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1940
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520 JUNE 6, 194b THE INDUSTRY Flat Out ACCOMMODATION for the increased /*• number of men employed on the "speed up" air programme at the Isle of Wight was difficult to obtain, and to solve the problem Saunders-Roe, Ltd., have purchased houses and converted them into flats which are available to employees at low rentals. Here, too, are accommodated those trained at a school Saunders-Roe opened to instruct unskilled men in metal drilling, turning, milling, ^riveting and aircraft fitting. These men are paid wages while learn- ing, and after a course are drafted to the factory to help in the construction of flying boats. The training is-not in- tended to enable the men to compete with skilled labour, but merely to pro- vide qualifications to help in certain directions in aircraft production. Most of the men so trained are recruited from Labour Exchanges, but many not ot military age have left other employment to join the scheme. • ~ Globe Trotter "' '"TECALEMfT, LIMITED, Great West -*- Road, Brentford, Middlesex, the well-known manufacturers in this country of high-pressure lubricating ap- pliances for all engineering trades includ- ing industrial, aircraft and the motor trade, have decided to investigate the market conditions within the British Empire. Mr. Cyril Viaer, who has been with the company for many years, is leaving immediately by. air, his first objectives being Australia and New Zealand where he expects to remain for a period ot 3-4 months, visiting the various industrial centres. When one considers the enormous field that lies before him in which to preach the gospel, Mr. Viner is to be congratu- lated on the opportunity thus presented. We have no doubt that this will result jn increased business from the Empire overseas. Solders and Soldering " PRIOR to the outbreak of war, itseems that many British and Colonial electrical and radio manufac- turers who used cored solder with special fluxes, used to obtain much of their sup- plies from Germany. Although single- cored solder, with rosin flux, was made in England, there was, with few excep- tions, little cored solder available ot British manufacture containing special fluxes. Since the outbreak of war, Multicore Solders, Ltd., have developed their cored solder, which contains three independent cores of Ersin flux. Ersin Multicore Solder is now being used by many of the leading manufac- turers and, with a view to developing the export markets, which were pre- viously served by Germany, Multicore Solders, Limited, have produced a most useful twenty-page illustrated booklet, " Solders and Soldering." Amongst the tables of useful data is one of special interest giving the approxi- mate number of feet per lb. of Multi- core Solder in its various alloys. A study of this table by the progressive manufac- turer, should enable considerable savings to be made in soldering processes, by the avoidance of waste. It is seen, for ex- ample, that with a 60 per cent, tin alloy, more than three times the length of solder can be obtained by using 18 S.W.G. Multicore Solder instead of 13 S.W.G. Copies of this booklet will be sent, free of charge, on request to the princi- pals or Chief Research Engineers or firms using solder, by applying direct to the Head Offices of Multicore Solders, Ltd., at Bush House, London, W.C.2. The Multi- core solder showing how the flux is con- tained in three cores FLUX ' Thermostat Service A SUBSTANTIAL amount of foreign-made control equipment is still in use in this country, both for refrigera- tion and air-conditioning installations, and in industrial applications. One reason, of course, is that the plant which is controlled may also be of foreign manufacture and that it was originally supplied complete with control equip- ment. Owing to wartime restrictions, however, users are now finding it diffi- cult or even impossible to obtain further supplies, either for the replacement of existing gear or for new installations, and in some cases it is not possible to have even urgent repairs carried out. There has always been, at The British Thermostat Co.'s works, a department organised to build special equipment to meet individual requirements, and this department has recently been greatly ex- tended in scope. It is now able to un- dertake the production in small or large' quantities, of