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1965 Luftwaffe Contract for Bryans

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From Flight International, 4th March, 1965 page 346

Luftwaffe Contract for Bryans

The West German Ministry of Defence has recently placed a £68,500 contract with Bryans Ltd, of Willow Lane, Mitcham Junction, Surrey, for the supply of 52 Oxygen Demand Regulator Test Stands, Model 1488/A.

Delivery of the first nine units has already been made. This equipment is used for
testing aircrew oxygen demand regulators for How capacities and oxygen concentration under simulated flight conditions.

Altitudes of up to 70,000ft can be reproduced in the pressure chamber where the
regulator is tested. Provision is made for the accurate control and measurement of
pressures and flows of oxygen through the regulator.

Full facilities are available in Model 1488/A for testing all airborne regulators of European and US origin.

Tesco, London Road

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Supermarket that was at 286-288 London Road, CR4 3NB

The Tesco supermarket was opened in 1965 at 286 London Road. After the Mormon bookshop at no. 288 closed, Tesco expanded there, and so occupied no.s 286 to 288.

When it was announced by Tesco that this supermarket was to close, local MP Siobhain McDonagh wrote to the chief executive. Tesco then agreed to stay open in no. 286 as a smaller ‘express’.

2008 from historical view on Google Street View

The Tesco Express closed on 5th November 2016.

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