Harry Pearman
Harr Pearman (c1886-1941)
1941 Obituary [1]
HARRY PEARMAN served his apprenticeship from 1900 to 1906 at the Coventry Ordnance Works, Ltd., and then became junior experimental engineer with Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft and Company, Ltd., with whom he was engaged on the development of marine type Diesel engines until 1908. He then joined the Singer Manufacturing Company, Ltd., and held the appointment of chief tool designer to that firm. Subsequently he became technical engineer-representative for Messrs. C. Churchill and Company, Ltd., with whom he remained from 1912 until 1915.
He was engaged by the Air Board from 1915 to 1918 for the planning and erection of national aeroplane factories at Croydon, Manchester, and Liverpool, and for building and testing complete power units for the first armoured airship of rigid type. Later he became works manager at the Liverpool aeroplane factory. In 1919 he was appointed technical engineer and manager to the Peerless Patents and Engineering Company, and took charge of the manufacture and installation of oil fuel apparatus.
He held this position until 1925, in which year he became manager in the London works of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Ltd. From 1926 to 1927 he held the position of chief engineer to Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, Ltd., and was responsible for the mechanical and electrical sides of the firm's factories. Mr. Pearman, whose death through enemy action occurred on 16th April 1941, in his fifty-fifth year, was elected a Member of the Institution in 1927.
He was a world traveller, and when in Australia, he initiated the first aircraft factory in that Dominion and organized its production programme.