William Anderson Scott
William Anderson Scott (c1888-1951)
1953 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM ANDERSON SCOTT, whose death occurred on 6th December 1951 at the age of sixty-three, was in the service of the North Eastern Electric Supply Company, Ltd., throughout his professional career.
He obtained his practical training with J. H. Holmes and Company, Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne, from 1903 to 1906, and with the Electric Supply Company in that city, from 1906 to 1908. During the latter period he was also employed as a junior assistant engineer.
He then held in succession the positions of senior assistant engineer at Carville power station and assistant district engineer at Newcastle, this being interrupted by service at sea for about a year as junior engineer to the Red Star Line.
From 1914 to 1919 he was power station superintendent, first at Alnwick and later at Hebburn-on-Tyne. After acting as charge engineer at Carville station for five years he was promoted to be deputy superintendent engineer at the North Tees generating station, Middlesbrough. His final appointment, which he held from 1935 until his retirement owing to ill health in 1946, after forty years' service with the company, was that of superintendent engineer of the same station.
Mr. Scott had been an Associate Member of the Institution since 1935. He was also a founder member of the Electric Power Station Engineers' Association.