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AR2254 BUILDING SERVICES II CLASS NOTES AND LAST YEAR UNIVERSITY QUESTION PAPER

AR2254 BUILDING SERVICES II CLASS NOTES AND LAST YEAR UNIVERSITY QUESTION PAPER
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AIM:
To familiarize the students with building services that support the functioning of a building in the
area of electrical wiring, lighting and conveying systems

OBJECTIV

• To inform the students of the laws and basics of electricity and wiring systems within
domestic and commercial buildings
• To expose the students to the fundamentals of lighting and lighting design
• To familiarize the students to the basic design principle systems of vertical distributions
systems within a building
• To expose the student with the NBC Code for all of the above building services

CONTENT:

UNIT I ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS: ELECTRICAL WIRING
SYSTEMS 10
Laws of electrical circuits: Ohms and Kichoffs Laws
Basics of electricity - Single/Three phase supply. Earthing for safety - types of earthing - ISI
specifications
Electrical wiring systems in domestic and commercial buildings. Conduits, Types of wiring
Diagram for connection.
Bus way, Bus Bars, lighting track and conduits (Aluminum metallic, non metallic) arrangements. Power handling, equipment, switch board, panel boards.
Lighting conductors : Purpose, materials, fixing, earthing arrangements
Electronic and Communication systems
Communication and data systems- communication spaces, pathways, cabling systems, voice
and data, communication, Electronic security systems, computer labs/server, Rooms etc.
Electrical Installations in Buildings. Main and distribution boards - transformers - switch gears -
substations - space requirement and Layout of the same in building types

UNIT II FUNDAMENTALS OF LIGHTING 10
Principles of light - Electromagnetic radiation, waves, nature of vision, measurement of lighting.
Principles of illumination: definitions, Visual tasks, Factors affecting visual tasks Units of light,
definitions of flux, solid angle, luminous intensity -utilization factor - depreciation factor- MSCP
- MHCP, brightness, glare.

UNIT III ILLUMINATION AND LIGHTING 7
Electric light sources: brief description, characteristics and application of different types of
lamps, methods of mounting and lighting control
Luminaries classification/ - Lumen method for design - Room reflectance/ Glare -
manufacturer's data on luminaries / luminaries cost
UNIT IV LIGHTING DESIGN: INSTALLATION AND APPLICATION IN
BUILDINGS 8
Artificial light sources, spectral energy distribution, Luminous efficiency- color temperature -
color rendering, Additive, subtractive color and their application areas and out door lighting Lighting for Office, Schools, Libraries, Residential, Hospital, Parking, Outdoor.
Elementary ideas of special features required and minimum level of illumination for the
physically handicapped and elderly in building types
Solar energy systems for lighting - Photovoltaic systems for Residential/Commercial buildings.
Reducing electric loads, installation and maintenance.
UNIT V LIGHTING DESIGN: CONVEYING SYSTEMS 10
Basic design Principles, criteria for planning sizing, selection and layout of vertical distribution
systems - ( lifts, Escalators and moving walkways) along with mechanical, dimensional details
Elevators- types of elevators - design criteria, capacity, frequency, car size, speed, number and size of elevators, layout of banks of elevators, planning and locating service cores in buildings,
types of elevators - pit, machine room details - NBC code

Escalators and Conveyors parallel and criss cross escalators, horizontal belt conveyors,
horizontal moving walkways - design criteria, speed size, capacity, number
Detailing for comfort, convenience of users- special features for physically handicapped and
elderly

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GE2022 TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT class notes and last year university question paper

GE2022 TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT class notes and last year university question paper

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Introduction - Need for quality - Evolution of quality - Definition of quality - Dimensions of
manufacturing and service quality - Basic concepts of TQM - Definition of TQM - TQM Framework -
Contributions of Deming, Juran and Crosby - Barriers to TQM.
UNIT II TQM PRINCIPLES 9
Leadership - Strategic quality planning, Quality statements - Customer focus - Customer orientation, Customer satisfaction, Customer complaints, Customer retention - Employee involvement - Motivation, Empowerment, Team and Teamwork, Recognition and Reward,
Performance appraisal - Continuous process improvement - PDSA cycle, 5s, Kaizen - Supplier
partnership - Partnering, Supplier selection, Supplier Rating.
UNIT III TQM TOOLS & TECHNIQUES I 9
The seven traditional tools of quality - New management tools - Six-sigma: Concepts, methodology,
applications to manufacturing, service sector including IT - Bench marking - Reason to bench mark, Bench marking process - FMEA - Stages, Types.
UNIT IV TQM TOOLS & TECHNIQUES II 9
Quality circles - Quality Function Deployment (QFD) - Taguchi quality loss function - TPM - Concepts, improvement needs - Cost of Quality - Performance measures.
UNIT V QUALITY SYSTEMS 9
Need for ISO 9000- ISO 9000-2000 Quality System - Elements, Documentation, Quality auditing-
QS 9000 - ISO 14000 - Concepts, Requirements and Benefits - Case studies of TQM
implementation in manufacturing and service sectors including IT.
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOK
1. Dale H.Besterfiled, et at., "Total Quality Management", Pearson Education Asia,
Third Edition, Indian Reprint (2006).

