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NEWS OF The OIL INDUSTRY

NEWS OF The OIL INDUSTRY and machines to special designs can bo assembled if NEW S OF THE necessary. There is also a department for instru­ ment calibration and development. OIL INDUSTRY Ne w Engine Test House at Sunbury. An important new centre for advanced research on lubrication in engines is the test-house which was formally opened by H.I.M. the Shah of Iran at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's Research Station, Sunbury-on-Thames, on 24th July, 1948. Lauson engines for lubricating oil testing at Sunbury. When tests are completed, engines are trans­ ferred from the beds to the dismantling bay, stripped and examined for piston-ring gumming, lacquering, sludging, wear, bearing corrosion, etc. Precision measurements are carried out in a temperature con­ trolled room and photographs are taken which are developed in a dark-room on the premises. There is a separate laboratory for tests on in­ Chevrolet Engine installation for lubricating oil testing at Sunbury. dustrial lubricants, gear-oils and greases, fitted, like the main engine-beds, with electric dynamometers The main feature of the building is a series of for friction measurement. A large open floor area fourteen spring-mounted test-beds, each capable of enables vehicles to be pu t on road testing programmes. taking two small engine units or one large one up to Many tests involve running periods of long dura­ the size of a rail diesel-engine. Fuel, cooling water, tion and the laboratory therefore operates on a electricity, exhaust mains and the wiring which con­ 24-hour schedule. nects the sites to the sound-proof remote control cabins, are all installed in a basement, greatly Redex Training School. facilitating work a t the beds themselves. Compressed The new Offices of Wayne V. Myers, makers of air for supercharging is also available. Redex oil additive include a training centre for trainees from the motor trade. Tuition courses in Machine and fitting shops and a drawing office are the Redex conversion scheme will be free. The provided to ensure that engines used for the tests conform always to the highest degree of precision, address is 365, Chiswick High Road, London, W.4. Scientific LUBRICATION 2 0 October, 1948 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Industrial Lubrication and Tribology Emerald Publishing

NEWS OF The OIL INDUSTRY

Industrial Lubrication and Tribology , Volume 1 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 1948
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and machines to special designs can bo assembled if NEW S OF THE necessary. There is also a department for instru­ ment calibration and development. OIL INDUSTRY Ne w Engine Test House at Sunbury. An important new centre for advanced research on lubrication in engines is the test-house which was formally opened by H.I.M. the Shah of Iran at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's Research Station, Sunbury-on-Thames, on 24th July, 1948. Lauson engines for lubricating oil testing at Sunbury. When tests are completed, engines are trans­ ferred from the beds to the dismantling bay, stripped and examined for piston-ring gumming, lacquering, sludging, wear, bearing corrosion, etc. Precision measurements are carried out in a temperature con­ trolled room and photographs are taken which are developed in a dark-room on the premises. There is a separate laboratory for tests on in­ Chevrolet Engine installation for lubricating oil testing at Sunbury. dustrial lubricants, gear-oils and greases, fitted, like the main engine-beds, with electric dynamometers The main feature of the building is a series of for friction measurement. A large open floor area fourteen spring-mounted test-beds, each capable of enables vehicles to be pu t on road testing programmes. taking two small engine units or one large one up to Many tests involve running periods of long dura­ the size of a rail diesel-engine. Fuel, cooling water, tion and the laboratory therefore operates on a electricity, exhaust mains and the wiring which con­ 24-hour schedule. nects the sites to the sound-proof remote control cabins, are all installed in a basement, greatly Redex Training School. facilitating work a t the beds themselves. Compressed The new Offices of Wayne V. Myers, makers of air for supercharging is also available. Redex oil additive include a training centre for trainees from the motor trade. Tuition courses in Machine and fitting shops and a drawing office are the Redex conversion scheme will be free. The provided to ensure that engines used for the tests conform always to the highest degree of precision, address is 365, Chiswick High Road, London, W.4. Scientific LUBRICATION 2 0 October, 1948

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