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1939
1939 - 0546.PDF
T96 FLIGHT. FEBRUARY 23, 1939 THE BRITISH INDUSTRIE Black and Decker portable tools, featuring the new " Holgun " drill. trades. The applications are very varied, as may be seen from examples on the Firth- Vickers stand, where the artistic value is shown to the full. Stainless steels in bar, sheet, strip and other forms, also as cast ings and drop forgings, are supplied to the aircraft industry. FLETCHER, MILLER, LTD. (D.618).—Easing and drawing oils and belt dressing suggest the surgery, and there is, in fact, a certain affinity between the products of Fletcher, Miller, Ltd., and the stock-in-trade of a doctor. Successful operations on metal are facilitated by the use of their quenching and tempering oils and metal-cutting oils (neat and water-soluble). GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., LTD. (Cb.515 and 414.)—By permission of the Air Ministry, an excellent example of the latest G.E.C. 4-kW. mobile aerodrome landing floodlight is shown. Mounted on a truck made by the Brockhouse Engineering (Southport) Co., and incorporating torsion-bar suspension, is the twin lamp floodlight tower and self-con tained generator-control equipment fitted with a four-cylinder Coventry-Climax engine. GENT AND CO., LTD. (Cb.513).—All the clocks suspended over the aisles in the Fair are controlled by master " Pulsynetic " electric clocks to be seen on this stand, the display on which varies from a ckfckHower • electric timepiece, complete with large brass ball and electric-motor-driven " Tangent " syrens. F. GILMAN (B.S.T.), LTD. (Cb.518).—The sight of what appear to be gigantic dental drills is the nightmarish vision which greets the visitor to this stand. They are, how ever, merely " grown-up " versions of the British " Titegrip " rotary milling cutters for which this firm is so well known. There are also various different types of tools using the company's Multi-flex flexible drivers' GLEDHILL-BROOK TIME RECORDERS, LTD. (Cb.719).—The march of time is recorded and checked for a variety of industrial pur poses by the ingenious (but so inhuman!) devices among the Gledhill-Brook display. These include time-recording machines for wages and labour, cost distribution, and automatic shift models for collieries, iron and steel works. GUEST, KEEN AND NETTLEFOLDS, LTD. (B.524).—A profusion of fastening devices, arranged in panels, characterises this ex hibit. By way of example, there are screws, bolts, nuts, rivets, cotter pins, set screws, screw hooks, screw eyes, gate hooks and eyes, nails, brads and panel pins. Steel bars, castings, rods, wire and steel hoops typify the heavier lines handled. HALL AND HALL, LTD. (D.721).—Systems conducting petrol, oil or steam are often sub ject to peculiar troubles demanding the attention of specialists in packing and joint ing materials, washers and processes for rendering materials impervious to the effects of petrol or oil. Such specialists are Hall and Hall, who are pleased to demonstrate how they deal with such annoyances and dangers. *' Petrolite " wire-bound rubber , h«£¥ j« particularly well krrmvn in thu air craft industry. -ALFRED HERBERT, LTD. (D.304 and 309).— As almost every type of machine tool is included in the sphere of Alfred Herbert pro ductions and agencies, it would be difficult to show even one representative of each type on the firm's two stands. Chosen for special attention, however, are the Herbert Wein- garten inclinable eccentric presses, while an economical system for firing a battery of furnaces forms a most interesting exhibit on one large stand. The system has the name of Atritor. I.C.I. METALS, LTD. (D.403 and 302).— Many metals and alloys in many shapes are produced at the Kynoch, Birmingham works of I.C.I. Metals. Cupro-nickel phosphor-bronze " Everdur " and others are supplied with various finishes and tempers while the manufacture of roofing, gutterine' sheathing, tubing and extruded sections is all part of the day's work. Non-ferrous materials in less interesting though no less useful forms, such as sheet, strip and wire are also available. IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. (D.305 and 204).—Works equipment of the latest type is exhibited and demonstrated on the combined I.C.I, stands. The well-known degreasing plants are available in several sizes, and heat-treatment furnaces for special purposes are shown. The Cassel process figures among these, together with other special furnaces and salts for heat treatment. INCANDESCENT HEAT Co., LTD. (Cb.605.and 504).—Quite one of the warmest spots in the Fair is this stand, for in the centre is a colossal Incandescent-Lee Wilson cylindrical furnace with radiant tubes working at top temperatures in the neighbourhood of 1,000 degrees C. This furnace is used for ferrous and non-ferrous coil and wire annealing, age ing and hardening. Salt baths and " Meta- lectric" furnaces are also shown, but not under working conditions. Domesticity N. C. JOSEPH, LTD. (Cb.514-).—Although N. C. Joseph, Ltd., are known for their air craft assemblies and work in duralumin, hiduminium and aluminium, most of the display on this stand is devoted to more homely domestic wares, arranged shelf upon shelf in " Aunt Sally " style, if the smite can be pardoned. ARTHUR LEE AND SONS, LTD. (D.520).—A four-roomed cottage, " Lee Holme" by name, complete with inn sign, has been erected on this stand, designed to display various examples of steel strip, wire and bar. LONDON ALUMINIUM Co., LTD. (A.411 and 310).—" Anything in aluminium" reads the .L.A.C.'s slogan. Testimony to the truth of ' this phrase in supplied hy the glittering array on their double stand. The spinnings, stampings and sheet metal work are, of course, of primary interest to the aircraft trade. LONDON AND MIDLAND STEEL SCAFFOLDING (D.426 and B., Outdoor).—In the grounds outside there is an ambitious structure, towering' some thirty feet in the air built of tubular steel and secured by Burton " Quick-grip " fittings. Inside/ cm Stand (Above) Production equipment on the stand of Chas. Taylor (Birmingham), Ltd. (Right) Aircraft presswork from the tools made by Turner Bros. (Birmingham), Ltd.
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