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Aviation History
1971
1971 - 1974.PDF
520 BRITAIN'S AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY 1971 . . . Dowty Fuel Systems Ltd Cheltenham. 0242 21411 1,500 employees. Gas turbine fuel control and reheat fuel control systems and com ponents. Dowty Seals Ltd Ashchurch, Tewkesbury. 068 42 2441 1,450 employees. Seals in rubber, p.t.f.e., 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 with aviation interests Coventry Precision Ltd, Exhall, 600 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, 120 employees; Iloman Engineering Ltd, Douglas, IoM, 200 employees; Inns- worth Metals Ltd, Gloucester, 120 em ployees; Malta Rubber Ltd, Malta, 1,200 employees, rubber and plastic details; The Wandle Rubber & Plastics Co Ltd, Ash church, rubber and plastic details. DUNLOP LIMITED Ryder St, London SW1. 01-930 6700 Total capital employed, £320 million; turnover, £541 million; employees world wide, 107,000. Dunlop Limited, 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 components; tyres; wheels; windscreen wiper systems; also AFV hydro-pneumatic suspensions and turret stabilisation systems. Dunlop Limited, Precision Rubbers Div Shepshed, Loughborough. 050 95 2151 Factories at Shepshed, Bagworth and New- bold Verdon. Products: pressure seals; coated fabrics; coupling hoses; diaphragms; dust excluders; expanded silicone rubbers; gaskets; inflatable seals; O-rings; pre cision mouldings, extrusions and fabricated components; rubber-to-metal bonded parts; engine fire seals. Dunlop Limited, Polymer Engineering Div Leicester, LES 5LY. 053 730281 Anti-vibration mountings; flexible bearings and couplings; transit stand mountings. Dunlop companies overseas Dunlop Australia Ltd; Dunlop do Brasil SA; Dunlop SA, France; Deutsche Dunlop AG, W Germany; Dunlop India Ltd; Dunlop South Africa Ltd. EMI ELECTRONICS AND INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS Hayes, Middx. 01-573 3888 Subsidiary of EMI Limited. Development and manufacture of airborne radar equipment; radar aerials; radar recorders; infra-red Linescan equipment for aerial reconnaissance and survey; self-contained comprehensive reconnaissance systems in pod, pallet or pack configurations; recon naissance record digital data annotation systems; instrumentation and telemetry systems; closed-circuit TV; transducers; ground microwave links; radar trainers and simulators; mortar and gun locating radars; sonar equipment. EMI Electronics Ltd, Automation Div, Elec tron Tube Div, Installation & Maintenance Div, Microelectronics Div and Television Equipment Div Hayes Products include materials handling sys tems and equipment; electronics compo nents and closed-circuit TV. EMI Sound Products Ltd, EMI Tape Ltd and EMI-Varian Ltd Hayes Products include loudspeaker systems, magnetic tape and microwave components. Other EMI Electronics subsidiary companies AFA-Minerva Ltd, London WC2E 7DB, fire detection systems; Ardente Ltd, Windsor, ear protectors; Dynatel Ltd, Feltham, com munications and satellite APT equipment; EMI Marine, Sevenoaks; Meterflow Ltd, Baldock, fuel flowmeters; Nickols Auto matics (EMI) Ltd, East Grinstead, machine tool automation; Precision Electronic Terminations (EMI) Ltd, Sevenoaks; Recording Designs Ltd, Camberley, instru mentation recorders; SE Laboratories (Engineering) Ltd, Feltham, oscilloscopes, oscillographs, tape recorders and trans ducers. EMI associate companies EMIhus Microcomponents Ltd; Nuclear Enterprises (GB) Ltd; Technicolor Ltd. THE FAIREY CO LTD Heston, Middx. 01-573 0692 Fairey Hydraulics Ltd Hestore, Hounslow, Middx. 01-759 2666 Factory area, 9,300 sq m, 100,000 sq ft; 500 employees. Hydraulic powered flying controls; hyd raulic filters and components. Other Fairey subsidiary companies Fairey Engineering Ltd, Stockport; Fairey Surveys Ltd, Maidenhead; Fairey SA, Belgium; Fairey Filtration Ltd. FERRANTILTD Hollinwood, Lanes. 