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124 FLIGHT, 22 July I960 SUPPORT AND SELL A Plan for Spares Service Part 2 ...„.< A By G. C. SCOTT THIS is the second and concluding instalment of • ;article (the first part appeared last week) whi •': advances a plan for co-ordinating British after-sa .-,effort—a direction in which our aircraft and co ponent manufacturing industries, it is suggested, ha ...much room for improvement. The author, who b s been ultimately concerned with aircraft parts send- efor many years, believes that systems as well as individual companies may be at fault and puts fc --ward the concept of AIRPART, a British corporation for aircraft and component spare-parts supply. British Aircraft Export Corporation To operate this systemthere would be a co-operative organization managed by a separate corporation which would be supported by contributions from thewhole industry (including the ancillary manufacturers) and per- haps from the Government. Every firm with components orequipment requiring parts service would contribute in proportion to the value of the products it supplied to the operators, as relatedto the value of the industry's sales as a whole. This corporation could be styled the British Aircraft Export Corporation, with thesuggested trade-name of "Airpart." Ancillary Support In the past, provisioning for the civil opera-tors has tended to be excessive on high-cost, slow-moving parts and inadequate for the cheap, fast-moving items. After a year orso with a new British aircraft in service operators have found themselves to be overstocked with control surfaces and the like,and experiencing frequent shortage of nuts, washers, springs, seals and so on, the majority of these small items being of proprietarymanufacture. This state of affairs has been due to the ignorance of manufac-turers about civil spare parts and of the operators about British aircraft. The smaller operators have usually accepted the manu-facturers' recommendations in good faith. Further contributory factors have been the anxiety of managements for a quick returnfrom the sale of as many major components as possible to a new Fig 4. AIRPART. The Airpart system in detail, illustrating the stages in the supply of parts to the operitors of British Aircraft. This would provide a universal system which is standard for operators and manufacturers alike ^c? UNITED KINGDOM MANUFACTURERS FLOW PATTERN :ii: Canadian Factories lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllNIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIINU "AIRPART LONDON" BRITISH AIRCRAFT EXPORT CORPORATION Iltlllllllllllllflllflllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUll South African -< Factoras g -. iTgffWSBilMIWllwf Indian Factories JOHANNESBURG Illj Illllllllllllllllll (III i 1 EUROPE, INCLUDING ISRAEL AND NORTH AFRICA C Verde Islands Port Guinea Sierra Leone Frencli W Africa Ghana Nigeria French Eq. Africa Belgian Congo Angola South Africa Madagascar Mozambique Rhodesia British E Africa Ethiopia i Sudan U Arab Republic Jordan Lebanon Saudi Arabia Iraq Iran Kuwait Bahrein Qatar Aden Pakistan Goa India Ceylon Illlllllll Illllllllillllllltlt III Burma Malaya Indonesia North Borneo Philippines Japan Hong Kong Indo-China FAR EAST Timor New Guinea Australia New Zealand New Caledonia Fiji Z Ou O
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