CASTENG INSPECTION BY MEANS OF X-RAYS
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AMONGST the equipment recently installed by Leyland Motors, Ltd., Leyland, Lanes, is a self-contained X-ray centre, for use in testing ferrous and non-ferrous castings produced in
the company's foundries. .
In the normal way, when a casting has to be tested it has to be destroyed, but with the X-ray apparatus it is possible for every casting to be examined without damage resulting, as it does not have lobe cut or sectioned in any way. It has the advantage, too, that every individual -casting c an be inspected, whereas, with the old system, only one of a batch could be verified for soundness as, obviously, it had to be cut open for inspection.
In addition to the equipment in operation at the company's Leeds foundry for non-ferrous castings, two X-ray outfits are now installed at the recently built centre at Farington.