Edward Langlois Montagnon
Edward Langlois Montagnon (1884-1954), technical director of Ransomes and Rapier
1954 Obituary [1]
WE have learned with regret of the death of Dr. E. L. Montagnon, which occurred on September 3rd, at his home at Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, Kent, in his seventieth year. He was technical director of Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., Ipswich, and had spent forty-seven years in that company's service.
Edward Langlois Montagnon was born at Hampstead on December 3rd, 1884, and graduated at London University.
In the early part of his engineering career he spent some time with J. Stone and Co., Ltd., Deptford, and then joined Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., as an estimating designer in 1907.
He was appointed chief engineer of the company in 1940 and technical director in April of last year. Dr. Montagnon's particular interest during his long period of service with Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., was in the design of sluice gates and water control equipment. He was closely associated with the design of the sluices for the heightening of the Aswan Dam, and of the sluices for more recent barrage contracts undertaken by his firm on the Nile, and in India, Pakistan and Iraq.
Dr. Montagnon, who was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, received his Ph.D. degree in 1936 for a thesis on riveted structures.