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1957
1957 - 0666.PDF
672 FLIGHT, 17 May 1957 THE INDUSTRY New Plessey Company "PORMATION by the Plessey Co., Ltd., and the American-*- Philco Corporation of a new company—to be known as Semi- conductors, Ltd.—to manufacture transistors and other semi-conductors in this country was announced on May 2. Its joint Board has Mr. A. G. Clark as chairman and Messrs. J. M. Skinner,Jnr., J. F. Mallabar, L. J. Woods, A. E. Underwood and P. Marriage as directors. Airscrew Company's Chairman "FT is announced that Mr. Eoin C. Mekie, C.B.E., has been elected•*• chairman of the Airscrew Co. and Jicwood, Ltd., and Mr. F. C. Lynam, F.R.Ae.S., director and general manager, has beenappointed managing director. Mr. Mekie is chairman of the British Aviation Services group of companies. Discussions were recendy reported to be taking place betweenthe Airscrew Co. and Bryant and May, the match manufacturers, with a view to possible financial collaboration. Woodason Models Again AFTER a long illness, Mr. V. J. G. Woodason, of 604 London- Road, Slough, Bucks, has begun to make aircraft scale models once again. Until a few years ago his products were greatly indemand in the industry for development and display purposes. Mr. Woodason is now engaged in making a new type of plasticmodel which should be well suited for use on display stands and in shop windows where space is limited. Each model is in theform of a bas relief giving a perspective view of the aircraft. A realistic effect is achieved, though the thickness is only an inch orso. For production purposes, a photograph can serve as a basis fromwhich the mould is made, and thereafter an unlimited number of models can be moulded and painted. Mr. Woodason has alsodevised a method of mounting the bas relief within a miniature replica of an airliner window with a realistic background, so thatthe model appears to be viewed from another aircraft in flight. Examples of types so far produced include the Beverley,Britannia, Viscount, Canberra and Gnat. Typical plastic models by V. J. G. Woodason (see above). A team of Rolls-Royce engineers recently visited the Queen's Island works of Short Brothers and Harland, to discuss engine installation in the SC.l (this VTOL aircraft has five R.B. 108s). Seen here are, left to right, Mr. £. C. Fox (systems engineer, Shorts), Mr. J. Bromilow (Rolls-Royce), Dr. C. T. Hewson (Rolls-Royce), Mr. W. Brunskill (project engineer, Shorts) and Mr. F. Raper (Rolls-Royce). IN BRIEF Mr. L. M. Broadway has been elected deputy chairman to theBoard of C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., and will hold this office in conjunction with his position as managing director. * * * After a long association with Thermionic Products, Ltd., ofHythe, Mr. V. J. Falconer has resigned in order to join Electro- voice, Ltd., of 39 Dover Street, London, W.I.* » * A new edition of the leaflet in which all components of theHellermann binding system are described and illustrated is now available from Hellermann, Ltd., Crawley, Sussex.* * * Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Tedder is to open the newmetallurgical laboratories of the British Welding Research Asso- ciation at Abington Hall, Abington, near Cambridge, on July 23.* * * The electronics division of Gresham Transformers, Ltd., whichmanufactures transformers up to 2,000 VA for electronic and telecommunication purposes, is now established at Lion Works,Hanworth Trading Estate, Feltham, Middlesex (Feltham 6661). * * * Pye Telecommunications, Ltd., have appointed S.M.D. Tele-communications (Pty.), Ltd., P.O. Box 10013, Johannesburg, as sole distributors of Pye radio-communication equipment in theUnion of South Africa, the Protectorates of Bechuanaland, Swazi- land and Basutoland, and Mozambique south of the Save River.* * * We regret to record the death, at the age of 66, of Mr. W. IvanWalters, founder, chairman and managing director of the Walterisation Co., Ltd., of Croydon. Inventor (with his brother,Mr. E. Alun Walters) of an improved phosphating process, he established the present company in 1936. Approval of theWalterisation process by the Air Ministry in 1939 led to its exten- sive use by the aircraft industry during the war. yr -K •* Mr. E. E. Chatterton, chief engineer of the piston-engine divi-sion of D. Napier and Son, Ltd., is to receive an award from the oil and gas power division of the American Society of MechanicalEngineers for the paper, The Future Development of the High- speed Diesel Engine, which he read at the 1956 A.S.M.E. annualmeeting in New York. The award is to be presented next Wednes- day at the A.S.M.E. division's annual conference in Louisville. * * * Black and Decker, Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, announcethe appointment of Mr. J. P. Jamieson as sales manager for their industrial and automotive range of portable electric tools. Hetakes over the post recently relinquished by Mr. F. A. Field who, after 19 years with the company, has been appointed managingdirector of Eutectic Welding Alloys, Ltd. Another Black and Decker appointment recently notified is that of Mr. Drummond R.Stuart as general manager of the Toronto, Canada, subsidiary. * * * Two old-established building and civil engineering businesses,John Laing and Son (Holdings), Ltd., and Holloway Brothers (London), Ltd., have jointly announced "that agreement hasbeen reached in principle to the acquisition by Laings of a sub- stantial interest in the Holloway company and to its future opera-tion in association with the Laing group." Holloways will continue to operate under the management of the Holloway familyand the agreement will enable the company to take advantage of the research, plant and other facilities of the Laing group.
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