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THE CHINA" MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1956..
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
PROFILE OF AN INDUSTRIALIST Mr George Edwards: Led Design
IN
Team Of Vickers Viscount
At 47, He Is Chief Of One Of Britain's Biggest Aircraft Companies By Brian Bromwich
the past few
yours Britain's aircraft In- dustry has begun to find its pence-lime feet, not only as the main supplier of de- fence equipment but also in a Bew role that of a major eommercial industry
The spearhead of that attack. quite clearly, is the Vickers Vis Count met
Fe
The thist in the powered
mirilner,
world to be
fax 14 "turbo-prop" aga turbine driving a propeller With a well proved record of tw and a half years ervier, with orders running the 230 mark arul prueltie tion full up to Inle In 1957, there can še 111le dinputin the Viscount's sureens
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But it was Edwards who took the proposal and turned it into a passenger airliner; he, more than any, who after
yours of designing and developing brought the project to fruition.
In 1953 Edwards Was op- poluted General Manager, and
company
Characteristic
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Twin-Jib breakdown vehicle with unusually powerful winching capacity, Designed primarily for oilfield work. It many other heavy-duty applications. Designed and made by M. Ö. Harper Limited, 19, Commercial Rond, Guildford. Surrey, England.
Powerful Twin-Jib
Breakdown Vehicle
▶REAKDOWN DA
BRE
1290
BAGDAD WILL BE FREED
.
FROM FLOOD MENACE
Rivers Control Project
To Bo
Completed By March 1
Bagdad, a number of
Bagdad. towns and
hundreds of villages situated on the banks. of the Tigris river and threatened each year by floods, will be safe when the Wadi Tharthar project is completed.
the
Completion La scheduled for way and footpaths to Samarah March 1, 1950.
city and the other the main Bagdad-Mosul railway line. As From time bemorial, the
flood
waters twin
discharge rivers, Tigris and
through the regulator will flow Euphrates, swollen by spring rains and melting snow
over the existing railway line from
and Sarah station, part of the Turkish, Syrian, Iraq and the track is being rained on to Iraning mountains, have ovCT- the embankment and the rail- Bowed their banks and inundated the Iraqi
way station re-sited. countryside, causing dainage to
crops, destroying livestock and Imperilling human
life.
The first and main, part of the Wadi Tharthar, the barrage, has been already completed. A concrete structure about 320 feet
The diversion of the Tigris River waters into the Tharthar depression was completed early thin month. The Jake 50 formed in about 18 miles long.
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In the same year he became Managing Director of the entire Vickers Armstrongs arcraft Thus ho became responsible for the fighter alt- craft Arm of Supermarine,
vehicles jib, and each box incorporating well as for the development and with powerful winching double multiplate clutch cun- production of his own designs capacity have been specially to an operating lever on long and about 200 feet wide,
either side of the vehicle
Apart from the barrage, re- which by then included the designed and made for oil thus possible to operate elternbout 30 feet wide with 5-ton the barrage hus 17 vents, ench
gulator Ind embankments, Viscount, the Valiant four-jet field operation, but may, of
ons or beth jibs simultaneously, electricaly operated sluice gates, fish ladder are included in the
power station in-talos and bomber, and the V.1000 long-course, be applied to many
from either side of the vehicle. range four-jet transport.
The barrage is designed to project.
will Together they other types of heavy duty. Although the basic vehicle ( raise the water level from 205 form a They are by M. O. Harper has already been in
unit capable of form a single with feet (ordinary fool level) to
sure of the Housing
biggest Limited, of 19, Commercial similar heavy winches ant oll-224 feet in order to divert more low-head turbines for generat Mr Grorge Edwards, who, at
Road. Guildford.
field boiler, carrying up to 25-fhan half the quantity of flooding electricity yet made. Work Surrey, 47, is one of the heads of the
ton londe, these new machines, waters 10 the Tharthar Is due to start early next sum- Vickers Group of companies
England. chetstanding Edwarda
with their very powerful which-depression-lake. It will have mer on a hydro-electric power und
of Britain's leading
charo, teristic is deliberation,
log capacity, will be particularly n discharge enpacity of 0,350 station to be The baste vehicles are aircraft designers.