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CS2071 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE last year university question paper and class notes

UNIT I INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE 9

Introduction to computer architecture - Review of digital design - Instructions and addressing -

procedures and data - assembly language programs - instruction set variations

UNIT II ARITHMETIC/LOGIC UNIT 9

Number representation - design of adders - design of simple ALUs - design of Multipliers and

dividers - design of floating point arithmetic unit

UNIT III DATA PATH AND CONTROL 9

Instruction execution steps - control unit synthesis - microprogramming - pipelining - pipeline

performance

UNIT IV MEMORY SYSTEM 9

Main Memory concepts - types of memory - cache memory organization - secondary storage -

virtual memory - paging

UNIT V I/O AND INTERFACES

I/O devices - I/O programming - polling - interrupts - DMA - buses - links - interfacing - context

switching - threads and multithreading

L = 45 T = 15 TOTAL : 60 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:

1. B. Parhami, "Computer Architecture", Oxford University Press, 2005.

2. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic and Safwat Zaky, "Computer Organization", Fifth

Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2002.

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EE2026 POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS last year university question paper/Class notes

EE2026 POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS last year university question paper/Class notes

AIM
To understand the concept of modelling the power system and the components for simulating the transient and dynamic behaviour of power system meant for the stability studies.

OBJECTIVES

To review the modeling of synchronous machine, the excitation system and speed-governing
controllers.
To study small signal stability analysis of a single-machine infinite bus system with excitation
system and power system stabilizer.
To study transient stability simulation of multimachine power system.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Basics of system dynamics - numerical techniques - introduction to software packages to study the
responses.
Concept and importance of power system stability in the operation and design - distinction between
transient and dynamic stability - complexity of stability problem in large system - necessity for reduced models - stability of interconnected systems.

UNIT II SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE MODELLING 9
Synchronous machine - flux linkage equations - Park's transformation - per unit conversion -
normalizing the equations - equivalent circuit - current space model - flux linkage state space model.
Sub-transient and transient inductances - time constants.
Simplified models (one axis and constant flux linkage) - steady state equations and phasor diagrams.

UNIT III MACHINE CONTROLLERS 9
Exciter and voltage regulators - function and types of excitation systems - typical excitation system configuration - block diagram and state space representation of IEEE type 1 excitation system - saturation function - stabilizing circuit.
Function of speed governing systems - block diagram and state space representation of IEEE
mechanical hydraulic governor and electrical hydraulic governors for hydro turbines and steam
turbines.

UNIT IV TRANSIENT STABILITY 9
State equation for multimachine system with one axis model and simulation - modelling of
multimachine power system with one axis machine model including excitation system and speed
governing system and simulation using R-K method of fourth order (Gill's technique) for transient
stability analysis - power system stabilizer. For all simulations, the algorithm and flow chart have to be discussed.
UNIT V DYNAMIC STABILITY 9
System response to small disturbances - linear model of the unregulated synchronous machine and its modes of oscillation - regulated synchronous machine - distribution of power impact - linearization of the load equation for the one machine problem - simplified linear model - effect of excitation on
dynamic stability - approximate system representation - supplementary stabilizing signals - dynamic
performance measure - small signal performance measures.
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS
1. P.M. Anderson and A.A.Fouad, 'Power System Control and Stability', Galgotia Publications,
New Delhi, 2003.
2. P. Kundur, 'Power System Stability and Control', McGraw Hill Inc., USA, 1994.

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EE2025 INTELLIGENT CONTROL class notes and previous year university question paper

EE2025 INTELLIGENT CONTROL

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Approaches to intelligent control. Architecture for intelligent control. Symbolic reasoning system,
rule-based systems, the AI approach. Knowledge representation. Expert systems.
UNIT II ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS 9
Concept of Artificial Neural Networks and its basic mathematical model, McCulloch-Pitts neuron
model, simple perceptron, Adaline and Madaline, Feed-forward Multilayer Perceptron. Learning and
Training the neural network. Data Processing: Scaling, Fourier transformation, principal-component analysis and wavelet transformations. Hopfield network, Self-organizing network and Recurrent
network. Neural Network based controller
UNIT III GENETIC ALGORITHM 9
Basic concept of Genetic algorithm and detail algorithmic steps, adjustment of free parameters. Solution of typical control problems using genetic algorithm. Concept on some other search
techniques like tabu search and ant-colony search techniques for solving optimization problems.

