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1937
1937 - 0101.PDF
JANUARY- 14, 1937. FLIGHT. 39 Commercial Aviation THE AIRPORTS EXHIBITION Next Week's Important Three-day Event : The List of Exhibitors NEXT Wednesday, January 20, the Airports Con ference and Exhibition, arranged by the Aero drome Owners' Association (an organisation • associated with the S.B.A.C), opens at the Central Hall, Westminster, London, S.W.i. Fifty exhibitors have taken space, and the allotment of the stands is shown on the accom panying diagram and in the alphabetical list below. The proceedings, which cover three da-ys, include a business meeting for members of the Association, an official dinner, demonstrations by exhibitors, meeting and discussion, and a visit to Hatfield Aerodrome. Tickets covering all but the business meeting can from the Association, 32, Savile Row, London, 35s. The full time-table is as follows:— Wednesday, January 20. _ n a.m. Official opening of Conference and *-si 75 vr 3*^ ZS 22 2t •r> » in 5o IS SI •*< S3 4J 55 •42 34 41 5S 4o M 39 V it 5 6 7 S 9 h /! /i. a r ENTRAN CE.S The stands at the Central Hall, Westminster. 2.30 p.m members. 8 p.m Private business meeting for Official dinner. be. obtained W.i, price Exhibition. Association Thursday, January 21. ' 10.15 a.m. Demonstration of blind landing system. 2.30 p.m. Consideration and general discussion of im portant matters interesting aerodrome operators and owners, including the standardisation of aerodrome fees. There may also be a paper on the application of town planning regulations to aerodromes. Friday, January 22. IO a.m.—Hatfield visit. Exhibition open all day. THE EXHIBITORS Stand No. Airco, Ltd. 12 Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd 16 Bells Asbestos and Engineering Co., Ltd 37 Lewis Merger and Suns. Ltd. .. . 42 Boulton and Paul, Ltd. 2 British Oxi gen Co., Ltd 31 British Thomson Houston C 9 Brown Bros. (Aircraft). Ltd. ... 26 Callemlers Cable and Construc tion Co 14 Cell™. Ltd \ 19 Cement and Concrete Association 50 Chance Bros, and Co., Ltd 5 Churchill and C<... Ltd., V. L 44 Stand No. Chloride Electrical Storage Co.. Ltd 8 Desoutter Bros.. Ltd 38 Edison Swan Electric Co 47 Educational Supply Association Ltd. 22 En-Tout-Cas Co. ISyston). Ltd. .. 4 Equipment and Engineering Co. Ltcf 11 Erlach, Ltd., Kurt 20 Felco Hoists, Ltd 4 " Flight" 48 Gambrells, Bowse and Snoaden, Ltd -. 18 General Aircraft, Ltd 39 Stand No. General Electric Co 28 General Fire Appliance Co 32 Grimston Electric Tools, Ltd 6 Hall and Sons, Ltd., John 49 Headland. Thos. P 40 Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd 3 Lake. Ltd., Ernest 17 Laycock Engineering Co 29 London and Midland Steel Scaf folding Co.. Ltd 46 Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd 13 National Benzole Co., Ltd 21 Xewnes. Ltd., George 43 Stand No. Newton Bros. 34 Northern Aluminium Co.. Ltd. .. 45 Peto and Radford 1 Pillin. Ltd.. John B 25 Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd 35 Short and Mason, Ltd 10 Standard Telephones and Cables 36 Sutton and Sons, Ltd 23 Tecalemit. Ltd 3 Temple Press, Ltd. 27 Thompson Bros. (Bilston), Ltd... 3 Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd 7 Wakefield and Co., Ltd., C. C. Webb and Sons. Ltd., Edward 41 1 Brighton-Jersey fyi June i Jersey Airways will inaugurate a service between w the new airport in Jersey and Shoreham. Getting Down to It THE American Bureau of Air Commerce has recently taken delivery ot a Lockheed 12A for testing airline equip ment. The machine will be used for testing prospective pilots, general navigational equipment, and blind-approach equipment. In its delivered state the Lockheed was fitted with de-icers for leading edges and airscrews, an automatic Pilot and two-way radio. Newfoundland Preparation pill-. Marconi radio station at Botwood, Newfoundland, is now almost ready for testing, and two smaller stations are to be erected, both at the airport (Hattie's Camp) and ™ the shore of Gander Lake, the "feeder" base. Blind approat h equipment will also be installed at the airport, and le ,™twood main station is designed to be powerful enough will CfVer the entire Atlantic crossing. Canadian stations tvirK ', ("urs(- be used for obtaining "fixes" in co-operation vv'th this stnrJrm TN tlit issue of Decembe * various flying-beat ba The Durban Terminus er 31, the fact was mentioned that Durl "=' fjymg-bWtt base sites were being investigated at menriJ-' f one wmcn has now been chosen, on the recom- British T »,.Mr A- GilP'n' Assistant Director of Work, I the oil c ilr Muiistry, is well sheltered and lies to the west of before tl, Salisbury Island. As it will be some time decided i new l,uuJl«gs can be erected the authorities have H is Jt- ? _, h an a"chorage at one end of the island estimated that at least ^100,000 will be spent in the provision of an administrative block for the accommodation of customs, immigration health and postal officials, Imperial Airways officials and officers responsible for the control of the base. It is proposed to erect a hangar approximately 150 feet by 100 feet with a concrete apron. A considerable amount of dredging over an area about 1,200 feet by 300 feet will be necessary to give the depth of water required for the moorings. Land reclamation is also involved. The moorings will be to the east of the area to be reclaimed. A small jetty is to be built and a pontoon will be used lor em barking and disembarking passengers and luggage. Passengers will be conveyed from Island View to the city by road—a dis tance of ten miles. As a start the time taken between London and Durban would be 61 days, as the schedule had been designed to avoid night flying, which will be undertaken only as a result ot ex perience gained on the route. It is anticipated that the time taken will be reduced to the originally contemplated four and a half days some eighteen months after the commencement of the service At least one flying-boat will be stationed at Durban, and Imperial Airways will transfer their southern headquarters to Durban from Johannesburg when the new ser vice comes into operation in April. The distribution of mails and passengers will necessitate the extension of flying services within the Union. There have already been several changes and a new regular service between Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth has been inaugurated, A twice or thrice-weekly service of feeder aircraft between Lourenco Marques and Johannesburg is expected to begin shortly. From Ayril 1 the Union Government and Rhodesia and Nyasaland Airways will take over the overland service from Germiston to Lusaka and a new tariff of id. per half ounce will be introduced to cover the transport of all iirst- class mail matter to all territories belonging to the Africau Postal Union, which includes all South Africa's northern neighbours.
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