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ENGINEERING PAGE

Menace Of Too Much "Enterprise For your new

Hush-Hush

By Oliver Stewart

ed it, but subjected it to exten-

Scotland"

aive tests in this country. It An important selective Exhih!. was fitted to various different tion of Industrial Design entitled kinds of machine from light "Enterprise Scotland" has been aeroplanes to fighters and it organised an Edinburgh by the was fitted to a twin-engined ma-Scottish Committee of the Coun. chine. The teats were a com-[cil of Industrial Design. Opened plete success.

on August 25, it will continue at

Was

tain a reasonable standard of em. the case In England.

Scottish industry is relying up on the reputation for craftsman.

An eminent writer on aviation discusses drift undercarriage for air- craft. In view of the cri- ticisms of Kai Tak - apart from its location-

They proved beyond any man- ner of doubt that an aircraft leant until the end of September. The Exhibition will contain the news of an undercarriage

fitted with this special form of widest range of Industrial goods which does away with

undercarriage can land along a which has ever been assembled, the need for more than

single runway no matter what in Scotland. It is of considerable the wind direction and can Lake-importance to Scotland, since her one runway, no matter

It is a most curious custom off from the same runway. what the wind direction, of this country that it turns

industries have to export a rela- The work was done in partintively higher proportion of their is News indeed. This is down fatly the inventions of secrecy and very little a British invention, but ita nationals, walts until they heard about it here. Now, with total production in order to main. have been taken up by some-a tremendous blast of trum- as Mr. Stewart acidly comments, it is only them with enthusiasm.

body else, and then returns to pets, the Civil Aeronautics Ad-ployment than is

That ministration of the United news now because the seems to be the process now go. States announces its intention Americans are taking it ing on with the drift undercar-of testing a drift undercarriage ship and design which can be

which, 80 far as con be dis- up!

covered from the reports that established by this Exhibition to have reached this country, is no build up trade contacts in over- seas markets, not only for her more and no less than the Mac.

well-known industries like ship Taren undercarriage. America Tell The Worldbuilding, textiles and engineering I do not know if Mr. Mac-products, but also for the newly- ¡established Industries in the faren has authorised the use of

areas whose development his invention in, the United ducts

are not nearly so States and it is beside the

known to overseas buyers. want 10 point. What. I do

More than 40 Industries stress is "that in none of the

represented in the Exhibition. The of jured up to the demand was, in accounts have 1 seen it mention- following statisties based upon the theed that the undercarriage was number of firms who submitted invented here and fully tried their products the, Selection show the extent to here. The impression is given Committees that it is an entirely new thing which the Exhibition is represen- and that the trials are awaited tative of the various fields: with breathless Interest by the whole aeronautical world.

That is not 80. We know all

riage.

It was invented by Mr. O. F. ♦♦♦ Maclaren who not only design

Aluminium In War And Peace

REYNOLDS

pro. well

orc

The vital contribution aluminium to victory forme an part, die to the efforts of important chapter in the historyReynolds Metal Co. of World War 11. Thu this In 1939, the company's pres material and the industry Dien dent, R. S. Reynolds, nivoented large increases in American

Woollen industry $1 per cent; aluminium capacity. In 1910 the company, entirely on its

cotton, silk, rayon, flax and jute undertank the building of inrgs,

18 per cent; hosiery and knitwear 02 new aluminium production facil

per cent; Boy Industry 89 per ties, That this was sound fore-about this undercarriage. If per cent; carpet industry 80 aight was soon proven and Rey- we have not used it is because cent; domestic appliances 85 per noide became a notent source of we have either decided it is not cent sports goods 93

per cent; aluminium.

worth using, or because we are leather goods G0 per cent; und Reynolds is not resting an its just too lazy to use it or too holloware industry 87 per cent. war record. Today, it is expand neglectful of development.

A considerable number of over- both in production and re-

Personally I suspect the last een trade enquiries have already search. New and better alloys are

tion, and being

developed constantly and as being the cause. The Ame-been received about the Exhibi- and a special staff has been new applications found and per-ricans are keener to develop new appointed to deal with them. Ar- freted daily.

things than we are; they are rangements have been made for Reynolds firmly believes that not so mournfully wedded to overseas buyers to get in diret in Scottend aluminium the severely austere and severe- contact with firma will demand a volume of material ty practical.

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far in excese of even the peak As for the undercarriage it. their immediate or future require. wartime requirements. As a reself, it is sometimes described įments.,

է: But the company has added to

It should be made clear, how- 119 1 castoring undercarriage, its facilities

alumisia but that

ever, that "Enterprise Scotland" i Is not correct. A

overseas sheet rolling mill at McCook, 11;

not a trade fair and undercarriage would the largest and

modern castoring

to consult alort

buyers are requested atot have the properties which the British Overseas Represcita- alumina plant in the world

undercarriage postives in their countries before Hurricane Creek, Ark.; aluminium the drift reduction plants at Jones Mills. Besses. It is true that all the completing their arrangements to Ark and Troutdale, Ore; and a wheels turn, but the turning is visit Edinburgh, large extrusion plant at Grand controlled by the pilot. Rapids, Mich.

