1939 Who's Who In Engineering: Name W

Note: This is a sub-section of 1939 Who's Who in Engineering

WADDICOR, H. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Tech. and Asst. Mains Engr., London Power Co., Ltd., Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London, S.W.1. Private Address: 13 Park Lane, Wembley, Middx. Age: 45. Career: Ashton-under-Lyne Sec. Sch.; Mun. Coll. of Tech. Manchester; Univ. of Birmingham; Engr. on Tech. Staff, National Boiler & General Insce Co., Ltd., 192126; Chief Engr., Stoll Offices, 1926-28; Tech. Asst., G. V. Twiss & Partners, 1928-30; present position, 1930. Author of "The Principles of Electric Power Transmission" (Chapman & Hall).

WADDINGTON, Henry. A.M.I.E.E. Managing Director, Gent & Co., Ltd., Faraday Works, Leicester. Private Address: Ashcombe, Holmfield Avenue, Leicester. The whole of his career has been with Gent & Co.

WADDLE, William. 1st Class B.O.T., M.I.Mar.E. Chief Engr., Transparent Paper Co., Ltd., Bridge Hall Mills, Bury, Lancs. Private Address: 1 Bridge Hall View, Bury, Lancs. Age: 36. Career: Tech. Coll., Sunderland; Apprent. MacColl & Pollock, Sunderland. Junior to Acting Chief Engr., British India Steam Navigation Co.; Chief Engr., Bansberia Mills (Textile), India.

WADE, C. A.M.I.E.E. Representative, Gabriel, Wade & English, Ltd., Aldwych House, London, W.C.2. Private Address: 4 Cowper Road, Bedford. Age: 59. Career: Educ. at Harrow; been in Timber Trade for the last 40 years; at one time Director and Managing Director of Richard Wade, Sons & Co., Hull; also recently Director of Gabriel, Wade & English, Ltd., and previously Director of the Hull City Garage, Ltd.; also at one time Chairman of the ardle Eng. Co., Manchester. Author of "Wade's Tables," giving strength of Wood Poles (first published in about 1907); also various papers on the same subject.

WADE, J. C. A.M.Inst.C.E. Engr., Keith-Blackman, Ltd., 27 Farringdon Avenue, London, E.C.4. Private Address: 26 Dersingham Road, N.W.2. Age: 44. Career: Woodhouse Grove Sch. and Leeds Gramm. Sch.; Apprent. Hathorn, Davey & Co., Ltd.; Served from 1914-18 in Infantry, R.A.F., and loaned to Ministry of Munitions, 1915-16; Leeds Univ., 1918-20; Asst. Engr., Sturtevant Eng. Co., Ltd., London, 1920-24.

WADE, W. A.M.I.Mech.E., M.Inst. P.T. Asst. Fields' Engr., The Burmah Oil Co., Ltd., Britannic House, Finsbury Circus, London, E.C.2. Private Address: 156 Empire Court, Wembley Park, Middx. Age: 40. Career: six years indentured apprent. Waygood Otis (Lift and Crane Makers), London; Elect. Artificer, R.N., May 1918-Feb. 1919; Northampton Eng. Day Coll., 1920-23; Designer draughtsman, "Supurb" Carburettor Synd., London, 1923-24; L.M.S. Rly., Power Station Attendant, 1925, during which year entered service of present employers.

WADESON, M. M.I.E.E. Personal Asst. to Chief Engr. and Manager, The Corpn. Elect. Dept., Nottingham. Career: St. Helens Coll., Southsea; Portsmouth Tech. Coll.; Junr. Engr., Newcastle-on-Tyne E. S. Co.; Asst. Engr., Merz & McLellan, Cons. Engrs.; Manager, W. M. Selsey, Cons. Engr.

WADHAM, Lieut.-Col. Walter Francis Ainslie. M.A. (Cantab.), V.D., D.L., J.P., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E. Sole Partner, Wadham & Son, 111 Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness. Private Address: Millwood, Barrow-inFurness. Career: Articled to Mr. Richard Johnson, Chief Engr., G.N. Railway; subsequently employed as an Asst. Engr. in construction of branch lines and widening, 1886-93; joined Wadham & Son in 1893. Served in the Great War in command of the 4th Batt. The King's Own Royal Regt. till June, 1915, and subsequently in command of the 4th Reserve Batt.

WADMAN, W. E. B.Sc. (Eng.), A.C.G.I., A.M.I.Mech.E. Senr. Eng. Master, Wandsworth Tech, Institute, London. Private Address 123 Rochdale Road, Plumstead, S.E.18. Age: 36. Career: Bloomfield Central Sch.; Woolwich Polytechnic; City and Guilds; Apprent. Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich; Draughtsman, Hele Shaw Beacham Compressors; Eng. Master, West Ham Municipal Coll.; special trainee, M.V.E.Co.

WAGGETT, Stanley. M.I.Mech.E., M.I.S.I., A.I.Loco.E. In charge, Home Sales Dept., Associated British Machine Tool Makers, Ltd., 17 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1. Private Address: The Grove, Woodcote Valley Road, Purley, Surrey. Career: Aspinall High Sch.; apprent. John Holroyd & Co.; General Manager, Calmoni Eng. Co., Ltd., India, 1919-24; General Manager, Assoc. Brit. Machine Tool Makers, Ltd., Calcutta, 1924-36.

WAGNER, M. R. A.M.I.Mech.E. Midland Manager, E. Green & Son, Ltd., Fuel Economiser Works, Wakefield. Private Address: Whateley Green, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham. Age: 34.

WAILES, R. M.I.Mech.E., M.J.Inst.E. Director and Works Manager, George Wailes & Co., Ltd., 382-388 Euston Road, N.W.1. Age: 37. Career: Ed. at Oundle; apprent. Robey & Co., Ltd.; joined present firm in 1924. Hon. Tech. Adviser to Soc. for Protection of Ancient Buildings (Windmill Sect.); As Assoc. Member served on Council Inst.Mech.E.; is Member of Council, Newcomen Society.

WAILES-FAIRBAIRN, N. W. F. M.A., A.M.I.Mech.E. Director, Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour, Ltd., Wellington Foundry, Leeds.

WAINSCOT, Flight-Lieut. F. S. R.A.F., A.M.I.E.E. Civilian Tech. Officer, R.A.F., Cranwell. Private Address: 104 London Road, Sleaford, Lincs. Age: 48. Career: St. Helens Coll., Southsea; Portsmouth Tech. Coll.; Engr., Nat. Telephone Co. and G.P.O., 1910-15; R.F.C., 1915-18; R.A.F., 1918-36; C.T.O., 1936 to date.

WAITE, D. M. B.Sc.(Tech.), A.M.Inst. C.E., A.M. Inst.M. & Cy.E. Senr. Eng. Asst., County Borough of Rotherham. Private Address: 36 Scarsdale Road, Victoria Park, Manchester 4. Age: 31. Career: Manchester Gramm. Sch.; Victoria Univ., Manchester; 1st Asst., Irlam U.D.C.; 1st Asst., Bury.

WAITE, F. A.M.C.T., A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.Inst. W.E. Supt., Elan Valley Works, City of Birmingham Water Dept. Private Address: 1 Elan Village, Rhayader, Radnorshire. Age: 44. Career: 1910 28, Manchester Corp. Waterworks, successively Eng. Asst., Thirlmere Aqueduct, Asst. Res. Engr., Heaton Park, and Dist. Engr. and Surveyor; 1928 to date, Birmingham Water Dept., since 1935 as Supt.; Military Service, 1914-19.

WAITE, J. N. M.I.E.E., F.Inst.F. District Manager (S.E. England), Central Electricity Board, Aldwych House, London, W.C.2. Private Address: "Roseness," Salisbury Avenue, Harpenden, Herts. Career: N.E.S. Co., Chief Asst.; Stoke-on-Trent (Elect. Dept.) Deputy Engr.; Bradford (Elect. Dept.), General Manager; City Elect. Engr., Hull.

WAKEFIELD, Charles Cheers (Viscount Wakefield of. Hythe). G.C.V.O., C.B.E., T.D.; Vice-President, Royal Aero Club; Hon. Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society. Governing Director, C. C. Wakefield & Co., Ltd., Wakefield House, Cheapside, E.C.2. Private Address: Hythe, Kent. President, Coll. of Aeronautical and Automobile Eng. Books: "Future Trade in the Far East," "America To-day and To-morrow," etc.

WAKEFIELD, J. H. M. A.M.I.E.E. Private Address: 98 Banstead Road, Carshalton, Surrey. Age: 62. Late Asst. Suptg. Engr., P.O. Eng. Dept.

WAKEFIELD, Paul Stuart. M.Sc. (Eng.) (London), B.Sc. (Ireland), A.R.C.Sc.I., M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.E.E. Chief Turbine Designer and Head of Turbine Dept., The Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., Falcon 'Works, Loughborough, Leics. Private Address: 29 Shelthorpe Road, Loughborough, Leics. Career: Educ.: Mountjoy Sch., Dublin; Newtown Sch., Waterford; articled to H. T. Hazzledine, Esq., M.I.E.E., 1913-14. Great War: Four and a half years' service as infantry officer; active service, France and Belgium. Tech. educ.: Royal Coll. of Science for Ireland and Univ. Coll., London. Chief Tech. Asst. to Chief Turbine Designer of B.E.E. Co., 1923-31; 1931 to date, present appointment. For eleven years Evening Class Lecturer in Applied Mechanics and Heat Engines at Univ. Coll., Nottingham.

WAKEFORD, L. T. A.M.I.E.E., A.111. I.Mech.E. Director, The Planters Eng. Co., Ltd., London; Chairman, The Alliance Eng. Co., Ltd., Singapore. Private Address: Longcroft, Pamber Heath, Basingstoke, Hants. Age: 54. Career: 1907, went to Singapore for Siemen Bros. 1919, started the firm, Wakeford & Lowndes, Consulting Engrs., Singapore; 1933, retired from Singapore.

WAKEFORD, T. P. A.M.Inst.C.E. Eng. Asst., Met. Water Board, Room 235, 173 Rosebery Avenue, London, E.C.1. Age: 35. Employed on New Construction Work in Mech. Engr's Section of C.E. Dept.

WAKERLEY, W. R. B.Sc.(Hons.), A.M.I.E.E. Mains Engr., North West Midlands J.E.A., Stoke-on-Trent. Private Address: "Cop Mere", Allerton Road, Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent. Age: 32. Career: George Dixon Sec. Sch., Birmingham; Birmingham Univ., 1925-28; Tech. Engr. to G. V. Twiss & Partners, Cons. Engrs., 1928-32; Dist. Engr. to Mid-Lincs. Elect. Supply Co., Ltd., 1932-34; with J.E.A. since Jan., 1934.

WAKLEY, T. G. B.Sc., A.C.G.I., D.I.C., A.M.Inst.C.E. First Class (A) Engr., Bridges Div., Chief Engr.'s Dept., London C.C. Private Address: 137 Croydon Road, Beddington, Surrey. Age: 33. Career: Cardiff High Sch.; City and Guilds; 1928, Asst. to Borough Engr., Calne, Wilts.; 1928-29, Asst. to G. V. Twiss & Partners, Cons. Engrs.; 1929-31, Temp. Asst., Structural Section, Ministry of Transport; 1931-38, L.C.C.

WALDRAM, H. D. T. A.M.I.E.E. Elect. Engr., H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth. Private Address: Wrenthorpe, The Thicket, Southsea, Hants. Age: 58:

WALDRON, William James. M.I.N.A. Ship Surveyor, Mercantile Marine Dept., Board of Trade, S.W.1. Private Address: "Rothbury", Ingleby Way, Wallington, Surrey. Age: 44. Ed.: H.M. Dockyard Sch. and Municipal Coll., Portsmouth. Formerly Inspector of Shipping, Admiralty, and Tech. Asst., Board of Trade.

WALE, Flight-Lieut. N. W. A.M.I. Mech.E., A.M.I.A.E. Engr. Officer, Royal Air Force. Private Address: The Croft, Cruckton, Shrewsbury. Age: 54. Career: Ludlow Gramm. Sch.; Training, Coalbrookdale Eng. Co., 1900-05; Works Manager in training, Birmingham Battery and Metal Co.; Selly Oak, 1906-07; Engr. and Asst. Manager, Venesta, Ltd., Kamarhati, Calcutta; 1907-15, War service; 1915-20, Indian Army, Armoured Cars, R.F.C. and R.A.F.; Gen. Manager, Govt. Instr. Factories, Coventry and Birmingham, 1920-23; training Disabled ex-Servicemen; Tech. Rep., Sentinel Waggon Works, Shrewsbury, and latterly, Asst. Sales Manager, 1924-35; thereafter pro forma Commission R.A.F. Author of short Articles on Small Marine Plant and Craft.

WALES, Prof. W. A. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I.E.E. Consulting Engr., 33 Chandos House, Buckingham Gate, S.W.1. Age: 48. Career: King's Coll. Sch.; Apprent., Vickers, Sheffield; Eng. Inspector, P.O., 1911-20; on the Staff, City and Guilds Eng. Coll., 1920-29; Professor of Elect. Eng. to Madras Govmt., 1929-34.

WALKER, A. W. P. A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Supt. of Mains, Edinburgh Corp. Elect. Supply Dept. Private Address: 1 Craigs Avenue, Edinburgh, 12. Age: 38. Career Kilmarnock Tech. Coll.; Heriot-Watt Coll.; Apprent., Kilmarnock Corp. Elect. Dept., and Bruce Peebles; War service, Observer, R.A.F., 1918-20; Test Plate Asst., Bruce Peebles, 1922-23; present appointment, 1923.

WALKER, C. C. A.M.Inst.C.E., F.R.Ae.Soc., Fellow of Univ. Coll, London. Director and Chief Engr., The de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., Hatfield, Herts. Private Address: Forresters, Stanmore Common, Middx. Age: 61. Career: Highate Sch.; Univ. Coll., London; Apprent., John Abbot & Co., Gateshead-on-Tyne; Articled to J. J. Taylor, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., Civil Engr.; work on various Railway, Drainage, Waterworks schemes, etc.; Joined the Aircraft Mfg. Co. in 1915 as Chief Tech. Asst.; assisted in forming The de Havilland Co. in 1920; since then, Director and Chief Engr.

WALKER, E. C. B.A., A.M.Inst.C.E. Asst. Civil Engr., Works Directorate, Air Ministry. Private Address: Lightwoods, Lapworth, Warwichshire. Age: 31. Career: Oundle Sch.; Trinity Hall, Cambridge; 1929-34, Mott, Hay & Anderson, construction of the new Mersey Tunnel; occupied the post of Engr.-in-charge on a sea wall re-construction with Messrs. Cochrane, of Harrow and London, S.W.1. Since then has been employed with the Air Ministry on construction and maintenance of Aerodromes.

