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27 August 1954 299 simulator for the CF-100), northern radar defence installations, a wide range of radio and communication devices and instru ments, with special emphasis on nucleonic devices, radar fire-control for fighter aircraft, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, and also a number of V.H.F. omni-range systems. For the future, the production of additional flight simulators is planned, together witii V.H.F. mobile equipment and nickel-cadmium batteries. C.A.E. are now Canadian manufacturers of Lear autopilots. Executives include K. R. Patrick (president and managing director), R. W. Cooke (chief engineer), R. R. Desaulniers (execu tive vice-president) and T. L. Redfern (secretary-treasurer). Address: 8,280, St. Lawrence Blvd., Montreal. Canadian Marconi Co. SINCE its establishment in 1902—a year after Marconi received, in Newfoundland, the first transatlantic wireless message —the company has been the exclusive agent in Canada of the English Marconi Co., and has been entitled to the same rights in Canada as have Amalgamated Wireless in Australasia. In 1953 the links were further strengthened when the English Electric Co. (of which Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., is a subsidiary) purchased from Cable and Wireless, Ltd., the latter's majority shareholding in the Canadian Marconi Co. Thus, the resources in research, development and production both of Marconi's Wire less Telegraph Co., and of English Electric are fully available to the Canadian company, and vice-versa. The aviation side of the Canadian organization is comparatively young, yet at the present time is in a position to offer a complete range of equipment and full repair and maintenance service. It is responsible for servicing all radio equipment in the R.C.A.F. Comets, and will shordy be responsible for the maintenance of the Marconi radio-compasses in T.CA.'s Viscounts. Executives include S. M. Finlayson (president), J. J. Kingan (general manager), C. E.Tremblay (manager, aviation department). Address: 2442 Trenton Avenue, Montreal 16. Canadian Steel Improvement, Ltd. IN January of this year the establishment by die Hawker Siddeley Group of a Canadian subsidiary of High Duty Alloys, Ltd. (Slough), was announced. Three months later High Duty Alloys (Canada), Ltd., acquired the 60,000-square-feet plant of Canadian Steel Improvement, a company at Etobicoke, North Toronto, specializing in precision forgings in aluminium, steel and titanium for gas-turbine engines. Following a visit to Canada, Sir Roy Dobson stated that the Hawker Siddeley Group intended to expand the C.S.I, facilities and to specialize even furdier in titanium. The plant was originally completed in 1951. At present, the factory includes two forging shops (fpr steel and high-temperature alloys, and aluminium respectively) and a die shop. Among die equipment primarily used for die manufacture of turbine blades are a range of 1,500-3,000-lb Ceco air hammers, with suitable coining presses, heat treatment and conditioning equipment. Also available is a 5,000-ton hydraulic press, to- gedier widi a 2,200-ton mechanical press on which forgings up to approximately 25 lb can be handled. Plans are in hand for the extension of the present forging facilities by die introduction of larger hammers and presses, which will result in a range of equipment able to deal widi die largest forgings forseeable in die Canadian aircraft industry. A sand and gravity die-cast foundry for botii aluminium and magnesium is also to be laid down, in which the H.D.A. range of Hiduminium and Magnuminium casting alloys will be produced. In die develop ment of forging technique for titanium the company is well ad vanced and is expected to be dne of the main sources of supply for this type of forging in Canada. The directors of the company include Sir Frank S. Spriggs, Sir Roy H. Dobson, Crawford Gordon, Jr. (Avro Canada presi dent), C, J. Luby (president and general manager), and F. McAlpine (secretary-treasurer). The chief engineer is I. A. Usher. Address: Box 32, Station N, Toronto 14. Decca Radar (Canada) Ltd. FORMED as a subsidiary of Decca Radar, Ltd., England, in July this year to furdier die expansion of die parent company's activities in Canada, die company has, in addition to its Toronto neadquarters, branch offices in Montreal and Halifax, and estab- 'ru sa^es anc* serv'ce agents at odier principal ports. Though essentially concerned widi die sale, installation and service of Decca radar, it also represents in Canada die Decca ^Navigator Co., Ltd. Products handled are airfield control radar, piorm-warning radar, radar link, microwave test-gear, marine and i-arbour radar and die Navigator system. Following the introduction of Decca marine radar to the . fnadian. m.arket, attention is now being given to the requirements °; toe aviation industry, and trials of Decca airfield control radar f ~e now being conducted by Service and civil authorities. A"J J ^ennett is general manager of the Canadian Company. Address: 1175 Bay Street, Toronto 5. Dowty Equipment of Canada, Ltd. ONE of the principal