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Aviation History
1961
1961 - 0064.PDF
62 FLIGHT, 13 January 1961 THE INDUSTRY ... Weybridge Appointments TWO appointments recently announced by Vickers-Armstrongs(Aircraft) Ltd are those of Mr J. Ferguson Smith, FCA, as deputy general manager and of Mr J. A. Pull, engineering manager, as a special director of the company. Mr Ferguson Smith joined the Vickers Group in 1950 and was made commercial manager of Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd in 1958, becoming a special director of the company in January last year. Mr Pull, who entered the aircraft industry in 1923 with Supermarine at Southampton, went to Weybridge as chief plan- ning engineer in 1937. By 1946 he headed a team which was sub- sequently to engineer production of the Viking, Valetta and Varsity, the Valiant, and the Viscount and Vanguard. This team is now engaged on a programme including the VC10 and TSR.2. English Electric Developments TN a review of their activities for 1960 the English Electric Co *• Ltd mention the new electrical equipment for aircraft— brushless generators, transistor voltage-regulators and static sens- ing units—which they introduced during the year. The brushless-rectifier a.c. and d.c. generators have integral main and permanent magnet pilot exciters ensuring high fault- clearing capacity, rapid voltage build-up and independence from other sources of power supply. It is stated that the transistor voltage regulators (being manufactured for use with either a.c. or d.c. generators and having no moving parts) give close voltage control with fast response, have no hysteresis effect, do not require trimming and are unaffected by acceleration and vibration. The static sensing units are made for the protection of three-phase a.c. systems in aircraft against over-voltage, under-voltage, reverse phase sequence and differential current conditions. During the year a high-speed test rig was commissioned for Air-India International. Comprising a 90 h.p., 9,000 r.p.m. motor and gearbox unit, Ward-Leonard motor-generator set, control cubicle and operator's desk, it will be used for testing overhauled Sundstrand constant-speed alternator drive units. Hose-end Filtration HOWEVER much care is taken in the design and manufactureof the filters employed in aircraft refuellers, instances may occur of an unacceptable level of contaminant being present at the nozzle end of the hose. Possible causes are damaged or incorrectly fitted components in the main filter, or fragments breaking away from components further downstream. The TurbOmonitor in part section To detect and prevent this risk, Automotive Products Co Ltd, of Leamington Spa, offer the TurbOmonitor. Fitted immediately upstream of the nozzle, it consists basically of a very fine (10 micron) wire-cloth filter. If the fuel is clean the TurbOmonitor registers only a very low pressure-drop, but any contamination will immediately cause a drop which will be shown on the flow gauge. In a choked condition the device will allow fuelling to proceed at a reduced rate, but the particle-size cut-off of the filter will ensure that only clean fuel enters the aircraft. Nominal capacity of the TurbOmonitor is 300 Imp gal/min (a 600gal/min model for use at the vehicle end of the hose is also available); normal filtration pore size is 10 microns, and absolute cut-off 25 microns; overall length of the fitting is 18fin and weight 81b; and quick-release connections are for 2^in hose. The TurbOmonitor is only one item in the range of PurOlator refuelling filtration equipment made by Automotive Products; this range includes bulk-capacity filters and static and vehicle- mounted filter/separators. IN BRIEF The Indian Minister of Industries, Mr Manubhai Shah, recentlylaid the cornerstone of a new Goodyear tyre and tube plant at Ballabgarh, 20 miles south of New Delhi. Quality approval has been given for the M4 range of brass plugsand sockets made by Smart & Brown (Machine Tools) Ltd, 25 Man- chester Square, London Wl. The joint service RCSC approval numberis 1348/1. Mr J. P. Castrey has joined the technical sales staff of Smiths AviationDivision at Kelvin House, Wembley Park Drive, Wembley, Middx. He was formerly with the technical "sales department of R. B. Pulh'nand Co Ltd. The Firth Cleveland Group have formed a new US company, FirthCleveland Steels Inc, with offices at 250 Park Avenue, New York 17, NY. It will act as selling agents in the United States for all companies inthe steels division of Firth Cleveland. Automotive Products Associated Group have announced the appoint-ment of Mr A. W. Turner, general manager, as local director of Lockheed