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Redditch Heritage High Duty Alloys
The Queens Award To Industry
Progress in aeronautical development is largely dependent on improved materials both for
airframes and engines and when supersonic aircraft began to appear High Duty Alloys
played a leading role. In no other form of transport is the absolute reliability of
components so vitally important for the safety of passengers. Developments in
Hiduminium were bound closely with the development of aircraft and the most famous
example came with the Concorde Supersonic Transport. The Research Division
accomplished a great achievement by developing RR.58 from a forging material used
during the war for pistons into a form suitable for manufacture in large quantity as sheet.
This was a major factor in allowing the construction of Concorde to go ahead, and was
recognised by the bestowal in 1969 of the Queen's Award to Industry for technological
innovation.
Group at Exhibition in 1948.
JVS on left.
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