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1954
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306a FLIGHT, 27 August 1954 COMMONWEALTH DIRECTORY . . . tives include J. A. Judd (mg. dir.), R. M. Farthing (wks. mgr.), D. W. McDowell (sec), and K. R. Jackson (sales mgr.). BRITISH AUSTRALIAN LEAD MANUFACTURERS PTY., LTD., Sydney.—Manufacturers of aircraft finishes. BRITISH TUBE MILLS (AUS TRALIA) FTY., LTD., Churchill Road, Kilbum, S.A.—Manufacturers of aircraft steel tubing, tubular com ponents, gas cylinders, etc.; repair and overhaul of tubular structures. BRUNTSONS BRIGHT STEEL PTY., LTD.—Booker Street, Spots- wood, Vic.—Steel bar to aircraft specifications. CABLE MAKERS AUSTRALIA PTY., LTD., Liverpool, N.S.W., are approved manufacturers of aircraft electric cables. CASCO ADHESIVES PTY., LTD., Brunswick, Vic.—Makers of casein cement. CHRYSLER (AUSTRALIA), LTD., Finsbury, South Australia.—Manu facture of pressed parts and sub assemblies, under sub-contract to the Government Aircraft Factory. COMMONWEALTH STEEL CO., LTD., Waratah, N.S.W.—Manufac turers of steel to aircraft specifications. G. E. CRANE AND SONS PTY., LTD., Sydney, N.S.W.—Manufac turers of sheet aluminium and alloys to aircraft specifications. DUNLOP RUBBER, AUSTRALIA, LTD., 108 Flinders Street, Mel bourne, Victoria.—Established in 1903, this company formed its avia tion division five years ago. Of the three factories, the aviation division operates one at Bayswater, Victoria, in which approximately 100 work people are employed on the produc tion and overhaul of wheels, brakes, pneumatic equipment, flexible pipes and flexible rubber tanks (tyres, tubes and other rubber products are manu factured in the Montague, Mel bourne, and Drummoyne, Sydney, factories). Wheels and brakes are currently being supplied for Can berra, Winjeel and Jindivik, and pneumatics for the Jindivik. E. R. Blackwood is general manager of the company and E. F. Faggetter man ager of the aviation division. EXIDE BATTERIES OF AUS TRALIA, LTD., 44 Bridge Street, Sydney, N.S.W.—Supply of Exide aircraft batteries; provision of battery parts; overhaul and repair. FAWCETT AVIATION PTY., LTD., Bankstown Airport, N.S.W.— Airframe and engine overhaul and repair; overhaul of components; electrical installations and overhauls; manufacture of machined parts. FIBRAK (AUSTRALIA) PTY., LTD., Sydney, N.S.W.—Formed last year, this subsidiary of Oldham and Sons, Ltd., the well-known battery manufacturers of Denton, Man chester, produces "Fibrak" separates for the Australian battery industry. SIR GEORGE GODFREY AND PARTNERS (AUSTRALIA) PTY., LTD., 539 Bourke Street, Mel bourne, C.I.—Subsidiary company of Sir George Godfrey and Partners, Hanworth, Middlesex, responsible for sales, servicing, maintenance and testing of the parent firm's products (cabin pressurization and air-condi tioning equipment, refrigeration units, etc.) in Australia and Asia. Manufacturing facilities are planned for the future. HAWKER SIDDELEY GROUP, 241 Williams Street, Melbourne, CI. —Australian office of the Group, representing all the member-firms. The manager is C. J. Wood. HENDERSONS FEDERAL SPRING WORKS PTY., LTD., Alfred Place, North Melbourne, Vic toria.—As part of its general produc tion, this company supplies a wide variety of springs, plates and other small parts for aircraft. W. T. HENLEY'S TELEGRAPH CO., LTD., 205-207 William Street, Melbourne, Vic.—Suppliers of air craft electric cables. C. HUPPERT AND CO., LTD., 193 Bouverie Street, Carlton, Vic.— Manufacturers of aircraft fuel, hydraulic and other pumps and associated equipment; manufacturers, under licence, of Fesco pumps; manu facturers of steel and light-alloy cast ings, and sub-assemblies. KEEFER BROS. PTY., LTD., Mar tin Street, Beaumaris, Vic.