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FLIGHT.
JULY 28,
1938.
Clean HandsWithout
Water
CONTRIBUTORS TO SUCCESS
Among the components of Mercury, and of Maia, the Bristol
Pegasus-engined mother-ship which launched her on her successful voyage, were the following:
Airscrews, v.p. and wooden, l>y De Havilland and Airscrews, Ltd.,
respectively; Uotax m a g n e t o s and Lucas electrical e q u i p m e n t ; K.L.O.
plugs with BR90 resistor elbows; cables by British I n s u l a t e d Cables and
Callenders; smaller electrical details, D.H. Bonnella; Salter springs;
Britannia b a t t e r i e s ; copper t u b i n g by Birmingham B a t t e r y and Metal
Co.
I n s t r u m e n t s , general, by Smith's Aircraft I n s t r u m e n t s ; Marconi radioAD 67A t r a n s m i t t e r , AD 6872B receiver and 5062E D / F . receiver; Sperry
a u t o pilot and artificial horizons; controls by Exactor, Arens and Bowden.
Constructional m a t e r i a l s by British Aluminium C o . ; Sterling Metals;
Phosphor
Bronze Co.; J . J . Llabershon;
Firth-Vickers;
Northern
Aluminium Co.; L. Cameron and C o . ; High Duty Alloys, L t d . ; Jas.
Booth and C o . ; Reynolds Tube Co.; Accles and Pollock; F . A. Hughes.
J o i n t i n g s by Cork Mfg. Co.; rivets by S. and R. J . E v e r e t t and by
De Bergue'.s p a t e n t s ; rubber sections by Expanded Rubber Co.; alloy
spinnings by t'ornereroft, L t d . ; window and door fittings by Beckett,
Layeock and W a l k i n g ; Bukellte sheets by Bakelite, Ltd.
A.U.S. p a r t s by Rubery, Owen and Co., and by Vickers (Aviation),
L t d . ; special machined p a r t s by S. E. O p p e r m a n ; Simmonds elastic stopn u t s ; upholstery and decorations by Rumbold.
Shell fuel and I n t a v a Red Band oil.
Expansion at Hanworth