Major James Caldwell

James Caldwell

Consulting Engineer, 2, Chantry House, Eccleston Street, Eaton Square, Westminster, London, S.W.1.

Career:

• 1905-20, Partner in consulting firm of James E. Sayers and Caldwell, Electrical Engineers, Glasgow.
• War service with Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, R.E., and War Office; later at the Admiralty as deputy Asst. Director of Materials and Supt. of Welding and Labour Saving; also visited America for service with United States Shipping Board and War Dept., at Washington.
• 1917-18 Responsible for early applications of electric welded construction, including a cross-Channel barge, and
• 1919-21 several factory buildings.
• 1919 Awarded Telford Premium, Inst.C.E.
• 1922 Paris Premium, I.E.E.
• 1930-37 retained by the Quasi-Arc Co., Ltd., to extend the development of electric welding to steel construction.
• 1931 Inspected welded undertakings throughout the British Empire, and
• 1936 in the U.S.A

• Chairman, Motor Mutual Insurance Co., Ltd.;
• Director, Union Welding Co., Ltd., H.G.M. Trust and Mount Magnet Gold Mines, Ltd.;
• Chairman, Alloy Welding Processes, Ltd., until amalgamated with Murex, Ltd., in 1930.
• Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights;

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