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Trade Announcements

Trade Announcements Limited begin manufacture in England, they will act as selling agents for the English Company. Trade Announcements The directors of Midland Silicones Limited include members of both the English and American parent companies; among them being Mr J. C. Christopher- A monthly feature giving news of recent Government and professional appointments, son, Sales Director of Albright & Wilson Limited, and Mr K. A. M. Barton, who joins the Board as industrial developments and business changes, etc. Sale Director of the new Company. Armstrong Siddeley Motors Civil Air Adviser to India and Pakistan Three changes among the executives of Armstrong The Ministry of Civil Aviation announce from Power Jets Consultant Siddeley Motors Limited of Coventry, Warwickshire, Ariel House, Theobalds Road, W.C.1, that Mr D. E. Latest expert to associate with Power Jets (Research are announced by the Hawker Siddeley Group of Proudlove has been appointed Civil Air Adviser to and Development) Limited, of 25 Green Street, W.l, 18 St. James's Square, S.W.I. the U.K. High Commissioners in India and Pakistan as a Consulting Engineer is George Jendrassik Mr H. T. Chapman, General Manager since 1945 in succession to Mr R. S. Kinsey. Mr Proudlovc took international authority on gas turbine and diesel and Director of the Company since April 1946, has up his appointment and was expected to reach New engines. been appointed Managing Director. Delhi in mid-October. Jendrassik, who was born in Hungary, has lived Mr W. F. Saxton, M.B.E., who joined Armstrong in England since his arrival from South America in Siddeley straight from school in 1924, and who has College of Aeronautics Appointment been Chief Engineer of the Company since 1945 and He began work on gas turbine engines in 1935 and, The Board of Governors of the College of Aero­ a Director since 1948, has been appointed Technical just before the war, produced the world's first smalt nautics have established, as from August 1, 1950, a and Works Director. gas turbine engine to run. It developed 100 h.p. and Chair in Aircraft Structures and Aero-elasticity in the Mr W. H. Lindsey, M.A., F.R.Ae.S., who joined its basic conception and aerodynamic and mechanical Department of Aircraft Design. Mr W. S. Hemp, the Company in 1933, and was awarded the Royal details have since been recognized as remarkably M.A., A.F.R.Ae.S., formerly Senior Lecturer in Aeronautical Society Herbert Akroyd Stuart Memorial advanced. Aircraft Structures and the Deputy Head of the Prize in 1949 for his lecture on the Mamba turbine, Jendrassik worked for Ganz & Company in Buda­ Department, has been appointed to the Chair. Mr has been appointed Chief Engineer. He has been pest before the war. He became General Manager Hemp is known to readers of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING Deputy Chief Engineer since 1945. and a Director of the company and was responsible as the author of the monograph 'The Elementary It is also announced that Mr Chapman and Mr for the technical work of many diesel engine develop­ Theory of Stressed-Skin Construction'. Roy Hurley, President of the Curtiss Wright Aircraft ments. He designed the 'Ganz-Jendrassik' high speed Corporation of New Jersey, have agreed in principle diesel engine for railcars. The engine was manufac­ on a long-term contract between their two companies Conveyancer Fork Truck Company tured under licence in England and in many European which provides for a complete exchange of research Electro-Hydraulics Limited, of Liverpool Road, countries. and technical information and covers a licence to Warrington, announce that their well-known range of Jendrassik is a member of the Institution of Me­ build immediately in America not only the Sapphire Conveyancer Fork Trucks are henceforth to be chanical Engineers and has been on the Board of but also the Armstrong Siddeley Python and Double marketed by a separate division of their Company Metropolitan Railcars Limited since 1948. Mamba turbo prop engines. The proposed agreement which has been registered as the 'Conveyancer Fork is actually with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Truck Co.', whose address is at Liverpool Road, the engine subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright. Sankey, Warrington. Silicone Manufacture in England Albright & Wilson Limited, of 49 Park Lane, W.1, Armstrong Whitworth New Managing Director who for the past four years have acted as the dis­ Hedley S. Crabtree and Company The Chairman and Board of Directors of the tributors of silicones in Great Britain for the Dow After sixteen years' service with British Overseas Hawker Siddeley Group announce the appointment of Corning Corporation of America, announce their Airways Corporation and its predecessor, Imperial Mr H. M. Woodhams, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., M.I.P.E., intention to start manufacture of silicones in this Airways Limited, H. S. Crabtree has set up his own the present Director and General Manager of the country. firm of aeronautical consultant engineers—Hedley S. Company, to the position of Managing Director of Sir Silicone products are available in many forms, Crabtree and Company Limited, Salisbury House, W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. as from including: Compounds—Heat-stable, water-repellent London Wall, E.C.2. Telephone: Monarch 1833/5. September 26, 1950. insulating materials for scaling high tension ignition Mr Woodhams, who is well known in the aviation systems, and high frequency equipment; Mould world, has been associated with the aircraft industry Folland Aircraft Appointment release agents and foam inhibitors. Greases—Special since 1909. He joined Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft The Directors of Folland Aircraft Limited an­ lubricants for valves and bearings operating at ex­ as Chief Inspector in 1923 and was appointed suc­ nounce that Mr W. E. W. Petter has joined the tremely high and low temperatures. Fluids—Heat- cessively Assistant Works Manager, Works Manager, Board, and has accepted the post of Deputy Managing stable, inert liquids for use as damping and hydraulic and Assistant General Manager. He became General Director, taking up his duties early in October. fluids, mould release agents, heat transfer media, Manager in 1937 and was elected to the Board of diffusion pump oils, high temperature lubricants and Directors in 1941. for waterproofing insulator surfaces. Resins and High Duty Alloys Publicity Manager Varnishes—Heat-resistant waterproof materials for High Duty Alloys Ltd., of Slough, announce the B.T.H. Directorate use in electrical insulation, and as bonding agents and appointment of Mr J. Moore-Ogilvie, late of Delapena Mr J. S. Ramsden, M.I.E.E., has decided to relin­ protective coatings. Silastic Rubber—A silicone & Son Ltd., Cheltenham, as Advertising and Publicity quish his seat on the Board of Directors of The rubber, flexible at 110° F. and at 500° F. Available in Manager in succession to Mr D. Courtney Embley. British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd. of Rugby, on grades suitable for moulding, extruding, coating, September 30, 1950, after more than forty years' laminating and caulking. service with the Company—fifteen of them as a Jones and Shipman and Ex-Cell-O Machines Director. A. A. Jones & Shipman Ltd. of Narborough Road Mr Ramsden is, however, remaining with the South, Leicester, have been appointed the sole selling S. Smith and Sons New Director Company in a consultative capacity, and is retaining agents in Great Britain for the complete range of The Directors of S. Smith & Sons (England) his scat on the Boards of The British Thomson- machines manufactured by Ex-Cell-O Corporation, Limited announce that Mr J. Reid Young, C.A., Houston Export Co. Ltd., Ferguson Pailin Ltd., Detroit, U.S.A. F.C.I.S., Finance and Administration Director of and the Switchgear Testing Co. Ltd. The addition of this agency, following the recent Vickers Ltd., has joined the board of the Company. Following on the resignation of Mr Ramsden, agreement with the Micromatic Hone Corporation In addition to Vickers Ltd., Mr Reid Young is a Mr W. S. Steel, B.Sc.(Eng.), M.I.E.E., A.M.Inst. of Detroit for the manufacture and sales in Great director of a number of other companies, among Mar.E., has been elected a Director and took his scat ' Britain for their honing machines and equipment which are the English Steel Corporation, the Iron on the Board on October 2. mentioned on p. 193 of the July issue of AIRCRAFT Trades Employers' Insurance Association Ltd., ENGINEERING, has necessitated the promotion of a Powers-Samas Accounting Machines Ltd., etc. British Standards Institution separate Sales Division to handle these lines. Mr H. A. R. Binney, C.B., an Under Secretary of Mr Jack Humphries has, therefore, been appointed the Board of Trade, has been appointed Deputy Sales Manager, American Equipment Division, of S.M.D. Aluminium Hangar Director of the British Standards Institution of Jones & Shipman. Structural & Mechanical Development Engineers 24/28 Victoria Street, S.W.I. Ltd., of 2 Buckingham Avenue, Slough, announce Mr Binney took up his appointment in October. that the Air Ministry, acting on behalf of the Ministry K.L.M. General Manager in