UNIT IV FUZZY LOGIC SYSTEM 9
Introduction to crisp sets and fuzzy sets, basic fuzzy set operation and approximate reasoning.
Introduction to fuzzy logic modeling and control. Fuzzification, inferencing and defuzzification. Fuzzy
knowledge and rule bases. Fuzzy modeling and control schemes for nonlinear systems. Self-
organizing fuzzy logic control. Fuzzy logic control for nonlinear time-delay system.

UNIT V APPLICATIONS
GA application to power system optimisation problem, Case studies: Identification and control of linear and nonlinear dynamic systems using Matlab-Neural Network toolbox.
Stability analysis of Neural-Network interconnection systems. Implementation of fuzzy logic controller using Matlab fuzzy-logic toolbox. Stability analysis of fuzzy control systems.

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. Padhy.N.P.(2005), Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent System, Oxford University Press.
2. KOSKO,B. "Neural Networks And Fuzzy Systems", Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., 1994.

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BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION class notes and last year question papers

EI2322 BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION
AIM:
The course is designed to make the student acquire an adequate knowledge of the physiological
systems of the human body and relate them to the parameters that have clinical importance. The
fundamental principles of equipment that are actually in use at the present day are introduced.

OBJECTIVES:
i. To provide an acquaintance of the physiology of the heart, lung, blood circulation and
circulation respiration. Biomedical applications of different transducers used.
ii. To introduce the student to the various sensing and measurement devices of electrical
origin. To provide awareness of electrical safety of medical equipments
iii. To provide the latest ideas on devices of non-electrical devices.
iv. To bring out the important and modern methods of imaging techniques.
v. To provide latest knowledge of medical assistance / techniques and therapeutic
equipments.
UNIT I PHYSIOLOGY AND TRANSDUCERS
Cell and its structure - Resting and Action Potential - Nervous system: Functional organisation of
the nervous system - Structure of nervous system, neurons - synapse -transmitters and neural
communication - Cardiovascular system - respiratory system - Basic components of a biomedical
system - Transducers - selection criteria - Piezo electric, ultrasonic transducers - Temperature measurements - Fibre optic temperature sensors.

UNIT II ELECTRO - PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS
Electrodes -Limb electrodes -floating electrodes - pregelled disposable electrodes - Micro, needle and surface electrodes - Amplifiers: Preamplifiers, differential amplifiers, chopper amplifiers - Isolation amplifier.
ECG - EEG - EMG - ERG - Lead systems and recording methods - Typical waveforms.
Electrical safety in medical environment: shock hazards - leakage current-Instruments for checking
safety parameters of biomedical equipments

III NON-ELECTRICAL PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS
Measurement of blood pressure - Cardiac output - Heart rate - Heart sound -Pulmonary function measurements - spirometer - Photo Plethysmography, Body Plethysmography - Blood Gas
analysers : pH of blood -measurement of blood pCO2, pO2, finger-tip oxymeter - ESR, GSR
measurements .
UNIT IV MEDICAL IMAGING
Radio graphic and fluoroscopic techniques - Computer tomography - MRI - Ultrasonography -
Endoscopy - Thermography - Different types of biotelemetry systems and patient monitoring -
Introduction to Biometric systems
UNIT V ASSISTING AND THERAPEUTIC EQUIPMENTS
Pacemakers - Defibrillators - Ventilators - Nerve and muscle stimulators - Diathermy - Heart -
Lung machine - Audio meters - Dialysers - Lithotripsy

TEXT BOOKS
1. R.S.Khandpur, 'Hand Book of Bio-Medical instrumentation', Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co Ltd.,
2003.
2. Leslie Cromwell, Fred J.Weibell, Erich A.Pfeiffer, 'Bio-Medical Instrumentation and
Measurements', II edition, Pearson Education, 2002 / PHI.

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AE2030 FATIGUE AND FRACTURE class notes and last year question paper

AE2030 FATIGUE AND FRACTURE

OBJECTIVE
To study the concepts of estimation of the endurance and failure mechanism of
components

UNIT I FATIGUE OF STRUCTURES 8
S.N. curves - Endurance limits - Effect of mean stress, Goodman, Gerber and Soderberg
relations and diagrams - Notches and stress concentrations - Neuber's stress
concentration factors - Plastic stress concentration factors - Notched S.N. curves.

