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THE Sondes Place Research Institute, Dorking, Surrey, of MacTaggart and Evans, Ltd., industrial consultants, is described briefly in ah illustrated booklet which this firm has issued. There are fifteen laboratories, besides offices, stores, dark room, library and semi-scale building and workshops. The Analytical Laboratory and the Physical Testing and Cement Laboratories are service laboratories carrying out analysis and testing for the rest of the organisation and to some extent for clients. The Spectroscopy and Microscopy Laboratories and the dark room, as well as the X-ray Analysis Laboratory, function both as service departments and as research laboratories, but the main chemical laboratory is used exclusively for research and development. The Physical Laboratory is used mainly for physico-chemical research and for determining physical constants, while the Electronics Laboratory deals with the application of electronic methods and servo-mechanisms to industry. Work is carried out either for a fixed fee, on a time basis, or for a monthly or yearly retainer ; during the past few years problems relating to abrasives, adhesives, bricks, cast iron, cement and concrete, detergents, fibre boards, gelatine and glue, gypsum, lime, linoleum substitute, mineral oils, paint, plastics, printing, synthetic organic chemicals, strip steel, etc., have been handled.
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The Sondes Place Research Institute. Nature 162, 484 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162484d0
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