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1964
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FUGHT International, 23 January 1964 provides an easy-to-clean finish and retains a pleasing appearance for at least as long as the life of the aircraft. Both grades are available in a wide range of patterns, including contemporary designs, plain pastel colours and exotic woodgrains. Arborite markets an accessory for its laminate; the Twin-Trim extruded alum- inium stretch for panel jointing and counter edging. Twin-Trim is finished in patterns or colours to match or contrast with adjacent Arborite surfaces. A specialist fireproofing service for soft fabrics is offered by the oldest cloth-working firm in London, whose standards conform to ARB regulations. The company is Perrotts (Nicol & Peyton), who recently moved to more spacious premises at Perrotts House, 173 Bermondsey St, London SE1. Plastics manufacturers are ingenious with the finishes they can obtain on their soft plastic fabrics, but they can seldom match the appeal of fine leather. Necessarily too expensive to be used in workaday com- mercial aircraft, it frequently features in the special interiors of VIP and executive transports. Best known suppliers of uphol- stery and panelling leather for transport furnishing are Connolly Bros (Curriers), of 39-43 Chalton St, London NW1. Following GEC's reorganization, all their lighting and other electrical fittings relevant to furnishing an aircraft are now produced by Osram (GEC) Ltd, of East Lane, Wembley, Middx. Passenger facility panels, comprising directional reading lamps and air louvres, steward call button and light switches, are designed to meet cus- tomers' individual requirements, for these are items which must be closely integrated with the hat-racks into which they are almost invariably recessed. Illuminating warning panels—for seat belt warnings and so on— are other fittings which Osram design to order, and there is a full range of standard roof lighting fittings, including special fittings for luggage compartments and dim gangway light fittings to illuminate the gangway floor when main cabin illumi- nation is switched off. Another small "off- the-shelf" item available from this company is a directional bulkhead-mounted fan. Warerite, a fire-retardant plastic veneer, manufactured by Bakelite Ltd, of 12-18 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1, has been used for panel finishing in numerous aircraft, both in standard patterns or in special designs to customer's ordei. Middle East Airlines, for instance, equipped their Comet 4Cs with bulkheads faced in Ware- rite showing typical scenes from the Middle East, among them the famous Lebanon cedars, a dhow under construction, the temples at Baalbek, and oil derricks. Bakelite's very wide range of polyester and epoxy resins is much used by furnishing manufacturers in making plastic parts. The Vanguard's luggage rack, for instance, is but one of innumerable items of its sort made with a Bakelite raw material. C. F. Taylor (Plastics), of Crowthorne Road, Crowthorne, Berks, are at present engaged in producing numerous plastics components for furnishing the Hawker Siddeley Trident 1 and IE. Aircraft already in airline service which are extensively fitted with Taylor-made items are the Van- guard and Herald. 137 The first class cabin ofa BEA Trident. The luggage rack trays, back panels and re- flector panels and the window trim panels are all made of glass fibre laminate by C. F. Taylor (Plastics) Ltd. The luggage rack components are cov- ered with Vynide or leathercloth BEA's Tridents will have window trim panels, luggage-rack.trays, seat-back panels and reflector panels made by Taylor of glass-fibre laminate and covered with Vynide or leathercloth. As a member of the large group the company not only produces components to customers' draw- ings but has its own facilities to offer a comprehensive design, development and production service. One of the largest manufacturers of upholstery cloth in Britain is British Replin, of 2 South Audley St, London Wl, who has an almost infinite range of fabrics which can be suitably fireproofed and used for airliner seats. Another large producer in this field is LCI. (Hyde), Newton Works, Hyde, Cheshire, who make fireproof Vynide specially for aircraft uses. Sole distributors of this material are John Cox & Son, Coxorian Works, Carlisle Rd, London NW9, who hold a stock range of about 35 patterns covering head-lining and panel weights from 8.75oz/sq yd to upholstery qualities of 15.85oz/sq yd. Through John Cox, special designs in ICI Vynides can be ordered, as in the case of BEA's Tridents, where Mr James Gardner, the aircraft's interior designer, specified the material. Small fittings in any aircraft interior possibly more numerous than the seats, but not so obvious, are nameplates and labels— "Your Lifebelt is under your Seat," "Cabin Attendant," "Please Mind Your Heads when rising to Leave" and so on. Many of these are made by the Metalphoto process of R. H. Nameplate Supplies, Anyards Rd, Cobham, Surrey. Metalphoto labels are made on photo-sensitized anodized alum- inium, are impervious to all fluids normally used in all aircraft, and neither crack nor peel. Metalphotos can be processed with ordinary photographic equipment in any company darkroom, while the distributors themselves offer a same-day or five-day service. However much attention the airlines pay to their interior dicor they cannot of course afford to ignore the exterior appearance of their aircraft—not only is their "public image" involved but also the structural health of the airframe which, being very expensive, deserves some protection from the elements. Cellon-Docker, a division of Pinchin Johnson and Associates, of Rich- mond Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, are continually advancing their enormous range of aircraft finishes. BUA's BAC One-Elevens are to be painted with new Cellon-Docker epoxy synthetic finishes and coming into increasing production are a number of polyurethane and acrylic "dopes," which are particularly resistant to abrasion. For interior decora- tions the company's "non-flam" finishes continue to be available. Toilets ENTIRELYSELF-CONTAINEDstainles*. steel toilet units by Delaney Gallay, Vulcan Works, Edgware Rd, London NW2, are in use in numerous types of air- liner in several airlines. These have the advantage of having no requirement for ground equipment or for extra tanks in the fuselage, for they can be simply lifted out and removed and replaced by a fresh one. The toilet flushes normally and is completely odourless. Suitable for use in aircraft toilets is Racasan sanitary fluid, made by Racasan Ltd, of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. This is completely safe in use, entirely eliminates odours and does not harm polyester-bonded laminates much used in aircraft furnishings. Oxygen Systems EMERGENCY BREATHING SYSTEMS for use by passengers in case of pressuri- zation failure are an item which can legiti- mately be dealt with under the heading "Furnishing and Finishing" as, unlike other safety equipments (such as dinghies and escape chutes) which are stowed in the wings or under door sills, oxygen has to be available to passengers almost instant- aneously when required. Breathing systems, therefore, are something for which the interior designer has to make provision. Walter Kidde Co, Belvue Rd, Northolt, Greenford, Middx, have a system in which pairs of oxygen masks are housed in boxes on the underside of luggage racks above passengers' heads. The system is triggered by sudden drops in cabin pressure, upon which the latches on the underside doors of the box are released and the masks drop out to hang in front of the passengers' faces, instantly to be grabbed and used. This type of mask presentation is employed in both the Hawker Siddeley Trident and HS.125 executive transport. Liquid oxygen, used in place of gaseous oxygen for several years in military aircraft, has been appearing in a few transport air- craft of late. Normalair, the Westland subsidiary at Yeovil, Somerset, is supplying 35-litre lox convenors for VC10 aircraft which will provide more than enough oxygen for all passengers and crew during a descent to "breathable" altitude following a pressurization failure.
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