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Elaborate Radio-Telephone System For New Pipe Line
Tune in...
on the world!
Recognition of Britain's top-f changes; mobile H.F. transmit- walkie-talkies, - which will en-system for communicating be-| ranking position in radio en-ting and receiving stations and able communication to be main- tween stations. An operator gineering is underlined by the "Walkie-Talkie". Transmitting tained during the surveying of at any one of the stations will award of a £800,000 contract stationis will Use both am some of the difficult terrain be able to' dial a number and for one of the most elaborate piltude and the now frequency through which the pipo-line speak to operators at other telephone and radio communi- systems of modulation. The will run.
stations, the only Ink between } cation systems yet
dovined, whole of this great range of
After the constructional them being the radio beams. Radio Beams will span the equipment will be made in the period the entire system will A teleprinter service will also whole length of a new oll-pipe works of the G.E.C.
be used for administrative and be operated between the sta- Hine which is to be laid between During the construction of maintenance purposes, the tions over similar radio links. the Persian Gulf and a Medi- the pipe-line, radio will provide operation of the pipe-line being] The mobile trucks and walkie- terranean port 800 miles dia- communication between work- entirely dependent upon Its talkies will enable patrols to tant.
ing parties and base camps | communication channels, Radio] maintain Instantaneous And The order in the largest of which will be used as supervi- transmitters and receivers will direct communication with its kind ever placed and has sion points. The working par- be positioned at both ends of each other. been given to The General tion will be provided with the route and at intermediate In addition, radio communi-.
wireless Electric Co. Ltd. of England mobile
trucks and stations to provide
cation will be possible between emerged amazing examples whose schemo was chosen from
stations along the pipe-line and of man's, conquest of time among several British and
aircraft flying along the route, American tenders. When finish.
distance. Into the od it will embody the combined skill of the expert in overy. known branch of telephone and radio engineering.
The equipment will include the main V.H.F. (Very High Frequency) beamed transmit-
ting and
receiving
#
relay
Conflict On Role Of Aviation Industry
Guy W. Vaughan, president, time airframe industry" than by atations, of Curtiss-Wright Corp., suld re bringing other industries into the high, medium and low power cently that in the event of a fu program.
Earlier. R.V. Hunt, vice pre H.F. (High Frequency) trans-ture emergency the aircraft in- mitting and receiving stations; dustry should concentrate on desident of Douglas Aircraft Co.
the need for "more unattended automatic radio re-sign and let other industries roll stressed peater stations; telephone ex-out planes
Sheraton Furniture In Plastic!
of
on their assembly ¦ sustained volume of production at competitive prices which would permit reasonable margins profit." He said the industry's, postwar financial troubles
Jines.
But J.H. Kindelberger, preal dent of North American Avia tion, Inc., dlangreed. He kald would be "impractical" to bring|sulfed from large deficits,
-Q
de.
low the attcraft productions pro- pletion of working capital, rising gramme any industries that costs, and lack of long-term were not engaged in peacetime, credits.--United Press.
Both men testled before Prealdent Truman's Air Policy! Commission at hearings on cur rent and future needs of the air.
Engineering
craft industry prior to drawing Institution
up an overall-air-policy for the nation.
Merger
the
From the war years there
and other stations will keep in and touch with ships approaching space of 5′ years there had
port.
The complete system will be to be crowded the normal the most advanced of its type
in the world and will provide | progress
of # generation.
an excellent example of the ap- Aviation... Radio... both plication to peaceful purposes
of Very-High-Frequency com- are great examples, munication technique developed during wartime by the G.E.C. Research Laboratories at Wem- bley, London,
Gigantic Production Effort
Some sense of Britain's gigan- lic production" effort for the ex- The High Wycombe firm of
port market may be gauged from E. Gomme, Ltd., is making, for Vaughan said his experience|
the fact disclosed to-day that one export. a series of mirrors and during World War II convinced
Birmingham factory last week As is now well known,
achieved a other wall ornaments reproduc- him of the need for a "new con
record chromium- long-established Institution
of plating output, Ing the designs of Adama. cept of the industry's
anounting to re Automobile Engineers has
been 1.424,000 Cycl components Sheraton and other famous | sponsibilities as the primary merged into the Institution
chromium-plated in five days. for the design and Mechanical Engineers, of which This shows an increase of 1939% wood carvers in a plastic source
it has become the Automobile material which will stand up development of alteraft.”
on the comparable figure for the to any climate. The art of In time of war, he said, other Division.
peak. pre-war week. The merger is likely to be of wood-carving has been dying industries should be charged great benens to all
In disclosing these figures sp. concerned, plicable to their Works, the Her
Eld. chiefly because of a, change in while the aircraft
Cycle & Motor Co. public taste which was prob- devoted all its energies to pat- to weld into a single powerful such as cadmium and zinc plat- ably a revulsion against the teras, tools and fixtures: Such a whole all engineering interests,
On October 7 the first annual the number of parts thus treat- Is taken into consideration, Ing senseless and shoddy decoration programme would eliminate the which had come to be used in "chaotic conditions" encountered general meeting of the Automo-f in their factories is at present
bile Division was held, and Cap- furniture production towards at the start of World War II, he tain G. T. Smith-Clarke, M.I. 3,387,000 components per week.
