James Cardus
James Cardus (1898-1940)
1940 Obituary.[1]
James Cardus was born in Leeds in 1898, and was educated at Cockburn High School.. His technical knowledge was obtained at Holbeck Mechanics Institute and Leeds University (Evening Sessions). He joined Messrs. Job, Day & Sons as a junior draughtsman in 1912, and a year later was apprenticed to Messrs. Manning, Wardle & Co., spending two years in the various shops, and the remainder of his time in the drawing office.
For fifteen months of the war he was in the Royal Air Force as a fitter and turner.
On returning to civil life he again joined Messrs. Manning, Wardle and Co. as a locomotive draughtsman, with whom he remained until 1924, when he migrated to Buenos Ayres to become a locomotive draughtsman in the locomotive drawing' office of the chief mechanical engineer of the Central Argentine Railway. In 1934 he was in charge of the locomotive drawing office and in 1936 assistant chief draughtsman of the locomotive carriage and wagon drawing office, subsequently becoming chief in 1937.
He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1925, and at the time of his decease on October 26th, 1940, he had been recommended for election to full membership.