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Manufacturing the Percival Prentice

Manufacturing the Percival Prentice THE manufacturing methods and processes being used by Percival Aircraft Ltd., at Luton, in the production of the Prentice are of more than usual interest because this is the first metal aeroplane to be made by a firm well known for its wooden aircraft. Not only has the company built many hundreds of Gulls, Proctors and other wooden aeroplanes of its own design, but during the war the factory was largely occupied making Oxfords and Mosquitos. It is only in the postwar period that Percival's have turned to metal, with the Prentice for the R.A.F. and the Merganser and Prince for the civil market. It was decided to design and build much of the works equipment. Examples of this are to be found in the two stretching presses, the strip rolls and the strip slitter. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology Emerald Publishing

Manufacturing the Percival Prentice

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology , Volume 20 (5): 11 – May 1, 1948
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Emerald Publishing
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0002-2667
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10.1108/eb031634
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THE manufacturing methods and processes being used by Percival Aircraft Ltd., at Luton, in the production of the Prentice are of more than usual interest because this is the first metal aeroplane to be made by a firm well known for its wooden aircraft. Not only has the company built many hundreds of Gulls, Proctors and other wooden aeroplanes of its own design, but during the war the factory was largely occupied making Oxfords and Mosquitos. It is only in the postwar period that Percival's have turned to metal, with the Prentice for the R.A.F. and the Merganser and Prince for the civil market. It was decided to design and build much of the works equipment. Examples of this are to be found in the two stretching presses, the strip rolls and the strip slitter.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology – Emerald Publishing

Published: May 1, 1948

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