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1968
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18 FLIGHT International, 4 January 1968 INDUSTRY International Products Company News Solartron Exports The Systems Divi- sion of the Solartron Electronic Group recently received three export orders for aviation equipment worth almost £80,000. The first was for an eight-target ATC simulation system, worth £63,000, for Singapore Airport. It will allow ATC officers to be trained in the handling of supersonic transports when they are in- troduced to Far Eastern routes. The second export aviation order was for two video maps, valued at £16,000, bringing total sales of this equipment to over 130 in two-and-a-half years. One map will be supplied to the Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority for installation at Lisbon Airport, where it will work with a CSF long-range radar. The other map is for use with a Plessey radar in Venezuela. High-temperature Servos Vaotric Con- trol Equipment Ltd have designed and manufactured a range of servo com- ponents to withstand operating tempera- tures of up to 300'C. They are fitted to the throttle control system of the Bristol Siddeley Olympus 593 engines on the Concorde. Size 18 a.c. high-temperature motor tachogenerators are employed for operating the main throttle actuator and the nozzle trim actuator on each of the four engines. Size 11 a.c. pick-off units, operating in an ambient temperature of 250 °C, are also used in conjunction with the engine control systems and provide voltage posi- tion-feedback signals proportional to angular displacement for the electrical control units. Micro-electronic Merger The micro- electronics activities of Elliott-Automa- tion and Marconi have been co-ordinated following the acquisition of Elliott-Auto- mation by English Electric. Through these two subsidiaries, English Electric is one of the largest producers of micro- electronics in Europe. They are used in computers, airborne navigation and com- munication equipment, guided missiles and telemetry. Mr D. G. Smee, commercial director of Marconi, has been given responsibility for carrying out the co-ordination and, for this purpose, has been appointed chairman of Elliott-Automation Micro- electronics. Brownline's British Subsidiary Brown- line Corporation of California, a mem- ber of the Tridair group of companies, has announced the formation of a subsidiary in London, Brownline Ltd. The new company, of which Mr Gilbert W. Speed is managing director, will manu- facture and supply air cargo equipment, including glass-fibre "igloo" containers, to British and European airlines. The two existing plants of the Brownline Corporation in England have exported a considerable proportion of their pro- ducts, and in the last six months 75 per cent of the total output has gone over- seas. Recent customers include Pan American Airways, who placed orders for a large quantity of glass-fibre cargo containers for use in Boeing 707 freighters, and Air France, who ordered aluminium baggage containers for their 727-200s. Brownline's European sales and mar- keting activities, and their Frankfurt subsidiary, Brownline GmbH, will now be directed from London. Mr David Ledger has been appointed resident manager at Frankfurt. The two existing English plants are being transferred to a single new factory near Heathrow. US Micro-min Show Some 25 Ameri- can manufacturers of miniature and micro-miniature electronic components are collaborating with the US Depart- ment of Commerce to stage an exhibi- tion of the latest state-of-the-art products at the United States Trade Centre, London, between February 14 and 22. The components will cover the fields of computers, telecommunications, tele- vision (both colour and monochrome), radar, radio and navigational instru- ments. The items to be shown include new designs in resistors, capacitors, miniature and micro-miniature circuits, encapsulated amplifiers, potentiometers, relays, digital and linear circuitry, detectors and measuring devices, multi- layer printed circuitry, co-axial con- nectors and analogue circuitry. PEOPLE AND POSTS On December 31 Sir Edward Beharrell retired as chairman of the Dunlop Co Ltd after a distinguished career with the company spanning nearly 40 years. He will retain his close association with Dunlop, having accepted an invitation from the board to become its president, in which capacity he will be available for consultation. Sir Edward is succeeded as chairman by Mr Reay Geddes, OBE, the present managing director—who, incidentally, served in the RAF during the 1939-45 war. Mr D. B. Collett has retired from the company's board and Mr D. J. Flunder, formerly group indus- trial relations officer, has joined it. Mr Rolf D. Cape has been named vice-president, European area, of North American Aviation International. Mr M. E. Stormo has joined Libra- scope Group of General Precision Systems Inc as engineering manager of airborne optical systems for the Systems Division. Mr Esmond Davies, BSc(Econ), business economist and member of Sperry's marketing team, has been promoted to the newly created post of director of supplies, with responsibility for the co- ordination of procurement for the British Sperry Gyroscope Division. Following the recently announced order for Smiths equipment for the Sud-Aviationj Westland SA 330 helicopter a team from Sud recently visited the Basingstoke factory of Smiths Industries Ltd. Seen examining an r.p.m. indicator are, I to r, M juvin and M Jourdan with Mr L Coombs, Smiths' technical sales manager, engine equipment A disposable Hastings provides the test-piece for a spectacular demonstration, at Stansted, of a new fire-extinguishing medium known as "light water". The Pyrene Co Ltd (9 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW\) staged the demonstration with one of their Mk 7 fire tenders using the new extinguishant, which was supplied by the 3M Company. "Light water" floats on fuel, vapour-sealing the surface to quench the flame and prevent re-ignition. In this test, with t/w aircraft well alight, the first dummy occupant was brought out in I5sec and the blaze '"knocked down" in 37sec; including cooling-off operations, the fire was completely extinguished in under 3min
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