PQ universal is not recommended for what you're hoping to do. It's mostly a paper developer suitable for RC and FB paper and can be used for tray development of some technical sheet films. I think it has been used for small tank development of 35mm films by experimental users and the results delivered very high contrast negatives. Is this your desired result?
I did dry using PQ Universal for film once...results were horrible and I actually threw the negs out. I think it was Paterson Acupan 200. I shot a test roll to see if the PQ Universal was promising for 135 film...and concluded that it wasn't.
Not exactly what you are looking for but could be a start.
https://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.php?Film=&Developer=PQ+Universal&mdc=Search
I am sure Ian Grant would be able to give you the correct info.
Nothing wrong with using a pq paper developer for film in my experience. Champion have roll film times for their paper developer.
May & Baker (Chanmpion) Suprol was once used extensively in the Photo-finishing industry for B&W film development. They had a very extensive data-sheet which I seem to have lost, it was many pages maybe 15-20 and had detailed data on reversal processing. It gave recommendations for many types of processing, continuous machine, deep tanks, as well as small scale home use - hey recommended 1+19 or 1+29.
Ian
The current datasheet just gives 2 dilutions and ranges of times. However, rightly or wrongly I'm not sure I'd be keen on a dilution of 1+19 for between 2 and 5 mins in a manual spiral tank.
I remember when I worked in a wholesale lab back in the late 1970's early 1980's they had a B&W hand line and Ilford PQ universal was used in a replenished system. I can't remember the dilutions ( it may have been 1+9 , we kept a hand written log of the reps and film numbers) but the time was 8 mins @ 20C for all films. ( I remember it well as the timer clock chimed every minute and alarmed at the end)
Ilford Pan 400?
On a factory tour we were told that Ilford Pan 100 & 400 are made mostly for the African market, they are simpler emulsions than FP4 and HP5 but keep slightly better in hotter climates/ The data-sheet for Pan 100 & 400 states they "are not generally distributed and sold worldwide, they are only made available in selected markets".
Some appears every so often in the UK they are made in 35mm and 120.
Ian
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