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Volume 231, Issue 1931, January 1931

The first volume of the Institution's Proceedings was published in 1837. Entitled the Minutes of Proceedings, these contained not only papers but also Institution matters such as annual reports, announcements and membership grade transfers as well as abstracts of papers published in other contemporary journals.

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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF SIR GEORGE WILLIAM HUMPHREYS, KBE, PRESIDENT 1931.
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- pp. 1–26
- Author: SIR GW HUMPHREYS
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15363
- *iiE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. 1. SESSION 1930-1931.-PART MINUTES O F PROCEEDINGS. 4 November, 1930. WILLIAM WYLIE GRIERSON, C.B.E., theretiringPresident, in the Chair. Mr. GRIERSON said his last duty as President was to introduce his successor, Sir George Humphreys. It was a very pleasant duty, though Sir George Humphreys was so well known that any introduction was quite unnecessary. He wished him a very successful and happy year of office. Sir GEORGE WILLIAM HUMPHREYS, K.B...
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THE LOCHABER WATER-POWER SCHEME. (INCLUDES PLATES AT BACK OF VOLUME).
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- pp. 31–63
- Author: W T HALCROW
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15361
- ~roceedingn.1 HALCROW ON LOCHABER WATER-POWER SCHEME. 31 18 November, 1930. Sir GEORGE WILLIAMHUMPHREYS,K.B.E.,President, in the Chair. The following Paper was submitted for discussion, and, on the motion of the President, thanks the of The Institution were accorded to the Author. (Paper No. 4796.) " The Lochaber Water-Power Schgme." By WILLIAY THOMSON ALCROW, M. Inst. C.E. THE Lochaber water-power scheme is the third hydro-electric work undertaken by the British Aluminium Company, Ltd...
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DISCUSSION ON THE LOCHABER WATER-POWER SCHEME.
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- pp. 64–93
- Authors: G HUMPHREYS; G BALFOUR; W M MORRISON; W J E BINNIE; A H ROBERTS; S B DONKIN; A NEWLANDS; E L MONTAGNON; S M DIXON; W L LOWE BROWN; W L L BROWN; B D RICHARDS; W N MCCLEAN; H J F GOURLEY; C L BOUCHER; P W SEEWER; WILLIAMSON
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15362
- 61 DISCUSSION ON THE LOCIIABEll. [Minutes of Diacuaaion. 'he President. Air. The PRESIDENT, in moving the vote of thanks, observed that the Paper described a very remarkable work ; it was full of information, and would repayearnest study. It had been his good fortune, about a year before, to go to Lochaber, on the invitation of the Author, and visit the works described. He did not know what had struck him most-the beauty of the setting in which the works were placed, their magnitude and bold conception, or the attention t o all those numerous points of detail which made all the difference between the success of such a scheme and its failure...
CORRESPONDENCE ON THE LOCHABER WATER-POWER SCHEME.
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- pp. 94–106
- Authors: E B BALL; H E BELLAMY; H CARPMAEL; E H ESSEX; H E GRUNER; C T A HANSSEN; H HERROD; R F LEGGET; F C TEMPLE; A WILSON; W T HALCROW
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15364
- 94 CORRESPONDENCE ON THE LOCHABER [Minuwes or Correspondence. Mr. Bell. Mr. E. B. BALL remarked that there were some points of interest in connection with the vacuum-breaking and ventilatingequipment for the penstock. In the initial stages, the relative merits of automatic valves and open vent-pipes had been carefully compared. Thevent-pipeenjoyed freedom from moving parts, but required t o be carried up theslope of the hill to a height of more than 200 feet, the greater part of which would always stand full of water...
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CAIRO MAIN DRAINAGE EXTENSIONS. (INCLUDES APPENDICES AND PLATE AT BACK OF VOLUME).
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- pp. 112–135
- Author: AOWD PINSON
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15365
- 112 PINSON O N CAIRO MAIN DRAINAGE EXTENGIONS. [Minutes of Associate Members--oontinued. ALANCARRINGTON WILSON. GEORGE WORCESTER, LEWIS B.Sc. GERALD LORIMER WILSON, B.Eng. (Eng.) (Lond.). L ~ O N ZINOVIEFF, DE Stud. (LivePpool). C.E. Associate. GEORGE MOWLEM BURT. 1 Inst. The following Paper was submitted for discussion, and, on the motion of the President, the thanksof The Institution were accorded to the Author. (Paper No. 4788.) By Extensions...
