworth, 432
Mixers, " All Purposes," " Featherweight," and " Light Weight." Illumines AIM I Rapier, Ltd., 430
Moulding Machine, " Lee Magnum," Leo and Fouracre, 430
Paint Grinding. Chain-driven Mill; Triple. chilled Iron Roller Grinding Mill; Paint and Enamel Straining Machine; High-speed Rotary Disc Grinding Mill; Rapid Single • cone Paint. Mixing Machine, Merchant Brothers. Ltd.. 431
Proportioning. Mixing and Feeding Machine, Automatic. Pragos Engineering Company. Ltd., 430
Refrigerators, Easiwork, Ltd.; Frigidaire, Ltd., 432
Stonebreakers; O.C. Concrete Mixer; " Little Giant " Mixer, Frederick Parker, Ltd.. 430
" Tonkin " Mixer; Cube Mixer, A.C.E. Machinery, Ltd., 430
"Victoria ' Concrete Mixers, Stothert and Pitt. Ltd., 430
" Vulcan " Pug Mill. H. and E. Lintott, 430
Woodworking Machinery :
Canting Spindle Dimension Saw Bench; Automatic Motor-driven Cross-cut Saw; Motor Cross-cutting and Trenching Machine; Band Saw; Machines, Combined Surfacing, Thicknessing, Morticing, and Tenoning. Wadkin and Co., 431
Chain-feed Edging and Sawing Machine; Heavy Planing and Thicknessing Machine..1. Sager and Co., Ltd., 452, 453
Combination Woodworking Machine Panel Planing and Thicknessing Machine, A. Cooktiley, 454
Heavy Panel Planing Machine; Planing and Moulding Machine; Three-drum Sander, John Pickle's and Son (Engineers), Ltd., 453, 454
" Midsaw," Tool for a Great Variety of Operations, Midland Saw and Tool Company, Ltd., 454
Moulder, Heavy Double-spindle Circular; Panel Planing and Thicknessing Machine; Straight Edging and Ripping Saw Bench, Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd., 451, 452
Woodworking Tools, Various, Deming and Co.. Ltd.; Dominion Machinery Company, Ltd.; S. Tyzack and Son, Ltd.; Richard Melhuish, Ltd., 454. 455
" Penberthy " Automatic Cellar and Surnp Drainers. W. H. Willcox and Co., Ltd.. 455
Sewage Purification Apparatus. Tithe and Bell, 455
Various Other Exhibits, 455
BURDEN of Local Taxation, 498

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Calcutta—see Water Supply
Calderwood, J.. Auxiliary Oil Engine Drives on Board Ship, 83
Calendars, Diaries, &e., 32, 56, 74. 115. 172
CANADIAN ENGINEERING NEWS • 70, 299, 340, 413, 572, 040
Aeroplane Engines, 340
Big Electric Smelter, 71
British Empire Steel Corporation, 413
Canadian Newsprint Production, 640
Eleetro-chemical Industries, 340
Georgian Bay Ship Canal, 572
Hudson Bay Railway Ocean Terminus. 299
Limoilou Paper Mill, 70
Mineral Development in New Brunswick, 70
Mining, 572
New Contracts, 413
Nickel and Copper at, Sudbury, 413
Papermaking Machine, Large, 413
Power Development on the St. Lawrence. 413
Power Extensions in Ontario and Quebec, 413
Proposed Now Railway, 413
Proposed Power Plant on the Montreal River, 413
Purchase of a Power Plant and a Paper Mill. 640
Railway Developments, 572
Remedial Works at, Niagara, 340
St. Lawrence Development Plan, 340
St. Lawrence Power Schemes, 299
St. Lawrence River Works, 572
St. lAwrence Waterway, 70
Shipments of Iron Ore. 413
Telegraph System, A New. 413
Tidal Power Development, 299
Utilisation of Lignite, 413
Water Power Project, 041
CAPROTTI Valve Gear, 720
Carbonisation Conference of Joint Fuel ton -mitten, Institution of Gas Enguieer-4 nrd
Others, 56, 138, 200, 237
Papers Submitted, List of, 206
Catalogues, 195, 248, 279, 333, 361. 389, 417, 529, 557, 585
Cathetometer, New Form of, C. F. Casella and
Co., Ltd.. 412
Centenary Celebrations of the Institution of Civil Engineers-For List of Papers Read Net Associations, Institutions and Societies Century of Engineering, 631
Chemical Properties of Crystals, Professor Cecil H. Desch, 513
Chemical Treatment.-see Coal
Chimney Dust, 436
Ciment Fondu Concrete, 352
Clansification-see Logical
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
British Coal in Belgium, 22
Chemical Treatment of Coal on the Continent. 455
Coal Hoist, 33-Ton Hydraulic, 694
Coal Pulverisation. Some Thoughts on, P. V. Vernon, 176
Coaling Planta-see Railway Locomotives
Continental Coal Situation, 78
Liquid Fuel from Coal, David Brownlie, 414
Pulverised Coal, F. H. Rosencrants, 526
Pulverised Coal for Steam Raising, G. E. K. Blythe, 243
Reactivity of Coke, .1. H. Jones and Others. 511
COKER, Professor E. G.. Stresses in the Hulls of Stranded Vessela, 397
Collapse of the St. Francis Dam, Los Angelem, 380. 438. 568
Commercial Evolution of Engineering, 77
Concrete Road at. a High Altitude. 71
Concrete-see Building Trades Exhibits
Congress on Peat, 459
Continental Coal-see Void
Contracts. 29, 62, 90, 118, 141 169. 198, 09c, 256, 279, 305. 336. 389, 445, 476. S.'9, 860, 588. 614, 643, 674, 699, 725
Coopers Hill M'air Memorial Prize and Medal. 330
Copper Mine--see Horne
Corridor-see Railways
Coventry-see Electrical Matters
Crane, 30-Ton Duplex Overhead Travelling, S. H. Heywood and Co.. Ltd.. 354
Crane, 15-Ton Eleetro-hydraulic Ingot Casting. Ateliers do Constructions Electriques de Charleroi, 240, 244
Crane, New Level Lulling. Joseph Booth and Brothers, Ltd., 684
Crewe Locomotive 1Vorks, Reorganisation ut. Captain II. P. M. Beanies, 312
Crooke. A., and T. Thomson. Appleby Iron Company, Ltd.. 511
Croydon--see Aeronautics
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 30. 60, 88, 116, 142, 170, 190. 224, 254, 280. 306, 334, 362, 390, 418, 446. 474. 502, 530, 558. 586, 612. 644, 072. 700. 726
Cutting-see Machine Tools
Cuttlefish Castings. C. C. Hopkins. 191

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DAM, St. Francis, Collapse of the, 380, 438, 568
Dam, Stevenson Experimental Arch, 478, 662
Desch, Professor Cecil H.. May Lecture, Chemical Properties of Crystals, 513
Diesel Engines-see Engines
Dines. L. H. G.. Skidding of a Four-wheeled Vehicle on a Slippery Road, 94
Double Helical Gear-see Sykes
Drilling Machines-see Machine Tools
Drop Hammer Plant, Converted, Brett's Patent Lifter Company, Ltd., 110
Dunstable Portland Cement Works, 92, 104, 120
Durban-see Water Supply

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EDUCATION 11. Intelligence, 152, 195

ELECTRICAL MATTERS

Automatic Sub-stations, 269; (Letters), 327, 441, 485
Automatic Subsatations at Brighton. 578. 579
Brown-Boveri 20,000.kW Turbo-generator at Rotterdam, 506. 549 (Two-page Supplement, May 11th, 1928)
Central England Electricity Scheme,
Clacton, Electrical Extensions at, 668
Coventry Power Station, Transformers for British Thomson-Houston Company, 460
Electrical Breakdowns in 1927, 548
Electricity Supply. 296
Extensions at the Shanghai Power Station, 652
Gear-driven Train Lighting Set, Societe des Engrenages Citroen, 276
Heavy Oil Engine and Electricity Supply. 241, 240; (Letter), 328
Horseferry-road Sub-station, 188
Insulating Oils for High-voltage Cables, t. N . Riley and T. R. Scott., 581
Load reactor, 408
Maentwrog Power-house of the North Wales Power Company. 151
Manchester Electricity Supply. 667
North-West England and North Wales Electricity Scheme, 716
Overhead Power Lines, 492; (Letter), 712
Power Station for a Chemical Works, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company. Ltd., 299
Propelling Ships. Electric Transmission of Power for. J. W. Belsey. 457
Rhone—Rhino Canal. Electric Haulage for. 488
Rural Electrification at Chester, 649
Scotland, Summer Meeting of Institution of Electrical Engineers, 710
Singapore Floating Dock. Electrical Equipment of. Ernest T. Williams, 486
South-East England Electricity Scheme, 219
Squirrel Cage Induction Motors. 464
Transmission by Cables, 689
Turbo.alternator, Three-phase. Report on Professor S. Parker Smith, 366, 402; (Letter). 459
Use of Diesel Engines for Peak Load Supply. 78: (Letters), 137. 190, 247. 265
Woodbridge Road Electric Generating Station. Guildford. 600, 634
ELECTRO-DEPOSITION of Silver, Joint Conference, 243
Ellerd-Styles, W., Large Electric Baking Ovens, 125

ENGINES AND MOTORS

Auxiliary oil Engine Drives on Board Ship. JH. Calderwood. 83
Completely Submersible Petrol Engine for Lifeboat Service. Weyburn Engineering Company. Ltd.. 162. 163
Experimental Diesel Engine:. Engineer-Captain Turner. 371. 383
Experimental Oil Engine, 2000 ICH. P. Sulzer Brothers. 138
Extra-High.pressure Steam Engine at the Verkspoor Works. 130. 134
Fiat Marine Oil Engine. D. M. Shannon, 525
Heavy Oil Engine and Electricity Supply, 241; 1Vorking Costs, Report. 246; (Letter). 328
Marine Oil Engine, Professor C. J. Hawke*, 40
Marine Oil Engine. 7000 S.H.P. Two.stroke, Sulzer, 375
Marine Steam Engine. Recent Development of the. G. R. Hutchinson, 318
Michell Crankiest; Engine, G. U. L. Sartori and Kenneth Watson, 276
Oil Engine Generator Sot, 300 kW. Six-cylinder, for H.M.S. Rodney, W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Ltd., 301
Oil Engine Performance on Coal Oils, J. S. Brown, 274; (Letters), 327
Oil Engine, 80 B.H.P., for a Woollen Mill, Alexander Shanks and Co., Ltd., 639
Peak Load Problem and High-powered Diesel Engines. M. Gereke, 496
Scott-Still Engine for the Eurybatos. 345 (Two-page Supplement, March 30th, 1928)
Sellinge the Gas Engine Abroad, 651 1750 B.H.P. Six-cylinder Heavy Oil Engine. General Electric Company. Ltd.. 200
Stationary Oil Engine for High Altitudes. Parsons Oil Engine Company. LW., 357
Steam Winding Engines for South Africa, Markham and Co., Ltd., 458, 459: (Correction), 501
Use of Diesel Engines for Peak Load Supply, 78; (Letters), 137, 190, 247, 265
ENGINEERING in 1828, 601
Engineering. Commercial Evolution of, 77
Engineering Industry. 575
Engineering Information Service at the Science
Library, South Kensington, S. C. Bradford, 176
Equilibrium Diagram, Dr. W. Rosonhain. 200. 206
Erith Stoneware Pipe Works, Doulton and Co..
Ltd.. 534; (Letter), 571; (Addendum), 674 (Two-page Supplement, May 18th, 1928)
Evans, E. C.. and F. J. Bailey, Blast-furnace
Data and their Correlation, 511
Everest. A. B., and Dr. D. Hanson, Nickel awl
Ferrous Alloys, 513
Ewing, Sir James Alfred, James Forrest Lecture,
A Century of Inventions. 619

EXHIBITIONS

British Industries Fair—see Separate Section of Index
Building Trades Exhibition, 430, 451—for Exhibits, see Building
Paris Fair, 570
Physical and Optical Societies' Exhibition. 42, 72, 98—For Exhibits, see Physical and Optical
Technical Fair at Leipzig, 284—see also Leipzig

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FAIRS—see Exhibitions
Fan Standardisation Committee, Report. 102
Fire Float for Rangoon, Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., 658, 660
Floating Dock for Abadan. Sir W. G. Armstrong. Whitworth and Co.. Ltd., 680
Floating Dock—see Singapore
Floating Dry Dock. 100-Ton, for Flying Bouts, 320
Forthcoming Engagements, 32. 62, 90, 118, 144, 172, 198. 226. 258, 282, 308. 330. 384. 392, 420. 448, 476. 504, 532. 580, 588. 814, 848, 074, 702. 728
Foundry—sec Products
Fowler's Calculator. 375
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES : 31, 61, 89. 117, 143. 171. 197. 225. 255, 281. :107, 335, 363. 391. 419, 447. 475, 503, 531, 559, 587. 813. 645, 673. 701. 727
Advancing Prices. 171
Air Condensers. 303
Air Service, 117
Automatic Couplings, 89. 701
Barrage Construction. 255. 363
Barrage Reservoirs, 475
Canal Haulage, 845
Cantilever Bridge, 31
Cliambon-Romanche Barrage, 335
Charcoal Suction Oas, 701
Coal, 531, 701
Coal Cartel, 307
Coal Duties, 117
Coal in Madagascar. 197
Coal Production, 171
Colonial Worlcs, 225
Commercial Treaties. 226
Competition Abroad. 391
Continuous Brakes. 503. 613
Cruiser Colbert, 475
Cruising Submarine. 2.55
Desert Bridge, 307
Destroyers. 391
Displacing a Bridge. 391
Domestic Heating. 363
Dredging the Seine, 727
Economic Organisation, 613
Electrical Propaganda. 419
Electrification, 171
Electrification in Mororro, 645
Floating Docks. 143
Hood Protection Works, :31
Flying Boats, 531
Foreign Trade, 143, 281, 727
French View of British Industry. 559
Harbour Works, 171
Harbours and Waterways. 89
Hot. Bulb Engines. 197
Hydraulic Works in Africa. 117
Hydro.olectric Installations, 307
Import Duties. 143. 197
Improved Outlook. 559
Industrial Protection. 281
Ingenieurs Civils, 550
Locomotive Cab Signals, 447
Loire Navigation. 307
Machine Tools, 419
Makhonine Fuel, 503
Mechanical Engineering, 503
Metallic Coaches, 01
Monorail Traffic. 31
Motor Industry, 197, 475
Motor Ships. 727
Naval Manwuvres. 307
Navigation Signals. 171
Paris Sewage, 281
Patent Legislation, 117
Plougastel Bridge. 475
Port of Casablanca. 225
Port of Marseilles. 31
Public Works. 447. 845
Pyrenees Railways, 603
Rail and Road Traction. 873
Railway Charges. 31
Railway Economies, 559
Railway Electrification, 701
Railway Improvements, 447
Railway Rates, 255
Railways and Aviation, 61 3
Railways and Road Trait:limit 197. 475
Reconstruction, 447
Rhine Navigation, 587
Sea. Temperature Energy. 073
Seine Floods, 171
Shipbuilding, 073
South American Air Service. 281
Stabilisation, 631. 873
Steel Consumption, 383
Stool Houses, 61
Stool Improvement. 587
Steel Organisation. 845
Steel Production. 813
Steel Trade, 81, 225, 727
Steel Union, 335
Suction Gas from Charcoal, 363
Tariffs and Engineering. 335
The Navy. 419, 727
Tidal Power Schemes. 01. 225
Trade Improvement, 143
Trade Organisation, 687
Trade Outlook, 31, 391
Transport Charges. 813
Trans•Saharan Railway, 89, 255
Used Water Disposal, 531
Wages, 701
FRENCH Tidal Power Schemes, 326
Friend, J. Newton, Overstressed Iron. Steel and
Corrosion, 588
Fry, Lawford H., Experimental Results from
a Three-cylinder Compound Locomotive, 108
Fuel— see Ships
Fuel Conference (World Power Conference) 808 List of Papers to be Presenteel by British Debilitates, 719
Fuel Research in America, 274
Furnaces of Large Boilers. 214; (latter). 247
F. W. R., Over the Staff Manager's Shoulder. 524

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GAS Engines—see Engines
Gear-driven Train Lighting Set, Societe des Engrenages CitroOn, 278
Geometry. Wear and Testing of Safety Razor Blade Edges. .1. Ferdinand Kayser, 621; (Letter). 695
Gereke, 31., Peak Load Problem and High-powered Peak Load Diesel Engines, 496
Gezira Irrigation Scheme : Canalisation of the Gezira, Hartnood V. (L.Johnstone, 385
Sluices and Machinery of the Gezira Irrigation Scheme : Blue Nile Darn and Canalisition. James R. Russell, 386
Gisborne Harbour Works. New Zealand, 174, 184
Gough, Dr. H. 3., and A. J. Murray, Failure of
Wrought Iron Chain and Cable, 455, 468 :
MacDonald, R. C., Views on the Subject, 457
Grain Elevator System at Montreal, 714, 717
Granberg, V. W.. High-duty Boilers for Sawmill
Refuse, 692
Gregson, Major W., Waste Heat Recovery. 204. 213, 216
Grinders—see Machine Tools