the U.K. The Institution has opened a branch office at of Civil Aviation, has placed an order with them for Formerly a London stockbroker, Mr William de 12 Hilton Street, Manchester, 1. Telephone: Central the design, construction and erection of a three bay Mier has been appointed General Manager for the 4856. Telegrams: Bristandin, Manchester. hangar for London Airport, to be manufactured United Kingdom and Ireland of K.L.M. Royal Dutch At this office a complete set of British Standards, entirely in aluminium alloy; each bay 150 ft. overall Airlines, 196 Sloane Street, S.W.1. some 1,600 in number, may be consulted and copies span width by 110 ft. long, with clear doorway purchased if desired. openings of 125 ft. by 30 ft. high. Any information about the B.S.I. can be obtained It is stated that this is by far the largest structure of Midland Silicones Limited by reference to Mr A. F. B. Nall, an Assistant Tech­ this type ever designed in aluminium alloy. Albright & Wilson Limited, of 49 Park Lane, W.1, nical Director of the Institution, who is in charge of and the Dow Corning Corporation of America an­ S.M.D. is the construction company of the Associ­ the Manchester office. ated Light Metal Industries group (Head Office: nounce the formation of a new Company, Midland Almin Ltd., Farnham Royal, Bucks. Managing Silicones Limited, which assumed, on September 25, British Timken in Glasgow Director, Colonel W. C. Devereux, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S.). all the activities previously undertaken by the silicone As from October 9, 1950, British Timken Limited department of Albright & Wilson Limited. This year the company has manufactured the three have opened new offices in Glasgow. The address is pairs of 75 ft. telescopic gangways installed at the For the time being the new Company will continue 93 Hope Street, Glasgow, C.2. The telephone number Ocean Terminal, Southampton and the main struc­ to market silicone products imported from America is Glasgow Central 7331-2. The British Timken tural ribs for the 365 ft. Dome of Discovery for the and manufactured by the Dow Corning Corporation. Representative is Mr H. F. Searle. Festival of Britain, both projects in aluminium alloy. In the near future, however, when Albright & Wilson Aircraft Engineering http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology Emerald Publishing

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Limited begin manufacture in England, they will act as selling agents for the English Company. Trade Announcements The directors of Midland Silicones Limited include members of both the English and American parent companies; among them being Mr J. C. Christopher- A monthly feature giving news of recent Government and professional appointments, son, Sales Director of Albright & Wilson Limited, and Mr K. A. M. Barton, who joins the Board as industrial developments and business changes, etc. Sale Director of the new Company. Armstrong Siddeley Motors Civil Air Adviser to India and Pakistan Three changes among the executives of Armstrong The Ministry of Civil Aviation announce from Power Jets Consultant Siddeley Motors Limited of Coventry, Warwickshire, Ariel House, Theobalds Road, W.C.1, that Mr D. E. Latest expert to associate with Power Jets (Research are announced by the Hawker Siddeley Group of Proudlove has been appointed Civil Air Adviser to and Development) Limited, of 25 Green Street, W.l, 18 St. James's Square, S.W.I. the U.K. High Commissioners in India and Pakistan as a Consulting Engineer is George Jendrassik Mr H. T. Chapman, General Manager since 1945 in succession to Mr R. S. Kinsey. Mr Proudlovc took international authority on gas turbine and diesel and Director of the Company since April 1946, has up his appointment and was expected to reach New engines. been appointed Managing Director. Delhi in mid-October. Jendrassik, who was born in Hungary, has lived Mr W. F. Saxton, M.B.E., who joined Armstrong in England since his arrival from South America in Siddeley straight from school in 1924, and who has College of Aeronautics Appointment been Chief Engineer of the Company since 1945 and He began work on gas turbine engines in 1935 and, The Board of Governors of the College of Aero­ a Director since 1948, has been appointed Technical just before the war, produced the world's first smalt nautics have established, as from August 1, 1950, a and Works Director. gas turbine engine to run. It developed 100 h.p. and Chair in Aircraft Structures and Aero-elasticity in the Mr W. H. Lindsey, M.A., F.R.Ae.S., who joined its basic conception and aerodynamic and mechanical Department of Aircraft Design. Mr W. S. Hemp, the Company