—Makers of machined parts and sheet-metal pressings. KINGSFORD SMITH AVIATION SERVICE, Bankstown Airport, N.S.W.-—Overhaul and repair of air frames, engines and components; manufacture of components, welded assemblies, etc. LEWIS BERGER AND SONS (AUSTRALIA) PTY., LTD., Rhodes, Sydney, N.S.W., in associa tion with the British company of similar name, are manufacturers of aircraft dopes and finishes. LIGHT AIRCRAFT PTY., LTD., 14 City Road, Sydney, N.S.W.— Specialists in parachutes, seat har ness, safety-belts, etc. MacROBERTSON MILLER AVIA TION CO., LTD., Perth, W.A.— Manufacturers of aircraft compo nents; overhaul, repair and mainten ance of airframes, engines and air screws; repair and distribution of fuel pumps, instruments and other accessories. METAL MANUFACTURES, LTD., Port Kembla, N.S.W.—In a large plant covering 35 acres, this 38-year-old company produces cop per, brass and aluminium rod and wire, copper and copper-alloy tubing, and spun castings. During the war, some millions of feet of thin-wall brass and copper tubing was made for the oil-coolers of Australian-built Beauforts, the company evolving their own method of cold-drawing and electrically heated straightening for this work. Aircraft aluminium tubing was also made. Copper and brass tubing, and spun castings, are currently being supplied to the air craft industry. NATIONAL FORGE PTY., LTD. —See Australian Forge and Engineer ing Pry., Ltd. NATIONAL INSTRUMENT CO., PTY., LTD., Essendon Aerodrome, Vic., are sales and servicing agents for a number of British companies, including Plessey, Pullin, Schermuly and Sperry. NETTLEFOLDS PTY., LTD., Bal-larat Road, Sunshine, Vic.—Manu facturers of aircraft rivets, screws, split pins, nuts (including "Aero- tight" nuts), etc. NEW SOUTH WALES RAIL WAYS, Chullora, N.S.W.—Manu facture of sundry detail parts, and sub-assemblies, for the Australian Government Aircraft Factory. OLYMPIC CABLES, LTD., North Footscray, Vic.—Approved manufac turers of electric cables and poly vinyl chloride tubing for aircraft. OLYMPIC TYRE AND RUBBER CO., LTD., West Footscray, Vic.— Approved manufacturers of aircraft tyres and tubes. PAUL AND GRAY PTY., LTD., Merchandise Division, 82-84 Sussex Street, Sydney.—This old-established (1863) concern, with offices and ware houses in the leading business centres of Australia, formed an aircraft de partment in 1935. During the war this department supplied, and also manufactured, small parts and sub assemblies for the Government air craft programme, and today its ware house has facilities for the inspection and supply of components, acces sories, standard parts, raw materials, etc. Plans are in hand to extend this service to the whole South Pacific and S.E. Asia area. An associate company is Allison Gray and Co., 82-84 Sussex Street, Sydney, Aus tralian representatives for many lead ing overseas aviation companies. Paul and Gray executives include R. E. Purves (chmn.), K. O. Humphreys, A. H. Newton (gen. mgr.). PHILLIPS ELECTRICAL INDUS TRIES PTY., LTD., 590 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Vic.—Suppliers of lamps for the Aviation industry. PILKINGTON BROS. (AUS TRALIA), LTD., Melbourne Road, Geelong, Australia.—Makers of safety and armour-plate glass. A view of the hangars and office blocks at Kingsford Smith Airport, Mascot, Sydney. The hangars of Adastra Airways are those in the left foreground, and second in the second row. R.F.D. COMPANY OF AUS TRALIA PTY., LTD., 210 Victoria Street, Melbourne.