A AISLE 6, 7, 42
A.E.I, see Associated Electrical Industries Ltd.
A.E.I. News 83, 130
A.r.p. control systems 175
A.r.p. organization, works 179, 180, 181
Accident prevention 87, 130
Accountants see Ammon, Einert, Cobbett, Carter, J. H.
Callaghan, Salmon
Accounting and cost departments 12, 18, 28, 33, 40. 68, 89,
118, 122,162, 239
Acoustics 51, 100, 137
Aeroplane-engine mountings 172, 177
Afghanistan, visit of King of 92
Aircraft, M-V manufacture of 166, 167,174, 197
Aircraft compasses 169, 172
Aircraft factory, M-V 126, 164, 166, 167, 172, 174, 176, 178,
180, 152, 194, 197, 200
Aircraft generators 169, 172, 177
Air-raid damage and repair 166, 180, 182, 183
Alloy, M-V'C 100, 127, 131
Alternators 17, 22 see under generators
American Institute of Electrical Engineers 122
Ambulance rooms see medical services
Apiezon compounds 99-100
Apprentice associations 57, 93, 131, 206, 208
Apprentice training 14, 33, 35, 55, 57-8, 68, 74, 93, 94,
131
(Sheffield), 131-2, 133, 206, 208
Apprentices, professional engineering (college and school)
13. 14, 33, 58, 93, 131, 206, 208
Apprentices, trade 14, 57,68,93,131,133, 206, 208
Approved society 53
Arc discharge researches 135
Arc furnace equipment 229, 235
Arc lamps 11, 17,22,47
Arc suppression coils 221
Argentina 82-3, 118, 146, 162, 239
Armour-piercing shot 172, 177
Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. (A.E.I.) 12. 119-20,
130, 150,184, 190, 207, 210
Association football 15, 16, 35, 54
Atlantic flight, first 92-3, 95
Atom, splitting the 132, 135
Atomic energy 165-6, 213, 214
Australia 46, 68, 81-3, 104, 105,108, 110, 116, 117, 120,
152,
189, 190, 193, 220, 222, 22.?, 227
Automatic pilots 166, 169, 171, 177
B AISLE 7, 11. 56, 87. 124, 126, 129, 180,181, 193, 195, 198
223
B.T.H. Recreation Club, visits of 207
Back-pressure turbines 21, 103, 105
Bamford works 177
Barton airport 199
Barton dock works 196, 198, 216
Belgium 81, 118
Benevolent funds 89,185, 204
Beryl engine 215, 2'17
Betatron 210,211,213
Billiards 54, 207
Boiler control, unified 156
Boilers, closed feed system for 103
Bombs, sterilizers for unexploded 170, 172 |
Bottle-making machines 104,
106
Bowesfield works 198
Bowls 54, 133, 1,79, 207
Boxing in the avenue 130
Brake department 8, 13
Brakes, magnetic 22, 67
Branch offices see district offices
Brazil 82, 118, 120, 157, 158, 162, 239
Brimsdown works see Cosmos Lamp Works Ltd.
British Broadcasting Company 78, 79-81
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association
(B.E.A.M.A.) 34, 46, 209
British Electricity Authority (B.E.A.) 221 see o/w'grid'
British Empire Exhibition (1924) 92, 95, 109
British Industries Fair (1949) 206
British Specials see Holy Forty
British Standards Institution (B.S.I.) 209
British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd. (B.T.H.) 2, 119, 207
British Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Ltd.:
formation facing page 1, 2-3
crises and recoveries 28-30, 33, 41
change of control and name 73-4
directors 3, 11-12, 29-30, 36, 40, 41, 46, 68, 73-4
head office 10, 12, 30
numbers employed 21, 52
senior officials—June 1907 40
June 1917 68
Broadcasting, beginnings of 78, 79-81
Bury works 199
C AISLE 7, 180, 152
California mill (Bury) 199
Camp, Westinghouse 57
Canteens 27, 52, 90, 130, 131 (Sheffield), 133, 179, 200,
204,
205,239
Carnival dances 92, 95
Central Electricity Board (C.E.B.) 76,109,113 see also'grid'
Chairmen of the Board see Benson, Westinghouse, Bryce,
Nash, Pole, G. E. Bailey
Chemical laboratory 56, 58, 97, 98
Chess 35, 207
Chief electrical engineers see Peck, Rosenberg, Juhlin,
Dannatt
Chief mechanical engineer see Baumann
Chile 82, 106
China 82,118,162,239
Circuit-breakers, air blast 150, 222, 225
Circuit-breakers, impulse 150, 222
Circuit-breakers, oil 32, 64, 66, 69, 101, 111, 150, 222 see
also under switchgear
Civil defence services 178, 179-80, 181-2
Clayton Prize 209
Clocking system 24, 42
Club, The B.W. Engineers' 25, 28, 35, 54, 55
Club, The B.W. (M-V) 54, 91, 130, 133, 179, 185, 207
Club News, The B.W. (M-V) 54, 130
Coil winding and insulation department see transformer
department, G aisle, Barton airport
Colliery electrification 88, 227 see also flameproof equipment, winding engines
Commutator, multiple radial 36, 45
Compound Electro-Metals Ltd. 197
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