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Item Open Access The application of information theory to parcel sorting(College of Aeronautics, 1969-02) Degerlund, B. R.; Pemberton, A. W.The work on parcel sorting was originally suggested to the Materials Handling Research Unit by British Rail which is one of the sponsoring organisations contributing to the Research Fund. This work has also formed the subject of a research thesis, which has been used as the basis of this report. The student, Mr. B. R. Degerlund is therefore the main author, in co-operation with the staff of the Research Unit … [cont.].Item Open Access First report on containers(College of Aeronautics, 1966-12) Kay, E.; Pemberton, A. W.Everybody agrees that containers are a "good thing";the actual advantages of transporting cargo, and in particular, dry cargo, in containers over other forms of transport have, to our knowledge, nowhere been stated in quantitative terms. It is claimed that containers will reduce the turn-round time of ships, ease congestion in the docks, speed-up total transit time of cargo, reduce the risk of pilferage, reduce packaging cost and reduce total handling effort in all stages of transit. Given that all these advantages are real, it is obvious that they do not accrue in equal measure to all parties concerned in the movement of goods from consignor to consignee. There is indeed a likelihood of a conflict of interest between these parties. In this report we shall try to delineate the various problem areas, indicate the quantitative information that needs to be collected in order to decide how to solve these problems and outline an approach to such solutions.Item Open Access Notes on the feasibility of automatic warehousing(College of Aeronautics, 1968-10) Kay, E.; Pemberton, A. W.There is now sufficient information and experience available on the subject of automatic warehousing to make it possible for an organisation with major storage problems to assess the advantages and disadvantages of investing in one of these highly sophisticated systems provided it examines its requirements systematically and in detail. Additionally, it is becoming possible to compute the relative cost advantages of this kind of storage pattern as against the conventional one (i.e. Fork Lift Trucks and Pallet Handling). We believe that the present position regarding the feasibility of automatic warehousing is untenable to most organisations. There is, so far as we know, no detailed guide available or published which enables any organisations to make even a preliminary examination of the possible advantages of fully automated storage. From the theoretical work carried out at the Materials Handling Research Unit* we can now derive rules by which the various factors influencing feasibility can be measured and valid comparisons be made. The detailed application of these rules is likely to vary from case to case, and it would be impossible to comprehensively describe their use in a short and nontechnical publication. The notes which follow are not to be regarded as rigid guide lines, but attempt to set out the criteria by which an organisation may judge its own readiness to accept a change to mechanised storage.Item Open Access Second report on containers(College of Aeronautics, 1968-01) Kay, E.; Pemberton, A. W.In our first report on containers published in January,1967, we tried to summarise progress in this new mode of transportation and to define some of the problems which existed.