14 December: Instrument Landing Systems – Dickon Povey
11 January: Introducing the 5G network – Glyn Evans
08 February – The Victorian Mechanical Computer
08 March – Jet Boat Propulsion Systems
12 April – The Photon! – Bob Gilbert
10 may – Is Hydrogen the Fuel of the Future? – David Feather
14 June – The Land line RIP 2025 – Alan Cooper
12 July – Electric Cars – Ray Fox
09 November – “Hydraulic Valve Manufacture” – Magnus Cooper (external speaker)
A Devonshire engineering company of 35 employees uses £1m of advanced technology to serve its markets, and even to lead the world in some product categories. Magnus Cooper, their Chief Designer, will look at the skills and processes that make it possible. He will bring some products to illustrate the talk.
The company designs and makes 95% of its products and these are used in large vehicles and yachts, unmanned submarines and commercial fishing boats. Their factory is capable of running itself overnight with the “lights out”!
Meetings are held at the Progressive Hall North Bradley, starting at 2:30 pm
Change of Venue: GUIDE HUT in Trowbridge Park. There will be a charge per person of £1.50 to cover the cost of the venue.
I will set the quiz so it won’t be too difficult.
Please let Jean Stanford (details are in your newsletter) know if you can make it or just turn up.
Parking: Either the Cinema or M&S – 3hours free or Multi storey in Castle Place. 2hrs.free unless you park on the top floors.
Calling all Scrabbles – old members and new. We will start playing again on Monday 13th.September
as Hilperton Village Hall. Note new time: 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
Contact Jean Stanford for more information.
FRENCH CONVERSATION.
Over the past year our numbers have dropped from 8 to 4. Normally we are a house group meeting on 2nd & 4th Monday in the month, in the morning.
We talk about things we’ve read, seen or listened to as well as topical news.
At present we are using ZOOM for our meetings.
We’d like more members – so if anyone would like to join us, please contact Jean Stanford via the Group Coordinator
FRENCH 2
We would like 2,even 3 more members. We try to speak French most of the time. We each usually give a short presentation of what we’ve done, seen or read in the preceding week, usually followed by questions and answers. Plus we discuss topical issues. We use French magazine – Bien Dire and Bien Dire Initial. It has many interesting articles, some of which we can listen to by CD. See attached example. We also use an outdated French Experience 2 for grammar etc. We learn from each other – not a teacher, therefore the group is always open to suggestions for things to do.
So if you have some French and would like to join us, please contact Jean Stanford via the Group Coordinator.