FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1956
1956 - 1176.PDF
322 FLIGHT, 24 August 1956 The Australian Industry . . . Dunlop Rubber (Australia): the Aviation Division plant at Bayswater. Normalair (Australia) Pry., Ltd. THIS company's plant at Essendon, which was erected bythe National Instrument Corporation, has much better facilities than the previous Normalair factory at Heidelberg. It has beenequipped with all necessary test rigs, air blowers, exhausters, etc., to deal with the servicing, maintenance, overhaul andassembly of all Normalair cabin pressurization products. Also handled are similar products, including refrigerationturbines and air compressors, of AiResearch design, an overhaul agreement having been signed between the Normalair andAiResearch companies; and greater space is available at Essen- don for undertaking the repair and overhaul of fuel pumps andother units made by the Self-Priming Pump and Engineering Co. of Slough, with whom Normalair have an overhaul agreement.The company continues to expand, and recent developments have included the overhaul and servicing of equipment on T.A.A.Viscounts. Rolls-Royce of Australia Pry., Ltd. DURING the past twelve months the volume of aero-engine and oil-engine overhaul work passing through the Sydney factory has doubled; it has included both Avons for theR.A.A.F. and Darts. A further 5,000 sq ft has been added to the factory, bringing the total up to 45,000 sq ft, with an additional10,000 sq ft test-bed facility. Further extensions are to be made. A considerable increase in technical liaison with the Far Easthas taken Dlace. especially with regard to Hong Kong and the Philippines. In both these areas, Rolls-Royce engines will soonbe operating in the Viscount, and during the early days of the operation the engine overhauls will be coming to the Sydnevfactory. Director and general manager of Rolls-Royce of Australia isPeter C. Birch. Shell Company of Australia, Ltd. THE Shell Company can this year look back on 55 years'operations in Australia, for it was in 1901 that the Shell Trans- port and Trading Company began operations there. Four yearslater the British Imperial Oil Company (a Shell subsidiary) was formed. The name was changed to Shell Company of Australia in 1927, and Shell Refining (Australia) Pty., Ltd., was formed in1952. Present Shell facilities include a refinery at Geelong, nearMelbourne; one at Clyde, near Sydney; and over 100 aircraft service points in continental Australia. In addition, a compre-hensive network of fuelling points is maintained throughout the Pacific Islands. S. Smith and Sons (Australia) Ptv., Ltd. THIS company, a subsidiary of the well-known SmithsAircraft Instruments firm of London, is concerned with the servicing, overhaul and repair of its parent company's productsin N.S.W. and Victoria. It has full servicing facilities in Sydney and Melbourne for the overhaul and repair of all civil and mili-tary aircraft instruments, automatic pilots and gyro-compass systems. An instrument service and repair facilities are main-tained for the R.A.A.F., R.A.N., and civil operators; and test equipment is being developed and manufactured. At present the company continues to build up know-howon the latest Viscount equipment, particularly on the Smiths S.E.P.2 autopilots currently fitted and operating in Viscounts,and on the latest military version of the same equipment. The firm is also engaged on a major building programme,which will give 100,000 sq ft of floor space for aviation and kin- dred commercial instrument projects. Managing director of thecompany is L. A. Hooke. Vacuum Oil Company Pty., Ltd. MANUFACTURE, importation and distribution of aviationgasolines, turbo fuels, lubricants and special products are the responsibility of Vacuum Oil. Australia's first aviation gasolinemanufacturing plant, the Standard-Vacuum Refinery at Altona, Victoria, was officially opened in May this year, and is currentlyproducing 70,000 gall daily. Standard-Vacuum Refining Com- pany (Australia) Pty., Ltd., is an affiliate of Vacuum OilThe distribution of aviation fuels and lubricants to almost 200 centres throughout Australia and the Pacific Islands is effec-ted by means of flat-top refuelling wagons, or by the under- ground hydrant refuelling system at those airports where thisfacility is installed. An extension of these underground hydrant facilities is planned for the future. The company's aviationmanager is F. W. Haig. The plant of Rolls-Royce of Australia at Sydney.
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
