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1938
1938 - 1282.PDF
FLIGHT. MAY 5, 1038. HERE and THERE The New Expansion Committee T AST Friday the Air Ministry announced the appointment-Lrf of an inter-departmental committee to deal with the new K.A.F. expansion scheme. Chairman of the committee isLord Winterton, Deputy to the Air Minister, and members of the committee are: Air Marshal Sir Wilfrid R. Freeman, AirMember for Research and Development; Air Vice-Marshal W. L Welsh Air Member for Supply and Organisation; AirVice-Marshal K. E. C. Peirse, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff and Director of Operations and Intelligence; Mr. A. H. bell,Second Deputy Under-Secretary of State; Sir Charles Bruce- Gardner, chairman of the S.B.A.C.; and Mr. E. E. Bridges,of the Treasury. Secretary of the committee is Mr. H. Eussell. Atvis Advances 'FHE new i if-litre Alvis nine-cylinder radial is to be called •I the Leonides. Although there is very little general resem- blance between this engine and the two-row Maeonides, the heads and valves are practically interchangeable, the bore being the same. The stroke of the Leonides is a little shorter. Four of these engines are being made. The first has com- pleted over 20 hours' successful running on the beds, and power figures of well over 400 h.p. have been obtained. The design is more simple than the other Alvis models. Sets of components for Maeonides are on the way, and two 18-cylinder Alcides are ready for assembly. The 14-cylinder 1,000-h.p. Pelides was type-tested a few months back. Pobjoy Appointments SOME important appointments to the board of Pobjoy Air-motors and Aircraft, Ltd., are announced. Mr. Oswald Short has Deen elected chairman and Mr. Arthur Gouge managing director. Mr. P. H. Cozens has become a new director. In succession to Mr. D. R. Pobjoy, who severed his con- nection with the company a few weeks ago, Mr. C. O. Towler has been engaged. Mr. Towler was responsible for the design of Wolseley engines under Lord Nuffield. He is to carry out exhaustive tests on the Niagara V engine and to improve its accessibility and ease of maintenance. This development work, it is stated, will be so extensive that the improved engine will not appear on the market for some little time. More About the Empire Exhibition AMONG the exhibits at the Empire Exhibition, Glasgow,and in addition to those noted in these columns last week, may be noted several more of interest to the aeronautical industry. For instance, a Supermarine Spitfire will, it is hoped, appear- on the stand of the Vickers group in the Palace of Engineering, while in the armaments section of the same exhibit are a 75 mm. anti-aircraft gun and a Vickers predictor. Another section of the Vickers display is occupied by the products of the English Steel Corporation, and includes a full- sized model of a 230-ton steel ingot, the largest forged, enter- ing a furnace. Smaller E.S.C. exhibits include precision- ground bars and the steel tools for which the company is so well known. A Vickers projection microscope is shown by Cooke, Troughton and Sims. Most appropriately, for it has four extensive works in Scot- land, the British Aluminium Co., Ltd., stages two large ex- hibits, one showing the many applications of aluminium in industry and the other illustrating the forms in which the metal and its alloys are produced in the works. Among work- ing exhibits are demonstrations of the turning of the company's free-cutting alloy BA/35 and the spinning of pure aluminium. One of the largest and most impressive buildings belonging to a single concern is the pavilion of Scottish Oils and Shell- Mex, Ltd., and its parent companies, The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. and the Shell Transport and Trading Co. It lias been designed to show the importance of petroleum products in all branches of industry and commerce throughout the world. Films are shown in a cinema, and an exhibition hall contains a number of working exhibits, including the Smith wear and lubricant tester. This machine is used to determine quickly the best metal and the best lubricant to use for any specific purpose in machine construction. The new Shell lubricating oils are seen under test. The Esso pavilion, on the approach to the Amusement Park is a "symphony" in glass, bearing on its four sides a set of four illuminated glass plaques symbolising those qualities which have contributed to the company's half a century of achievement. A spacious hall inside displays three models depicting the many uses of Esso products on land, sea and in the air. " Ex-apps" Reunite at Farnborough FIFTY-THREE "Ex-apps" were present at the first re-union of the Royal Aircraft Establishment Ex-apprentices Association, held recently at Farnborough. After a tour of the Establishment in the afternoon there was a dinner at the Queen's Hotel, and it afforded everybody the opportunity to recall happy times to as far back, in some cases, as TO.18. The chairman and organiser was Mr. J. F. Gunn, headmaster of the Apprentices' School, supported by Dr. Harris and Mr. G. T. H. Cook, masters. The visitors were Mr. A. H. Hall (chief superintendent, R.A.E.). Mr. \V. Piper (production manager of Saunders-Roe), and Mr. \V. P Prochl, headmaster of Vickers (Aviation), Ltd., Apprentices' School. Toasts of "The Association " and " The Visitors " were pro- posed by Mr. Cook and Mr. Oliver respectively, and the responses by Mr. Gunn and Mr. A. H. Hall, whose speech was particularly appreciated. Mr. Prochl spoke enthusiastically of the boys in his time at the R.A.E. It was a happy and successful start of an annual reunion, for which a much increased attendance is predicted next year. Mr. Gunn would be glad to hear from any " Ex-apps " with whom he has not been in touch. ... . _ NEW COMPANIES In the note? below, for reason* of space, the "objects" of neir com-panies are usually somewhat abbreviated. TRAVELAIR LTD.