GEAR LUBRICATION

The Institute of Petroleum held a Symposium on Gear Lubrication at Manson House, 26 Portland Place, London, W.1. on February 13th. This was timely in view of the growing use of hypoid gears for automobile use and the need for standardized testing procedure for hypoid lubricants. The papers dealt also with gear lubrication generally, including worm gearing. An abstract of all the papers is given here. Many of the papers presented were highly technical and were intended to be of more interest to research workers and to lubrication technologists in the trade. Several of them, and some parts of all of them, however, brought out many practical points.