VALUE IN PEACETIME

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4675, 25 January 1945, Page 4

VALUE IN PEACETIME

A IRC RA FT STAN DA R DIS ATI ON

The unique degree of standardisation achieved by the British aircraft industry during the war will prove a major asset ip the peace-time production of civil aircraft, reports a British technical journal, engineer. During the war standardisation committees have been set up through the close collaboration of the aircraft industry, electrical equipment manufacturers and the Ministry of Aircraft Production, and have established no fewer than 3000 standards covering every variety of component from the smallest item to an entire electrical system. The result has been the saving of thousands of man hours and a high increase in the efficiency of the operation. For example, standardised designs have kept in the air numbers of aircraft which would have been grounded had they required a spare part of special non-standardisod design. The continuation of this British standardisation system after Ihe war will considerably benefit aircraft users overseas, since it will mean that a constant supply of spare parts is immediately available for every aeroplane shipped from England. ‘Before the war the supply of spares was the chief difficulty of the aircraft operator in foreign countries.

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