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1957
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256 FLIGHT, 22 February 1957 THE INDUSTRY Folland Apprentices' Prizegiving AFTER presenting prizes to Folland Aircraft apprentices atHamble on February 6, Mr. R. M. Marsh, M.A., the County Education Officer, commented on the post-war growth of industryand population in Hampshire, which had resulted in a doubling of the number of young people to be catered for in schools andcolleges. Mr. Marsh endorsed a plea made earlier by Mr. J. Keiser,Folland education officer, when reporting on the year's activity, for a recognition that advanced technical training could only bebased on sound groundwork in primary and secondary schools. It was not the business of professional educationalists to trainpeople for industry; from his impression of the facilities available at Folland Aircraft, this was better left to industry itself. Theeducationalists should produce good citizens with a wide range of interests; they could let industry know more of what the schoolswere trying to do, and industry should say what their require- ments were. Technical colleges were the structure on whichsuch co-operation could be based. Mr. Marsh was introduced by Mr. W. E. W. Petter, managingdirector and chief engineer, who said this was the first time the prizegiving had been held in the new sports and social club, andthe opportunity had been taken to show examples of work done by the apprentices in the training workshop, on production, and inoff-duty activity. G. D. A. Redman, gaining a first-class Final City and GuildsCertificate in sheet-metal work and a first prize for practical work submitted, received a cup (donated by Mr. Petter) as the year'smost outstanding apprentice. —and Three Hamble Appointments AN announcement from Hamble says that Mr. G. Thripp,O.B.E., M.I.E.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., has joined the Folland Air- craft, Ltd., commercial department and will be responsible forforeign contracts. Mr. Thripp was with Air Service Training, Ltd., as deputyprincipal of the Indian Air Force Technical Training College from 1949 to 1956. Previously he had served with the R.A.F.,joining in 1929 as an aircraft apprentice and being promoted group captain in 1944. He was made O.B.E. (Civil Division) inthe New Year Honours 1956. Folland also announce the appointment of Mr. H. Parr, whowas formerly engineering controller at Avro Aircraft, Ltd., Canada, as design office manager, and of Mr. P. Norman, formerly assistantchief flight development engineer, as chief aerodynamicist. Messrs. Thripp, Parr and Norman. Mr. W. E. W. Petter, Folland managing director and chief engineer, speaks at the prize presentation reported in Col. 1. Also seen on the platform, from left to right, Messrs. J. Keiser (Folland education officer); R. M. Marsh (Hampshire education officer); T. Gilbertson (director); and D. B. Smith (assistant chief engineer). Big Dollar Order for Pyrene CTATED to be the largest of its kind ever placed in the United^ Kingdom, an order valued at approximately 1-j million Canadian dollars, for crash fire tenders for the Royal CanadianAir Force, has been received by the Pyrene Co., Ltd., The order is the result of close co-operation between the British parent com-pany and its subsidiary in Canada, culminating in a personal visit to Ottawa by the chairman of the British company, Mr. F. A. J.Harrison. The type of vehicle selected is the Pyrene Mark VI—similarto that which the company is already supplying for the R.A.F. —which can project foam at the rate of over 5,000 gal/min. Builton an Alvis M.o.S. 6x6 chassis powered by a Rolls-Royce engine, it can operate over exceptionally rough or boggy ground. Following Mr. Harrison's visit, another order for Pyrene crashtrucks has also been received from the Canadian Department of Transport (Civil Aviation). Other news from Pyrene is that they have established a newresearch and development division further to improve co-ordina- tion between their various departments concerned with fire-research, development and experimental work. Appointed con- troller of the new department is A. Cdre. J. A. Hawkings, C.B.E.,R.A.F. (Retd.), M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S. A former test pilot at the R.A.E., A. Cdre. Hawkings held several commands before1948, when he was loaned on exchange to the U.S.A.F. for research and development work at Wright Field. In 1953 he wasappointed Director of Servicing (Research and Development), M.o.S., in which capacity he was responsible for the developmentof airfield crash tenders for the R.A.F. In 1955 he became Director of R.A.F. Fighter Research and Development, holdingthis post until his retirement a year later after 31 years in the Service. He has already taken up his new appointment withPyrene at their H.Q. on the Great West Road, Brentford. IN BRIEF A £150,000 order for electronic equipment for the groundcontrol of aircraft has been placed by the Royal Swedish Air Board with J. Langham Thompson, Ltd. Similar equipment, tothe value of £75,000, has been ordered from the same company by the Ministry of Supply. J. Langham Thompson are one of thecompanies within the Camp Bird Industries Group. W/C. E. G. Monk has been appointed regional manager, United Kingdom, for the Bendix Aviation Corporation. In his new post he will have particular interest in the granting of manufacturing licences and the acquisition of licences to manufacture British equipment in the U.S.A. After 23 years' service with the R.A.F., W/C. Monk joined Sangamo Weston, Ltd., in 1945 as their aviation liaison engineer. In 1952 he was appointed sales man- ager of the aviation division of Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd., a post he relinquished early this year. Mr. A. S. Bishop, managing director of the Goodyear Tyre andRubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd., is visiting the Goodyear factories in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in Sao Paulo, Brazil,during a six weeks' visit to South America. * * * Henry Bissell, Ltd., 48 Beauchamp Place, London, S.W.3, havebean appointed sole concessionaires in Great Britain for the sale and manufacture of the products of the Eicon Manufacturing Co.,436E Manchester Avenue, Los Angeles, 3, Calif, U.S.A., including the standard Eicon battery quick-disconnect and receptacle. * * * In the constructors' list of suppliers of materials and parts forthe Britannia, published in our issue of February 1, a reference to "Nimonic steel bar" should, of course, have read "Nimonic alloys"—the well-known Henry Wiggin nickel-chromium materials for high-temperature applications.
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