WALKER, F. M. A.M.I.E.E. Corp. Elect. Dept., Sheffield. Private Address: 170 Oakbrook Road, Sheffield, 11.

WALKER, (Major) G. Dutton. A.M.Inst.C.E., F.S.I., M.T.P.I. City Surveyor, Town Hall, Manchester. Age: 63. Career: Joined staff of City Surveyor of Manchester in 1907; in 1910 trans. to Inland Revenue Valuation Dept.; in 1914 returned to Manchester under the City Surveyor; 1935, appointed City Surveyor; from 1914 to 1919, served with the Sherwood Foresters (severely wounded). Author of Sundry Pamphlets and Brochures on various aspects of Town and Country Planning.

WALKER, G. E. A.M.Inst.C.E. Civil Eng. Asst., L.P.T.B., 55 Broadway, S.W.1. Age: 36.

WALKER, G. H. M.I.Mech.E. Chief Engr., "S" Dept., Heenan & Froude, Ltd., Worcester. Private Address: Four Winds, Nunnery Lane, Worcester. Career: Entirely connected with Heenan & Froude at Manchester and Worcester, including apprenticeship, and as Draughtsman, Chief Draughtsman, Sales Manager and Chief Engr. in sequence.

WALKER, H. A.M.I.E.E. Managing Director and Sec., Bridgwater and Dist. Elect. Supply and Traction Co., Electricity Works, Mount Street, Bridgwater.

WALKER, H. W. A.M.I.E.E. Engr.'s Surveyor, National Boiler and General Insce. Co., Ltd., Manchester. Private Address: "Singletree", Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford. Age: 54. Career: Junr. Engr., Newcastle-onTyne Elect. Supply Co., Ltd., also Engr. on Power Dept. of same company; for 21 years Senr. Elect. Insptr. and Repair Supervisor for N.B.I. Co., Ltd., in Sheffield Area. Past-Chairman of Sheffield Sub-Centre of I.E.E.

WALKER, Henry C. M.I.Mech.E., F. S. Engrs. Private Address: 9 Chepstow Road, Croydon. Career: From 1898 to 1933, Chairman, Waygood Otis, Ltd., and Man. Director for many years; was Chairman of British Genl. Insce. Soc. from formation until 1933, and Director of a number of Elect. and other Companies. Past-Master of The Livery of Turners.

WALKER, J. H. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. Design Engr., B.T.H. Co., Ltd., Rugby. Private Address: 5 Whoberley Avenue, Coventry. Age: 39. Career: Secdy Schs., Derby & Douglas (I.o.M.); Apprent., Buchanan's, Liverpool, and Newton Bros., Derby; Junr. Draughtsman, Rolls Royce, Ltd., 1919-21, and B.T.H. Co., 1921-24; Design Engr., B.T.H., 1924. From 1916-19, served in R.A.S.C. (M.T.).

WALKER, Joah Haigh. M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Struct.E. Business Address: 75 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.1. Private Address: 21 Shooters Hill Road, Blackheath, S.E.3. Career: Bradford Gramm. Sch.; Leeds Univ. Four years pupilage with County Surveyor of the N.R. of Yorkshire; four years Asst. Engr., G.W. Rly. and L.N.W. Rly.; ten years Contractors' Agent with the Cleveland Bridge Eng. Co., Ltd.; twelve years Res. Engr. with the P.L.A. Patentee of rolling lift bridges as in use at Carmarthen, Waterford, Poole, Weymouth, etc.; nozzles for pneumatic handling of grain; light Goliath cranes, handling 5 and 10 tons, with spans up to 300 feet. Numerous patents for concrete roads, etc., such as reinforcement, rigid steel hoops, interlocked joints; light loading gear for lorries; brickhandling plant, etc.; sound-proof floors for flats; crack control of large concrete dams.

WALKER, John Frederick. M.B.E., M.1.N.A., R.C.N.C. Business Address: H.M. Dockyard, Chatham. Private Address: The Terrace, H.M. Dockyard, Chatham. Age: 56. Career: H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth; R.N. Eng. Coll., Keyham; R.N. Coll., Greenwich; Appointments in H.M. Dockyards: Simonstown (S.A.), Chatham, Sheerness, Gibraltar, Malta, etc.

WALKER, Joseph Griffin. M.I. Mech.E., M.I.B.E. Managing Director, Walker Bros., Ltd., Victoria Iron Works, Walsall, Staffs. Private Address: Moat Bank, near Lichfield, Staffs. Educated in eng., Mason's Coll., Birmingham. Pres., Birmingham Mech. Eng. Assocn, 192122; at present Pres., Walsall Chamber of Commerce.

WALKER, J. R. A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Engr., Chief Engr.'s Dept., L.C.C., London, S.E.1. Private Address: 55 Sutherland Avenue, Orpington, Kent. Age: 61. Career: Apprent. as Marine Engr., Scott's Eng. Co., Greenock; sailed as Marine Eng., Alfred Holt & Co.; in various capacities for twenty-seven years with Tramway Dept., L.C.C.; appointed in 1930 to position of Asst. Engr. in Public Institutions Div. of Chief Engr.'s Dept., L.C.C., in charge of Mech. Work.

WALKER, K. E. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M. Inst.C.E. Lecturer, Mech. and Civil Eng. Dept., Battersea Polytechnic, S.W.11. Private Address: 8 Elm Close, Selsdon Road, S. Croydon, Surrey. Age: 30. Career Whitgift Middle Sch., Croydon; Battersea Polytechnic, S.W.11, fulltime course in Civil Eng., 1926-29; Draughtsman and Eng. Asst., Southern Rly., 1929-35.

WALKER, L. G. A.M.I.E.E. Managing Director, W. Wales Elect. Co., Ltd. The Quay, Portmadoc, N. Wales. Private Address: "Arlyn", Gellilydan, Blaenay-Festiniog, Merionethshire. Age: 57. Career: Dulwich Coll.; Apprent., Leo Sunderland, Brush Installation Dept., 1901; London Manager, Elect. Dept., Mann, Egerton & Co., Ltd., 1907-17; Works Manager, Kartret Eng. Co., Ltd., 1917-21; Res. Engr. (Elect.) for Sir Douglas Fox & Partners on N. Wales Power Overhead Constr., 1921-25; Managing Director, W. Wales Elect. Co.. from 1925.

WALKER, R. C. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Staff Engr., Industrial Applications of Electronic Devices, G.E.C., Ltd., Magnet House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. Private Address: 9 The Mount, Caversham, Reading. Age: 42. Career: Reading Collegiate Sch.; Univ. of Reading; Articled, 1914, to Mr. G. F. Craven, M.I.E.E.; several eng. and teaching appointments; graduated at London Univ. in 1923 in Maths. and Physics. Subsequently undertook research in Spectroscopy; joined G.E.C. in 1925. Jt. author of "Photoelectric Cell Applications" (Pitman), etc.

WALKER, R. W. A.M.Inst.C.E., F.S.I., F.R.I.B.A. Sole Partner, Walker & Duncan, 3 Golden Square, Aberdeen. Age: 63. Career: Factor on a number of Estates; an official Referee under the Finance Act, Dept. of Agriculture of Scotland Arbiter.

WALKER, Thomas R. Al.A.(Cantab.), F.I.C., F.G.S., M.Inst.W.E. Chief Chemist and Technologist, English Steel Corp., Ltd., Vickers Works, Sheffield. Private Address: The Priory, Oughtibridge, near Sheffield. Books: "Foundry Sands, with special reference to Steel Foundry Practice".

WALKER, William. M.I.E.E.,,M.I. Mech.E. Director, Henry Simon, Ltd., Cheadle Heath, Stockport. Private Address: 21 South Drive, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. Member, Central Elect. Board; Chairman of Nat. Board Elect. Supply and of Nat. Jt. Council Elect. Supply.

WALKER, W. G. A.M.I.E.E. Shift Charge Engr., Lancs. Elect. Power Co., Radcliffe Power Station. Private Address: "Thornhill", Ringley Road, Radcliffe, Manchester. Age: 36. Career: Pupil, Elect. Dept., Whitby U.D.C.; several years with the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Elect. Supply Co., and The Cleveland and Durham Elect. Power, Ltd.; Shift Charge Engr. at the Barugh Power Station of The Yorkshire E.P. Co., and at the Packham Power Station of The Lancs. E.P. Co.

WALKER, William G. Wh.Ex., M.I.Mech.E., A.M. Inst. C.E. Chartered Civil Engr., Chartered Mech. Engr. Business Address: 2 Emery Hill Street, London, S.W.1. Sometime Professor of Steam and Machine Construction at Birkbeck Coll., and Lecturer on Eng. at Univ., Bristol. Principally engaged in the ventilation of buildings, elect. works, supply of fans or dynamometers to Government depts., municipalities, rlys., industrial undertakings, etc.

WALKER, W. P. A.M.I.Mech.E., A.I.W.E. Dep. Water Engr., Hastings. Business Address: Borough and Water Engr.'s Office, 37 Wellington Square, Hastings. Age: 57. Career: Boys' High Sch., Bournemouth; Apprent., Mech. Engr., Dorset Ironfoundry Co., Ltd.; Engine Fitter and Erector, Glenfield & Kennedy, Ltd.; Hydraulic Machinery Insptr., London Hydraulic Power Co.; Water Works Manager, Cheltenham Corp.; Mech. Engr., Croydon Corp. Water Works; Deputy Water Engr., Hastings.

WALKER, William A. M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E., 1st Cl. B.O.T. Cert. Chief Engr. and Managing Director, Sprostons, Ltd., Georgetown, British Guiana. Private Address: 47 Main Street, Georgetown, B.G. Also Director, Denmann Bauxite Co., Ltd., a sister company to Sprostons, Ltd., with which he has been associated for thirty-three years. Training, Todd's Eng. Academy, Cardiff, and Pecket Loco. Works, Bristol.

WALKER-SMITH, Sir Jonah. Kt., M.P., M.I.Mech.E., M.Inst.C.E., F.S.I., Hon. A.R.I.B.A., Barrister-at-Law. Business Address: 13 Russell Square, London, W.C.1. Private Address: 8 Heath Close,, London, N.W.11. Career: City Engr. of Edinburgh; Chief Engr. and Director of Housing and Town Planning, Local Government Board of Scotland; Consulting Engr. in Scotland to the Road Board; Director of Housing, Ministry of Health, 1919-25. Author of Technical books, etc.

WALL, A. T. O.B.E., A.R.C.Sc., M.I.N.A. (Vice-Pres.), M.Inst.C.E. Managing Director, J. Samuel White & Co., Ltd., Shipbuilding and Eng. Works, Cowes, I.O.W. Private Address: The Hayes, Cowes, I.O.W. Career: First Class Prof. Cert. of R.N. Coll., Greenwich; Asst. Chief Draughtsman, Thames Iron Works; Chief Draughtsman, Booth Steamship Co.; Chief Naval Architect, Cammell, Laird & 12 years. Asst. to Court of the 'Worshipful Company of Shipwrights; Past-Pres., Liverpool Eng. Soc.; awarded Gold Medal by Liverpool Eng. Soc., and Premium of Inst. of N.A.

WALL, G. M.Sc., Wh.Sc., A.R.C.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Elect. Engr., Metropolitan Vickers Elect. Co., Trafford Park, Manchester, 17. Private Address: 230 Stretford Road, Urmston, Manchester.

WALL, Thomas Frederick. D.Sc. (Victoria Univ. of Manchester), D.Eng. (Liverpool), M. I.E.E, A.M.Inst.C.E. Lecturer-in-Charge of the Elect. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Sheffield, St. George's Square, Sheffield. Private Address: Kenwood, Sheffield, 7. Career: Elektrotechnisches Institut, Karlsruhe, i. B., Germany; Siemens Bros., Dynamo Works; Lieut., R.N.V.R.; Lecturer in Elect. Eng., Univ. of Birmingham. Research on "Control of Magnetic Quality by Surface Treatment". Design of Electro-Magnetic Rope Testing Apparatus. Books: "Electrical Eng." (Methuen), "Applied Magnetism" (Benn).

WALLACE, G. S. A.M.I.E.E. Private Address: 2 Westcombe Ave., Street Lane, Leeds, 8. Age: 69. Formerly Asst. Suptg. Engr., P.O., N.-E. Dist.

WALLACE, Joseph Victor. A.M. Inst.C.E. Head Draughtsman, Nottingham Gas Dept., Nottingham. Private Address: "Uplands", Catterley Hill Road, Nottingham. Age: 41. Career: Erith Tech. Coll.; Apprent., Wm. Cory & Son, Ltd., Erith; Draughtsman, Fraser & Chalmers' Eng. Works; Designer, Babcock & Wilcox, London; Designer, Robert Dempster & Son; Head Draughtsman, Newton Chambers (Mech. Handling Dept.).

WALLACE, R. Duncan. M.I.H.V.E., B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I.Mech.E. Director and Asst. Manager, Rosser & Russell, Ltd., Romney House, Marsham Street, S.W.1. Private Address: Marham House, Coombe Wood Road, Kingston Hill, Surrey. Career: Emanuel Sch., Wandsworth; City and Guilds; Apprent., Rosser & Russell, Ltd., and with them as Specialist in heating and ventilation since 1920.

WALLACE, Sidney R. M.I.Mar.E., 1st Cl. B.O.T. Cert., Steam and Diesel. Chief Engr., Peebles Hotel-Hydropathic, Ltd., Hotel-Hydropathic, Peebles. Private Address: Hydro' Lodge, Peebles. Age: 49. Career: Arbroath High Sch.; Apprent., Douglas Fraser & Sons, Ltd., Arbroath. 1910-23, Engr. on Anchor Liners (Glasgow); 1923-29, in I.C. & A.C. Dept., G. & J.Weir, Ltd., Cathcart; 1929-31, Second Engr. on M.V. "Cape York"; present position since 1932.

WALLACE, W. A.M.I.Mech.E. Chief Asst. Engr. at Bow Gen. Stn., The London Power Co., Ltd., Marshgate Lane, Stratford, E.15. Age: 50. Career: Educ. in Glasgow; Apprent., North British Loco. Co.; Boiler House Supt., St. Andrew's Cross Power Stn., Glasgow, 1916, and later at Dalmarnock Power Stn., Glasgow; Boiler Hou4e Supt., Bow Gen. Stn., 1921; present position, 1933.