A remarkable fact is that the the end of the last century and said.
Mech.E., chief engineer and Kindelberger said that because general manager of Alvis Ltd. Company's Works was main plant concorried. in the first two decades of this
in the bombed for and out of century.
action during the war, but was restarted late in
out in the United Kingdom, with mass-producing planes, because it strengthens the status cules
Industry of the former I.A.E. and helps point out that, if all other plating
of the increasing complexity of was inducted as chairman The method of reproduction military planea "better results the session 1947.48. in plastic material which would be obtained by relying on
It would be difficult to say in 1043 with the help of the Board
Gomme-is-using- enables the further expansion of the peaceSmith-Clarke is more respected Bonnel-from-the-Forces-Overness.
firm to employ one or two of
the
fow remaining wood- carvers, and to give them all
the time they require to achieve
a perfect reproduction of the
Chemicals
Adams, Sheraton, Chippendale From Petrol
and other designs. To do. this
for his
the industry whether Captain of Trade in releasing skilled per- extraordinarily wide Since then, tremendous effort range of engineering knowledge exponded by all concerned in re and practice or for the modesty conversion has resulted in and kindliness of his personality plant being brought to the point but it is certain that the Auto: where peak production in pos mobile Division is starting zible. new life with an admirable chairman.
Silver Brazing Alloys
the
Although cycle output has not yet reached the highest pre-war In wood would be no expensive! The Shell Petroleum Company an
level due to shortage of steel, as to put the products outside Inounced in March this year that a
the increase in plating is due to the reach of the vast majority large plant was to be erected in
the fact that many more parts are treated thus than on the 1939 of consumers. By duplication in Cheshire, England, to manufacture
blcyclo. Native populations plastic the coneumer obtaine, chemicals from petrol. This factory, which should be ready for production
Loversens, as well an cyclist at at a very low price, the finest which
home insist on this attractive quality of craftsmanship and next year, is to cast several million pounds, but it will save about US$4,-
quality finish, design.
"Silvor-jointed" tricycles are "The Hercules Company's pro- 000,000 a year for the Import of among the toys now being read-duction of complete cycles has The plastic material uned chemicah from the United States of led for distribution in the increased as recently featured in will stand up to any extremo | America.
United States this year.
the Government's "Report to of climate, including tropical "conditions, that is to say, it will Another large British concern, the| Literally, the parts of the he Nation" by 18% na compar ed with the corresponding weeks not warp, soften or deteriorate Petrocarbon Company, announced the frames are stuck together with lost year, and the firm has re
construction of a similar works In silver. It is in any way, and it is proof September last year.
another illustra-cently reached Sir Stafford tion of peace-time application Cripps export target of 76% against attack by insects, Mesars. E. Gomme, Ltd.` have
of a technique expanded, dur- shipment of total output over- Now a third,, the Anglo-Iranian placed long-term contracts for Oil Company, is considering working ing the war; wider and better so the material (which is one of along insilar lines and is proposing industrial use of silver brazing-
It is estimated that there is a the plastics in most plentiful to erect a factory at a cost of 45, alloys.
Melted at relatively low pent-up demand in Chile for at supply) and the supplier feels 000,000.
temperatures, the alloys flow feast 60,000 vehicles of all types. confident that he will be able
These factories will all owe their almost like water. Capillary The United Kingdom and co mest any, demand.
existence to the ever-increasing de-attraction pulls the binding Chilean Governments "have mand for British chemicals in all fluid in between the most close agreed to extend for 12 months The Government of Madras, parts of the world.
ly matched surfaces. · The sold- from July 1st, 1947, the most now working out detalls for the progressive nationalisation of This demand must be satisfied and er is so strong that a film a favoured nation treatment "pro- motor transport in the Presi- those concerned feel
thousandth of an Inch or less is viously provided for,
• • dency. The scheme is expected within a reasonably short space of enough to bind joints; second to be completed within three time they will be able to meet all only to welding in strength. Under a new decree, Greek years. The United Provinces ducts, dystuffs, photographie chemi-faces, as much silver na is con- to use their vehicles three days requirements in pharmaceutical pro- Assuming well-ranchined sur, motorists will only be permlited have decided that control should cals, plastick, perfumery be imposedd over the price and rectielden, without Importing way of would be enough for the dozen also to be reduced by 70 per and an in: | tained in a sixpence probably each week. Petrol coupons aro distribution of new motor vehl the raw materials required for their cles.
manufacture.
asured
that
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