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HAIGH, Professor B. P., Static Balancing of Rotors, 310. 338. 350
Hammers, 24-Ton Air, 5-Ton Drop, Eliamico, 284
Harbord, V., Cleaning of Blast-furnace Gas, 546
Harbour Works, Globate, New Zealand, 174. 184
Hardness Testing Machine, E. G. Herbert. 696
Hatfield. Dr. W. H.. Heat-resisting Steels. 566
Hatfield. Dr. W. H.. Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, 537
Hawkes, Professor C. J., Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture, The Marine Oil Engine, 40
Hearn, Colonel Sir Gordon, Levelling with an Aneroid, 270, 296, 324
Heat, Transmission Through Boiler Tubes. Hubert 0. Croft., 165
Hele-Shaw, Dr. H. S., and T. E. Beacham, 432
Herbert, E. J., Cutting Temperatures : Their Effect on Tools and on Materials Subjected to Work, 82
High-speed Navvies and Drag Line Excavators, Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., 272
Hoffman. G. H., The Effective I of H.M.S. Wolff, 398
Horne Copper Mine and Smelter at Noranda, Quebec, 370, 378
Horseferry—see Electrical Matters
Houston, Sir Alexander, Report on London Waters, 708, 716
Hudson River Bridge. 153, 426
Hydraulic Power Developments in Quebec, 313, 322
Hydro-electric Power Station, Bottle, 258, 268, 290
Hydro-electric Power in Sweden, 641

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INDICATOR, High-pressure, Leonard G. P. Thring, 298
Indicators—see also Physical and Optical Exhibition
Industry and Rates, 464
Industry, Science and Men, G. S. Baker, 408; (Letter), 571
Institutes and Institutions—see Associations
International Commission on Illumination, 333
International Congress on Bridge and Structural Engineering, 721
International Electro-technical Commission. 358
International Test Code for Steam Turbines, 638
Inventions, A Century of, Sir James A. Ewing, 619
Inventions, Development of, 160

IRON AND STEEL:

Appleby Iron Company. Ltd., A. Crooke and T. Thomson, 511
Basic Open-hearth Process, B. Talbot, 482
Bessemer Medal Presentation, 510
Blast-furnace Data and their Correlation, E. C. Evans and F. J. Bailey, 511
Chromium Steel Rails, T. Swinden and P. H. Johnson, 567
Cleaning of Blast-furnace Gas, V. Harbord, 537
Electrical Normalisation of Steel, W. E. Woodward, 568
Failure of Wrought. Iron Chain, Dr. H. J. Gough and A. J. Murray. 455. 468;
MacDonald, R. C., Views on the Subject, 457
Fatigue-resisting Properties of Carbon Steel, H. J. Tapsell, 512
Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 566
Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 537
Iron and Steel in 1927. 83
Nickel and Ferrous Alloys, A. B. Everest and Dr. D. Hanson, 513
Nickel Steel and Manganese, J. A. Jones, 512
Overstressed Iron, Steel and Corrosion, J. Newton Friend, 568
Silicon, Effect of. on Magnet Steel, J. Swan, 513
Sydney Steel Plant, Nova Scotia. 681, 688
Wrought Iron. E. J. Fox, 460
IRRIGATION in Siam, 147
Italian 1000 Miles Road Race, 404
.I.A.MAICA, J. G. B. Stuns, 690
.lames Forrest Lecture. A Century of Inventions, Sir James A. Ewing. 619
.Johansen, F. C., Application of Model Experiments to the Air Resistance of Trains, 146; (Letter), 358
Jones, J. A., Nickel Steel and Manganese, 512
Jones, J. H., and Others, Reactivity of Coke, 511

K

KAYSER, J. Ferdinand, Geometry, Wear and Testing of Safety Razor Blade Edges, 621; (Letter). 696
Kershaw, John B. C., Three Smoke Abatement Reports, 149
King, J. Foster, Bending and Loading of Ships. 370. 372

L

LABORATORY, American, of Insurance Engineering, 676, 704
Lathes-see Machine Tools
Launches and Trial Trips. 59, 115, 192, 048. 306, 358, 414, 445. 473, 501. 629, 557, 585. 611, 671. 725

LEADERS

1927-A Retrospect, 17; Technical Progress, 18
Agricultural Engineering, 132
Architecture and the Engineer. 715
Automatic Sub-stations, 269
Automatic Train Control. 106
Central England Electricity Scheme, 324
Century of Engineering, 631
Chimney Dust, 436
Ciment Fondu Concrete. 352
Commercial Evolution of Engineering, 7 7
Continental Coal Situation. 78
Development of Inventions, 160
Efficiency of Steam Nozzles, 105
Electrical Breakdowns in 1927. 548
Electricity Supnly, 296
Engineering in 1828. 601
Engineering Industry, 575
French Navy. 47
Furnaces of Large Boilers, 214
Heavy Oil Engine and Electricity Supply. 241
Industry and Rates, 464
Internal Combustion Locomotives, 491
Load Factor, 408
Locomotive Developments, 661
Locomotive Testing Plants, 323
Mr. Schwab on British Steel. 319
Output and Demand. 463
Output and Power, 379
Overhead Power Lines, 492
Place of the Workshop in Education, 242
Projected Atlantic Liners. 519
Pupils and Works, 662
Purification of Water Supplies, 716
Question of Trade Fairs, 295
Railway Accidents, 032
Railway Accidents in South Africa, 689
Railway Meetings, 270
Saving of Weight. 435
Sevenoaks Derailment, 131
Smaller Battleships.in Prospect. 407
South African Railway Electrification, 380
Spanish Navy, 547
Squirrel-cage Induction Motors, 463
Steam Research in America, 185
Strength of Steam Boilers, 351
Tank Engines on Express Trains, 186
Thames Flood, 47 10,000-Ton Cruiser, The, 159
Transmission by Cables. 689
Waste Heat Recovery, 213
LEIPZIG Technical Fair, 284-For Details see
Hammers, Machine Tools and Woodworking Machines

LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS

114, 140, 168,
England, North of, 28, 58, 86, 360, 388. 416, 194, 222, 252, 278, 304, 332, 610, 642, 670, 444, 472, 500, 528, 556, 584, 167, 193, 698, 724 387, 415, 44:3,
Lancashire, 27, 57, 85, 113, 139, 641, 669, 697, 221, 251, 277, 303, 331, 359, 471. 499, 527, 555, 583, 609, 723
Midlands and Staffordshire, 27, 57, 85, 113, 138, 166, 192. 221, 250. 277. 302, 331, 359, 387, 415, 443, 471, 499, 527, 555, 583, 609,
041, 669, 697, 723
Scotland, 29, 59, 87, 114, 141, 169, 195, 223, 253, 279, 305, 333, 361, 389, 417, 445, 473, 501, 628, 556, 585, 611. 643, 071, 699. 725
Sheffield. 28, 58, 86, 114, 140, 168, 194, 222, 252, 278, 304, 332, 360. 388, 416, 444, 472, 500, 527, 556, 584, 610, 642, 670, 698, 724
Vales and Adjoining Counties, 29, 59, 87, 115, 141, 169, 195, 223, 253, 279, 305, 333, 361, 389, 417, 445. 473, 501. 529, 557, 585, 611, 643, 671, 699, 725

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Alternating Current for Main Line Railways, 441
American v. British Locomotives for South Africa, J. G. H. Warren, 51
Automatic Sub-stations, H. B. Poynder, 327;
British Brown-Boveri, Ltd., 328; F. P. Whitaker, 441; R. L. Morrison, 485
Balancing Four-cylinder and Three-cylinder Locomotives, H. A. F. Campbell, 265
Boiler Explosion Reports, Boilerman, 52
Box Containers, Thos. Rowatt, 70
British Industries Fair, Rd. Johnson Clapham and Morris, Ltd., 265
Carriage Forward. Barimar, Ltd.. 572
Cheap Power, Gas Pump, 51
Compensated Spring Gear on Locomotives, P. C. Dewhurst, 289; C. M. Swatman, 328
Compounds on Rail and Sea, John Riekie, 51, 70
Compressed Air Meter, John L. Hodgson, 70, 358; E. J. Laschinge, 289
Costs for Manufacturers, Charles Smith, 554
Desert Power Scheme, S. P. Christie, 572
Diesel Engines and Peak Load Supplies, Geoffrey Porter, 137; A. H. Law, 137;
Engineer, 137; C. 0. Milton, 190; A Ratepayer, 190; J. G. Griffin, 247; H. W. Watts, 265
Earthquakes, H. A., 572
Equivalent Bonding Moment, &c., Gilbert Cook, 191
Erith Stoneware Pipe Works, Hickson and Parish, 571
Furnaces of Large Boilers, Riley Stoker Company, Ltd., 247
German Machine Tools, Selson Engineering Company, Ltd., 328
Heavy Oil Engine and Electricity Supply, H. W. Watts, 328
Hellgate Power Station, Now York, British Brown-Boveri, Ltd., 638
Kitson-Still-see Locomotive Development Locomotive Design and Orders Within the Empire, Midloco. 358
Locomotive Development, W. Rogers, 554;
R. W. Willans, 572; South-Western, 638
Locomotive Efficiency, C. M. Keiller, 695
Locomotive Testing Plant, F. W. Dean, 516
Multiplication with a Difference, C. Plenderleith, 695, 712; Harold I. Sid ek, 667;
C. Brooks, 695; J. P. Clark,
Oil Engine Performance on Coal Oil. R. Maclaurin, 327; Harold Nielsen. 327
Charles Turner, 404
Overhead versus Underground Cables, A. M. Taylor, Major 8.0.2. 712
Oxygen Jet Cutting, British Oxygen Company, Ltd.. 598
Philosophy of Indust rialism, H. C. A., 571
Port and Starboard, L. A. Legros, 712
Railways and Wind Tunnels, C. F. Dendy Marshall, 358
Recent British Locomotives, V. Pecori Giraldi, 52
Rubber in Bridge Construction. W. Roger Sanguineth, 067
Safety Razor Blade., P. V. Vernon, 695
Sevenoaks Accident Report, John Place, 152
Levelling with an Aneroid, Colonel Sir Gordon Hearn, 270, 296, 324
South African Locomotives, Beyer, Peacock and Co., 289
Steam Nozzles Research. Brown, Boveri and Co.. Ltd., 248
Tests on a Three-cylinder Compound Locomotive. M.I. Mech. E.. 404
Tests on a Three-phase Turbo-alternator, Charles C. Sutton. 459
Thames Floods, A. E. Langley, 70
Tyne Bridge, 'rho New, Thos. H. Webster, 52; Walter Hayler, 70
Use of Wire Rope in Structural Frameworks, Hexagon, 459. 554; John D. North. 516, 598
Water Power and the Engineering Societies. D. S., 191, 248
Waterworks Controversy. Lewretaw, 516
Wayleaves, R. Borlase Matthews. 404
LEVELLING and Stadia Sta ff , Cooke. Troughton and Simms, Ltd., 657
Liquid Fuel—see Coal