—A subsidiary of the British R.F.D. company, manu facturing and repairing rescue and survival equipment, gunnery train ing equipment, paratroop training balloons, aircraft furnishings and weather covers, and miscellaneous aerodrome equipment. Directors in clude C. H. Tucker (chairman), A. Van Beugen Bick and J. W. Nolan. RUBBERTEX (AUSTRALIA) PTY., LTD., 547/9 BaUarat Road, Sunshine W.20, Melbourne, Victoria. —Formed in 1946, the company has a 20,000 sq ft factory, about half of which is devoted to production, for the aircraft industry, of moulded rubber components and rubber-to- metal-bonded parts. Rubbertex have official approval for test and release, and parts are produced for all cur rent types of aircraft flying in Aus tralia. The company claim to have been the first in Australia to use silicone rubbers for such products, and to have developed a tooling system capable of producing toler ances as close at O.OOlin for rubber components. They have also de veloped highly heat-resistant com pounds of particular value for use with gas-turbine installations. Execu tives include A. Stanley Ridley (chmn.), and G. R. Flack, M.E., A.I.R.I. (mg. dir.). RUSSELL MFG. CO. PTY., LTD., 81 Burnley Street, Richmond, Vic-Makers of piston rings and other parts for the aircraft industry. SCHUTT AHtCRAFT SALES AND SERVICE, Moorabbin Air port, Cheltenham, Vic.—Overhaul and repair of airframes, engines, air screws, etc. SHERWIN WILLIAMS (AUS TRALIA), LTD., South Melbourne, Vic.—Distributors of aircraft dopes and finishes. SIMMONDS AEROCESSORIES (PTY.), LTD., 357 Exhibition Street, Melbourne.—Manufacturers and dis tributors of a wide range of aircraft accessories. The Board includes J. R. Burt (chairman), C. W. O. Rosier (managing director). SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAIL WAYS, Islington, South Australia.— Manufacture of wing spars, under sub-contract to the Australian Gov ernment Aircraft Factory. SPARTAN PAINTS PTY., LTD., Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Tas mania, etc—Distributors of aircraft dopes and finishes; manufacturers of thinners, solvents, etc. TECALEMIT (AUSTRALIA) PTY., Finsbury, South Australia.— Formed in Melbourne in 1941, the company moved to its Finsbury fac tory in 1946. Here are made, for the aircraft industry, grease-guns, grease-nipples and greasing and tyre-infla tion equipment, together with "Phih-das" nuts and "Titeflex" metallic tubing. Executives include Brig. H. Sewell (mg. dir.), E. H. FitzRoy (gen. mgr.), C. Clark (ch. eng.). V.I.A., LTD., Lancefield Road, Essendon W.6, Melbourne.—During the war this company employed 500 men, in three factories, on the manu facture of airframe components for Ansons, Tiger Moths, Mosquitoes, Wirraways, etc. Today, the principal business is the manufacture of wooden building panelling and stan dard steel buildings, but a proportion of the capacity is devoted to aircraft work, at present the construction ot tail units and rear fuselage cones for the C.A. 25 trainer, together with Lincoln elevators, Canberra compo nents and sundry spares. The fac tory, adjoining Essendon Aerodrome, has buildings of the clear-span han gar type, and could conveniently undertake line production of en*? aircraft. Executives include R- • '• Matthews (chmn.), F. L. R°ie«? (mg. dir.), A. L. Royce (sec), C. i. Reusch (wks. mgr.), M. H. McMur- ran (sales), H. W. Watts (ch. engrj. VOKES (AUSTRALIA) Vjtn LTD., 55 James Street,, Roc- i«Mj Sydney.—Suppliers of air, on a"° fuel filters, silencing equipmen'. an° flame dampers. A. WASSILIEFF PTY., LTD-. *» Clarendon Street, South Melt">: rne, Vic—Manufacturers of beann," »01 the aircraft industry.
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