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1952
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142 FLIGHT, i February 1952 THE INDUSTRY Brough's Bright Apprentices AT the annual presentation of prizes to Blackburn and General > Aircraft apprentices, held recently at Brough, Mr. E. Turner (managing director) said that since the inception of the presenta tions (this was the 21st) the total number of awards had exceeded 1,550, though, of course, there were Blackburn apprentices long before the nineteen-thirties—in fact, before the 1914-18 war. The company had always endeavoured to give the best possible training both on aircraft and engines. Mr. N. E. Rowe (technical director) pointed out the value of a sound apprenticeship in aviation, and Mr. T. A. Wolstenholme (apprentice supervisor) reviewed the past year's successes; these included an S.B.A.C. University Scholarship to J. D. Mann, the Silver Medal of the Hull Association of Engineers to G. Shephardson, and three passes in the Part II Examination of the R.Ae.S., while E. Middleton gained the Final Certificate of the City and Guilds Machine Shop Engineering Course, seven others secured the Intermediate City and Guilds Certificate, and five gained the Diploma in Aeronautics. Mr. W. A. Hargreaves (works director), presenting the awards, emphasized that design was of no avail without production engineers, and vice versa; Mr. E. Harrison (acting principal of the Hull Technical College) referred to the fact that since 1922, when an aeronautical engineering course had started at the Hull Tech nical College, over 200 of the company's apprentices had gained their National Certificates, 50 their Higher National, and 100 the Diploma in Aeronautics; and Mr. H. Rochester (headmaster of Riley High School, Hull) had some pertinent things to say about the ambitions of boys at school-leaving age. Mr. Turner, in his closing remarks, made a noteworthy point: In the United States, he said, 23 per cent of students were engaged on cultural studies as opposed to the pursuit of science, but in this country the figure was 53 per cent. Surely, he thought, this indicated a gross neglect of science in Britain. REWARD FOR MERIT: At the Blackburn and General Aircraft prize-giving reported below): Mr. E. Turner, managing director, presents the directors' prize—a wrist- watch—to I. Carlisle, best apprentice of the year. Just discernible on the right is Mr. N. E. Rowe, who recently joined the firm as technical director. MR. A. J. BRUNKER. B.Sc. Eng.), A.M.I.E.E., general export manager of E. K. Cole, Ltd., has been made additionally responsible for commercial activities in the company's electronics division. Mr. Brunker will be supported by Lord Waleran, commercial manager of the division. Williamsons Celebrate ON the evening of January 18th, the Williamson Manufac turing Co. Ltd., the well-known makers of air-survey cameras and other photogrammetric equipment, held their 46th annual dinner. Mr. C. M. Williamson, C.B.E., F.R.P.S., the chairman and managing director, presided but—for the first time in 39 years—Mrs. Williamson was unable to be present. The supply of Williamson air cameras to the Service goes back to the early days of the Royal Flying Corps. Their slipstream- driven LB type of 1916-17, fed by boxes of 18 5m x 3fin plates, was a very sound instrument, quite equal in its time to the Williamson O.S. C-2 film camera, which now has a world wide reputation for air survey work. To Speed Production AS recently announced in these pages, the Third Mechanical ' Handling Exhibition and Convention are to be held at Olympia, London, from June 4th to 14th, and some 170 firms are to display their products. Among speakers at the Convention will be members of the Mechanical Aids Team which went to America last year: they are to discuss Case Histories of Mechanical Handling. Tickets for the Convention will be available only on the day of the discussion concerned, but intending visitors are invited to ask the organizers (Associated Iliffe Press, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.i) to reserve tickets for them. IN BRIEF Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., announce that their Manchester area sales office is now at 75, Piccadilly, Manchester, 1 (Central 5479)- •* * * Two recent additions have been made to the many aeronautical subjects listed in the P.F.B. catalogue of 35 mm and 16 mm docu mentary films (Petroleum Films Bureau, 29, New Bond Street, London, W.i); they are Air Parade (progress of aviation from 1909) and Model Flight (compiled with the assistance of the S.M.A.E.). AN ATTACHE LOOKS IN: Col. de Porto, recently appointed Italian Air attache in London, is shown the gyro unit of the Hughes GM2F compass system during a visit to the Barkingside, Essex, factory of Kelvin and Hughes, Ltd. Among other equipment he in spected were the firm's latest turn-and-slip in struments and the Mk 3 periscopic sextant. An addition to the cable equipment manufactured by Hellerman Electric, Ltd., Crawley, Sussex, is a P.V.C. flag-type marker. Having a large surface to receive the marking, these flags can be fitted on cables and wires down to i/32in o.d. * * * Dr. Eric Warlow-Davies is named as general manager and chief engineer of Rolls-Royce' Montreal, Ltd., and Mr. David Boyd, O.B.E., is to be production manager. Mr. J. H. Tivey, formerly general manager, will remain deputy general manager in charge of spares and service for several months before returning to this country. * * * An admirably prepared brochure describing the Lockheed organisation's new three- and five-year apprenticeship schemes includes colour-charts showing exactly how apprentices on the various courses progress from initial selection to ultimate oppor tunities of entering responsible posts. Prospective entrants may obtain copies from the Education Officer, Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co., Ltd., Leamington Spa. * * * British Insulated Calknder's Cables, Ltd., and the Loewy Engineering Company, Ltd., have formed a new company to utilize their knowledge, patents and development work in the field of aluminium sheathed cables. The name of the new company is Alsheath, Ltd., and its offices are at Norfolk House, Norfolk Street, London, W.C.2. The experience of B.I.C.C. as eable- makers and of Loewy Engineering as builders of extrusion presses will be incorporated in new plant for the cable-making industry in the United Kingdom and for export.
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