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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
Electronic Control Progress
In
It is a striking fact that, In new prospects of cheap · higir spite of the economile difficulties aperture and apberle lenses; this facing Britala, the British Indus-will have a very direct effect in trles Fair Just year attracted mora | many applications us, for example, 1939, itself record year. Jon the cast and performance of The demand for space this year television receivers. proved even greater. More than 3,000 exhibitors, representing struments recently wrote that the some 90 industries, are displaying Pritish scientific Instrument in- their goods,
dustry "produces the whole rapge
An authority on acientific In-
Fibreglass For Insulation
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This In Itself is a heartening of instruments made for indus- demonstration of the vitality of trial purposes, and its Capacity, British industry. And, indeed, for production, its technical skill, British industrialists have good and its wealth of experience en- reason to be proud of the exer-
nble 1 10
to make a major contri- Fibreglass,
produced The extent to which technical tons that have been made and butlon to the industrial life of years ago in insignideant quan- proficiency continues to maintain are being made to work through the world." Visitors to the 1948 titles and by manual methods, is
difficulties. the high level of British indus- their
The road.L.F. will now be able to con-now well established as an in-
frojn their sulating material and
being irial achievement the plain to to economie recovery lies in hard firm this judgment
In the opinion own observations.
mass produced on an unprece- Visitors who examine the exhibits work, well done. in the Engineering and
Inose New and Hard- of many Britain is on that road
novel materials were dented scale. Produced in still displayed at the 1048 B.I.F. Here or mat form, and also na yarn, ware section of the British in- and the prospects, though dinaries Fair in Birmingham this grimly austere, are not discouring-i fascinating to reflect on it
it is highly efficient for therrasl, spring. The Fair is being held ing.
the way materials developed for acoustical, or electrical insulation. from May to 14 with sections in both London and Birmingham, in motor-cars and in shipbuild-time use.
The furniture
tradio
ade ret-proof, non-hygroscople and During World War II sensational ing, has shown substantial and, has learned much from the build- easy to handle. Having a wide progress was made in the up- 121 Ronie instances, even striking ing of aircraft, and plastics pri- and varied application, it is ex- plication of electronics to mill- increases. Coul production, the marily developed for war have tensively used for tary production. The results of very foundation of Britain's in been turned to account in the transport. its application in peace to the dustrial life, steadily mounted in making of many domestic and
and In ships it is used for the ther- control of industrial processes in-the
the last months of 1947; and now,
decorativo articles. A wide range in insulation of boilers and of volving detection,
inspection, with a confidence Britain hardly of new chemicals is now being main and auxiliary steam piping, selection, grading, anulysis
and
dareil assume yeur age, she con produced by the British chemi-During World War II, breglass measurement may be seen on the look to the export of more and cal and petroleum Industries was also used to insulate the electronic controls sland of Ether more coal, knowing how valuable drugs such as sides, enoble meat, for example, frozen) tri, palud holds of ordinary cargo ships to
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Ltd., of Tyburn Road, Erdington, a stimulus that must prove, not rine. and The Dirmingham 24, England, and will only to recovery in Britain but dyestuffs, Insecticides, and special in Amerien, to be kept in this: be of considerable interest to all to re
10 rehabilitation in Europe. chemicals needed for heavy in-state during shipment to Britain. industrialists.
On looking back to the im-
The war inevitably et- Today it is employed for every The war also greatly accelerat- mense challenge that the coming
rate the
Introduction of ed the evolution of new adhesives, of peace presented to a country products and Britain's drive to engine casing, main steam and and some of
their special up- that had spent without stint in economie recovery has stimulated auxiliary piping, brine leads, do- plications to the fabrication the relentless pursuit of victory, designers and producers to find mestic purposes and cargo spaces, electrical insulation materials. British industralists have fair peace-time applications for war- The packing density for shipping such-ne-synthelle-resin-handed-grot
grounds not for complacency, and time discoveries. -
|-work-is-dve-pounds-»-cubic_foot paper, cotton cloth and asbestos still less for any relaxation of board, are being shown by Ash- downs Ltd. Eccleston Works, St. cort. but at least for the kind Helens, Lancashire, England, who further effort and achievement.
of satisfaction that is a spur to will also exhibit their Silicone bonded glass cloth for high tem
Industrial Research perature electrical insulation.
The E.M.B. Company
Company, Lid.. of
What advances in design and Moor Street, West Bromwich, ure production have Britain
trude widely known for their progres in the past year? What cvi. sive development of die casting dence, for example, iy
there machines of both #ravity and that, British Industry in alert to asure type, which afford many the need of a vital partnership pressure advantages, such as
the produce
with selence and research? tion of castings to close inten- Beliish industrial firms are now sional tolerances, with mechanical properties and lace Anish, usually with a siderable saving in time. latest machines are to be on ut the Fair.
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Buyers at the recent B.I.F. und the material normally used In- is In wool-like forin. Several seeking evidence of British dustry's technical vitality were thousand tons of fibreglass insu- not disappointed. For Britain lation were supplied to shipping prostesses in her
workshops ann 124
In 1947. Inheritance of craftsmanship,"or "In railway work, the main ̈ap- that indelinable practical acuse plication of fibreglass is the In- described as "know-how," and sulation of locomotives, and for she has brought into increasingly this purposes & mattress, covered close partnership scientific inquiry on both sides with wire netting and managerial skill; it is Bri- and having the tatn's privilege to make the most for mountings, is produced,
necessary cutouts of those resources.
