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Aviation History
1957
1957 - 1191.PDF
Joint headquarters of Aeronautical supply company, R.F.D. Australia and Cannon Plugs Australia at Essendon. The Australian Industry Ancillary Companies Aeronautical Supply Company Pty., Ltd., P.O. Box 62, North Essendon, Melbourne. THIS company, owned jointly by the Bristol AeroplaneCompany (Australia) Pty., Ltd., and Overseas Corporation (Australia), Ltd., has been one of Australia's leading suppliers ofaircraft parts and equipment since its formation in 1939. Apart from its interest in general aircraft supplies, the company hasconcentrated on the marketing in Australia of air-sea-rescue and survival equipment manufactured by the English R.F.D. company,and aircraft electrical connectors made by Cannon Electric of Los Angeles, U.S.A. In December, 1952, R.F.D. Company (Australia) Pty., Ltd.,was formed, owned jointly by R.F.D. and A.S.C. This firm has full design and manufacturing facilities and has developed andproduced a number of local items of survival equipment for the Services and civil operators. It has recently been appointedmanufacturing licensees of Irving Air Chute of Great Britain, Ltd., and special facilities for parachute manufacture are being erectedfor this new division. In February, 1955, A.S.C. joined with Cannon in the formation of Cannon Plugs (Australia) Pty., Ltd.,a member of the international Cannon group of companies produc- ing electrical connectors. General manager of Aeronautical Supplyis C. N. Tomlinson. Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., P.O. Box 2516, Sydney. FOUNDED in 1913, this company manufactures all typesof radio and electronic equipment and is the largest such manu- facturer in the Southern Hemisphere. It has designed and pro-duced a wide range of aviation radio equipment, as well as radio and electronic equipment for many other purposes. Recent products include a complete airborne VOR/ILS system—comprising navigation/communication, glide-slope and marker receivers—which was designed and manufactured in collaborationwith Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd. A recent large contract was for the supply of ground aeradio equipmentto the Union of South Africa. A.W.A. is radio-servicing contractor to all Australian airlines,in addition to servicing radio equipment in aircraft of B.O.A.C., K.L.M., P.A.A., C.P.A.L. and T.E.A.L. For this purpose a net-work of 17 aviation service depots is maintained throughout Australia and New Guinea and at Singapore. The company isalso associated closely with the Australian Services in the supply and maintenance of equipment. Australian Forge and Engineering Pty., Ltd., 14 Parra- matta Road, Lidcombe, N.S.W. OPERATORS of one of the largest and most versatile forgesin the Southern Hemisphere, this company is the leading sup- plier of aircraft forgings in Australia. They, as well as othercontractors to the Government Aircraft Factories, have com- pleted their Avon, Sabre and Canberra programmes, and theonly forgings being produced at present are small quantities of spares and replacements for these aircraft and for the Jindivikpilotless aircraft. The company has produced over 1,500 different types of aircraftforgings, ranging in weight from a few ounces to hundreds of pounds in steel, copper alloys and light alloys, and is well-fittedto meet any future demands made upon it by the Australian aircraft industry. Bristol Aeroplane Company (Australia) Pty., Ltd., Short Street, Bankstown, N.S.W. THIS company functions mainly as a sales organization andcontrolling company for Bristol activities in Australia. Overhaul work is carried out by a subsidiary company, Bristol AviationServices Pty., Ltd., of Bankstown airport, and this company's programme of work is identical with last year's (Bristol Freighters,Sycamores and DC-3 aircraft; Hercules, Leonides and Pratt and Whitney engines; Rotol gearboxes and engine accessories) exceptfor the fact that new overhaul facilities are being prepared for Bristol Centaurus 661 engines. These engines have arrived inAustralia in the Ambassador aircraft which Butler Air Transport have purchased from B.E.A., and an overhaul contract betweenB.A.T. and Bristol has been initiated. The company's weapons division at Salisbury and Woomerais operating at an increasing tempo in connection with the further development of the Bloodhound family of guided weapons andother classified G.W. projects. The Bristol Aeroplane Company (Australia) is also a part-owner of the Aeronautical SupplyCompany Pty., Ltd., of Essendon, Victoria. General manager and director of the two Bristol companies is G/C. E. A.Whiteley, C.B.E., D.F.C. Dowty Equipment (Australia) Pty., Ltd., Bankstown, N.S.W. SALES and service of undercarriages, fuel systems andhydraulic equipment, and the manufacture and distribution of spare parts, continues to be the function of Dowty Equipment(Australia) which is under the technical control of the parent company at Cheltenham. Australian Forge and Engineering plant at Lidcombe, Sydney,
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