1939 Who's Who In Engineering: Name V

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VAIL, A. R. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. Chief Asst. Herbert Lapworth Partners. 25 Victoria St., Westminster, S.W. Private Address: Willesley, Arundel Avenue, Sanderstead, Surrey. Age: 37. Career: Eastbourne Gramm. Sch.; Kings' Coll., London; Keighley Corp. Waterworks 1922-4; E. Sussex C.C. 1924; Wakefield Corp. Waterworks 1924-9; Staffs Potteries Water Board 1929-30; Public Works Contracting 1930-32; F. W. Macaulay, M.Inst.C.E. 1933; Claude Pain, M. Inst.C.E.; Mid-Wessex Water Co. 1933-5: Sir Cyril Kirkpatrick & Partners 1935-8.

VALENTINE, A. S. M.I.E.E. Director and Chief Elec. Engr., Balfour, Beaty & Co., Ltd., 66 Queen St., London, E.C.4. Age: 53.

VALENTINE, P. W. S. D.F.H., A.M.I.E.E., F.Television Soc. Television Engr. i/c Television Dept., Phillips Lamps Ltd., 145 Charing Cross Rd., London, W.C.2. Private Address: Woodlea, 26 The Newlands, Wallington, Surrey. Age: 36. Career: Tonbridge Sch.; R. N. Coils. Osborne and Dartmouth; Faraday House; Elec. Engr. Wireless Lights Syndicate Ltd. 1923-27; Tech. Dept. Mullard Radio Valve Co., Ltd. 1927-36; Television and Radio Depts., Phillips Lamps Ltd. 1936 to date.

VAN GRUTTEN, W. N. C. O.B.E., M.C., M.A., A.M.Inst.C.E., On Staff Univ. Eng. Dept. and Asst. Sec. (Eng.) Univ. Appoints. Board. King's Coll., Cambridge. Born: 1895. Career: Cheltenham Coll.; War Service France 1915-18; Pupil and after on staff, Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, Westminster 1922-25; Returned to Cambridge and present appointment 1926.

VAN HASSELT, M. A.C.G.I., A.M.I.E.E. With Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd., North Woolwich.

VAN VESTRAUT, L. M.A. A.M.I.E.E. Registrar, Faraday House Elec. Eng. Coll., 66 Southampton Row, W.C.1. Career: 1904, Faraday House, (Faraday Scholar); 1908, Peterhouse, Camb. (Fndtn. Sch.); 1911, B.A. 1st Cl. Hns.; 1915-20, Design of Seaplanes, Aircraft Mfg. Co., Ltd.; 1920, Chief Asst. Testing Laboratories, Faraday House; 1927, Registrar, Faraday House, Editor "Faraday House Journal".

VANDERMIN, C. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Private Address: 73 Iverna Court, Kensington, W.B. Barrister-atLaw; Director, Isle of Thanet, E.S. Co.

VANN, L. J. A.M.I.E.E. Deputy Export Manager, Crompton Parkinson Ltd., Bush House, Aldwych, W.C.2. Private Address: 2 Observatory Gardens, Kensington, W.B.

VANNECK, R. G. M.C., M.I.E.E. Engr., Telephone and Assoc. Services Ltd., Donnington House, Norfolk St., Strand, W.C. Private Address: cjo 322 Park West, Marble Arch, W.2. Age: 45. Educ: Westminster Sch.; Exeter Coll. Oxford; Faraday House.

VARCOE, T. H. A.M.I.E.E. Branch Manager, Siemens Elec. Lamps and Supplies Ltd., 8-10, Albert St., Birmingham. Mem. Birmingham Elec. Club, (Past Pres. 1928.)

VARIAN, A. Hornibrook. (Marine Engr. 1st Board of Trade Certificate). M.I.Mar.E. V'Chief Engr., Clyde Fuel Systems Ltd., 136 Wellington St., Glasgow, C.2. Private Address: 36 Great Western Rd.. Glasgow, C.4. Career: Apprent. L. & N.W. Rly., Marine Dept., Holyhead; Sea service; War service, R.E. and R.A.F.; Fuel Oil Tech. staff, Shell-Mex; thirteen years present firm.

VARIAN, H. F. M.Inst.C.E. Private Address: Montagu Barn, Beaulieu, Hants. Age: 62. Career: Asst. Engr. reconstruction Beira and Mashonaland Rly. 1899-1904; Dist. Engr., Rhodesia Rlys., Victoria Falls to Broken Hill, 1904-7; Chief Asst., Construction Benguella Rly. 1907-14, and Chief Res. Engr. 1914-30; now retired.