UNIT II STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR 9
Low cycle and high cycle fatigue - Coffin - Manson's relation - Transition life - cyclic strain hardening and softening - Analysis of load histories - Cycle counting techniques - Cumulative damage - Miner's theory - Other theories.

UNIT III PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF FATIGUE AND FRACTURE 12
Phase in fatigue life - Crack initiation - Crack growth - Final Fracture - Dislocations -
fatigue fracture surfaces - Strength and stress analysis of cracked bodies - Potential
energy and surface energy - Griffith's theory - Irwin - Orwin extension of Griffith's theory
to ductile materials - Effect of thickness on fracture toughness - stress intensity factors for typical geometries.

UNIT IV FATIGUE DESIGN ANDTESTINIG 8
Safe life and Fail-safe design philosophies - Importance of Fracture Mechanics in
aerospace structures - Application to composite materials and structures.
UNIT V FUNDAMENTALS OF FAILURE ANALYSIS 8
Common causes of failure. Principles of failure analysis. Fracture mechanics approach to
failure problems. Techniques of failure analysis. Service failure mechanisms - ductile and
brittle fracture, fatigue fracture, wear failures, fretting failures, environment induced
failures, high temp. failure. Faulty heat treatment and design failures, processing failures
(forging, casting, machining etc.),
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS
1. Prasanth Kumar - "Elements of fracture mechanics" - Wheeter publication, 1999.
2. Barrois W, Ripely, E.L., "Fatigue of aircraft structure", Pe/gamon press. Oxford, 1983.

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AE2029 THEORY OF PLATES AND SHELLS last year question paper and class notes

AE2029 THEORY OF PLATES AND SHELLS

OBJECTIVE
To study the behaviour of the plates and shells with different geometry under various
types of loads.

UNIT I CLASSICAL PLATE THEORY 3
Classical Plate Theory - Assumptions - Differential Equation - Boundary Conditions.
UNIT II PLATES OF VARIOUS SHADES 15
Navier's Method of Solution for Simply Supported Rectangular Plates - Leavy's Method of
Solution for Rectangular Plates under Different Boundary Conditions. Governing Equation
- Solution for Axi-symmetric loading - Annular Plates - Plates of other shapes.
UNIT III EIGEN VALUE ANALYSIS 8
Stability and free Vibration Analysis of Rectangular Plates.
UNIT IV APPROXIMATE METHODS 10
Rayleigh - Ritz, Galerkin Methods- Finite Difference Method - Application to Rectangular
Plates for Static, Free Vibration and Stability Analysis.

UNIT V SHELLS 9
Basic Concepts of Shell Type of Structures - Membrane and Bending Theories for
Circular Cylindrical Shells.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK
1. Timoshenko, S.P. Winowsky. S., and Kreger, "Theory of Plates and Shells", McGraw-
Hill Book Co. 1990.
2. T. K. Varadan and K. Bhaskar, "Theory of Plates and Shells",1999, Narosa .

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AE2028 AERO ENGINE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR class notes and last year qustion paper

AE2028 AERO ENGINE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR

OBJECTIVE
To study the basic concepts of the maintenance and repair of both piston and jet aero engines and the procedures followed for overhaul of aero engines.

UNIT I CLASSIFICATION OF PISTON ENGINE COMPONENTS 5
Types of piston engines - Principles of operation - Function of components - Materials used - Details of starting the engines - Details of carburetion and injection systems for small and large engines - Ignition system components - Spark plug details - Engine
operating conditions at various altitudes - Maintenance and inspection check to be carried
out.

UNIT II INSPECTIONS OF PISTON ENGINES 8
Inspection and maintenance and trouble shooting - Inspection of all engine components -
Daily and routine checks - Overhaul procedures - Compression testing of cylinders - Special inspection schedules - Engine fuel, control and exhaust systems - Engine mount
and super charger - Checks and inspection procedures.

UNIT III OVERHAULING OF PISTON ENGINES 10
Symptoms of failure - Fault diagnostics - Case studies of different engine systems - l: Tools and equipment requirements for various checks and alignment during overhauling - Tools for inspection - Tools for safety and for visual inspection - Methods and instruments for non destructive testing techniques - Equipment for replacement of part and their
repair. Engine testing: Engine testing procedures and schedule preparation - Online
maintenance.

UNIT IV CLASSIFICATION OF JET ENGINE COMPONENTS 12

Types of jet engines - Principles of operation - Functions of components - Materials used

- Details of starting and operating procedures - Gas turbine engine inspection & checks -

Use of instruments for online maintenance - Special inspection procedures : Foreign Object Damage - Blade damage - etc.

