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THE GROWTH OF THE FERODO ORGANISATION.
The prolation from a small wonden hat, 3 feet by 9 feet, situated in the heart of the Derbyshire country, alde, to the modern Perudo fartuty, covering Mặ1⁄2 arena, conlpped with the most advanced scientific machlorry
and with distributors centres in every part of the world, la story of continued progression.
It was in 1987 that Mr. Herbert Frond Started making brake linings for horse-drawn vehicles but with the development of the motor car and the ronarquent heavy demand for efficient braking material, it became mecessary to obtain larger promines and employ maze modern methods of manufactors,
In 1903 Mr. Vrind therefore acquired the Bovetelen Mills at Chapel-en-le-Felth and five years later the business was Dosted as a public limited company kriowa na The Hertbert Froad Company Limited,
In 1930 the name of the Company was changed to Ferodo Limited and much Wha the demand for Ferodo Brake mast Clutch Lindagi that an entirely new fuctory had to be bellt in 1921. În 1928 the velome of output had an inermand that the fartsry area had to be, doubled and farther extensions were made in 1924.
Today, the huge factory at Chapelands-Frith, complete with its Phrules! Firsearch Laboratory, itself unique of its kind, produces by far the largest relame of friction materials in the Eastert: Hemlaphers. zume, ka tie demand for Vendo penderia Incrensen, further Jargy factory extendana are in progress
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The Role Of Paper In War
When one talks of winning the war with paper, ono hus visiona of Innumerable Me. baskets and cabinets crammed with documents, with or with out accompanying red tape. But this was only one use of what in World War II became one of the most Important of the raw materials which apelt Victory In the long run.
These thoughts are engender- ed by the receipt of a copy of "1939-45," the story of Wig- gina Teape & Alex Pirlo (Ex- port) Ltd. Britain's premier papermakora, during the lust war. This company, with a long tradition in paperihaking and the manufacturing capacity of 18 mills, was in a unique position to meet practically any demand made on it-from water-resistant naval charts to turret tops for Churchill tanks.
In addition to the papers al- ways supplied to the Govern ment departments, some indica- tion of the wide variety of pa- pers supplied to industry the fighting services may be gain from the following summary toking the entira production of British paper mills as a whole, the percentage supplied by Wiggins Teape of certain vital papers was:—
100%
100%
Natural tracing paper 100%. Photographie baso Alegraph base Admiralty chart paper 1005, Paper for punched card
100% 66%
systems
Map paper
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BRITISH INDUSTRY CANNOT
:
MEET WORLD DEMAND
Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the
Council, recently gave a number of striking together; yours is solid quality. 500, cc. model), and a 500 examples of how increased production of Bri-the result of good workmanship." singlo-cylinder type with the tish industry is still insufficsent to meet' world He left orders for 500 cycles, highest power output for its demand. Motor-cars and commercial vehicles 10,000 handle-bars, 60,000 chains capacity of unblown, engine in the
and 50,000 pedals. Similar renc-world. produced in June, for example, were the ions from India and the Far These Improvements aro stimu- greatest in number ever recorded and steel East, West Africa, and other lating world demand to A new and cotton yarn output were both rising. He proved that wartime lessons
totally different climater have peak, and to keep pace with it tho made special allusion to the immense demand amp-proofing, etc., now applies quarterly
In
has raised its average exports from -4,942
for bicycles which British manufactures are by British manufacturers are find. machines in 1938 to 14,547 in the having to meet,
ready appreciation.*
last three months of last year, and These methods are also used in beyond. Yet, despite the need for After the shortage of the war years, experts estimated on the increasing numbers of lightweight mass-production and consequent basis of normal consumption that bicycles which were almost ex-standardisation, the industry doos the world was short of something clusively a Continental European not hesitate
to Introduce every. like 60 mililon bicycles.
product before, the war, and Before Juvenile bicycles and tricycles, be the performance of its products.
in new development which can raido” World War II. Germany and side the standard tourist types.
