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1955
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FLIGHT, 9 December 1955 879 THE INDUSTRY H.P. Apprentices Prize-giving O PEAKING at the recent annual presentation of prizes to his»^ company's engineering and trade apprentices, Sir Frederick Handley Page said that at present there were 297 apprentices240 of whom were taking courses at technical colleges. He emphasized the importance of practical work in the training ofan engineer and said that the works school, in which apprentices receive their initial practical training, had been greatly extended Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth, Parliamentary Under-Secretary ofState, Home Office, and M.P. for Hendon South, was to have presented the prizes but was unable to be present owing to animportant House of Commons debate. His speech was read by Mr. G. C. D. Russell, Handley Page assistant managing director. In his speech, Sir Hugh paid tribute to the leading part SirFrederick had played in the development of the aircraft industry— in fact, with a very few others, he had founded it.After presentation of the prizes by Sir Frederick, Dr. J. E. Richardson, Principal of the Northampton Polytechnic,referred to the present big extensions to the Polytechnic's facili- ties; a total of £350,000 was being spent on the work, whichwould be completed this year. Three different courses of part-time study are open to H.P.apprentices. These lead to the award of Higher National Certi- ficate in aero engineering (N in lists below), engineering degreesof London University (U) and City and Guilds Certificate (C.G.). A fourth course in which apprentices alternately spend six monthsat Northampton Engineering College and six months in the works leads them to the award of a special diploma of engineering(S.D.). There is a fifth course for which the apprentice spends three years full-time study at the City and Guilds College, LondonUniversity; this leads to the award of an engineering degree. Awards Trade Apprentices.—First year, A. Wallis (N); second year, A. Lee(N); third year, J. Blackman (C.G); fourth year, G. Miller (C.G). Engineer Apprentices.—First year, B. Brasier (N), R. Burrin (S.D.);second year, N. Carruthers (N), G. Done (U), P. Simpkins (S.D.); third year, P. Smith (N); fourth year, C. Bainbridge (N); fifth year,S. Smith. Diplomas Diplomas are awarded to apprentices who have successfully com-pleted their training. These were received by C. Baty, E. Bendor, B. Darbe, C. Halliwcll, D. Lang, J. Knivett, A. Lyne, V. Orviss andS. Smith. Special-purpose Cameras NOW available in this country—through Polarizers (U.K.), Ltd.,of 186 Acton Lane, London, N.W.10—is a well known American camera for recording cathode-ray oscilloscope images.Designed for both still and continuous-motion photography on standard 35 mm film, this instrument, the Fairchild Oscillo-Record Camera, is stated to be easy to set up and operate, and The Oscillo-Record camera. to produce perfect photographic records of high-speed transients,stationary patterns of periodically returning phenomena, or, in fact, any type of phenomena which can be shown on a cathode-rayoscilloscope. A special adaptation of the Polaroid-Land principle of developing a print in one minute is embodied in the camera.This enables laboratory work to proceed without the interruptions or long waiting periods necessary when conventional film is used.A similar principle is used in another Fairchild camera, also avail- able through Polarizers, Ltd. This is an instrument currentlymuch used in American security areas for obtaining personnel- identification photographs, and 100 portraits can be produced inan hour. The tripod carries lighting units and an identification- card holder which is photographed with the subject. Sir Frederick Handley Page, at his company's prize-giving (see Col. 1), hands a diploma to S. Smith, mho was also awarded the fifth year prize for engineer apprentices. •••. -. . IN BRIEF Brockworth Engineering Co., Ltd., in whose works theSapphire engines are built, are changing their name to Armstrong Siddeley (Brockworth), Ltd. The company has stated that thechange is one of name only; it is, however, appropriate in view of the fact that Brockworth is the main production unit for Arm-strong Siddeley products. * * * .•.•-• .:..:..-:. :"> Stream-Line Filters, Ltd., announce with regret the deathon November 27th, after a short illness, of Mr. Francis Heron Rogers, -F.C.I.P.A., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Chem.E., one of theirdirectors and a past president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Mr. F. T. Blakey, A.C.W.A., A.A.C.C.A., former chief account- ant of Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd., has been appointed their sec- retary. He started with Wolseley Motors in Birmingham in 1935 and went to their S.U. Carburetter fac- tory as assistant chief accountant in 1939. In 1941 he became chief accountant of the S.U. Yorkshire factories and from 1945-1949 was chief accountant at the Eagles- cliffe factory of Morris Motors. He was cost accountant at Austins until 1953, when he went to Armstrong Siddeley. Mr. F. Shutt succeeds him as chief accountant. At an extraordinary general meeting of the de HavillandAircraft Co., Ltd., held at Hatfield on November 30th, the change of the name of the company to de Havilland Holdings, Ltd., wasapproved, as were certain amendments to the Articles. Accord- ingly, from that date the company is using the new name. Atother meetings held on the same day, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company adopted the name of the de Havilland AircraftCo., Ltd., and took the necessary steps to acquire from the parent company its aircraft manufacturing business. Details of thereorganization were given in Flight of November 11th. * * * An agreement between Technograph Printed Electronics Inc.(associated American company of the British firm of Technograph Printed Circuits, Ltd.) and the Radio Corporation of Americalicenses R.C.A. to manufacture by the etched-foil process printed circuits under the Technograph (Eisler) patents. The Britishcompany, incidentally, have just acquired new and more com- modious factory premises for the purpose of supplying the elec-tronics industry with printed circuits on a still larger scale. * * * The Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., announce that, from December 1st,their name has been changed to Mobil Oil Co., Ltd. There are two main reasons for the change: first, the "vacuum" pro-cess of distilling crude oil, of spectacular importance when it was developed by the company's founders some 80 years ago, is nowsupplemented by other methods. Second, the company is anxious to link its name more closely with the range of petroleum productswhich now sold throughout the world under brand names which include the word "Mobil."
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