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DISCUSSION ON CAIRO MAIN DRAINAGE EXTENSIONS.
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- pp. 136–161
- Authors: SIR GW HUMPHREYS; W J E BINNIE; J S ALFORD; R W ALLEN; API COTTERELL; H W S HUSBANDS; A J MARTIN; C S SPARROW; C T A HANSSEN; AOWD PINSON
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15366
- 136 DISCUSSION ON CAIRO [Minutes of Discussion. The President. The PRESIDENT, in moving the vote of thanks, observed that the Paper was of peculiar interest to every engineer engaged upon sewerage works, in that it described certain failures in what was a well-designed system-failures due to changes of policy and unexpected difficulties. m Binnie. Mr. W. J. E. BINNIE observed that it was interesting to have a . failurebroughtforwardfor consideration, as it was seldom that The Institution received Papers of that character. The reason for the corrosion of the collector was obscure, and he would like to hear whetherother members had had similar experiences...
CORRESPONDENCE ON CAIRO MAIN DRAINAGE EXTENSIONS. (INCLUDES CORRIGENDUM ON P iv).
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- pp. 152–160
- Authors: H HOLDEN; C C JAMES; E H LLOYD; F NEWHOUSE; F C TEMPLE; G BRANSBY WILLIAMS; AOWD PINSON
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15367
- 152 CORRESPONDENCE ON CAIRO [Minutes of Correspondence. Mr. Holden. Mr. H. HOLDEN observed that no one conversantwith the old and the new works could doubt the greatconstructional advantages gained by adopting a scheme with a second pumping-station 8 kilometres nearer Cairo. On the principal new works little unwatering had been required. On the new collector trouble had occurred in two places with springs from the underlying sand, but it had been overcome without much difficulty during the annual closure of the adjoiningcanalsfor clearance. Along the route of the old collector difficulties from the water-bearing sand had been almost insuperable...
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THE OPENING-OUT OF COFTON TUNNEL, LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY. (ABRIDGED). (INCLUDES PLATE)
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- pp. 161–187
- Author: R T MCCALLUM
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15368
- Proceedings.] McCALLUM ON COFTON TUNNEL, L.M.S. RAILWAY. 161 16 December, 1930. Sir GEORGE WILLIAM HUMPHREYS, in the Chair. K.B.E., President, The following Paper was submitted for discussion, and, on the motion of the President, the thanksof The Institution were accorded to the Author. (Paper No. 4 7 73.) " The Opening-Out of Cofton Tunnel, LondonMidland and Scottish Railway." By ROBERT TOWSON MCCALLUM, O.B.E., B.Sc...
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DISCUSSION ON THE OPENING-OUT OF COFTON TUNNEL, L.M.S. RAILWAY.
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- pp. 188–193
- Authors: SIR G W HUMPHREYS; A NEWLANDS; T ROBERTSON; R C S WALTERS; L J WILLS; H W S HUSBANDS; W L LOWE BROWN; W L L BROWN; R T MCCALLUM
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15369
- 188 DISCUSSION ON THE OPENING-OUT OF [Minutes of Discussion. The PRESIDENT, moving thevote of thanks, observed that in the Paper described what had had to be done to works originally constructed about 90 years ago. There were several lessons to be learned from the Paper. One was the importance of keeping proper records of all engineering work. Very often it happened that the drawings as sent out in the fist instance did not represent what was ultimately done, andthe importance of recording all changes that were necessary during the execution of a work was well known...
CORRESPONDENCE ON THE OPENING-OUT OF COFTON TUNNEL, L.M.S. RAILWAY.
