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1957
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720 FLIGHT, 24 May 1957 THE INDUSTRY Rolls-Royce Capital Increase "•- AT an extraordinary general meeting which will follow the a.g.m.k of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., on July 9, approval will be sought to increase the company's capital from £10m to £20m by the creationof 8,910,000 Ordinary £1 shares and 2,180,000 workers' (1955) 10s shares. This follows the announcement of an issue of 2,157,250new Ordinary £1 shares at 95s each. The company's accounts for the year ended December 31,1956,issued in advance of the a.g.m., show a consolidated profit, after taxation, of £2,130,543 (1955, £2,129,372). Canadair Posts /^HANGES in the sales division of Canadair, Ltd., have been^-/ announced in Montreal. Mr. A. J. Lilly, formerly chief of flight operations, has been appointed deputy sales director whilecontinuing to be executive assistant to Mr. P. H. Redpath, the vice-president (sales). Mr. K. H. Larsson has been appointedmanager of commercial-aircraft sales, in addition to his respon- sibility for sales engineering duties; Mr. H. J. Everard (previouslyone of the company's test pilots) has been appointed military- aircraft sales manager; Mr. D. S. D. McDonald becomesspecial-projects sales manager, responsible for the sales of special weapons and nuclear products, and he has also been "assignedtemporarily to special activities." Mr. R. M. Wilson becomes assistant to Mr. Lilly. D.H. Propellers Appointments TWO new appointments within de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.,have been announced. Mr. A. Barron has joined the company as contracts manager and Mr. W. E. Butler becomes personalassistant to the company secretary. Mr. Barron was until May 1 assistant purchasing manager of B.E.A., having joined the pur-chasing department shortly after the Corporation was formed. During his B.E.A. service he was directly concerned in negotia-tions leading to the purchase of the Viscount. His new appoint- Mr. A. Barron. Mr. W. E. Butler. ment places him in charge of all Government contracts for pro-pellers, Firestreak guided weapons, radar scanners and air-condi- tioning equipment produced by D. H. Propellers, Ltd. Mr.Butler, appointed personal assistant to the company's financial director Mr. A. S. Wheate, has been a member of the de Havillandorganization for 35 years. He joined the de Havilland Aircraft Co. at Stag Lane, Edgware, in 1922 as the third member of thenew company's secretarial staff and was responsible for handling all types of accounts and contract matters. When de HavillandPropellers, Ltd., was formed from the propeller division as a separate company in 1946, Mr. Butler was appointed contractsmanager—the position now taken over by Mr. Barron. Versatile Development Team MORE details can now be given of the move from AviationTraders, Ltd., to Luff and Smith (Designs), Ltd., of three executives prominently associated with the development of theAccountant turboprop airliner—Messrs. L. C. Heal, S. J. Smyth and N. A. J. Serpell. Their election to the Board of the lattercompany, which has offices at 37 London Road, Southend-on-Sea, was announced in a news-item last week. Luff and Smith (Designs), Ltd., was founded in 1955 and underthe new arrangement—to quote from the company's own state- ment—"will carry on the work of consulting aeronautical engineersand designers, in association with Luff and Smith Tooling Co., Ltd., who are already well-known in aircraft engineering circles A Coles crane. Model L2310, assisting in the erection of a stor- age sphere tor the new A. V. Roe super- sonic wind tunnel. These cranes are manufactured by Steels Engineering Products, Ltd., of Sunderland. as designers and manufacturers of aircraft and tool equipment."Mr. John Ramsden is chairman of both companies; the three new members of the Board are to be responsible for the technicaldirection of Luff and Smith (Designs), Ltd., and—again quoting from the announcement—"the organization will have full A.R.B.approval" and "be available to undertake any form of develop- ment design work, with facilities for the manufacture of com-ponents, including the design and construction of complete jig- ging and tooling, through the associated company."Mr. Heal was responsible for the design of all military aircraft at Miles Aircraft, Ltd., from 1935 onwards and (as mentionedlast week) is the inventor of the tensioned-skin method of con- struction used in the Accountant. Mr. Smyth was senior stress-man and later chief aerodynamicist at Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd., later occupying a similar position for some yearsat Hunting Percival Aircraft, Ltd. Mr. Serpell has been engaged on the design and development of powerplant installations forde Havilland and Hunting Percival Aircraft. IN BRIEF An exhibition featuring the properties of nickel and relatedmaterials is being staged by the Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., at the Engineering Centre, Stephenson Place, Birmingham, 2, from nextTuesday (May 28) to Friday. Materials on view will include iron powders, platinum metals and S. G. iron, in addition to manynickel-containing alloys and steels. * * * Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd., announce orders for theirG-PAC analogue computer for use by the Royal Air Force Tech- nical College at Henlow, and by Dowty Fuel Systems, Ltd.,Cheltenham. The former equipment (due to be delivered by the end of June) is for use in the study of guided-weapon problemsand for instruction in simulating problems encountered in such work; in addition to standard equipment, two high-performanceservomultiplier units will be supplied. * * * Specializing in technical literature, Technivision, Ltd., 51Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London, S.W.3, has purchased a "Rapier" caravan and converted it into a mobile studio which canhouse illustrators, a visualizer and a technical writer, working under normal conditions. This enables the company to bring itsservice to the client and for the Technivision team to work at factories where there might not otherwise be sufficient room forthem. The caravan is also fitted out as a display unit so that examples of a company's work can be exhibited. Mr. J. B. Bucher, Dip.Ing., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.S., M.I.S.I., who in his new appointment as general manager of the engine division at Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd., will be responsible to the chairman for the co-ordination and supervision of all aspects of the company's engine activities. While with John Brown and Co. (Clyde- bank), Ltd., from 1946 until a short time before joining Blackburns, Mr. Bucher was responsible—as chief engineer of the Clydebank firm's gas-turbine department—for the development in this country of the closed-cycle gas turbine.
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