Rix suited
equipped with and it is clear to anyone
← ། operational who wheeled, six-wheel drive Scam- work in the oilfelds
witer per
seven turbines of about 18 , George Edwards, the
hears him sponk. This liberamel "Constructors" Atled, as
such as although the normal designes
discharge megawatt capacity each. 15 laying pipelines, erecting Viscount usual on oiled trucks, with ing rigs. Cuentan pof the Viscount--or as he would people at the time, and for long tun hus stumped the
drill-need not exceet! half that for breakdown amount a nefer it, the man who led the afterwards, were saying would and indeed the Edwards success Darlington Model
to 70 winches recovery in jungle conditions.
dequately
meet which
stay all along.
downstream requirements. This same de-behind the cabs. design tram
developed never be harnessed to civil air- the
fiberation Viscount He
Tri recently craft
1948 this
can be seen now de- aircraft
The new equipment consists the Vickers civil aircraft tonehod huh
i win with its four Rolls Royce Dart hind point
of a power-driven crane with career when he was ajipoliited a turboprop engines flew, and it programme-a programme that
iwin Jibs and a specially de Edwards' director
gives the answer to uf Vickers .td. the was named the Viscount
signed all-steel body. enities who have all-in-nil look- es at the Viscount as a never-to-
Power Take-Off be-repeated opportunity
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Probably few men have ever fablely becoine 2013 closely
aircraft
vie fed with
PALUSIVE (Huktstrial combine
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Ancento) Ltd, is an inermon-
by important part
Although it
Wey
Test-know? aircraft,
1 Viscount by by 1101 MAROTIS the
whole of the Etwards story
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I would
he un injustice to
Edw...d tor pretend that the mesaft which put Britoin years ahend in one leap, came entirely Even while the free his brain
wur
Wan still on, a committee sel up munder Lord Brabazon
to
drew ap requirements for post- se only the most glowing chap-
(1 story personal Wir rivil mrfiners hiki envia-
has established
medium- turbo-prop aged Elwards as one of the most able
range airliner. in- men in the British aircraft
thhiker who is one dustry, a
of most effective its
spokesmen. besides being brilliant en- gineer whose work is exerting ቢ substantial influence on its progress
A
Draughtsman
EORGE
Vickers Armstrongs as Edwards
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deaughtsman in 1935, when he was 27
Five years later, with the war at its worst mettent in 1940, and the Royal Air Force rrying out for the bombers that Vickers was struggling to pro- BUNDAY POST-HERALDExperimental
duce. Edwards
approlisted Works Manager. commercial with the thankless and nerve- should be
job ot continually than Facking
modifying the bomber design og new requirements came up and og improvements become neces sary
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All through the war he held this post, working unter a pressure whiels in peare-time is jerent and in war can be unbear- able Edwards emerged in 1945 with his prestige high high Lenough to take him irala the Loffre of Chief Designer ut 37
In
Elwards tel
Ume no establishing himself in the de- Esigner's chair Bellain after the wehr was hungry for elvit air- mors, and was hurriedly ut tempting to re-establish rivil) ja transport using converted hombers for the job Edwards' answer was a rapidly designed and airliner the Viking. Briton's The de- Gral post-war design. sign was completed in 1945 and by September 1040 the Arst Vikings were in service
producert medium-range
By this time, wards was well along the road in designing an airliner that would use for its power new medium of the gas-turbino engine-a medium which
however.
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thio
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THE
the
Edwards has seen it start of a line of development. Fur with the foothold gained by the Viscount, he is preparing a attack on (ull-scale
the elvil market with a family uf turbo-prop airliners to suit
The plan all requirements. campaign
far beyond 1800.
aircraft
extends
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHERE IS THAT WALL SAFE
NOT THERE--
FERDINAND
NANCY
HOW CAN YOU SEE
WITH THAT HAIR?
10-t
JOHNNY HAZARD
OF COURSE! IN ORDER TO STAY UP, MEER'S PLANE HAS TO BE REFUELED IN MID-FLIGHT HOW
-LET'S SEE..
CAN THIS BE THE CLAY CAMEL?
I HAVEN'T MUCH TIME.
I MUST FIND IT
IN A HURRY--
THEN GET
IT OPEN.