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- pp. 194–200
- Authors: H K BEALE; S BLENCOWE; R D BRENCHLEY; R T MCCALLUM
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15370
- 194 CORRESPONDENCE ON THE OPENING-OUT OF [Minutes of Correspondence. Nr.Bede. Mr. H. K. BEALE,of Derby, observed that 25 years ago, or possibly more, he had been engaged upon an inquiry about a footpath across the railway near the Cofton tunnel, and had met, by appointment, a very oldex-gangerwho had beenemployedupon the length in question for many years. He told Mr. Beale that as a boy he had been employed in driving the Kilsby tunnel on the . London and Birmingham line ; from there he had been transferred to the Clay Cross tunnel on the North Midland line ; and from there to Cofton...
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EXPERIMENTS ON SIPHON SPILLWAYS. (INCLUDES APPENDIX).
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- pp. 203–237
- Authors: A H GIBSON; T H ASPEY; F TATTERSALL
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15371
- ~roceec1in~s.1 GIBSON, ASPEY AND TATTERSALL ON SPILLWAYS. 203 The following Paper was submitted for discussion, and, on the motion of the President, the thanks of The Institution were accorded to the Authors. (Paper No. 4810.) `` Experiments on Siphon Spillways." By Professor ARNOLD HARTLEY GIBSON,D.Sc., M. Inst. C.E., THOMAS HULME AamY, M.Sc., and FRED TATTERSALL, M.Sc. THE siphon spillway appears to have originated in Europe about 1870...
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DISCUSSION ON EXPERIMENTS ON SIPHON SPILLWAYS.
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- pp. 238–255
- Authors: SIR G W HUMPHREYS; W J E BINNIE; A B BUCKLEY; S M DIXON; E PARRY; W T HALCROW; A H NAYLOR; H W S HUSBANDS; A H GIBSON
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15372
- 238 DISCUSSION ON EXPERIMENTS [Minutes of Discussion. 'he President. The PRESIDENT,moving thevote of thanks, remarked that in thePaperdealt with a subjectthat was not very amenable to mathematical treatment. As the Authors said, any results calculated inthe way such treatment indicated could only by accident reasonably be accurate. The Paper was a record of patient investigation by competent investigators, and it would prove to bea mine of knowledge of great worth t o designers in the future. Mr. Binnie. Mr. W. J. E. BINNIEremarked that the value of the Paper was enhanced bythefactthat it was couched in simple and clear language, without the use of higher mathematics, so that it could be readily understood...
CORRESPONDENCE ON EXPERIMENTS ON SIPHON SPILLWAYS.
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- pp. 256–282
- Authors: H ADDISON; R E BALLESTER; P DAVIES; C C INGLIS; H MAWSON; R C S WALTERS; J WILLIAMSON; A H GIBSON; T H ASPEY; F TATTERSALL
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15373
- 256 COKKESPONDENCE ON EXPERIMENTS [Minutes of Correspondenoe. m . Addison. Mr. H. ADDISON remarked that he would be glad to learn whether the Authors had formed any conclusions as to the rate at which the coefficient of discharge of a given model siphonvariedwith the head. When the values of head and coefficient of discharge given in Tables I and I1 of the Paper were plotted on the curve Pig. 7 (as in Fig. I7), it was seen that the plotted values indicated a much higher rate of change of coefficient with head than would be expected from the slope of the curve-a rate of change, indeed, Fig...
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THE STRENGTH OF ARC-WELDED JOINTS. (INCLUDES PLATES).
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- pp. 283–304
- Author: F R FREEMAN
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15374
- Proceedings.] FBEEMAX ON STREKGTII ox ARC-WELDED JOIKTS. 283 27 January, 1931. Sir GEORGE WILLIAMHUMPHREYS,K.B.E.,President, in the Chair. The following Paper was submitted for discussion, and, on the motion of the President, the thanks of The Institution were accorded to the Author. (Paper No. 4808.) The Strength of Arc-Welded Joints." By FRANK RICHARD FREEMAN, M. Inst. C.E. B.Sc., ELECTRIC welding of steel is now a arc thoroughly established industrial process and is already applied on a very large scale in repair work andincertain classes of manufacture...
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DISCUSSION ON THE STRENGTH OF ARC-WELDED JOINTS.
