OurGraduates OverseasEach year a nu mber of our g rad uates win Ove rse as App rent iceshipCourses for post gr aduate work wit h la rge indust rial org anizations in England. Last yea r Da vid T hye r a nd George Scott made the gra de , whil e thi syear these schol a rships ha ve been won by John Fa rnan a nd Lloyd Peake.The last two a re sa iling in March.Overseas st udents usua lly find t imeto write to us of their experiences. Otherstudents ove rseas are Ken Sambell inBahrain who has just visited us on leave,Glenis McKenzie in Holland followingextensive experience in America andIon McKellar who is in England . Extractsfrom thei r letters are:• GEORGE SCOTT-ENGLAND" At las t, a fter having been at workfor four mo nths, I am beg inn ing to sett lein to the rout ine. Th e sh ip tri p wa s amarve llous ex pe rienc e and t he luxur iousfo ur weeks I had are in direct con trastto life in Manchester. On th e sh ip wer eseven chaps com ing he re to Metros, fou rgoi ng to B.T.H. a t Rugby a nd about s ixgo ing to various other e ng ineering fi rmsscattered t hroug hou t England. We ove rse as app rent ices a re treated very well,much better t ha n the Brit ish appren tices. We not on ly had ou r fa res to andfrom England paid but al so we are gi ve na hundred pounds to pay for a Continentaltour, we do not ha ve a ny pay d<strong>edu</strong>ctedif we are late or a wa y s ick andwe are paid the sta ff Christmas Bonus-these are unique t o ove rse e s a ppre ntices." One of the big a dvantages of mytr ip, I feel, is the chance to see much ofBrita in a nd the Continent. A mo nthafter arriving in Manchester Metros hadthe ir annual hol ida y. Now that winteris sett ling in I will prob ably be stayingin Manchester more. Th is is a goodth ing a s I da three n ights a wee k a tManc he ster College of Techn olog y."• Glenis McKenziePennsylvania" I am be ing t rained for ser vice adviceand sa les of fu ll-fash ion ed hosierymachines and T ricot Fab ric machi nes,full-fash ioned swea ter machines, cir cu lar hosie ry mach ines . all of wh ich a remass-produced by my employers, TextileMachine Works. Each machine is a complexknitting machine , with electromechanicaland electronic control equ ipment,mating tolerances of the order of1/10 of a thousandth. I am greatlywrapped up in it for each machine is amaste rpi ece of moss-production onstandard pa rts . The fu ll fashio ned hosiery machi ne above has 20 ,000 d ifferentcastings and approx. 200,000 parts.It' s big, 60 ft . lon g, we ighs 14 tons a ndproduces 30 hos iery blanks s im ulta neously. Text ile Machine W orks covers10 sq uare miles of ground-it' s a bigfactory. The fou nd ry is larger t ha n t hatof G.M .H . in Melbou rne a nd fully a uto mechan ised as we ll. I have a wonde rfulopport un ity at ho me for the last threeproducts above a re onl y recent developments,and ve ry few are in Australia.Unf ortunately t he biggest sn ag I ca nsee is the fact that the mach ines are adollar purchase . Te xtile is start ing aplant in Holland, France and Englandto help the sterling market, so I ho vehopes there. My training at Coutee inelectrical ond mechanical fields hasgiven me an excellent start for my ageand with littl e experience a s yet, I ha vea lot to learn, but I fe el confident. Mostof th e people in this business are ve ryexperienced and of course older , so I amrather an experiment a s for a s my e mployers are co nc e rne d . They wer e a pp rehensiveabout yo un g peopl e, like myself, but th e oppo rtunity is t here nonetheless.I have just t h is la st month co mpleted a 5400 mile tou r through Maryland,Virg in ia, North and South Carolina,Georgia, Florida and Tennessee , andI shall be starting a nother ne xt wee k.Fortunately I have been able to visit t heUn iversit ies in each State I ha ve passed17
through, so I have many ideas from seeingthe facilities provided by studentsand lecturers,"• Ken Gambell - Bahrain" Greet ings from Bahrain, I hope youare well and everything fine at Coutee.Work in Construction Dept, is very busyand I wont t o get everything straight formy successor who takes over this week.I have been planning building worklately-working out which parts of projectsBapco can do and which ports hav eto be contracted. It is not real engineeringbut I think it is good planning experience.We are about half wa y throughthe construction of a new water treatingplant. It is a new type of demineraliserby "electrolytic d i-alyses" so the handbooktells us. Costs are expected to beabout half those for di stillation plants.The well water fl ows between manypairs of membrances - electricallycharged - the salt ions flow throughthe membrance wa lls and the purerwater flows on . The trouble in Oman hasbrought a lot of activity t o Bahrain onr'the co rr espo ndents ha ve been making asti r. The sensat iona lists were refusedentrY, I believe.~ I J l l l'I l l l l l l l l lll llI l l l l!l l l lli l i lm l l l l l d , l l lI l'I l l lll lll l l i l : 1 1 1 1 1 · l i l l l : II1 I I1 I !I I I'o I I I I Il I I I I I!l I I I I : I III I'.I 1 1 ! 1 , l ill lThe words,"AN AJAX PRODUCTION/'signifyDistinction and Qualityin Papergoods*ANDREW JACK, DYSON &co. PTY. LTD.Manufa cturing Stationers, Printers andPaper Converters594-610 Lonsdale Street Melbourne.111:lII I11 I11 1! 11 11 1l 1II!llllllllIill1lllllllllll1 l1lllllll1llinll1llllllllllllllllilllllillllllll!ilJl1lllllllll1l l1ll lJIJOUTDOOR SKETCH -18Pen and wash
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