Maintenance procedures of gas turbine engines - Trouble shooting and rectification procedures - Component maintenance procedures - Systems maintenance procedures.

Gas turbine testing procedures - test schedule preparation - Storage of Engines -

Preservation and de-preservation procedures.

UNIT V OVERHAUL PROCEDURES 10

Engine Overhaul procedures - Inspections and cleaning of components - Repairs schedules for overhaul - Balancing of Gas turbine components.

Trouble Shooting - Procedures for rectification - Condition monitoring of the engine on ground and at altitude - engine health monitoring and corrective methods.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOK

1. KROES & WILD, "Aircraft Power plants", 7th Edition - McGraw Hill, New York, 1994.

REFERENCES

1. TURBOMECA, "Gas Turbine Engines", The English Book Store, New Delhi, 1993.

2. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES PRATT & WHITNEY, "The Aircraft Gas turbine Engine and

its Operation", (latest edition) The English Book Store, New Delhi.

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AE2027 AIRFRAME MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR class notes and last year question papers

AE2027 AIRFRAME MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR

OBJECTIVE

To study the maintenance aspect of airframe systems and rectification of snags

UNIT I WELDING IN AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS

Equipments used in welding shop and their maintenance - Ensuring quality welds -

Welding jigs and fixtures - Soldering and brazing.

SHEET METAL REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE

Inspection of damage - Classification - Repair or replacement - Sheet metal inspection -

N.D.T. Testing - Riveted repair design, Damage investigation - reverse technology.

UNIT II PLASTICS AND COMPOSITES IN AIRCRAFT

Review of types of plastics used in airplanes - Maintenance and repair of plastic

components - Repair of cracks, holes etc., various repair schemes - Scopes.

Inspection and Repair of composite components - Special precautions - Autoclaves.

UNIT III AIRCRAFT JACKING, ASSEMBLY AND RIGGING

Airplane jacking and weighing and C.G. Location. Balancing of control surfaces -

Inspection maintenance. Helicopter flight controls. Tracking and balancing of main rotor.

UNIT IV REVIEW OF HYDRAULIC AND PNEUMATIC SYSTEM

Trouble shooting and maintenance practices - Service and inspection. - Inspection and

maintenance of landing gear systems. - Inspection and maintenance of air-conditioning

and pressurisation system, water and waste system. Installation and maintenance of Instruments - handling - Testing - Inspection. Inspection and maintenance of auxiliary

UNIT V SAFETY PRACTICES 7Hazardous materials storage and handling, Aircraft furnishing practices - Equipments.

Trouble shooting - Theory and practices.

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AE2026 INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS class notes and last year question paper

AE2026 INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS

OBJECTIVE:

To familiarize the learner with non-aeronautical uses of aerodynamics such as road vehicle, building aerodynamics and problems of flow induced vibrations.

UNIT I ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER

Atmospheric circulation-Local winds-Terrain types-Mean velocity profiles-Power law and logarithm law- wind speeds-Turbulence profiles-Roughness parameters-simulation techniques in wind tunnels

UNIT II BLUFF BODY AERODYNAMICS

Boundary layers and separation-Two dimensional wake and vortex formation-Strouhal and Reynolds numbers-Separation and reattachments-Power requirements and drag coefficients of automobiles-Effects of cut back angle-aerodynamics of trains.

UNIT III WIND ENERGY COLLECTORS

Horizontal and vertical axis machines-energy density of different rotors-Power coefficient- Betz coefficient by momentum theory.

UNIT IV BUILDING AERODYNAMICS

Pressure distribution on low rise buildings-wind forces on buildings-Environmental winds in city blocks-special problems of tall buildings-building codes-ventilation and architectural aerodynamics

UNIT V FLOW INDUCED VIBRATIONS

Vortex shedding, lock & effects of Reynolds number on wake formation in turbulent flows - across wind galloping-wake galloping-along wind galloping of circular cables-oscillation of tall structures and launch vehicles under wind loads-stall flutter.

REFERENCES:

1. Scorer R.S "Environmental Aerodynamics", Ellis Harwood Ltd, England, 1978

2. Sovran, M(ed) "Aerodynamic drag mechanism of bluff bodies and road vehicles",

Plenum Press, N.Y, 1978

3. Sachs P "Wind Forces in Engineering", Pergamon Press, 1988

4. Blevins R.D "Flow Induced Vibrations", Van Nostrand, 1990

5. Calvert N.G "Wind Power Principles", Charles Griffin & Co London, 1979

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