Switchgear 22, 32,
(64, 66, 69, 87, 100, 101, 108, 109,111,
148, 149-50, 190, 196, 198, 222, 225
Switchgear, l.v. air-break 222
Switchgear. metalclad 66,69,101,109,111,148,149,222,225
Switchgear, outdoor 108,109, 111,150, 196,222,225
Switchgear department 8, 68, 87, 162, 193, 194, 239 see also
K aisle and West works
Switchgear testing 101,109, 146,141, 150
Switchgear Testing Co. Ltd. 141,150
Synchronous condensers 115, 220, 224
Synchrotron 210
TANK shop 86, 125, 127, 160, 176
Tap changers, on-load 108, 110, 149, 221
Taylor's Bridge 24, 125
Technical progress 21-23, 26, 31-2, 35-6, 37, 56, 59- ,
100,102, 103- ,138, 141- , 165- , 215
Telephone exchange, works 25, 27, 206
Television equipment 136
Tennis 35, 54, 207
Testing apparatus 99, 141 see also dynamo test, etc.
Textile mills, equipment for 67, 69, 154, 231, 234
Thrift scheme 90
Time study 86, 129, 185 see also motion study
Traction bureau, Westinghouse 47, 68
Traction control department 118, 162, 239
Traction department 13, 18, 40, 46, 47, 68, 118, 129 see also
general engineering and above and below
Traction equipment, electric 22, 34, 37, 67, 71, 101, 114,
116, 117,120, 156,157-5, 159, 201, 229-30,232
Traction motor department 84, 101, 118, 162 see also
Sheffield works
Traction & Power Securities Co. Ltd. 22
Trade Apprentice, The B. W. 57
Traffic department 17,18,40, 68,118,162,199, 220, 239
Traffolyte laminated plastic 100
Trafford Hall 10, 23, 24
Trafford Park facing page 1, 3, 4, 10, 23-8
Trafford Park works:
aerial views following page x, 20
building 4-9
equipping 9, 11
staffing 13-18
manufacturing begins 21-3
early life at 23-8
organization 17-8, 33, 40, 41-2, 45, 68, 83, 85-9, 118,
125-6, 128, 162, 176-8, 194, 197-200, 203, 239
power station 9, 11, 87, 189, 199, 200, 201, 216, 217
see also under various departments; engineering, manu-
facturing and sales organizations; general managers
of works and works managers; works committee and
staff committee; war work; medical, research, social,
training, welfare, etc.
Training see education department; apprentice training;
girl's training school; women, training of; and below
Training, wartime courses of 178
Training of engineers and foremen 203
Train lighting 197, 233, 236
Tramway equipment 2, 22, 67, 117, 229
Transformer department 40, 42, 45, 68, 111, 118, 162, 192,
193, 194, 198, 209, 239
Transformers 22, 23, 31, 64, 65, 86, 100, 108, 111, 125, 148,
149,160, 173, 175,190, 198, 221-2,225, 235
Transformers, mobile 173, 175
Transformers, welding 160
Translay differential protective system 110
Transport, workers' 24, 199
Transport of equipment 31, 65, 108, 148, 199, 220, 221, 225
Transwitch equipment, mining 149, 222
Trigatron valve 168
Trolleybus equipment 158, 159, 229, 233
Turbine test 16, 17, 87,103, 105, 189
Turbines, gas 99, 100, 194, 196, 198, 200, 209, 214, 215-6,
217
Turbines, marine 31, 48, 60, 63, 65, 104, 106, 145, 147, 173,
175, 216, 217 |
Turbines, self-contained
104, 105
Turbines, steam 1, 16, 21-2, 26, 31, 34, 36, 47, 48, 59-60,
61-3, 65, 82, 92, 99, 102, 103-4, 105-6, 121, 125, 138,
141-2, 143-4, 145, 147, 173, 175, 176, 189, 195, 198,
200, 209, 214, 216, 215, 219-20, 223
Turbo blowers and compressors 62, 104, 145
Turbo-electric winders, Stubbs-Perry 104,112
Turbovisory gear 214, 219
Turkey 222, 223
U.S.S.R. see Russia
Unified boiler control (u.b.c.) 156
VACUUM apparatus, continuously evacuated high 99-100,
101, 135, 139
Vacuum furnaces 98-9, 100, 101, 214
Vacuum plant 198, 236 see also above, below, and betatron,
cyclotrons, electron diffraction camera, electron micro-
scopes, evaporation plant, neutron generators, rectifiers,
synchrotrons, valves (transmitting), x-ray equipment
Vacuum pumps 100, 214, 236, 237
Vacuum switches, Sunvic 126, 161, 199
Valves, radio receiving 78, 81
Valves, radio transmitting 100, 136, 137, 139, 171
Vanderbiji Engineering Corporation 190
Vickers Ltd. 74, 84
Vickers Train Lighting Co. Ltd. 197
Victor X-ray Corporation 197
Voltage regulators, automatic 32, 36,150, 153, 226
WAR, the first world 47-52
War, the second world 164-186
War savings 52, 179
War work (1914-18) 48-52
War work (1939^5) 165-78
Warrington works 177,197
Wartime employment problems 48, 52, 177-8
Watching service 28, 125, 129 see also police
Water tower facing title page, 9, 11, 41, 78, 179, 211
Welding, fabrication by 86,125, 127, 135, 144,145, 163,172,
773, 175, 198 see also steel products department and
tank shop
Welding department 198, 239
Welding equipment 115, 117, 125, 160, 163, 112, 198, 230,
233 see also electrodes
Welding school 125, 127
Welfare 27-8, 35, 52-3, 89-91, 94, 129-30, 131 (Sheffield),
178-9, 200, 203-4, 207
Welfare officer 207
West works 87, 101, 164, 176, 178, 152, 193, 196, 198
Westinghouse Brake Co. Ltd. 1, 12
Westinghouse Companies, continental 34, 46-7, 68, 81
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (U.S.A.) 1,
2,
3, 29-30, 34, 39, 79
Westinghouse Electric Co. Ltd. (London) facing page 1,1,
2
Westinghouse Machine Co. (U.S.A.) 1, 3, 30
Westinghouse Memorial 35, 39, 79
Westinghouse Norsk Elektrisk Aktieselskap (Christiania)
68
Winding engines, electric 37, 67, 71, 82, 88, 104, 112,
113,
151-2, 154, 226, 227, 228
Women, employment of 27, 48, 52, 94,126,178,199, 203
Women, training of 126,129,178,203
Women engineers 52, 94
Women's supervision 52, 68, 94, 118,126, 162,178,200,207.
239
Women's works committee 94,131 (Sheffield), 202,203,204,207
Works see Trafford Park works, Sheffield works, and others
Works committee 52-3, 55, 131 (Sheffield), 177, 185, 202
Works engineers department 68,118,162,176,180,193,199,
200, 201, 208, 239
Works managers see [W. C. Mitchell], Mensforth, McLean,
G. E. Bailey, Steele, Symes
Works school 55, 57, 68,132, 206, 208
X-RAY equipment 100, 134, 135-6,
197, 199, 201, 234, 236 |