in 1933, and was awarded the Royal details have since been recognized as remarkably M.A., A.F.R.Ae.S., formerly Senior Lecturer in Aeronautical Society Herbert Akroyd Stuart Memorial advanced. Aircraft Structures and the Deputy Head of the Prize in 1949 for his lecture on the Mamba turbine, Jendrassik worked for Ganz & Company in Buda­ Department, has been appointed to the Chair. Mr has been appointed Chief Engineer. He has been pest before the war. He became General Manager Hemp is known to readers of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING Deputy Chief Engineer since 1945. and a Director of the company and was responsible as the author of the monograph 'The Elementary It is also announced that Mr Chapman and Mr for the technical work of many diesel engine develop­ Theory of Stressed-Skin Construction'. Roy Hurley, President of the Curtiss Wright Aircraft ments. He designed the 'Ganz-Jendrassik' high speed Corporation of New Jersey, have agreed in principle diesel engine for railcars. The engine was manufac­ on a long-term contract between their two companies Conveyancer Fork Truck Company tured under licence in England and in many European which provides for a complete exchange of research Electro-Hydraulics Limited, of Liverpool Road, countries. and technical information and covers a licence to Warrington, announce that their well-known range of Jendrassik is a member of the Institution of Me­ build immediately in America not only the Sapphire Conveyancer Fork Trucks are henceforth to be chanical Engineers and has been on the Board of but also the Armstrong Siddeley Python and Double marketed by a separate division of their Company Metropolitan Railcars Limited since 1948. Mamba turbo prop engines. The proposed agreement which has been registered as the 'Conveyancer Fork is actually with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Truck Co.', whose address is at Liverpool Road, the engine subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright. Sankey, Warrington. Silicone Manufacture in England Albright & Wilson Limited, of 49 Park Lane, W.1, Armstrong Whitworth New Managing Director who for the past four years have acted as the dis­ Hedley S. Crabtree and Company The Chairman and Board of Directors of the tributors of silicones in Great Britain for the Dow After sixteen years' service with British Overseas Hawker Siddeley Group announce the appointment of Corning Corporation of America, announce their Airways Corporation and its predecessor, Imperial Mr H. M. Woodhams, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., M.I.P.E., intention to start manufacture of silicones in this Airways Limited, H. S. Crabtree has set up his own the present Director and General Manager of the country. firm of aeronautical consultant engineers—Hedley S. Company, to the position of Managing Director of Sir Silicone products are available in many forms, Crabtree and Company Limited, Salisbury House, W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. as from including: Compounds—Heat-stable, water-repellent London Wall, E.C.2. Telephone: Monarch 1833/5. September 26, 1950. insulating materials for scaling high tension ignition Mr Woodhams, who is well known in the aviation systems, and high frequency equipment; Mould world, has been associated with the aircraft industry Folland Aircraft Appointment release agents and foam inhibitors. Greases—Special since 1909. He joined Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft The Directors of Folland Aircraft Limited an­ lubricants for valves and bearings operating at ex­ as Chief Inspector in 1923 and was appointed suc­ nounce that Mr W. E. W. Petter has joined the tremely high and low temperatures. Fluids—Heat- cessively Assistant Works Manager, Works Manager, Board, and has accepted the post of Deputy Managing stable, inert liquids for use as damping and hydraulic and Assistant General Manager. He became General Director, taking up his duties early in October. fluids, mould release agents, heat transfer media, Manager in 1937 and was elected to the Board of diffusion pump oils, high temperature lubricants and Directors in 1941. for waterproofing insulator surfaces. Resins and High Duty Alloys Publicity Manager Varnishes—Heat-resistant waterproof materials for High Duty Alloys Ltd., of Slough, announce the B.T.H. Directorate use in electrical insulation, and as bonding agents and appointment of Mr J. Moore-Ogilvie, late of Delapena Mr J. S. Ramsden, M.I.E.E., has decided to relin­ protective coatings. Silastic Rubber—A silicone & Son Ltd., Cheltenham, as Advertising and Publicity quish his seat on the Board of Directors of The rubber, flexible at 