VARLEY, R. A.I.M.E.E., Assoc.Inst. C.E. Acting General Manager and Engr., Mersey Rly. Co., Birkenhead. Private Address: 9 Hollybank Rd., Birkenhead.

VAUGHAN, Arthur Ronald. M.B.E. B.Sc. (Dunhelm). M.I.N.A., M.N.E.C. Inst. Manager "The Engineer" Newspaper, Morgan Brothers (Publishers) Ltd., 28 Essex St., Strand, London, W.C.2. Private Address: Beechenden, Oatlands, Surrey. Age: 54. Career: Oundle Sch.; Armstrong Coll.; Durham Univ.; Apprent. North Eastern Marine, Wallsend-on-Tyne; Asst. Outside Manager, N.E.M.E. Co., Wallsend; Works Manager (Engine) Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., Birkenhead.

VAUGHAN, H. H. B.Sc., M.I.Mech.E. Assist. Professor of Eng., Heriot-Watt Coll., Edinburgh. Private Address: 29 Queensferry Rd., Edinburgh, 4. Career: Glasgow High Sch.; and Glasgow Univ.; apprent. etc., with firms in Scotland and England; 1912-15, Asst. Lecturer in Eng., Huddersfield Tech. Coll.; 1915-19, with G. & J. Weir, Ltd., Cathcart, Glasgow; present post since 1919.

VAUGHAN, H. A. A.M.I.Mech.E. Asst. Engr., Stevenson Jordan & Harrison Ltd., Australia House, Strand W.C.2. Private Address: BM/LCSV., London, W.C.1.

VAUGON, A. L. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. Surveyor, H. & R. (Developments) Ltd., 109 Gloucester Place, London Private Address: 140 Bill's Lane, Shirley, Birmingham. Age: 40. Career: Eng. Asst., Ministry of Transport 1923; Div. Eng. P. W. D. Nigeria 1923-31; Tech. Manager, Pre-cast Concrete Mfrs. 1932-33; 1933 to date present post.

VAWDREY, Robert William. B.A. (Cantab.), A.M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Struct. E. Chief Engr. and Managing Director, Indented Bar and Concrete Eng. Co., Ltd., Vincent House, Vincent Square, Westminster, London, S.W.1., Private Address: The Crossways, Limpsfield, Surrey. Career: King Edwards' Sch., Birmingham; Pembroke Coll., Cambridge (Senior Maths. Scholar). Pupil to R. E. Middleton, M.Inst.C.E., Asst. Res. Engr. Staines Reservoirs; Chief Asst., Middleton, Hunter and Duff, Edinburgh; Res. Engr., Kidderminster Waterworks. Member of International Commission on Foundations, Cairo; Past-Chairman, Reinforced Concrete Assoc.

VEAL, T. H. P. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. Lecturer in Civil Eng., The Univ., Edgbaston, Birmingham. Age: 48. Career: 1904-07 Marlborough Coll.; 1907-11 Bristol Univ. Coll. and Univ.; 1911-14 Asst. Engr., T. B. Cooper & Co. of Bristol; 1914-19 War service (four years commission in R.E., mentioned in dispatches); 1919-20 Asst. Eng., Trussed Concrete Steel Co.; 1920-22 Asst. Engr., P.W.D. F.M.S.; 1922-38 Lecturer, B'ham Univ. Author of: "The Disposal of Sewage," and "The Supply of Water" (Chapman and Hall.)

VEALE, F. L. A.M.I.E.E., A.I.I.A. Tech. Engr. X-Ray Division, Philips Lamps Ltd., 145 Charing Cross Rd., London, W.C.2. Private Address: 89 Woodgrange Avenue, Finchley, N.12. Age: 36. Career: St. Marys Sch. London; Univ. Coll., Nottingham Research Lab., Telephone Mfg. Co.; Design Dept., Watson & Sons (E.M). Ltd.; Tech. Engr., Newton & Wright Ltd. Author of: "Cathode Ray Oscillograph."

VEEVERS, J. F. A.M.I.E.E., A.M. I.R.E. Chief of Test, Instrument Dept., E. K. Cole Ltd., Section of MarconiEkco Instruments Ltd., Southendon-Sea. Private Address: Darley Dale, Henley Crescent, Westcliff-on-Sea.

