One of the world's most highly automated factories, where robots and humans work side‐by‐side, was inaugurated by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at…
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One of the world's most highly automated factories, where robots and humans work side‐by‐side, was inaugurated by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, in May.
TO MARK what in their new celebration brochure is colourfully and correctly described as ‘a century of progress’, Millers Oils promoted a series of open day hospitality events…
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TO MARK what in their new celebration brochure is colourfully and correctly described as ‘a century of progress’, Millers Oils promoted a series of open day hospitality events over the period 20–22 May, with twice‐daily sessions at the Brighouse, West Yorkshire plant.
PROJECT Leader, Dr Geoff Dobson, in charge of Automotive Engine Lubricants at BP's Sunbury Research Centre, is the first to applaud his own good luck. It came as a blessed bonus…
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PROJECT Leader, Dr Geoff Dobson, in charge of Automotive Engine Lubricants at BP's Sunbury Research Centre, is the first to applaud his own good luck. It came as a blessed bonus to crown months of effort by him and his team to formulate a satisfactory mineral base oil which would allow BP to make continued headway into the light viscosity automotive lubricants market without recourse to synthetics. The product they discovered in the last resort made this possible. And the background story adds another chapter to BP's not uneventful history.
TELEHOIST, of Cheltenham, specialists in hydraulic equipment for construction plant, are among the pioneers in the UK of automatic grease lubrication for commercial vehicles where…
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TELEHOIST, of Cheltenham, specialists in hydraulic equipment for construction plant, are among the pioneers in the UK of automatic grease lubrication for commercial vehicles where operators have a preference for grease instead of oil.
MARKET forces, plus a modicum of common sense, have contributed over twenty‐five years or so to the partial, though not complete, elimination of some of the disastrous attitudes…
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MARKET forces, plus a modicum of common sense, have contributed over twenty‐five years or so to the partial, though not complete, elimination of some of the disastrous attitudes described by Dr David Atterton. They were the cause of lost opportunities and the deterioration of long‐established trade links. Both situations are always critical, preceding either bankruptcy or forcing acceptance of new thinking and better business methods and technologies in order to survive.
Opening up in Britain originally as the Anglo‐American Oil Company, Esso recently celebrated the Group's hundredth year of trading in this country. It was an occasion made more…
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Opening up in Britain originally as the Anglo‐American Oil Company, Esso recently celebrated the Group's hundredth year of trading in this country. It was an occasion made more significant by the launching of a new $37.4m lubricants manufacturing and distribution complex, built on Thames‐side land at Purfleet, Essex, which the company has occupied since early days.
It was a visit that also allowed an element of leisure as well as business — as the nicely worded programme put it — while tarrying overnight in a sample of gracious living at the…
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It was a visit that also allowed an element of leisure as well as business — as the nicely worded programme put it — while tarrying overnight in a sample of gracious living at the Manor Hotel, Moretonhampstead. Here Interlube managing director, Roger Harrop and senior executives met the party. And here, incidentally, British Transport Hotels demonstrate that their more normal buffet car sandwich standard comes from quite another world …
A triennial meeting of the European Union of Independent Lubricant Manufacturers (UEIL) discusses policies, products and market prospects: A marathon Day of Study points a way for…
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A triennial meeting of the European Union of Independent Lubricant Manufacturers (UEIL) discusses policies, products and market prospects: A marathon Day of Study points a way for 77 participant member companies and 167 delegates.
IN January 1979, Benjamin R. Vickers & Sons Ltd began its 151st calendar year as a Leeds family business engaged in general oil merchanting and the manufacturing of…
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IN January 1979, Benjamin R. Vickers & Sons Ltd began its 151st calendar year as a Leeds family business engaged in general oil merchanting and the manufacturing of purpose‐blended lubricants for industry. While much of the company's current prosperity has been founded on development of oils for local needs—the processing of wool and textile products, including man‐made fibres—application of Vickers oils has ranged widely from marine stern‐tube lubrication to the supply of grease to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
IT IS a far cry from the situationhalf‐a‐century ago, when the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey — with the prophetic initials “Esso‐O” — introduced Paraflow 149, an additive…
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IT IS a far cry from the situationhalf‐a‐century ago, when the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey — with the prophetic initials “Esso‐O” — introduced Paraflow 149, an additive designed to solve motorists' morning cold‐start problems, to the latest £2½‐million computor installation at Esso UK Abingdon Research Laboratories to control and monitor the running of additive and lubricant test engines with maximum possible precision.