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1984
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INDUSTRY BAe plays the merger field LONDON British Aerospace, having already been approached by Thorn-EMI about a possible merger, has been talking also with GEC. Plessey has mean while said that any link-up should be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC). The British Government, through Trade and Industry Minister Norman Lamont, has said that the Government's atti tude is neutral and that it will not use its 48 per cent holding to block a merger. Lamont has said that the Government will require "an undertaking that British Aerospace's participation in the Airbus programmes will continue". Both Thorn-EMI and GEC are powerful "cash-rich" elec tronics companies with long-established aerospace- technology and defence programmes in partnership with British Aerospace. BAe chairman Sir Austin Pearce is reported to favour a merger with GEC, with a view to forming a group able to compete with the biggest American aerospace compa nies in terms of technology and investment resources. % Although Plessey's aero space and engineering turn over was lower than last year, both in the fourth quarter and in the full year, due mainly to the sale of the Precision Metals business in the USA, the resulting elimination of losses has improved operating profit by over 30 per cent to £15 million for the year. The Plessey group as a whole had a turnover of £1,219 million in the year ending March 30, 1984, with a retained profit of £81 million. Respective figures for the previous year were £1,075 million and £57 million. WHO'S SELLING Swissair has chosen Messier- Hispano-Bugatti carbon brakes for its A310-300s and, as retrofits, for its A310-200s. This is the launch order for Messier-Hispano-Bugatti C- brakes on the A310. Dunlop C-brakes for this aircraft have already been chosen by British Caledonian. The first two fuselages for the RAF's GR Mk 5 Harrier II are prepared at Kingston for mating with the forward carbon-epoxy composite fuselage sections which have been shipped from McDonnell Douglas, St Louis, where rear fuselages from BAe are sent for "mirror-image" A V-8B production for the US Marines Volvo Flygmotor and JT8D-200 TROLLHATTAN Agreement between Pratt & Whitney and Volvo Flygmotor means that the wholly owned subsidary of the Swedish Volvo Group "will be partners in the development of new versions of the JT8D, the most successful civil aircraft engine in the history of aviation". Volvo Flygmotor's RM8 Viggen engine, derived from the JT8D, has given the Swedish engine manufacturer the know-how to apply to commercial aviation. "As a result, we will be involved in both the development and production of the JT8D." Dunlop ice-protection systems have been ordered by British Aero space for the ATP's PW124 engines, by Fokker for the similarly engined F50, and by Westland for the twin intakes of the GE CT7 engines of the W30. The ATP and F50 intakes are made in Kevlar- reinforced glassfibre in an epoxy matrix. This photograph shows the build-up of the heat elements This is said by Gunnar Johansson, president, in his 1983 annual report. Net profit during the year was the same as 1982, with sales slightly increased to SEK 1,105 million (£99 million). According to Johansson, the world's commercial aero space business appears to be detecting "better signals from the market". The company is making components for the General Electric CF6-80C2, Garrett TFE 731-5, TPE 331-14/15, and JT8D-200 series. Volvo Flygmotors' most advanced military engine is the RM12, a version of General Electric's F404J, for the JAS39 Gripen fighter. '• m L •:,-idfo-";:' FLIGHT International, 23 June 1984
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