James McKenzie Robertson
James McKenzie Robertson (c1888-1945)
1946 Obituary [1]
"JAMES MCKENZIE ROBERTSON who was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1935, served his apprenticeship with Messrs. James Carrick and Sons, crane makers, of Edinburgh, from 1907 to 1912, and during that period took an engineering course at Heriot Watt College.
After gaining further experience as draughtsman with Messrs. James Carrick for a year, he became senior draughtsman and designer to Messrs. Priestman Brothers, of Hull, with whom he remained until 1919, when he returned to Messrs. Carrick to take up the post of chief draughtsman. On the adsorption of that firm by Messrs. J. M. Henderson and Company, of Aberdeen, in 1928, he acted as senior draughtsman to the latter for two years. In 1931 he accepted an appointment as draughtsman in charge of mechanical engineering design for the Leith Dock Commissioners, with responsibility for the maintenance of the entire plant. Mr. Robertson continued to discharge these duties up to the time of his death, which occurred on 20th August 1945, in his fifty-seventh year."