Henly Nichols
Henly Nichols (1887-1941)
1941 Obituary.[1]
Henly Nichols, elected an Associate Member in 1939, was born in London in 1887. He served his engineering apprenticeship at Stratford Carriage and Wagon Works on the old Great Eastern Rly. from 1901 to 1908, and at the same time attended the Great Eastern Rly. Mechanics’ Institute afterwards, the East London Technical College, and finally the Chiswick Polytechnic.
On leaving the railway company he joined W. and G. Du Cros, Ltd., coachbuilders, Acton, W.
On the outbreak of war in 1914 he joined the Royal Naval Air Force and later was transferred to the R.A.F. and commissioned a Flying Officer (Technical Instructor). In 1919 he joined the Buenos Aires Western Railway as Wagon Shop Foreman, but he returned to England in 1922 and was appointed General Foreman of the coach factory of the United Auto Services, Ltd., at Lowestoft.
In 1924 he again went out to the Argentine as Foreman in the Coach Shop, of the B.A. Western. On the outcome of the working arrangements between the B.A. Western and Southern he was appointed Foreman of the Wagon Section on the B.A. Southern in 1930, followed by the saw mills, and in 1938 was appointed Assistant Chief of Carriage and Wagon Section for the Western Section at Liniers, which post he held until compelled to retire through ill health early in 1941.
He died in Buenos Aires on October 25th, 1941, at the age of 54.