WALLACE, William. M.I.Mech.E., M.I.N.A., M. Inst.E. & S. (Council), M.N.E.C.Inst.E. & S., M.I.Mar.E. Managing Director, Brown Bros. & Co., Ltd., Rosebank Ironworks, Edinburgh. Private Address: 32 Colinton Road, Edinburgh. Career: Eng. apprent., Bow, MacLachlan & Co., Paisley; Dipl., Anderson Coll.; sea experience, P. Henderson & Co., Chief Engr.; from Designer to Managing Director, Brown Bros. & Co.

WALLER, B. B. A.M.Inst.C.E. Managing Director, George Waller & Son, Ltd., Phoenix Ironworks, Stroud, Glos. Age: 70. Career: King's Coll. Sch.; City and Guilds; 6 years apprent. with George Waller & Son. Chairman, Soc. for British Industry, 1925; made world tour to study development of overseas trade, 1926.

WALLER, James Hardress de Warrenne. O.B.E., D.S.O., M.Sc., M.E.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.C.E.I. Partner in firm Delap & Waller, Consulting Engrs., 16 Molemorth Street, Dublin. Private Address: Blackberry Hill, Carrickmines, Co. Dublin. Career: 1918, Tech. Adviser, The Admiralty, reinforced concrete design; Chief Engr., Santander-Mediterraneo Rly. Originator of twintwisted steel reinforcements. Has experimented largely with the combination of jute fibres and concrete.

WALLIN, Charles E. B.A.(Hons.) Oxon., M.I. & S.I., M.S. Wales Inst.E., M. Coke Oven Mgrs.' Assocn. Sales Engr., Woodall Duckham Vertical Retort and Oven Constr. Co., Ltd., 136-150 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. Private Address: Grenfells, Grenfell Road, Beaconsfield, Bucks. Born: 1882. Career: Magdalen Coll. Sch., J3rackley; Magdalen Coll., Oxford (Sc. Exh.); 1904-10, Chemist, Vickers, Ltd.; 1912-24, Dominion J. & S. Co., Canada, successively Chemist, Asst. Supt., Open Hearth Dept., Gen. Foreman, by-product and benzol plants, and Supt., Coke Oven Dept.

WALLIS, Barnes Neville. B.Sc.(Eng.) London, M. Inst. C. E., F. R. Ae. S. Chief Designer (Structures), since 1930, Vickers (Aviation) Ltd., Brooldands Road, Weybridge, Surrey. Career: Christ's Hospital; Apprent., Thames Eng. Works, Greenwich, and J. S. White & Co., Ltd., Cowes; Asst. Chief Designer, Airship Dept., Vickers, Ltd., 1913; served during the War, Artists' Rifles and R.N.A.S.; Chief Designer, Airship Dept., Vickers, Ltd., 1916-22; Chief Engr., Airship Guarantee Co., Ltd., 1923-29; responsible for the design and construction of airship R.100; awarded Royal Aero. Soc. Medal for airship design, 1927; awarded Royal Aero. Soc. Medal for "geodetic construction", 1936. Publications: "Some Technical Aspects of the Commercial Airship", "The Design and Construction of H.M.A. R.100".

WALLIS, Dr. Robert Pendennis. Ph.D., M.Sc., Wh.Ex., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.N.A M.I.E.E., M.I.Mar.E., F.Inst. F. Tech. Engr., E. Green & Son, Ltd., Oswaldestre House, Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C.2. Private Address: Dunelm, Woodcote Valley Road, Purley, Surrey. Career: Served with H.M. Forces during the war with R.E. (Tyne Elect. Eng.); Asst. to Chief Engr., Benson Eng. Co., engaged on the design of very high pressure steam boilers.

WALLS, F. C. A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M. Inst.M. & Cy.E. County Divisional Surveyor, Guildford Div., Surrey C.C. Private Address: Millmead House, Guildford, Surrey. Age: 35. Career: Ermysted's Gramm. Sch., Skipton; service with Skipton R.D.C., West Hartlepool C.B., Guildford R.D.C.

WALMESLEY, C. A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.W.E. Water Engr. and Manager, City of Perth Water Works, Marshall Place, Perth, Scotland. Career: Friends' Sch., Lancaster; Ackworth Sch., Pontefract; training with Borough Surveyor and Water Engr., Lancaster; Eng. Asst., Lancaster, and Fylde Water Board.

WALMSLEY, J. A.M.I.Mech.E., F.Perm.Way Inst. In business on own account as agent for Midlands, to Alley & MacLellan, of Worcester, and Thomas Summerson & Sons, Ltd., of Darlington. Private Address: 49 Lily Street, West Bromwich. Age: 51. Career: Council and Tech. Schs.; Apprent., Ashton, Frost & Co., Ltd.; Junr. Draughtsman, Holden & Brooke, Ltd.; Draughtsman and Designer, Chance Bros. & Co., Ltd.; Chief Engr. to Sheffield Munitions C'tee; Engr. and Works Manager, Federated Trading Co., Ltd., Birmingham.

WALROND, T. C. A.M.I.C.E., A.M.I. E.E. Consulting Engr., 126 Holland Road, Kensington, W.14.

WALSH, John William Tudor. M.A. (Oxon.), D.Sc.(London), M.I.E.E. Principal Scientific Officer, National Physical Laboratory (Elect. Dept.) Teddington, Middx. Educ. at Hampton Gramm. Sch.; Merton Coll., Oxford. Lately Hon. Sec., International Commission on Illumination, now Member of Executive; Past-Pres., Illuminating Eng. Soc. Books: "Elementary Principles of Lighting and Photometry", "Photometry", "Indexing of Books and Periodicals". Author of article, "Photometry" in "Encyclopaedia Britannica".

WALSH, Julian N. M.I.Mech.E. Director and Engr., British Oil and Cake Mills, Ltd., Dixon & Cardus, Ltd., Northam Oil Mills, Southampton. Private Address: Redbourn, The Spinney, Bassett, Southampton. Age: 61. Career: King's Sch., Canterbury; Apprent., Gwynnes Eng. Works; Polytechnic Sch. of Eng.; St. Pancras Iron Works; Draughtsman, Haward Bros. & Eckstein; Manager, Ed. Manser & Co., Ltd., Seed Crushers, Hertford.

WALSHAW, A. C. M.Sc.(Eng.), D.I.0, A.C.G.I., Bramwell Medallist, A.M. I.Mech.E. Lecturer in Mech. Eng., The Northampton Polytechnic Institute, St. John Street, London, E.C.1. Age: 31. Career: Huddersfield Coll.; City and Guilds (Royal Sch.); Apprent., Calvert & Co., Huddersfield. Author of "Heat Engines" (Longmans Green), etc.

WALTER, C. E. H. L. A.M.Inst.C.E. Private Address: 30 Vereker Road, Kensington, W.14. Age: 43. Educ.: Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Pupil, Crompton & Co., Ltd., Chelmsford.

WALTER, W. G. A.M.I.E.E., A.M. I.B.E. Managing Director, Wm. G. Walter (Bath) Ltd., Stuart Works, Bath.

WALTERS, A. F. F.R.S.A., A.M. I.Mech.E., M.I.E.I. Private Address: Bull Hotel, Fairford, Cirencester, Glos. Age: 49. Career: Apprent., G.W. Rly. Works, Swindon (Cost Office, Experimental Dept.); Educ.: The Coll., Swindon. 1913-16, Asst. Manager, East India Tramways Co., Ltd., Karachi; 1916-29, Gen. Manager, Omiar Foundry and Eng. Co., Ltd., Bombay; Gen. Manager, H. I. Dixon & Co., Ltd. Member, Board of Examiners, Bombay.

WALTERS, R. C. S. B.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S., Al.Inst.W.E., M.Cons.E. Consulting Water and Geological Engr. Partner, Herbert Lapworth Partners, 25 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, S.W.1. Private Address: Limen, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. Books: "The Nation's Water Supply".

WALTON, D. Wh.Ex., A.R.C.Sc., A.M.I.Mech.E. Principal Examiner, Patent Office, 25 Southampton Buildings, W.C.2. Age: 60. Career: Central Sch., Manchester; 1893-97, Apprent., T. Broadbent & Sons, Huddersfield; Huddersfield Tech. Coll.; 1900, Asst. Examiner in the Patent Office.

WALTON, G. W. B.A., A.M.I.E.E. Private Address: Torre Tower, Torre, Torquay. Age: 51. Career: Repton Sch.; Caius Coll., Cambridge; trained, Richard Nevill & Co., Llanelly; Elect. and Mech. Engr., Pentremaur Colliery; Cons. Elect. Engr., Pembrey Colliery Co., etc.

WALTON, J. A.M.C.T., A.M.I.E.E., A.Am.I.E.E. Switchgear Sales Engr., MetropolitanVickers Elect. Co., Ltd., Trafford Park, Manchester. Private Address: 3 Ferndale Road, Brooklands, Sale, Ches. Hon. Sec., Metro.-Vick. Overseas Assocn. Resident in Japan, 1923-28.

WALTON-BROWN, Capt. S. J.P., M.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Min.E., M.I. Mech.E., F.S.I. Managing Director, Seghill Colliery, Ltd., Seghill, Northumberland. Private Address: Seghill Hall, Northumberland. Career: Newcastle-on-Tyne Prep. Sch.; Shrewsbury Sch.; Armstrong Coll.; Apprent., late Mr. C. C. Leach, of Seghill; Home Office 1st Cl. Cert. of Competency and Surveyors' Cert.; served in France and Salonika, 1914-19; Mining Engr., Seghill Colly.; Land Agent for certain estates. Past-Pres. (Natl.) Assoc. of Mining Elect. Engrs., and also of N. of England branch; Member of Council, Inst. Min. Engrs.; Vice-Pres., N. England Inst. Min. and Mech. Engrs.; Member Council, Mining Assocn. of Gt. Britain. Director of Bedlington & Assocd. Coils., Ltd., and Northumberland Coal-Owners' Protec. Assocn. Author of "Accident Risks and Repairs", "Mechanised Safety", etc. Greenwell Medallist, etc.

WANS, Oswald. M.Inst.C.E., M.I. Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E. Director and Chief Engr., Ruston & Hornsby, Ltd., Lincoln. Private Address: The Manor House Waddington, Lincoln. Career: Educ. Dulwich Coll. and King's Coll., London. Pupilage, Bryan Donkin & Co., Ltd.; experience with Simms Mfg. Co., Ltd., The Sturtevant Eng. Co., Burn & Co., Ltd., Howrah, India, and John I. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd.

WARD, A. A. B.Eng., A.M.I.E.E. Transformer Designer, Bruce Peebles & Co., Ltd., East Pilton, Edinburgh. Private Address: 39 Pilton Place, Granton, Edinburgh. Career: Liverpool Collegiate Sch.; Liverpool Central Tech. Sch.; Liverpool Univ.; five years, Ferranti, Ltd., Hollinwood, prior to present employment.

WARD, A. K. A.M.I.Mech.E. Managing Director, The Westmoor Engine Works Co., Ltd., Pallion, Sunderland. Private Address: 5 Ettrick Grove, Sunderland.

WARD, A. M. A.M.I.Mech.E. Production Engr., Blackstone & Co., Ltd., Agricl. Engrs., Stamford, Lincs. Private Address: Mount Pleasant, Barnack, Stamford. Age: 36. Career: Friends' Sch., Lancaster; Manchester Coll. of Tech.; Apprent., William Crosland, Ltd., Bredbury; for seven years with Massey Harris & Co., Canadian Agricl. Engrs., at their works in Lille, France, before returning to England in 1936.

WARD, A. W. M.Inst.C.E. Borough Engr. and Surveyor, Shrewsbury. Formerly held public appointments at Harrogate, Batley, Northampton and Stockport. Author of "The Bridges of Shrewsbury" (Wilding & Son, Shrewsbury).

WARD, B. C. M.I.E.E. Borough Elect. Eng., The Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey, Spa Road, S.E.16. Private Address: "Onaway", 173 Half Moon Lane, Herne Hill, S.E.24. Career: Brighton and Croydon Polytechnics; Apprent., Reason Mfg. Co., Brighton; Distribution Supt., Croydon Corp. Elect. Dept.; Deputy Borough Elect. Engr., Bermondsey.

WARD, C. A. A.M.I.E.E. Private Address: 68 Edith Road, West Kensington, W.14. Career: Took degree in Elect. Eng. at Lausanne Univ. (Switzerland). Studied Economics at the London Sch. of Economics. Has been with Siemens Schuckert, Crompton, English Elect. and other Companies. In recent years has specialised in the study of questions relating to raw materials. Served with the R.E.'s during the War.

WARD, Harry B. M.Sc., M.Eng., M. Inst.C. E, M.Cons. E., F. S.I., M. Inst. W. E. Consulting Engr., private practice, 68 T t The Albany, Old Hall St., Liverpool, 1; also 1 Ridgefield, King St., Manchester, 2. Private Address: The Bayle, Formby, near Liverpool. Career: Calday Grange Gramm. Sch.; Univ. of Liverpool. Articled, 1903, to late J. T. Wood, Esq., M.Inst.C.E.; war service, R.E. (M.C.); succeeded to Mr. Wood's practice in 1919.

WARD, Herbert John. M.A.(Cantab.), Late Chairman, J. & E. Hall, Ltd., 10 St. Swithin's Lane, E.C.4, to whom he continues to act in a consultative capacity. Private Address: The Mill House, Farningham, Kent. Career: Educ.: St. Mark's School, Windsor; Pembroke Coll., Cambridge. Pupilage at Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast (Shipyard, Engine Works and Commercial Office), followed by seven years in charge of Construction Dept. at Elder Dempster & Co., Liverpool; from 1901 until 1938, a Director of J. & E. Hall, Ltd. (Chairman, 1922-36). Has taken a leading part in the development of refrigeration on ships, and particularly of the carriage of bananas from the West to Europe. Pres. for three years, British Engrs'. Assocn.

WARD, H. R. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.T.P.I. Chief Eng. Asst., Salop C.C. Private Address: Dunster, Oakfield Road, Copthorne, Shrewsbury. Age: 35. Career: Univ. of Bristol, 1921-24; Port of Bristol Authority, Avonmouth, 1924-27; Buenos Aires G.S. Rly. Co., Buenos Aires, 1927-28; Chief Engr.'s Dept., L.C.C., 1928-29; Staffordshire C.C., County Surveyor's Dept., 1929-35; Salop C.C., 1936 to date.

WARD, John. B.Sc. (Eng.), Ph.D (London), M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E. Head of the Civil and Mech. Eng. Dept., Tech. Coll., Huddersfield. Private Address: 51 Wheathouse Road, Birkby, Huddersfield. Lecturer in Mech. Eng., Northampton Polytechnic, London. Present appointment, January, 1932. Recognised Teacher in Civil and Mech. Eng., Univ. of London; Member of Eng. Faculty, Univ. of London; Past-Pres. of Huddersfield Eng. Soc.; Pres. of The West Riding Fed. of Eng. Societies; Member of Yorks. Council for Further Ethic. (Advisory Committee. on Mech. Eng.).

