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Aviation History
1954
1954 - 2067.PDF
90 FLIGHT, 16 Jul 1954 THE INDUSTRY Bristol Apprentices' Prizegiving '"THE annual apprentices' prizegiving was held at the Bristol -*• Aeroplane Company's factory at Filton on June 26th. The numerous prizes and certificates .were awarded to apprentices in the aircraft, engine and car divisions by Sir Norman Kipping, J.P., M.I.E.E., M.I.P.E., Direc|6r General of the F.B.I. Sir Reginald Verdon-Smitb* joint managing director of the company, said in his addressifhat the training programme was in many respects regarded as e«n more important than other aspects of the company's work. Paogress was being made in a wide range of activities—in development work, factory expansion and world sales effort—which meafiit that new responsibilities and oppor tunities, requiring mcjre skill and brains, awaited the coming generation. The nev#extension to the Bristol apprentices' school should be in use layfr this year, and a start was to be made soon on the central basjC workshop which was to be the second stage of the building. / In his reporjf Mr. A. R. O. McMillan referred to a total of 253 successes in external examinations—80 more than last year. Seven university entry scholarships had also been won. A Dunlop Appointment TT is announced that Mr. J. Wright, director and general manager x of the Dunlop Rim and Wheel Company, Ltd., Coventry, has been appointed a director of the Q.mflop Rubber Co., Ltd. Mr. Wright joined Dunlop in 191jjfcifa junior draughtsman in the experimental department ,«f* Fort Dunlop. He became manager of the aviation division at Coventry in 1934 and was made director and general "manager of the rim and wheel works ten years later. He was appointed as an O.B.E. in 1949 for services to the aviation industry. Tiltman Langley's New London Office THE new London offices of Tiltman Laneley Laboratories, Ltd., •*- of Redhill, were recendy opened at 70-71 New Bond Street, W.l. The premises include a full-scale layout drawing office, in which a lithographic process is being used to prepare detail plates for lofting for variou* aircraft firms. It is of interest thafMr. A. Hesseil Tiltman, the company's chairman, prepareci>lne first complete survey of full scale layout methods in thi»»dSuntry for the S.B.A.C. in 1943, after visiting the United Slates. Mr. Marcus Langley (managing director) was a member of the S.B.A.C. sub-committee which subset jently proposed a standardized layout system for. the British E.rcraft industry. With the opening of the new offiges, Tiltman LangL • are undertaking drawing, tracing and**full-scale layout contracts Although these are at present coa^erned mainly with the aircraft industry, the company believep^Ehat full-scale layout, either litho graphic or photographic, c^« be applied with advantage to other industries where sheet idetal is involved. The introduction of the rubber bolster andnftmple dies in press work has increased the scope of full-scale lj^ut, and the use of lithographic and photo graphic methods^or reproducing layouts on a wide variety of surfaces has coiftiderably widened its field of application. The main advantjj^es of these methods of reproduction are a reduc tion in the Time normally required in drawing office, tool-room, inspection department and on the assembly lines, obtained mainly by the elimination of duplicated operations. Pyrene Crash Tender Order ASUBSTANTIAL order has been placed^with the Pyrene Company by the M.o.S. for aircraft crasfi* tenders fitted with a new high-capacity mechanical foam generator. The tenders are built on a Thornycroft Nubian chassis, fitted with a Rolls-Royce B.80 engine of 160 b.h.p. A foam monitor with a range of up to 114ft, mounted on the driver's^Sfao, can be instantly brought into op.raticn as soon as the taifler reaches the scene of action. In addition, there are fourJ#ft lines of foam-delivery hose. A total foam output of no less than 6,000 gallons in 90 sec can be achieved compared with the 2,500 gal/min capacity of the previous equip ment. Again, earlier tenders required nine seconds to go into operation; the hew foam-generating device can be in operation by the time the tender draws to a halt. Vickers-Armstrongs Appointment THE appointment has been announced of Mr. Peter Blandford, B.A., B.Eng., A.F.R.Ae.S., as assistant service manager of Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Aircraft Division. Mr. BlaHflford, who is 38, was educated at Malvern College anj^Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and subsequently took a miningangineering degree at Sheffield. He joined the R.A.F. at the outbreak of the war, and, after serving as a bomber pilot, transferred to the Technical Branch; in 1943 he joined the aircraft design branch of D.T.D. in the Ministry of Aircraft Production, and again transferred, in 1945, to the Civil Aircraft Research and Development Section of the Ministry of Supply.«He joined Vickers-Armstrongs project offices in 1946 and hasjsfiice been in their design office and in the guided weapons department at Weybridge. IN BRIEF Two British firms, Auto Diesels, Ltd*-, and Crompton Parkin son, Ltd., have secured "a substantial order" from the United States Government for thejieffvery of mobile ground power units for the starting oLirfaircraft. Value of the equipment, which is for the us9„«(i the Western Union air forces, is over li million dollars. * * * Mr. J. G. Renton has recendy been appointed sales manager of Helliwells, Ltd., of WalsalL His appointment is concerned with the extension programme which the company are under taking at the present time; this includes the opening of a sales office at 5, Clarges Street, London, W.l, and moves into additional uremises at Elmdbn, Birmingham, and Aberdare, South Wales. * * * W/C. H. G. Cattell, D.F.C., who is well known in the aircraft industry and who was until,recently sales manager of Aerocontacts, Ltd., has been appointed general sales manager of G. H. Burgess and Co., LKT., Southall, Middlesex. It is the MR. "JOE" WRIGHT, O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., of the Dunlop Rim and Wheel Co., Ltd., has been appointed a director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. MR. PETER BLANDFORD, B.A. (Cantab. Hons.) B.Eng. 4,Sbeff.f A.F.R.Ae.S., becomes^ Vickers-* Armstrongs assistant\*sat*lte manager at Weybridge. intention to expand the aeronautical business of this company, who have to date been -mainly concerned with work for the M.o.S. and production of towed targets for various air forces. * * * Mr. D. R. Samson, B.Sc. (Eng.), A.F.R.Ae.S., previously a member of the senior technical staff in the stress department of de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., has been appointed chief stress-man to Hunting Percfival Aircraft Ltd. * * * Mr. David luce, D.F.C., B.Sc, until recently technical adminis tration superintendent and base manager for Hunting-Clan Air Transport, Ltd., at Bovingdon Airport, has joined Elliot Brothers (London), Ltd., for tecj^ncal liaison duties. An ex-war fighter/bomber pilot, JMvid Ince graduated in 1945 from the Empire Test Pilots,' School. A keen glider pilot, he holds the International GoKfC with one Diamond, anjikwas reserve pilot for the British Team in the 1952 World Qj^mpionships in Spain. MR. DAVID INCE, D.F.C., B.Sc until recently with Hunt'mg-Clj Air Transport, has joined Blfiot Brothers (London), Ltd., foftech nical liaison MR. J. G. RENTON,jtypWKst! sales manager of iHelliwells, Ltd., of Walsall, who fiwazj^con- sidesable office and works exten- ionr programme in hand.
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