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Aviation History
1970
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356 BRITAIN'S AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY 1970 FLIGHT International, 3 September 1970 MAJOR EQUIPMENT GROUPS AND COMPANIES ALVIS LTD Coventry, CVS 8JH. 0203 25501 Wholly owned subsidiary of the British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd; ap proximately 700 employed on aero pro duction. Holyhead Rd, Coventry: Overhaul, exchange and support of Leonides engines; authorised UK overhaul facility for Lycoming piston engines; overhaul of Bendix ignition and fuel equipment, AiResearch turbochargers and Marvel-Schebler carburettors; design, manufacture and support of Rover Gas Turbines aircraft gas turbine engines and APUs. Coventry Airport: Aero engine test; light aircraft and helicopter overhauls. AVIATION TRADERS ENGINEERING LTD Southend Airport, SS2 6XZ. 0702 49471 Wholly owned subsidiary of Air Holdings Ltd, London SW1; annual turnover more than £5i million; 1,600 employees; hangar area, over 32,300 sq m, 350,000 sq ft. Contract Maintenance Div, Southend, Stansted and Ferryfield Airports: Main tenance and complete overhaul of turbojet, turboprop and piston-engined transports belonging to several airlines and charter operators; comprehensive systems, com ponents and avionics workshops and test laboratories; advanced non-destructive test ing facilities. Design & Conversion Div, Southend Air port: ARB, AID and FAA approved; current work includes Merchantman freighter conversions of BEA Vanguards and design assistance to Saunders Aircraft, Canada, with ST-27 Heron turboprop conversion; recent contracts include Concorde air-intake dump doors and engine bay electrical system. Manufacturing Div, Southend Airport and Croydon: Production of Hylo cargo loaders; licence manufacture and distribution of Cochran Western (Western Gear subsidiary, USA) cargo and baggage handling apron equipment, and of Aviolanda (Netherlands) passenger bridges; manufacture of cabin and galley equipment; development, manu facture and rework of precision sheet-metal components; welding facilities for all types of alloy; glass fibre mouldings; radome repairs. BRISTOL AEROJET LTD Banwell, Weston-super-Mare. 093 482 2251 (Rolls-Royce Ltd, 50%; Aerojet-General Corp, US, 50%). 750 employees. Skua and Petrel sounding rockets; Black Arrow third-stage motor case; solid pro- pellant rocket motor cases for Bloodhound, Thunderbird, Rapier, Seawolf, Red Top, Seaslug, Seacat, Tigercat and Nato Bullpup missUes, AN/USD-501 (CL-89) drone and Skylark high-altitude research rocket; rocket motor thrust vector control nozzles; develop ment of packaged-fuel liquid rocket motors, and of carbon and glass fibre motor cases and pressure vessels; high-pressure vessels for gas storage and fire extinguishing systems; flame deposition of coatings by plasma and wire processes and electro- deposition of composite coatings for wear, corrosion and oxidation resistance and thermal insulation; helically welded tubes in steel and other alloys; design, development and manufacture of experimental nuclear and nuclear power reactor equipment. A. C. COSSOR LTD Harlow, Essex. 027 96 26862 A member of the Raytheon Group of Companies (USA); capital £2,600,000; 1,600 employees. Cossor Electronics Ltd, Aviation & Surface Electronics and Instruments Divs The Pinnacles, Harlow, Essex. 027 96 26862 Primary and secondary surveillance radar; weather radar; airborne transponders; IFF interrogation equipment; instrument landing systems; digital information and display systems; VHF radio telephones; flight-line and bench test equipment for navigation systems; oscilloscopes. DECCA LTD Decca House, London SE1. 01-735 8111 The Decca Navigator Co Ltd, Decca House, London SE1. 