Insulation
Testing
Methods
Japan werd leading suppliers,
unili British manufacturers
began
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Only recently, the redailga bf A similar story of continuous warhi-famous gearbox succeeded to concentrate their energies told of the motor-cycle industry,pared with the 1939 model, al- Improvement in quality ean by in reducing its size greatly com- produclar, cheaper, lighter and batter machines on an
whose products are notably lower though it can now cope with a 15 equally in price, than in other countries. per cent greater land, the pull on British large scale,
company
The sturdy 350 ce.500 German
ce. its enstrol levor in 75% lby, na quickly suppleating its
roadsters rival as the largest singlu pro:
ridden by despatch against 40 lbs., while ite torque Modern methods of insulation ducer of pedal cycles in the world, riders during the war have had assisted clutch can neither slip nor
their comfort transformed by drag. testing date back to 1889, when and succeeding in outselling ev telescopic forks with hydraulic
It is such the "thirty chips" Japanese cycle control while more.
factors
these vershed Introduced bin testing in the Far East at a lower price. models include the fastest stan- what it is today, and the motor- luxurious which have made world demand art in which for the first Umo an ohmmeter, was used in con-perlence, the virtual elimination of fully sprung 1.000 ec. dard machine in the junction with a hand generator German and Japanese supplies, model for the weight of a normal effort to meet that demand,
were
With the memory of this ex-
million machines, and of
demand
1919-
A
to test maulation under pressure. the insistence of American and This testing ent was followed other troops who used blcycles in in 1903 by an improved tester, Britain during the war on British Hold under the registered trade types, and the pent-up mark "Megger," in which the following the war, the main bur ohmmeter and generator
den of supplying the world with Britain's fallen on bicycles has manufacturers. combined in one case,
With the Megger Testing Set In meeting this challenge, the the generator pressure is applied British blcycle Industry has al to the insulation under test and ready passed all previous produc- the resistance value is readtion records. The peak year for on the dial of the exports before the war was 1937, In addition, they probably directly
This dat la cultura when Britain sent overseas some machines. Last year, this 800.000 manufactured the highest per- ohmmeter, centage of such papers as Real ted in megohms and thousands
to about one fieure, was raised
the 1047 Greaseproof and Glassine, Tele of ohms, the accuracy of the
target (Mr. Morrison announced) Kraph
Abrasive reading being independent Parchment, Base Papers and several Pathe speed at which the generator is the immense figure of 2,400,000 pedal cycles for oversens buyers pers for the Plastics industry, handle is turned.
Evershed and Vignoles Ltd, alone. ns well
as papiers to special
This would provide Britain with formulae which are still on the manufacturers of the Megger,
turn out a wide range of testing no less than 15 million for the "Secret" ist.
instruments, including enrth Purchase of goods abroad,
pared with about 6,500,000 con. Natural tracing paper before testers, capacity meters, Indica-tributed by this industry last year, the war was almost a world- tng and recording instruments and 43 million in the peak pre- Wig kakage indicators, distant in war year of 1997. Exports rose wide German monopoly. gins Tenpe, the Role British dication and control instruments,
nateadily throughout last year and -compared with a monthly aver manufacturers, enjoyed a hare electrical tachomatere,
age
of 48,000 machines in 1938- tenth of the Home market. Yet meters, etc.
Perhaps the best known of reached 113,000 at the end of last today, their output is greater than the total 1939 consump their range, for which Jardine year and 125,000, last May. It i tion in Britain and
Engineering Corporation are the already almost certain that Bri
tain will be able to export more papermaking machine will scon lócal agents,
Wee than double the number/sent but them in a position to make Megger Teater and the Megger broad inst year during 1947, Mr. the best tracing paper in the Circuit Testing Ohmmeter. These Morrison stated. world.
can be supplied separately, but Like most of the major Bri- when combined form what is it continuous improvements in the tish industries, Wiggins Teape called the "Good: Companions quality of these machines. Ever
come in since 107 years ago, so found themselves called Testing Kit" and apen to exercise skill and in special leather case necomimoda-Millatz conceived the idea of fixing Scattish blacksmith named Mac- pinulty in furning out a variety ting both instruments as well as
centuries old velocipede, and of war materials only remote- testing leads and clips, two in-pedals to the front wheel of the y (if at all) connected with struction bdoka on insulation Englishman named Starley evolt- their peace-time product. and continuity testing, and a loged the modern machine in 1895,
For instance, a 200-ton ex- book to record results.
