F. W. Gardner
From Graces Guide
1947 Bio Note. [1]
Mr. GARDNER was educated at King's School, Chester, and at Cambridge University, where he graduated in Mechanical Sciences.
He joined the staff of C. A. Parsons and Company, Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1912, but in 1914 left to join the R.N., holding a commission in the Naval Airship Service, and becoming a Major in the R.A.F. in 1918.
At the end of the war he returned to the Parsons Company and became head of the turbine design staff a year or two later, and, in 1938, chief engineer. The following year he was appointed a director.
On the formation of the Parsons and Marine Engineering Turbine Research and Development Association in 1944 he was appointed Consultant Research Director of that Association.
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- ↑ 1947 IMechE Proceedings