Sea

Hale Hamilton valves, reducing stations/ pressure reducing manifolds and control

Surface Ships
Typical applications include: main engine starting air, auxiliary engine starting air, diesel generator starting air, low pressure air supply from high pressure system, torpedo launching air, air reservoir charging and aviation services air supplyequipment.

Submarines
Typical applications include: pneumatic and hydraulic valves used in weapons’ handling, weapons’ discharge and submerged signal ejection (SSE) systems, specialist hydraulic systems’ valves, through-hull valves, ballast tank blow valves, emergency built-in breathing system (BIBS), submarine emergency escape (SEIE) system, Hood Inflation System (HIS) Pressure Controller and Stole Charging Valve (SCV).

Air

Hale Hamilton air, oxygen and nitrogen charging equipment is in use today with air forces, civilian operators and ground support units around the world.

Support Systems
The Company’s Ground Support Equipment (GSE) includes single, twin and multi-cylinder charging trolleys/ trailers. Hale Hamilton is a preferred supplier of Portable GSE to the UK Royal Air Force (RAF)) Air Support (AS) IPT, and offer a very compact, light-weight, robust portable charging unit for air, oxygen or nitrogen charging.

Pure Air Generation
Hale Hamilton is a supplier of dedicated design miniature solenoid and relief valves that are used in systems generating high pressure pure air. Reliability and durability are key operational requirements.

Thrust Vector Control
The Company is a supplier on to the Sea Wolf missile programme, with a dedicated design miniature solenoid valve used in the directional control of the weapon on launch. Here reliability is a critical operational requirement.

Land

The Company is an established supplier, with equipment in-service on the Challenger 2 main battle tank, for example.

Military Vehicles
Hale Hamilton supplies both pneumatic and hydraulic equipment for the following applications:

• Variable height suspension systems – reference to air-transportability
• Adaptive damping systems – reference to human factors for personnel transport
• ‘Locked’ suspension systems – reference to stabilisation of engineer tanks.
• Over pressure systems – reference to NBC Collective Protection (Colpro).

Towed Field Artillery
Hale Hamilton is a supplier on the BAE SYSTEMS Ultra Light-weight Field Howitzer (UFH) gun. The specialist hydraulic valves are used to lower and raise the gun to and from its ground firing position to its towing position.

Facilities
The Company undertakes turnkey design, supply and installation projects for defence contractors and naval dockyards world-wide.

Infrastructure Projects
Typical infrastructure projects include the design, installation and support of: emergency breathing air systems for military installations, the installation of dock or shore-based gaseous valve & pipe-work systems, and the provision of the completecompressed air system, including breathing air compressors for navy diver training facilities such as that shown above: