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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