Precision Products Ltd, Speke, Liverpool. His responsibilitiesinclude the manufacturing and marketing of Lockheed hydraulic air- craft components, industrial hydraulic equipment and Lockheed Averyhoses and self-sealing couplings. The automatic control division of Constructors John Brown Ltdhas been formed into a wholly owned subsidiary company, Automatic Control Engineering Ltd, Roxby Place, Seagrave Road, Fulham, LondonSW6 (FULham 7761), with effect from January 1. The directors will be Messrs I. J. Crosthwaite, DSO (chairman); H. D. Walker, MiMechE,Minstpet; R. Riley, Bsc(Eng),ACGi,MiMechE; H. H. Rosenbrock, BSc(Eng), phr>, MIEE; and M. P. Atkinson, BEng. Mr Riley will hold the positionof general manager and Mr Atkinson that of chief engineer. A booklet describing Hylomar, a universal jointing compound madeunder licence from Rolls-Royce Ltd to their specification SQ.32, has been published by the manufacturers, Marston Lubricants Ltd, Rock FerryOil Works, Birkenhead, Ches. The compound has been developed in the Rolls-Royce laboratories at Derby for use in jet engine productionon metal-to-metal joint faces where high pressures and temperatures are encountered and also when the searching properties of jet fuelsand lubricants have to be considered. Transistorized power-conversion systems in spacecraft which includeDiscoverer and Transit satellites and the Pioneer 5 space probe are among the products of Gulton Industries Inc of Metuchen, New Jersey,who recently announced the formation of a British subsidiary, Gulton Industries (Britain) Ltd, 9 Drapers Gardens, London EC2. Other itemsdeveloped and made by Gulton include accelerometers and telemetering and data-handling equipment. Many of the company's products containceramics, mainly in capacitors, transducers and semi-conductors. Boeing 720-048s being operated by Irish International Airlines onAtlantic routes have been equipped with Dunlop tyres. Mr A. Broomhead has been appointed deputy managing director ofThos Firth & John Brown Ltd and Mr F. Wortley, a director of the company, has been made general works manager. Corrosion resistance is the subject of the latest titanium brochure,ICI Titanium/3, published by the metals division of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd, Imperial Chemical House, Millbank, London SW1. The propeller brake designed and manufactured by the DunlopAviation Division is being used on Vickers Vanguards of BEA. It is stated that the brake, which weighs only 24oz, halts the blades within20sec of application and can hold them at rest even in a 50kt wind. The first British national Drawing Office and Equipment MaterialsExhibition is to be held at the Royal Horticultural Society's New Hall, Westminster, London SW1, from June 5 to 8. Organizers are UTPExhibitions Ltd, 9 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London EC4. Mr Norman Daniel, assistant general manager for the past 18 monthsof Semtex Ltd, the Dunlop subsidiary, is taking over the post of general purchasing manager for the Dunlop Group. He succeeds Mr D. J.Flunder, who is taking up a senior position in the tyre division. Mr E. F. Duncan, AMIEE, has been appointed manager of the acces- sories division of British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd, Present, Lanes. He was made sales manager of the division in 1959, becoming deputy divisional manager in April last year, and is a director of BICC- Burndy Ltd. Elliott Bros (London) Ltd have been appointed exclusive representa-tives in the British Isles for promotion and sales of the Airbrasive unit for cutting and abrading hard, brittle materials. The tool, a productof S. S. White Industrial Division, New York, is available at the Elliott Bros offices, Lewisham, London SE13, for demonstration purposes. Miniature potentiometers made by Miniature Electronic ComponentsLtd, The Lye, St Johns, Woking, Surrey, have been specially adapted for aircraft and GW applications. They are now being made in doubleand triple form to further space-saving. Both the double (Model 062) and triple type (Model 087) are housed in one-piece anodized aluminiumcases with two fixing holes, and are available with any combination of ohmic values. Fifteen employees of the Ultra Group were recently presented withinscribed gold watches to mark 25 years' service with the company. Mr Edward E. Rosen, chairman of Ultra Electric (Holdings) Ltd, re-marked at the presentation ceremony that 15 was the largest number of employees to qualify for this special long-service award in any oneyear. Last year also marked the 40th anniversary of the founding of the original Ultra company.
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