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Aviation History
1937
1937 - 0242.PDF
02 FLIGHT. JANUARY 28, 1937. " Meet our new waste-engine-oil collector "—Capt. C. C. Clark of Tecalemit effects an introduction. large balls at the base of the jack. Air Ministry work undertaken by this firm also includes orders for bomb hoists, torpedo trolleys, pop riveters, gantries, and tail skids. * * * A STRAIGHT-LINE jet or a wide, diffused spray under a pressure of 375 lb./sq. in. is uncompromising with grime, which means that the Laycock Niagara washing plants are handy things to have around the 'drome. The pump of the particular Niagara model on show was a three-throw type with solid stain less steel plungers, a bore of ijin. and a 2in. stroke. * * * T HOSE with tendencies towards film- fanaticism know how the imagina tive producer '' tracks " or " pans '' his camera down on to the scene from un likely angles. The secret, more often than not, is an impressive piece of studio apparatus known as the camera crane. Again more often than not, and cer tainly whenever any extra-special camera mounting is wanted, the crane is built up from steel scaffolding. All of which seems to have no bearing on aviation—until it is said that Mr. G E. Kidd. whom we found in charge of the London and Midland Steel Scaffold ing Company's stand, used to be respon sible for such studio engineering with a very famous film concern ; and that he told us how such constructional problems as arise in film studios are constantly being solved by the L. and M.S.S. Co., who are equally interested in the re quirements of the aircraft, shipbuilding, building and many other industries. No matter how large or how awkward the shape of your "giant air-liner," these good people can, it seems, suggest the appropriate sort of assembly staging for it—and on wheels at that. * * * T HE greater use of short waves for long-distance communication over the Empire routes has meant, of course, that special equipment has had to be de veloped for the purpose. Last year we saw the equipment for the Short" Empire boats, and on the Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company's stand was a short wave direction-finding unit for ground stations. These will be used, incident- a!lv, for the Atlantic services and cover a waverange of 15 to 200 metres. The Marconi-Adcock short-wave D F aerial system covers a very much smaller area in three dimensions than that for medium -wave reception. Only four thirty-toot self-supporting masts are used, these being spaced in an area about twenty feet square. Those who enjoy and who understand such expressions as "coupling," "phasing," " heptnde mixer" and "pentode amplifiers" will be better able to follow the technical points in this new and interesting piece of equipment. * * * DON QUIXOTE charged windmills and got hurt; the National Benzole people charge ovens and get petrol. By turning coal into coke they liberate benzole—in a gaseous state and mixed with various substances from which, by a varietv of processes, it has to be freed. A demonstration panel permitted study of how National Benzole is, as the pro ducers put it. "won from the mighty British industries on which the nation's greatness and the prosperity of its people so vitally depend." * # * THERE comes a time when every aero engine needs- a complete overhaul; and at that time such helpful equipment as Newton Brothers' repair accessories is invaluable. Accuracy of boring and facing is assured by the jigs, and align ment and clearance in bearings is checked and fixed correctly to the «th degree. Demonstrations and instruction in the use of equipment can be arranged, but simplicity of operation is the keynote. * » a " "P\ULUX" is no proletarian finish. -L' In the words of its manufacturers, Nobel's, it is a tvpe which cannot be classified with any existing oil cellulose or synthetic resin finish at present on the market. One of the variations is officially designated " Dulux humidity and fungus-resisting enamel." Woe be tide any ambitious fungus with designs The new Castrol oil dispensing unit is built on petrol-pump lines. Mr. H. Long, a director of Short and Mason, Ltd., of instrument fame, explains a point to a visitor. on its surface, for it contains a potent fungicide. » » , DO you know much about paint ing? " we were asked, and on modestly answering in the negative we were invited to try what an amateur could do with the Northern Aluminium Company's Noral paste. A sample tin of the paste was produced, and a fraction, taken on the point of a knife, was mixed with a medium on a glass pallette, pro ducing in a few seconds a brushful of aluminium paint. • Then, equipped with a board and brush, we daubed away happily, com pletely and uniformly covering a strip of the wood. Our satisfaction, how ever, was short-lived. It was the paint that was good, for on trying again with ordinary white paint, lines, brush-marki and bits left out, made the new effort look a sorry sight by comparison. * * * I LLUSTRATED -on page 74 of last week's issue of Flight was the Dagcn- ite starting battery trolley, and for those who had not already made its acquaintance at Croydon or elsewhere examination of the actual equipment on the Peto and Radford Stand was in teresting. Apart from the striking number of discharges at a high rate (figures which have already been quoted in Flight) one was taken by the number of practical little fittings—a spotlight to help the operator to find the connector socket on an aircraft at night, pneumatic tyres, brakes applied automatically on release of the pulling handle, anti-short-circuit safety lid, fire-extinguisher, and so on. The Dagenite people stated that 75 per cent, of civil aircraft are fitted with their equipment. # * # A WORKMAN will think more kindly of a general-purpose oil pump <IT compressed-air motor if it needs little or no effort to move about when required. It appears that this point, among other- was borne in mind by John B. Pilhn. Ltd., when their several balanced pump- and compressors were designed. Rubber- tyred wheels and castors make simple the task of moving the machines frorn one job to the next. Even the feed pipes from the pumps are counter balanced and retreat hurriedly into their cases when released.
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