WARD, Joseph. J.P., M.I. & S.I. Chairman and Managing Director, Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., Albion Works, Sheffield. Private Address: "Endcliffe Grange", Sheffield, 10. Tel.: Sheffield 62102. Born: 1864. Educ.: National and Bd. Sch., Sheffield.

WARD, J. R. A.M.I.E.E. Distribution Engr., Southern Rly., Elect. Dept., Waterloo, London, S.E.1. Private Address: 29 Bloomfield Road, Kingston-on-Thames.

WARD, J. W. B.Sc. (Eng.), A.M.I.E.E. Commercl. Engr. (Turbine Sales), B.T.H. Co., Ltd., Rugby. Private Address: ".Caversham", 45 Bilton Road, Rugby. Age: S9. Career: .Tiffin Sch., Kingston; Battersea Polytechnic; trained, Test Dept. and Outside Constr. Dept., B.T.H. Co.; present work, Tender and Contract Expert. War service in France.

WARD, M. A.M.Inst.C.E. Asst. to Dist. Engr., L.M. & S. Rly., Stoke-on-Trent. Age: 40. Career: Manchester Gramm. Sch.; pupil under late W. L. Rutherford, Chief Engr., Furness Rly.

WARD, Sir Thomas R. J. Kt., C.I.E., M.V.O., F.R.G.S., M.Inst.C.E., M.Am.I.C.E. (retired). Address: c/o Lloyds Bank, 6 Pall Mall, . London, S.W.1. Career: With Indian .Public Works Dept., commencing 1883; was connected with Seistan Boundary Commission, 1902-06; E.O. for Irrigation and Drainage, Delhi Durbar, 1911; E.O. to Indian Government on selection of site for the new capital, Delhi, 1912; Engr. on training Jamna River, 1913; services loaned to Siamese Government in connection with irrigation scheme; 1915-16, Chief Engr. and Sec., Punjab Public Works Dept. and Member Punjab Legislative Council; 1917, became Insptr.-General of Irrigation in India; 1918, ', reported on irrigational development in Mesopotamia; 1922, Consulting Engr. (Norton Griffiths & Co., Ltd.) concerned with dams in N.E. Brazil; 1923, Adviser on development of irrigation, Argentine (1924), Iraq (1929), and Bulgaria. Hon. Life Member of the Inst. of Engrs. (India).

WARD, William T. M.Inst. Mun. & Cy.E. Engr. Surveyor: and Waterworks Engr., Llandudno U.D.C., Carnarvonshire. Formerly Asst. to City Engr., Coventry; Asst. Borough Engr., Sutton Coldfield.

WARD, W. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I. Mech.E. Principal, Tech. Coll., Gainsborough. Private Address: Stanway, Laburnum Avenue, Gainsborough. Author of "Eng. Sc., 1st Year", "Eng. Sc., 2nd Year".

WARDALE, W. T. A.M.I.E.E. Traction Supply Engr., Municipal Elect. Dept., Sheffield. Private Address: 31 Hastings Road, Millhouses, Sheffield. Age: 59. Career: Hulme Gramm. Sch.; Municipal Coll. of Tech., Manchester; Apprent., L. Gardner & Sons, Ltd., Patricroft; Birkenhead Ironworks, Laird Bros. (now Cammell-Laird, Shipyard). Day Student, Manchester Tech. Coll.; Rochdale Corp. Elect. Works; Peterborough Corp. Elect. Works; Sheffield Corpn. Tramways Dept.; Sheffield Elect. Supply Dept. Has done fair amount of work in the application of Elect. to Gas Works. Author of "Village Elect. Installations".

WARDLE, A. J. B. B.Sc., A.M. Inst. C. E. Partner in the firm of Randall, Wardle & Pilkington, Ltd., Civil Engrs. and Contractors, Blue Bell Lane, Huyton, Lancs. Private Address: 219 Shobnall Road, Burton-on-Trent. Career: Eng. Asst., Essex C.C.; Asst. Engr., Ministry of Transport (London-Southend Art. Road); Engr.-in-Charge, Ministry of Transport (Art. Roads in Kent); Section Engr., Lancs. C.C. (Constr. of Liverpool-East Lancs. Road).

WARDLE, P. A.M.I.E.E. Chief Engr. and Gen. Manager, Elect. Dept., Cannock U.D.C., Wolverhampton Road, Cannock. Born: 1888. Career: National Sch.; Mun. Coll., Leigh, Lancs.; Leigh and Rochdale Tech. Coils.; Apprent. in Power Stn., S. Lancs. Tramways and Power Co., Atherton; Switchboard Attendant, Rochdale Elect. Dept.; Charge Engr., and late Mains Engr., Rawtenstall; Mains Engr., Carlisle; Mains Engr., Walsall. Member, Council I.M.E.A., 1936-39; Chairman, Central England Area C'tee., B.E.D.A.; Member, Consult. C'tee., Cent. England Area, C.E.B.

WARDROBE, F. A.M.I.E.E. Director, William Jessop & Sons, Ltd., Sheffield, and Hathersage and District Gas Co., Ltd., Hathersage. Private Address: "Woodstock", Hathersage, Sheffield.

WARDROP, G. G. D.F.H., A.M.I.E.E. Private Address: Fairacre, Virginia Water, Surrey. Age: 41. Career: Faraday House; 1921, Asst. Research Engr., Western Electric Co. (now Standard T. & C., Ltd.); 1923, Tech. representative for the East; 1926, Senr. Sales Engr., Calcutta Branch Office; 1928, Actg. Branch Manager, Calcutta; 1929-34, Manager for India, at Calcutta.

WARREN, A. E. A.M.I.E.E. With Edmundson's Elect. Corpn., Ltd., Thames House, Millbank, S.W.1.

WARREN, H. M.I.E.E., M.I.A.E. Head of Research Laboratories, British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Rugby. Private Address: The Orchard, St. Andrew's Road, Coventry.

WARREN, H. A. M.Sc.(Eng.), A.M. I.Struct.E., A.M.Inst.C.E. Lecturer in Civil Eng., Tech. Coll., Brighton, 7. Age: 32. Career: Latymer Upper Sch.; Battersea Polytechnic; 1926-29, Articled Pupil to F. Wilkinson, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., Engr., Willesden U.D.C. 1929, Lecturer in Eng. at Wigan Mning Coll.; 1932, Lecturer in Civil Eng. at Brighton Tech. Coll.

WARREN, H. W. H. M.I.E.E., M.I.A.E., Head of Research Laboratory, British Thomson Houston Co., Ltd., Rugby. Private Address:7 St. Andrew's Road, Earlsdon, Coventry. Author of "Elect. Insulating Materials" (Dennis), etc.

WARREN, R. C. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. Partner, Warren & Partners, C.C.E., 94 Hope Street, Glasgow, C.2. Age: 37. Career: Glasgow Academy, Glasgow Univ.; Wilson & Clyde Coal Co., Ltd. (Elect. Dept.);. Sir Wm. Arrol & Co., Ltd.; Warren & Partners.

WARREN, T. R. M.A., B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I.E.E. Tech. Engr., N.E. England Area, ,Central Elect. Board, Grid House, 80 Jesmond Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Career: Faraday House, 1919-23; Gonville & Caius Colls., Cambridge, 1923-26; A. Reyrolle & Co.; Imperial Chemical Industries, Billingham.; Metropolitan Vickers, Manchester.

WARREN, W. E. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M. I.E.E. Elect. Engr., Siemens Bros. & Co., Ltd., Woolwich, S.E.18. Private Address: "Selborne", Horsell Rise, Horsell, Woking, Surrey. Educ.: King's College, London, 1919-22.

WARREN-LAMBERT, Major Arthur. O.B.E.(Mil.), M.I.A.E., M.I.C.M.E. Consulting Engr., 5 King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple, E.C.4. Age: 50. Career: Served time, J. I. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd.; later with Austin Motor Co., Ltd. (3f years); designed "Warren Lambert" car, 1911, manufactured same (Warren Lambert Eng. Co., Ltd.), 1912-20; Consulting Engr. on own account since 1920:

WARRILOW, W. E. A.M.I.E.E., M.J.I. Special Elect. Commissioner, Odhams Press, Ltd., Long Acre, London, W.C. Private Address: "Amber Way", Nancy Down, Oxhey, Watford, Herts. Age: 61. Career: King's Sch., Gloucester; Elect. training with Corpns. of Cheltenham, Torquay, Huddersfield and Manchester, 1894-1901; became Elect. Journalist in 1902, with "Elect. Magazine" (defunct), "Elect. Field" (defunct), "The Electrician" (15 years), "Modern Wireless", etc. Author of "Modern Elect. Practice" (Switchgear Section); numerous articles on "Elect. Vehicles", "Electricity from Wind Power", etc.

WARRINGTON, E. B.Sc.(Tech.), A.M.I.E.E. Test Engr., Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd., Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4. Private Address: "Tarumi", 64 South dill Road, Bromley, Kent.

WATERFIELIY, H. B.Sc. (Eng.),.A.M.I.E.E., M.I.Brit.E. Managing Director, H. Waterfield, Ltd, Salford. Private Address: 73 Grove Lane, Hale, Altrincham, Ches. Age: 34.

WATERHOUSE, David. M.I.Mech.E. Works Director, Prince-Smith & Stells, Ltd., Keighley, Yorks. Private Address: Owlwood, Middleton, Ilkley, Yorks. Career: Works and Drawing Office training in machine tool works; Gen. Manager of machine tool works; Works Director of textile eng. firm.

WATERHOUSE, Laurence. M, M.I. E.E., A.M.Inst.C.E., M.I.A.E. Private Address: 124 Queen's Gate, London, S.W.7. Born: 1868. Career: Craigmount Sch., and Heriot-Watt Tech. Coll., Edinburgh; Lecturer in Physics and Elect. Eng., at Brighton and Croydon Tech. Schs.; Asst. to Cons. Engr. on Aberdeen Asylum lighting; Cons. Engr. (Elect.) to Duke of Fife, Sir William C. Brooks, and others; for many years Director of Simplex Conduits, Ltd., Credenda Conduits, Ltd., and Tube Investments, Ltd.

WATERS, G. B.Sc. (Eng.), Assoc.M. Inst.C.E., A.M.I.E.E. Eng. Asst., London C.C. Private Address: Redstacks, The Avenue, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middx. Age: 35. Career: Royal Gramm. Sch.; Rutherford Tech. Coll.; Trained, Clarke, Chapman & Co., Ltd., Gateshead.

WATERS, M. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., A.M.N.E.C.Inst. Research Engr., A. Reyrolle & Co., Ltd., Hebburn-on-Tyne. Private Address: 28 Oaklands, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Age: 33. Career: Royal Gramm Sch., Newcastle; King's Coll., Durham Univ.; Apprent., A. Reyrolle & Co. Member, Meter and Instrument Section, I.E.E.; awarded Sylvanus Thompson Premium (jointly).

WATKIN, F. A. A.M.Inst.C.E. Asst. Engr., I.C.I. (F. & S.P.) Ltd., Billingham, Co. Durham. Private Address: 51 Clairville Road, Grove Hill, Middlesborough. Age: 54. Career: Beaumont Coll., Leeds Univ.; Apprent., S.E. & C. Rly., 1902-08; Engr.'s Office, H. & B. Rly., 1908-14; Federated Malay States Rlys 1914; Army, 1915-19, in France; (F.. & S.P.) Ltd., 1921, present time.

WATKINS, A. E. B.Sc. (Hons.Eng.,) A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.W.E., Chief Engr., hatham and Dist. Water Co., Chatham. Private Address: 16 Darland Avenue, Gillingham, Kent. Age: 38. Career: Univ. of Bristol; 1923-34, Asst. Engr., Oxford City Waterworks; 1934-36, Engr. and Manager, Bognor Regis Waterworks; 1936—present, with Chatham and Dist. Water Co.

WATKINS, A. J. A.M.Inst.C.E. Deputy Water Engr., Warrington Corp. Business Address: Town Hall, Warrington. Age: 29. Previously Eng. Asst., Borough of Welshpool, and City of Bath Waterworks.

WATKINS, J. H. M.C., A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Suptg. Engr., Post Office Eng. Dept. Private Address: Arwel, Port Hill Gardens, Shrewsbury. Age: 54.

WATKINS, J. H. Wh.Ex., A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.M.E. Supt. Engr., Royce, Ltd., Trafford Park, Manchester. Private Address: West View, Barrington Road, Altrincham, Cheshire. Career: Manchester Gramm. Sch., 1873-78; Owen's Coll., 1878-80; Apprent., Siemens Bros., 1880-83; Elect. Engr., John S. Raworth, 1883-85; Elect. Engr. and Manager, Simplex Elect. Light Co., 1885-90; Elect. Engr., Collier Marr Co., 1890-95; Elect. Engr., F. H. Royce & Co., and Royce,. Ltd., 18951932.

WATLINGTON, V. M.B.E., M.I.E.E. Director of The British Elect. and Allied Mfrs. Assocn., 36/38 Kingsway, W.C.2.

WATNEY, G. N. M.A., A.M.Inst.C.E. Private Address: The Ghyll, Crowborough, Sussex. Age: 66. Career: Eton; Trinity Coll., Cambridge; pupil of Sir E. Leader Williams on the Manchester Ship Canal, 1890-93; employed on construction of the Great Central Rly., and later on the construction of Charing Cross and Hampstead Tube; afterwards in private practice till the War in 1914, when joined the Army.

WATSON, A. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., M. I. Mech. E. Supt. Mech. and Elect. Engr., Directorate of Works, Air Ministry. Private Address: Adastral House, Kingsway, W.C.2. Age: 38. Career: Dundee High Sch.; St. Andrew's Univ.; Apprent., English Electric Co.

WATSON, A. A.M.C.T., A.M.I.E.E. Dep. Elect. Engr., Aberystwyth Elect. Dept. Private Address: "Iscoed", Caradoc Road, Aberystwyth. Age: 38. Career: 1923-25, Asst. Mains and Consumers' Engr., Bury; 1925-28, Mains Engr., Tamworth and Dist. Elect. Supply Co., Ltd., Polesworth; 1929-38, Senr. Asst. Engr. (Mains), Hackney; present appointment, Feb. 1938.

