1954-06-07 — Page 10

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Established 1843

MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1954,

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‘RADIO-ACTIVE' WARNINGS ARE PUT UP IN THE TELEVISION FACTORY

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later, televizion, 11 Lapelly going ahead In other hields, some of which are by no resins sidelines

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biggest of from Ekeo's industries nside TV And radio production is the making of plasties. They have expanded into one of the biggest plastic contents in Britain.

Before the

War The need free for plustic radio cabinets, and prese

were instaflet in 1931

Fan this has grown a com- chensive Poke of plastic panufacture.

At the start of the TV assembly line: 28-year-old Mrs Elizabeth Willis, of Shoeburyness, fits valve-holders into the chassle of a television sel,

Miss Patricia Holding demonstrates one of the atomic measuring Instruments made in Ekco's Nucleonics Division. It is called a scintillation counter, and is for

use in hospitals.

Miss Shella Lynch at work on a machine which winds Transformers and coils.

Director

Plastics The Division is Mr David Radford. the who was 10 years with Nuffiel

before organisation coining to Excu's in 1942. Al- most a arth of the whole staff

for him in at Southend work two huge shops.

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Fingering u beaker made nylon, and his sentences pune- tuated with the thump of the bydraulic presses outside hin once. Mr Radford explains Ekco's plastic netivities.

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The range of products wide: from refrigerator parts to polythene washing-up bowls, from grars made of nylon-they need no lubrication to tele- phone cases.

A few yards away from the thump of these presses is another division even farther divorced from the norma; publle concep- tion of Ekcu's activities. Inside this building are notices warning against radio-activity.

This is Ekco's nucleonics divi- slon-a part of the organisation that is a child of the atomie nge, It produces nil kinds of instru- ments for atomic research, and the application of atomic tech- niques in medicine and industry.

The technical team is led by Mr Ronald Parry. He tells how Exco are helping Britain's atomic research, Many instruments used at Harwell are made here. Some of the instruments that went to the Monte Bello Islands for Britain's atom lest came from E. K. Cole Ltd,

He takes you on a tour of the laboratories and workshops, and points out a gleaming array of Instruments with formidable titles: linear amplifiers, scalers, rate-meters, probe units, scin- tillation counters, and portable dose rate meters.

One of them looks like on autsize fleld-marshal'e baton. It da an instrument nicknamed the Prod for uranium prospectors. Then Mr Parry shows the kind of radiation detectors that are being made, for the Civ}! De- fence.

A long move

Not only do Ekco supply Britain with atomic instruments -they are also exporting to the U.S.A. Of one recent crder. Mr Parry a particularly proud. It Is for 10,000 dollars worth of equipment for

Industrial plant in North Amerien.

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· ́"Arid," my3. Mr Parry, "it was secured in the face of force American competition."

WHERE THEY WIND 4000 MILES OF WIRE EVERY WEEK

ABOVE.The Call-Winding Shop: 400 people are employed here winding colle and transformers. They wind 1000 miles of Ane wire each week.

TV SCREENS IN THE BAG

RIGHT.-The TV Assembly Floor: 000 people work here making TV sets in a series of production lines. In the fore- ground are canvas bags carrying the cathode-ray tubes on a suspended assembly line.

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How the cathode tubes travel.

In the atom ago Mr.E. K. Colo has moved a long way from his Mrs. Irene Dunn

little shop at Westellt and six

radio sets a week.

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"RETRACTABLE BALLPOÏÑE PEN

Principal Boy, 30-year-old Miss Joan Blyth (left), an artist in the Publicity Department, makes up Principal Girl. Miss Jeannette Baker, an inspector, on the TV Assembly. Floor, for the Ekco pantomime, The Golden Goose.

machine which winds 10 low frequency, transforme

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Radio Hongkong

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From the Files

.

100 Years

Ago

A feeling seemed to be fast spreading that if Government intended to do anything towards the defence of the Colony, It was very dilatory in setting About Itas, though the matt arrived on the 28th with in- telligence of war being declared, no perceptible motion WIN -observed on the part of our authorities, Civil or Milltary, several days afterwards, and then the only thing seemed to be, the establishment t signal posts on the summita of the hills. Latterly, however, as more vigorous spirit seems to have been infused into their proceedings, for besides the formation of a strong reserve of, for onco well paid police, mounted constables have been focated at tho various, out- stations.

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The Mitary have also taken one step in the right direction, by the formation.

3-gun barbette battery

to the West- ward; and wo should be only 100 glad to sex their original intentions carried out, In the croction ui the proposed batteries on Edger's Point and Green Island, and the repair

of the little 4-gun fortalice on Kellett's Island. It is said they have not enough of the military to man them.-What then? fall back upon the civilians, who, with a little practice, would make not bad artilleriats. It is not to play at soldiers that so many of the latter are ready to volunteer, but in the full ox- pectation of herd knocks should the colony have the evil fortune to be attacked.

GOVT'S PLAN

Government, in attempting to talsc a volunteer corps hos, with its usual happy knack, adopted the pla feast of all fikely to

prove successful. ircular was sent round, at Arst addressed to the "Merchants of Hongkong," and

they, the

merchants, number

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in all but len or a dozen, they, even with their assistants, would form but an inefficient body for the par- poses intended. Bul consider. Ing the pecuilar address upon the Circular G6 a mere over- sight, we would next allude to the means adapted for bringing the matter before the public. Two

methods were

opon, --one by the residents themselves calling a public meating, the Sheriff In the from which a deputa- tien mest have been aut

Chair,

to wait on the Hon. the Governor, and with him adopt measures for embodying a volunteer corps; the other by. Government calling out

Militia, consisting of every British

subject, able to bear arms, between the ages of 16: and 00; in which latter case we feel assured there would have bcen neither grumbling nor hanging back, but every man would have been willing to perform the duty imposed upon im, knowing the labour to ba equally shared in by all. Str

we should have preferred the former modo, and it will still bo found to be the most. popular, and most likely to conduce to the hearty operation of the public the civil authorities.

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