THINK OF ALL THE THINGS YOU
MISS
FANID
of
certain
The foot of each jb is carried on a universal pivot so that it can be swung through an NIC of approximately 135 degrees
A similor embankment of from the centre rer of the compacted earth with a steel-
The truck
of lle cut-off, reaching down to luffing action each 1b la controlled by single impervious stratum, is being hand-operated
built built now winches
and will join the Power for the crane, which is into the crane structure.
barrage to a concrete regulatur taken from a power take-off on
designed Fer heavier loud, the bact
to control the dis- the truck gearbox, drives two
be anchored together over
charge of flood waters through clutch-operated reversing gear-
the centre svar of
truck. in
escape channci to baxes each of
the which is
which ease only one winch nected to a 10,000-pound (4.530 used and the roue les round a
Thurther depression, Is kilograms) winch.
con-
switch block with its free end the hooked on an attachment
vided at the head of the other parallet
The reversing boxes and winches are built into the crano structure, one winch for each jib.
NARDA--WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? THE CLAY CAMEL LE BE HERE ANY MOMENT--
By Lee Fall and Phil Davis
BUT YOU SENT THE MESSENGER
FOR ME -- -- HOW DID YOU
GET HERE T
By Bfik
1981 to Samad Mumm fidelis kie
By Ernie Bushmiller
GET A HAIRCUT THEN YOU CAN SEE
GOOD LIKE ME
10000.
MMM... MOTHER PLANE MAKES CONTACT WITH WEER'S PLANE THROUGH REFUELING HOSE! HOSE CARRIES HIGH OGTANS GAS FROM
ONE PLANE TO OTHER ...
-NAV-18
WATON DEER
HOW COME YOU
MISSED THIS ?
By Frank Robbins
AND IF ONE SPARK WERE TO BE SET OFF IN THE MOTHER PLANE,A JET OF FLAME WOULD COURSE THROUGH HOSEINSTANTLY EXPLODING BOTH
PLANES!
The regulator, which is 1,028 feet long has 36 vents and pro-36-foot sluice gates bridged by bridges of reinforced concrete, one to carry the road
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A highway bridge 1,831 feet long and 20 feet wide also to te built next summer will com- plete the project.
Work on the barrage, the escape channel and the protec Live
embankment which stretches for 42 miles from the regulator to the Wadi Tharthar Depression, began early in 1937. To date it has provided employ- ment for
over 100 foreign technicians and
engineers and raore than 1,500 Iraqis.
The actual site of the project in difficult to pinpotut accurate. ly because it is spread over a farge arca. The main centro from which the work carried put 13 historic Arab the Cellph 1,000 years ago as capital of the Islamic Empire. A large part of the project is situated on the opposite Lank of the river tö the city, within golden dome famous mosque,
belag
Samarch, an founded by
city al-Mutassim over
of
sight of the Samarah's
The cost of the project estimated at 9,000,000 Iraq dinars (1 Iroq diner cquals £1 sterling) with an extra 6,000,000 Iraq dinars for the channel China Mail Special.
Molten Metal
Into Zinc Ingots
THE
continuous casting ingots of aluminium, copper, brass. bronze and lead has, of course, been brought to a high pitch of perfection. Similarly, the continuous casting of ingots of special quality irons and pig iron (once considered only pos sible where outputs were sufficiently high to justify the large traditional forms of pig casting machines found in steelworks) has also been successfully. | evolved.
In
the production of zinc slabs, however, there arose an interesting problem which until recently could not be solved by mechanical moans. With zine
it is essential that the surface of the slab shall be of uniform quality and free of ripple and shudder marks; large zine pro- ducers refrained from mechani- cal production because they found that normal drives were unable to produce, the smoot transmission which is required. Now the firm of Sheppard and Sons Ltd, Bridgend, Glamorgan, South Wales," is making a booster driven machine
which satisfactorily overcomes this problem of the continuous cast- ing of zine ingots.
Normal Head
With the normal drive head of link mechanisms, chordal action occurs to some extent, and it is this action which causes the Ingot strface to ripple. The new machine, which overcomes this condition, com- prisen, a-drive unit mounted beneath the machine on
cater separate foundation; a pillar drive engages the returni Ing empty mould chain by series of uniformly-pitolsed steel dogs, so arranged and motmitad on the caterpillar-obain - malta transmit only, uniform horison- tal motion to the mele, mould
1.