LITERATURE

Reviews :
Aerial Photography, C. Winchester and F. L. Wills, 409, 577
Applied Heat, Dipl. Ing. Julius Oelschlager, 243
Armaments and the Non-combatant, E. F. Spanner, 48
Britain's Fuel Problems, 186
Coal in Great Britain, Walcot Gibson, 106
Commercial Electrical Measuring Instruments, R. M. Archer, 353. 602
Costs for Manufacturers. Charles Smith, 297, 492
Design and Construction of Darns, E. Wegmann, 187, 520
Electric Rectifiers and Valves, Professor A. Guntherschulze, 465
Electro-farming or the Application of Electricity to Agriculture. R. Borlase Matthews, 243
Factory Organisation, C. H. Northcote and Others, 106, 187
History of Railways in Ireland. J. C. Conroy. 133, 663
Indian Storage Reservoirs with Earthen Darns, W. L. Strange, 492, 691
James Watt and the Steam Engine, H. W. Dickinson and Rhya Jenkins, 632
Jane's All the World's Aircraft, C. G. Grey and Leonard Bridgman, 271
Manual of Forest Engineering and Extraction, J. E. Stewart., 465
Manufacture of Artificial Silk, E. Wheeler, 187, 521
Modern Electrical Illumination, Cyril Sylvester and Thomas E. Ritchie. 353
Phase Rule and its Application. Alexander Findlay. 133; Text-books of Physical Chemistry : Ramsay and Doman Series. 133
Pitman's Technical Dictionary of Engineering and Industrial Science in Seven Languages. Ernest Slater, 602
Practical Television. E. T. Lamer, 297, 436
Principles of Electric Power Transmission by Alternating Current, H. Waddicot, 243
Theory of Emulsions and their Technical Treatment, W. Clayton, 48, 242
Water Supply of Towns and the Construction of Waterworks, W. K. Burton and J. F. Dumbleton, 106, 352
Working of Unstratified Mineral Deposits, George J. Young, 548
Short Notices :
American Railway Signalling Principles and Practice, 297
Continuous Current Engineering, Alfred Ray, 187
Electrical Engineering Economics, D. .T. Bolton, 215
Locomotive Management from Cleaning to Driving, Jas. T. Hodgson, 409
Plastering, Plain and Decorative, 48
Railway Signalling, S. T. Dutton, 106
R's Method of Using Ordinary Set Squares, &c., Harry W. Roberts. 187
Vertical Shaft Sinking, E. 0. Forster Brown, 215
Wireless Direction Finding and Directional Reception, R. Keen, 187
%%fireless Principles and Practice. L. S. Palmer, 106, 187; (Correction), 216
Books Received :
Abrasive Handbook, F. B. Jacobs, 602
Air Hardening Rivet Steels, Harry K. Herschman, 133
Alfred Yarrow : His Life and Work, 602
All the Word's Aircraft, 1927, C. G. Grey, 48
Annales des Ponts et Chaussees, 1927, 243
Annales des Ponts et Chaussees, 1928, 492
Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique,-1927, 106
Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique. 1928, 436
A nnali dei Lavori Pubblici (Gia Giornale del Genio 48. 382, 548
Annual Report on the %York of All Departments of the Ministry (Finance) during the Year 1923-24, Part I., Cairo, 409
Applied Electricity, S. Timoskenko and J. M. Lessens, 187
Aslib Directory; A Guide to Sources of Specialised Information in Great Britain and Ireland, G. F. Barwick, 634
A.S.T.M. Standards, 1927, Part I., Metals
Part H.. Non-metallic Materials, 48
Automobil-Reparaturen, 0. Winkler. 353
Beyond the Electron, Sir J. J. Thomson. 602
Birmingham Exchange Directory of Members, &c., 1928, 663
Blue Book, 1928, Directory of the Electrical Engineering and Allied Trades. 187
B.O.T. Orale and Marine Engineering Knowledge, Steam and Oil, W. C. MacGibbon, 271
Britain's Industrial Future, 161
Builders' Bookkeeping and Costing, C. G. Dobson. 48
Buyers' Guide to the Motor Trade in Great Britain and the Empire, 1928, 436
Calvert's Mechanics' Almanack, 1928, F. Nasmith, 48
Cast Iron in the Light of Recent Research. W. H. Hatfield, 215
Centrifugal Pump and its Applications, 31.
Heath, 187
chemical Engineering and Chemical Catalogue. D. M. Newitt, 382
Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades' Directory. 1928, 353
Coloured Thinking, Dr. F. Fraser Harris, 382
Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Vol. VIII.. J. W. Mellor, 409
Concrete Year Book, 1928, Oscar Faber and H. L. Childe, 14)6
Cours d'Electricite Theorique, Vol. B. Posney, 106
Cours de Mecanique, Paul Levy, 548
Cours de Mecanique, Complement Resistance du Beton Anne, 106
Der Praktische Eisenhochbau, Vol. III., Alfred Gregor, 716
Design, Construction and Maintenance of Docks. Wharfs and Piers, F. M. Du Plat Taylor, 663
Die Bestimmung der Batistoffditinpfung nach dem Verdrehungsausschwingverfahren, Ewald Portz, 548
Die Bibliotheken der deutschen Tochnischen Hochsohulen. Dr. Paul Trominsdorlf, 577
Die Einfiiisse bewegter Listen auf Bracken und das Problem der Radreibung. Ing. A. Buchwald, 106
Die Grundlagen fur den Bau und die Einrichtung von Lokomotivausbessorungswerken, Dr.-Ing. F. Neesen, 271
Die Verwendbarkeit der Rantgenverfahren in der Technik. Dipl.-Ing. C. Kantner and Dipl.-Ing. A. Herr, 716
Die Werkstofftagung, Berlin, 1927, Conrad Matschoss, 133
Diesel Engine Design, H. F. P. Purday. 106
Dieselmaschinon, Dr.-Ing. Julius Magg, 133
Directory of Papermakers in Great Britain and Ireland, 1928, 382
Directory of Shipowners, Shipbuilders and Marine Engineers, 1928, 187
Distribution of Electricity by Overhead Lines, W. T. Taylor, 663
Drafting for Engineers, Carl Sara Svonsen, 577
Drang und Zwang, Dr.-Ing. A. Fiippl and Dr. L. Fkippl, 353
Electrical Conductivity of the Atmosphere and its Causes. V. F. Hess. 187
Electrician Annual Tables of Electricity Undertakings, 1928, 548
Engineering Index, 1927, 548
England's Industrie am Scheidewege, Professor Dr.-Ing. W. Midler, 271
Etudes stir la Trefilerie et ses Derives, R. Papier. 436
Examples of Modem French Architecture, H. Robertson and F. R. Yerbury, 577
Excavating Machinery as Represented by Power Shovels, &c., W. Barnes, 663
Field Astronomy, A Manual of, A. H. Holt, 187
Fifty-nine Coal Mine Fires, &c.. G. S. Rice and Otheis, 436
First Course in Experimental Science for Technical Students, R. W. Hutchinson, 521
Forschungshefte der Studiengesellschaft ftir Hachstspa.nnungsanla.gen; Katlic) denos zillograph, Professor A. Matthias, 106
Foundations : Methods and Appliances, W. Simpson. 716
Future of Tin, H. Oakley and R. Pritchard, 521
Grandi Utilizzazioni Idrauliche, 48
Grey Book, 1928, 106
Handbook to British Malaya, 1927, 133
Handbook on the Practice of County Courts. J. E. Spickett, 106
Handbook of Structural Steelwork, 1928, 436
Highway Engineering, J. H. Bateinan, 409
H.M. Stationery Office Publications :
Accuracy of Commercial Screw Threads, * T. H. Rolt and W. G. Ridge, 297
Descriptive Account and Catalogue of the Home Office Industrial Museum and Exhibits, 409
Estimation of Firedamp, C. S. W. Once and D. W. Woodhead, 106
Gamecock Aeroplane, Jupiter VI. Engine 602
Instructions as to the Survey of Passenger Steamships, 243
Investigation of a Rotating Radio Beacon, Radio Research Report No. 6, 602
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. 88, 634
Lighting Power of Flame Safety Lamps, R. V. Wheeler and D. W. Woodhead, 133
Lion Aero Engine (Series V and 'ya), 634
Particulars of Meteorological Reports Issued by Wireless Telegraphy in Great Britain, 1928, 634
Report on the Conditions and Prospects of British Trade in India. 1926-1927, T. M. Ainscough, 106
Safety Precautions for Transmission Machinery in Factories, Part IL, Belt Mounting, 187
Survey of Metal Industries. 577
Unsaturated Hydro-carbons " in the Gases from the Carbonisation of Coal, 187
Wire Ropes for Mines : Some Notes Regarding their Manufacture and Structural Engineering : Some Suggestions as to Training for and Entering the Profession, 133
Studies in Malaria as it Affects Indian Railways, R. S. White, 492
Studies in Molecular Force, H. Chatley, D.Sc., 602
"Swift " Cubit; Reckoner (Rectangular) for Timber, &c., J. Gall Inglis. 577
Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners, Twenty-seventh Report. 382
Technique do l'Etirage : Etude GOarale, G. de Lattre, 48
Telephone and Power Transmission, R. Bradfield and W. J. John, 634
Textbook of Telegraphy. A. E. Stone, 521
The Standards' Year Book, 1928. 716
The Wireless World Moving Coil Loud Speaker, 297
Theorio der Reduktionaftthigkeit von Stein-kohlenkoks, Professor Dr. G. Agdo and Dr.-Ing. H. Schmitt. 353
Tin Mining, C. J. Moor, 409
Tokyo Imperial University. 133
Traits pratiquo do Navigation Aerienno, A.-B. Duval and L. HAbrard, 548
" Transactions " of the Institution of Engineers of Australia, Vol. VI., 1925, 436
Two Essays in Early Locomotive History. C. F. Dondy Marshall, 492
Union dos Ingenieurs Sortie des Eccles Spooiales do Louvain. 602
Universal Directory of Railway Officials. 1928, 577
University of London, University College :
Annual Report of the College Committee, 436
Vertoichnis Berechneter Functionentafeln, Part I., 548
Warmedurchgang bei oinfaohen Kai-pent und Masehinen. 271
Water Supply of Adelaide and Suburbs, H. E. Bellamy, 716
Werkstoff- und Banvorschrifton fiir Land-dampfkessol nebst Erlauterungen, 271
Werkatoff Handbuch Nichteisonmetalle, G. Masing and Others, 133
Workstoff-Handbuch—Stahl und Eisen, 187
What's Wanted and Advice to Inventors, 133
Wireless Loud Speakers, Dr. N. W. McLachlan, 409
Wirtschaftlichsto Isoherstarke boa Warmeund KAlteschutzanlagen, &c., Dr.-Inge I. S. Cammeror, 133
World Motor Transport Congress, 1927, " Proceedings," 187
Year Book of the Bermudas, the Bahamas, &c., 1928, 436
Year Book of Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, 1927, 297
LLOYD'S Register—see Ships
Locomotives-see Railway Locomotives
Lodge, Sir Oliver, Kelvin Lecture. Revolution
in Physics, 428
Logical Principles of Classification, S. C. Bradford, 357
London Waters—see Water Supply
M
MACHINE TOOLS :
Boring Machine and Grinding Machines at
Leipzig, Schiess-Defries, 285
Cutting Temperatures : Their Effect on
Tools and on Materials Subjected to Work,
E. G. Herbert, 82
Double Electrically Driven Wet Tool Grinder.
B. R Rowland and Co.. Ltd.,84
Drilling, Boring and Milling achine, Hulse
and Co., Ltd., 382
Extra High-speed Lathe. Schloss-Dairies
Machine Tool Company, 158. 166
Grinding Machines for Locomotive Repairs
and Saw-sharpening Machine at Leipzig,
Friedrich Schmaltz, 285
Hole and Expansion-link Grinding Machines,
Boyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd.. 600. 608
Lathes. Five.Various, at Leipzig Fair, Alfred
Herbert, Ltd., 284. 285
Machine Tools at Paris Fair, 570
Pneumatic Fettling Grinder, Warner Swasey. 525
Vertical Milling Machine, Heavy Duty.
Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 494
MACHINERY at the Paris Fair, 570
Maentwrog—see Electrical Matters
Magneto, The " Waco." 385
Manometer, An Improved Mercury-contact.
Harold Martin, 181
Marine Engines—see Engines
Mechanical Motions. Models of, at Leipzig. 286
Metal Rectifiers, Westinghouse Brake and
Saxby Signal Company, Ltd., 684
Metals—sec Associations. Institute of Metals
Milling Machines—see Machine Tools
Mitchell, E. H., Design and Propulsion of Fast
Double-ended Screw Vessels, 371
M.L.S. Superheater Header and Regulator.
Superheater Company. Ltd., 330
Model Drawing-office, 524; (Correction), 685
Montreal, Grain Elevator System at. 714. 717
Motor Vehicles, Commercial, at Leipzig. 284
N
NAVAL Matters—Bee Ships
Niagara Falls, Preservation of, 368
O
OBITUARY :
Bayard, Clement. 554
Bridge, Robert, 48 13tickliain, Sir George. 554
Davey. Henry (Portrait), 437
Day. Charles, 107 (;aster, Leon, 48
Gee, William Winson Haldane, 271
Goethals, Major-General, 108
OBITUARY (continued):
Harper, John, 79
Lange. F. M. T., 465
Lea, William Edgar. 79
Longridge, Michael (Port rait), 107
Mountain, William Charles, 132
Murray, Lee, 353
Patrick; Andrew Crawford. 133
Ransom°. Geoffrey, 404
Roberts. David, 464
Sellon, Robert Perry, 79
Seward, W. R.. 271
Siemens. Alexander, 214
OIL Burners for Kitson-Still Locomot :;s I
-see also Railway Locomotives
Oil from Coal in South Africa, 344
Oil Engines-see Engines
Oil Separator, 200-Ton, for the Japanese Navy 112
Open-hearth Process-see Iron and Steel
Output and Demand, 403; (Letter), 571
Output and Power, 379
Over the Staff Manager's Shoulder, F. W. It., 524
PAPER Mills, West Templeton. Canada. I2, 216
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, BRITISH
Aeronaut ors, 569
Batteries and Accumulators, 363, 674
Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 613
Cranes and Conveyors, 614, 727
Crushing and Grinding, 364
Dynamos and Motors, 31. 01, 89, 117. 143, 171, 197, 225, 281, 335, 391, 419, 613, 673, 701, 727
Electric Appliances, 61. 89, 225. 281, 307, 447, 475, 503, 531, 559, 613. 645. 674, 701
Engines, Internal Combustion, 143, 255, 307, 363, 391, 419, 447, 503, 531. 645, 701
Furnaces, 90. 117, 335. 560, 614. 645
Gas Producers, 255, 448
Lighting and Heating, 143, 226, 335, 588
Locomotives, 392
Machine Tools and Shop Appliances. 61. 171. 197. 225, 281, 308, 364, 419, 448, 532, 660, 674
Measuring and Testing Instruments. 31, 419, 447, 587, 645. 702
Metallurgy, 117, 198, 282, 504
Mining Machinery. 255. 532
Miscellaneous, 32, 61, 90, 118, 144, 172, 08, 220. 255. 282. 308. 336, 364, 392. 420. 448, 476, 504, 532, 588. 614, 646. 674, 702, 728
Motor Cars and Road Traffic. 171, 197, 448. 476, 560, 588, 646
Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 336, 392, 504, 531, 645. 727
Ships and Boats. 90, 728
Steam Generators. 61, 143. 171, 3:15, 363 447, 531, 587, 673, 727
Switchgear, 171, 255, 307, 419
Telegraphs and Telephones. 90, 117, 1 4 3 , 335, 392, 447, 475, 503, 559, 587, 702, 727
Tramways and Railways, 61, 308, 475
Transformers and Converters, 31, 89. 307, 391, 447, 503, 587, 613
Transmission of Power, 117, 281, 335. 363. 419. 475, 560, 587, 702
Turbine Machinery. 225. 363, 673
Water Purification. 144
Welding, 172
PAUGAN Falls Power Plant, 522, 523
Pavement Breaking Machine, 13. Johnson and
Son, 440
Peat, Congress on, 459
Perring, W. G. A., Vortex Theory of Propellers, 400
Personal and Business Announcements. 59. 90. 115, 141, 169, 198. 226, 256, 282, 308. 336, 361, 392. 442. 473, 504, 532, 560. 611, 646, 699, 728
Petrol Engines-see Engines
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES'
EXHIBITS 42. 72, 98
Acoustic Resonator, Fournier d'Albe Sys.
tern. Adam Hilger, 74
Aegir Depth Indicator. Electric Alarm. Volt •
tags Regulator, Motor Starting, N. C. Rapid
Action, Isenthal and Co., Ltd., 98
Ammeter, Portable Multi-range, Crompton,
Parkinson, Ltd., 42, 43
Bakelite Rosin Products, Bakelite, Ltd., 73
Components and Complete Receivers; Coils,
Triple Honeycomb. " Xllos," Short•wave,
Geared Coil Holder; Condensers, Various.
" Lokvane," Micro-condensers. Vernier
Balancing; Short • wave Amplifiers
Gramophone Pick•up, &c., Igranic Elee•
tric Company, Ltd., 101
Current Transformer; Warren Synchronous
Motor; Induction Ammeter, Everett
Edgcumbe, 99
Detonation Apparatus, T. Carlton-Sutton, 99
Dionic Water Tester, Evershed and Vignolles, 73
Duddell Oscillograph Outfit with Condenser,
Cambridge Instrument Company, 43. 44
Heat-1088 Gauge, Captain A. Blacicie, Foster
Instrument Company, 44
Historical Museum, W. and T. Avery, Ltd., 102
Multiversal " Current Transformer, Elliott
Brothers, Ltd., 73
" Mutochrome," Seventeen-colour, C. F.
Smith, Adam Hager, 74
Recording Potentiometer; Hot Wire Motor
Mechanism. atc.. Cambridge Instrument
Company, 72
Research and Experimental Apparatus. G. L.
Addenbrooke, 102
Resistance Box Switch; Galvanometer,
Form of d'Arsonval; Vibration Galvano-meter, H. Tinsley and Co., 98
Sobering Bridge, Cambridge Low-tension,
Cambridge Instrument Company. 44
Steel Wire, H.R. Crown," Steel, Firth
" H.R. Crown," Stainless and " Stay-brite " Steels, Brown-Firth Research
Laboratories, 100
Temperature Deviation Indicators, Cambridge Instrument Company, 101
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES' EXHIBITS (ron/rutted) :
Temperature Signalling Indicator; Thermo-meter, Surface, Negretti and Umbra. 101, 102
" Toroid " H.F. Transformer. Variable Condenser, Dubilier Condenser Company, Ltd., 100, 101
Vacuum Switch, General Electric Company, 73
Vacuum Thermo-couples, Elliott Brothers,
Ltd.. 73
Vibrograph, Low-periodicity, Cambridge Instrument Company. 42. 43
Voltmeter. Portable A.C.. Elliott Brothers.
Ltd., 73
Voltmeters, Moullin Thermionic, Alternating-current, Radio Frequency, &c., Cambridge
Instrument Company, 72
Voltmeters and Wattmeters, Alternating or
Direct-current; Reverse Current Relay;
Combined Power Factor and Induction
Wattmeter, Nalder Brothers and Thompson, Ltd.. 99, 100
Wave-form Indicator. Cambridge Instrument Company, 72
Wave Model, T. B. Vinycomb, Possibilities
of Model—Phase Change at Reflexion
Independence of Wave Trains; Standing
Waves; Progressive Waves; Resonance;
Sound Waves; Vibrations of Strings;
Columns of Air, &c.; Torsional and Transverse Vibrations of Shafts, &c.; Propagation of Currents Along Cables : Long
and Short Telephone Lines. John Griffin
and Sons, Ltd., 100
WIRELIM APPARATUS :
Battery-charging • Rectifiers; Power Units