control equipment to meet any specified conditions. Frequently 3 standard instrument of the firm's manu laoture can be used as a substitute (or a foreign-made control, or aa existing model can be modiiied to suit special requirements. Moreover, the Com- pany's experience of heat control pro- blems is so wide that there are few appli- cations which have not, at one time or another, been dealt with by them. If, however, an application is such as to call for an entirely new design, the department to which we have, referred is fully capable of tackling the" job; > The scope of the Company's repair and, ser- vice organisation has also .been widened to embrace repair work on equipment other than the Company's own make, and the services of this department also are available to engineers using loreigu- made controls which are in need of repair. The department dealing with repair and replacement of foreign apparatus is part of the British Thermostat Company's works at Windmill Road, Sunbury-on- Thames, Middlesex. Tin Research TO-DAY when the industries of thecountry are concentrating on a rapid increase in the production of war material, new problems are bound to arise. ' ' '; The International Tin Research and Development Council would like us to emphasise that it has accumulated much experience, particularly since the war began, on a wide range of processes in which tin is directly or indirectly con- cerned, and that this experience is available, without charge, to any manufacturer. These processes include: Grease-tinning and hot-tinning, solder- ing, bearings and bearing materials, bronze, electro-tinning and fusible alloys, particularly for rapid die and punch mounting. Advice can sometimes be given by cor- respondence, but as in many cases per- sonal contact is much more effective, they are prepared to send members of their staff to give assistance and advice at manufacturers' works. The address of the offices and laboratories is Fraser Road, Greenford, Middx. AERONAUTICAL PATENT SPECIFICATIONS. 27187. 27275- 27340. 27341- 27458- 28705. 28970. 29334- 29450. 29504- 29758. 29790. 254IO. 25590. 2S624 AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS. LTD., and BOUKD,R. H. Fluid-pressure systems for opera- ting aircraft parts (519,212). DAIMLER-BENZ AKT.-GES. Guidance andspringing of vehicle axles (519,316). VICKERS, INC. Hydraulic feed control sys-tem (519,321). VICKERS, INC. Irreversible power-trans-mission mechanism (519,322). SMITH AND SONS (MOTOR ACCESSORIES), LTD., and MEREDITH, F. W. Controlsurfaces for air and water craft (519,337)- VICKERS-ARMSTRONGS, LTD., and CLIFTON,J. C. Optical measuring-apparatus (519.228). JUNKERS FLTJGZEUG-UND-MOTORENWERKE AKT.-GES. Supporting-surfaces for air-craft (519,236)- SMITH, J. W. Variable-pitch propellers foraircraft (519,261). SMITH, J W. Aeronautical propeller-blademounting (519,267). Soc. D'INVENTIONS AERONAUTIQUES ET MECAMQUES S.I.A.M., and LEVY, R. L.Aeroplane landing-gear (519,275). VICKERS, INC. Pressure-control units forvariable-delivery pumps (519,290). KOLLSMAN, P. Indicating-means for indi-cating devices (519,346). CREED, F. G. Floating structures, stations,and seadromes (518,634). I.G. FARBENINDUSTRIE AKT.-GES. Coveringfor aeroplanes and the like ("518,645). ELLIS, T. R., and WHARMSY, E. Adjustable 20512. 18705. 23116. 2440.3. 26731. 27432. 27624. 27878. 30428. levelling staff on which the level of 1point above or below mean sea level or other datum can be read at sight(5i8,459). 1939 AIR-EQUIPMENT. Retractable landing-gear. for aircraft (518,511). Published April 25/A, 1940.) 1938. AIRSPEED (1934), LTD., TILTMAN, A. H., andELLISON, A. E. Control systems for aeroplanes (519,519)FODOR, J. Ground-marking devices, par- ticularly for indicating locations to air-craft (519,576). DOWTY, G. H. Instruments for indicatingthe position of movable elements (519,523). - REID AND SIGRIST, LTD., and BOWER, L-Operating gear for aircraft controls (519,532). WILLIAMS, S. B. R. Brakes for motor or vehicles (519.372). OLAER PATENT CO. Plants for hydraulic control, employable chiefly upon flvinK machines (519,542). VICKERS-ABMSTRONGS, LTD., PIERSON, R. K., and FIRMAN. R. A. Means for setting or arming fuses of aircraft bombs (519,455). RICHMD, P. A. Aeroplanes (519 391)- FAIREY AVIATION CO., LTD., YOUNGMAN, R. T., and LOBELLE, M. J. 0. Brakinu of aircraft (519,495). ......
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