VENABLES, A. J. A.M.Inst.C.E. Managing Director, Hack Saws Ltd., Sheffield. Private Address: 22 Riverdale Rd., Sheffield. Age: 55. Educ: Westminster Sch.; Central Tech. Coll.; Pembroke Coll., Cambridge.

VENNER, William Sidney. M.I.Mech. E. M.Inst.Gas.E. F.R.S.A. Address: Milton Rd., Shenfield, Essex. Formerly Engr. and General Manager Brentwood Gas Co.

VENNING, H. C. W. B.Sc.(Eng). Lond., F.R.Econ.S., A.M.I.Mech.E. Principal, Ashton-Under-Lyne Tech. Coll., Old Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne. Age: 46.

VENTERS, J. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.I.E.E. Res. Engr., North West England Area. Kennedy & Donkin, Cons. Engrs., 89a High Street, Cheadle, Ches.

VERDON-ROE, Sir Alliott. Kt., O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., M.I.Ae.E. President, Saunders-Roe, Ltd., Bush House, Strand, London, W.C.2. Private Address: Hamble House, Hamble, Hants. Career: Studied surveying under civil engr. in British Columbia; apprent. L. & Y. Rly. Loco. Works; marine engr. (seagoing) for two years; draughtsman and designer in motor works; pioneer of aviation in England; founded A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd., to manufacture Avro aeroplanes; 1912, produced the first enclosed aeroplane to fly; 1928, sold interest in A. V. Roe & Co., and acquired share in S. E. Saunders, Ltd. (now Saunders-Roe, Ltd.), producing Saro aircraft. Is also Chairman of Aviation Developments, Ltd.

VEREKER, Rupert Lionel. M.I.Loco. E. Asst. to Works Manager, L.N.E.Rly., Plant Works, Doncaster. Private Address: "Aran," Edenthorpe, Nr. Doncaster. Educ.: Trent Coll. and Royal Coll. of Sc., Dublin; Prem. Apprent, and Pupil, G.N. Rly., Doncaster.

VERITY, C. E. H. A.M.I.E.E., A.M. Inst.C.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. Head of Tech. Dept., London Power Co., Ltd., Ergon House, Horseferry Rd., Westminster, S.W.1. Private Address: 31 Cole Park Rd., Twickenham, Mddx. Age: 38. Career: Apprent. W. H. Allen, Sons & Co., Bedford, 1917-22; Asst. Engr. in Contracts Dept., W. H. Allen, 1922-24; Tech. Asst. to Gen. Mgr., Contraflo Eng. Co. 1924-27; Tech. Engr., London Power Co., 1927-38. Awarded Telford premium for paper to Inst. C.E.

VERNON, H. M. M.I.H.V.E., M.D., M.A. Private Address: 94 Prince of Wales' Mansions, Battersea Park, London, S.W.11. Age: 68. Career: Oxford Univ. (1st Cl. Final Hons. Chem. 1891 and Physiology, 1893); St. George's Hospital, London; Fellow of Magdalen Coll. 1898-1920 and Univ. Lecturer in Chemical Physiology; Investigator for the Industl. Health Research Board 1919-32.

VIALL, H. R. A.M.I.E.E. With North Eastern Elec. Supply Co., Ltd., Carliol House, Newcastleon-Tyne.

VICE, J. A. A.M.I.E.E. Generating Engr. County of London Elec. Supply Co., Ltd., County House, New Broad St., London, E.C.2. and Barking Power Station. Private Address: 36 Courtenay Gdns., Upminster, Essex. Age: 52. Career: Leicester Munic. Tech. Coll.; trained, Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Co., Ltd. and Gravesend Corp. Elec. Dept.; service with Ilford Elec. Dept., Lancashire Elec. Power Co., Ltd., and Manchester Corp. Elec. Dept., latterly as Asst. Res. Engr.; Res. Engr. at Barking 1924.

VICKERS, H. A.M.I.E.E. Chief Asst. and Elec. Engr., Transport Dept., Corp. of Bournemouth. Private Address: 10a Howard Rd., Bournemouth.

VICKERS, H. E. A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Operating Engr., New Power Stn., Fulham Corp., Fulham. Private Address: 36 Skeena Hill, Southfields, London, S.W.18. Age: 36. Career: Beverley Gramm. Sch.; Sheffield Univ; trained, Barnsley Corp. Elec. Dept. and Yorks. Elec. Power Co.; Senr. 'Asst. Newcastle Elec. Supply Co.; Charge Engr., Worcester Elec. Works; Boiler House Engr. and Charge Engr., Hull Elec. Dept.

