Edward Frederick Ablitt
Edward Frederick Ablitt (1883-1935)
1935 Obituary [1]
EDWARD FREDERICK ABLITT was in practice for several years as a consulting engineer in Australia. He was the inventor of a special type of quartz-crushing machine which was adopted by several mining concerns in Australia. He also designed and superintended the manufacture of special machinery for making confectionery and medical tablets. Among the larger undertakings for which he was responsible were the layout of several works, including a new factory for Messrs. Alfred Lawrence and Company, the large water cooling tower for Australian Oxygen, Ltd., and a distilling works for Messrs. Gilbey.
Mr. Ablitt was born in Poona, India, in 1883 and came to England in 1897 to complete his education. In the following year he returned to India and entered the locomotive shops of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway at Parel, Bombay, where he served until 1904. After one year's drawing office experience he took charge of the erecting shop.
He again came to England to gain knowledge of electrical engineering with the British Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company and later studied the lighting and ventilation of railway carriages with Messrs. J. Stone and Company, Ltd., at Deptford.
In 1907 he joined Messrs. Antifriction Equipment (Railways), Ltd., in London, for whom he took charge of the drawing office.
He went to Adelaide in 1922 and commenced business as a consulting engineer but left three years later to establish a practice in Melbourne. He continued this work until his death, which occurred on 8th July 1935.
Mr. Ablitt had been an Associate Member of the Institution since 1908.