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16 November 1951 613 FROM ALL QUARTERS Nenes for Canada A SUM totalling about £8,900,000 in dollars is said to be in-volved in an agreement by which Rolls-Royce, Ltd., will provide Canada with Nene turbojets for the Lockheed T-33 trainers to be built by Canadair, Ltd., in Montreal. Rolls-Royce will make such use of existing Canadian facilities as is possible without interfering with the present Canadian defence programme. They plan, on their own account, to provide certain assembly and test facilities. Lord Hives, chairman and joint managing director, confirmed in Montreal that Rolls-Royce, Ltd., had received a letter of intent from the Canadian Government instructing them to proceed with the necessary arrangements. He also stated that the company have had in mind for some time a broadening of the basis of activity of Rolls-Royce (Montreal), Ltd., and that option has been secured on land where the company intended to erect a new plant. The programme is likely to fall into three phases: (1) complete Nenes being imported from Derby; (2) assembly and testing facili- ties coming into operation in Canada; and (3) Canadian resources being utilized on an increasing scale. A.P.R.A. Dinner THE guests of honour at the fifth annual dinner of the AirPublic Relations Association, held in London on Friday last, were Viscount Swinton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord De L'Isle and Dudley, V.C., Secretary of State for Air, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Sanders, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff. In his reply to the toast of the Air Ministry and the Royal Air Force, the S. of S. stated that, since the beginning of the crisis in Egypt, Transport Command had flown-in 10,000 troops and 350 guns and Vehicles. ::;.:_:•:•,;::;, , .::•••• • u-- A.T.A. Roll Dedicated AT a special service held in St. Paul's Cathedral last Sunday,November nth, the Memorial Vellum of the Air Transport Auxiliary was dedicated and placed in the Cathedral library. The book contains the names of the 173 men and women of the A.T.A. who lost their lives whilst ferrving aircraft from factories to the R.A.F. during the war. The document, which is the gift of Mr. Gerard d'Erlanger, C.B.E., who commanded the A.T.A. through- out the war, is bound in blue leather and carries the inscriptions on 20 pages of fine parchment. The Rev. Marcus Knight, Canon in Residence, received the book for dedication at the High Altar from Mrs. Anne Wood Kelly, one of the American women pilots who came to Britain to join the A.T.A. She wore her war-time uniform, and was accom- panied by four of her one-time colleagues. NOW IN OFFICE tr» J?, (f) and LL Cdr- CurneY bratk. Unrf c week> have respectively been appoin noer-becretory of State, Air Ministry and Parlia who. Parliamentary 'cretary of State, Air Ministry, and Parliamentary Secretary, Y of Transport and Civil Aviation. Mr. Birch served in the Army the 1939-45 war and Cdr. Braithwaite in the Navy during the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars. ADAPTABLE: Lying yacht-like alongside the pontoon landing-stage of the Seignory Club, Quebec, is the Short Sealand which is now nearing the end of its remarkable demonstration flight round the Americas (see page 626). A. Cdre. T. C. Bird HIS many friends in the Service, and elsewhere, will learn withsorrow of the passing of A. Cdre. I. C. Bird, O.B.E., who died in hospital in Moscow on November 7th after a sudden illness— which culminated in pneumonia—at the early age of 42. A. Cdre. Bird was British Air Attache" in the Soviet capital, a post to which he was appointed in January, 1950. Before that he had been in New York as Senior R.A.F. Officer to the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations. A fluent speaker of Russian, he had made an earlier duty-visit to the U.S.S.R. when, as a member of a British military mission, he had been sent to Moscow within a few hours of the German invasion of the country in June 1941. A memorial service to Air Cdre. Bird was held at the British Embassy in Moscow last Saturday, attended by the British Ambassador and o:her officials, and by the widow. The funeral had taken place on the previous day. Forth from Filton :••.-'"'-'• IAST Friday, November 9th, the first Bristol 171 helicopterJ for British European Airways left Filton on its delivery flight to Peterborough, where the B.E.A. Helicopter Unit will conduct the development flying. Capt. "Jock" Cameron of B.E.A. col- lected the aircraft, which is registered G-ALSR. On the same day another notable—and longer—delivery flight started from the Bristol Company's airfield, when the first Freighter ordered by the R.C.A.F. left for Prestwick prior to an Atlantic crossing via Keflavik and Goose Bay. The final destina- tion was Edmonton, to be reached via Montreal and Winnipeg. Silver City Airways, who operate Bristol Freighters on their cross-Channel ferry services, provided the crew, consisting of Capt. L. A. Madelaine and M. V. Cole, the latter combining the duties of navigator and radio officer; also on board was Bristol airframe engineer Peter May. In the hold was a spare Hercules engine, plastic-packaged. Two Important Lectures NAMES of those who are shortly to deliver two "classic" lectureshave been announced by the Royal Aeronautical Society, though few further details are yet available. Given alternately in London and Paris, and due this time \o be in the latter city, the Fifth Louis Bleriot Lecture is to be delivered (in February) by Mr. H. Knowler, A.M.I.C.E., F.R.Ae.S., director and chief designer, Saunders-Roe, Ltd. Sir Harry M. Garner, C.B., M.A., F.R.Ae.S., Chief Scientist to the Ministry of Supply, is to give the Fortieth Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, which usually takes place on the last Thursday in May. In the case of the Louis Bleriot Lecture, it is the custom for the paper read in London to be by a Frenchman, and that in Paris to be by an Englishman. The Parisian audience are members of the Association Francaise des Ingenieurs et Techniciens de l'Aero- nautique. The first of the series, in Paris in 1948, was by A. Cdre. F. R. Banks, who lectured on The Art of the Aviation Engine; in the following year MM. Brocard and Hussenot spoke to an R.Ae.S. audience on French aerodynamics; in 1950, Sir Frederick Handley Page went to Paris with a lecture on speed, safety and economy in aircraft operation; and th s year M. Maurice Roy, who is an author tv 01 gas tvrbires, came to London to lecture on Power versus Weight in Aviation. A similar convention is followed in the case of the Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, the history of which is very much olderj for the first of the series was given in 1913 by Sir Horace Darwin, ,who spoke on ScientiHc Instruments-, their Design and Use in Aeronautics. The series continued unbroken by either of the two world wars, and the 1951 lecture was delivered by Mr. A. E. Raymond of Douglas Aircraft, who addressed the R.Ae.S. on The Well-tempered Aircraft. (This was an exception to the May date tradition, made in order to take advantage of the Anglo- American Convention last September.)
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