war-time suppliers in Canada of hydraulic equipment and landing gear, Dowty were established in Montreal in 1941. When the exceptional demand ceased in 1945, a much smaller service, sales and liaison organization con tinued to look after Dowty affairs until development in Canada once again created a demand for a manufacturing organization. The Ajax area, where Dowty found their first post-war manu facturing premises and where their new factory is now situated, is near die town of Oshawa. It came into being during the war when a large dispersed ammunition factory employing nearly 10,000 was sited there. Dwellings and the central services— power and heat—have been maintained, and many of die build ings are being put to good use today. Dowty is one of many firms in Canada whose main work is concerned with one major aircraft—in tins case the CF-100—for which undercarriage units and jacks are made. But it must be added that the company's activities involve some three hundred different units for fifteen separate aircraft types. Among overhaul contracts in hand are those for Lancasters, Vampires and Sea Furies; early CF-100 material is also back. A visitor to die new factory cannot but be struck by the pleasant atmosphere—the light and airy departments and, as at the Dowty parent factory, the cleanliness and die high standard of finish on components. Some 350 people are engaged on Dowty work. In die new factory the activities are mainly concerned with production; in die old factory it is overhaul and repair work, and some ingenious test rigs as well as die more standard test equipment have been built or installed. Lancaster components were conspicuous here on the occasion of our visit. Midway between these two sections anodier group of die older buildings houses a department for de-greasing, anodizing and similar processes. The vice-president and general manager is R. F. Hunt, him self a Dowty apprentice and responsible for die formation of the Canadian company after the war. He is assisted by the technical director, I. M. Hamer. A. R. Read is in charge of die repair and overhaul section. Address: Ajax, Ontario. The Fairey Aviation Co. of Canada, Ltd. ALTHOUGH Fairey's Canadian organization is not en gaged in the manufacture of aircraft, it is nevertiieless one of the most important establishments for major overhauls, repairs, refits and modifications. Like the parent company at home it has been mainly concerned with Naval aircraft—for die Royal Canadian Navy—but recendy more Air Force work has also been under taken with die promise of still more to come. The company was formed in November, 1948, with the main purpose of servicing Canadian Naval aircraft, and it was tims convenient for the head office and works to be situated at Eastern Passage, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fortunately suitable premises, then unoccupied, had been built for R.C.A.F. aircraft overhaul work during the war, and these were taken over by the newly formed company. At the time die Canadian Navy were operating Fireflies and Seafires, repair and maintenance of which was handled by a Canadian concern. By agreement the work was taken over by Fairey's at the Dartmoutii factory, and it was not long before about 100 people were engaged on the work. One of the first major jobs tackled by die new company was the conver sion of die Grumman Avenger for anti-submarine duties. This was during die latter part of 1950 and subsequendy. A year later a rather different kind of work was added to the activities of Fairey Canada as a result of an R.C.A-F. contract for the overhaul of fifteen Mk 10 Lancasters and the conversion of some for long-range navigational training duties. The first of tiiese machines was handed over ready for service widiin five mondis of receipt from storage. More space and more hands were needed, and, as a result, within four years of the formation of the company the floor space has been increased from some 130,000 sq ft to 210,000 sq ft, and the labour force from 50 to 500 in tiiree years to nearly twice mis figure today. In his report of activities at the beginning of this year Mr. C. L. Hibbert, managing director, said that 850 employees occupying an area 60 per cent greater than when the company started were fully occupied widi Avenger conversions and modi fications, with the de-mothballing and converting of Lancasters, and witii the overhaul of Sea Furies. The new machine shop was shortly to receive manufacturing work for Fairey power controls, and facilities had been set up for the manufacture under sub contract of Hydro booster units for the controls of die Avro CF-100. This new section, employing more than 100 people, will shortly be in full production, and it is possible that Hydro booster units will be ordered for die CF-105, in addition to tiiose already required for die CF-100. To the Naval work already mentioned is added the repair and overhaul of Sea Furies, and there is every reason to believe that the Grumman S2-Fs and McDonnell Banshees, of which con siderable numbers are to be delivered to die Canadian Navy, will
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