WATSON, David. M.Sc., Ph.D.(Birm.), B.Sc. (Lond.), A. C. G. I., D. I. C., Wh. Ex., A. M. Inst. C. E., M. I. Mech. E., James Watt Fellow of Birmingham Univ. Principal, City of Gloucester Tech. Coll., Gloucester. Age: 55. Career: Apprent., Loco. Dept., and later in Testing Dept. and D.O., G.W. Rly. Works, Swindon; Swindon Tech. Coll.; on Staff, South Grove Central Sch., Rotherham; Eng. Lecturer, Darlington Tech. Coll.; Student, Impl. Coll. of Sc. and Tech., London; Designer, R.A.E., Farnborough, on Calculation of Stresses in Aeroplane Structure; Head of Mech. Eng. Dept., Aston Tech. Coll.; elected to James Watt Fellowship, Birmingham Univ.; present appointment.

WATSON, David M. B.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., F.R.San.l., M.Cons.E., F.G.S. Partner in J. D. & D. M. Watson, Consulting Engrs., 3 Central Buildings, Westminster, London, S. W.1. Private Address: Beechlawn, Gerrard's Cross, Bucks. Career: Served under George A. Hart, M.Inst.C.E., and with Hering & Gregory, Consulting Engrs., New York. After four years' war service joined the firm of Dodd & Dodd, Consulting Engrs., of Birmingham, now J. D. & D. M. Watson, and since then has practised as consulting engr. for many local authorities in this country and abroad, advising on and constructing works of water supply, sewerage and sewage purification.

WATSON, Sir Duncan. Kt., J.P., M.I.E.E. Chairman and founder, Duncan Watson, Ltd., Elect. Engrs., 62 Berners Street, London, W.1; also a Director of The Perak River Hydro Elect. Co.; Midland and Counties Elect. Supply Co., Ltd.; The Trussed Steel Concrete Co., Ltd. Private Address: Scammells Corner, Blackbrook, Nr. Dorking. Member of Central Elect. Board.

WATSON, E. P. A.M.I.E.E. Supt. i.-c. Service Organisation, Western Elect. Co., Ltd., Bush House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2. Private Address: 16 Littleton Crescent, Harrow. Age: 38. Career: Northampton Eng. Coll.; Regent St. Polytechnic, passed C. & G. Final; Apprent. to Robt. W. Paul, Scientific Instrmt. Maker; in charge, Instrument Test Room, Cambridge Instrument Co.; Western Elect. Co., 1929.

WATSON, F. L. M.C., T.D., M.Inst. C. E., M. I. Mech. E., Major, T. A. (retd.). Consulting Engineer, Post Office House, Leeds, 1. Age: 66. Career: The Yorks. Coll. (Leeds Univ.); Apprent., Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd., Leeds; Manager, Horsfall Destructor Co., Ltd., Pershore; Managing Director, Joshua Buckton & Co., Ltd., Leeds; Area Engr., Craven Bros. (Manchester) Ltd.; War service, France, 1915-17, Admiralty 1917-18. Chairman, Yorks. Branch, Inst. of Mech. Engrs. (three times). Chairman, Leeds Eng. Employers' Assocn. (four years).

WATSON, Francis R. B. B.Sc.(Eng.), M. I.Mech. E. Lecturer in Mech. Eng., Univ. of Bristol. Business Address: Faculty of Eng., Merchant Venturers' Coll., Bristol, 1. Private Address: 5 Carnarvon Road, Redland, Bristol, 6. Career: Five years apprent., Smith, Laing & Co., Springfield, Fife; afterwards engaged on marine engine work on the Tyne. Eng. student at Heriot-Watt Coll. and the Univ., Edinburgh, for four years. Present appointment since 1909, having been granted leave of absence to take a post under M. of M. during the war, being then engaged mainly on aero-engine constructional work.

WATSON, G. L. A.M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.I. Consulting Engr., Sun Buildings, Park Row,. Leeds.

WATSON, George. M.Inst.C.E., M.I. Mech.E. consulting Engr., 12 Stratford Place, London, W.1. Private Address: The Longships, Caterham Valley. Career: Apprent., late David Greig, M.Inst. C.E., at the works of John Fowler & Co., Ltd., Leeds, after an eng. course Under the late Dr. Archibald Barr, M.Inst.C.E. at Leeds Univ.; afterwards engaged at the works of T. R. Harding & Son, Leeds, and Farnley Ironworks. Then and subsequently engaged upon works for refuse disposal and miscellaneous consulting work, including valuations.

WATSON, George Oliphant. M.I. Mar.E., A.M.I.E.E., M.I.E.I. Principal Elect. Engr., Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 71 Fenchurch Street, London, E.C.3. Private Address: 17 Becmead Avenue, London, S.W.16. Career: Battersea Polytechnic; 191033, B.T.-H. Co., Ltd., Control Gear Engr., including design and installation of elect. propulsion systems for ships. Member of I.E.E. Ship Elect. Equipment C'tee and Cables Sub-Committee, and B.S.I. C'tees. Member of Council of I.E.I.

WATSON, George Ridley. B.Sc. (Du nelm), M. I.N. A., M. I.Mar.E. London Director, Henry Robb, Ltd., Shipbuilders, of Leith; also London Representative of Whites Marine Eng. Co., of Hebburn-on-Tyne. Business Address: 37 Fenchurch Street, E.C.3. Private Address: 22 Fortismere Avenue, N.10. Age: 42. Career: Armstrong Coll.; trained, Elswick & Walker, Shipyards of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd. Asst. Shipyard Manager at Armstrong Naval Yard, Walker, and at the Barrow Shipyard of Vickers-Armstrongs; London Tech. Representative of Armstrong Whitworth (Shipbuilders) Ltd.

WATSON, Harris. M.B.E. M.Inst. Transport. General Manager, Sheffield Transport Dept., 8 Division St., Sheffield, Private Address: 62 Kingfield Rd., Sheffield, 11. Age: 57. Formerly Asst. Manager, Sheffield Transport Dept.

WATSON, John Duncan. M.Inst.C.E., M.Cons.E., F.R.San.I. Member of the firm of Consulting Engrs., J. D. and D. M. Watson, 3 Central Buildings, Westminster, London, S.W.1. Private Address: Bella Vista, Northfield, Birmingham. Career: Trained as a Waterworks Engr.; became a Borough Engr. then a County Engr., and Engr. to the Birmingham Tame and Rea Dist. Drainage Board; subsequently became a Consulting Engr. Past-Pres., Inst. C.E.; Vice-Pres., R. San. Inst.; Past-Chairman of Assocn. of Consulting Engrs.; Past-Pres., Inst. of Sanitary Eng.; Past-Pres. Birmingham and Dist. Assn. of C.E.

WATSON, R. A. M.Inst.M.&Cy.E., M.R.San.Inst., A.Inst.W.E. Borough Engr., Water Engr. and Architect., Bridgewater Corp., High St., Bridgwater, Somerset. Private Address: Sandford Lodge, Wembdon, Bridgwater. Age: 44. Career: trained as Municipal Engr. with St. Albans Corp., and afterwards held appointments at St. Albans, Watford, Burnley and,Guildford with the respective Corporations, the latter as Deputy Borough Engr.

WATSON, T. M.Inst.C.E., F.S.I., A.M.T.P.I. Engr. and Surveyor, Orpington, Council Offices, Bark Hart, Orpington, Kent.

WATSON, T. A. A.M.Inst.C.E. Chairman and Managing Director, Aubrey Watson, Ltd., 39 Victoria St., London, S.W.1. Private Address: 8 Haydn Avenue, Purley, Surrey. Age: 64. Career: King's Coll., Ldn.; three years John Penn & Sons Ltd., Marine Engrs.; five years Joseph Westwood & Co., Ltd., Bridge Builders; seventeen years Holloway Bros., Ldn. Ltd., Manager, Eng. Dept.; nineteen years Contracting for Eng. Works of all kinds including Bridges, Roads, Reservoirs, Wharves.

WATSON, W. A. B. A.M.Inst.C.E. Asst. Civil Engr., (Admiralty), H.M. Naval Depot, Invergordon.

WATSON-JONES, Harold. M.Eng., A.M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.E.E. General Manager, The Birtley Co, Birtley, Co. Durham. Private Address: 4 The Cross Way, Kenton Lane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 3. Age: 39. Career: Liverpool Collegiate Sch.; Apprent. Mersey Docks and Harbour Boards; Royal Navy; Liverpool Univ.; Post graduate apprent., Metropolitan-Vickers; Various appointments with Metropolitan Vickers, 1922-37, including Engr. liaison officer in U.S.A. 1927-29 and subsequently General Engr. on Central Power Stations, Elec. Traction and Steel Works plant and equipment.

WATSON WATT, R. A. B.Sc.(Eng.), M.I.E.E., F.Inst.P., F.R.Ae.S. Director of Communications Development, Air Ministry, Berkeley Sq. House, London. Age: 46. Career: Univ. Coll., Dundee, Univ. of St. Andrews; Asst. to Professor of Physics Univ. Coll., Dundee 1912-19; Meteorologist at Royal Aircraft Estab. 1915-21; Supt., Radio Research Stations, D.S.I.R. 1921-33; Supt., Radio Dept., National Physical Lab. 1933-36; Supt., Bawdsey Research Station of Air Ministry, 1936-38.

WATT, David. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Sales Engr., Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto Ltd., 94 Petty France, London S.W.1. Private Address: 11 Highfield Crescent, Northwood, Mddx. Age: 35. Career: Glasgow Academy, Glasgow Univ.; Training, Watson, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd., Glasgow; Lancs. Dynamo and Motor Co., Ltd., Manchester.

WATT, George Anderson. M.I.Mech. E., M.Assn. of Engrs. (Manchester), M.E. & S. Assn. of Ireland. Managing Director, George Watt, Ltd., 27, 28, 29. and 40 Bridgefoot Street, Dublin. Private Address: Glengyle, 119 South Circular Rd., Kilmainham, Dublin. Career: Heriot-Watt Coll. evening classes; City of Dublin Tech. Schls.; Five years apprent. West End Engine Works, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, 1883-88, followed up by experience with Ramage and Ferguson, Shipbuilders, Leith; Wigham, Richardson & Co., Ltd., Shipbuilders, Walker-on-Tyne; Carrick and Ritchie, Waverley Iron Works, Edinburgh; Jas. Bertram & Son, Ltd., Edinburgh; in November, 1890, went to Dublin to erect machinery in Clondalkin Paper Mills; milling machinery for Henry Simon, Manchester, then. fifteen years with William Spence & Son as workman (millwright), outside foreman, and finally Manager; three years as Precedent Partner in Watt Wilson & Co., and finally, since 1914, present position; also Director Tonge & Taggart, Ltd., Ironfounders, Dublin.

WATT, H. Boyd. F.Z.S., M.I.H.& V.E. Private Address: 90 Parliament Hill Mansions, Lissenden Gdns., N.W.S. Career: Glasgow High Sch., Anderson's Coll., (Now Royal Tech. Coll.) Glasgow; Marine insce.; asst. Secty., Eng. Employers' Fed.; 1904, appointed Secty., Nat. Assoc. of Heating, Ventlg. and Domestic Eng. Employers; later Secty., Inst. H. and V. Engrs. and Secty. British Acetylene Assoc.; now retired. Hon. Treas., British Ecological Society; Hon. Life Mem. and Hon. Council Mem. Inst. H.& V.E.

WATT, J. A.M.Inst.C.E., F.S.I. Chief Valuer, (Scotland) Inland Revenue Dept., Valuation Office, 9 Wemyss Place, Edinburgh. Age: 61. Career Robert Gordons Tech. Coll., Aberdeen; Training, Walker and Duncan, Civil Engrs. and Surveyors, Aberdeen, and later Chief Asst.; Pri vate practice, Surveyor and C. E. 1907-10; District Valuer, Aberdeen District of Valuation Office I.R. 1910-1925; Asst. Chief Valuer (Scotland) 1925-29; Chief Valuer (Scotland) 1929 to date. Author of Notes on Compulsory Acquistion of Land in Scotland.

WATT, O. J. A.M.Inst.C.E. Engr. Asst., Northumberland C.C. Private Address: 16 Victoria St., Newcastle-on-Tyne, 4. Age: 30. Career: George Watson's Coll. Edinburgh 1916-26; four years apprent. L.N.E.R. 1927-31; Asst. Engr., Dist. Office, Aberdeen, L.N.E.R. 1931-32; Engr's Asst. L.N.E.R. 1932-37; Engr's Asst., Northumberland C.C. 1937 to present.

WATTON, E. B. A.M.I.E.E. Chief of Data Dept., B.T.H. Co., Ltd., Willesden. Private Address: 31 Kinch Grove, Preston Rd., Wembley, Mddx. Age: 35. Educ: King Edward VI Sch. Macclesfield; St. Oswalds Coll., Ellesmere; Regent St. Polytechnic (Day).

WATTS, H. C. M.B.E., D.Sc., M.Inst. C.E., F.R.Ae.S. Tech. Director, Airscrew Co., Weybridge, Surrey. Private Address: Melcombe House, Oatlands Avenue, Weybridge, Surrey. Age: 46. Career: Bristol Univ.; 1911-14 Bristol Aeroplane Co., Tech. Asst.; 1914-19 Air Ministry, Charge of design and supply of Aircraft propellers; 1919-25 Director Ogilvie and Partners, Cons. Aeronautical Engrs.; 1928-32 Independent Consulting Engr. 1932 present occupation. Author of " Design of Aircraft Propellers" (Longmans Green).

WATTS, Lt. Col. H. W. M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E. Borough Elec. Engr., Borough of Epsom and Ewell Elec. Dept., Church St., Epsom. Born: 1876. Career: Elmhurst Sch., Surbiton; City and Guilds; Finsbury Coll., London; Apprent. James Swinburne & Co.. Teddington; with G.N.Rly., Natl. Telephone Co., Gilbert & Co., and Crompton & Co. (Lillie Rd. Wks.); Asst. Engr. at Elec. Wks. at Kingston, Ayr, Chatham and Rochester, and Hammersmith; Chief Engr. Alderley and Wilmslow Elec. Supply and Weybridge and Walton-on-Thames Urban Elec. Supply; 1914-19. Service with Infantry and R.E.; 1919-22, A civil Engr. Advisor to Director of Ordn. Factories in India, later Industrial Engr. to Govmt. of Madras; 1922-25 with Bexley Elec. Dept., Yorkshire Elec. P. Co., W. H. Allen & Co., E.D.A. Exhibition at Wembley (Principal Asst.), Hackney Elec. Dept., Pirelli General Cable Co., and Cheltenham Elec. Supply; present appointment 1925.

