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fLIGHT International, 23 January 1964 151 INDUSTRY International Products Company News Great Britain Laboratory Rocket Latest development by P. A. Hilton Ltd of Southampton Airport is a continuously burning rocket test rig using kerosine (or diesel oil, fuel oil, etc), and gaseous oxygen from welding cylinders. Complete with controls and instruments, it has been designed for use in heat-engine laboratories of universities and technical colleges. A water-cooled combustion cham- ber held on hydraulically damped flexible mountings houses a combined atomizer and high-energy igniter which, to ensure an even flame pattern, is located in the centre of an annular stream of oxygen. The complete test rig consists of three sections, respec- tively housing the motor, oxygen and fuel systems. USN Orders for Liverpool Finn Tube- wrights Ltd, of the Kirkby Industrial Estate, Liverpool, have received a repeat order for 150 patented Markussen material- handling pallets, modified by the fitment of castors and tug bars. They are to be used for the loading of aircraft spares and other equipment aboard aircraft carriers and for easy handling of stores aboard ship. They supplement 640 Tubewright pallets already used aboard USN carriers and submarine tenders. New Appointments at Belfast Mr P. F. Foreman, formerly chief engineer, guided weapons, Short Bros & Harland Ltd, has been appointed divisional chief engineer and is now responsible for all engineering matters within the company's Precision Engineering Division. Mr R. M. Armour, formerly assistant chief engineer, guided weapons, replaces Mr Foreman as chief engineer. Mr J. Macfarlane, formerly engineering manager for the Precision Engineering Division, has been appointed chief engineer, special products, and is responsible to the divisional chief engineer for engineering matters relating to the company's Special Products department. Teddington's US Branch Teddington Aircraft Controls Ltd have recently opened their own overhaul and repair centre in America, and it has been given FAA ap- Proval as Repair Station No 1078. The address is 628 Lofstrand Lane, Rockville, Teddington Aircraft Controls' new over- haul centre at Rock- ville, Md (news item on this page) Maryland (telephone Rockville 7620640, telegrams Teddington Washdc). Within a few miles of Baltimore and Washington Dulles international airports, the new centre will provide after-sales sup- port for Teddington equipment in US ser- vice in Viscount, Caravelle, Argosy, Fair- child F.27, Canadair CL44 and Gulfstream aircraft, and for the BAC One-Eleven, HS.125 and others to come. Managing the new centre is Mr R. W. Saunders, who for the last seven years has been senior Teddington service represen- tative in the USA. New MD for Milliard Dr F. E. Jones, MBE, BSC, PhD, MIEE, MBritiRE, FRAes, a former Deputy Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, has been appointed man- aging director of Mullard Ltd, the elec- tronics manufacturers. Dr Jones joined Mullard as a member of the board in 1956. Following an appointment at King's College, London, where he had graduated, Dr Jones worked on the staff of the Tele- communications Research Establishment from 1940 to 1952. His move to RAE as Deputy Director followed in 1953. His MBE was awarded for work on Oboe, the wartime blind bombing system. Dowty US Appointments Mr K. D. Morley has been appointed to the boards of Dowty Corporation and Dowty Rotol Incorporated following the resignation of Mr V. N. Thacker. Mr Morley will be vice- president of each of the Dowty Group's companies in the United States. The affairs of these two companies have been taken over by Dowty Equipment of Canada Ltd. The warehousing activity of Dowty Rotol Inc will continue in Washington DC. Tht Hilton continuous-burning rocket test rig [right). From left to right are the motor section, oxygen-system section and fuel-system section, below, typical kerosine flame pattern in the Hilton test rig (see first news item)
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