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1964
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-LIGHT International, 6 February 1964 INDUSTRY International 225 Flight Systems Products Company News Great Britain £1.5m Radio Orders Orders for Elliott- Automation 21-series VHF nav-com radio from MoA for Transport Command and from Short Brothers for the Belfast have brought total orders for this equipment to well over £1.5m; 21-series radio is already fitted in Transport Command Argosies and Comet IVs and in Herons of the Queen's Flight. The new order is worth more than £110,000. Six complete sets have already been delivered for the Belfast, each includ- ing dual VHF com, VOR/ILS and an addi- tional glide-slope receiver to comply with automatic landing requirements. The Bel- fast order is also worth £110,000. Racal SSB Orders Racal Electronics have now received orders worth more than £lm for their new 7£kW single sideband communications radios. One of these is the largest single order yet received for Racal proprietary equipment and comes from the RAF. The new radio offers 250,000 alternative channels without a large number of crystals, is entirely auto- matic in operation and can be remotely controlled over two GPO telephone lines. Racal expect to receive further orders of comparable value during this year. Automatic Film Processor Rank Cintel have received a substantial order from MoA for an automatic processor for film and paper, the prototype of which was designed by RAE for use in their Air Photographic Division. Paper or film up to a width of 9£in is passed by unplasticized p.v.c. rollers and gear trains through five vertical tanks. Chemicals from sumps at the base of the tanks are pumped electrically over the film and automatically replenished and drained as the chemicals are used up. The drying section uses a woven wire heater and air blower, and recirculates 60 per cent of the hot air to save heat input. Film or paper is fed from pre-loaded cassettes. Processing speed is 20ft/min for negative film and non- waterproof paper and 40ft/min for water- proof paper. Producing Vibration Equipment Vibra- tion testing, which as a specialized science may be said to have originated in the air- craft industry, is now being applied in many branches of engineering industry, and the field is widening almost daily. The basic instrument employed in vibra- tion testing is the vibrator or, as it is known] 'n America, the shaker. In general the A 20kW amplifier under development in the new factory of Pye-Ling Ltd (news item on this page). It will drive vibrators of about 8,0001b alternating force. The output valves are vapour cooled—the first time, it is stated, that a British vibration-equip- ment manufacturer has applied this technique operating principle is comparable with that of the moving-coil loudspeaker, though both the electrical input and the mechanical output are, of course, very much greater. For use in conjunction with the vibrator is a wide range of equipment to control and monitor the test programme. Vibrators and this associated equipment are a speciality of Pye-Ling Ltd, who are now in production at an extensive new factory at Baldock Road, Royston, Herts (Royston 2424), officially opened on January 15. The company's history dates from ten years ago, when Pamphonic Reproducers Ltd, a sound-reproduction company of the Pye Group, entered the vibration equipment field under the title of W. Bryan Savage Ltd. The business expanded steadily, and in 1961 a new company was formed under the present title. Pye-Ling Ltd is jointly owned by Pye of Cambridge and the very well known American organization Ling- Temco-Vought. In July last year Pye-Ling acquired the Vibration Division of Goodmans Industries Ltd, thus adding further to the range of equipment they market. New Setting for Coastal's Cooks Lavish new galleys which would not be out of place in a commeicial VC10 are being installed during general modification of 30 Shackleton MR3 aircraft of RAF Coastal Command at Hawker Siddeley's Avro Whitworth Divi- sion. Avro Whitworth recently awarded GEC (Industrial Heating), of Lena Gardens London W6, a £32,000 contract to supply galley equipment for the installation. One unusual unit is a small thermo- statically controlled oven, weighing only 351b, which heats either six pre-cooked deep-frozen meals, or 18 soup containers, in only 20min. Each aircraft will also be fitted with a 151b, l£gal beverage container, a "hotcup" unit for the preparation of hot drinks and snacks and water boiler which heats lgal in 7min. Contd overleaf GEC (Industrial Heating) Ltd equipment in this RAF Shackleton galley includes a rapid water boiler (right), hotcup unit (left) and air- circulation oven (centre of cabinet)—news item above
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