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1943
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FEBRUARY IITH, 1943 FLIGHT Advertisements ENGLISH WORKMANSHIP Livery metal has its individual attributes, but Thomas uouLover s composite sheet of copper and sdver played a double part, economising by using a baser metal for the built, yet having a substantial veneer of silver* The process was quickly taken up, steel dies were cut and beautiful designs were produced, so that Sliejjield plate not only became popular at home but also abroad. JJO far there has been no Thomas Jjoulsover to invent a short cut in ball-bearing manufacture; from the very beginning only the best materials are good enough, while accuracy is attainable only by the strictest adiierence to the finest methods and established principles. 'ischer ALL-BRITISH hnll /in A rr\llfr te ENQLISH WORKMANSHIP J '.. .as is the bobweight. . • Nature provitbt man with a great variety of materials, ana since liu earliest tL$t he has developed ways of using them to hit own advantage. If he Wants to keep his head warm, or to protect it, er to keep his wife s hair tidy, he males a thins of felled furt blocked into a dome; of straw plaited anJ. ttitched, or a shape of cloth, or of hec , t , or of alloy-steel It may cease even to follow any convention. Consisting of anything from ftathtrt to riUnn, and assuming a rakish list or camber at the wearer s choice. Nevertheless though it may only play at being a hat and be useless as a protection—it is to the face as w the hobweighl to the crankshaft, far —unth'tn the limitations of natural laws—if permits the plating of a suitable mat* at the angle requisite tQ correct tlta initial atjiciency. riiscner ALL-BRITISH "' ball ana roller bearings ana transmission equipment i.j, C. ENGLISH WORKMANSHIP In the fire, the bar of iron loses its bleak rigidity, and the simplest tools then serve to shape and weld it. But the materials and the methods have their limitations, and these limitations challenge the craftsman, so tl\at he turns them to account, and they become part of the beauty of his work and a source of its strength. FISCHER. BEAK1KGS CO. LTD ** WOLVERHAMPTQ ? Associated iiril/i British Timktn Ltd rischi J. ALL-Bl iscner ALL-BRITISH boll ana roller bcannqs...J, ENGLISH WORKMANSHIP A tradition in design may continue for centuries, then suddenly an entirely new phase icill break out like a flame—glow for a while ana then be extinguished. _ : Jean Ti/ou s repousse style has a striking foreign beauty about it, but although for a while it was blended into some Englnh ivork it died out again. "" -,:*, • • . VYas it perhaps, that despite its boldness, it lacked trie forthright structural sense that ' : we looked for in bars of strong iran^ so that it was regarded rather as applied ornament.* After all, one of the ideals of English workmanship is fitness for purpose, FISCHER BEARINGS CO. LTD WOLV&RRAMPTOH A^ocUtJ «n',A BrliUh r,mjU Ul riscth ALL-BJ 'iscner ALL-BRITISH ball ana rollei Oiea rings
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