for H.T. and L.T. Supplies; Shielded
Valves; Condensers, &c.; Marconi
Shielded Valve; Gramophone Reproduction by Electric Pick-up System, 42
Marconi-Rein Microphone; Receivers;
Short-wave. also Portable Four-valve, 98
PHYSICS, Revolution in—sec Electrical
Matters
Pier—see Reconstruction
Piling System, New Air Pressure, Pressure
Piling Company, Ltd., 442
Place of the Workshop in Education, 242
Pneumatic Tool, A New, Rotary Air Tool Company, 525
Portland Cement Works, Dunstable. 92, 104, 120
Post Office Tube Railway, London. 153 (Two-page Supplement, February 10th, 1928)
Powdered Fuel and Turbulence, 220
Pressed Steel—are Vacuum Brake
Products of an Old Foundry, 125
Propellers. Model, Working in Air and in Water,
W. Sprague, 397
PUMPS :
Calcutta Waterworks, Pumping Stations and
Equipment for, 394, 406, 423. 434
High-pressure Turbine-driven Boiler Feed
Pump, G. and J. Weir, Ltd.. 640
Pumping Plant at Everhill Pumping Station
for the Demme Valley Water Board. Pula°.
meter Engineering Company, Ltd., and
F. A. Parkinson, Ltd., 373
Rumfields Pumping Station, Broadstairs
Waterworks, 617, 630
Sewage Pumping Plant, Automatic Under-ground, Daniel Adamson and Co.. Ltd., 525
" Unifio " Pump, Uniflow Pump Company.
Ltd., 526
PUPILS and Works, 662
Q
QUAY, Now Riverside, at the Albert Edward
Dock on the Tvne. 664, 665
Quebec—see Hydraulic Power
Question of Trade Fairs, 295
R
RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS
General Matters :
Application of Model Experiments to the
Air Resistance of Trains, F. C. Johansen, 146
Automatic Train Control, 100
Corridor Tender, L. and N.E. Railway. 666, 667
Gear-driven Train Lighting Sot, Societ6 des
Engrenages Citroen, 270
Coated Steam Rail Car, Sentinel-Cammell, 552
Oil-electric Train. 500 B.H.P.. L.M.S. Railway. William Beardmore and Co.. Ltd., and
the English Electric Company, Ltd., 514, 518
Railway Accidents, 632
Railway Accidents in South Africa, 689
Railway Meetings, 270
Railway Year, 275
Speed and Safety on the Railways, Raymond
Carpmael, 166
Summer Train Services in France, 669
British, Colonial and Indian :
Geared Steam Rail Car for L. and N.E. Railway, Sontinel-Cammell, 551
L.M.S. Railway, 500 B.H.P. Oil-electric
Train, 514. 518
L. and N.E. Railway, Corridor Tender, 666, 667
L. and N.E. Railway, Steam Coach, Clayton
Wagons. Ltd., 722
Non-stop Records on the L.N.E.R., 488
Post Office Tube Railway. London, 153 (Two-page Supplement, February 10th, 1928)
Sevenoaks Derailment. 126, 131; (Letter), 152
South African Railway Electrification. 380; (Letter), 441
Foreign:
American Railway Pageant. 64
Summer Train Services in France, 069
Vosges Railways, 543
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES
General :
Comparative Tests on Locomotives with 180 lb. and 220 lb. Pressure, 668 850 lb. Pressure Steam Locomotive, Swiss
Locomotive and Machine Works, 274
Experimental Results from a Three cylinder
Compound Locomotive, Lawford H. Fry, 108; (Letter). 404
Fifty-cycle Single-phase Locomotives. Fried.
Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, 219
General Development of the Locomotive. 396. 422. 450, 481, 508, 562. 592. 616 : (Letter), 638
Internal Combustion Locomotive. 491
Kitson-Still Locomotive. 484, 491, 581; (Letters), 554. 572—see also Annual
Articles; Oil Burners for Kitson-Still
Locomotive. Laidliiw, Drew and Co., 581
Locomotive Coaling Plants, Mitt holl Conveyor and Transporter Company, 291, 294
Locomotive Developments, 661
Locomotive Testing Plants, 323; (Letter). 516
Regulator for Locomotives. A New. Super-heater Company. Ltd.. 330
Tank Engines on Express Trains. 178, 180
Foreign :
American Railway Pageant, 64; Locomotives. 65—For details see Illustrations
Index
P.L.M. Railway, Eight-coupled Compound
Tank Engine, Monsieur Vallantin, 414
Schmidt-Henschel High-pressure Two-pressure Locomotive (January 20th, 1928).
Henschel and Sohn. 80. 81, 82; (Correction). 22
RATEFIXING. G. W. Tripp. 234)
Razor Blade Edges. Geomet ry. Wear and
Testing of Safety, .1. F. Kayser, 621 (Letter). 695
Reconstruction of New Holland Pier, 228
Relative Strength—see Ships
Revolution in Physics, Kelvin Leet lire, Sir
Oliver Lodge, 428
Richmond. Lieut.-Colonel, V.C., Developments
in Rigid Airship Construction, 398. 390. 410; (Letters), 459, 516. 554. 598
Riley, T. N., and T. R. Scott, Insulating Oils
for High-voltage Cables, 581
Riverside Quay, New, at the Albert Edward
Dock on the Tyne, 664, 665
Roller. 1-Ton Motor, Tangent Tool and Engineering Company, Ltd., 83
Ropeway—see Aerial
Romencrants, F. H., Practice and Progress in
Combustion of Coal. 526
Rosenhain, Dr. \V.. Equilibrium Diagram, 260, 266
Rattle Hydro-electric Power Station, 258. 268, 290
Rudder, New Type, John Tilt in. 273
Ryburn —see 1A'ater Supply
ST. LAWRENCE Development. 440
Salving—see Ships
Sams, J. G. B., Jamaica, 690
Saving of Weight, 435
Schwab, Mr. Charles M., on British Steel, 510, 519
Scientific and Industrial Research Annual
Reports. 175
Scoble. Dr. W. A., Third Report of Wire Ropes
Research Committee, 455, 495
Selling—see Engines
Sevenoaks—see Railways
Sewage Pumping Plant. D. Aditnison and Co.,
Ltd., 525
Shannon Power Plant 318. 341
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING
See Annual Articles
General Matters
Bending and Loading of Ships. J. Foster
King, 370, 372
Coal-fired Cargo Vessels. 302
Double-ended Screw Vessels, Fast, Design
and Propulsion of. E. H. Mitchell. 371
Electric Transmission of Power for Propelling
Ships. J. W. Belsey, 457
Experiments on the Propulsion of a Single-screw Ship Model, G. S. Baker and J. L.
Kent. 400
Fuel for Ships, Question of. Sir John H.
Biles. 343, 355, 370
Lloyd's Register :
Annual Summary, 111
Quarterly Shipbuilding Returnct, 54, 440
Marine Enginea--see Engines
Relative Strength of Fine and Full Cargo
Vessels, E. L. Champness and Frank
McAlister, 397
Rudder, New Type. John Tutin. 273
Salving of the Ex-German Battle-cruiser
Moltke. 605
Statistical Analysis of Voyage Abstracts, J.
Lockwood Taylor, 401
Stresses in the Hulls of Stranded Vessels,
Professor E. G. Coker. 397
Submarine of To-day, 123
Turbo - electrically - propelled Passenger
Liners. 275
British Navy :
H.M. Aircraft Carrier Courageous, 230
H.M.S. Sussex, Launch of, 249
The Effective I. of H.M.S. Wolf, G. H. Hoffmann, 398
Naval Matters :
Admiralty Staff Reduction, 102 10,000-Ton Cruiser, The, 159
Smaller Battleships in Prospect, 407
Foreign Navies :
Torpedo-boat Destroyers, New, John
I. Thornyeroft and Co.. Ltd.. 102
French Navy, 48
Oil Separator for the Japanese Navy, 112
Royal Dutch Navy, Torpedo Boat S.M. 2,
John I. Thornycroft and Co.. Ltd., 238
Spanish Navy. 547
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels :
Canadian Pacific Cargo Steamer Beaverburn,
William Denny and Brothers. Ltd., 53
Canadian Pacific Liner Duchess of Bedford. 594
Canadian Pacific Passenger Steamer Princess
Elaine. John Brown and Co., Ltd., 314
Motor Tanker Elax, Netherland Shipbuilding
Company, 156
Orient Liner Orford, Vickers-Armstrong's
Naval Construction Works, 439
Projected Atlantic Liners, 519
Rotterdam Lloyd Motor Liner Sibajak. 192; (Correction), 253
Scott-Still Twin-screw Motor Vessel Eurybates, Scott's Shipbuilding and Engineering
Company. Ltd.. 345 (Two-page Supplement. March 30th, 1928)
SIAM, Irrigation in, 147
Silver, Electro-deposition of, Joint Conference, 243
Singapore Floating Dock. Electrical Equipment, of, Ernest T. Williams, 486
Sinking a Concrete Tunnel, 677
Sixty 'Years Ago, 14, 44, 71. 102. 128, 161, 187, 220, 243, 266. 289, 325. 353, 382, 404, 441. 459, 488, 521, 551, 577, 607, 623. 663, 691, 709
Skidding of a Four-wheeled Vehicle on a
Slippery Road, L. H. G. Dines. 94
Smith. Professor S. Parker. Report on a Three-phase Turbo-alternator. 366, 402
Smoke Abatement Reports, Three, John B. C.
kermlitiw, 149
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES :
s I, 152, 179, 249, 386, 470, 516, 582, 686
Antimony Ore Treatment, 516
Automatic Colour Light Signalling, 152
British Motor Omnibuses, 250
British versus Foreign Tenders, 84
Broken Hill Mines, 84
Cement Supports in Minos, 152
Double-deckers for Motor Cars, 84
Doubling Cape Town Docks, 250
Electricity Statistics, 686
Electrification of Suburban Lines, 84
German Locomotives, Big, 582
German Tenders Accepted—Ninety Locomotives to Cost £560,213. 249; (Letter), 289
Gold Output for the Year, 249
Iron and Steel Industry, 686
Iron,and Steel Industry in South Africa, 582
Mineral Production, 179
Mining by Fire, 516
More Locomotives Ordered, 386
More Locomotives for South Africa, 470
Municipal Crushing Plant, &c., 471
New Engines for Rhodesia, 249
Oil from Coal, 582
Oil in South Africa, 582
Order for British Firm, 179
Paper Pulp Factory. 470
Platinum Extraction. 179
Platinum Revival, 386
Power Expansion in Natal, 470
Power Schemes in South Central Africa, 386
Railway Contracts for Belgium, 152
Railway Earnings, 471
Railway Finances, 386
Railway Repair Shops, 470
Rand-Durban Air Service, 686
Refrigerating Plant at Durban, 686
Rhodesia, Now Port for. 686
Road Motor Services, 179
Salt River Power Station, 516
Steenbras Waterworks, 179
Tenders for Locomotives, 686
Union Railway Expenditure, 471
Union's Locomotive Policy, 516
Unusual Cause of Flash-over, 152
Witbank Coking Coal, 152
SOUTHAMPTON, Port of, F. E. Wentworth•
Sheilds, 705, 718
Spanish Motor Car Industry, 488
Speed and Safety—see Railways
Sprague. W.. Model Propellers Working in Air
and in Water, 397
Static Balancing of Rotors, Professor B. P.
Haigh. 310, 338, 350
Steam Coach, L. and N.E. Railway, Clayton
Wagons, Ltd., 722
Stearn Engines and Steam Winding—see
Engines
Steam Nozzles, Committee's Report, 95, 105; (Letter). 248
Steam Research in America, 185
Steam Turbine Propulsion, Developments in,
R. J. Walker, 289
Stevenson Creek Experimental Arch Dam, 478, 662
Stoneware Pipe--see Erith
Submarines — see Ships
Sutlej Valley Project, Progress of the, 191
Swan. J., Effect of Silicon on Magnet Steel, 513
Swindon, T., and P. H. Johnson, Chromium
Steel Rails, 567
Sydney Steel Plant, Nova Scotia, 681. 688
Sykes Double Helical Gear Generating Machine.
Power Plant Company, Ltd., 462, 466, 467
T
TALBOT, B., Basic Open-hearth Process. 482
Tank Engines—see Railway Locomotives
Tapsell. H. J.. Fatigue-resisting Properties of
Carbon Steel, 512
Taxation, Local. Burden of. 498
Tests, Comparative. of Locomotives—see Railway Locomotives
Tests of a 12,000-kW Zoelly Steam Turbine, 177
Thames Flood, 47
Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture, First, The Marine
Oil Engine, Professor C. J. Hawkes, 40
Thring High-pressure Indicator, 298 •
Tidal Power—sec French
Tin Reclamation on the Cornish Coast. 609
Tin Smelting Furnace. New Design of, W. J.
Cayzer, 483
Traffic Signal. A New, 498
Trains—see Railways
Tripp, G. W.. Ratefixing, 230
Turbines for Generating Sets at Guildford
Station, 590, 634
Turbines, Steam, International Test Code for, 638
Turbines—see Tests
Turbo-alternators and Turbo-generators—see
Electrical Matters
Turner, Engineer-Captain, Experimental Diesel
Engines. 371, 383
Tutin, John, Cavitation. 400
Tut in, John, New Type of Rudder, 273
U
ULTRA-SONOROUS WAVOS in Navigation,
Monsieur P. Langevin, 348
Universal Pipe Template, The Sturrock, 414
V
VACUUM Brake. Pressed Steel Cylinders,
Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company, Ltd.. 109
Valve Gear. CHprotti. 720
Variable Screw—see Aeronautics
Vernon. P. V., Some Thoughts on Coal Pulverisation, 176
Vortex Theory of Propellers, W. G. A. Perring;
and Cavitation, John Tutin, 400
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WASTE Heat Recovery. Major W. Grown. 204. 213, 216
Water Power Development in Canada, 189
WATER SUPPLY :
Broadstairs, New Waterworks for, 617. 630
Calcutta 'Waterworks. 394, 406, 423, 434
Durban, New Waterworks for. 68
Pipe Line, New Ryburn, for Wakefield Water-works, 135
Port Elizabeth, Water for, 432
Purification of Water Supplies, 716
Report on London Waters, Sir Alexander
Houston, 708. 716
WATER Turbines for Shannon Power Plant. 318, 341
Wentworth-Sheilds, F. E., Port of Southampton, 705, 718
What is Yankee Ingenuity ? 721
" Wico " Magneto, 385
Williams, Ernest T., Electrical Equipment of
Singapore Floating Dock. 486
Wire Ropes, Report, Dr. W. A. Scoble, 455, 495
—see also Airship Construction (Aeronautics)
Woodward, W. E., Electrical Normalisation of
Stool, 568
WOODWORKING MACHINES :
See Building Trades Exhibits
Log Cross-cutting Saw, A. Ransome and Co..
Ltd., 441
Wood Planing and Mortising Machine at
Leipzig, Botteher and Gessner, 285, 286
WORK Meter, Work Meters, Ltd., 328; (Addendum), 361
World Power Conference—see Fuel Conference
A
ABELL, Sir 'Westcott, 91
Abolition of Submarines. 145
Accident Prevention. 119
Admiralty Contracts Awarded. 173
Admiralty Staff and Expenditure. 63
Aerial Surveying, 615
Aircraft Carrier. Our Latest. 1.19
Air Minister's Statement 283
Air Ministry Changes. 1 19
Air Survey Contract, Large•. 337
Airships and Aircraft Carriers. 119
Analysis of Unemployment. 385
Apprenticeship in the Engineering Industries, 533
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co., 1otd., 533
Astronomer•Royal's Report. 615
Atlantic Liners, Now and Projected. 647
Australian Commonwealth Line. 419
Avonmouth Dock Extension. 561
• B
BAIRD, Mr. Alfred W., The Lato. 63
Bennett. Mr. A. R., The Late. 589
Birthday Honours, 615
British•Amnorican Financial Combine. 421
British Association, 421
Brit ish Electrical Engineering Corporation, 309
Brit ish Industries Fair, 1929. 875
British shipping and Shipbuilding, 647
British Steel Industry, 703
Broadcast Reception in Birmingham. 1
Broadcwit ing Station, A New. 449
C
CABLES and Wireless Telegraphy. 33. 309
Canadian Pacific Order, A New, 703
Causes of Motor Accidents. 703
Central Scotland Transmission System. 393
Chamber of Shipping. 199. 477
Charing Cross Bridge, 703
Charing Cross Electricity Supply Company, 283
Clydebank Launch, A Notable. 91
Clyde Launches, Some Recent, 605
Coal Distillation in Belgium, 173
Conciliation in the Shipyards. 675
Co-operative Profit-sharing, 145
Cornish. Mr. Harry J., The Late, 421
Cross-Channel Vessels, New, for Belfast, 91
D
DEN of Cowie Viaduct Derailment. 145
Destroyer Orders. The NO%% . 227
Diesel Electric Oil Tanker, 257
Dixon, Sir Robert. Retirement of, 015
Dutch and Chain Destroyers, Now, 561
E
EAST to Vest Atlantic Flight, 421
Electrical Industry, 589
Electrical Research, 173
Electric Transmission Towers, 505
Electricity in Agriculture, 449
Ellerman Liner, A Notable, 119
Empire Airships, 33, 257
Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet, 173
Engineering Appointments on the Clyde and
Tyne, 145
Engineering Deal, Large, in Lancashire, 91
Exhaust Turbine Drive for Large Liners. 257
F
FARADAY Lecture, 257
Fate of the U.S. Naval Programme, 199
First Lord's Statement, 283
First Wright Aeroplane. 145
Foreign Plant and the Beams. 145
French Electrical Trust, 589
French Naval Developments, 173
French Torpedo Craft, 561
Future Atlantic Liners, 477
G
GENERATION of Electricity in Great Britain, 305
Geophysical Surveying. 337
German Airship LZ 127, 337
Glasgow Bridge, A Now, 227
Glasgow Harbour Developments, 283
Glasgow's Now Electricity Slimager, 703
Groat Eastern Train Ferries. 337
Groenock Shipyard to Close Down. 633
" Grid " Contracts, 581
H
HARLAND and Wolff. Ltd.. 393
High•slx'cd Atlantic Liners, Proposed. 33, 227
High•spe(d and Transatlantic Flights. 337
Hydrogenation of Coal in Germany. 589
IMPROVED Express Service for East Anglia. 199
Industrial Transference Board, 33
Institute of Marino Engineers. 199
Institute of Transport Dinner. 309
Institution of Naval Architects. 533
Irish Cross•Channel Service. A Nov. 421
JOINT Conference of Employers and Employed 1
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LAST of the Airship R 33, 505
Launch of a New Submarine, 505
League of Nations and Wireless, 505
Lentz Engined Cargo Steamer Holystone, 1
Liverpool as an Air Port, 647
Liverpool's New Power Station, 615
Lloyd's Chief Ship Surveyor, 145
Lochaber Hydro-electric Scheme, 257
London Telephones, 119
London Terminal Air Port, 119
London, Tilbury and Southend Line, 675
Longest Non-stop Railway Run, 393
Loss of the U.S. Submarine S 4, 309
Low-temperature Carbonisation, 1
M
MARINE Turbine Building Record, 337
Mersey Dock Board Engineer, 589
Mersey Tunnel, 365, 703
Monitor Ship, A New, 365
Motor Cargo Vessel for the Clan Line, 703
Motor Lifeboats, New, for the Orkneys, 615
Motor Liners, New, 365
Motor Road, A Proposed New, 421
`Iotor Vessel Conversion Costs, 173
N
NATIONAL Physical Laboratory, 393
Naval Bomb, A New, 63
Nelson Liners, The New, 505
Newcastle-Gateshead Bridge, 227
Newell, Mr. T. M., Impending Retirement of, 33
New Process of Iron and Steel Production, 283
New Year Honours, 1
North-West Midlands Electricity District, 477, 647
Notable Flight Performances, 449
N'otable Jubilee, 365
O
OIL Engines for Peak Loads, 477
Omdurman Bridge, The New, 63