WATTS, J. L. A.M.I.E.E., Assoc. M.C.T. Engr. Surveyor, British Engine, Boiler and Elect. Insce. Co., Ltd., Manchester. Private Address: 2 Park Avenue, Romiley, Stockport. Age: 33. Trained Metropolitan-Vickers Elect. Co., Ltd., and Manchester Coll. of Tech.

WATTS, L. Copeland. A.C.G.I., M.I.H.V.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. Partner, J. Roger Preston & Partners, Cons. Engrs., Dilke House, Malet Street, London, W.C.1. Private Address: 13 Ossulton Way, London, N.2. Educ.: City and Guilds, South Kensington, Bramwell Medal, 1918.

WAUCHOPE, G. A. A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. Director, Gwynnes Pumps, Ltd., Hammersmith, W.6. Private Address: 24 Hertford Avenue, East Sheen, S.W.14. Age: 37. Educ.: Univ. Coll., Southampton.

WAUDBY, John Walter W. D.L.C. Director, British Steam Specialities, Ltd., Leicester. Private Address: Knighton Grange Road, Leicester.

WAY, A. G. M.I.E.E. Director, The Westminster Eng. Co., Ltd., Victoria Road, Willesden Junction, N.W.10.

WAYGOOD, O. C. M.I.E.E. Chief Engr., Lewis's, Ltd., Ranelagh Street, Liverpool, 1. Private Address: 41 Forest Road, Meols, Hoylake, Wirral, Ches. Age: 51. Career: Apprent., Mather and Platt; Engr., Sunderland Forges Eng. Co., Ltd., The English Electric Co., Metropolitan-Vickers Elect. Co., Ltd. Lecturer, Elect. Eng., The Univ., Liverpool.

WAYNE-MORGAN, John M. C. M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.Cons.E. Consulting Engr., 6 Church Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff. In practice as a Consulting Engr. since 1905, except for years 1914 to 1919, when he served with the R.E., part of his service being in France.

WEAVER, H. G. M.I.E.E. Elect. Engr. and Works Manager, The Whitehead Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Courtybella Works, Newport, Mon. Age: 53. Career: Shrewsbury; Wolverhampton Tech. Coll.; 9 years' training with Elect. Construction Co., Ltd.; 4 years, Engr. Surveyor to British Engine, Boiler and Elect. Insce. Co., Ltd.; 25 years, Elect. Engr. and Works Manager to Whitehead Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. Chairman, Western Centre, I.E.E.

WEAVING, Reginald. M.I.E.E. General Manager, The British Elect. Transformer Co., Ltd., Hayes, Middx. Private Address: 3 Rutland Court, Queen's Drive, Ealing, W.3. Previously with The English Elect. Co., Ltd., Ferranti, Ltd., and Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.

WEBB, A. E. B.Sc.(Eng.) (Hons., Lord. ), A.M. Inst. C. E. Senr. Lecturer, University Coll., London. Born: 1887. Career: King Williams, Coll., I.O.M.; Manchester Coll. of Tech.; Apprent., Thomas Webb & Co., and Swann & Brady, Engrs.; 11 years, Chief Draughtsman and Designer, Vickers, Ltd., on Diesel engines, airships, metal aeroplanes, submarines and mines.

WEBB, C. E. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I.E.E. Scientific Officer, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Private Address: "Delft", Tadorne Road, Tadworth, Surrey. Age: 40. Career: Stowmarket County Secdy. Sch.; Finsbury Tech. Coll.; City and Guilds; Tech. Asst. in Telephone Lab., Siemens Bros., Woolwich, 1919-21; Scientific Officer, Elect. Measurements Dept., N.P.L., since 1921. Author, with P. Vigoureux, of "Principles of Elect. and Magnetic Measurements".

WEBB, E. H. A.M.I.E.E. With Mather & Platt, Ltd., 14 Great Smith Street, Westminster, S.W.

WEBB, E. L. A.C.G.I., A.M.I.E.E. Private Address: Cornerways, Welwyn, Herts. Age: 64. Career: Bath Coll.; City and Guilds; Pupil of Brush Elect. Eng. Co., Ltd.; Commercial contracts in U.K., Australia and S. America. Retired.

WEBB, E. N. D.S.O., M.C., A.C.S.E. (N.Z.), IVI.Inst., C.E. Manager for India, Boving & Co., Ltd., 56 Kingsway, London, W.C.2. Age: 49. Career: Canterbury Eng. Sch., N.Z. Univ. (1908-11 and 1913); Chief Magnetician to Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14; with Australian Engrs., Aust. Impl. Force, in Egypt and France, 1915-18, with ranks of Lieut., Capt. and Major, O.C. 7th Field Coy. for two years; Director of Tech. Educn., A.I.F., 1919; Engr. and Manager with Boving & Co., Ltd., in Australasia and India, 1919-38. Author of Report on Terrestrial Magnetism, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14.

WEBB, George Herbert. M.Inst.M. & Cy.E., Cert. R.S.I. Surveyor and Sanitafy Inspector, U.D.C. of Alton, Hants. Age: 49. Career: Kendrick Sch., Reading; Articled Pupil, Aldershot U.D.C., 1905-09; Res. Engr., East Hants. Gas Co.; Asst. Surveyor, Aldershot U.D.C.

WEBB, George William Cutler. O.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.H. & V.E. Managing Director, F. J. Baynes & Co., Ltd., 99/101 St. Paul's Road, London, N.1.

WEBB, H. E. M.B.E.(Mil.), M.A., A. M. Inst. C.E., A. M. I. Mech. E. Managing Director, E. Webb, & Co., Ltd., Constrl. Engrs., 55 Turnmill Street, E.C.1, Works: Wembley. Private Address: Redroofs, Cranley Gardens, N.10. Age: 46. Career: Owen's Sch., Islington; King's Coll., Cambridge Univ.; five years, Royal Engrs., 1915-19, Hon. Rank, o Capt. R.E. Member of the Butchers' Coy. Freeman of City of London.

WEBB, Herbert M. M.C., B.Sc.(Eng.), M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.Mun. & Cy.E., F. R. San. I. City Engr., Bristol Corpn., 63 Queen Square, Bristol. Private Address: Red Garth, Church Road, Stoke Bishop, Bristol. Career: Municipal appointments at Worcester, Leicester, Nuneaton, Southport, Blackburn and Bristol.

WEBB, J. K. M.Sc.(Eng.), B.Sc.Tech., Research Engr., Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., N. Woolwich, E.16. Private Address: 37 Lewisham High Road, S.E.14. Age: 36. Career: Glasgow High Sch.; Woodbridge Gramm. Sch.; Manchester Coll. of Tech.; Post-Graduate Research at Queen Mary Coll.; joined S.T.C., Ltd., in 1924.

WEBBER, Arthur Frederick. B.Sc. (Hons.), A.M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.E.E., A. I. Loco. E. Tech. Asst. to Managing Director, Superheater Co., Ltd., Bush House, Aldwych, W.C.2. Private Address: 10 York Road, St. Albans, Herts. Career: Oundle Sch.; City and Guilds (Eng.) Coll.; trainee, Richard Thomas & Co.'s steel works and collieries; 1923, Personal Asst. to Chief Engr., Richard Thomas & Co., Ltd.; 1927, Asst. to London Manager, Galloways, Ltd.; 1930-37, Research Engr., British Iron and Steel Federation.

WEBBER, E. C. A.M.I.E.E. Transformer Dept., The English Elect. Co., Ltd., Stafford. Private Address: "Hazel Dene", Great Haywood, Stafford. Age: 55. Career: Brighton Gramm. Sch.; Brighton Tech. Sch.; City and Guilds; training, etc. (shops), Clayton & Shuttleworth; A. Reyrolle & Co.; Coventry Ordnance Works, Ltd.; English Elect. Co., Ltd.

WEBBER, G. E. F. M.I.E.E. Manager, Elect. Facilities, Ltd., Clifton House, Euston Road, London, N.W.1. Private Address: 2 Constance Road, Enfield, Middx. Age: 59. Career: Merchant Venturers' Tech. Coll., Bristol, 1890-96;.Apprent., Geo Adlam & Sons, 1896-1901; Pupil and Charge Engr., Bristol Corp. Elect. Dept., 1901-04; Manager, Test House and Outside Representative, C. A. Parsons & Co., 1904-13; Engr., Merz & McLellan, Buenos Aires, 1913-24, London, 1924-25, India (Repres. and Chief Engr.), 1925-32; present appointment, 1933.

WEBBER, Harry. M.I.Mech.E., M.I. E.E., M.Inst.T. Borough Elect. Engr. and General Manager, Corp. Elect Offices, Coney Lane, Keighley. Private Address: Ashingdon House, Beechcliffe, Keighley. Career: Four and a half years, Johnson & Phillips, Ltd.; 2 years Finsbury Tech. Coll.; 2 years Thames Ironworks Shipbuilding Co.; 2 years Asst. Elect. Engr., Dover; 5 years Deputy Borough Elect. Engr., Hastings; 2 years Asst. Borough Elect. Engr., Sunderland; 28 years Borough Elect. Engr., Keighley. 1937, Coronation Medal for long service. Books: "Simple Facts about Electricity".

WEBSTER, F. J. M.I.Mech.E. Engr. and Dist. Manager, The British Oxygen Co., Ltd., Tunnel Avenue, East Greenwich, S. E.10. Private Address: 10 The Drive, Orpington. Career: Served works apprenticeship, 4-iyears, Worthington Pump Co., and S.E. Rly., Battersea and Ashford; 5 years various drawing offices; and from 1911, present position.

WEBSTER, George Reginald. A.M.I.Mar.E., Assoc.I.E.E., F.C.S., M.I.Brit.F., M.W.M.A. Works Manager, Britannia Iron and Steel Works, Ltd., Kempson Road, Bedford. Private Address: 3 Beresford Road, Bedford. Career: Public Sch. and Tech. educ.; various executive tech. positions in England for many years; recently 1-i. years with A. G. Eisen and Stahlwerke, Switzerland and Germany, comparing English and Continental methods. Patentee. Tech. book reviewer for British Tech. Insts.

WEBSTER, H. S. A.M.I.E.E. Draughtsman, Battersea Borough Council, Elect. Dept. Private Address: 37 Jessica Road, Wandsworth, S.W.18. Age: 47.

WEBSTER, J. M. A.M.Inst.C.E. Asst. Engr. to the Master of Works and City Engr., Glasgow Corp. Private Address: 15 Attow Road, Mansewood, Glasgow, S.3. Age: 33. Educ.: Strathbungo Public Sch.; Royal Tech. Coll., Glasgow.

WEBSTER, S. H. C. A.M.I.E.E. In Commercial Dept., Central London Elect., Ltd., 63/81 Pelham Street, S.W.7. Private Address: 7 Southborough Road, Surbiton, Surrey. Age: 51. Educ.: Epsom Coll., and Faraday House.

WEBSTER, T. H. Wh.Ex., A.M.Inst. C.E. Designer of Gun Mountings, Admiralty, Whitheall, S.W.1. Age: 51. Career: Apprent., Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., 1902-09; 1909-24, Draughtsman and Designer of Gun Mtgs. with Armstrong, Whitworth; 1924-30, Chief Designer of Gun Mountings to W. Beardmore & Co.; 1930 to present, with Admiralty.

WEDGWOOD, A. Managing Director, Dennystown Forge Co., Ltd., Dumbarton. Private Address: Thurloe, Helensburgh.

WEDGWOOD, George Alexander. B.Sc., M.Sc., M.I.Mech.E., Wh.Sch. Univ. Reader in Mech. Eng., Queen Mary Coll. (Univ. of London), Mile End Road, E.1. Private Address Egerton, Mizen Way, Cobham, Surrey. Age: 50. Educ.! Belfast Municipal Coll. of Tech.

WEDMORE, E. Basil. M.I.E.E., F.Inst.P., etc. Director and Secretary, The British Elect. and Allied Industries Research Assocn., 15 Savoy Street, London, W.C.2. Private Address: 81 Alric Avenue, New Malden, Surrey.

WEEKES, Michael George. M.Inst. C.E., A.C.G.I., M.Cons.E., M.Inst.W.E. Consulting Engr. in partnership with Mr. R. W. Weekes, M.Inst.C.E., as M. G. & R. W. Weekes, 75 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.1. Private Address: 6 Cromwell Avenue, Bromley, Kent. Age: 64. Career: 3 years workshops of Johnson & Phillips, Charlton; 2 years City and Guilds; 1896-1907, Eng. Asst. to the late Mr. James Mansergh, The Derwent Valley Water Board, and the late Mr. G. R. Strachan; 1907-18, in partnership with the late Capt. W. S. Strachan, as Consulting Engr.; 1919-20, Chief Engr. to Min. of Agric. and Fisheries on Land Reclamation; 1920-29, Eng. Inspector, Min. of Health; 1929 to date, in practice as Cons. Engr.

WEEKES, R. W. A.C.G.I., M.Inst.C.E. M.Cons.E., Partner in M. G. & R. W. Weekes, Chartered Civil Engrs., 75 Victoria Street, Westminster. Age: 38. Career: Haileybury; City and Guilds; 1922-27, Eng. Asst. to David Balfour & Son, Newcastle-on-Tyne; 1927-31, Export Engr. for Adams Hydraulics and Broom & Wade (Canada, Brazil, Argentine, Chili and Peru); 1931 to date, Consulting Engr. in partnership with Mr. M. G. Weekes.

WEEKES, W. A.M.I.E.E. Private Address: "Ieolian", Woodbury Way, North Finchley, N.12. Age: 65. Career: St. Mary Magdalen High Sch.; training, W. T. Goolden & Co., and Easton, Anderson & Goolden; Asst. Engr., Blackpool Corp.; served in S. African War, and from 1914-17 (Cty. of London Yeomanry). Consulting Borough Elect. Engr., Shoreditch; now retired.

WEIR, James George. C.B.E., C.M.G., F.R.Ae.S., M.Inst.Met. Director, G. & J. Weir, Ltd., Holm Foundry, Cathcart. Private Address: Skeldon, Dalrymple, Ayrshire. Educ.: Glasgow Univ.; Sch. of Mines, Freiburg, Metallurgy Course; Apprent., G. & J. Weir, Ltd., and North German Lloyd, Bremen. Is now a Director of Cierva Autogiro Co., Ltd., and Bank of England.

WEIR, Hon. James Kenneth. B.A., M.I.E.S., M.N.E.C. Inst. Director, G. & J. Weir, Ltd., Holm Foundry, Cathcart, Glasgow. Private Address: Capelrig, Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire. Career: Apprent., G. & J. Weir, Ltd.; Soc. Provencale des Consts. Navales, La Ciotat; Gebruder Sulzer, Winterthur; and General Elect. Co., Schenectady, N.Y. Member of Council, M.I.E.S., 1930-35; Director, G. & J. Weir, Contragio Eng. Co.; Zwicky, Ltd.; and Glasgow Chamber of Com., 1930-35.

