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1953 - 0968.PDF
122 FLIGHT Uppermost, left to right, are the Victor, Valiant, and Vulcan. Left are the Javelin, Hunter and Swift FA. The Javelin has a new, shorter, nose. (Below) After the fly past, the public were allowed to inspect the aircraft paraded. THE QUEEN'S REVIEW . . . pass Lincoln, nearing home. "Tuck in, chaps, two minutes from base—going down." The ground comes up fast. Echelon starboard now, breaking formation in best fighter-like tradition, right "up on our ear." And so we came back to Binbrook, noticing a distinct air rumble as the gear went down, and a longish delay between main and nosewheel appearance. Soon Blue section was "on finals," then down to that all-too-short runway; a fast bit of rolling, the engines' tremors faded, the hatch opened, and we were cut in the glorious fresh air. We had not, perhaps, seen much of the complete fly-past, but what we had seen was, unquestionably, "fit for a queen." We were proud to be there. A. B. U.K.-CANADA TRADE DIRECTORY TPHE Canadian Association of British Manufacturers and *- Agencies (CABMA), which was formed with the support of the Dollar Export Council, Dollar Sterling Trade Council, Associa tion of British Chambers of Commerce, Federation of British Industries, and the National Union of Manufacturers, has, as its sole purpose, the development of British trade with Canada. By arrangement with CABMA, Iliffe and Sons, Ltd., and Kelly's Directories, Ltd., have now published the first officially sponsored directory* of British manufacturers and exporters whose products and services are available in the Canadian market. This directory, the CABMA Register—which is to appear an nually—is a handsomely printed 750-page (9|in by 7|in) volume containing detailed references to British suppliers and their products. Its pages provide an extensive buyers' guide to over 3,750 British-manufactured products, and include more than 1,300 cross-references. The names of over 4,500 British manu facturers are listed, together with those of 2,750 Canadian distri butors arranged in relation to the English firms. The directory is strongly bound and is divided for easy reference by index guide cards with reinforced tabs. The first section, the buyers' guide, is an alphabetical list of British products for Canada, with the names of the British and Canadian supplies classified under the product headings; the advertisements of manufacturers, distributors, and others appear in the next part; an alphabetical directory of British manufacturers and distributors will be found in a separate section, where the British firms are first listed with full details, including their dis- * "CABMA Register 1953 of British Products and Canadian Dis tributors." Published jointly by Kelly's Directories, Ltd., and Iliffe and Sons, Ltd. (Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.1), for the Canadian Association of British Manufacturers and Agencies. Price 42s. net, by post 44s. tribution arrangements in Canada; and a similar list of Canadian suppliers follows. Two further sections enable the products and their sources of supply to- be identified from their proprietary names and trade marks, respectively; and, in order to ensure that the Register can be readily used throughout Canada, there is a complete French-English glossary of the product-headings used in the buyers' guide. A FILM ABOUT "SARAH" IN our report (Flight, June 5th) of the recent "electronics" exhibition at Farnborough we described "a development whose small dimensions possibly helped it to obtain more publicity than any other exhibit." This was the "Sarah" (Search And Rescue And Homing) equipment developed by Ultra Electric, Ltd., of London W.3, and now being supplied in steadily increasing quantities for the Royal Air Force. It is, in brief, a miniature beacon transmitter sewn into an aircrew life jacket, or included in a dinghy, which transmits groups of coded pulses which are received by search aircraft or vessels and displayed on a cathode- ray tube giving left-right indications for homing purposes. Two- way speech communication is also provided. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Sarah's performance is the battery capacity —remembering that the total weight of the lifejacket installation is only 52 oz—providing for 19 hours of beacon and one hour of speech operation. Range is 66 miles to an aircraft at 10,000ft, and location accuracy at 500ft is plus or minus 100ft. Ultra Electric have just had made an admirable colour film illustrating the principle and use of the equipment, and it was exhibited to shareholders after the company's annual general meeting in London last week. With the aid of a Coastal Command Shickleton and A/S.R. launch and a Dragonfly and a Sycamore helicopter, some quite dramatic, and certainly most convincing, impressions are given of the equipment in use. Technically, the operation of "Sarah" is explained by animated diagrams.
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