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The 500,000th DPA Pump:

21st April 1961, Page 41
21st April 1961
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C.A.V. Success Story.

ATRIBUTE to a modern engineering triumph was paid in the ancient Medway town of Rochester on Monday at the works there of C.A.V., Ltd. At a few minutes after 11 a.m., in a happy ceremony on the factory floor, the half-amillionth DPA distributor pump was taken off the production line and handed over to the Mayor of Rochester for safe keeping in the town's museum of industrial products.

This significant number of DPA units. justifiably referred to by C.A.V. as a triumph of precision engineering production, has been built in a period of five years, the second 250,000 having been produced in only 18 months.

.Current production is at the rate of 250,000 pumps a year and further substantial increases in production are budgeted for the future. Already, 65 per cent, of production is exported directly.

or indirectly on products of engine and vehicle manufacturers going overseas.

Mr. B. F. W. Scott, vice-chairman of C.A.V., Ltd., presiding at a commemoration lunch after the handing-over ceremony, spoke of the company's plans to produce the DPA pump in many countries in the world. It was not their intention to grant licences for its manufacture, he explained. " We believe this development belongs to Britain," he said.

A direct inter-factory express delivery service between the C.A.V. works at Rochester and the works of Rota-Diesel S.A. at Blois (Loir et Cher), in France, was started on April 10. A Leyland Comet and a 5-ton Bedford are used for the run to Blois, which is about 120 miles south-west of Paris.

The French company was formed last year under the joint ownership of C.A.V. Ltd., and a French concern, for the manufacture of D.B.A. fuel pumps.

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People: F. W. Scott
Locations: Paris, Rochester

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