Oscar Fridolf Alexander Sandberg
Oscar Fridolf Alexander Sandberg (1878-1940) O.B.E., M.Inst.C.E.
1878 Born son of Christer Peter Sandberg
c.1902 Two years with Willans and Robinson, Rugby
c.1904 Two years with Dick, Kerr and Co., London
c.1906 Joined his father's business C. P. Sandberg
WWI 1916-18: Consultant on Steel to Ministry of Munitions for U.S.A. and Canada.
1922 Partner in C. P. Sandberg, Consulting and Inspecting Engineer, having been 16 years with the company.
1940 Obituary.[1]
OSCAR FRIDOLF ALEXANDER SANDBERG, O.B.E., M.Inst.C.E., died in London on February 15, 1940, aged sixty-one. He was educated at Dulwich College and University College, London. After two years in the testing department of Messrs. Willans & Robinsons, Ltd., Rugby, and two years with Messrs. Dick, Kerr & Co., he was taken into partnership with his father, who was then the consulting engineer for permanent way to the Canadian, Swedish, Chinese and Siamese Government Railways.
During the Great War, acting for his firm, Mr. Sandberg supervised the testing and inspection of over one million tons of railway material which was being manufactured, in the United States of America, for the French Government and other French railways. In addition he was Steel Consultant of the British Ministry of Munitions for work in Canada and the United States from 1916 to 1918; in recognition of this work he was awarded the O.B.E. In collaboration with his brothers, Mr. C. P. Sandberg, C.B.E., and the late Mr. N. P. P. Sandberg, C.B.E., he developed the well-known processes of sorbitic treatment of rails and tyres, and the controlled oven-cooling of rails.
He had long been a Member of The Iron and Steel Institute, for his election took place in 1914.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1940 Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute