24 MARCH 1950, Page 17

DO PILOTS TALK T.I.P

Those swooping palms, those turning wrists, more eloquent than words when flying men foregather . . . do they refer to TI ? Rarely, if you put it like that. But when you consider that there is not a British plane in service which cannot refer to TI engineering for something valuable or vital ... from precision tubes in engine and frame to aluminium skin, from oxygen bottles, com- ponents of oil-cooler or retractable under- carriage to pilot's seat or radio parts . . who then can doubt that pilots talk TI?

THE SURNAME OF A THOUSAND THINGS

The letters T., mean Tube Investments Limited, of The Adelphl, London, W.C.2 (Temple Bar 0271). They also stand for the thirty producing companies of the co- ordinated TI group, makers of precision tubes, of bicycles and components, of wrought aluminium alloys, electrical appliances, pressure vessels, paints, road signs, metal furniture . . . and essential mechanical parts for a thousand and one things which everybody uses,