33707).

If the pilot wishes to take- Slengents in ilon Kong fo off along a Reynolds are the Tien Yuen in strong wind blowing across it, emergency plant at Ayr, Scot- runway with a Finding that their wartime dustrial Corporation, Brom 303. National Bank building (telephone he sels the wheels of the underland, was a success, the Glacier carriage so as to bring the nose

Metal Company, makers of of the aircraft round towards

plain bearings and bushes, the wind, while keeping the built a new factory at Kilmar- wheels straight along the runnock and transferred their

northern plant to its new per manent heme there in June, It If the pilot then opens the will now supplement the main engine, the aircraft crabs for-works at Alperton, which is ward along the runway. The operating at capacity. wheels do not tend to drift across the runway and there is no side load on them.

Precision Watches

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way.

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Яome

George Eberhard was born in St. Imier. Berne, in 1865. Given instruction

government department in watch-

Similarly in landing. Before engaged on supplying the R.A.F. making by, his father, he start- ed at an early age to earn his coming down the pilot sets the The consequence was that it was i wheels across the line of the most difficult to find out what living by apprenticeship to this aircraft by an amount sufficient was happening to it. All the most famous of Switzerland's to equalise the effects of the trials were done in secret and And in 1887 ho esta-cross-wind. He then takes a some time clapsed before the blished his own business, thus normal landing, the aircraft it- details were made public. founding while still young self facing somewhat across the At that time people were stil! and filled with the eager con- runway, but the Adence of youth-what still fore and aft with the runway.

wheels true not thinking about private and club flying. They were still skunds today as Eberhard Sc

The advantages of this under-thinking about war flying. But Co., one of the best known and carringe which can be fitted and directly private and club flying revered names among watch has been tried in both the tricy come into the picture, the value cle and the other form, are very of the undercarriage becomes Georges Eberhard founded great where there is little space plain. his business on a standard of for aerodromes. For it reduces I am inclined to think that quality And high precision the area required for nero- we shall soon be in the astonish- workmanship. Today that atan-drome to a very marked extent. ing position of taking the dard still stands as the basls All that is needed in a single undercarriage back from Ame for both the plain and com-runway. None of the elaborate rica. And I am not going to plicated instruments and chrono- criss-cross pattern of the big say anything against the Ame meters which Eberhard & Co. airports la required. are turning out in greater num bers now than ever before in their history.

manufacturera.

problems

yet

hud

Kept Secret

4

ricans on that account. It is entirely to their credit if they The undercarriage has only develop and put the undercar- During World War 1, supply one disadvantage. It is slight riage to use after we have dis- the arded it. It is entirely to our arone to block they heavier-heavier by market, business methods were amount of the turning mechan-discredit that we fail to take up turned upside down, and

ism-than an ordinary under the achievements of our inven greater precision was required carriage. But for crowded tors,

Nor do I feel inclined to from all watches and chrono- country like England, and for graphe. Eberhard, who

light aeroplanes, the undercar- blame the Americans for not established his own large busi riage is a gift from the gods, mentioning the inventor's name ness in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the It is the more astonishing that or saying that the device has been tested here. We were so "Metropolis of Horology," now we have neglected it.

My own concentrated solely on accuracy

view about that quiet about the whole thing that combined with simplicity.

neglect in that it is the result it is highly probable that they from This policy was

The heard nothing about it continued of inadequate publicity. after his death, in 1927, by his Maclaren undercarriage, 1 be this aide.

Georges. During this lieve, was originally taken up period, many social service under the auspices of the Royal schemes for the employees Air Force, or at any rate of

(Continued at foot of next Col.)

yon

of

"Lift The Curtain" All this makes mo wonder how soon the grasp of the mill-j tary authorities, among whom are included the R.A.F. authori. tles, upon technicn! davelop-

the company (including ʼn com- pany-sponsored pension fund) were adopted. After Georgea own death in 1942, hia brother watches, but Eberhard and Co.ments in dying will be relaxed? Maurico took over the manage-Lare standing firm in their The secrecy complex is doing ment of the Company, with nothing-but-the-best polley,us incalculable harm. We know Audre Wasem as his commor- leaving the cheaper market to nothing about the moro ad- cial manager. Thus Georges those who choose to chose this vanced work in dying, and, as Eberhard's own family is still temporary selling boom, this incident proves, we know carrying on the traditiona In their first stand in the precious little about the work Younded by their far-accing Beste Sample Fair in 1946, on ordinary everyday flying. father in 1887.

Eberhard and Co. received higli| The sooner we re-axamine the Watchmakers dre now finding praise for the articles, shown, whole secrecy situation in avia- it hard to cope with the sudden an indication of what is still tion and decide if we are to con

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