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1964
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FLIGHT International, 6 Auzust 1964 233 INDUSTRY International Products Company News eat Britain New Dowty Board Member Mr T. D. H. Andrews, AMiMechE, AFRACS, has joined the Dowty Group board. He was already managing director of three Dowty subsid- iaries, including Dowty Technical Develop- ments Ltd, the principal Dowty company devoted entirely to research. This grew from a company which he founded in 1946 and which was absorbed by the group in 1955. US Subsidiary in Britain Simmonds Precision Products Inc, of Tarrytown, NY, announced recently the formation of a wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary in Britain, with headquarters in London, to produce electronic measurement, display, control and communications systems at present produced in the US and by Sim- monds' Dutch subsidiary in Amsterdam. A recent contract awarded to Simmonds was that for the fuel gauging system for the Fokker F-28 Fellowship short-haul jet airliner. The company is also concerned with electronic systems aboard the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn booster. Ultrasonics Conference Britain's first con- ference on the uses of ultrasonics in industry is to be held from September 23 to 24, at the St Ermins Hotel, Caxton Street, London SW1, when delegates will have the oppor- tunity to hear lectures by specialists in this rapidly advancing field. An exhibition and demonstrations of commercially available equipment will be held simultaneously. The lecture programme is as follows:— SEPTEMBER 23: Introductory lecture, What is Ultrasound ?, by F. E. Freeman, North- ampton College, University of London; Transducers, by B. Brown, Royal College of Advanced Technology, Salford; Low-power Uses (1)—Sensing, Level Measurement, Alarm Systems, by H. Sains, Westool Ltd; Low-power Uses (2)—Flaw Detection and Thickness Measurement, by R. S. Sharpe, UKAEA, Harwell; Low-power Uses (3)— Inspection of Castings and Welds, by C. J. Abrahams, CEGB. SEPTEMBER 24: High-power Uses (1)— Cleaning, by A. E. Crawford, Elliott Bros (London) Ltd; High-power Uses (2)— Machining, Grinding and Welding, by E. A. Neppiras; High-power Uses (3)—Emulsify- ing and Homogenizing, by J. Smith, Ultra- sonics Ltd. Registration fee for the conference is £3 3s, and application should be made to the organizers, the Iliffe journal Ultrasonics, at Dorset House, Stamford Street, London SE1. USA American Inverters for HS.125 Orders worth over £30,000 have been placed by Hawker Siddeley's de Havilland Division with American Machine and Foundry International Ltd, Whitstable, Kent, for Leland inverters to be installed in the HS.125 twin-jet executive aircraft. The inverters are made by AMF's Leland Airborne Division at Vandalia, Ohio. The type of inverter to be fitted in the 125 for the European market provides a 750VA output at 115/20OV and 400 c.p.s. Those exported to the US market will have 2.5kVA inverters in order to comply with FAA requirements. Germany New Type of Freight Silo Lufthansa recently commissioned at Rhein-Main Airport, Frankfurt, a new type of small- freight storage silo designed and built by Rheinische Stahlwerke, of Essen. The installation comprises eight continuous- chain lifts side-by-side, each with 12 lift compartments. These are brought to the desired level by push-button controls. The lift cars are loaded from the front and unloaded from the back, permitting "one-way streets" for piece-goods freight passing through the store, without any stream crossing another. Each lift car can hold a nett load of 900kg and accom- modate two hand-trucks, so the capacity of the entire silo is 8 X 12 X 900 = 86,400kg (190,5001b) of goods. Incoming freight is weighed and sorted on to trucks according to its destination and flight number and these trucks are fed into the lifts with their respective bills of lading attached. The destinations for particular lifts are fixed in advance. At the loading and unloading sides of the lifts, control buttons with the same signs as the individual lift-cars are fitted; and the wiring is so arranged that when any particular car is called for it takes the shortest route round the circular chain to the unloading level. When freight is recalled for a particular flight, relevant cars are brought up on the unloading side, and the trucks taken out and rolled to a ramp, where they are taken in train, four at a time, by tractors and towed to the aircraft. No handling and resorting takes place between their initial sorting on to the relevant truck and their loading into the aircraft. Peaks and lulls of activity for the staff are largely avoided and their work-load is evened out, for freight is sorted between rush periods and is recovered immediately when required for trans-shipment. Rhein- ische Stahlwerke claims that by easing the work-load on the staff mis-routings are largely avoided. France USIAS Executives Following the ordi- nary general meeting of the French Union Syndicale des Industries Aeronautiques et Spatiales on July 16, the board of directors elected the following officers: M B. C. Vallieres, general managing director of Dassault, president; MMs Robert Blum, Sylvain Floirat, Jean Cahen Salvador and Louis Giusta, vice-presidents; and M Henri Ziegler, treasurer. This Royal Navy Sea VixenFAW.I of HMS "Victorious" recently suffered extensive under- carriage and port wing-tip damage while operating from the carrier in Far Eastern waters. Here seen being loaded aboard the Ben Line's cargo liner MV "Benarty" at Hong Kong, the aircraft was carried on a special deck trestle and unloaded at Liverpool on July 28 for repairs at Hawker Siddeley's Chester factory
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