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1945 - 0469.PDF
MARCH 15TH, 1945 FLIGHT Advertisements. 5 This was a trade device adopted by James Nasmyth, an engineer- ing genius of the nineteenth century. He reversed the family motto —originally "Non arte sed marte" ("Not by art but by war")—and adopted the steam hammer—"The most potent form of the mechanical art"—in place of the family arms, which consisted of a hand dexter with a dagger between two hammers with broken shafts. These arms and certain lands had been granted to an ancestor for services rendered to the King of Scotland when, as a fugitive disguised as a smith's striker, he was discovered to be "nae smyth" but a valiant fighter. Light metals in Nasmyth's day were still laboratory curiosities, but in modern times they are essential materials of construction with excellent mechanical properties, and—what is more—they can be supplied in any wrought or cast form. Light metal forgings and drop stampings are manufactured by Birmetals Limited in all the forging alloys of aluminium and magnesium (Elektron). The output is, at present, absorbed for war purposes, but let us hope that the United Nations will soon be able to follow James Nasmyth'a example of reversing the motto and return to the sanity of "Non marte sed arte". Meanwhile, for your post-war requirements of light alloy forgmgs, please take note of Birmetals Limited. BIRMETALS LIMITED - QUINTDN • BIRMINGHAM • 32
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