Orient Liner Orford. The New, 393
P
PERSIAN Railway Contract. 421
Photographs by Wireless, 647
Pipe Contract, A Large, 63
Port and Starboard, 675; (Letter), 712
Power from the Desert, 533; (Letter), 572
Power Station, New, at Coventry, 309
Practical Test of Marine Engines, 675
Profit-sharing in the Engineering Trades, 675
Proposed High-speed Railway, 615
Public Works in Spain, 33
Pulverised Fuel for a Cargo Liner, 533
Pulverised Fuel for Ships, 309
R
RAIL Disaster in France, 393
Railway Companies' Case, 91
Railways and Road Transport, 91, 227, 675;
Second Reading Carried, 227
Rapid Shipbuilding on the North-East Coast, 337
Rates and Industry, 393
Record Flight, 199, 647
Record Non-stop Railway Runs, 477
Refuse Power Works, New, at Glasgow, 477
Research Associations, 173
Richardson, Sir Alexander, The Late, 365
Royal Opening of the Science Museum, 309
Royal Tweed Bridge, 477
Rural Electrification, 145
S
SAFEGUARDING of Industries, 647
Safeguarding the Steel Industry, 533
Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines, 505
Safety of Life at Sea, 647
Sale of Australian Commonwealth Line, 1
Salving the Battle-cruiser Moltke, 561
Scottish Electricity Scheme, 227
Seaplane Speed Record, 365
Seaplane Speed Record Fatality, 283
Shannon Power Scheme, 257
Shipbuilding Orders, New, and Conversions, 533
Shipbuilding Trade Wages Advance, 615
Shipowners and Motor Shipping, 561
Shipyard Wages, 283
Singapore Floating Dock, 615, 703
Sir Westcott Abell's New Appointment, 703
Sixty-eight Years a Shipbuilder, 337
Skidding of Motor Vehicles, 257
Southampton Docks Extension, 449
South-East England Electricity Scheme, 505
Southern Railway Electrification, 365, 675
Southern Railway's Electrified Lines, 199
Standardisation and Simplification, 283
Steamboats, Some Old, 561
Strengthening Brunel's Bridge at. Saltash, 449
Submarine Aeroplanes, 1
Sukkur Barrage, 119
Supercharged Motor Vessels, 449
T
TAKORADI Harbour, 393
Television, 173
Thames Bridge Schemes, A New, 449
Thames Bridge Schemes, 505
Thames Flood Conference, 63
Thames Floods, 257
Thames Pier, A New, 477
Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture, 33
Tilbury Landing Stage, A New, 449
Towing the Singapore Floating Dock, 283
Traders' Opposition, 91
Transatlantic Airships, 173
Transatlantic Wireless Demonstration, 199
Transmission Line Towers, 421
Trevithick, Richard, 91
Turbo-generator Set, 20,000-kW, for Stockport, 199, 227
Twenty Years of Strikes, 337
Two Department Committees on Railways, 63
Tyne Shipping and Shipbuilding Developments, 63
U
U.S. Cruiser Programme, 533
U.S. Naval Programme Delayed, 589
U.S. Shipping, 227
V
VIBRATION of Buildings by Traffic, 33
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WAGES in the Engineering industries, 477
Wages in the Engineering and Shipbuilding
. Trades, 309
Wages in the Shipbuilding Industry, 199
Watch and Clock Industry, 589
Water Turbines, Large Order for, 309
Waterways or Motorways, 393
White Star Liner, A New, 675
Wireless Direction Finding, 421
Wire Rope Manufacturers Federation, 589
Workman, Clark and Co.. Ltd., 03, 257
Workman Clark (1928), Ltd., 393
World's Fastest Cruiser, 421
World Speed Records, 449
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ZEPPELIN Airship L Z 127, 337
A
ABSORPTION of Sound by Materials, Effect
of Painting, 183
Accidents in United States Metal Fields, 157
Acetate of Cellulose, New Factory for Porduction About to Begin Operations, 687
Acetylene, Dissolved, Used for Heating Bulbs
of Diesel Engines on Starting, 545
Aerial Ropeway 105 Miles Long, 293
AERONAUTICS :
Aerial Prospecting for Minerals in Canada, 545
Aerial Survey on the Rhodesia—Congo,
Border, Very Extensive Preparation Necessitated, 129, 157
Aerial Survey of Upper Reaches of Zambesi, 157
Aero-engines Manufacture at Ottawa by
Armstrong-Siddeley Company, 206
Aeronautical Engineering Course Established
in University of Toronto, 349
Aeroplane Motor's Hum 10001t. Distant Can
Close a Switch which Lights Banks of
Lamps, 405
Air Mail Service Extension to Toronto, 461
Ambulance Trains and Other War Necessaries Designed in Anticipation of Possible
Hostilities, 721
Anti-aircraft Gun and Mobile Mount, 183
Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 417
Canadian National Defence Order for Aeroplanes, 15
Cross-Channel Air Service Between Calais
and Dover, 573
First Real Flight in England, Proposal to
Celebrate Twentieth Anniversary, 129
Flight Cadetships and Scholarships for Aircraft Apprentices, 141
Moth Aeroplanes, Thirty-four Ordered for
Australian Government, 545
Overseas Mails Delivered from Steamers by
Aeroplane, 545
Patrolling Aeroplane, Usefulness in Case of
Forest Fires, 461
Reserve of Air Force Officers, 253
Schneider Trophy Winning Seaplane S5, 83 600 Miles Flight in 41 Hours, Creating New
Record, 489
Transatlantic Air Service, Proposed, Weather
Bureau in Connection with, near Montreal, 433
Vacancies for Aircraft Apprentices, 87
AGRICULTURAL Engineering Department at
Ontario Agricultural College, 183
Alaska, Discovery of Chakachatua River, Too
Swift and Deep for Fording, 45
Albanian Construction of Harbour at Durazzo, 75
Alcohol Composition, New, Expected Revolutionary Results, Economical and Otherwise, 377
Aluminium Factory Erection in Italy, 267
Aluminium Industry, Expansion Programme, 623
Aluminium, Now, Production in the United
States, 629
Aluminium Powder Erroneously Called Aluminium Bronze in the U.S.A., Increasing Importance of, 599
Ammonia Condensers, Surface of, 183
Ammonia, Synthetic, Successful Commercial
Production of, 239
Ammonia, Synthetic, Works at Billingham-on-Tees, Extension, and Structural Steel
Required, 405
Antimony Deposits Development in New
Brunswick, 45
Antimony Ore, Experimental Parcel Shipped
from New Brunswick to this Country, 15
Antofagasta Port, Rapidity of Construction in
Advance of Contract, 293
Apparatus, New, for Attaining Very High
Pressures, Monsieur James Basset, 15 •
Apso, New Rust-resisting Metal Produced in
France, 659
Asbestos Deposits of Pietersburg District, 489
ASSOCIATIONS. INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES :
ASSOCIATION OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS :
AnnuaL Dinner, 115
ASSOCIATION, DIESEL ENGINE USERS' :
Secretarial Statement for 1927, 87
ASSOCIATION, MANCHESTER, OF ENGINEERS :
Influence of Metals on Workshop and
Design Problems, A. H. Goodjer, 412
INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
Annual Dinner, 97
Annual Meeting, 97
Autumn Meeting in Spain, Arrangements, 97
Bessemer Gold Medal Award, 195
INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :
Concert Proceeds Given to Titanic Memorial Benevolent Fund, 299
INSTITUTE OF METALS :
Annual Autumn Meeting in Liverpool, 532
Preliminary Programme, 532
Projected Meeting in America with American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers, 585
INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT :
Meeting to Start Scottish Section, 115, 129
INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
Award of the Institution Medal, 440
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
Awards for Papers, 532
Charter Centenary Celebration, 588
Association of London Students :
Forty-second Annual Dinner, 333
INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
A.M.I.E.E. Examination in May, 223
Annual Dinner, 195
Award of Premiums, 585
Exchange of Greetings by Wireless Telephony with American Institution, 152
Faraday Medal Award, 115
Inspection of the Singapore Floating Dock, 420
Portrait of Past-President, Presentation, 103
Progress Reviews Obtainable from Secretary, 90
Summer Meeting in Norway Abandoned, 279
Summer Meeting in Scotland, 305; (Notice), 585
London Students' Section :
Annual Summer Meeting in Holland and
Western Germany, 674
North-Western Section :
Annual Dinner, 87
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING INSPECTION
Annual Dinner, 361
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS-IN-CHARGE :
Twenty-eighth Annual Dinner, 501
INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS :
Applications for Membership, 532
INSTITUTION. JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
Air Compressors, Rating of, E. S. Huntingford, 293
Annual Dinner, 493
Calculating Apparatus and Diagrams for
Engineers, A. P. Morris, 445
Electro-chemical Deposition of Metals.
C. H. Faris, 253
Honorary Members' Lecture for the
Session, Professor H. P. Philpot, 183
Powdered Fuel Firing for Boilers, R. H.
Allen, 129
INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS (LONDON ) :
Proposed Inspection of Railway Works in
Cologne, Cassel and Berlin, 545
INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :
Graduates' Conversazione, 169
Graduates' Annual Dinner, 364
North-Western Branch :
Ellesmere Port, Mersey Ironworks, Visited
by Members of North-Western Branch, 557
INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY :
Annual Dinner, 529
Gold Medal Award to Sir Alfred Mond, 377
Inner Crystal Structure of Some Native
Metals, Professor W. H. Merrett, 489
INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
Annual Dinner, 115
Annual Meetings, 115
Premium Awards, 223
Presidential Election, 253
INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS :
Fire in the Petroleum Industry, Causes, C.
Dailey, 243
Petroleum Drilling in Derbyshire Not a
Commercial Proposition, A. Wade, 405
INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS :
Annual Meeting, Election of President, 179
Summer Meeting in London, 713
INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
Annual Meeting, Report, Elections, &c., 501
Engine Knock and Related Problems, A. 0.
Egerton, 599
General Meetings and Elections, 265, 529, 643
Lectures Arranged, 195
INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS :
Annual Dinner, 361
SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :
Glasgow Section :
The Fuel Problem, Dr. C. H. Lander, 129
London Section :
Presentation to Honorary Secretary, 45
SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
Election of Honorary Fellows, 646
SOCIETY, OPTICAL :
Annual General Meeting and Elections, 364
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL :
Grants for Promotion of Aeronautics, 19.
Meeting and Elections of President and
Vice-Presidents, 560
SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
Competition of Industrial Designs, 56
Exhibition at Imperial Institute, 417
Atmospheric Nitrogen, Completion of New Plant
for Fixation of, in Japan, 129
Australia, Development of Numerous New
Works, 103
Australian Scientific and Industrial Research,
Research Station Projected, 129
Automatic Hydro-electric Plant, Alouette, for
the B.C. Electric Railway Company, 377
Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company .
Annual Staff Dinner, 389
Automobile Parts and Accessories Manufactured in Canada, Considerable Increase, 45
Automobiles Manufactured in Canada, Statistics, 629
B
BAGHDAD Suburbs, Suggested New City, 489
Ball and Roller Bearings, Inquiry, 585
Beam from a Standard Lighthouse Lens,
Investigation into, W. H. Hampton. 239
Beet Sugar Factory in Bedfordshire, Scheme
Abandoned from Uncertainty as to Land, 211
Beet Sugar Factory Projected at Warrnambool.
Victoria, 349
Beet Sugar Factory to be Put up at Brigg,
Lincolnshire, 26, 267
Beira, Portuguese East Africa, Great Increase
in Port Traffic, 433
Blackboard Illumination, Useful Discovery, 573
Blow-down Tank Explosion, Essential Precautions, 545
Blowing-up of Steam-jacketed Boiling Pan,
Report, 433
Blue-print Paper Factory Started in Shanghai, 573
Boiler, Danger of Working without Adequate
Supervision, 321
Boiler Examinations by Manchester Steam
Users Association, Analysis of Explosions
in the United Kingdom, 377
Boiler, Locomotive, Explosion, Recent Official
Report., 377
Boiler Manhole Doors, \\Yarning as to Maintenance of, 15
Bolt, Flexible Form, American Cable Company, 545
Breeze and Clinker as Concrete Aggregates, 157
Brick Weathering and Water Absorption, 405
BRIDGES :
Aangerman River, Sweden, Proposed Bridge
Across, 250
Cauvery River Bridge to be Raised on
Account of Rising of Water Level, 489
Highway Bridge. Record Height. in U.S.A., 291
Howrah Bridge, India, Repairs Progress, 461
Hudson River Bridge Tenders, Widely
Different Estimates, 349
Nerbudda Bridge, India, Nearly Completed, 573
BRIDGES (continued) :
New Brunswick, Four New Steel Bridges, 629
Nigerian Railway, Projected Bridge 2584ft.
in Length. 183
Oldest Suspension Bridge in Great Britain
Washed Away, 239
Peking—Mukdon Railway, Bridge Proposed
at Newchang Station, 489
Ribble River, Proposal for Bridge Over the
Estuary, 157
Spalding. New Bridge Opened Over the
Welland, 129
Tees. Projected Bridge Over, at Newport. 157
Thames, New Bridge Over, between Windsor
and Datchot, 405
Transporter Bridge Across the River Yarra.
Proposed, 321
NVelland Ship Canal, Double Bascule Bridge
Over, Opened, 713 1Vhite Nile, New Bridge Over, Opened at
Khartoum, 75
BR1QUETTING Factory at. Yallourn, Victoria, New Plant for, 629
Brisbane. Locomotive Depot at Mayne Junction, 45
British Columbia Forests, Abundant Timber
Supply, 377
British Columbia Investigating 'Water Power
Possibilities between Vancouver and Prince
George. 377
British Columbia's Production of Lead and Zinc. 16
British Columbia, Projected Addition to Hydro-electric Light and Power Plant at Upper
Bennington Falls, 659
British Columbia Woods, Figures for Strength
Tests, 15
British Empire Scholarships, Loughborough
College, 609
British Market for South African Goods, 59
British Standard Specifications. Index to, 318
Broken Oil Engine Crank Shaft Repairs by
Welding, 137
Building Construction, New Monthly Publication to be Issued by H.M. Stationery
Office, 267
Building up Dykes of Rivers, Providing Necessary Material, 433
" Building Science Abstracts," 226, 461
Building in Stone. Metal and Concrete, Booklet
on, 321
Burmeister and Wain Marine Oil Engine,
Booklets, 333
C
CABLEWAY Up the Side of 'fable Mountain.
Progress of Construction Work, 129
Cadmium, Application as a Rust Protector, 211
Cadmium, Electrolytic Production of, at Trail,
British Columbia, 405
Cambridge Engineering Students to Make
Round Trips to New York and Back to Gain
Practical Experience. 713
Canada and Chicago, Mutual Interests in
Power Scheme, 433
Canada's Increased Mineral Output, 405
Canadian Exports of Non-ferrous Ores. excluding Gold. Statistics of Amount and
Value, 211
Canadian Good Trade with Chile, 461
Canadian Government Asks Parliament for
Permission to Establish Canadian Bureau of
Standards for Testing Electrical Equipment
and Appliances. 377
Canadian Increased Exports of Aluminium, 211
Carbon Dioxide for Fighting Mine Fires, 517
Carboniferous Strata, Shallow, Discovered in
Seville Province of Spain, 377
Cartagena, Port of. Caribbean Coast, Important
Improvement Works. 183
Cassiterite, Magnetic, Federated Malay States
Discovery. 183
Catalysts for Production of Sulphuric Acid, 405
Cathode Ray Oscillograph. Its Use in Certain
Measurements, 573
Cathode Ray Tube, Dr. Coolidge's Research
Results, 573
Cement, Special, Record Rapidity in Effective
Use for Construction, 629
Cement Works at Linchow. China, 321
Chilean Roads Construction Scheme, 442
China to Manufacture Agricultural Implements
in Competition with Imported Goods. 239
Chinese Building Terms Written in English. 183
Chinese Patent Law, 433
Chromium Characteristics, S. H. Bailey, 713
Chromium Mines, British Columbia, Development of, 177
Chromium and its Properties. 75
COAL. COKE AND COLLIERIES :
lIergius Procc:--s for Coal Trent ment. Experimental Plant for, Starting in the Transvaal, 157
Bituminous Coal, High-grade, Discovery of
Two Seams near Springhill, Nova Scotia, 713
Bituminous Coal, International Conference. 115
Bituminous Coal, Second Intermitional Conference. 599
Borehole to be Put Down at Axholme, Lincolnshire, for South Hetton Coal Company, 157
British Columbia Coal. Attempt to Stimulate
its Use Instead of Imported Oil, 129
Brown Coal Carbonisation and Brown Coal
Briquettes, Results of Experiments in
Victoria, 349
Chilean Coal-owning Company, Government
Concession, 545
Coal Deposits and Manganese Ore Discovered
in Persia, 659
Coal Distillation in Chile, First Meeting of
Committee, 713
Coal Export Trade in the United States.
Government Aid Sought for Development. 349
Coal Formation from Peat, Study of Peat
Samples in America, 293
Coal Mine Accidents Due to Noise of Conveyor, 659
Coal Mines Act, Order for Use of Fire-damp
Alarm Lamp " Ringrose," 377
Coal Seam Discovery in Saskatchewan to be
Worked from the Surface, 15
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES (continued):
Coal Seam, New, Struck at Brynna Wood
Colliery, 157
Coal Staithes, Large Now, at Blythe, 405
Coal Staithes Renovated After Thirty-six
Years' Service, 75
Coal Wagon, Now Type, in Germany, 372
Coke Oven Gas for Production of Synthetic
Nitrate to be Used for Fertilisers, 485