WEIR, W. A.M.I.E.E. With Nobel's Explosives Co., Ltd., Polmont, Stirlingshire.

WEIR OF EASTWOOD, The Rt. Hon. Viscount William Douglas. P.C., G.C.B., LL.D., D.L. Chairman of Directors, Messrs. G. & J. Weir, Ltd., Marine Engrs., Cathcart, Glasgow. Private Addresses: Eastwood Park, Giffnock, Renfrewshire, and &Whitehall Court, London, S.W.1. Scottish Director of Munitions, 191516; Controller of Aeronautical Supplies and a Member of Air Board, 1917-18; Director-General of Aircraft Production, 191.8; Secretary of State and Pres. of Air Council, April-Dec., 1918.

WELBOURN, Burkewood. M.Eng., A.K.C., Chief Engr., British Insulated Cables, Ltd., Prescot, Lancs. Private Address: The Croft, Rainhill, near Liverpool.

WELCH, H. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. Secty., Sir Joseph W. Isherwood & Co., Ltd., 4 Lloyds Avenue, London, E.C.3.; Director and Secty., Eastcote Steamship Co., Ltd., 4 Lloyds Avenue, E.C.3. Private Address: 11 Beechwood Avenue, Boscombe, Hants. Age: 45. Career: Harrogate; Armstrong Coll.; Apprent., Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Ltd.; 1927 to date, with Sir Joseph W. Isherwood & Co., Ltd.; formerly Engr., Green Island Cement Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, and Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd., Hong Kong.

WELCH, J. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Area Meter Examiner, Elect. Commission. Private Address: 12 Lawrence Avenue, Giffnock, Renfrewsh. Previously with Ferranti, Ltd., 1926-37.

WELCH, J. G. A.M.I.E.E. Chief Elect. Engr., Stothert & Pitt, Engrs., Bath. Private Address: "Gattrell", Batheaston, Bath. Age: 47. Career: Bradfield Coll.; Faraday House (Silver Medalist and Gold Medalist); served in R.G.A. during the war. Demobilized with rank of Major.

WELCH, John J. D.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.N.A., F.N.E.C.Inst. Private Address: Dunoon, 11 Beechwood Avenue, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Hants. Career: 1876, shipwright apprent., Chatham Dockyard; 1881, Royal Naval Coll., Greenwich; 1884, Asst. Constructor, Chatham Dockyard; 1886, Junr. Instructor, and 1890, Senr. Instructor in Naval Architecture, R.N. Coll., Greenwich; 1895, Admiralty Inspector of Contract Work (Torpedo Boat Destroyers); 1899, Manager of Shipbuilding Dept., Messrs. Cammell, Laird & Co., Birkenhead; 1907, Professor of Naval Architecture, Armstrong Coll., Newcastle-on-Tyne, becoming Emeritus Professor in 1928. Books: "Text-Book of Naval Architecture", for the use of officers of the Royal Navy.

WELLDEN, H. C. A.M.I.E.E. Mains Supt., Edinburgh Corp. Elect. Works. Private Address: 4 Cluney Terrace, Edinburgh.

WELLINGTON, S. N. A.M.I.E.E., F.C.S. Chartered Cons. Engr., 53 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. Age: 67. Career: King Edward VI. Sch., Norwich; Articled to Chief Engr. and Gen. Manager, British Gas Light Co.; 1894, Asst. Engr. and Manager, Bombay Gas Co.; 1900-07, Engr. and Manager, Colombo Gas, Water and Elect. Co.; commenced consulting practice 1917. Author of "Low Temperature Carbonisation" (Griffin).

WELLS, B. L. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I.E.E. Deputy Elect. Engr., Hammersmith B.C. Private Address: 32 Staines Road, Hounslow, Middx. Age: 39. Career: The County Sch., Isleworth; Northampton Eng. Coll., London; Apprent., Sopwith Aviation Co., B.T.H. Co., and Constructions Electriques de Belgique; Asst. Elect. Engr., Rio Tinto, Spain; Station Supt., Heston and Isleworth U.D.C.; Deputy Engr. and Manager, Heston and Isleworth B.C., Heston.

WELLS, C. F. A.M.I.E.E. Sales Engr., Yorks. Elect. Power Co., 36 Park Place, Leeds. Private Address: Halford House, Clarence Road, Horsforth, Leeds. Age: 48. Career: Educ. in London; training with Edmundson Elect. Corpn (5i years); five years with Dundee Corpn., half on Sales work and half in Generating dept.; two years with Woking Elect. Supply Co. and Swindon Corpn. Joined Yorks. Elect. Power Co. in 1919. Served on E.D.A. Council and Executive Committee; I.E.E. North Mid. Committee; E.A.W. Committee, etc.

WELLS, E. W. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. District Engr., River Ouse (Yorks.) Catchment Board, Central Bank Chambers, Infirmary Street, Leeds. Age: 35. Career: 1920-23, Univ. of London; 1923-26, Thames Conservancy, and 1926-27, East Grinstead R.D.C. (Eng. Asst.); 1927-31, Somersetshire Drainage Commissioners and Somerset Rivers Catchment Board, Dep. Engr.; 193138, present position.

WELLS, George Maurice. A.M.Inst. C.E., M.I.Loco.E. Asst. Mech. Engr., Woolwich Arsenal, Eng. Dept. (F.), C-12, Royal Arsenal, S.E.18. Private Address: Dane Cottage, Knoll Road, Bexley, Kent. Age: 45. Career: Apprent., Eastleigh Works, L. & S.W. Rly., 1909-14; Dist. Loco. Supt., Eastern Bengal Rly., 1914-21; Asst. Engr., Crown Agents for Colonies, 1924-29; Works Manager, R. Stephenson & Co., 1930-36.

WELLS, H. C. A.M.I.E.E. Chief Mains Engr., The County of London Elect. Supply Co., Ltd., 46/7 New Broad Street, London, E.C.2. Private Address: "Kingswood", Stradbroke Grove, Buckhurst Hill, Essex.

WELLS, J. E. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E., Assoc.Eng. (Sheffield). Chief Engr., Parry & Elmquist, Ltd., Scunthorpe, Lincs. Private Address: Croskils, Barnetby, Lincs. Age: 33.

WELLS, Lieut.-Col. L. Fortescue. D.S.O., T.D., B.Sc., M.Inst.C.E. Eng. Insptr., Ministry of Health, Whitehall, London, S.W.1. Private Address: Markham House, Wokingham, Berks.

WELLS, P. J. A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst. M. & Cy.E. Deputy Borough Engr. and Surveyor, Borough of Surbiton. Private Address: Council Offices, Ewell Road, Surbiton, Surrey. Age: 38. Career: Merchant Taylors' Sch., London; Apprent., Vickers, Ltd., Erith Works; subsequent pupilage with Engr. and Surveyor, Willesden U.D.C.; held municipal appointments at Rochester, Darlington and Willesden, the latter as Asst. Engr., 1930-35. Chartered C. Engr.; Testamer, Inst., M. & Cy.E.

WELMAN, D. P. D.F.H., A.M.I.E.E., M.Am.I.E.E. Gen. Manager, Foster, Yates & Thom, Ltd., Blackburn, Lancs. Private Address: Mearley Cottage, near Clitheroe, Lancs. Age: 37. Career: Faraday House; Apprent., John I. Thornycroft & Co.; Asst. Engr., Preece, Cardew & Ryder; Res. Engr., Grenada Power Scheme; Head of Elect. and Tel. Dept., Governments of Grenada and St. Vincent; Consulting as D. P. Welman & Partners, London; various interests abroad. Clubs: R. London Y.C. and R. Colombo Y.C.

WELSFORD, D. A.M.I.E.E. Senr. Control Engr., S.E. England, C.E.B. Private Address: "Muzzano", Overdale Avenue, New Malden, Surrey. Age: 37. Career: Edmundson's, Ilfracombe; N. Met. Elect., Willesden; County of London Elect., Barking.

WELSH, J. G. B.Sc.(Hons.), A.M. Inst.C.E. Civil Engr., Francois Cementation Co., Ltd., Bentley Works, Doncaster. Private Address: 18 Park Avenue, Sprotborough, Doncaster. Age: 28. Career: Haberdasher's Sch., 1920-28; London Univ.; Haweswater Contract B., with Francois Cementn., 1931-36; re-inforced concrete designer, L.M.S., 1936-37.

WELSH, Robert James. Wh.Ex., A.M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.Mar.E., A.M. N.E.C. Inst. Chief Diesel Sales Engr., The English Elect. Co., Ltd., Willans Works, Rugby. Private Address: 1 Gilshaw Lodge, Bilton Road, Rugby. Age: 35. Career: Rutherford Tech. Coll.; Sunderland Tech. Coll.; Apprent., R. W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., Ltd., Newcastleon-Tyne; General Sales Manager, Petters, Ltd., Yeovil. In various Eng. capacities, visited Argentine, Chile, Dutch West Indies, Equador, France, India, Iraq, Peru, Trinidad, and Venezuela.

WENTWORTH SHEILDS, Francis Ernest. O.B.E., M.Inst.C.E. Private Address: Tudor House, Bassett Avenue, Southampton. Career: Educ. St. Paul's Sch. 1881-91, Asst. Engr., Manchester Ship Canal; 1892-96, Asst. Engr., Southampton Dock Extensions; 1896-99, Res. Engr., North Cornwall Rly. Extension; 1899-1901, Res. Engr., Bakerloo Tube works; 1901-05, Res. .Engr., Trafalgar Graving Docks and Deep Water Quays, Southampton; 1906-07, Res. Engr., Isna Barrage, Egypt; 1907-12, Engr., Ocean and Trafalgar Docks, Southampton: 190936, Docks Engr., Southern Rly.; in 1919-20, went to India to report on lay-out for King George Dock, Calcutta; 'from 1927, was Engr. to Southern Rlv.'s elaborate dock extensions at Southampton. Is a member of Council Inst.C.E. and Chairman, Cement Committee, B.S.I.; Past-Pres., I.Struct.E. Awarded George Stephenson Gold Medal, Inst.C.E., 1914; Vernon Harcourt Lectures, 1921. Major Engr. and Rly. Staff Corps, R.E. (T.F.). Books: "Reinforced Concrete Piling" (with W. S. Gray, B.A., M.A.I.).

WEST, E. J. B. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.Inst.M. & Cy.E. Second Deputy County Survr., N.W. Div., Devon C.C., County Roads Dept., Bridge Chambers, Barnstaple. Age: 36.

WEST, Frank. M.I.Mech.E., M.Inst. Gas E. Managing Director, The Derbyshire Silica Firebrick Co., Ltd., Friden, Hartington, Buxton. Private Address: Haslemere, Green Lane, Buxton, Derbyshire. Career: Apprent., West's Gas Improvements Co., Ltd., in their Eng. Shops; 1893-97, articled pupil, and then Asst. to Chief Engr., Nottingham Gas Dept.; 1897-1908, at West's Gas Improvement Co., Ltd., Manchester, for five years in various departments; afterwards Engr.-in-Charge of erection and starting-up of carbonising plants and coaland coke-handling machinery on the Continent and America; 1908-18, London Engr. for West's Gas Improvement Co., Ltd., Manchester; 1918 to present date, with the Derbyshire Silica Firebrick Co., Ltd.; was made Managing Director in 1919, and now Chairman and Managing Director of the Company. Vice-Chairman of the British Refractory Research Assocn. since 1930; Member and Past-Pres. of the Ceramic Soc. and of Refractories Assocn. of Gt. Britain; Past-Chairman of the Soc. of British Gas industries.

WEST, Sir Frederick J. Kt., C.B.E., M. Inst. C. E., M. I.Mech.E. Chairman and Managing Director, West's Gas Improvement Co., Ltd., Albion Works, Miles Platting, Manchester.

WEST, H. A.M.I.E.E. Lecturer in Eng. Dept., North Staffs. Tech. Coll., Stoke-on-Trent. Private Address: 4th House, St. Anthony's Drive, The Westlands, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs. Age: 48. Career: Sawby Road Higher Grade Sch., Long Eaton; Univ. Coll., Nottingham; 2 years Stanger & Sharpe, Long Eaton; 6 years, Long Eaton U.D.C. Elect. Works;. 2 years Junr. Lecturer at Univ. Coll., Nottingham (Associateship); 31 years in H.M. Dockyards at Portsmouth and Rosyth.

WEST, John Archibald. A.R.I.B.A., M.Inst.M. & Cy.E. Surveyor and Engr. and Architect, Carlton U.D.C., Burton Road, Carlton, Notts. Private Address: "St. Olaves", 50 Orlando Drive, Carlton. Age: 55. Formerly Asst. in City Architect's Dept., Nottingham Corp., 1903-18.

WEST, W. B.A., M.I.E.E. Executive Engr., P.O. Eng. Dept., P.O. Eng. Research Station, Dollis Hill, N.W.2. Age: 40. Career: St. Lawrence Coll., Ramsgate; The Queen's Coll., Oxford; appointed to the Eng. Research Station, G.P.O., in 1922. Author of "Acoustical Eng." (Pitmans).

WESTGATE, T. R. M. A.M.Inst.C.E. Dist. Surveyor, E. Riding of Yorks. C.C. Private Address: 5 Minster Moorgate, W., Beverley, Yorks.

WESTLAKE, Charles Redvers. M.I. E.E. Gen. Manager and Eng., Finchley Corp. Elect. Undertaking. Elect. Works, Squires Lane, Finchley, N.3. Private Address: 53 Windermere Avenue, Finchley, N.3. Career: County Elect. Engr., Dumfriesshire Chief Engr. and Manager, Elect. Board for Northern Ireland; Gen. Manager and Engr., Finchley.

WESTON, G. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Tech. Asst., British Standards Institution, Victoria Street, London. Private Address: 79 Marmora Road, East Dulwich, S.E.22. Age: 37. Career: Grenada Boy's Sch., West Indies, 191020; King's Coll., London, 1921-24; B.T.H. Co., Ltd., 1924-25; Fuel Research Station (D.S.I.R.), 1925-27; Asst. Engr., B.S.I., since 1927.

WESTON, William Newton. M.I.Mech.E. Director, Herbert Morris, Ltd., Loughborough. Private Address: Foxholme, Loughborough. Career: For many years with Keith Blackman, Ltd., and their predecessors and, since 1907, with Herbert Morris, Ltd., makers of cranes and transporting machinery.

