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1948
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JULY 22ND, 1948 FLIGHT 95 of one of the eight normal trays in order to maintain the original freshness of the food packed. The design of these food containers is such that a complete set of used containers can be replaced by re- provisioned ones to ensure a quick turn- round. Each cabinet has a capacity of 3.75 cu ft, and the weight is 12 1b 6 oz. The liquid refreshment side of galley provisioning is catered for by a wine and spirit stock container with a capacity of five 1-pint bottles of spirit, twelve soda or ginger ale bottles, and up to twenty bottles of cordial. For security purposes, all the compartments can be sealed by the use of a single padlock. Silent Ventilation A component which Vickers have devised as a further contribution towards the efficiency and comfort of passenger accommodation is a silent louvre for ventilation. The conventional punkah louvre does the job required of it, but the manner of the doing is open to im- provement ; so often, when perhaps in a cabin furnished with twelve louvres, ten may be shut, the blast of air from the remaining two open units may be somewhat violent and extremely noisy. The new silent louvre does away with these disadvantages. It is quite simple and consists merely of a small chamber into which the ventilation air is de- livered, the airstream impinging on to a circular felt pad, whence it is dis- tributed evenly round the chamber and flows into the cabin through a normal hemispherical-type director nozzle. The felt pad, in addition to acting as a dis- tributor face for the air entering the louvre, also serves to damp any noise in the airstream, and also, by rotation of a knurled knob, acts as a closure faceto blank off the air supply. Toilet fittings are also included in theVickers accessory range. A lavatory pump unit, designed as a self-containedinstallation, provides the novel feature of a foot-operated pump. The pumpunit is a separate entity from the pan unit, and although both units are avail-able as a complete installation, they can, of course, be obtained separately to suitindividual requirements. Two useful accessory items to the larvatory unit areprovided in a binette and tov^el cabinet. The binette is intended fpr the receptionof waste which might dtherwise be dis- posed of in thelavatory p a n, the height,breadth and depth of thisitem being, re- spectively,12m, I2in, and 6in, and theweight I lb 14 .oz. The towelcabinet is a re- ceptacle unitboth for clean and soiledtowels and has its upper sur-face dished to form a tray forsuch personal effects as rings, watches, etc. The soiledtowel compartment is ventilated from beneath and the dimensions are 2iin inheight, 14m in width and 4m depth. In common with the units previously de-scribed, these last-mentioned components are made of polished Birmabright. The accessory design section is nowbased at the Vickers-Armstrongs South Ventilation is knob con- trolled in the Vickers silent louvre. OIV THE SPOT ONE has now become accustomed to successful landings in difficult places byhelicopters. A new note was struck last week, however, in connection with the Mechanical Handling Exhibition at Olympia. The official garage adjoining has aflat roof, and it was a foretaste of air-taxi service between terminal airports and exhibition buildings of this character that a twelve-minute passage was made betweenCroydon and Olympia bringing four passengers, who might have been overseas visitors to the exhibition. A Westland-SikoTsky S51 was used. Marston establishment near Swindon,where, too, the manufacture of acces- sories is undertaken. South Marston wasbuilt as a shadow factory during the war, and was taken over as a satelliteto, and administered from, the com- pany's Castle Bromwich establishment inApril, 1943. In April, 1946, it became the new home of Vickers-ArmstrongsSupermarine, Ltd. The shops and hangars provide floor space of 450,000 sqft., which is increased to 560,000 sq ft by the inclusion of the offices, etc., thesebuildings being adjacent to an airfield of 600 acres provided with two runways,the more important of which is capable further extension. South Marston Developments One of the considerable difficultieswith which the company is faced at South Marston is the lack of housingaccorrMpdation in the immediate area. Fever, the Swindon municipalSorities are very helpful in this re- "spect, and so soon as further accommo-dation can be provided, more people will be transferred from the Southamptonarea. South Marston is, at tbe moment, administered from the present Super-marine headquarters at Hursley Park, some fifty-five miles away, and althoughthe eventual intention is for South Marston to be made a complete entity,it will be some considerable time before Hursley Park is closed down. Some of the developments in hand atSouth Marston include the hydraulic actuation of fuel cocks, and the develop-ment of hydraulic "fuses" of in- stantaneous cut-off and metering type.A |in B.S.P. three-way fuel cock has been developed for light aircraft and hasrecently passed the A.R.B. requirements for such a unit; it weighs J lb. Alan Uristow landing tf ijiisy.- S5I on the roof of Metropolis Garages, and (above) showing that he was on the dot. One of the extraordinary things aboutthe alighting on the roof was the fact that on a small boarded section less thanhalf the size of a tennis court, three circular black spots had been introduced,and there were many incredulous people when it was announced that the pilotwould put his wheels down on the spots indicated. Actually, Alan Bristow, thatpast master of Westland-Sikorsky heli- copter demonstrations, made a perfectlanding with an all-up weight of about 5,000 lb, his wheels pin-pointing on thespots indicated. The demonstration was arranged with Westland Aircraft, Ltd.,of Yeovil, by Mr. L. F. Dyer, the man- aging director of Metropolis Garages,Ltd., in conjunction with Mr. Geoffrey Smith, director of Associated Iliffe Press,publishers of Mechanical Handling and Flight, and was watched by a large andinfluential group.
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