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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

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BRE

1290

BAGDAD WILL BE FREED

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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

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PALUSIVE (Huktstrial combine

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Although it

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whole of the Etwards story

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Edw...d tor pretend that the mesaft which put Britoin years ahend in one leap, came entirely Even while the free his brain

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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.

Ed-

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 ...

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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

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Normal Head

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