David Victor Onslow

David Victor Onslow (c1885-1961)

1961 November 17th. Died.

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1961 Obituary

'Mr. D. V. Onslow, who died on November 17 at the age of seventy-six served the Electrical Research Association of forty years. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Christ's College, Cambridge, and later gained a first-class certificate in electrical engineering by the City and Guilds Engineering College. After serving with the Metropolitan Railway and Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Ltd. at Chelmsford, he was appointed assistant manager of Gallotte's Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Company Ltd., and supervised the erection of installations in England, France and Switzerland. This work was interrupted by the first world ward, during which he was engaged in the design and manufacture of wireless telegraph apparatus for the Admiralty by Messrs. Creed and Co. Ltd., Croydon.

In 1921 he joined the Electrical Research Association as one of its first technical committee secretaries and was responsible for a variety of subjects, including insulating oils, insulators, steam turbine nozzles, steam tables, steel for high temperatures, &c. During this period he wrote a number of critical resumes on information currently available on specific subjects - an essential prerequisite to a research programme under contemplation.

In 1948 he was appointed Information Officer to the E.R.A., a post which he held until the end of 1958, when he took up part-time duties as the first editor of Co-operative Electrical Research, which is the journal of the E.R.A.'

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