Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 4 Issue 4

Covers all automotive and industrial applications of lubricants

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Table of contents

Animal and vegetable Oils … Fats & Waxes …: PART 1 General Composition and Classification : “Blown” oils : Drying, semi‐drying & non‐drying oils : Castor oil : Rape oil

C. GRIFFITHS

The animal and vegetable oils, fats, and waxes provide vital raw materials for a large number of industries. Soap, paint, foodstuffs, textiles, leather, and linoleum are but a few…

RUNNING‐IN AUTOMOBILE ENGINES: DAIMLER‐BENZ ENGINES

Previous articles in this series have dealt with the running‐in of engines by Vauxhall Motors Ltd., and by The Daimler Co. Ltd. We shall include several other British motor…

SYNTHETIC OILS for AUTO and STEAM CYLINDERS: A GERMAN WARTIME DEVELOPMENT

SOME details of practical tests with synthetic lubricating oils, developed during war time in Germany, have recently been published, and the following is an abstract from an…

A NEW RANGE OF MOTOR OILS: SHELL X‐100

A new range of Shell Motor Oils, known as X‐100, was introduced last month. This range replaced the current grades and the changeover at garages in the British Isles was the…

Oilfree Compressors: for steam, dry oxygen and chlorine gas

It is frequently essential to secure supplies of oilfree compressed gases and the normal type of compressor, with piston lubrication, cannot be employed. Oilfree compressors may…

Textile Lubrication

In a talk to the Bradford Engineering Society at the Bradford Technical College recently, Mr. F. N. McLaren (Industrial Sales Dept., Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd.) referred to the…

EXACTOR open new showroom

A NEW showroom has recently been equipped with the products made by Exactor Limited, at 108 Park Street, London, W.1. One section is devoted to the Trabon system of centralized…

A new determination of the absolute viscosity of water

A DETERMINATION of the absolute viscosity of water at 20°C with greater accuracy than ever before realized has recently been completed by J. F. Swindells of the National Bureau of…

The I.C. Engine from the Users' Point of View

In his paper before the Diesel Engine Users Association on March 20th last, Mr. A. K. Bruce, M.I.Mech.E., Mem.A.S.M.E., had much to say concerning lubrication, in addition, of…

Cover of Industrial Lubrication and Tribology

ISSN:

0036-8792

Online date, start – end:

1948

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Prof Carsten Gachot
  • Andreas Rosenkranz