British manufacturers have suc- The post baling press was converted
Wee-Megger in the ceeded in retaining their lead in to manufacture 9.2-inch shells smallest instrument in Evershed bicycle technique. right after Dunkirk. Mills & Vignoles' range,
I studied in such It consists | Convenience is
KM four-speed gears, which had formerly made thigh of a hand-driven generator and aspects.
"tick" control levern, braku grade art and watermarked a direct-rending alummeter torabilty without incessant ad. paper were soon machining 3. mounted together
sturdy Justment, extended use of stain- ton turret tops for Churchill case moulded in moilled plastic less steels, easier tyre repairs, tanks. Other war work includ- material, and provided
with and so on. ed air-screw shafts for the terminals of the spring-plunger Perhaps the most important in- "Hercules engine, slotting of type.
novation. however, is a lighting "Hercules" crank-shafts, the The generatur supplying the system on motor-car lines. were completo machining and grindi- testing voltage is of the variable miniature dynamos, which ing of special lathe spindles for pressure type. The ohmmeter driven by friction of the wheel und required meticulous adjust. Russia, drilling and tapping of is a trite ohmmeter, the accuracy ment even when they,
new
аге the
in a
Higher output is bringing with
when n
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The
were noti
world (a cycle and bicycle industries in 2-cylinder Britain are making
supreme
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of the readings being unaffect-affected by wet roads, have given METAL WINDOWS
tank turret ringa, etc.
An extract from this beanti-ed by changes in the applied way to new dyno-hubs positively, Inlly Blustrated booklet per- voltage.
rotated. haps sums up its theme in a Where possible, insulation Designers are looking still fur- few words:
tests should be at a voltage not (ther ahead in prototypes of futura **Treaties?' Hitler had cried | tess than twice the normal medels, One of these, exhibited in and dismissed them contemptu- working voltage. The Instrument Britain recently, replaced the con- ously as the Kaiser had done) supplied for house wiring. with an all-aluminium streamlined ventional tubular construction before him, as,'scraps of ["pa- domcatle appliances, portable body
enclosing, among
other per. He reckoned without the tools, etc. operating on 200 volts things: small battery-driven fact that when appeals failed, therefore, the 500-volt model. motor to help the cyclist uphill such weapons of war as tanks The 260-volt and 100-volt in- which ru
replaced the usual
third could be used effectively to des-struments are for lower voltage gear: built-in lights, bell and troy breakers of treaties; and circuita.
minlature radio driven by the who would have thought in
current; a handle-bar-panol 1989 that manufacturers of the
Incorporating
ting speedometer, as well contemptible scraps of paper'
as the bell-button, radio and light switcheat
heat built-in brakes oporated would help Britain to build
companion ect is used by twist-grip controls:
and those tanks?"
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for measuring conductor reals-variable-throw mechanism, to even tances. It ls widely used in out the pedalling effort. It factories for measuring the re-timated that, by the time Bistance of colls and other com-i
machine can go into production, ponenta during manufacture, ን። ahould be marketed at present- and also by maintenance
prices. ch-
Nor has gineers for checking the reals-
the quality of work tance of operating culls, motor British models suffered under the manship which first won fame for windings, relays, telephone and jetrain of higher output, as visitors radio circulis, etc.
to the recant British Industrios Another Important use is for Fair havo testifled. One buyer testing the continuity of conduit from Buenos Aires picked up the or cable sheathing on which do rear hub of a bicycle displayed pende the earthing of connected there, and compared. It with
sample from appliances and the correct which he had in his pocket.
another country operation of protective 'fuses. "Theirs." he said, "Is just blown may have very sorious results. (continu
| Neglect to carry out this test
on Next Col.)
• The_Instrument consists of 'u} 0-500/100-50,000" arið Inf., and true ohmmeter and an ordinary 0-1000/100-200,000 and Inf. 4%-volt flash-lamp battery, the Finally, when continuity tests whole being contained, in a have to be carried out on live moulded "case of green plastic. [circuits, the instrument may There are two patterns--"B", (through inadvertence). be con-
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