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1953 - 0654.PDF
648 Mr. B. N. H. Thornely. THE INDUSTRY A Nora! Directorship TIJROM the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., comes news that Mr. •*- B. N. H. Thornely, M.I.M.E., has been appointed to their Board. He joined the company when their Banbury wogks was opened in 1931, later becoming assistant works manager. In September, 1939, he was given charge of erection and manage ment of the Rogerstone plant, where production of sorely- needed aluminium sheet and extrusions was started within a few months, with a very rapid build-up until about a quarter of the country's output of aircraft light alloy came from that works. In 1945 Mr. Thornely organ ized the company's sales and sales development divisions, which had been closed down during the war, and in the follow ing year he was responsible for the planning and construction of the continuous strip mill at Rogerstone. He was subsequent ly transferred to the staff of the director of operations of Alumin ium, Ltd., in Montreal, Canada, and during the two years of his service he visited many of the fabricating plants of the Aluminium, Ltd., group throughout the world. At the end of last year he returned to Northern Aluminium as chief engineer, with responsi bility for the co-ordination of personnel work. Mr. Thornely, who is 45, was educated at Downside School and Pembroke College Taking-over at Goodyear A FORTNIGHT ago we gave the news that A.Cdre. John Oliver had left the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Gt. Britain), Ltd., in order to start activities on his own account; now comes the announcement that his successor as manager of the company's aviation sales de partment is Mr. T. B. O'Reilly. Already a member of the firm— he joined in 1951 as aviation sales engineer—Mr. O'Reilly has been closely connected with fly ing since 1937; he has held posts with K.L.M. and Swissair. Re cently he visited the United States to study aircraft engineer ing and servicing methods. Mr. T. B. O'Reilly Lightweight Fire-fighters ILLUSTRATED on this page are two recent addition's to the range of aircraft fire-fighting equipment produced by the Pyrene Co., Ltd., Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex. The first—already in use in a number of different parts of the world—is a self-contained foam trailer intended for airfields used by the lighter types of aircraft and which do not, therefore, demand the heavier self-propelled types of crash tender. Weighing 2£ tons laden, it carries two (total, 200-gall.) interconnected water tanks and a 16-gallon foam-compound tank, affording a total foam FLIGHT, 22 May 1953 output of about 1,300 gallons at a discharge-rate of approximately 600 gal/min. The mechanical foam-generator feeds twin lines of i\ in delivery hose, and power is provided by a Coventry-Climax 120-220 gal/min pump. It may also be used as an ordinary fire pump for the delivery of water. The second appliance is an ingeniously designed motor-cycle unit for dealing primarily with engine-starting fires. Motive- power (permitting a cruising speed of 30 m.p.h.) is provided by a 125 c.c. two-stroke Vespa lightweight motor cycle, on the sidecar chassis of which are mounted two 12 lb cyUnders of carbon dioxide with high-pressure hose and a self-extending applicator for projecting the CO2 direct into engine nacelles. A Pyrene hand extinguisher is also included in the equipment. IN BRIEF The London office of the Dunlop Aviation Division is now at 10-12, King Street, St. James's, S.W.i. (Whitehall 3131). * * * Lodge Plugs, Ltd., announce that Mr. F. M. Sayers has relinquished his post as general manager. * * • A brochure from F. J. Edwards, Ltd., 359-361 Euston Road, London, N.W.I, describes and illustrates their new "Besco" EBG.6 Mkll eccentric punching press of 70 tons capacity. * * * Data on the design, cutting and operation of gears in Bakelite Laminated are given in a new booklet issued by Bakelite, Ltd., 12/18 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I. * * * J. A. V. Watson, O.B.E., Castrol director and general manager, has been elected to the Boards of the Wakefield associate com panies W. B. Dick and Co., Ltd., and J. B. Pillin, Ltd. * * * There is now good news of Major H. N. Wylie, B.Sc, F.R.Ae.S., M.B.E. : he is recovering from his serious illness and is now con valescing in Scotland. Associated with Hawker Siddeley for over 30 years, he was appointed the group's patents director in 1950. * * * At the recent annual general meeting of the Aluminium Develop ment Association, Mr. R. D. Hamer was elected president for the coming year. Mr. Hamer is a director of Aluminium Laboratories, Ltd., the technical management company of the Aluminium, Ltd., group. * * * Dealing with the many types of gearing now in use in industry and transport, a 60-page booklet with nearly 100 diagrams has been prepared by the Vacuum Oil Co., Caxton House, Tothill Street, London, W.i. Entitled Gear Lubrication, it is intended primarily for gear users rather than manufacturers. * * * A very good idea of the amount of painstaking research under lying the manufacture of high-grade steels is given by a finely illustrated booklet, of 50 large pages, devoted to the new central research and development department of the United Steel Com panies, Ltd. (Westbourne Road, Sheffield 10) at Swindon Labora tories, Rotherham. * * * From Hellerman Electric, Ltd., Tinsley Lane, Crawley, Sussex, comes a leaflet (BH 501) illustrating the new Helvin pressure-bung for carrying cables through pressure bulkheads. As many as 150 four or six amp. Unipren cables can be carried through a bung of only 2\ in diameter, in a 35 in housing; the whole assembly weighs 4 oz. * * * New British Standards recently published include BSG 141: 1953, for flexibly mounted instrument panels for fixed-wing aircraft, and BSG 143 : 1953, for D.C. linear and rotary actuators for aircraft. Copies are obtainable, at is and 2s 6d respectively, from the British Standards Institution, Sales Branch, 24 Victoria Street, London, S.W.i. LIGHT AND HANDY : Pyrene foam trailer (left) and—designed mainly for dealing with engine-starting fires—motor cycle CO2 unit. (See col. 1).
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