Coking Plant, First Subsidised by New Act,
to be Erected in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 211
Collieries Near Coventry to be Closed Because
of Water Ingress, 75
Distillation of Coal and Working Up of Coal
Byproducts by New Company in Rome, 461
Explosives in Mines, Safe Use of, 157
Exports of Coal for April, Comparison with, 1927. 599
Fire-damp in Mines, Practical Method of
Testing for, 157
Fuel Research Board Report Extensive Coal
Resources, 211
Fushun Coal Mine Flooded, Reported Heavy
Fatalities, 468
Fushun Collieries, Mining of Coal Seams to the
West of, 15
.Java, Coal Deposits and Roadway Extension. 668
Lightning on Electrical Circuits in a Mine,
Need of Protection, 103, 157
Low-temperature Coal Carbonisation Plant
to be Put Up Near Doncaster, 75
Manchuria. Heiho, Coal Deposit Discovery in, 461
lat,nchttrict, Tungshan District, Discovery and
Projected Exploitation of Coal Mines. 157
New South %Vales, Decreased Production of
Coal in Last Four Years. 377
Position of Coal Mining Industry During
First Quarter of 1928, 599
Shaft Sinking at Seaham Harbour, 75
Solid Smokeless Fuel as Substitute for Coal, 713
Spitzbergen Coal, Norwegian State Railways
Purchase of, 713
Tasmania Coal Mine, Unique Offer of Owners
to Miners, 157
Tests on Brown Coal Mined in New Zealand, 517
Timber Seam at Hook Colliery Provides Good
Anthracite, 45
Tipton District Mines, Further Rise of Water, 157
Trial Borings for Coal in Isle of Axho
Lincs., 15
Urals, Reported Coal Seam Discovery 15
COLD-WORKED Material and Internal
Stresses. Research Work in Plbgress, R. M.
Brown, 713
Commercial Motor Users Association, 361
Concrete Houses, Increased Erection of in this
Country, 183
Concrete Pipe, 2 Miles of, Ordered for Southampton Docks Extension Scheme, 267
Concrete, Reinforced, Pipes, Pretoria Company Formed for Manufacture, 517
Concrete Road Experiments in India, 349
Concrete, Use of Diatomaceous Earth in Admixture with, 573
Concrete Walls for Thames Flood Protection, 239
Connecting-rod Breakage, Record Rapidity in
Effecting Repairs, 517
Constructional Requirements Compared with
other Factors in House Building, 433
Conveyor Worms Formed with Oxy-acetylene
Blow-pipe, 239
Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize and Medal. 279
Copper Deposits in New Brunswick, Mining
Operations, 545
Copper Deposits on the Rhodesia-Congo
Borderland. 157
Copper. Lead and Zinc in United States, Last
Year's Production of, 157
Cornish Societies Joining to Invite Institute of
Mining and Metallurgy to Hold Meeting, 15
Cornish Tin Mining Prospects, Superintendent's
Opinion. 53
Cotton Fabric for Use in Highway Construction, 293
cotton Mill at Wusih, China, Addit instal Looms
for Equipment, 489
Cotton Mills, Investigations by the Industrial
Research Board, 45
Cranes, Portal, Two Electrically Operated.
Tenders Invited, 663
Crozier Retort. Test at. Wembley, 489
D
DAM Projected Near Butte. Montana. 713
Dams, Thin-arched. Special Form of Overflow
Lip to Protect Foundations, 267
Death of Mr. W. S. Haggas, 191
Death of Mr. George Eliot Phillips, 183
Designs and Trade Mark Registries, New Premises for, 489
Diamond Discovery in Tanganyika Territory, 129
Diamond Mine Discovery in Tanganyika Territory, 461
Diatomaceous Earth, World's Production of, 599
Diesel Generating Plant in Shanghai, Reputed
Record Size, 293
Dissolved Gases from Water. Apparatus for
Removing, New Type, 267
Dock, Deep-water. for the Tees, Scheme Under
Consideration, 15
Draining Land in Greece. Government Call for
Tenders. 238
Dredger " Cyclone " Discharge Pipe Line Said
to Create a Record, 687
Dredging Channel of a Chile River, Tenders to
be Invited, 709
Driverless Motor Car with 430 Miles Per Hour
Speed, 433
Drowning of Three Men, Explanation of Cause, 75
Dry Dock at Esquimalt, British Columbia, 211
Dry Rot, Wood Oil for Killing, 75
Dudley. New Site for Proposed Technical
College, 138
Dyeing Timber as it Grows, German Process, 293
E
EDUCATION of Boys Working in Rolling Mills
in Birmingham, Manufacturers' Scheme. 103
Earth Dam in South Carolina, Partial Failure, 687
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
Arc Welding Cheaper than Riveting. 405
Arc Welding Machine with Two Heads, 45
Artificial Lightning of 3.600,000 Volts,
Highest Ever Obtained, 377
Buluwayo New Power Station, Growth of
Load, 128
Brush Arc Light Generator. Setni-centennial
of Dynamo Tests, 321
Canada, Electrical Prospecting by Radiore
Process, 321
Canadian Central Electric Station Industry
Report, 461
Cape Town Power Plant. Increase in Thermal
Efficiency, 461
Cauvery River Falls to be Used for Generation of Electric Power by Government of
Mysore. 75
congella, Natal, New Power Station's Progress. 129
Ear Tests, Accurate Electrical Instruments
for. 659
Electric Arc Welding, Advancement in the
Art. Three Prizes Given in World-wide
Competition Papers, 687
Electric-cooked Unattended-to Dinner, 695
Electrical Energy Storage in the Ruhr, 157
Electric Energy, Total Sales of, from Shanghai
Municipal Department in 1927, 573
Electric Lighting Schemes for State of
Hyderabad, 267
Electric Power Plant to Serve Area of 10,000
Square Miles for Estevan, Saskatchewan, 75
Electric Supply Contract for South of Perth, 103
Electricity Commissioners' Review of Regulations for Securing Public Safety. 103
Electricity Supply Commission of South
Africa, Proposed Transmission Changes, 489
Everything Electrical, Catalogue, General
Electric Company, 282
Experiments, Electrical. Between Two Mountain Peaks in Switzerland, 659
Farms. Experimental Electrical. to be
Started in Manitoba, 349
Finland, New Power Station and Progress of
Electrification, 545
t;as or Dust Ignitions by Electricity and
Increased Explosions in Coal Mines, 687
Gatineau Power Company's Additional
Supply by New Lake, 461
Gatineau Power Company to Begin Deliveries
of Electric Power, Details of, Terms, 713
Generating Sets for Johannesburg Corporation, 293
Hams Hall Power Station, 90
High Power Short-wave Valve, New Type.
Spectacular Results from Experiments, 377
Linking-up of Several Generating Stations
Saved the Situation during Floods, 45
Liverpool, First Great Generating. Station
Under the New Act, Reported Decision. 573
London Electricity Supply Companies,
Certain Changes, 15
New South Wales to Supply Electricity to
the Federal Territory, 489
N ew Zealand Calling for Tenders for Switch-gear and Steel Work for Arapuni Power
Scheme, 537
New Zealand's Increased Use of Electricity, 545
Port Elizabeth, 20,000-Volt Cable being Laid
There, 489
Power Plant's Coal Consumption, Projected
Change of Plant to Save £500 a Year, 489
Power Plant, Large, to be Constructed on a
Saskatchewan Coalfield. 573
Power Station at Yallourn, Australia, Record
Kilowatt Output. 405
Pretoria Orders 75010-kW Turbo-alternator, 267
Rural Transmission Line. lo5o \I114-s.Iii
Ontario, 321
Shanghai Electricity Deplin Illtillt Report 1329
Shanghai Electricity Saks aril Chinese C21
ployed, 489, 599
'ingapore New Power Station, 32 I
swath Africa Electricity Cominis-,ifin
pared to Advise Alatilifacturi•i• 1l t„
Prospects in South Africa, 15
Step-dowii Transformer Station. 2211.1)011.
Volt. First in Canada., 545
it, long Gear and Explosion Risk in Mines. 157
Sydney. Demand for Eleetricity Ittereasinv„ 328
Synchronising of Alternating (*Intent Generators, 659
s‘ miltronous Motors in Steel Works,
ri.easing Number Installed, 629
Tower, New Form of, for Electric Trans.
mission Lines, 687
Turbo-generator Set, 60,000-kW, for Buffalo
General Electric Company, 517
Turbo • generators. Two Double - cylinder 25,000-kW, Ordered by Leeds Corporation. 467
Underground Cables and Overhead Lines
for Eastern Counties' Supply, Contract
Awarded, 267 1Vitter Wheel Repair by Electric A rt
Welding, 321
'Winnipeg Electric Company's Supply Cant ract, 433
Wit bank, S. Africa. Success of Great Power
station Fourth Generating Set Installed, 573
World's Consumption of Electric Lamps,
Britain's Small Proportion. 103
Yallourn. Australia. Electricity Plant Extension, 471, 687
ELEVATORS and Termini, Extension of Such
Facilities in Western Canada, 45
Emerald Crystals of Large Size in the Transvaal. 157
Emperor Caligula's Barges, Projected Attempt
to Raise One After 1900 Years at Bottom
of Lake Nemi, near Rome. 45
Employees, Forty-two, with same Firm for
Over Fifty Years, 545
Engine Breakdown with Unusual Features, 129
Engineering Council for London and District
Area, 103
English River. Canada. Power Possibilities of, 210
Estimate of Possible Wind Velocities as High
as 500 Miles per Hour, G. W. Picksen, 15
Ethyl Petrol. Government Inquiry into Distribution of, 267
Ethyl Petrol Investigation of Poison Hazard. 203
Ex-British Westinghouse Association, Tenth
Annual Reunion. 279
Excavators, Electrically Driven, Messrs. Ransome and Rapier's Combination, 333
Exe Estuary Tidal Waters, Question of Obtaining Electrical Power from, 129
EXHIBITIONS :
Commercial Exhibition, Pekin, 321
Imperial Institute, Exhibition of Royal
Society of Arts Designs Competition, 417
ndustrial Electric Heating Exhibition in
East London, 118
International Exhibition in Paris of Light,
and Lighting, 349
Machine Tool Exhibition, 118
Manchester Colliery and General Mining
Exhibition, 629
Overseas Empire Timbers in Industry.
Exhibition at Imperial Institute. 103, 157
Permanent Fuel Economy Exhibition. 674
Polish National Exhibition. 115
Royal Agricultural Society's Prize List for
Nottingham Show, 321
EXPLOSION of 1 fin. Gun-metal Stop Valve, 239
Explosion. Disastrous, in Aluminium Powder
Factory. 517
Explosion of Hydrogen Cylinder in Dutch
Factory. 239
Explosion of Steam Wagon Boiler, Severe
Comments. 433
Explosives Plant to be Put up Near Winnipeg. 657
Explosives, Report of H.M. Inspectors of, 629
Explosives. Restrictions of Sale, 396
Exports, Machinery. Motor Cars, Ships and
Locomotives, Comparisons with 1927, 598
Extrusion Proeess, J. E. Newson, 75
F
FACTORY Beam Engine, 100 Years Old, and
Still Going Strong. 15
Factory for Production of Methyl and Ethyl
Alcohols, 44
Faraday House Entrance Scholarships and
Exhibitions, Awards, 417
Fertilisers Produced by Use of Coke Oven Gat4. 485
Field House. New. for University of Minnesota, 517
Files for Cutting Soft Metals. Advantages of
Plating with Chromium, 713
Finsbury Technical College Old Students'
Association, Sixteenth Annual Dinner, 302
First Steam Engine to Cross the Orange River,
Effect on the Bystanders, 157
Flamo in Complex Mixtures, Propagation of.
and Results of Study, 545
Flexible Couplings, Small. 364
Floating Dry Dock for Buenos Aires, 293
Floating Factory, Largest in the World, for
Newfoundland Fisheries, 713
Florence Public Improvement Loan, 239
Fuel Economy Section at the Colliery and
General Mining Exhibition, 713
Furnace. German Type, Great Improvement on
Muffle Furnace, 629
t;ANt;WA Sawdust as Valuable Source of
Alcohol in Bengal, 349
Gas Engine, 5000-kW, The Third, for Stavoley
Coal and Iron Company, 75
Gas Generating Plant for Thornelitf ('oal Distillation, Ltd., 183
Gasholder Explosion, Discovery of Cause, 75
this Manufacture in Shanghai. 461
Gas, Natural, of Oil Wells in Texas. Proposal to
Extract Helium Gas from the Natural, 489
Gas and Oil Production Increase in Western
Fields of Canada. 211
Gas from the Ruhr Coal Basin, 489
Gaseous Bearings for Small Motors. 267
Gasworks at Warsaw, Manchester Contract for
Erection, 220
Generating Plant of Tramway Company Driven
by Sulzer-Diesel Engines. 545
Geological Investigation Bureau in China, 15
Geologist's Estimate of Hematite and Other
Deposits in Certain Districts of South
Australia, 239
Geophysical Methods of Prospecting for Mineral
Deposits, 183
German Firm's Offer for Building Steel Houses, 433
" Glider Slide Ride, John Da v is and Son (Derby), Ltd., 392
Gold Dredger. Very Large. 75
Gold Mine, The Wanderer. Rhodesia. to be
Reorganised and Equipped. 573
Gold Mines and Dust Production by Machine
Drilling, 157
Gold Ore Mining at Depth of 7300ft. in the
Transvaal, 713
Gold from Rand and Transvaal Mines, Records
Exceeded, 573
Grain Drying by Electric Power, Promising
Attempts by H. Edholm, 211
Grain Elevator for Collingwood. Ontario, 293
Grain Elevator, Large, for Toronto, 489
Grain Elevator for New Westminster, B.C., 15
Graphiting Moulds for Castings. Improved
Method, 239
Grease or Oil Removal from Motor Vehicle
Parts, 713
Great Lakes Shores, Seventy Harbours on, 461
JUTE and Hemp Spinning and Weaving Mill. 696
K
KIER, Fatal Explosion and Warning Against
Casual Application of, 321
Kwantung Government to Establish Soda Ash
Factory in Manchuria, 405
Kwantung Government's Projected Large
Reservoir, 405
L
LABORATORY Flotation Tests on High-silica Bauxites, 461
Lapis Lazuli, Analyses of Babylonian Artificial, 211
Lead Mine near Matlock, First Stoppage of
Production in Seventy Years, 293
Levelling Rod, New Form of, Manufacture, 321
Liao River, Conservancy Project for Improvement, 75
Lightning on Electrical Circuits in a Mine.
Protection Needed, 103
Lignite, Successful Experiments on, by American Corporation, 433
Lithopone, Factory for Production of, in
Ontario, 157
Liverpool Students to Sail in Liners to Gain
Marine Engine and Boiler Experience, 859
London Association of Foremen Engineers,
Sir Philip Dawson's Views Regarding the
Electrical Industry. 349
London and District Engineering Council, 239
Looms, Cloth Weaving. -Manufacture Begun in
the Soviet Union, 349
Low-temperature Carbonisation, C. Turner, 211
Low-temperature Distillation, Plant Put to
Work for. Under Vacuum of Lignite. 377
M
MACHINE Tool Trades' Association, Annual
Dinner, 333
Machine Tools of Historical Interest to bo
Exhibited at Olympia. 267
Magnesite Production in India, Record Total
in 1926. 267
Manitoba, Provincial Hydroelectric Commission for, 239
Marine Construction Progress, Exhibits in
Illustration of, at South Kensington. 293
Mast. Tallest, Plying into New York, 15
Mechanised Transport for Army. Technical
Sub-committee Appointed. 433
Melbourne, Noise of Electric Trams, Causes of, 713
Methane Ignition by Heated Surfaces, Study
of Subject in Progress, 405
Methyl Alcohol of High Purity, Result of
Investigation into Preparation of. 405
Mill for Rolling Black Sheets in Japan, 267
Mine Air, Carbon Monoxide and Use of Detector, 321, 433
Mine Machinery Precaution, Safety Pamphlet,
No. 5, Issued, 573
Mining Department, North Staffordshire Technical College, Extension of, 45
Mining Enterprises in Province of Chihli, China,
Protection and Development., 489
Mining Industry, Extensive Use of Electrical
Prospecting, 713
Mississippi River Flood Control, Estimate of
Cost of, 15
Montreal Company Wanting Authority to
Develop Power from St. Lawrence Rapids, 75
Montreal, Projected Tunnel Under the Lachine
Canal to Link Up Outlying Municipalities. 573
Montreal's Projected New Postal Terminus, 103
Motor Cars and Cycles, Microscopic Examination of Parts that have Failed, 713
Motor Cars, Passenger, in Ontario, Steady
Increase, 211
Motor Coach Services in the Alps. Italy, Switzerland and France, 405
Motor Cycle Silencing Scheme. Enicieney Test
by Panel of Engineers, 157
Motor Vehicle Annual Endurance Test from
Tunis to Tripoli. 405
Motor Vehicle in South Africa, Proposed
Legislation for Taxation. 15
Motor Vehicles, All Kinds, Three Months'
Register in this Country over 60,0110,.545
Murray River Water, Cost Increase from
£4,000,000 to L14,000,000, 438
N
NATIONAL Research Council of Canada. New
President, 545
Native Labour for Transvaal Mines, 147
Newchwang Harbour Facilities Extension, 545
Newcomen, Thomas, Bi-centenary of his Death
to be Observed Next Year. 15
New South Wales, Clarence River Head Waters
Control Scheme. 433
Newsprint Machine, Another, Expected to
Prove Largest in the World. 687
Newsprint Mill's Horse-power Requirements in
Nova Scotia, 405
Newton, Sir Isaac, Inscription to Him on New
Library, 629
New Zealand Machinery Requirements, 248
Niagara Falls Company's Right to Use all
Treaty Water at the Falls, 687
Nitrate, Synthetic, Produced in the Ruhr by
Coke Oven Gas. 485
Nitrogen Consumption of the World Increasing. 405
Nitrogen Fixation Factory at Limburg, 545
Nitrogen Fixation Factory in Putsch Closed
Down, 267
North Shields, Now Riverside Quay and Shed, 629
0
OBSERVATORY, Large, Projected for Kwan-Lung, 293
Obstacles to Catch Driftwood and Debris, 687
Ochre Deposits near Avoca, County Wicklow,
Company Formed to Develop, 15
0g,uchigawa Station, Equipment for, 125
Oil Distillation from Coal, Projected Plants to
be Put Up in Australia, 267
Oil Feeder, Substantial Type, 473
Oilfields of Sinking Province, China, Projected
Investiption of, 157
Oil Supplies and Coal Industry, Suggestions for
Improved Marketing and Treatment of Coal, 211
Oil Wells Production in Turner Valley of
Alberta, 75
Old Contraliar3, Annual Dinner, 279
Ontario Government Grant to Queen's Uni•
vereity, 713
Ontario Hydro-oloctric Power Commission, the
Largest Power Enterprise Operated under
Public Ownership, 377
