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1957
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222 FLIGHT, 15 February 1957 THE INDUSTRY ... Although not yet of direct aeronautical interest, productionrecorders (costing up to £20,000) will be shown by Ampex. These, running at a tape speed of 15 in /sec, can record TVpicture signals. No film is required, and the machines have a reproduction capacity of up to 4 Mc/s—higher than the usualbasic tape-recorder audio-frequencies. Another firm that will show vibration and acoustic researchequipment is Bruel and Kjaer. The products of this Danish manufacturer are already extensively used in the aircraft industry;care has been taken to integrate the equipment so that individual items may be set up in a wide variety of ways. The company isoffering a new beat-frequency oscillator which has an accurate and stable output from two cycles per second upwards. It canbe readily used as a basic control for an MB vibration exciter. Tickets for the show, which will be open until 6.30 p.m. daily,are obtainable on request from B and K Laboratories, Ltd., 57 Union Street, London, S.E.I. For Vickers Apprenticeship Training THE appointment is announced of Mr. E. G. Barber as com-pany education officer, and Mr. J. W. Jennings as deputy education officer, to Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd. Mr.Barber (who served as an R.A.F. Education Officer during the war) will be responsible for all educational matters and appren-tice training throughout the Aircraft Company. Mr. Jennings' duties will be more particularly concerned with training withinthe Supermarine section. There are now some 1,300 apprentices at Vickers-Armstrongs(Aircraft). Particularly, attention is being paid to an under- graduate apprenticeship scheme, which is intended to be a mainsource of future technologists, and the company also has a large engineer apprenticeship system. A new training school wasopened a year ago at Weybridge and it is hoped shortly to erect a similar establishment at the Supermarine Works at SouthMarston. The company is also studying the development of trainingschemes for more senior staff to assist them in specialized fields and in preparation to take up administrative responsibility. IN BRIEF Special aerial equipment was provided by Cossor, manu-facturers of the standard R.A.F. T.I509 transmitter being used by the British Transantarctic Expedition, to enable long-distancecircuits with the U.K. to be established. The Lockheed open university scholarship, awarded annuallyby the Lockheed organization and tenable at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, for honours study in mechanical sciences, has thisyear been awarded to M. R. Grundy, who is at present at Sedbergh School. * * * To mark the opening of their new factory near London Airport—on North Feltham Trading Estate, Faggs Road, North Feltham, Middx—the Eutectic Welding Alloys Co., Ltd., recentlyheld a reception at which Mr. Rene D. Washerman, governing director, spoke of the advantages of low-heat-input welding andof the new Xyron 2-25 electrode designed for welding cast iron. Mr. D. W. Rippin, formerly an outside technical representative,has been appointed export manager of Belling and Lee, Ltd.; Mr. J. E. Bailey, B.Sc, and Mr. R. E. Meldrum have joined thestaff as technical representatives to manufacturers; and Mr. A. Fender becomes technical sales representative to the trade, basedat Newcastle-upon-Tyne and covering Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland and Westmorland. An agreement under which Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia),Ltd., become Australian agents for D. Napier and Son, Ltd., has recently been signed by the two companies. It covers Napiergas-turbine aero-engines, rocket motors, and all other products with aviation applications, but it does not include the "Spraymat"anti-ice heating system, for which a separate and broader agree- ment is being negotiated. The address of Amalgamated Wireless(Australasia), Ltd., in Australia is 47 York Street, Sydney, N.S.W. In the U.K. their offices are at 99 Aldwych, London, W.C.2. Two export sales appointments, and one in the domesticsales division, have been announced by Black and Decker, Ltd. Mr. Leo Long, formerly regional sales manager for the Londonand eastern region, U.K., is now European sales manager; Mr. Ken Gahagan, until recently Middle East representative, becomesmid-African representative; and Mr. Bill Downing takes over the regional sales managership position relinquished by Mr. Long. W/C. C. H. Williams, por- trayed here, has been appointed assistant to G/C. E. C. Dearth, senior Service liaison officer and security officer to A. V. Roe and Co., Ltd. W/C. Williams was previously at the Air Ministry and has served in both Bomber and Coastal Commands. He has also spent some years in the Middle East. A new catalogue has been issued by the Consolidated Pneu-matic Tool Co., Ltd., 232 Dawes Road, London, S.W.6, covering their range of riveting tools and accessories. Aero hammers foruse on iin to ^in Duralumin and A>n to ^in steel rivets; the 351 compression riveter; holders-on and cutters; these are amongitems described in detail, together with full specifications and maintenance notes. The Solartron Electronic Group, Ltd., have produced an illus-trated review of their progress in 1956 which includes a special article ("Electronics—the Spearhead of Automation") by Mr.Bowman Scott, M.B.E., M.B.A. (Harvard), B.Sc.(Eng.), A.C.G.I., A.M.I.E.E., a director of the Group and also managing directorof Solartron Electronic Business Machines, Ltd. His treatment of the subject is simple, with direct explanations aimed atproviding a general understanding. * * * A new fire-extinguisher is being marketed to meet theproblems associated with fire outbreaks involving metals such as sodium and calcium, or magnesium and aluminium in the formof powder or swarf. Manufactured by the Pyrene Co., Ltd., 9 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, this new extinguisher(Model PDMU 25) is loaded with 25 lb of dry chemical powder which is discharged under pressure provided by a CCX, cartridge.The powder is delivered through an applicator which ensures that it is distributed lightly in order to prevent the danger ofscattering which is often associated with this type of fire. IN use during new constructional work at London Airport is this mono- rail conveyor system, made by Road Machines (Draytonj, Ltd, of West Drayton, Middlesex. Powered by a 5 h.p. petrol or diesel engine, each truck is stated to be capable of hauling l>/2 tons of concrete up a 1 in 12 gradient. Exports are now being made to 26 countries.
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