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1957
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FLIGHT, IS January 1957 THE INDUSTRY Retirement of Blackburn Director AFTER 30 years' service in a variety of responsible posts, Mr.W. A. Hargreaves, M.B.E., A.M.I.C.E., FJR.Ae.S., has been compelled through ill health to retire from the Board of Blackburnand General Aircraft, Ltd. He joined the organization in July 1927 as assistant designer, and subsequently became chiefdraughtsman and then assistant works manager. Later he moved up to the company's factory at Dumbarton and during the warwas responsible for the production there of 250 Short Sunderlands. In 1951 he returned to Brough as works director. His retirementfrom the Board of Blackburn (Dumbarton), Ltd., for health reasons, was announced early in 1955, and towards the end of thatyear he retired from full-time duties but remained on the Board of the parent company. New Canadian Hunting Company ANEW member-company of the Canadian Hunting group,Hunting Technical and Exploration Services, Ltd., of Toronto, has been formed in order to specialize in natural-resources survey work. The new company has taken over—and will extend—the existing engineering services of the resourcessurvey division of the Photographic Survey Corporation, which is responsible for the integrated resources inventories now in pro-gress in Pakistan and Ceylon (under the Colombo plan) and for the 405,000 sq mile mineral survey of the Pre-Cambrian Shield inCanada and the U.S.A. known as Operation Overthrust. Hunting Technical Service companies are also being formedin England and the U.S.A., and it is planned to form similar associated companies in other countries. The organization willoffer consulting and advisory services concerning the development and utilization of natural resources, in addition to carrying outactual surveys. President of the new Canadian company is Mr. Douglas N.Kendall, and Mr. W. H. Godfrey is general manager. Other directors are Mr. John Henderson, projects administrator; Mr.H. S. Scott, technical director; Dr. D. A. Macdonald; and Mr. J. B. McClusky, special projects engineer. Under Mr. Hendersonand his assistant, Mr. George Higgins, are the following divisional chiefs: Mr. D. S. Lueder, general engineering; Mr. V. Merritt,forestry; Dr. Norman Paterson, geophysics; Mr. Robert Parkinson, geology; Mr. Richard Hodges, agriculture and land use; andMr. John Jenkins, planning and economic studies. "Tim" Morice Retires THE retirement of G/C. C. S. Morice, D.S.O., M.C., from thepost of aviation sales manager of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., took effect on December 31. G/C. Morice, who is 66, is one of the few men to have flownoperational aircraft in both world wars. Educated at MalvernCollege, "Tim" Morice joined the Special Reserve of theWorcestershire Regiment in 1911 and was commissioned the fol-lowing year. In August 1914 he went to France with the ThirdDivision of the British Expedi- tionary Force, and during thesubsequent twelve months was twice wounded. While in hospital in February1916 he joined the Royal Flying Corps. In 1917 his operationalflying included an encounter with the Richthofen Circus, and a dog-fight with von Richthofen's own aircraft, after which Capt. Moricemade an emergency landing in the British lines. He was awarded the Military Cross before the end of the war, and later wastransferred to the Royal Air Force on its formation. He retired with the rank of squadron leader in 1926. In 1927 he joined the technical staff of Dunlop and had becometransport service supervisor on the tyre side at Dunlop's Albany Street depot when he was recalled to the R.A.F. in 1939. His service in the second world war included periods as a censorto the Advanced Air Striking Force, an operational controller at R.A.F. Station Wittering, and commanding officer of an opera-tional fighter station, before being given operational command of No. 121 Typhoon Wing of the Tactical Air Force. He wasmentioned in despatches three times and received the D.S.O. G/C Morice. and the Dutch insignia of Commander of the Order of OrangeNassau. In April 1945 G/C. Morice retired from the R.A.F. at therequest of the Dunlop Rubber Company to join their aviation division as sales manager, first at Foleshill, Coventry, and later inLondon. He has now moved to Tangmere, near Chichester, where he will pass his retirement. Well known as a member of the Royal Aero Club, which hejoined in 1945, G/C. Morice is chairman of the club's house committee and a member of the finance committee. He was oneof the stewards of the 1956 National Air Race meeting at Coventry. A Westland Appointment LT is announced that Mr. RalphR. Warren has been appointed personnel manager of West-land Aircraft, Ltd., and of its subsidiary company, Normal-air, Ltd. He joined Westlands in 1936 from Boulton and Paul,and has held a number of senior appointments in the technical,engineering and production de- partments. As an assistant de-signer, he was closely associated with the development of theWhirlwind fighter, and later took charge of the Westland "shadow"factory at Doncaster, where pro- duction of the Lysander was con-centrated. On his return to Yeovil Mr. Ralph R. Warren. he became assistant chief production designer, and until recentlywas technical planning officer and chief draughtsman. New Lubrication Products A FTER extended research and service tests, the Molytone family**• of greases—Molytone Grease, Molytone L.M., Molytone X and Molytone C—is now being launched by Rocol3 Ltd., IbexHouse, Minories, London, E.C.3, in the U.K. and in Europe, the Commonwealth and Latin America. Based on special Benton greases containing molybdenum disul-phide, this new lubricant family has a wide field of industrial application. Benton greases, it is stated, introduce a new prin-ciple. Instead of a metallic soap, a modified Bentonite clay is used as the thickening agent. The resultant grease is said to bemore stable in heat and to have a better adhesion to metals, better water repellence and less oil separation than other greases. Havingno melting point, state Rocol, it can be used up to the point of inflammability of the basic oil. The combination of molybdenumdisulphide with these new greases results in products—i.e., the Molytone family—which have the lubricating and pressure resist-ing qualities of molybdenum disulphide, together with the extra qualities of the Benton group. Scientific Metal-sorting 'T'HE Solartron metal sorter and resistivity test-set, Type-*• MM 611, a product of the Solartron Electronic Group, Ltd., Thames Ditton, Surrey, is a lightweight, battery-operatedinstrument for use in sorting and identifying non-ferrous metals and alloys, measuring electrical resistivity, detecting surfaceflaws, and similar applications. It enables surveys and examina- tions to be carried out under conditions where no electricitysupply is available or in confined spaces inaccessible to normal- size equipment. Identification is based upon the specific resistivity of the par-ticular metal—a physical constant of which every metal and alloy has its characteristic value. When the test head of the instrument is brought near themetal its inductance changes and the oscillator in the instrument case ceases to oscillate. A calibrated dial is rotated until theoscillator comes into action again. This is indicated by a meter, and the immediate reading of the calibrated dial is the specificresistivity of the metal in micro-ohms per cubic centimetre. Marconi Image Amplifier THESTS of the Marconi X-ray image amplifier have shown that••• the industrial application of this fluoroscopic device can be as useful as its medical ones have proved. In both fields, it isclaimed, greater detail can be seen with less radiation, thus saving time and money. As an example of its industrial use the manufacturers, MarconiInstruments, Ltd., St. Albans, Herts, say that the production
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