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FLIGHT International, 9 January 1964 73 INDUSTRY International Flight Systems Products Company News Great Britain BS-Marquardt Agreement Bristol Sidde- ley and the Marquardt Corp, of Van Nuys, Calif, have signed an agreement for the exchange of information on supersonic and hypersonic flight propulsion systems. In a joint announcement the two companies state that initial collaboration will be limited to an exchange of information on ramjet engines, sub-systems and components. Bristol Siddeley and Marquardt manufac- ture the,ramjet engines for their respective air forces' standard ground-to-air missile— BS the Thor which powers the Bloodhound and Marquardt the cruise propulsion unit of the Boeing Bomarc. Equipment for Hansa An initial contract for the design and supply of undercarriages and hydraulic equipment for 50 of the projected Hamburger HFB-320 Hansa jet executive aircraft has been awarded to Lockheed Precision Products Ltd of Liverpool by Hamburger Flugzeugbau. The first flight of the six-eleven-seat twin rear-engined Hansa. unique among its class for its swept-forward wings, is expected within the next few months, with deliveries to take place early next year. Beagle 206 Equipment On the last day of 1963 Sperry were able to announce an order for their CL.6 compass system, electric horizon gyro units and SP.3 auto- pilot to be fitted in the 22 Beagle 206s ordered by the MoA. Spraymat Milestone The Luton Division of D. Napier and Son Ltd claims that its Spraymat ice protection system has now achieved well over 15m flying hours on 40 different types of civil and military aircraft throughout the world. The latest notable Spraymat order was from Alitalia, for the spinners of its Viscount fleet. Spraymat Dart spinners are supplied with a 4,000hr warranty. On the Britannia the system is achieving 6,000hr without defects. New Mirror Invented by BAC Promising to be cheaper than glass, totally mist-free, shatterproof, and only "half-a-thou" thick, a revolutionary type of mirror has been invented by the Research and Development Department of BAC's Weybridge Division. Nine airlines, photometric and explosive- research laboratories, television studios, medical researchers, botanists, and archi- tects are already making use of the new mirrors, the basis of which is 0.0005in Melinex clear polyester film vacuum coated with aluminium on one side. The film protects the aluminium reflecting surface from fingermarking. Mounted with a ventilated airspace behind, the mirror remains mist-free. The image is said to be very crisp, with an absence of distortion, chromatic aberrations and "rainbow" effects encountered with glass. High-temperature Cable A new type of electrical cable, suitable for operation at a continuous temperature of 260°C and proved for three minutes in a standard flame test at 2,000°F has been introduced by the Wandleside Warren Wire Co Ltd, of Dunmurry, N. Ireland. The cable is recommended for use in aircraft where lower-temperature flame-resistant cables are unsuitable. Wandleside Warren has been granted design approval for PTFE cables by the MoA. New Electronics Company Formed Now in limited production with apparatus designed for the aviation and nuclear engineering industries, and expecting to be in full production by the summer, is a new electronics company, Gemco (Electronics) Ltd, formed last month with a capital of £10,000. The company's offices are at 72 Paul Street, London EC2, and the directors are Sir Patrick Crofton, Bt, and Messrs S. J. Cordell, G. W. Pritchard and A. W. W. Heath. Solartron Appointment Mr G. A. G. Rowlandson has succeeded Mr R. Roper as senior sales engineer of the Merchandis- ing Division of the Solartron Electronic Group Ltd, Famborough, Hants. Early in his career Mr Rowlandson was in the Radio Department of RAE Farnborough, and was later with Southern Instruments and Honeywell Controls before joining Solartron in 1959. "Lav" Retires Mr John E. Lavender, universally known as "Jack" or "Lav" and famed throughout the industry and RAF for his moustache, hat and pipe, retired after many years as service manager at Hunting Aircraft (now BAC's Luton Division and at one time Percival Aircraft) at the end of December. Apprenticed in the motor trade before the first world war, Mr Lavender joined the RFC in 1916 as a fitter and served for four years. On his release he went to the Aircraft Disposal Co at Hendon and Croydon as superintendent of the engine test beds. In 1936 he joined Capt Edgar Percival at Gravesend, as service manager of the new company, and moved with it to Luton later that year. From then until 1939 he was associated with many record-breaking flights made with early Percival aircraft— among pilots he assisted were Jean Batten, Alex Henshaw, Neville Stack, H. F. Broad- bent, Beryl Markham, the Mollisons and BOAC's new chairman, Sir Giles Guthrie. In 1939 he went to Field Aircraft Services at Croydon as superintendent of the aircraft repair division, was bombed out with them in 1940 and was given charge of a dispersal factory, manufacturing aircraft components in Cumberland, until 1944, when he returned to Fields at Croydon. In 1946 he rejoined Percival as service manager at Luton, a post he continued to hold after the company's acquisition by Hunting and subsequently by BAC. Mr Lavender was named in last week's New Year Honours List, and a por- trait appears on page 44. VASI Production In a reference in our recent Airports and Ground Equipment Number to VASI approach lighting it was implied that two companies had become associated with each other in the produc- tion of such equipment. The sentence in question should have read: "Thorn and GEC have now been joined in the commercial production of the VASI approach lighting system by Research Engineers Ltd." In other words, three separate firms hold licences for the commercial production of the equipment originally developed by RAE Farnborough. It should be added that the Thorn subsidiary concerned is Atlas Lighting Ltd (Airfield Lighting Division). Among the wiring and other aircraft electrical components manufactured by Ward Brooke & Co Ltd (Westbourne Street, High Wycombe, Bucks) are these terminal blocks, available in panel and through-chassis versions and amenable to service in temperatures of up to 200°C
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