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1939
1939 - 0630.PDF
230 FLIGHT. MARCH 2, r939 IMPERIAL DEFENCE: £ Short Sunder- •and (f0Uf Bristol Pegasus XXII) refuelling at Keamari near Karachi) on its way out to Singapore. This photograph, like certain of those used in connec tion with our Empire Air Forces Number last week, is published through the courtesy of Shell Aviation News. THE INDUSTRY New Trade Development : Engine Manufacturers' Progress : Improved Retractable Tail Wheel : Degreasing by Water : Patents : New Companies A.G.S. Parts A LONDON firm that is holding increasingly large stocks of A.G.S. parts, Mosers, Ltd., of Borough High Street, Lon don, S.E.i (and at 112-114, Old Hall Street, Liverpool), is now issuing a monthly stock-list of such parts. The first list— which, incidentally, is a model of clean, clear printing—covers some ninety items in many hundred sizes. Mass-producing Balloons A NEW fabric, lighter and with better gas-holding proper ties than any previously used is, it is claimed, being used at the new Dunlop balloon factory in Manchester in the mass- production of barrage balloons. The factory is laid out like a laboratory, with light-coloured walls, polished surfaces and conditioned air; the result is that grit, which is fatal to balloon fabric, is obviated. About Conveyors THE many applications of a well-designed works conveyor track are described and illustrated in great detail in a finely produced 276-page art-paper catalogue, published by G. VV. King, Ltd., Hertford Works, Hitchin, Herts. It deals with their overhead mono-rail conveyors, overhead twin-rail conveyors, floor and special conveyors, trucks, and storage, stacking and special equipment. One of the illustrations shows a mono-rail conveyor in use in an airscrew factory. New Sub-Contractors in Country F OR some time past the Lea-Francis Motor Car Co. have been doing sub-contracting machining work and producing small jigs, tools and fixtures at their premises in Much Park Street, Coventry. Within the last few weeks this work has been augmented by the opening of a small, fully approved department for aircraft sheet-metal work. Two other Coventry car firms besides Lea-Francis, namely, Riley and Singer, are now very busy on important aircraft sub-contract work. Self-winding Winches OPERATING, roughly speaking, on the well-known roller-blind principle, a series of self-winding electric cable reels has been developed by Power House Components, Ltd., Albion Chambers, King Street, Nottingham. Wayne reels, as they are known, are made in a great variety of sizes, ranging from small types for ordinary lighting flex, to reels to handle heavy multi-cored flexible cable. They should have particular application for portable floodlight work. It is stated that they are supplied to the Air Ministry, Admiralty, and War Office. All types are described in a loose-leaf catalogue recently issued by the makers. Busy by the Riverside A SECOND large order from a West of England aircraft ^ manufacturer has been received by Watermota Marine Engines, Ltd., of Hampton Wick, Middlesex, who recently announced that they were accepting sub-contract work and were installing additional plant to cope with it. Storage-bin Price Reduction IN these days of ascending costs of raw material it is refresh ing to hear of a reduction in price for a sheet-steel pro duct. The "Progresso" steel storage bins, for which Brown Brothers, Ltd., Great Eastern Street, London, E.C.2, are dis tributors, will enjoy a reduction of approximately 5 per cent. as from January 21. '' Progresso'' bins are a series of standardised 3ft. units which can be built into almost any shape. Napier Chairman on "Ballons d'Essai" A SPEECH that was refreshingly different from the ordinary run of company-meeting oratory was made at the Napier general meeting by the chairman, Sir Harold Snagge, K.B.E. In its course he said " If we are not so liquid, to use the dread ful jargon of finance. . . . " His actual avoidance of the " dreadful jargon " was exemplary. As an engineering business Napiers had been established ijo years, but this was the twenty-fifth meeting as a public com pany, and the "jubilee report " of the directors was signalised by the omission, for the first time for some years past, of that enervating paragraph regarding the non-payment of a dividend on the 8 per cent, non-cumulative preference shares. Two outstanding features were a trading profit of ^103,000 —an increase of £45,000 over the figure for 1937. and a °et profit of £60,395, as compared with £33,983 a year ago, after increasing depreciation from £31,064 to £38,445, and writing- off a sum of £10,000 from manufacturing rights. Sir Harold went on to say : — " The business consists, as you know, of the manufacture of engines for aeroplanes, engines for speed-boats, and engine for other naval and marine purposes. The ' Power-Napie engines, thanks largely to the genius of Mr. Hubert Scott- Paine, the incomparable designer and pioneer of the moder speed-boat in this country, have been giving a good accoiin themselves. ... c "-Of aero engines it is more, difficult to speak bccauS!j certain ' inhibitions ' properly imposed upon us where ileve p ment work is concerned. We have it on the express autllor^ of Imperial Airways that the four Rapier engines in Mercury, the upper component of the Mayo Composite aire ^ proved their worth, their capacity, and their reliability p the hilt in Transatlantic flights last autumn, and in the r non-stop record flight to the Cape which followed th<T"'^ving our Dagger engines, now in service, are reported to j ,e(j, every satisfaction to the squadrons in which they are e p
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