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PRIVATE FRANK NOLAN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY THE GREAT WAR MEDICAL SERVICES 1 MEDICAL SERVICES 2 AMBULANCE TRAIN MILITARY HOSPITALS
WAR AND MEDICINE WHEN THEY SOUND THE LAST ALL CLEAR GROUP CAPTAIN DOUGLAS BADER GROUP CAPTAIN DOUGLAS BADER CBE DSO '
THE MEDICAL MEMORIES ROADSHOW
‘To understand where we are today
We have to know where we have come from’
'I am going to move away from our own Home Grown 'Masters' to include one from 'across the pond'.
However, before I go into more details about our American Cousin I have a question to ask you!
What links a supermarine spitfire with a Hip Joint?
To hear this Spitfire's Rolls Royce MERLIN Engine
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'To answer that question I need to take you back to the years between the First and Second World Wars to Germany who were preparing for the Invasion of Europe.
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Two Brothers approached the German Authorities with a new type of Stainless Steel they had designed and offered it to the German Government for use in Munitions.
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Unfortunately (or fortunately for the rest of the World) one of the components needed to make this Steel in any quantity was only available in South Africa and so they had to reject the offer.
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Not to be put off the two brothers travelled to the United Kingdom and offered the Steel to the British Government who in turn introduced them to Rolls Royce.
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Rolls Royce used this Stainless Steel in their Merlin Engines. Amongst it unusual characteristics the new Steel did not expand or contract with Temperature changes.
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As a result the Spitfires and Hurricanes that used the Merlin Engines were able to get above the German aircraft which gave them Air Supremacy especially during
'The Battle of Britain'
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After the War the two Brothers moved to America and started a Company called Austinaal Laboratories International . In 1956 they were approached by a Surgeon to make trial implants of a new Hip Replacement.
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Of all the trials they made the one made from this new Metal worked the best of all.
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It was called
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'vitallium'
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And the Surgeon was
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