Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 40 Issue 3

SUBMARINE PROPELLER SHAFT SEALS:: Six composite materials examined

G.A. Green, F.J. Tribe

Submarine propeller shaft seals operate under onerous conditions in an aggressive environment and their effective life is vitally dependent upon the durability of the seal face…

SIMPLIFIED SURFACE INSPECTION: Microset fast‐dry material replicates worn profiles to a micron resolution

Applied Metallurgical Services Ltd have developed Microset, a replicating material specifically for the large‐scale, in‐situ inspection of engineering components. It is a…

AMERICA'S CRYSTAL BALL: US market research indicates annual sales improvement for industrial oils and fluids from $2.8 to $3.3 billion by 1990

Sales of industrial oils and fluids in the United States reached US $2.8 billion in 1986. However, due to falling crude oil prices in that year, and thus lower prices for several…

AN INDEPENDENT POINT OF VIEW: The ILMA: an American lubricant manufacturers' association with political influence and clout

H. Prescott Bagley

Independence, nowhere more assiduously nurtured than in America, runs strongly through that country's lubricants manufacturing and marketing business. A report and forecast (page…

THE NEWTON GROUP: Survivors of fire and commercial hazards of 108 years' trading, the Newton family company marches on towards its fifth generation

This story of the 108‐year‐old Birmingham Newton Company, manufacturers of industrial and automotive lubricants and chemical products, might well have come to an abrupt end twenty…

A CARPET‐SLIPPER QUARTET: Vickers new PVE*Q series pumps featuring high performance and quiet‐running characteristics

High operating pressure capacity, quiet running and highly efficient transmission of power are three prominent characteristics of the new PVE*Q series variable displacement…