Ore Shifting by Ingenious Method, 489
Orwell Works, Ipswich, Presentation at. 144
Oxygen Jot Cutting. 333; (Letter), 598
P
PAINTING by Hand and by Air spray, Experiment in Comparative Cost. 239
Paper-making Machine Ordered. Said to be the
Largest in Exititence. 129
Paper-making Machine's Record Run, Port
Arthur, Ontario, .545
Paper Mill Expected to Prove Lamest in the
World. British Columbia, 15
Paper Mill at Shanghai Utilising Roods from
the River Bank, 489
Paper Pulp Mill with Capacity of 120 Tort4
Day, 183
Paranagua. Seaport in State of Parana, Con
structional Improvements. 525
Passamaquoddy Bay Hydro•electrie Tidal
Power Development, 15, 517, 548, 634
Post Congress, First International, at Leon,
France. 573
Pekin's Asphalted Streets Necessitate Now Cart
M'hoels. 321
Petrol, When Safety is Reached, 75
Petroleum Production in 1927, (thief Supply
from the United States, 489
Phosphate Rock. Plant for Concentration by
Flotation Process. South Africa, 573
Photographs of Extensive Territory in Canada,
Oblique and Vertical. 129
Pitchblende in Ontario. Company Formed to
Mine, 573
Plumbago Exports from Ceylon, 573
Poland's Economic Life. Prosperity of, 599
Port of London Authority's Reduction in Rates
on Exports, 405
Port Stephens. Now South Wales. Projected
Development of, 687
Potash, Commercial, 95 per Cont. of World
Production Derived from Deposits of France
and Germany, 211
Power Alcohol from Gangwa Sawdust, 183
Power Development Project on flack River
Montreal, 267
Power Development on the St. Lawrence,
Agreement Between Quebec Provincial
Government and Company, 554
Printer's Ink from SulpluW Lye, 267
Propellant Powders and High Explosives in
Groat. Britain, 129
Pulp Mill, Mechanical, Projected for Now Brunswick, 211
Pulverised Fuel Firing, Economic Aspect of.
E. G. Ritchie, 239
Pulverised Fuel Plant Extension at Electririt y
Work on the Tees at Billingham, 239
R
RADIUM Radiation. Artificial, Important
Step Towards Production of, 211
Radium Recovery from Low-grade Carnotite
Ores, New Process for, 405
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS
Accidents :
Accidents on New York Interbormigh
Railway, 405
Bearsted and Sovenoake Derailments,
Reports by Colonel Mount and Sir John
Pringle, 157
Catenary Wires Danger, 659
Cofton Tunnel Opening Out, Fatal Accident
to Workmen Engaged, 545; Verdict of
Coroner's Jury, 620
Collisions Duo to Fog. Need of Automatic
Train Control. 103
Conductor Rail Displacement Causes
Flames Outburst at Three Far Apart.
Stations, 75
Darlington Station. Serious Railway Collision, 713
Derailment Due to Broken Carriage Axle,
Extremely Low Percentage of Such
Accidents, 545
Derailment of Express near Clitheroo, 239
Derailment and One Fatality. L.M. and S.
Railway, 659; Inquiry and Verdict , 687
Derailment Outside Glasgow Central
Station, Colonel Trench's Report, 599
Disastrous Derailment, Supposed Wilful,
on Burmese Railways, 129
Euston Collision Inquiry. 517
Fatal Collision with Engine on Turntable, 713
Fatal Derailment of German Express, 659
Fatal Derailment of Johannesburg-Car
Town Mail Train, 517
Fog Collisions, Sir J. Pringle's Reports, 293
Inquiries into Accident Causes, Analysis. 461
Inquiry into Collision at Derby, Coupling
Hooks Question. 129
Janua9ry us a Month for Railway Mishaps, 12
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continual):
Accidents (continued )
Last Year's Fatal Accident., to Passengers, 433
Look-out Man. Armlet and Badge; Fatal
Accident. 183
Railway Servants, Inquiries into More
Serious Accidents. 405. 599
Report on Ware Collision. 348
Returns of Accidents and Casualties on
Railways, 599
Snowstorm at Christmas and its Consequences. 545
Account Keeping Differences on British and
American Railways, 573
Agra and Karachi. Question of Broad-gauge
Connection. 183
America to Build Railway for Turkish
Government, 293
American Steam Railways' Consumption of
Wood Sleepers, 433
Ancona, Projected Improvement Works, 239
Appointments and Staff Changes, 15, 75, 211. 239, 293, 321, 349. 405. 433. 489, 517, 526. 599. 629
Automatic Train Control in the U.S.A., 183
Bills Seeking Powers for Railways to Own
and Use Road Vehicles. 15. 321
Bombay,. Baroda, and Central India Railway.
Electrified Section Opened. 75
Brako Question. Vacuum to Supersede the
Westinghouse, 211
Brazil. Electrification of the Pitulista Railway Company's Lines. 183
Bridges Replacing Various Level Crossings. 321
Bridges. Statutory, Over Railways and
Canals. 211
British Columbia Electric Railway Cornparty. Extensive Operations, 629
Buenos Aires Rejects tho Proposal for an
Underground Railway. 45
Canadian National Railways, New Central
Terminus at Montreal, 15
Canadian National Railways' Report. 321
Canadian National Railway System. Improvements Require Increased Funds, 433
Canadian Pacific Railway, New Locomotivos, 659
Canadian Pacific Railway Report, 377
Canadian Railways, Now High Records in
Gross Revenues in 1927, 545
Charing Cross Station Transfer, Divided
Opinion, 517
Chicago and North-Western Railway, Automatic Control. 239
Chinese Eastern Railway, Accumulation
of Agricultural Produce, 293
Colombia, South America, Order for Now
Railway Building Given to Canada. 599
Cork City Railways, Difficulties and
Divided Opinions. 15
Death of Mr. A. Rosling Bennett. 599
Death of Mr. William John Graham, 461
Death of Mr. R. J. S. Ittsell. 377
Death of Mr. William Pickersgill, 517
Diesel-electric Service for Branch Lines,
Economy of, 517
Dinajpur•Ruhea Extension of the Eastern
Bengal Railway, 271
Dividends of Various Railways, 211
Dublin and Kingston Trains and Railway,
Rivalry Followed by Agreement, 489
Earl Haig.), Funeral, Railway Route
Chosen, 157
Electrification Proposals for Certain Indian
Suburban and Other Lines, 517
First Full-gauge Electrical Railway, Corrected Misstatement, 377
First and Third-class Bookings on the Principal Railways, 489
Fish Traffic at Fleetwood, Additional
Accommodation for, 687
Flying Junction Proposed for Now Road
from the Strand. 599
French Trains Summer Service, Fast Runs. 713
Gauge Conversion Proposals in Africa. 489
General Strike, Reduced Payment Made
to Railways for Carriage of Parcel
Mails, 405
Great Western Railway :
Anti-friction Clips for Point Switches, 157
Clocks, Electrically Controlled. 157
Long-distance Engine Workings on Various
Journeys of the Line. 433
Plymouth to Penzance, Single Track Conversion to Double Line, 629
Star Class Engines Re-named. 157
Stationery Supplied to Stations and Offices,
in 1927, 156
Swansea Dock Bill Passed. 461
Time-keeping on the G.W.R., a Month's
Record, 433
Grouping and Pro-grouping Accident Statistics, 687
Grouping of Railways in Great Britain and
the United States. 659
Hammersmith and City Railway, Automatic
Signals to be Installed, 629
Hudson Bay Railway Terminus, Talk of
Change, 103
Indian Government Purchase of Peninsula
Locomotive Works, 239
Indian Railway Board Report. 377
Indian Railway Board Report. Increased Use
of Vacuum Brake on Goods Wagons
Recommended. 629
'Indian Railway Orders Placed with Foreign
Firms, Discussion in the House of Commom". 713 •
Indian Railways and Fuel Economy, 573
Institutes and Associations. Railway—are
Associations
International Railway Congress in Madrid in 1930, 45
Irak Railway System, Report and Recommendations, 75
Irish Wages Board Decision as to Reductions, 45. 401
Kenya-Uganda Frontier, Railway Extension
to Lake Victoria. 45
Labour Party's Differing Views as to Railway
Victimisation, 348
Level Crossings on United States Railways, 129
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
Light and Standard Railways. Benefits of
Re-classificntion. 239
London Electric Railway :
Co-operation with Tramways. 211
Morden Extension, Success of Garage at
Mordent 102
London Railway Companies. Meeting with
Traffic Advisory Committee, 183
London, Midland and Scottish Railway :
Automatic Signalling and Additional
Trains, 103
Belfast Steamship Services to be Transferred from Fleetwood to Heysham, 15. 179, 330, 461
Capital Expenditure in 1927 and 1928. 348
Containers for Conveying Consignments in
Bulk, 45 (Letter), 70
Crewe to Perth Non-stop Run Proposed. 321
Crewe Works. Modernisation of. 239
Free State and L.M. and S. Railway.
Luncheon. Arrangements for Transport
of Perishable Goods, 659
Heysham Adoption as Principal Port of
the Railway. Application by Corporation
of Morecambe, 489
Increase in Mileage Run, but Much Greater
Reduction in Engine Hours, 433
Locomotives Colour Scheme Revised. 517
Names of Famous Regiments to be Given
to Twenty-five New Express Engines, 103
Names of Well-known Locomotives of
Early Days of Railways to be Given to
Next Twenty-five Engines. 405
Non-stop Runs to Edinburgh and Glasgow, 489
Powers Sought for Change of Line on
Northern Counties (Ireland) Railway. 15
Rolling Stock " Betterment " and its Cost. 461
Royal Scot Engine, Expectations Exceeded, 239
Royal Scot's Numerous Visitors with
Resultant Benefit to Charity. 103, 239
Tilbury and Southend and other Sections
of tile L.M. and S. Railway, Delayed
Negot iat ions. 713
Wire Working for Points and Signals. 211, 461
London and North-Eastern Railway :
Containers for Conveying Consignments in
Bulk, 45
East Coast Improved Service to and from
Edinburgh, 461
Expenditure on Certain Works in 1927 and
Proposed Similar Allocations in the
Current Year, 489
Frodingham Improved Passenger Station, 321
Harwich-Antwerp Steamboat Service. Installation of Electric Orchestra. 405
Order for Twin-screw Geared Turbine
Steamer for Harwich-Hook of Holland
Route, 461
Punctuality Records on the London and
N.E. Railway. 629
Steam Rail Cars Named After Famous
Stage Coaches, 377
Walton-on-the-Naze Branch Imperilled
by Coast Erosion, Diversion of Line, 15
Tender Derailment of L. and N.E. Express, 687
Lying-down Accommodation in Third-class
Compartments on Long-distance Trains, 239.. 293
Manganese Steel for Crossings. 129
Mersey Railway Progress since Exchanging
Steam for Electric Traction, 377
Metropolitan Railway :
Metropolitan District Stations Modernised, 45
Metropolitan and Metropolitan District
Railways, 239
Metropolitan Railway Locomotive's Name. 75
Ministry of Transport :
Automatic Train Control Committee of 1922. Committee Appointed to Review
Recommendations then Made. 75
Electrification of Railways Committee of 1921. Committee Appointed to Review
Recommendations then Made, 75
Live Rail Protection, Question to Minister
of Transport. 629
Railway Statistics for October. 1927. 103
Railway Statistics for December, 1927, 349
Railway Statistics for January, 1928, 573
Railway Statistics for February. 1928, 599
Railway Statistics for March. 1928, 687
National Federation of Fruit and Potato
Trades' Association Secures Railway Privi•
loges Denied Prior to Rivalry from Motor
Transport. 377
National Union of Railwaymen and Rate of
Wages Paid for Part-time Work in Higher
Grade, 405. 489
Now Year's Honours, 15
Now York, Subway Railway, 599
Now Zealand Railways. Change in Administration, 517
Nice to Coni, First Passenger Train, A Foot
of Engineering, 573
Poking-Mukden Railway, Suggested Double
Track on Tientsin-Shanhaikwan Section. 489
Permanent Way, British Railways, Statistics
of Labour and Cont. 183
Platform, Movable, for Extension of Accommodation for Trains. 377
Punjab New Railways Opened. 15
Quebec. Saguenay and Chibougainau Railway, New and Important, 461
Radiophone Control of Moving Freight Train*.
Demonstration. 183
Rails Used in France Presented to South
Africa in Exchange for Services Rendered
by S.A. Government, 405
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
Railway Benevolent Institution Dinner,
Proposed Inquiry into Transport. Many
Aspects Call for Wide Terms of Reference.
Sir W. Ashley, 545
Railway Engineers and Publicity. 293
Railway Material Exports Statistics. 45, 157, 321. 433, 629, 687
Railwaymen's First-aid Services, 659
Railwaymen. Happier Relations with Employers, Suggested Improvement in Education, 321
Railway Proposals as to Road Traffic,
Opposition Threatened, 75; Conference
of Local Authorities, 103 : Issue of Public
Statement by Five Railway Companies. 103
Railway Rates Tribunal. Chairman Knighted. 713
Railway Returns, Preliminary Statement. 437
Railways' Road Transport Bills, Joint Committee Sittings Begin, 321
Refreshment Rooms, Diminished Receipts, 321
Road Motor Services Run by South African
Railways, 15
Road Traffic and Stricter Control. 211
Road Transport Bills, Joint Committee to
Consider, 293
Road Transport Powers for Railway Com.
panics, A " Serious Position." 713
Romney, Hythe and Dytnchurch Light Railway, Need for Protection of Men Working. 573
Siemens - Halsko Lock • and - Block. T. S.
Lascelles. W73
Snow and Effect on Railway Signals. 14
South African Locomotive Orders, Tenders
Accepted. 157
South American Railways, Administration
Changes, 489
Southern Railway :
Clayton Tunnel Culvert. Renewal. Some
Alteration of Trains, 45. 573
Further Electrification Scheme. Progr..-,. 293. 348. 599, 659
Newhaven-Dieppe Service. Launch of the
'I Worthing," 545
Projected Now Locomotives and Goods
Wagons, 157
" River " Class Engines to be Fitted with
Tenders, 321
Sevenoaks Accident Claims. 266
Signal-box, All-electric. at London Bridge. 211
Signal-bokes. Two Mechanical Replaced by
One Electrical, 687
Sleeping Accommodation. Third-class, to
he Increased. 687
Slip Due to Thaw and Lines Closed from
Coulsdon to Merstham, 45
Smoke Improvement for Locomotives. 157
Southampton Mayor's Requests and their
Fulfilment, Successful Work of Marine
Department, 405
Southern Heights Light Railway. Electric,
Projected. 293
Summer Time-table Proposed Changes, 489
Wimbledon. Reconstructed Station. Progress, 599
Spanish Railways, Electrification Scheme. 129
Third-class Compartments and Lying-down
Accommodation, 239. 293, 377
Tokyo, Underground Railway. First, Opened. 599
Traffic Light Signals in Piccadilly. Uncertainty as to Useful Result, 103
Traffic Returns for 1927, Reduction on all
Linos in Passenger Receipts. but Increase
in Goods Traffic. 45
Tramway Track Construction in Sydney. 15
Transport Facilities in London. Lord
Montagu's Views. 129
Travelling Post. Office Arrangements. 659
Trespassing on the Reilway, Criminal Pros
ceedings Taken. 321
Underground Railway :
Charing Cross Increased Traffic, Addi•
tional Escalators and Booking Office
Facilities. 103
Reconstruct ion of Leiter-square Station. 573
•
Underground Railway Opened in Tokio. 45
Victoria. Policy of Minister of Railways, 157
Wheel Guards on Important Bridges and
Viaducts. 183
Ticket-issuing and Slot Machines on the
Underground, 75
RA31SAY Memorial Laboratory of Chemical
Engineering, 361
Rangoon, Water and Electric Power Supply. 183
Refrigerated Apples Conveyed by Ship, Heat
Evolution of, 45
Refrigerating Effeet, Comparative Cost of
Various Methods. 267
Reinforced Concrete Sleepers Repaired and in
Use after Twenty Years' Heavy Main Track
Service, 377
Reservoir. Eppalock. Construction on Im•
portant Tributary of Murray River, 75
River Pollution Investigation by Scottish Board
of Health. 687
River 1Vear Commissioners' Projected Now
Electrical Equipment at Hendon and Hudson
Docks and Other Improvements. 79
Road Construction. America's Record. 605
Road Reconstruction for Motor Traffic, £12,000
per Mile for, 713
Road Transport Illumination Demonstration. 305
Roads. Improved, in the United States, 129
Rod Packing, Allan Clayton. Ltd., 557
Ropoway from Mine to Main Lino Railway.
Ambitious Scheme in South Africa. 545
Rosario, Argentina, Government Commission
to Study Conditions at the Port. 293
Rotating Loop Direction-finding System. 517
Rubber containing Patents, Vcguo in America. 45
Rubber Tire Factory to be Put Up at Burton-on-Trent, Work for 1000 Men, 659
Rubber Tire Factory to be Started by American
Firm on Land Adjoining Great West Road
and the River Brent, 287
.
S
SAFETY in Mines Research 1303.rd, Sixth
Annual Report. 087
St. Francis Dam Failure. Cause of, 481
St. Lawrence Paper Mills, Increased Daily
Capacity. 659
St. Lawrence River, Private Scheme for Development of Hydro-electric Power, 129
Salt in Alsace, Discovery of New Dome, 239
Salt, Canada's Valuable Rock Salt Mine at
Malagash, Nova Scotia, 629
Sand-lime Brick and Stress Strain Relationships, 293
Santa Gathering Government Improvement of
Port of Itajahy. 517
Sault Ste. Marie. Projected Large Outlay on
Conversion of Harbour to a Big Port, 656
Screening of Ores, Effect of Sieve Motion on
Efficiency. 461
Sewage Destruction and Recovery in Chile,
Inquiries as to Newest System, 659
Sewage Disposal Works, Practical Use for
Power Purposes of Gas Given Off by Sludge, 545
Shaft Sinking Record in South Africa, 489
Shanghai, Use of Motor Trucks, 106
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :
Canadian Government to Build New Destroyers to Replace Two Obsolete Ones. 45
Chilian Torpedo-boat Destroyer Orella.
Launch of, 305
Diesel-electric Towboat in United States, 659
Durban Harbour Authorities New Tug, 517
