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Publication date: 1 March 1953

E.M.R. DITMAS

The Conference of the Scottish Branch of Aslib was held this year on 27th February at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, under the Chairmanship of Dr. D. G. Brown. The opening address…

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The Conference of the Scottish Branch of Aslib was held this year on 27th February at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, under the Chairmanship of Dr. D. G. Brown. The opening address was given by Sir Andrew McCance, Deputy Chairman and Joint Managing Director of Messrs. Colvilles, Ltd., and is reported in this issue. He was followed by Mr. M. C. Pottinger, Librarian of the Scottish Central Library, who surveyed Scottish resources of scientific and technical literature and information, and by Dr. C. Macrae who described the work of the Scottish Council. Both these papers are given in full. In the afternoon Mr. J. Revie, of the British Jute Trade Research Association, traced the steps by which a small special library could be set up, and Mr. E. N. Simons, of Messrs. Edgar Allen & Co., Ltd., spoke on the writing of English in abstracts and reports. Mr. Revie's paper is included in this issue; that by Mr. Simons was published in the May, 1953, number of Aslib Proceedings.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 5 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 July 1958

New Mechanical Engineering Research Chairman VICE‐ADMIRAL SIR FRANK MASON, K.C.B., M.I.MECH.E., M.I.MAR.E., has been appointed to succeed SIR ANDREW MCCANCE, F.R.S., as chairman…

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New Mechanical Engineering Research Chairman VICE‐ADMIRAL SIR FRANK MASON, K.C.B., M.I.MECH.E., M.I.MAR.E., has been appointed to succeed SIR ANDREW MCCANCE, F.R.S., as chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Research Board.

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Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, vol. 5 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0003-5599

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Publication date: 1 July 1957

PRESIDENT: F. C. Francis, M.A., F.S.A., British Museum. PAST PRESIDENTS SERVING ON COUNCIL: Dr. Barbara Wootton, University of London; Sir Raymond Streat, K.B.E., Cotton Board

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PRESIDENT: F. C. Francis, M.A., F.S.A., British Museum. PAST PRESIDENTS SERVING ON COUNCIL: Dr. Barbara Wootton, University of London; Sir Raymond Streat, K.B.E., Cotton Board. VICE‐PRESIDENTS: Sir Andrew McCance, Colvilles Ltd.; Sir Alexander Todd, Cambridge University; Sir Ben Lockspeiser, K.C.B., Tube Investments Ltd.; Sir Wavell Wakefield, M.P. HONORARY TREASURER: J. E. Wright, Institution of Electrical Engineers. HONORARY SECRETARY: Mrs. Joyce Lancaster‐Jones, British Council.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 9 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 March 1953

ANDREW MCCANCE

I am glad to attend this Conference this morning, even if my only function is to wish you success in the work which you are doing and to give you sympathetic support and…

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I am glad to attend this Conference this morning, even if my only function is to wish you success in the work which you are doing and to give you sympathetic support and encouragement in the expansion of your activities.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 5 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 March 1952

A monthly feature giving news of recent Government and professional appointments, industrial developments and business changes, etc.

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A monthly feature giving news of recent Government and professional appointments, industrial developments and business changes, etc.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 24 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 July 1958

Aero Research Ltd., Duxford, Cambridge, have announced that the name of the Company is to be changed to CIBA (A.R.L.) Ltd. Aero Research was formed in 1934 to pioneer research…

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Aero Research Ltd., Duxford, Cambridge, have announced that the name of the Company is to be changed to CIBA (A.R.L.) Ltd. Aero Research was formed in 1934 to pioneer research into aircraft structures, including the development of new adhesives. The trade names of Aerolite, Araldite, Redux and other proprietary products are unaffected: the change of name of the Company from Aero Research Ltd. to CIBA (A.R.L.) Ltd. took effect on June 30, 1958.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 30 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 February 1960

AUTOMATION is generally a process superimposed on existing plants, not exactly a thing of shreds and patches, but a compromise between the ideal and the practicable. Rarely is it…

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AUTOMATION is generally a process superimposed on existing plants, not exactly a thing of shreds and patches, but a compromise between the ideal and the practicable. Rarely is it possible to find it as the basic conception in the mind of the industrialist before even the blue prints of a new manufacturing process have been prepared.

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Work Study, vol. 9 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 March 1954

Report of the Council for the year ended 31st December, 1953, presented at the Annual General Meeting, 9th June, 1954, held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George…

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Report of the Council for the year ended 31st December, 1953, presented at the Annual General Meeting, 9th June, 1954, held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, London, S.W.1.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 6 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 December 1958

WHERE are we going? The aim is to double our standard of living in the next 25 years and, as Sir Alexander Fleck, K.B.E., Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., so aptly…

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WHERE are we going? The aim is to double our standard of living in the next 25 years and, as Sir Alexander Fleck, K.B.E., Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., so aptly staled recently, ‘The man who knows where he is going is the one who is most likely to arrive.’ One might venture to expand this statement by adding that he is still more likely to arrive if the cluttering debris of inefficient methods and movements are cleared away.

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Work Study, vol. 7 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 June 1944

Wilfred Gallay

NO technical development in all our industrial history has been as highly glamorized as the subject of plastics. It has shown an amazing degree of popular appeal for several…

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NO technical development in all our industrial history has been as highly glamorized as the subject of plastics. It has shown an amazing degree of popular appeal for several reasons, including probably the idea of synthesis from “coal, air and water”, the beauty of colour and finish in decorative effects, and the fact that the objects of early manufacture were those of common use by the general public. Feature writers have regrctably enjoyed a general field‐day revelling in the subject, and unfortunately there has been a tendency towards certain misconceptions and exaggerations in such writings. Plastic aeroplanes now flying, plastic automobiles and plastic homes of the future have been described. Actually there is no such thing today as the plastic aeroplane. The plywood airframe has attained great importance owing to the advent of plastic glues, and what might be termed a “plywood plastic” aircraft is still actually a high‐grade plywood. The plastic automobile bodies envisaged today are secondary structures to be built over a metal framework. The post‐war homes will undoubtedly have dozens of items in which plastics will play a part, but primary load‐carrying structures are not among these components as yet. The plastic industry itself has recently become somewhat concerned about the dangers attendant on over‐glamorization and some remedial action has been studied.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 16 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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