In addition, the rallways have em- ployed fibreglass for special pur- poses. Food containers have been Insulated with it to keep food in
condition good
during transit; have
been similarly carriages treated to deaden sound, and the postwar dining cars of the former Grent Western
Rallway, now known as the Western Region of British Railways, are completely insulated with fibreglass, which makes them practically noiseless.
New Boilers For Canton PowerStation
are equally impressive. During the past year we have scen radar serving navigation and
nt perils
Four new boilers for the Can. overcoming the visibility: we have seen that the ton Electricity Works are aboard
For the insulation of niceraft turbine engine can be applied the m/s "Sven Sulen," which is to static
special material, extremely light power
wer installations
due to arrive Hong Kong about and transport us well an aircraft, and
June 28. These boilers have been and very fine in texture, has been im- produced. The most important the
performance of this type of shipped from Baltimore to
application prove the service of the Canton | Mai
in aircraft is for prime mover has been very
sound Electricity Works.
Some aircraft deadening. siderably A publication issued by
improving. When the
The
bollers are 25 ft. high, companies use fibreglass in such Eritish Tin Research Institute remember the high performance
experi. of
of such states that interesting
and that the with a base of 15 ft. by 20 ft. way that they obtain not only engines,
and weigh about 85 tons each. insulation, but also a a decorative ments have been in hand-
of aircraft speed is not yet They were made in America for finish to the cabins.nly us for Junit of
aircraft carriers "Ruler'in rond transport insulation. Most Fibreglass is increasingly used
Son-
we
more than four years to discover new sharpness the shape the
In stelit, не can begin to sec the most reliable means of proof
In such deve- Leeting steel from rust, Experi- of things to come.
nments. lopments. Brital has ments were made with various
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sorts of steel and various type leadguished and, indeed, of protective surfaces such 48 All these striking advances in oll paints, Incquer etc.
engineering and industry would In every case, results showed hardly have been possible had that the most reliable means of not the research worker and the rust-proofing was the application factory had at their disposal the of a thin layer of tin. The latter necessary quality of selentide and need only be 0.00005 inch thick, industrial instruments. Here again and yet provides complete pro-ritain can take pride in |lection against rusting.
"achievements."
Its
"Empress," and
"Strik
of the British aircraft road vehicles are fitted with silen- and were purchased by the cers in which fibreglass is incor- Chinese Government under their porated as the sound-absorbant replacement and rehabilitation material.
The principal manufacturer of programme for industrial power.
insulation The m/s "Sven Salen" of the the new
material is boilers at Baltimore with special Lancashire, England. Salen-Skaugen Ling loaded the Fibreglass Limited, St. Helens, equipment, two being stowed be low decks and two on deck. They
so large and
heavy that special arrangements for delivery
Highters are being made with the
bre
from
New Uses For
the ship to landing craft Peat Discovered It is easy to paint over the The Scientist's "Eye" Whampoa Dock by the agents for
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New methods of measurement, the "Sven Salen," William Huntable matter found in the earth in Peat, partly carbonised veget- such as those employing infra-& Co. out any need for the previous red and ultra-violet radiation
great profusion in Ireland, Scot- layer to be scratched away care-
land, and parts of England, and used as fuel by country folk, s fully. On the other hand, where eve for analysis, are now
to find many new the struments and in- HANDLING DEVICES paint is applied without
mass spectro-
British Made Electrics Limited. intermediate layer of tin, in meter are beginning to find their The Arst National Mechanical of Hotric Works, Broxburn, West every case the steel had rusted way into plant analysis control Handling Exhibition & Conven- Lothian, Scotland, are now using beneath the paint,
laboratorica. Electronics have been tion is to be held in London granulated pent for Insulation The cost of thinning is small, for some Ume applied extensive-shortly.
purposes, and are exhibiting this The tinning of both surfaces of ly where high speed of operation The purpose of this Exhibi- new technique at their stand in a sheet of steel costs less than is essential, and in conjunction tion, which will be held at the Birmingham section of the
quarter as much as painting with the photo-electric cell have Olympia next July, will be to British Industries Fair. only one of its surfaces.
Peat is now used in proved invaluable in counting, show how mechanical handling
"Hotrie" selecting and In detecting such can speed production-how me thermal storage heaters in things as broken threads in weav-chanisation spells prosperity.
place of cork. Under a series of 行就心 in
It will answer 1940's most haustive tests peat has been Ferranti EW 47 In the laboratory the selentist's pressing problem for Indus- proved to retain the heat 25 per "eye" is the precision optical in trialists and production execu- cent. longer
thon cork, con- strument. In this type of in- tives in many parts of the world.sequently the saving of electric strument British quality has been Every type of the most modern current in a thermo-statically RADIO & ELECTRIC SERVICE demonstrated during the war by mechanical handling equipment, controlled heater is considerable. Tubes made of a special alloy the excellence of its gun sights, from conveyors and ropeways to The packing density is containing copper, nickel and periscopes, range-finders and trucks and holsts, will be on pounds & cubic foot, and unlike iron, which resists corrosion and cameras. This quality is being show,
whilst the Convention cork, it is unnecessary to take erosion by hot and cold sea-wa-maintained and even Improved by programme includes papers from precautions against expansion ter to a very high degree are he-peace-time developments. Recent acknowledged experts on the use after packing with subsequent ing: shown in the Birmingham davelopments in the manufacture of mechanical handling in many pressure on Attings and Inner section of the British Industries of plastic lanses have opened up
containers. key Industries. Fair. Tuber of this alloy are re- commended
for
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all sea-water
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