VIGERS, B. E. A. B.A., A.M.Inst.C.E. M.I.Chem.E. Chief Engr., Messrs. B. Laporte, Kingsway Works, Luton. Private Address: 18 Moreton Avenue, Harpenden, Herts. Age: 38. Career: Pupil to Sir Basil Mott; Res. Engr. Tube Tunnel Contracts; eight years with; with Laportes since 1935.

VIGNOLES, Ernest Blacker. Director (Chairman) Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., Acton Lane Works, Chiswick, W.4. Private Address: Little Orchard, Streatley, Berks. Career: .Educ.: Malvern Coll. (1878-82) and -subsequently in Germany and France; studied eng. at.Central Tech. Coll. (1886-88); joint founder, Evershed & Vignoles, Ltd. (1895), and was Managing Director till 1931.

VIGNOLES, Lieut.-Col. Walter A., D.S.O., M. I. E.E. Managing Director, Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., Acton Lane Works, Chiswick, London, W.4. Career: Educ. France, and Finsbury Tech. Coll.; trained as an Elect. Engr. in works of W. T. Goolden & Co., afterwards with Crompton & Co., Ltd., and later with Sir Alexander Kennedy, F.R.S. Borough Elect. Engr. Grimsby, 1901; served in the army, 1914-19, being two and a half years in France with infantry (Lieut.-Col., 1917, D.S.O. and Bar, despatches twice); returned to Grimsby, 1919. Pres. Incorporated Municipal Elect. Assoc. 1922-23, and is now an Hon. Member; Director to the B.E.D.A. 1928-30.

VIGOUREUX, J. P. E. L. D.Sc., A.C.G.I., D.I.C., A.M.I.E.E. Senior Scientific Officer, Admiralty Scientific Pool, H.M.S. Osprey, Portland. Age: 35. Career: Royal Coll., Mauritius; City and Guilds Eng. Coll.; National Physical Lab. 192638. Author of "Principles of Elec. and Magnetic Measurements," "Quartz Resonators and Oscillators," etc.

VILLIERS, A. E. M.A., D.F.H., M.I.E.E. Chief Elect. Engr., The Quasi Arc Co., Ltd., 15 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1. Age: 46. Career: Eton Coll.; Univ. Coll., Oxford; King's Royal Rifles, 1914-19 (Retd. as Capt.), and Signal Service, R.E.; Faraday House; Verity's, Birmingham; joined Quasi Arc Co. in 1922.

VINCENT, R. S. M.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., A. Inst. P. Physicist, Callender's Cable & Construction Co., Belvedere, Kent. Private Address: 24 Woodland Way, Abbey Wood, S.E.2.

VINER, J. E. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. Asst. Civil Engr., S. C. E.'s Dept., H.M. Dockyard, Devonport. Age: 27. Career: Merchant Taylors Sch., 192328; Univ. Coll., London, 1928-31; Sir Robt. McAlpine & Sons, 1931-33; L.N.E. Rly., Engrs. Dept., 1933-37.

VINES, A. M.A., M.I.E.E. Managing Director, Evershed & Vignoles, Ltd., Acton Lane Works, Chiswick, London, W.4. Age: 70. Career: Emmanuel Coll., Cambridge; W. J. Goolden & Co., 1891; Joint founder Evershed & Vignoles, 1895. Member of Management Board, Eng. and Allied Employers' National Fed.; Vice-President, British Engrs. Assocn.

VINTEN FENTON, C. V. M.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Lecturer in Eng., Heginbottom Tech. School, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs. Private Address: 82 Mossley Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs. Age: 34. Career: Malmesbury (Wilts.) C.S.S.; Royal Tech. Coll., Salford (Husband Sch.); Victoria Univ., Manchester; Apprent. Metropolitan Vickers Elect. Co., and later Asst. to Manager of Detail Dept.; Part time Lecturer in Elect. Eng., Royal Tech. Coll., Salford.

VISGER, H., A.M.I.E.E., M.Inst.B.E. France Lynch, Stroud, Glos. Age: 66. Career: Rugby Sch.; Polytechnic, Hanover, Germany; 1892-1917, with Siemens Bros.; 1917-19, on Munition work; 1921-35, Engr. Manager for Millers & Corys, at their Coal and Oil Bunkering Depot, St. Vicente, Cape Verde Islands; accorded rank of Chevalier by Kingdoms Belgium, Holland and Sweden for Consular Work at St. Vicente; also acted for Finland.

