ABERCONWAY, LORD (writer of Ardrossan Dockyard & Co., 220 Barber, Walker & Co., 36, 37 ~
these pages), 22, 27, 39, 41, ‘Arley Mine,” 111 Barber, Walker & Co., colliery
62, 67, 162, 260, 316 Armiston Coal Co., 213 of, 19
——— Chairman of John Brown Armitage, Robert, Chairman, -—— iron-making firm and col-
& Co., 67 Brown Bailey Steel Works, liery owners, 38
—— Chairman of Tredegar Iron 19, 69 Barclay Curle & Co., 220, 231,
and Coal Co., 260 —— —— Late Manager of 235
—— Chairman of Yorkshire Farnley Iron Works, 93 Barclay, Sons & Co., 225
Amalgamated Collieries, Ltd., Armour plates, percentage of Barmaster, administrator of
22 consumption that can be law regarding lead mines of
— visit to Italy and Switzer- supplied by Sheffield, 61 Derbyshire, 45
land to observe working of Armour-plating firms of Barnsley Bed, 35
electric railways, 316 Sheffield, Jequsst by Admir- —— —— coal seam, 23
Addie & Sons, R., 213 alty to double capacity of —— —— —— South Yorkshire
Addy, James J., 23 output, 61 Coalfield, 16
Admiralty, request to armour- Armstrong, Lord, 163 —— ——— —— —— depth of
plating firms of Sheffield to i Sir W. G., Whit- workings, 16
double capacity of output, 61 worth Co., 134, 135, 141, Barrow, Charles, 38
—— supply of South Wales 162 y Barrow Hematite Steel Co.,
coal to, 251 —— —— Aircraft Co., air- Bessemer process introduced
—— supply of South Wales cooled aviation engines, 339 by, 121
coal to, decline in, 251 Arrol & Co., Sir W. D., 220, Barwick, Sir J. S,, 155
Aero Show, Paris, 338 224 Basic industries, capital invested
—— engines, Bristol standard Arsenal equipment, Greenwood in, how far a national asset,
in several countries, 337 & Batley, 105 361
—— —— manufacture of, 337 —— tools manufactured at Bayley, Sir D. R., K.B.E,, 69
~—— —— Napier, 337 Manchester, supply of, in Beardmore & Co., W., 220, 225,
Aeroplane engines, light, firms foreign Governments, 134 227, 237
producing, 339 Ashington Coal Co., 150 Bede Metal & Chemical Co.,
~——— —— supply of steel for, 62 Ashmore, Benson, Pease & Co., 158
Aeroplanes, use of alloy steels 156 Bedlington Coal Co., 150
for, 63 Ashton, Rt. Hon. Thomas, 41 Beecroft, George, “ Beecroft’s
Aircraft Disposal Co. of Croy- Asquith, Wm., drilling and Price Tables,” 95, 96
don, Nimbus and Cyrrus types boring machines, 98, 99 ~—— “ Companion to the Iron
of war aircraft engines, 339 Asquith machines, popularity Trade,” 95
—— engines, designers of, five of, 99 3 Beeston seam, West Yorkshire
groups, 338 Associated Daimler Co,, com- Coalfield, 16
Airedale Colliery, 19 mercial passenger motor Bekermet Mining Co., 63
—— Foundry, 94, 96 vehicles, 336 Belgian Jron and Steel Masters,
Aldwarke and Rotherham Main ~~ Austin Motor Co. 308 190
Collieries, proprietors of, 67 Austin, Sir Herbert, K.B.E., Bell Bros., 194, 201
—— Colliery, 24 Chairman of Austin Motors, Bell, Sir Hugh, 155, 194, 195,
—— Main Colliery, 23 . Ltd., 309 201
Alison, A., 216 Avery, W. & T., makers of Bell, Sir I. L., 194, 200, 201
Allen, Edgar, & Co., 50 weighing, counting and test- Bell, Col. M., 194
Alley & MacLellan, W. E., 220 ing machines, 305 Bell, Sir Thomas, K.B.E., 226
Alloa Coal Co., 208 Ayrshire Dockyard Co., 220 —— Managing Director of John
Alloy steel, articles for which Brown & Co., 67
used, 63 Babcock & Wilcox, products of, Bell, W. T., Chairman of Robey
—— —— development by Had- 88 & Co., 86
fields, 69 Baird & Co., W., 207, 208, 209, Bennie & Sons, J., 223
—— —— manufacture at Shef- 213, 217 Bentley Colliery, 22
field, 63 ——Tlist of mines worked and Benzol, how produced, 20
Amalgamated Anthracite Col- men employed by, 210 Berresford, S., 39
lieries, 263 : Baird, W., 215 Berry, Henry, & Co., of Croydon
~—— —— —— chairman, 263, Bairds of Gartsherrie, 216 Works, hydraulic engineers,
264 Baldwin, Alfred, & Co., 279 109
~—— Industrials, 202, 231 Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Stanley, Berry, Major W., Managing
Ammonia, sulphate of, how ¥ Dag Director of Croydon Works,
produced, 20 Baldwins, Ltd., 313 109
Anglo-French Nickel Co., 283 ~—— capacity of annual output, Bessemer furnaces, 193
Anglo-Westphalian Kent Coal- 278 = —— ingots, first made in
field, 196 —— Chairman, 261 Sheffield, where rolled, 74
Anthracite coal, qualities of, —— South Wales Collieries -—— process of steelmaking,
263 acquired by, 261 59, 118
we em ‘Welsh, 250, 252 Bamforth & Sons, products of, —— processes, displacement of
—— Coalfield of Swansea Dis- 87. = 185
trict, 263 Bar-iron, development in Staf- Bessemer, Henry, & Co., 50,
Appleby Iron Co., 63, 64 fordshire, 291 135, 144
Archdale, Jamet, & Co., 309 Barber, Major T. B.,, 19 . Bestwood Coal & Iron Co., 40
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