—Private company, registered April 25. Capital £100 i»100 ordinary shares of £1 each. Objects : to carry on the business of a travel and excursion agency by air, land and sea, tourist agency, etc. The directors are:Kenelru A. P. Dalby, and Norman Brett. Registered office : 38, Avenue Chamliers, Vemon Place, London, W.C.I.WESTERN AIRPORT LTD., was registered as a private company on April 6, with a nominal capital of £5,000 in 3,000 shares of £1 each. The- objects are to carry-on the business of proprietors and managers of airports or aerodromes, etc. The first directors are Whitney W. Straight (chairman) and others to 1«> appointed bythe subscribers. Solicitors : McKenna & Co., 31-4, Basinghall Street, London, EX.2. PUBLICITY PLANES, LTD.—Private company, registered April 7. Capital£5,000 in 5,000 shares of £1 each. Objects: to carry on the business of aerial, advertising contractors and agents, etc. The directors are : Win. R. L. Beaumont,Leslie Woollard, Jas. D. Willis. Registered office • 11, Queen Victoria Street, London E.C.4.CODE PRESSINGS LTD.—Private company, registered April 5. Capital, £1,000 in 1,000 ordinary shares of £1 each. Objects : to carry on the business of engineers,founders, smiths, machinists manufacturers and patentees etc. The first directors are to be appointed by the subscribers. Registered office: 11U, Charles HenryStreet, Birmingham. COMMERCIAL AIRMEN LTD.—Private company, registered April 22. Capital,£100 in 100 shares of £1 each. Objects: to carry on the business of commercial airmen, air pilots, advertising agents, photographers, etc. The directors are : Anthony 0.Humble-Smith (director of F. W. Barratt & Co. Ltd.), Leslie R. Little. Registered office : 100, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2.AVIATION ENGINEERING (MESSIER) CO.—Registered asaprivatecoropany on April 21, with a nominal capital of £10,000 in 10,000 shares of £1 each, lneobjects are to carry on the business of manufacturers, repairers, letters on hire or hire- purchase, exporters and importers of and dealers in all kinds of gas, oil, electricaland mechanical equipment for starting engines, motors or mai hinery. The number of directors is not to be less than two nor more than five. Two are to be. nominatedby Aeronautical and Mechanical Inventions, Ltd., and three by Pttlers.Ltd. Regis- tered office: Westland Works. Yeovil, Somerset AERONAUTICAL PATENT SPECIFICATIONS (The numbers in bracket* arc tlioRi- under which the Specifications will beprinted mid abridged, etc.): 102TC. BF.NDIX AVIATION CORPORATION : Brakes (481,MJ5).25321. BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION : Brake control mechanism for aircraft (481,804).25580. BENDIX, LTD., and ROUERTS, G. P.: Control of aircraft brakes (481,U4U). 26083. BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION : Universal joints (481 812).82201. CONTRAVES AKT.-GES. : Method for measuring photogrametrically the aiming and firing error in firing exercises against moving targets, moreespecially aircraft, and apparatus for carrying out the method (481,820). 10071. SERVO-FRF.IN DEWANDRE SOC. ANON., and FUSCALDO, O.: Liquid luelinjection systems for interiial-comlmstion engines (481,7Sfi). 17014. JUNKERSFLV/GZEUG-UND-MOTOHENWERKE AKT.-GES.: Mounting and sight-ing guns on aircraft and other vehicles (481,649). 17218. SPERRY GYROSCOPE CO., INC. : Electrical control systems (482,18!)).17338 KAESS, L. L.: Radio direction-finding (481,W.I). 25828. WILLOUGHBY, P. N.: Airscrews (482,334). 2j!>«2. BRISTOL AEROPLANE CO., LTD., FEDDEN, A. H. R., OWNER, F. M.. aiwCOPLEY, J. W. : Aeroplane wings (482,135). 26421. SPERRY GYROSCOPE CO., INC. : Gyroscopic compasses (482,215). 21)806. BRISTOL AEROPLANE CO.. LTD., FEDDEN, A. H. R-, and OWNER, F. M.Installation of supercharged internal-combustion engines in aircraft structures (482,151). :>0»71 HAVILLAND, H. DE, and DE HAVJLLAND AIRCRAFT CO., LTD. : Actuationof suction-driven or pressure-driven apparatus by internal combustion engines (4S1.086). 32122. ARMSTRONG WHITWORTH AIRCRAFT LTD., SIR W. G., ami LLOYD, J.Take-off of aircraft (4K2,057). :i:(281 " •• " " 35432.811 4514 13570. 20320. PLESMAN. A.: Method >,i and means for lauiiVhing'and landing aircnf (482,160). BARKLEY, A. ST. C.: Aeroplane wing structure (482,1 GO). MERCIER, P. E.: Aircraft control systems (482,080). . JUNKERSFLUGZETJG-UNDMOTORENWERKE AKT.-GES. : Cylinders ot""»» combustion engines (482,01)0).
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