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- Authors: F R FREEMAN; SIR C HINDLEY; E G COKER; W ROSENHAIN; W H HATFIELD; H JACKSON; A H CANTRELL; H BRUFF; R S KENNEDY; C H LOBBAN; C GRIBBLE; A NEWLANDS; A C VIVIAN; C J BROWN; S M DIXON; F L PAWLEY; G A HANKINS; F E POLLARD; T M AITKEN
- Document Type: Discussion
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15375
- Procedinga.] OF ABC-WELDED JOIKTS. 305 Discussion. Sir CLEMEXT HINDLEY observed that the Paper was a particularly ; n e t ;$y well-arranged presentation of a useful piece of work, and he commended the completeness withwhich the details of the experimental work were given and the fullness of the summarized information contained inthe Tables. It was often the case, unfortunately, that the barerecord of facts of that kindmightappear to an investigator t o be so uninteresting as hardly t o justify its presentation as a Paper, and it was sometimes assumed that some brilliant piece of deduction was necessary in order to bring a Paper up to the usual standard of those discussed by The Institution...
CORRESPONDENCE ON THE STRENGTH OF ARC-WELDED JOINTS.
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- pp. 343–366
- Authors: J ANDERSON; C L BOUCHER; M B BUXTON; SIR R HADFIELD; R L MCILMOYLE; J N REESON; E ROSENBERG; E H SALMON; L W SCHUSTER; A VOGEL; E G WALKER; A S WANSBROUGH; F R FREEMAN
- Document Type: Letter
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15376
- Proceedin~p.] OF ARC-WELDED JOINTS. 343 expensive to make. The comparatively low strength of the wide The Author. butt-welded plates was, in his opinion, due solely to the fact that the edges of the plates had not been machined after welding, in the manner described by Mr. Kennedy. At the end of an unmachined butt weld there was inevitably a slight deviation from the smooth contour of the plate-edge, causing a crack to start at that point and spread across the weld. The butt welds that hadbeen machined (Series 102) had broken a t approsimately the full strength of the plate, andthey confirmed the resultsobtained by Mr...
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THE NAVIGABILITY OF THE LOWER DANUBE. AUTHOR'S REPLY TO CORRESPONDENCE.
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- pp. 370–371
- Author: E T WARD
- Document Type: Research Article
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15377
- 570 WARD ON THE NAVIGABILI!I!Y OF r1linut.e.sof (Paper No. 4744.) " The Navigability of the Lower Danube.)) Author's Reply to Correspondence.' By EBENEZER THOMAS WARD,O.B.E., & . C.E. INST. l The AUTHOR, reply to the Correspondence, agreed with Mr. in Lacey that measures should have been taken at a much earlier date to divert the flow of the Staroe Stamboulbranch into the more northerly outlets. In that manner the obstruction a t Sulina between the years 1915 and 1927 might have been retarded and the prolongation of the piers carried out in time to have avoided it...
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OBITUARY. PETER CHALMERS COWAN, 1859-1930.
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- Author: UNKNOWN
- Document Type: Obituary
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15378
- 372 OBITUARY. OBITUARP. PETER CRALMERS COWAN, D.&. (Eclin.), was born on the 20th March, 1859. He was educated at the High School, Dundee, where he gained a Baxter Scholarship, and entered the University of Edinburghin 1878. Hestudied at the University until 1881 under Professor Fleeming Jenkin, M. Inst. C.E., to whom for l year he was an assistant, and was awarded a Vans Dunlop Scholarship. I n 1882 he went to America, and, after serving for a few months under the City Surveyor of New York, became assistant engineer on the New York, Western State, and Buffalo Railway construction...
OBITUARY. ROBERT JULIAN SCOTT, 1861-1930.
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- Author: UNKNOWN
- Document Type: Obituary
- DOI: 10.1680/imotp.1931.15379
- 372 OBITUARY. OBITUARP. PETER CRALMERS COWAN, D.&. (Eclin.), was born on the 20th March, 1859. He was educated at the High School, Dundee, where he gained a Baxter Scholarship, and entered the University of Edinburghin 1878. Hestudied at the University until 1881 under Professor Fleeming Jenkin, M. Inst. C.E., to whom for l year he was an assistant, and was awarded a Vans Dunlop Scholarship. I n 1882 he went to America, and, after serving for a few months under the City Surveyor of New York, became assistant engineer on the New York, Western State, and Buffalo Railway construction...

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Volume 231, Issue 1931, January 1931