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728 FLIGHT, 22 June 1951 FROM ALL QUARTERS Woomera AppointmentsL EUTENANT-GENERAL JOHN EVETTS, who selected ' the Woomera Rocket Range and pioneered its organisation, has completed his Australian mission and is returning to Britain, according to a report published in Melbourne last week. With his retirement the administrative direction of the range will pass from military planners to field scientists. Lt.-Gen. Evetts will be succeeded, as head of the Ministry of Supply con- tingent, by Mr. Ivor Bowen, M.Sc, F.R.Ae.S., A.M.I.E.E., a scientist who arrived in Australia last year. He was formerly Chief Superintendent of the A. and A.E.E. and, incidentally, a founder- member of the Cambridge University Air Squadron. J The Commonwealth Supply Department's Chief Scientist, Mr. William Alan Butement, has already taken over as principal con- troller of the project. An illustrated article on the Woomera Range appeared in Flight of April 13th last. A. Cdre. Harvey as H.P. Director IT is announced that A. Cdre. A. Vere Harvey, C.B.E., M.P.has been elected a director of Handley Page, Ltd. Conservative Member of Parliament for the Macclesfield Division of Cheshire since 1945, the air commodore is vice-chairman of the Party's > Civil Aviation Committee, and his pertinent Parliamentary ques- tions, clearly based on practical knowledge, have been the means of securing or hastening official ^action on a great variety of avia- tion matters, both Service and civil. A.Cdre. Harvey served in the R.A.F. from 1925 to 1930 and from 1939 to 1945 and com- manded No. 615 (County of Surrey) R.Aux.A.F. Squadron in France during the first year of the war. He holds, among other directorships, seats on the boards of Milliard Electronic Products, Ltd., and Westminster Airways Servicing, Ltd. In 1930-1935 he was manager, and a director, of the.Far East Aviation Co. New Duties for Mr. A. N. Spriggs / CONCURRENTLY with the taking-over of the exteosiv^ ^-/ Squire's Gate, Blackpool, factory to assist in Hawker produc- tion, comes the announcement that Mr. A. Neville Spriggs, O.B.E., has been appointed general manager of Hawker Aircraft, Ltd. In his new capacity he will, of course, be closely concerned with the additional production- capacity, and will divide his time between Squire's Gate and the existing factories at Kingston-on- Thames and Langley. Last Tuesday he was due to be flown north by S/L. Neville Duke in company with Sir Frank Spriggs A ^lf . ^g^fci^^^fc anc* other Hawker Siddeley^^^^E||1KHHH^^^H Group executives, where thefl^^^HPS[HHPy^^H party were to lunch with the. "N ^^^^Ht^RI^.M^^^I Mayor and corporation of Black- pool.Mr. Neville Spriggs, who is 51 years of age, began his career with the Sopwith Aviation Co., and when that concern ceased production and the H. G. Hawker Engineering Co. started building aircraft, shortly after the first world war, he began a steady advancement in responsibility, always on the practical engineering side. He eventually became chief process engineer and, in 1942, works manager. This was when the peak production of 240 Hurricanes a month had been achieved, and Air. Spriggs was made an O.B.E. in recognition of the part he had played in achieving that result. He was appointed A. Cdre. Harvey Mr. Neville Spriggs THE TIME BY BIG BEN, 7.17 a.m. The day, last Sunday. The flying-, Boat, the Saunders-Roe S.R.A/1, just being brought to her mooring off'. the South Bank Exhibition for Gas Turbine Week, organized by Power :! Jets (Research and Development), Ltd., and now in progress. She had previously been flown from Cowes by Geoffrey Tyson and set down on : the Thames in Woolwich Reach. Also on show are two Naval gas-; turbine-powered craft and a special feature is made of the gas-turbine.' exhibits at the South Bank. The number on the tail of the S.R.A/1, incidentally, is one of those allotted to constructors by the S.B.A.C. deputy general manager in the same year, and in 1945 became a director. Incidentally, the opening of the Squire's Gate factory was the subject of a question in the House last Thursday by Kingston's M.P., Mr. J. Boyd-Carpenter. He asked whether the President of the Board of Trade had satisfied himself that no redundancy would occur in Kingston as a result. Sir Hartley Shawcross re- plied that Squire's Gate had been allocated to the company to enable them to increase production, and he understood that they intended to use their existing capacity and labour at Kingston to the fullest extent. The Beli X-5T ESTS are imminent at Muroc with the Bell X-5 transonic research aircraft, the wing of which can be varied in its degree of sweepback during flight. In layout the machine bears a very marked resemblance to certain German fighter projects, though these machines were not intended to embody variable sweepback. Unlike the Bell X-i, the X-5 has turbojet, not rocket, power. Automatic Control '•^k N international conference on the theory and use of automatic X* control (in the widest sense) is to be held from July 16th to 21st at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, Beds. Papers will be read by scientists from Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, and the U.S.A., as well as from Great Britain. It is stated that no mention of the use of automatic control of weapons will be made at the conference, which is being held under the aegis of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Charles House, 5 to 11, Regent Street, London, S.W.I. CO-OPERATIVE VISIT: The Netherlands Air Attache recently visited the Gloster works at Hucclecote. In this group are (left to right) Copt Vijzlaar, test pilot; adjt. Franscen, Netherlands Air Force; Lt-Col- C. J. M. Naas, the Air Attache; and Mr. H. Service, foreign sales.
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