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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 1213.PDF
FLIGHT, 26 August 1955 327 Bristol's airframe-overhaul hangar at Bankstown Airport; types handled include Sycamore helicopters. THE AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY . . . Ancillary Companies Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd. FOUNDED in 1913, this company manufactures all types ofradio and electronics equipment, and is claimed to be the largest such manufacturer in the southern hemisphere. A.W.A., in addi-tion to manufacturing equipment under Marconi patents, has itself designed and produced a wide range of radio componentsand installations. One important aspect of the company's activities is that ofservicing, and depots are maintained at all commercial airports for the installation and servicing of radio equipment and naviga-tional aids. Airlines served include B.O.A.C., K.L.M., Pan American and C.P.A., in addition to Qantas and all Australiandomestic carriers. Among major contracts is that for the manufacture and supplyof 98 distance-measuring equipment beacons at airports through- out Australia and New Guinea. This work, together with themanufacture and installation of associated airborne equipment, is almost completed. It may be remembered that the VAN-3 seriesof 200 Mc/s D.M.E. is a double-pulse system available for 100, 200 and 300 nautical miles range; other radio products includethe lightweight HAC-1 high frequency transceiver, the HAC-2 120-channel receiver and the "Air-mite" V.H.F. transceiver forlight aircraft use. The managing director of A.W.A. is L. A. Hooke and J. M. Johnson is aviation wireless manager. Australian Forge and Engineering Pry., Ltd. A SUBSIDIARY of High Duty Alloys, Ltd., of Slough,Australian Forge and Engineering are currently involved in pro- ducing airframe forgings for the Canberra, Sabre, and for Avonblades. At Lidcombe, drop-forgings in steel, copper alloys and light alloys are produced together with the airframe and engineforgings; while the plant at Brooklea, Victoria (operated by the National Forge Pry., Ltd.) produces gas-turbine blading in lightalloys, aluminium bronze and Nimonic alloys. Materials and methods employed in the production of light-alloy forgings are those evolved in association with the parent company. The Bristol Aeroplane Company (Australia) Pty., Ltd. ' ;; MAINLY a sales organization and controlling company forBristol activities in Australia, this company is thereby concerned with aircraft, aero engines, and guided missiles. The actual over-haul work performed by Bristols in Australia is the responsibility of Bristol Aviation Services Pty., Ltd., of Bankstown. Bristol Aviation Services' facilities comprise an airframe andelectrical overhaul shop at Bankstown Airport, and an engine overhaul section at Short Street, Bankstown, some four milesdistant. Both plants are now being extended, each by some 11,000 sq ft.An expansion in overhaul activity to include work for Australian National Airways and Trans-Australia Airlines has taken placeduring the past year. Aircraft types at present overhauled in the airframe shop include Bristol Freighters, Beaufighters and Syca-more helicopters, and DC-3s; while the engine section handles Hercules, Leonides, and P. and W. engines, Rotol gearboxes andall types of engine accessories. Director and general manager of both B.A.C. (Australia) andBristol Aviation Services is C. H. Tucker. Dowty Equipment (Australia) Pty., Ltd. THE overhaul of landing gear and hydraulic equipment andthe manufacture and distribution of spare parts continues to be the function of Dowty Australia, under the technical control ofthe British parent company at Cheltenham. This work relates to aircraft equipment for the R.A.A.F. and R.A.N., and is carried outat the company's plant of 5,500 sq ft in Bankstown, N.S.W. Extensions now in hand will provide comprehensive overhauland testing facilities for fuel systems in readiness for the arrival of R.A.N. Gannets and Sea Venoms in Australia next year. Factorymanager at Bankstown is F. C. Woodley, under P. F. Handcock, director. Fairey Aviation Company of Australasia Pty., Ltd. DURING the past year, Fairey Australasia have entered thecivil-aircraft overhaul field (in addition to continued work for the R.A.N.) and have considerably expanded their facilities and workin connection with guided missiles. The company is organized in two independent divisions, at Bankstown Airport, N.S.W. (air-craft), and Salisbury, South Australia (special projects), with the head office at Bankstown. Floor area of the aircraft division remains approximately106,000 sq ft, and the division is continuing its repair, recondition- ing and modification work of Firefly and Sea Fury aircraft for theAustralian Navy. Two further Mk 5 Fireflies are being converted to the trainer version, following delivery to the R.A.N. of the firstin May of this year. Full reconditioning of further Fireflies is continuing, indicating that the machine is to remain in service,although the Gannet will supersede it operationally as first-line equipment when the new H.M.A.S. Melbourne arrives next May. Planning is well advanced for the repair and maintenance of theGannet, floor-space having been allocated and repair jigs laid out. In the meantime, Fairey continues the design and fabrication of Facilities of the Bristol company include this engine overhaul shop at Short Street, Bankstown.
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