Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,635 pages of information and 246,389 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Automobile Engineer: 1962/03

From Graces Guide
March 1962. Front cover.
March 1962. Index to contents.

Note: This is a sub-section of the Automobile Engineer

CONTENTS

  • Editorial. Reorganization for Efficiency. 83
  • C.A.V. Research and Engineering Headquarters. A functionally designed new building well equipped with facilities for research and development work on electrical and diesel engine equipment. 84
  • Exhaust Valve Steels. Developments culminating in the evolution of 2l-4N steel, with particular reference to experience at Low Moor Alloy Steelworks Ltd. 93
  • Pitt 35 Ton Low-loader. An unusually large, special-purpose semi-trailer embodying a progressive-rate rubber suspension system of ingenious design. 98
  • Wax-element Thermostats. Among the advantages of the Western-Thomson type are insensitivity to normal pressure variations, reliability and long life. 100
  • Stud Welding. Kerry-Omark capacitance discharge process does not require flux, ferrules or inert gas. 104
  • Automatically Brightening and Anodizing Aluminium. New plant installed by the London Aluminium Company 106 Ltd, for treating decorative ware on a continuous process basis. 106
  • Books. Brief comments on recent publications pertinent to automobile engineering. 111
  • New Plant and Tools. Recent interesting developments in production equipment. 112
  • Machining Laygear Forgings. Automatically operating linked line of five standard machine tools and two washing units built by Wickman Ltd. for the Austin plant. 115
  • Bumper Bar Polishing Line. Vauxhall one-piece, wrap-round bars are automatically polished on an Acme-Efco continuous line, after copper plating and before nickel and chromium plating. 118
  • Abrasive Belt Centreless Grinders. New Sundstrand Engelberg machines, in a range of four sizes, for precision grinding in wet or dry, single-pass or multi-pass operations. 121
  • Current Patents. Selected abstracts of recently issued specifications. 123

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