110° F. and at 500° F. Available in Manager in succession to Mr D. Courtney Embley. British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd. of Rugby, on grades suitable for moulding, extruding, coating, September 30, 1950, after more than forty years' laminating and caulking. service with the Company—fifteen of them as a Jones and Shipman and Ex-Cell-O Machines Director. A. A. Jones & Shipman Ltd. of Narborough Road Mr Ramsden is, however, remaining with the South, Leicester, have been appointed the sole selling S. Smith and Sons New Director Company in a consultative capacity, and is retaining agents in Great Britain for the complete range of The Directors of S. Smith & Sons (England) his scat on the Boards of The British Thomson- machines manufactured by Ex-Cell-O Corporation, Limited announce that Mr J. Reid Young, C.A., Houston Export Co. Ltd., Ferguson Pailin Ltd., Detroit, U.S.A. F.C.I.S., Finance and Administration Director of and the Switchgear Testing Co. Ltd. The addition of this agency, following the recent Vickers Ltd., has joined the board of the Company. Following on the resignation of Mr Ramsden, agreement with the Micromatic Hone Corporation In addition to Vickers Ltd., Mr Reid Young is a Mr W. S. Steel, B.Sc.(Eng.), M.I.E.E., A.M.Inst. of Detroit for the manufacture and sales in Great director of a number of other companies, among Mar.E., has been elected a Director and took his scat ' Britain for their honing machines and equipment which are the English Steel Corporation, the Iron on the Board on October 2. mentioned on p. 193 of the July issue of AIRCRAFT Trades Employers' Insurance Association Ltd., ENGINEERING, has necessitated the promotion of a Powers-Samas Accounting Machines Ltd., etc. British Standards Institution separate Sales Division to handle these lines. Mr H. A. R. Binney, C.B., an Under Secretary of Mr Jack Humphries has, therefore, been appointed the Board of Trade, has been appointed Deputy Sales Manager, American Equipment Division, of S.M.D. Aluminium Hangar Director of the British Standards Institution of Jones & Shipman. Structural & Mechanical Development Engineers 24/28 Victoria Street, S.W.I. Ltd., of 2 Buckingham Avenue, Slough, announce Mr Binney took up his appointment in October. that the Air Ministry, acting on behalf of the Ministry K.L.M. General Manager in the U.K. The Institution has opened a branch office at of Civil Aviation, has placed an order with them for Formerly a London stockbroker, Mr William de 12 Hilton Street, Manchester, 1. Telephone: Central the design, construction and erection of a three bay Mier has been appointed General Manager for the 4856. Telegrams: Bristandin, Manchester. hangar for London Airport, to be manufactured United Kingdom and Ireland of K.L.M. Royal Dutch At this office a complete set of British Standards, entirely in aluminium alloy; each bay 150 ft. overall Airlines, 196 Sloane Street, S.W.1. some 1,600 in number, may be consulted and copies span width by 110 ft. long, with clear doorway purchased if desired. openings of 125 ft. by 30 ft. high. Any information about the B.S.I. can be obtained It is stated that this is by far the largest structure of Midland Silicones Limited by reference to Mr A. F. B. Nall, an Assistant Tech­ this type ever designed in aluminium alloy. Albright & Wilson Limited, of 49 Park Lane, W.1, nical Director of the Institution, who is in charge of and the Dow Corning Corporation of America an­ S.M.D. is the construction company of the Associ­ the Manchester office. ated Light Metal Industries group (Head Office: nounce the formation of a new Company, Midland Almin Ltd., Farnham Royal, Bucks. Managing Silicones Limited, which assumed, on September 25, British Timken in Glasgow Director, Colonel W. C. Devereux, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S.). all the activities previously undertaken by the silicone As from October 9, 1950, British Timken Limited department of Albright & Wilson Limited. This year the company has manufactured the three have opened new offices in Glasgow. The address is pairs of 75 ft. telescopic gangways installed at the For the time being the new Company will continue 93 Hope Street, Glasgow, C.2. The telephone number Ocean Terminal, Southampton and the main struc­ to market silicone products imported from America is Glasgow Central 7331-2. The British Timken tural ribs for the 365 ft. Dome of Discovery for the and manufactured by the Dow Corning Corporation. Representative is Mr H. F. Searle. Festival of Britain, both projects in aluminium alloy. In the near future, however, when Albright & Wilson Aircraft Engineering

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