01-735 8111 Approximately 2,000 employees. Production of Decca Navigator Mks 15, 16, 17, 19 and 25 receiver systems; Danac (Decca area navigation airborne computer); Loran C/A receivers Type ADL-21 and ADL-23; Decca Doppler 70 Series radar navigation equipment for fixed-wing and V/STOL aircraft; Omnitrac airborne digital computers; pictorial display equipment in cluding Flight Log Type 961 and Flight Log Mk 6A embodying Omnitrac computer; roller maps and associated computers; Dectra 2 receivers; Harco airborne equip ment (proposed system for Eurocontrol). Air/ground Data Link under development. NDB transmitters Type 8001 Series. Mona area navigation system, in collaboration with Ambac Industries, NY. Decca Radar Ltd Decca House, London SE1. 01-735 8111 Radar equipment for aviation, defence and marine applications. Other Decca subsidiary companies: Decca Navigator Co SA (Pty) Ltd and Decca Contractors SA (Pty) Ltd, South Africa; Decca Navigator A/S Denmark and Decca Arkas Copenhagen A/S, Denmark; Sicon-Decca Sri and Decca Navigator Itali- ana, Italy; Decca Navigator och Radar AB, Sweden; Decca Radar og Navigator A/S, Norway; Decca Navigator Systems Inc, Navigator Systems Inc and Decca Survey Systems Inc, USA; Decca Navigator (Canada) Ltd; Amalgamated Decca Surveys (Pty) Ltd, and Decca Constructors (Pty) Ltd, Australia. DOWTY GROUP LTD Cheltenham, GL51 0TP. 0242 21411 Dowry Technical Developments Ltd, Andoversford, Glos. 024 282 391 Group research and development; 250 em ployees. Dowty Rotol Ltd, Gloucester 0452 21511 5,000 employees. Landing gear, propellers, gearboxes, air turbines, fuel and hydraulic system components, winches and hovercraft fans. Dowty Boulton Paul Ltd, Wolverhampton WV9 SEW. 090 78 3191 2,500 employees. Powered flying controls; industrial hydraulics; electronic test equip ment. Dowty Electrics Ltd, Gloucester, GL2 9QH. 0452 21511 400 employees. Electrical controls, sole noids, switches and indicators. Dowty Fuel Systems Ltd, Cheltenham. 0242 21411 1,000 employees. Gas turbine fuel control and reheat fuel control systems and com ponents. Dowty Seals Ltd, Ashchurch, Tewkesbury. 068 42 2271 1,450 employees. Seals in rubber, p.tXe., metal and plastics; leakproof bolts and lockwashers; bonded and moulded rubber components. Dowty Equipment of Canada Ltd, Ajax, Ont. Landing gear; hydraulic system compo nents; wheels, brakes and brake control equipment. Other Dowty Group companies Coventry Precision Ltd, Exhall, 700 em ployees; DG Packing Ltd, Cheltenham, 80 employees; Dowty Exports Ltd, Gloucester; Dowty Rotol Inc, Arlington, Va, USA; Gloster Engineering (Cheltenham) Ltd, Cheltenham, toolmaking and plastic mould ings ; Iloman Engineering Ltd, Douglas, IoM, 200 employees; Innsworth Metals Ltd, Gloucester, 120 employees; Malta Rubber Ltd, Malta, 500 employees, rubber and plastic details; New Mendip Engineering Ltd, Melksham, 500 employees; The Wandle Rubber & Plastics Co Ltd, Tewkes bury, rubber and plastic details. THE DUNLOP CO LTD Ryder St, London SW1. 01-930 6700 Total capital employed, £307 million; turnover, £500 million; employees world wide, 105,000. The Dunlop Co Ltd, Engineering Group, Aviation Div Holbrook Lane, Coventry, CV6 4AA. 0203 88733. Factory area, 38,100 sq m, 410,000 sq ft; 2,250 employees. Design, development, production and sup port for precision aircraft components; comprehensive tyre and brake test and re search. Products: air cooling for brakes; brakes, including development of carbon fibre and beryllium units', brake control systems; control handles; electro-pneumatic components; electro-thermal de-icing and heating systems; engine controls—rams and valves; ground servicing equipment; hy draulic components; Maxaret anti-skid sys tems; pipes—flexible and rigid; pneumatic
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