061-681 2000 Capital, £4L2 million. Aircraft Equipment Dept, Moston, M10 QBE. 061-681 2071: Instruments, including artificial horizons, horizon gyro units, verti cal signalling gyros and directional gyros; control inverter units for gyroscopic equip ment; helicopter stability augmentation systems; stabilised sighting systems; inter-tial grade accelerometers; static inverters, transformer rectifiers, voltage control and current monitor units. Aircraft Equipment Dept, Bracknell, RG12 IRA. 0344 4202: Research, development and prototype manufacture of helicopter stability augmentation systems and auto pilot equipment. Stabilised sighting sys tems; high-precision gyros; power condition ing equipment; static inverters; hybrid thin-film and integrated circuits. Digital Systems Div, Bracknell, RG12 IRA. 0344 3232: Operational ATC systems; ATC evaluation and training simulators; air defence systems; flight trial data recording systems; wind tunnel data systems; air borne digital processors. Electronics Systems Dept, Edinburgh 5. 031-332 2411: Airborne radar — Airpass series, strike and terrain-following, heli copter and other special-purpose systems; radarscope recorders. Lasers — airborne ranging and target marking. Electronic cockpit displays—UNIHEDD. Sighting sys tems—GGS, gyro gunsights; LFS, light fighter sights; ISIS weapon-aiming sys tems; INAS inertial nav/attack systems. FLIGHT International, 30 September 1971 Inertial Systems Dept, Edinburgh 5. 031-332 2411: Digital and analogue inertial navigation systems; Eldo, Black Arrow and Skylark attitude and guidance systems; stabilisation systems; gyroscopes; civil and military moving-map displays — Automap and Autochart; Nimrod routine dynamic display; advanced military combined dis plays; stall warning and angle of attack systems; vehicle pictorial navigator. Rotating Components Group, Edinburgh 5. 031-332 2411: Precision sensors, including toroidal potentiometers and absolute and incremental encoders; precision a.c. motors. Components Div, Dundee: Lightweight and high-temperature transformers; radar and telecommunications microwave components; connectors and connection systems. Electronic & Display Equipment Div, Wythenshawe, M22 5LA. 061-428 3644: Flex ible simulators and crew trainers; advanced graphical and alpha-numeric c.r.t. display systems; message switching systems to AFTN standards; satellite power supplies; environmental testing; mathematical model ling of systems including human element; development of novel electronic systems and devices. Automation Systems Div, Wythenshawe, M22 SLA. 061-428 3644: Airborne digital computer systems. Ferranti Ltd London 01-834 6611 Ferranti-Packard Ltd Toronto, Canada Ferranti Electric Inc New York, USA FLIGHT REFUELLING (HOLDINGS) LTD Flight Refuelling Ltd Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 2BJ. 020 125 2121 Capital, £300,000; 1,250 employees. Probe and drogue in-flight refuelling equip ment; fuel, air, hydraulic and water sys tems components including lightweight spherical plug valves; helicopter fuelling systems; ground pressure fuelling equip ment; fuel filtration equipment; reed switches and relays; FR/Hayes Rushton towed target systems. Contract overhaul and conversion of aircraft and components at Tarrant Rushton airfield. THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY LTD Stanhope Gate, London Wl. 01-493 8484 GEC-MARCONI ELECTRONICS LTD Marconi House, Chelmsford. 0245 53221 Group employees, 30,000; principal operat ing company:— The Marconi Co Ltd Chelmsford Uniting the following six sub sidiary companies:— Canadian Marconi Co Montreal 379, PQ, Canada Doppler radar sensors; navigation com puters; avionics. E-A Industrial Corp Atlanta, Georgia, USA Product support. Marconi-Elliott Avionic Systems Ltd Airport Works, Rochester. 0634 44400 Marconi Airadio Div, Basildon, Essex. 0268 22822: Civil and military communica tions and navigation equipment and sys tems; pictorial area navigation systems and displays; Doppler navigation sensors; ADF; VOR/ILS and DME navaids; HF and VHF communications systems; HF/VHF tactical communication systems; Selcal selective calling systems and aerial tuning units; digital and analogue navigation computers; communication control systems. Elliott Flight Automation, Rochester. 0634 44400: Airborne computing—Nimrod tactical
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