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4<>6 FLIGHT, 5 October 1951 FROM ALL QUARTERS R. A F.R thislater N. Dorey's New Post MEMBER of the Rolls-Royce organization very well knownin the aircraft world—Mr. R. N. Dorey, O.B.E., B.Sc, Ae.S.—has been appointed general manager of the Company's car division. The increasingcommitments of this section of the business, says an officialstatement, has necessitated changes in the administration,and Mr. Dorey is also to act as deputy to Dr. Llewellyn Smith,a director of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and chief executive of the cardivision, while Mr. S. H. Grylls becomes chief engineer. Mr. Dorey joined the companyin 1927 as an experimental engin- eer and in 1931 he inauguratedits flight development establish- ment. More recently he hasdirected the development of the Tay turbojet and the Dart turbo-prop. In the development of the former he worked in close col-laboration with the engineers of Pratt and Whitney, who produceunit in the United States under the designation J-48, and with Hispano Suiza, who manufacture the Tay in France. Mr. R. N. Dorey The Farnborough Traffic-Jams TAST week we published several letters from readers who••—' complained of the delays experienced in .entering and leaving Farnborough Airfield on the final day of the S.B.A.C. FlyingDisplay. We also made brief reference to a letter in The Times, in which Mr. E. C. Bowyer, director of the S.B.A.C., explainedsome of the factors which led to the congestion. The Society feel that this letter—which was written in replyto one from Lord Jessel—also constitutes an effective answer to the criticisms put forward by our own readers, and they haveaccordingly asked us to quote it in full. This we do gladly :— "Sir,—No one regrets more than the Society of British AircraftConstructors the discomfort suffered by Lord Jessel—and by many others—in getting away from our display at Farnboroughlast Sunday evening. After investigation and comparison with other open-air events which attract large crowds, we cannot,however, accept his contention that what happened showed lack of organization and foresight. "Arrival of cars at an event like the S.B.A.C. display lasts overmany hours. On Sunday cars began to arrive before 9 a.m. and were still arriving eight hours later. There was a record attendance, KNOW-HOW AT THE SHOW: With background drawings showing their locations in the Viscount and the Canberra, the actual pump units were displayed, among others, in sectioned and whole form on the Self-Priming Pump and Engineering Company's stand at Farnborough. NEW ZEALANDERS VISIT FILTON: Seen on the Brobozon's flight-deck are (left to right) Mr. T. A. Barrow (secretary, N.Z. Air Board), Mr. W. R. Fames (Bristol aircraft sales manager), WIC. Bray (R.N.Z.A.F. London H.Q.), Mr. G. N. Roberts (general manager, Tasman Empire Airways), and Mr. A. £. Russell (Bristol director and chief designer). approaching double that of the corresponding day in 1950, andthe roads also had to carry the Sunday traffic between London and the coast. Because of the heavy rain that began to fall imme-diately flying ended the great majority naturally tried to get away at once. Some 10,000 cars, 5,000 motor-cycles, 2,000 pedalcycles, 500 coaches, and about 50,000 pedestrians were involved in a rush to get home. Many motorists sought, naturally enough,to manoeuvre to their best individual advantage, frequently against the advice of the car park attendants, and delays werethereby aggravated "Every reasonable visitor must surely have expected some delayin his journey home from such a popular event. Flying ended at 5.30 p.m. The exhibition was closed at 7 p.m. Bearing thosetimes and the exceptionally bad weather in mind, the achievement of the car park contractors, the local police, and the other authori-ties concerned in clearing one main car park by 8.45 p.m., the coach park by 9.20 p.m., and seeing off the last car by 9.50 p.m., was anot unworthy one. Lord Jessel may be assured that the society is not complacent. We are giving the closest study to the lessonsof the 1951 display to see whether additional steps can be taken to facilitate arrival and departure of public traffic at future displays.The points which he and others who have written direct to the society have raised will greatly assist us.—Yours faithfully,E. C. Bowyer, Director, Society of British Aircraft Constructors, Limited." Synthetic Adhesives Summer School AN end-of-course dinner held at the Dorothy Cafe, Cambridge,• on September 28th, marked the successful conclusion of a summer school devoted entirely to the specialized subject ofsynthetic resin adhesives and glueing techniques. The course was sponsored by Aero Research, Ltd., in collaboration with St.Catherine's College. With the announcement in April that such a course would be available, it was anticipated that between 50and 80 visitors would need accommodation; in actual fact the response from industry and research establishments, both in thiscountry and abroad, was so large that no fewer than 150 students attended the course. Most European nationalities were among thefourteen countries represented and two of the visitors from the British Commonwealth came from so far afield as Australia andNew Zealand. Preliminary inquiries had shown that interests were dividedroughly into two main groups; those representing the woodwork- ing industries and those from engineering, electrical manufacturingand allied concerns. Course No. 1, therefore, was designed to suit members of plywood, furniture, sports goods and vehicle-body-concerns, while Course No. 2 dealt with a much wider field and covered such industries as aircraft, radio, rubber, brake lin-ings and plastics. Even with this division it was not possible to complete the course in less than a week, which, it was felt, wasthe maximum time for which key personnel could b^ absent from their occupation without unnecessary inconvenience. Demonstrations in Course No. 2 covered items of interestwhich have direct application to aircraft constructional problems. Among such items were methods of applying pressure (the auto-clave, vacuum technique and hot press), comparisons of strength between riveted, spot-welded and bonded joints, the use of cold-setting "Araldite" resins, and the bonding of aircraft panels with "Redux"—to mention only a few. The final item in the time-tablewas a "brains trust" at which collective questions were discussed and appropriately dealt with. The guest of honour at the dinner, Professor J. F. BakeljO.B.E., of the Department of Engineering, Cambridge Univer- sity, in replying to Dr. N. A. de Bruyne (managing director, AeroResearch, Ltd.) reviewed the work of the University and nen- tioned the forthcoming post-graduate course, "Structures "dMaterials," which starts shortly.'
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