VISICK, C. A.M.I.Mech.E. Works Manager and Director, W. Visick & Sons, Ltd. Private Address: Basset Works, Devoran, Cornwall. Age: 63.

VITTY, Major Thomas H. T. D., M.I.M.E., A.M.I.E.E. Manager, Special Dept., Smiths English Clocks, Ltd., Cricklewood Works, London, N.W.2. Private Address: Hurstbourne, Mymms Drive, Brookmans Park, Herts. Age: 55. Educ.: 'King's Coll., London.

VIVIAN THOMAS, Captain Henry Charles. M.I.A.E., D.L.C., M.I.M.T. Proprietor of Rouettes Brayes Motor Repair Depot, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Private Address: Guet View, Cobo, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Age: 41. Educ.: Elizabeth Coll., 190512; London Telegraph Training Coll., 1913-14; Loughborough Coll. (Automobile Dept.), 191.9-22.

VIZETELLY, V. R. A.M.I.Mech.E. Sales Engr., The Lightfoot Refrigeration Co., Ltd., Abbeydale Road, North Circular Road, Wembley, Middx. Private Address: 56 Manor Drive North, New Malden, Surrey. Age: 54. Educ.: Rutlish Science School, Merton.

VOGEL, Julius L. F. M.Inst.E.E., M.Inst.M. & M., M.I.Chem.E. General Manager, High-Speed Steel Alloys, Ltd., Widnes, Lancs. Private Address: Woolton Golf Club, Liverpool. Career: Apprent. to Gulcher Electrical Co., Battersea; 1894-1907, Partner in Steinhart & Vogel, Consulting Chem. Engrs.; 1914 to date designed and erected High-Speed Steel Alloys, Ltd., factory for tungsten, vanadium, molybdenum, etc., at Widnes, and became General Manager. Specialises in questions dealing with alloy steel and iron. Book: "Unemployment" (Chapman and Hall).

VOIGT, P. G. A. H. B.Sc. (Eng.), A.M.I.E.E. Electro Acoustic Engr., 53 Church Road, Upper Norwood, S.E.19. Director, Voigt Patents, Ltd., The Courts, Silverdale, Sydenham, S.E.26. Age: 36. Career: Dulwich Coll.; Univ. Coll., London; for 10 years with Edison Bell, Ltd., first on Radio design and research, later on development of Electric Gramophone Recording Equipment, and lastly on work in connection with "Talkie" reproduction, especially Loudspeakers. Upon liquidation of Edison Bell, Ltd., commenced on own account, specialising on manufacture of high-grade talkie and domestic loudspeakers.

VOKES, C. G. A.M.I.Mech.E., M.S.A.E., A.M.I.Ae.E. Managing Director, Yokes, Ltd. (Fil tration Engrs., etc.), 95-105 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, S. W.15. Age: 46. Career: Woolston Coll., Southampton; Apprent. J. I. Thornycroft & Co., 1908-14; Chief Inspector, Supermarine Aviation, Ltd., 1914-16; Chief Inspector, Fairey Aviation Co., 1916; Inspector, R.A.E., Engine Dept., Farnborough, 1916; Chief Engr., Alliance Aeroplane Co., Ltd. (Acton, Chelsea, Hammersmith, Lancaster and Liverpool Factories), 1916-20; formed own business, 1920, Public Co., 1936.

VOWLES, Hugh P. M.I.A,Iech.E. Private Address: The Old Rectory, Harescombe, Glos. Age: 54. Career: Gloucester Tech. Coll.; Apprent., 5 years, W. Sisson & Co., Ltd., Engrs., Gloucester; Contract Engr., Willans Robinson, Ltd., Rugby; Senior Asst. Engr., Gas Light & Coke Co., London; Asst. Manager, Ailsa Craig National Shell Factory; General Manager, Sun Fuel Co., Ltd., Swansea; District Manager, W. H. Allen, Sons & Co., Ltd., Bedford. Retired. Present interests almost entirely Historical. Member of the Newcomen Society; Member of the History of Science Society. Books: "The Quest for Power" (in collaboration with M. W. Vowles); "The Web of Finance"; "Under New Management"; part author (with H. G. Wells and others), "The Great State."

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