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1957
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858 FLIGHT, 28 June 1957 THE INDUSTRY British Aluminium Changes "THREE appointments have been announced by the BritishA Aluminium Co., Ltd. Mr. S. M. Lawrence succeeds Mr. P. J. Ferguson (who has resigned to take up a post outside thealuminium industry) as export sales manager; Mr. P. L. Martyn, assistant manager (home sales), takes over responsibility forthe unwrought and special products sales section in succession to Mr. Lawrence while continuing to be responsible for salespromotion activities; and Mr. R. J. Walsh has been appointed manager of the Manchester branch sales office—46 FountainStreet, Manchester, 2—on the retirement of Mr. J. R. Whitelegg. Elliott Brothers (London) Appointment TT is announced that Mr. C. E. Roper has joined Elliott Brothers-*- (London), Ltd., as manager of their aviation division. Mr. Roper, who was born in Coventry and is a freeman of that city,was previously with the central management group of the Plessey Co., Ltd., and was seconded to the Plessey Development Com-pany as group production executive. He was responsible for the establishment of the Square D manufacturing facility in thiscountry. Before joining Plessey, Mr. Roper was sales director and deputymanaging director of Hobourn Aero Components, Ltd. Two New Castrol Directors TT is announced that Mr. C. E. R. Millidge and Mr. A. A. Barr•*• have been appointed to the Board of C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., in conjunction with their present offices of manager, Castroldivision and group publicity manager respectively. Mr. Millidge joined Wakefields in March 1918. In 1926 he wasappointed Castrol Representative for the Bucks and Northants area. After Army service in World War 2, in which he attainedthe rank of major, he returned to the company and became assistant manager of the motor department and, two years later, manager.In 1952 he was appointed manager of the Castrol division. Mr. Angus Barr joined Wakefields 29 years ago as a junior inthe publicitj department and, in 1938, became assistant publicity manager under Mr. J. A. V. Watson. During the war he servedwith the R.A.F., returning to Castrol publicity in 1945. Three years later he became manager of his department and in 1955group publicity manager. Controlled-temperature Cabinet A CONTROLLED-temperature cabinet, one of the uses of**• which is found in research into problems of metal fatigue, has been designed by Lee Refrigeration, Ltd., Shripney Works,Bognor Regis, Sussex. Standard models are of 1.5 cu ft to 3 cu ft capacity and have a newly developed type of thermostatic control.With a single instrument incorporating a series of micro-switches and a very small bellows, a temperature range from —130 deg Fto +250 deg F is provided in one stage and indicated on a single dial. Hymatic AppointmentsT HE Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd., recently announced twoappointments, those of Mr. G. B. Longbottom, B.Sc. (Hons.), A.M.I.Mech.E., as deputy technical manager and of Mr. H. J.Hyde, A.M.I.Mech.E., A.R.Ae.S., as project engineer. Mr. Longbottom joined Hymatic in 1949 and as a develop-ment engineer worked on the 3,000 lb sq/in air compressor and various pressure-reducing valves for aircraft. In 1955, as seniordevelopment engineer, he took charge of the experimental Mr. W. H. Bowman, M./.Mec/t.F., who has been appointed to the Board of High Duty Alloys, Ltd. Prior to this new appointment Mr. Bowman was a direc- tor of T.I. Aluminium, Ltd., and also of the Aluminium Wire and Cable Co., Ltd. A recent visitor to the G.Q. Parachute Co. was Mr. J. W. Millard, chief of the Mechanical Engineering Division, Q.M. Research and Development Center, U.S. Army, Natick, Mass. Left to right are Air Marshal Sir Gordon Harvey, Mr. Millard, Sir Raymond Quilter (G.Q. managing director) and S/L. A. R. Albrecht. They are examining one of 66ft parachutes recently used for the record 15-ton supply drop by a Blackburn and General Aircraft Beverley. department at the Redditch works. Mr. Longbottom will in hisnew position act as deputy to Hymatic's technical manager, Mr. H. R. Haerle, while continuing to be senior developmentengineer. Mr. Hyde joined the company (also as a development engineer)in 1952, shortly after retiring from the R.A.F., in which he had served since 1931. He has been concerned with developmentwork on various Hymatic valves for aircraft, and in his new position will be responsible for technical liaison with the aircraftindustry. Talbots' Quarter Century AT a luncheon held recently by the Talbot Tool Co., Ltd., toL celebrate 25 years' existence, the managing director, Mr. R. W. Griffiths, recalled that the company started manufacturingjig bushes in 1937 for a leading aircraft company and during the war years had produced over 20 million.Mr. Griffiths said that Talbots moved to their sales division office at 87 Borough High Street, London, S.E.I, in 1935 andinto their present head office and works—"Grip" Works, Roedale Road, Brighton, Sussex—shortly after the war. New British Standards FOUR new aircraft standards have been published by the BritishStandards Institution. E.23, Guards for Feathering Switches in Aircraft, specifying requirements for the materials, dimensionsand finish of the guards, has been issued to replace the M.o.S. specification A.G.S. 1640. The price of E.23 is Is 6d. SP. 119and 120, High-Tensile Steel Fork-Joints (Unified Threads) for Aircraft, specify requirements for steel and corrosion-resisting-steel fork joints, and for their dimensions and finish; they cost 2s 6d in one document. S.122, Low Nickel-Chromium Steel forAircraft (Bars only) for the Manufacture of Hot Forged Bolts_ of iin-l^in shank diameter, specifies requirements for the chemicalcomposition, manufacturing process and mechanical properties of the material and the condition in supply. S.122 costs Is 6d,and orders for it and the other new standards should be sent to the B.S.I. Sales Branch, 2 Park Street, London, W.I. IN BRIEF W/C. H. P. Matthews, O.B.E., B.E.M., has been appointed a director of Zwicky, Ltd. * • *Mr. H. D. Burke has joined the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., at Brentford, as manager of the aircraft tyre division.* * * Mr. H. C. Deeprose, general manager of the C. E. Harper Aircraft Co., Ltd., has been appointed to the Board. * * * Power Jacks, Ltd., are moving their sales offices from Valetta Road, Acton, to new premises at 353 Uxbridge Road, London, W.3 (Tel. Acorn 8692/3). * * * Mr. Robert Kris, B.Sc, formerly managing director of WelwynPlastics, Ltd., and general manager of East Anglia Plastics, Ltd., has been appointed general manager of Aerqplastics, Ltd.,Hillington, Glasgow, a subsidiary of the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.
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