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1960
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FLIGHT, 15 January 1960 THE INDUSTRY Two of the Truro aircraft servicing vehicles described on this page. Atleft is the Solway oil dispenser with its trailer unit, and above is thehydrant-fuel dispenser as supplied to English Electric Variety in Fuelling Equipment A RECENT addition to the range of lubricating oil dispensersmade by Truro Engine Works Ltd, Morden Road, London SW19, who manufacture a diverse range of refuelling equip-ment, is the Solway, produced for Shell International. This unit has a two-grade oil-dispensing system and can pump Aero Shell100 at flow rates of up to 18 Imp gal/min. It is a composite tractor/trailer unit, the powered vehicle—a Land-Rover—havinga lOOgal tank and the trailer a capacity of 400gal. The company also make other oil equipment with capacities of 60 Imp galupwards, tractor- or trailer-mounted. Truro Engine Works manufacture, too, a wide range of water/methanol equipment, from an emergency hand pack unit upwards. One example is the 120 Imp gal Medway dispenser (used by ShellInternational), which has a pneumatic discharge. The company also have many types of aviation gasoline and kerosine dispensersavailable and make a wide range of hydrant dispensers, for over- wing and underwing refuelling. They have recently completeda second low-pressure hydrant main dispenser, fitted with a booster pump, for English Electric Aviation; it is used for refuelling theLightning. Truro Engine Works are able to undertake the installation of complete hydrant systems. Hunting Survey Changes TWO changes have been announced by the Hunting SurveyGroup. In Britain, the activities of Hunting Geophysics Ltd have been merged with those of Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd, andthe name of the new combined company will be Hunting Surveys Ltd. The other two companies in the British division of theHunting Survey Group, Hunting Technical Services Ltd and Aerofilms Ltd, will continue to work in close association withHunting Surveys Ltd. The other reorganization is in Canada, where the activities of the Photographic Survey Corporation Ltd,Hunting Airborne Geophysics Ltd and Hunting Technical & Exploration Services Ltd have been combined under the nameof the Hunting Survey Corporation Ltd. T. D. Weatherhead, formerly managing director of HuntingAerosurveys Ltd, becomes managing director of Hunting Surveys Ltd; and D. N. Kendall, vice-president of Hunting Associates Ltd(the controlling company for all Hunting's aviation and survey interests in Canada), president of Hunting Survey CorporationLtd. C. P. M. Hunting remains president of Hunting Associates Ltd and is chairman of Hunting Surveys Ltd. Castrol 98 Approved A NEW aviation gas-turbine synthetic lubricant, known asCastrol 98 and produced by C. C. Wakefield & Co Ltd, has been approved by the ARB and Rolls-Royce Ltd for Rolls-RoyceDart engines. All BE A Comets and Viscounts, state the company, are to fly on it in future. The lubricant, of 7.5cs viscosity, is based on a diester of thetype widely employed in this field, with a combination of additives designed to give maximum oxidation and corrosion resistancecoupled with good thermal stability, shear stability and load- carrying capacity. The lubricant is suitable for both pure-jet andturboprop engines and tests in other types of aviation gas turbines, including the Rolls-Royce Avon, are in progress. Ultra Electric Re-organization /CHANGES in the structure of Ultra Electric (Holdings) Ltd^-' have been announced. Two subsidiary companies are being formed, under the overall management of the holding company.Edward E. Rosen, who has been chairman and managing director throughout the firm's 40 years' existence, remains chairman ofthe holding company and the subsidiaries. A. V. Edwards has been appointed managing director of each of these subsidiarycompanies. One of them, Ultra Radio & Television Ltd, which will handledomestic radio and television, has as its subsidiary Pilot Radio & Television Ltd (acquired by the Group early last year). Theother, Ultra Electronics Ltd, will handle activities formerly carried out by the Special Products Division. In addition to Mr Rosenand Mr Edwards, other members of the board of Ultra Electronics are L. R. Crawford (general manager), Dr F. W. Stoneman (chiefengineer), J. S. Williams (works manager) and E. R. Wright (commercial manager). IN BRIEF The Automotive Products Group announce that E. Beaumont andS. iM. Parker have been appointed deputy managing directors in addition to A. C. Burdon. High Duty Alloys Ltd have closed their Hillington office in Glasgowand opened a new one at De Quincey House, 48 West Regent Street, Glasgow C2 (telephone Douglas 1500)'. The third in a series of publications on ICI wrought titanium,Corrosion Resistance, has been published by the Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Brent Chemical Products Ltd, of Commerce Road, Brentford, Middx,announce that their Ardrox No 996 flaw-detection fluid, for the checking of castings and stressed components, is now available in aerosoldispensers. Having relinquished his directorships of Pamphonic Reproducers Ltd,W. Bryan Savage Ltd and Pye Marine Ltd, V. G. P. Weake is taking up the chairmanship of the newly formed Derritron group of electronicequipment companies. The Coventry Victor Motor Co Ltd have engaged the services, asengineering consultant, of E. Chatterton, Bsc(Eng), MiMechE, FRAes. In collaboration with the chairman, W. A. Weaver, he will be respon-sible for all engineering aspects of the business. Subject to Exchange Control permission being granted, the BardenCorp, of Danburyj Comi, is to acquire "a substantial share interest" in E.M.O. Instrumentation Ltd, of Bracknell, Berks. In announcing this,the British firm states that both concerns are manufacturers of ball bearings of the highest precision and that they will now have the advan- tage of co-operation with the American company's design staff and willbe able to call on US production facilities. The Bracknell factory is shortly to be doubled in size. The Birmingham Tool & Gauge Co Ltd and the North West MachineDesign Co Ltd have formed a joint subsidiary company, Production Machines Ltd, for the design and manufacture of special-purposemachines and equipment. G. D. Bond is chairman and E. A. Cartner managing director. Known as Waltersolv, a new product has been added to the rangeof protective processes marketed by the Walterisation Co Ltd, of Purley Way, Croydon, Surrey. Intended for use as an additive to zinc phos-phating solutions such as that used in the Fasbond process, it enables degreasing and phosphating to be carried out in the same medium. The three D.H. Comet 4Cs ordered by Cia. Mexicana de Aviaconare to be equipped with Dagenite batteries Type 12 ECM13-VA, manu- factured by Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Co Ltd. Weighing only 421bfilled, these batteries are of the same design as those specified by BEA for their Comet 4Bs and differ only slightly from the Dagenite batteriesused by BOAC and Aerolineas Argentinas for their Comet 4s. The Hadfields Group announce that at his own request T. H. Arnold,MBE, FIM, is relinquishing his appointments as local director and con- troller of the research department and also as a director of two subsidiarycompanies. Mr Arnold joined the company in 1915 and has carried out much original research into the constitution of manganese steeland the metallurgy of armour-piercing projectiles. He is succeeded by L. G. Finch, BMet, PhD; and J. A. Grainger, MEng, has been appointeddeputy research controller.
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