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Americans admire insurance horse sense

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A lecturer at New York University's graduate business school has chosen the horsey advertisements of a British industrial assurance company to illustrate how to advertise insurance. National Vulcan which is active in ndt, when not patronising the equine art of Mr Thelwell, assure NDTlnternational News that their advertising is put forward as a good example and is not classed among the horrors of a poor campaign (Fig.4).

Such was the success of the first twoday seminar on concrete pile testing

Fig.4 Dont fall off now, we're getting a free advert

The lecturer, Michael Levy, Chairman of the Standard Security Life Insurance Company of New York, lectures on marketing and merchand-

ising insurance products. He said he first saw the advertisements in that other well known engineering journal Punch.

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AS. Andrex is already a well known name in the British Market. The company makes a line of light weight x-ray generators and controls as well as fluoroscopic viewing systems for airline baggage.

General Electric Company Ltd of London, has bought Picker-Andrex x-ray AS from the American firm Hcker Corporation. Picker-Andrex manufactures x-ray generat ors and equipment in Copenhagen, Denmark. They will continue to do so under the name Andrex Radiation Products

Andrex Radiation Products, Halfdansgade 8, Copenhagen S, Denmark, DK 2300

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last September, that the Cement and Concrete Association has held another on 18-19 April. It was again organized together with the Federation of Piling Specialists. The seminar was held at the Fulmer Grange Training Centre in Buckinghamshire, UK. The aim of the seminar was to provide an opportunity for those concerned with the design, planning and construction of piling projects to review current methods of pile testing and discuss future developments. The emphasis was on testing of piles in position. Techniques under consideration were sonic logging, gammaray and other methods. The programme began with an introduction to pile testing and was followed by a discussion of the requirements of engineers for integrity. Delegates also discussed case histories. The chairman was D. T. Whittaker, formerly head of Geotechnics at the Building Research Establishment. Cement and Concrete Association, Conference and Training Centre, F d m e r Grange, Slough, Bucks SL2 4QS, UK

Non-ferrous centregoes international The British Non-Ferrous Metals

Research Association (BNF), has changed its rules to admit overseas organizations to full membership. It will now be known as the British Non-Ferrous Metals Technology Centre, or BNF for short as before. The BNF's council will also be international. The BNF was founded 54 years ago in London as one of the earliest British research associations. It already earns a third of its income abroad. It is the first time a research association has adopted an international constitution.

Fig.5 A British Airways ndt engineer inspects the main undercarriage torque link lug on an aircraft undergoing routine inspection at the British Airways, European division engineering base at London Airport. He uses a Baugh & Weedon 1010 ultrasonic flaw detector to detect cracks which might threaten the integrity of the part and the safety of the aircraft. Photograph courtesy of Baugh & Weedon Limited, Blackfriars Street, Hereford, UK

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The BNF is active over the range of production, processing and inspection of non-ferrous metals. BNF scientists have made many contributions to the technology of ndt of nonferrous products. The centre will now expand on a new site at Wantage, Oxfordshire. BNF Metals Technology Centre, Grove Laboratories, Denchworth Road, Wantage, Oxfordshire OX12 9B J, UK

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Crawler concern sold The Metal and Pipeline Endurance Ltd (MAPEL), has taken over Criterion (Engineering) Ltd of Hitchin, Herts, UK. MAPEL specializes in pipeline and inspection and cathodic protection. Criterion makes among other things, an x-ray crawler for pipelines. MAPEL, 76 Willoughby Lane, London N17 OSN, UK

INSPEX moves north Business Conferences and Exhibitions (BCE) Ltd, has decided to hold INSPEX 75 in Leicester and break the pattern of holding these inspection exhibitions in London. INSPEX 75 is the sixth in the series of British engineering inspection and quality control exhibitions that began in 1965. The organizers have also changed the time of year from autumn to spring and lengthened the opening time from four to five days. The exhibition will be 7-11 April 1975.

Dutch show British how to make American reactors Fourteen senior officials from the British nuclear and electricity generating industries, recently went to a Dutch reactor vessel works to study an American company's quality assurance for reactor vessels. The seminar the Americans laid on included a description of the ndt and quality assurance available at the works - a former shipyard. In-service inspection was also on the programme. The American company, the General Electric Company of the USA, had a hand in setting up Rotterdam Nuclear as a European facility to make GE reactors. There is considerable controversy in Great Britain on the design to be used for the next batch of nuclear reactors. Every conceivable type has its champions and opponents,

advantages and disadvantages. The boiling water reactors are said to be cheap as reactors go but people are worried about their integrity. Hence seminars of this kind. Rotterdam Nuclear has made, or will make, 19 nuclear reactor vessels including the 440 MW Santa Maria de Garona plant in Spain. Over 112 reactors GE(USA) designed have been ordered worldwide so far despite the worries (Fig.6). And the GE (USA)'s spokesman at the US congress committee heating on reactor safety, strenuously defended the design on the grounds of experience, overdesign and quality control. General Electric, Nuclear Energy Division, San Jose, California 95125, USA

BCE decided the changes because of the expansion of the exhibition. Last year's venue at the Royal Horticultural Society's Halls in Westminster is no longer big enough to accommodate the expected bookings. The change in date ensures that there is no clash with Microtechnic in Geneva in October 1975. BCE have now booked the Granby Halls in Leicester which is 96 miles from London and served by motorways and mainline railway services. BCE Limited, Mercury House, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UL, UK

Standards engineers meet in Paris The French standards engineers' association ACANOR, held an international conference on company standardization in Paris on 2 8 - 9 March. The conference was held at the headquarters of AFNOR, the French standards institution, and the standards engineers' associations of 11 countries participated. The two day programme covered the purpose, tasks, management and education for company standardization. Speakers from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and the UK and USA gave papers under the chairmanship of Mr Olle Sturen the general secretary of the International Standards Organization. British Standards Organization, 2 Park Street, London WlA 2BS, UK

Fig.6 The Dresden nuclear power station in Illinois could set the pattern in Britian if doubts on reactor integrity are overcome

Insurers buy x-ray service Non-Destructive Testers Ltd, has brought the radiographic inspection division of Pantak Ltd the British industrial x-ray equipment manufacturer. Non-Destructive Testers is a subsidiary of British Engine Boiler & Electrical Insurance Ltd. It already has branches at Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Derby and Slough besides this new facility at Windsor.

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The service was part of Pantak's Windsor factory for many years. It was used by customers with specialized but limited requirements for radiography. Pantak say the sale will enable it to expand its manufacture to meet growing demand. Pantak, Vale Road, Windsor, Berks, UK

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