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22 FLIGHT International, 5 January 1967 INDUSTRY International Products Company News First RAF Hercules As recorded on page 1080 of last week's issue, the first of the RAF's 66 Lockheed Hercules aircraft was delivered to the UK on December 19. It is being fitted by Marshall of Cambridge with British communications and other equipment. The substitution of British equipment for American avionics in this aircraft will Save HM Government about five million dollars in foreign exchange. This works out at about £70,000 per aircraft, or 8 per cent of the value. United Kingdom contractors supplying avionics in support of the Hercules programme are: Cossor Electronics (IFF/SSR); Decca Navigator (Decca Navigator, Loran C/A, Doppler Navigator, navigation computer, roller map display); Ekco Electronics (weather radar); Marconi (automatic direction finder, VOR/ILS receiver, VHF com- munications); Plessey (VHF/UHF com- munications); Smiths Industries (auto- pilot, periscopic sextant, clock and ASI); Standard Telephones and Cables (radio altimeter); Ultra Electronics (interphone and cabin address). British Battery Takeover A large French electrical combine has taken over complete control of a British company and plans to invest £500,000 to obtain a major share of the nickel-cadmium bat- tery market in Britain. The whole of the capital of Cadmium Nickel Batteries Ltd, Park Royal Road, London NW10, has been acquired by Socie'te des Accumu- lateurs Fixes et de Traction (SAFT), of Romainville (Seine). A minority interest in Cadmium Nickel Batteries Ltd has been held by SAFT since 1962. With the total acquisition of the company, effective from Decem- ber 16, 1966, Lord Teynham remains chairman of Cadmium Nickel Batteries Ltd and Mr Alan Hiscock, formerly general manager, has joined the board as managing director. The other members of the board are Mr J. S. Ross, Mr P. J. Bissell and M G. Magne, a director of SAFT. The BAC supersonic wind tunnel at Hatfield College of Technology (see below) Teaching Tunnel British Aircraft cor- poration has recently installed a super- sonic wind tunnel in the Department of Aeronautics at Hatfield College of Technology. Designed and built by the Industrial Products Group at the Steven- age works of BAC's Guided Weapons Division, it has a 9in x 8in working section and a speed range of Mach 1.5 to Mach 4. The tunnel is also capable of accepting such sophisticated research equipment as automatic pitch control for the model support, and a flexible liner nozzle or moving-wall diffuser can toe added with- out structural modification; it is even possible to increase the length of the working section by rolling the subsonic diffuser into its telescopic section. The installation thus provides—at low cost— a comprehensive teaching facility. This tunnel is one of a range com- mercially available from BAC and based on design, construction and operating experience with the corporation's own tunnels at Warton, Lanes. Stratford portable telescoping conveyor systems, which can easily be adjusted in height and length and will angle up to 70° left or right, can have many uses in air freight terminals. The system is manufactured by Stratford Auto Flow Systems Ltd, Stirling Corner, Boreham Wood, Herts. IN BRIEF The contract for the direct-vision and side windows for the prototype Concorde has been awarded to the Triplex Safety Glass Co. The ten HS.748 aircraft for Varig, the Brazilian airline, and the eight for LAN, the Chilean national airline, will be fitted with SEP.2 series autopilots manufactured by Smiths Industries. S. Davall & Sons Ltd, a member of the Bentima Group, has received a develop- ment contract from Hawker Siddeley Aviation for a cockpit voice recorder for the P.I 127. Commenting on a reference (Decem- ber 15) on this page to the Mazda high- intensity obstruction lights on London's Post Office Tower, AEI Lamp & Lighting Co Ltd point out that the light-source, a 60W linear neon lamp, gives the required red light without use of a filter. PEOPLE AND POSTS Mr R. V. Adams has been appointed managing director of L. A. Rumbold & Co Ltd (of thu Bristol Street Group), the aircraft seat manufacturers. Dr H. Fuchs, BSC, PhD, AFRACS, FBIS, MAIAA, has been appointed chief execu- tive, engineering, of the Space Division of Hawker Siddeley Dynamics. He will be deputy to Mr C. T. Wilkins, director of the division. Mr Max Settelen has been appointed manager of market development for Europe for Standard Telephones <& Cables Ltd. He will continue in his present position as manager of aviation development.
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