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FLIGHT, OCTOBE* 16, 1931 MORE OF THE MACHINE SHOP: All the ordinary machine tools arc here available and the students have to go through a course incorporating work on each one of them. They are thus taught accurate and fine work under careful supervision. (FLIGHT Photo.) aeronautical engineering, but linked as they are with one oi the oldest and best-known flying schools in the country, their posi- tion is even further strengthened. At Brooklands they have every- thing which the seeker after aviation knowledge can desire. Mr. Ted Jones has been kept busy on navigation lectures for a long time past now, and this association with the Engineering College will, we imagine, keep him even busier ; he is. however, of the type who thrives on hard work, and he is never too busy to explain to knowledge-seeking students the why and wherefore of quadrantal error or some similar problem. The advisory council of the College is one which shows that the scheme is no dilatory one ; it consists of:—-Sir Alliot V. Roe, Lt. Col. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, Mr. F. Sigrist, Mr. H. J. Thomas and Mr. M. Desoutter, while the Administrative and technical board has on it:—Mr. C. H. Roberts, the Principal of the College ; Capt. Duncan Davis and Mr. E. A. Jones, both of Brooklands Aviation, Ltd. ; Mr. Percy Bradley, Manager of Brook- lands Track ; and Mr. G. D. Duguid, the Chief Technical En- gineer of the College. A more representative and capable set of men it would be difficult to find, so there is no likelihood of the College failing through lack of adequate and well-informed advice. At the present time the majority of the shops at 102, Stanley Street, Chelsea, S.W.3. are, of course, occupied by students who are learning to be- come automobile engineers, and naturally the two courses can, very largely, be run concurrently. One shop lias, however, been -~ turned over entirely to aviation, and that is the aero-engine shop. In here are found specimens of many different kinds of aero engines, and Mr. Roberts told me that he was obtaining at least one of every type which is likely to be met with. These engines are mounted on swivel- ling beds, so that the small parties of students, assigned to each, are able to dismantle their respective engines completely, re- build them, and in some cases transport them to Brooklands, to be run up and tested out on the bench. The shops as a whole are all well fitted, have adequate machinery, ventilation and light. All students are supplied with a „ . „ r „+;,;„ form set of tools, which they have to look after themselves, as Captain, and these, under a Senior House OaP™, ' ges. well as keeping clean the machines they may work on. a committee which has the power to put forward sugg Many of the pupils are accommodated at the College tions as to the running of the College House House. This is a large building on the side of Wimble- An interesting and informative brochure hasi t>een y don Common, and is run as an adjunct to the College. pared, which will be sent to anyone who is *in£n8 Here a resident Warden is in charge, while a Matron having their boy trained at the College It tnose supervises all the domestic details. There are common then go with the intention of learning all they can i rooms, guest rooms, and games rooms, while the bed- is no doubt that they will in the end leave and pa- rooms are particularly large and airy. , The College House into the world well equipped to take up any oi a is divided into three, houses, each with its own House range of jobs in aviation. THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE SHOP: In this shop the embryo ground engineers are instructed in the art of pulling aircraft engines to pieces and then assembling them in such a way that they will work! Engines of all the best known types are to be found here as well as certain relics of Brooklands by-gone joy-riding triumphs. (FLIGHT Photo.) 1038
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