French Cruiser Tourville, New High-speed.
During Trials, 405
French Shipyard Contracts for Submarines, 267
Harwich-Hook of Holland Route, Geared
Turbine Steamer for, .John Brown and Co.. 461
th M. Destroyer Base at Port Edgar Not to be
Closed, 349
H.M. Submarine Oswald Launched, 687
Isherwood System Success in Ship Con -
struction. 75
Jugoslav Fleet. First Two Submarines. 405
Light Cruiser Shropshire, Launch of. 599
Middlesbrough Dock. Statistics of Ships' Use
of. 157
Motor Ship About to be Launched Near Montreal by Canadian Vickers Company. 405
Motor Ship Construction Projected at
Amsterdam. 349
Motor Tug for Cochin Harbour Board with
Ailsa Craig Company's Six-cylinder Engine. 321
Motor Vessel for Service Between Portsmouth
and Isle of Wight, Order for. 103
" Occanoglisseur, ' 40-Knot Vessel for Crossing the Atlantic. 183
P. and 0. Electrically Propelled Liner. 457
Race Round Cape Horn Between Wheat -carrying Sailing Ships. Australia to Cornwall, 103
Shipbuilding—from Smack to Frigate, from
Cutter to Destroyer, 529
Ship's Trial Run in Eight 'Weeks After Laying
Keel at Middlesbrough, 433
Southampton, Statistics of Tonnage Handled
Last I ear. 71
Steam Launch Cruise Up the Yangtze to
Chengtu, 138
Tank Steamer's Conversion into Whalers'
Depot Ship. 433
Thermometer Colouring Apt to be Removed,
Trial of New Material. 659
Tonnage Launched on the Clyde, Increase. 239
Turbine Steamers. Two New, for Dover.
Ostend Route, 639
Vessel Boats Train Between Penang and
Singapore, 433
SILVER Discovery in Manchuria, 15
Sisal for Rope Making. Tests, 75
Smelter Copper in the United States, Production During Last Year. 157
South African Radium Corporation Formed to
Work Pitchblende Deposits of Cape Province, 211
South African 'Railway Use of Steel Sleepers, 659
South Africa's Resources of the Cheapest Cool
in the World, 321
Steam Fittings and Need of Inspection, 287
Steam Turbine for Power Station. Saskatchewan. 275
Steam Turbine Spindles, Process of Manufacture. 321
Steel Wire Under Various Tests, Use of the
Microscope. 293
Stone Patterns. Sample of Work in " Titanite." 532
Stone Quarrying Industry of United States,
Death and Injury Rate Statistics, 157
Suez Canal. Increased Revenue from Transit of
Ships. 45
Suez Canal Transit Dues. Reduction, 267
Sugar Factory. Large, to be Put Up at Sarnia,
Ontario, 211
Sugar Refinery in Portuguese East Africa, Con.
tract Awarded to Glasgow Firm, 211
Sulphate of Ammonia, New Plant for Manufacture of. 183
Sulphite Pulp Factories and Saw Mills, Waste
Products of, Used as Fuel, 45
Sulphur Deposits in Java, Exploitation Begun. 573
Sulphur Production in Australia, 573
Surge Recorder. A New Instrument, 658
T
TANTALUM Likely to Replace Platinum to
Some Extent in the Chemical Laboratory, 45
Tasmania's Available Water Power, 293
TELEGR APHY AND TELEPHONY :
Automatic Telephone Exchsnge for Shanghai, 75
Korea and JOIX11t, Scheme to Connect, by
Submarine Telephone, 517
TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY (continued):
Telegrams as Pictures, Facsimile of Sender's 1Vriting, 433
Telephone Communication Between Sweden,
United States and Cuba, 239
Telephone Development of Canada, Great
Progress in, 713
Telephone. Long-distance, Extension in
China, 461
Telephone Service Between United States
and Cuba on One Hand and Brussels and
Antwerp on the Other, 103
TELEVISION, Demonstration of Alexanderson System. 103
Television, Demonstration of Improved Form, 75
Temperature in a Room, Apparatus for Maintaining at Fixod Point. 267
Thermometer, Copper Resistance as Part of New
Calorimeter. 461
Thin Sheet Metal Transparent Enough to Read
Through. Dr. Carl Mueller, 349
Tidal Power in Passamaquoddy Bay, Inlet
from Bay of Fundy. Projected Development
of, 15. 517. 548. 634
Timber Products in British Columbia, Extensive Exports of Lumber. 321
Tin Compounds Used in PurificAtion of Stater, 545
Tin Industry in Cornwall. Predictions as to its
Future. 489
Tin-plato 1Vork4 with Water-wheel Mill Holding
its Own near Caerleon, 508
Titanium Oxide, Property of, 404
Tower Bridge Bascules Raised for Vessels, and
Suspension of Land Traffic, 545
Town Refuse as Fuel. Improved Method of
Burning. 75
Trackless Electric Tramcars for Bloemfontein, 129
Tractor, New Typo, for Launching Lifeboats, 687
Trade Unions and EmployersSupporting
Formation of Engineering Council for London
District. 211
Trial Boring for a Tube Well on the North-Western Railway of India, Varying Cost of, 713
Trinity House to Confer with Shipping Industry
on Lighthouse Question. 545
Turbo-alternators and Turbo-generators—see
Electrical Matters.
U
UNITED States. Developed Water Power in, 349
United States Record in Rapid Track-laying, 349
University College Engineering Society, Annual
Dinner. 195
Ural Mountains Potash Deposits, Estimate of
Content, 15
Uruguay. Government Schemes for Roads,
Railways and Afforestation, 211
V
VANCOUVER Harbour, Now Pier. 75
Vehicular Tunnel, Detroit—Windsor, Work
Started, 713
Vehicular Tunnel Between Oakland and
Alameda, California. 157
Victorian Outer Ports, Proposed New Works,
Cost. 103
Vinegar Factory in Toronto, Crone and 131ackwell, 433
w
WATERFALLS, 1100, Reported for All Brazil, 15
Water Power on the Bow River. Alberta, 573
Water power Plants in Canada, Total Installation of. 15
Water Power of Tennessee River, Cost of Full
Development, 349
Water Powers in Canada. Question for Supreme
Court, 599
Waterproof Paints for Woodwork. Great
Superiority of Aluminium Paint, 687
WATER SUPPLY :
Adelside. Cape Province. Projected Supply
Scheme for, 129
Aqueduct Construction for San Francisco's
New Water Supply, 645
Avon Dam Addition to Sydney Water Supply, 267
Cordoba, Argentina. Potable Water Supply
for, 164
Decca. India, Waterworks Scheme Cost.433
Lahore Waterworks Scheme. Now, 321
Melbourne Water Supply. Proposed Construction of Aqueduct up the Yana Valley, 377
Sinking Tube Wells for Water Supply in
India, 433
Swansea Water Mains Specifications. 239
Victoria. Artificial Supply for Country
Lands, Domestic Use and Watering Stock, 103
Water Supply from New Plant, in Chapel,
Shanghai, 321
Witbank, South Africa, Cost of Water Supply
Scheme, 293
WELDING, Electric Arc versus Oxy-acetylene, 129
Welding. Electric for Boiler Repairs, Need of
Caution in Use, 517
Welding of Steel in Aeroplane Construction,
Captain H. Richardson, 45
Welding. Research Laboratory for. at Lehigh
University, 15
Welland Canal Traffic Doubled, 573
Welland Ship Canal, Coat to Date, 76
Welland Ship' Canal Traffic, 1927, 42 1Velshpool and Lake Entrance Ports, Victoria,
Development of. 46
William Froude National Tank at National
Physical Laboratory, Report, 659 11'ire•drawing Factory to ho Put Up at Ojibwa`•,
Ontario, 349
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY :
Broadcasting Throughout ('a-nada, 599
Broadcasting a Running Commentary on
Horse Race, 517
Broadcasting Transmitter for Rummest. 629
Canada—Australis- B08111 Service, Opening
Expected Shortly, 461
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY (conts,aucd) :
Croydon Air Stat ion, Receiving Apparatus
of Wireless Installation Tested, 136
Eleven Wireless Stations Operating in North
and South Manchuria, 75
Loud Speaker, Successful Demonstration of
New Type, 103
Oyster Interrupts Wireless, 629
Radio Station to be Installed at Winnipeg, 75
Short-wave High-power Wireless Valve, New
Type in America, 321
%Vireless Beacons Round British ('oast, 629
Wireless Stations and Bro-tdcasting in
Kiangsi Province, China, 321
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY (conii fi, :
tiVireless Telephone r Projef ed
Between Berlin and New V, irk, ,'id London, 75
WIRE Ropes Failure During 1926, Mr. Ward's
Remarks, 461
Wood of all Kinds Cut in Canada, Official
Estimate, 211
Wood Blocks for Road Paving Said to Have
Been First Used in Russia, 103
‘Voodworking and Other Machine Tools for
New Zealand, 90
World's Production of Salt, 7;
Worsted Mill for Victoria, Brit Wi Columbia, 22
YARROW and Co., Proposed Shipbuilding
Yard at St. John, New Brdnswick, 349
Yukon River Navigntion, Obstacle Overcome, 54
ZINC, Sensitive Qunlitative Test for, 45
LITERATURE (continued):
Books Received (continued)
Hokkaido Imperial University, Japan,
Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering.
Vol. I., No. 3, 133
How to Drive a Car, 492
How to Tend Saws, Knives and Cutters, 602
" Hiitte " des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch,
No. III., 602
" Hittite " des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch,
Index to Vols. I. to 1V., 602
Ice and Cold Storage Trades Directory, 1928, 48
Illuminating Engineering, F. E. Cady and
H. B. Oates, 716
Industrial and Railway Amalgamations, Sir
Josiah Stamp, 187
Industry in Sweden, 716
Integral Waterproofing Compounds for Concrete, Maurice B. Laggard, 602
Introduction to the Metallurgy of Iron and
Steel, H. M. Boylston, 382
Introduction to Physical Science, 602
Investigation of Webb Stresses in Reinforced
Concrete Beams. F. E. Richert and L. J.
Larson. 492
Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft fiir
Bauingeniourwoson, 1927, 436
Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesell-schaft. 1928, 382
Journal of the Franklin Institute. January, 1928, 133
Journal of the Franklin Institute, May, 1928, 602
Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India), 548
Journal of the Institute of Metals, No. 2, 1927, 353
Journal of the Iron and Stool Institute. G. C.
Lloyd, 271
Kelly's Directory of the Merchants, Manufacturers, and Shippers of the World. 602
Kesselanla?on flit Grosskraftworke. Dr.-Ing.
F. Miinzinger, 353
Kokerei-und Gaswerksiifen, L. Litinsky, 161
Iiraftstoffe, Vorbrounung and Schwerin.
Vergasermotoron, A. E. Thiemann, 492
Kyushu Imperial University, Fukuoka,
Japan, Memoirs of the College of Engineering, 133
LO Port de Lisbonne. 106
Los Turbines it Vapour. Vol. I. and Vol. IL,
In& G. Boluzzo. 106
Light Metals and Alloys : Aluminium, Mag.
nesium, 353
Locomotive Management from Driving to
Cleaning, J. T. Hodgson and the late J.
Williams. 271
Madras Presidency, Public Works Department, &c., 716
Marine Engineering in Theory and Practice,
Vol. IL, Applied. S. G. Wheeler, 106
Mechanical World Electrical Pocket Book, 1928, 106
Mechanics of Materials, George Young and
H. E. Baxter. 133
Mine Lighting, J. W. Whitaker, 634
Mineral Resources of the United States, 1924,
F. J. Katz, 297
Mining Engineer's Handbook. Robert Poole. 161
Modern Coal-washing Practice, R. C. R.
Minikin, 106
Modern Foundry Operations and Equipment.
W. Rawlinson, 133
Motor Ship Reference Book, 1928. 106
Niagara Power, Vol. I., History and Power
Projects; Vol. IL, Construction and
Operation, Edward Dean Adams, 133
Now South Wales, Report of the Metropolitan
Water, &c., Board, 271
People's Year Book, 1928, 106
Permanent Way, W. H. Cole, 133
Port of Hamburg, Dr.-Ing. L. Wendemuth
and Dipl.-Ing. W. Bottcher. 187
Port of Hull Annual, 1928, H. E. C. Newham, 663
Powering of Ships, Design of Lines and Screw
Propellers, A. Kart, 187
Preparation of Coal for the Market, Professor
Henry Louis, 634
Principles of Mechanism, F. Dyson. 161
" Proceedings " of the American Society for
Testing Materials. 161
" Proceedings " of the Chemical Engineering
Group. 602
" Proceedings " of the International Congress for Testing Materials, Amsterdam. 1927, 663
" Proceedings " of the South Wales Institute
of Engineers, 492
Properties of Steam and Other Vapours,
J. 13. Peace. 382
Protective Metallic Coatings, H. S. Bowdon, 187
Public Health Department. Bengal. Fourteenth Annual Report, 577
Railway Year Book. 1928, 577
Railways : Their History and Organisation.
Lord hIonkswell, 663
" Rapid " Per Ton Reckoner, 577
" Rapid " Pocket Pricer, 577
R. E. Crompton : Reminiscences, 602
Report on the Handling of Fuel, &o., in
U.S.A.. R. C. Case, 187
Report of the Proceedings of the Fourth
Conference of the Association of Special
Libraries and Information Bureaux, London, 106
Report on tho Railways of Irak, Brig.-Gen.
F. a Hammond. C.B.E., D.S.O., 133
Riemonschlupf and Reibungszahl von Gummi
and Ledertreibriemen, Dipl.-Ing. Hans
Nowsky, 548
Rivure et Sondure des Chaudieres It Vapour.
E. Hoehn, 106
Rothamsted Conferences. No. VI., Power for
Cultivation and Haulage on the Farm, 577
Science for You, J. G. Crowther, 382
Selected Papers from the Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.
No. 14, Takashi Ohtsulci, 133
Sell's Directory of Registered Telegraphic
Addresses, 1928, 353
Sixth Sense, Dr. D. F. Fraser Harris, 492
Specification. 1928, F. Chatterton, 215
Statische and dynamische Untersuohung
von Miindungsdampfinengenmessern, Dr.Ing. S. Kreuzer, 271
Steam Condensing Plant, J. Evans, 548
H
HACKSAW Blade, James Neill and Co. (Sheffield). Ltd.. 392
" Hard-boiled " Huts for Use Underground. 405
Helium Gas Plant in Texas, Cost of Production. 15
Helium, Interesting Properties of. Its History
Proving Value of Research. 573
High-compression Engine. Now Invention for
Fuel Saving, 103
High-pressure Industrial Steam Plant. Probably
Largest Industrial Unit Existing, 144
Horse-power Development on Large Scale Expected in Fukien Province of China, 687
Hydrocarbon Oil Used for Agricultural Purposes, No Repayment of Duty Allowed, 599
Hydro-oloctric Generating Plants, Increased
Use in Western States of America. 267
Hydro-electric Plant, Norwegian Norsk Exton-13i01118, 183
Hydro-electric Power Plant, Bucks Crook,
California. 183
Hydro-electric Power Station Put, Into Operation by Marlborough (New Zealand) Power
Board, 267
Hydro-electric Schemes, Various, for Several
Rivers in Canada, 211
Hydrographic Confederation of tho Guadal-quiver, First Meeting at Seville, 517
INDIA, Consulting Engineers to the Govern.
ment. 169
India's Untapped Water Power, Pykara Hydro-electric Scheme, 599
Industrial Research in Ontario, Proposed
Raising of Fund for, 15, 129
Industrial Welfare, 59
Industry for Manufacture of Glucose, Starch,
&c., from Potatoes. 687
Insecticides Distributed by Aeroplanes. 45
Inspection of Machinery, Systematic, Now Proof
of its Necessity. 129
International Conference on Bituminous Coal,
Preliminaries, 45
International Congress of Consulting Engineers. 702
International Illumination Meeting in America, 433
International Peat Congress to be Held in
France, 405
IRON AND STEEL :
Alloy Steels. Surprising Growth of the
Industry. Dr. Saklatwalla, 349
Canada's Iron and Steel Iudustry, Greatly
Improved Trade, 433
Coal from India for North-East Coast Ironworks and Steel from Rotterdam for Ironworks in India, 157
Blast-furnace Blown in and Hard at Work for
Steel Corporation in Ontario, 75
Electric Furnace Cast Iron Stronger and More
Dense than Cupola Iron, 405
Elimination of Silicates from Open-hearth
Steel. 687
Ford Motor Company's Uso of Grey Iron
Castings, 433
Forgeable Iron and Steel and Stainless Iron
and Stool, Methods for Direct Electric Production of, in Sweden, 211, 267
Iron Ore, Now Extensive Resources Tapped
Between the Rhino and Moselle. 377
Iron Oro. Rich, Prospects of, in Western
Australia, 321
Iron Scrap Export from Sweden, Prohibition
Decree, 239
Iron, Steel and Non-rusting Iron, Stockholm,
Direct Production by Flodin Process, 321
Iron and Steel Works at Monterrey, Mexico, 349
Manganese Steels, Eutectoidal, Variation of
Content, 489
Molybdenum Ore in the United States,
Present Use in Steel Making, 461
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers. Annual Dinner and Meeting, 460, 473
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers' Report. :
Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron and Steel Production in December. 1927, and January, 1928. 183; in February, 1928. 293 in
March, 1928. 433: in April, 1928, 545:
in May, 1928, 687
Newfoundland Iron Ore Mines, Record
Amount of Tonnage Taken from, 157
Nickel-chrome Cast Irons, Increased Use of. 211
Pig Iron, Steel, &c., in Canada, Increased
Production, 573
Port Downie Ironworks, Falkirk, Projected
Extension, 157
Port Kembla, New South Wales. Projected
Big Combination of Firms for Iron and
Steel Trade Development at, 349
Rich Iron Oro in Western Australia, Prospect
of Working with British Capital, 239
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Expected Expansion of Iron and Steel Industry, 75
Spring Steel Plates. Endurance of. Report, 239
Stanton Ironworks Company, Three New
Furnaces Erected. 713
Steel and Crystallisation, Erroneous Statements. 211
Steel, Now Process of Treating., Lecture by
Monsieur Chillier, 489
Steel Work Record at elydebridge Steel
Works, 157
Superiority of Steel to Reinforced Concrete
for Bridge Construction, Dr. R. Modjeski, 489
United States. Iron Ore Mining Statistics, 629, 641
United States Steel Corporation to Establish
Itself in Canada. 239
United Steel Companies, Ltd., Now Manitging
Director Appointed, 45
IRONSTONE Mine, Yorkshire, Reopened, 517
Irrigation Schemes, Important, in India, 183

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