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Aviation History
1971
1971 - 1973.PDF
luuni international, JO bepte/nfaer I97f 518-519 MAJOR EQUIPMENT GROUPS & COMPANIES AVIATION TRADERS ENGINEERING LTD Southend Airport, SS2 6XZ. 0702 49471 Wholly owned subsidiary of Air Holdings Ltd, London SWl; annual turnover more than £5>2 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 conver sion. Recent contracts include Concorde air-intake dump doors and engine bay electri cal system. Manufacturing Div, Southend Airport and Croydon: Production of Hylo cargo loaders; licence manufacture and distribution qi 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 missiles, AN/USD-501 (CL-89) drone and Skylark high-altitude research rocket; rocket motor thrust vector control nozzles; development 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 extinguish ing 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, develop ment and manufacture of experimental nuclear and nuclear power reactor equip ment. A/fKm^m ill w^/% 7kt, tUtfh % XJTU/- 5£-v£3£-**W'j?'/ 0HC60Q A. C. COSSOR LTD Harlow, Essex. 027 96 26862 A member of the Raytheon Group of Companies (USA); capital £2,600,000; 2,000 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 land ing systems; digital information and dis play systems; VHF radio telephones; flight- line and bench test equipment for navigation systems; oscilloscopes; video processing. 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; NDB transmitters Type 8001 Series. Mona area navigation system, in collaboration with Ambac Industries, NY. Range of Nav/ Com equipment and ground and airborne ILS equipment. Decca Radar Ltd Decca House, London SEI. 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 Dowty Technical Developments Ltd Andoversford, Glos. 024 282 391 Group research and development; 100 em ployees. Dowty Rotol Ltd Gloucester 0452 21511 4,000 employees. Landing gear, propellors, gearboxes, air turbines, fuel and hydraulic system components, winches and hovercraft fans. Dowty Boulton Paul Ltd Wolverhampton WV9 5EW. 090 78 3191 2,000 employees. Powered flying controls; industrial hydraulics; electronic test equip ment. Dowty Electrics Ltd Gloucester, GL2 9QH. 0452 21511 400 employees. Electrical controls, noids, switches and indicators. sole-
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