WESTWOOD, Hector W. D.SC., F. R.S. A., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E M.I.S.E., M.Inst.R.A., F.I.A.S. Chartered Civil Engr., Registered Architect. Private Address: 39 'West Ashton Road, Trowbridge, Wilts. Was Asst. Civil Engr. to Messrs. J. D. & D. M. Watson, M.M.Inst.C.E., of Westminster, from 1931 to 1937. Author of "The Liquid-Displacement Gasholder — A New Development in Gas Storage".

WETHERED, H. E. A.M.I.E.E., Lieut.-Comdr., R.N. (Retd.). Commercial Elect. Engr., The British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, W.C.2. Age: 37. Career: Royal Navy: Osborne, 1914; Dartmouth, 1916; five years at sea; Trinity Coll., Cambridge (Naval Officers' Course); Faraday House, 1923-25; Tester, B.T.H., Rugby, 1925-27; Commercial Engr. at Rugby, 1927-34; London Office, 1934 onwards.

WETHERED, Vernon D. B.Sc., A.I.Mar.E. Publicist, specialising in marine and other eng., trade and shipping; contributor to Tech. Press. Private Address: 2 Kidderpore Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.3.

WETHERELL, J. A.M.I.E.E., A.M. I.Mech.E. Borough Elect. Engr. and Manager, Leyton B.C. Private Address: Cathall Road, Leytonstone, E.11. Age: 49. Career: Educ. Durham; Apprent., J. H. Holmes & Co.; Paisley Corp.; Dewsbury Corp.; Yorks. Elect. Power Co., Ltd.; Barnsley Corp.

WETTERN, L. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. Director, Wettern Bros., Ltd., and subsidiary companies. 727 Thames House, Westminster, S.W.1. Age: 35.

WHALLEY, E. B. F.G.S., M.I.Mech.E., M. Inst. F., M. I.P.T., M.I.Min.E. Managing Director, Synthetic Oils, Ltd., and Director, General Timber Supplies, Ltd. Private Address: 51 Charlbert Court, London, N.W.B. Born: 1878. Trained, Camborne Sch. of Mines, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., 'etc., Gen. Manager (Collieries), John Brown & Co., and Sheffield Coal Co.; H.M. Insptr. of Mines, E. Scot. and Yorks. Reported to.Royal Commsn. on Mine Ventilation, etc., 1908; represented Mining Assocn. on Govmt. Commsn., and visited Canada, etc., re timber supplies. Served in Boer War, and Great War, R.E.

WHALLEY, Frederick S. M.C., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Loco.E. Managing Director, Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Newton-le-Willows, Lancs. Private Address: Mere House, Newton-le-Willows, Lancs. Career: Indian State Rlys. (Loco. Dept.), 1910-23; during the War, 1914-19, served in E. Africa as Major, R.E. (twice mentioned in despatches and awarded M.C.); 1923, appointed Gen. Manager, Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., and subsequently Managing Director. Was Pres., Manchester Dist. Eng. Employers' Assocn., 1931-33.

WHARTON, Frederick Malcolm. F.I.C., M.B.E. Director and Works Manager, The Hall Street, Metal Rolling Co., Ltd., Western Road, Birmingham. Private Address: 74 Stanmore Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Career: Eighteen years on high explosive mfre., as Chemist to National Explosives Co., Hayle, Cornwall; Works Manager, Curtis's & Harvey, Ltd., Cliffe-at-Hoo, Kent; Works Manager, New Explosives Co., Ltd., Stowmarket, Suffolk; two years Assayer and Metallurgical Manager, Chinese Government Mints, Nankin and Tientsin.

WHATMORE, Albert. M.I.Mech.E. Gen. Manager, J. & J. Braddock, Globe Meter Works, Oldham. Private Address: "Holmfield", Disley, Cheshire. Career: Manchester Tech. Coll.; Works Manager, Parkinson & Cowan, Manchester; Tech. Representative, The Gas Meter Co.; Chief Engr., Erith Oil Works, Ltd.; Asst. Engr., The Manchester Steam Users Assocn. Silver Medalist, Junr. Inst. of Eng.; Gold Medalist, Salford Tech. Eng. Soc.

WHATNALL, James A. M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E. Consulting Engr., 27 Chancery Lane, W.C.2. Private Address: 32 Poppleton Road, Leytonstone, E.11. Career: Training, Brush Elect. Eng. Co., five years; Engr., Crompton & Co., five years; Partner, Walter Bridge & Co. (Consulting Engrs.), fourteen years.

WHATTY, Henry J. M.I.Mar.E., M.I.B.E., 1st Cl. B.O.T. Cert. Works Engr., Britannia Lead Co., Northfleet, Kent. Private Address: Northwood, 35 Cross Lane W., Gravesend. Age: 48. Career: Univ. Coll., Southampton; Apprent., Day & Summers, Southampton, 1912-14, P. & 0. Steam Nay. Co.; 1914-19, Engr.-Lt., R.N.R.; 1919-22, P. •& O.; 1922-31, Chief Engr. and Works Manager, Filma Oil Burners; 1931, present position.

WHAYMAN, William Matthias. Eng. Rear Admiral, C.B., C.B.E., M.I.N.A., M.I.Mar.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.Inst.Fuel. Director, Alfol Insulation, Ltd., Windsor House, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. Private Address: 65 Tooting Bec. Gardens, S.W.1. Age: 67. Career: R.N.E. Coll., Keyham, 5 years; R.N. Coll., Greenwich, 3 years; Engr. Officer, R.N.; Engr. Manager, Rosyth Dockyard; Asst. Engr.-in-Chief, Admiralty; Deputy Engineer-in-Chief, 'Admiralty; Marine Engr., Babcock & Wilcox.

WHEATCROFT, Prof. E. L. E. M.A., M.I.E.E. Professor of Elect. Eng., The Univ., Leeds. Age: 42. Career: Oundle; Cambridge; B.T.H. Co., Rugby and Willesden; G.E. Co., Schenectady, U.S.A.; Commonwealth Power Co., Jackson, U.S.A. Author of "Gaseous Elect. Conductors" (Oxford), etc.

WHEATLEY, A. R. B.Sc., A.M. Inst.C.E. Managing Director, Beck & Co., Ltd., 130 Gt. Suffolk Street, Southwark, S.E.1. Age: 51. Career: St. Andrew's Sch., Eastbourne; Uppingham Sch.; King's Coll., London; training and employment with Beck & Co., Ltd.

WHEATLEY, R. E. P. B.A., B.A.I., A.M. Inst.C. E M. Inst.C.E.I., A.M. Inst. R.E. Civilian Garrison Engr., Woolwich. Private Address: clo W. I. Beken, Esq., 5 The Ridgeway, Chingford, E.4. Age: 42. Career: St. Andrew's Coll., Dublin; Trinity Coll., Dublin Univ.; 1920-23, Dublin Port and Docks Bd.; 1923-26, Calcutta Port Commrs.; 1927-32, with Sir John Jackson, Ltd.; 1932-34, private contracting; 1935-37, Chard U.D.C.; 1937, War Dept.

WHEELER, J. L. M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst. Struct.E. Consulting Engr., Empire House, St. Martins-le-Grand, E.C.1. Private Address: 6 Queen Anne's Gate, S.W.1. Age: 51. Career: Educ. Latymer Upper Sch., and abroad in Switzerland; Apprent. to Worshipful Company of Founders, and trained at Nine Elms Ironworks, and the Indented Bar R.C. Co.; 15 years in private practice as Consultant on Foundations and Structures, and Steel and Reinforced Concrete; Works include Birmingham Hospitals Centre; Exchange Buildings, Liverpool; British Pavilion, Paris Exhibition; British Pavilion, New York, 1939 Exhibition; etc., etc.

WHEELEY, L. E. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. Eng. Asst. Hants. C.C., Winchester. Private Address: 15 St. Peter Street, Winchester. Age: 29. Career: King's Coll. Sch.; City and Guilds; London Univ.; 1930-33, Eng. Asst., and 193336, Res. Engr., Bucks. C.C.: 1936-38, Asst. Res. Engr., Winchester By-pass, Hants. C.C.

WHEELWRIGHT, P. P. M.I.E.E. -Private Address: 83 Rivermead Court, ,Hurlingham; London, S.W.6. Director; • V' of Electrical Safeguards, Ltd., and interested in a number of other Elec. and Mech. Companies. Age: 60. Trained as a Mech. and Elec. Engr.

WHETMAN, S. D. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. With Messrs. Merz & McLellan, 32 Victoria Street, S.W.1.

WHEWELL, H. A.M.I.E.E. Power Station Supt., Elect. Works, Rochdale. WHICHCORD, A. J. M.I.H.V.E. Asst. Manager, G. N. Haden & Sons, Ltd., 45 Gt. Charles Street, Birmingham. Private Address: 125 Tamworth Road, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. Age: 35. Career: Successively with Ashwell & Nesbit, Ltd., and Jerram & Co., Ltd., Derby.

WHIPP, F. M.I.E.E. Managing Director (Vice-Chairman), Whipp & Bourne, Ltd., Castleton, Lancs. Private Address: "Oakenshaw", Whitworth, Rochdale. Age: 53. Career: Elect. Eng. Is also Vice-Chairman of Castleton Elect. Co.

WHIPPLE, G. F. A.M.I.E.E. Proprietor, The Whipple Engine Starter Co., Sartoris Road, Rushden, Northants. Private Address: 26 Moor Road, Rushden, Northants.

WHITAKER, A. M.A., M.I.E.E., F.Inst.P. Manager, Domestic Appliance and Cathode Ray Tube Factories, Gramophone Co., Ltd. (H.M.V.) and Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd. Hayes, Middx. Private Address: Dorleen, Fulmer Road, Gerrard's Cross, Bucks. Age: 37. Career: Emmanuel Coll., Cambridge (1st Cl. Hons. Nat. Sc. Tripos); Research Asst., Woolwich Arsenal; Physicist, British Aluminium Co., Ltd.; Manager, Product Eng. Dept., The Gramophone Co., Ltd.

WHITCHER, A. E. J. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.C.G.I., A.M.I.E.E.. Chief Tech. Officer, Central London Elect., Ltd., 25 Eccleston Place, London, S.W.1. Private Address: 31 Sharps Lane, Ruislip, Middx. Age: 35. U U Career: City and Guilds; British Thomson Houston Co.; Merz & McLellan, Newcastle.

WHITCOMBE, Charles Palmer. M.Inst. C. E. Mech. Eng.; Dir. of Eng. and Rly. Cos, Private Address: 8 Durward House, Kensington Court, London, W.8. Born: 1849. Career: Pupil, L.C. & D. Rly. 1865; Out-door Running Supt. L.C. & D. Rly, 1873-76; Asst. Loco. and Carriage Supt., B.B. & C.I. Rly, 1876-84; Loco. and Carriage Supt., S. Mahratta Rly, 1884-97; Managing Director, successively, Taite Howard Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd., and Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd., 1897-1903; Chairman of the Wycliffe Foundry Co., Ltd., 1922-34; 1935, Chairman of the Patent Lighting Co., Ltd., and of the West of India Portuguese Guaranteed Rly Co., Ltd.; also Governing Director of the Submarine Signal Co. (London), Ltd.; Lieut., B.B. & C.I. Rly, Volunteer Rifle Corps, 1877; Capt., 1880-84; Lieut.-Col. Commanding S. Mahratta Volunteer Rifle Corps, 1884-97.

WHITE, Archibald Muir. M.Inst.C.E. Engr., Birmingham Canal Co., Daimler House, Paradise Street, Birmingham, 1. Private Address: Sherifoot Lane, Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham. Age: 46. Career: Royal Tech. Coll., Glasgow; Apprent., Gilbert Thomson, 164 Bath Street, Glasgow; Resident Engr., Dalkeith Sewerage & Disposal Works Construction; Reinforced Concrete Designer and Agent, Tilbury Housing Scheme; foundations for Christiani & Nielsen; Draughtsman at B.C.N.

WHITE, Arthur Stephen. M.I.Mec h. E., M.I.Struct.E. Tech. Asst., London Passenger Transport Board, 55 Broadway, London, S.W.1. Private Address: "Grey Tiles," Lower Road, Bookham, Surrey. Career: Apprent. to Phoenix Foundry Co., Ltd., Derby; Draughtsman with Skipwith, Jones & 'Lomax, Ltd., Manchester; Works Manager to Richardson & Cruddas, Bombay, India; Asst. Bridge Engr., G.I.P. Railway, Bombay.

WHITE, Colin R.M.C., M.Inst.C.E., M.Cons.E. Partner, Robert White & Partners, 3 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, S.W.1. Private Address: 14 Gainsborough Gardens, London, N.W.3. Career: Marlborough Coll.; King's Coll. Fifteen years, South Indian Railway; three years, Madras Port Trust; since 1923, in practice as a Consulting Engr.

WHITE, E. S. B.Sc.(Eng.), M.I.E.E. Lecturer in Elect. Eng., Borough Polytechnic, London. Private Address: 37 Greenways, Beckenham, Kent. Age: 50. Career: Ed. City and Guilds; Apprent., Veritys, Ltd.; thereafter Designer of D.C. Machines; Chief Designer of Elect. Control Gear; Chief of Drawing Office; Asst. Chief Research Officer, War Dept. (Electrical).

WHITE, F. R. L. M.I.H.V.F,. Chief of Tech. Staff, Brightside Foundry & Eng. Co., Ltd., 17 Summer Row, Birmingham, 3. Private Address: 28 Abbots Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, 14. Career: Elec. Laboratory Asst., Birmingham Tech. Coll.; trained in the late W. L. White's business of Heating, Ventilating and Domestic Eng.; Certificate of City and Guilds in Elect. Eng.; Director of W. L. White, Son & Co., Ltd., Heating and Ventilating Engrs; Tech. Asst., Henry Lea & Son, Consulting Engrs., Birmingham. Served in R.N.A.S. and R.A.F. during Great War. Lecturer in Heating and Ventilating, Birmingham Central Tech. Coll.

WHITE, George. M.I.Mech.E. Senior Partner, Edward White, Windsor Works, Redditch. Private Address: Steepholm, Plymouth Road, Redditch. Career: Drawing Office training; ten years in charge of Foundry; ten years in charge of machine shops; several years abroad, including a period in China for a Chinese semi-Government concern. Present Member and late Chairman of Redditch Urban District Council; Member of the Newcomen Society; President of the Redditch Archaeological Society; Member of Birmingham and Midland Institute.

WHITE, H. G. A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.R.E. Elec. Contractor and Radio Engr. Address: 168 Leigh Road, Leighon-Sea, Essex. Age: 60. Career: City and Guilds; Northampton Inst.; Dist. Manager, North Wales, Nat. Elec. Construction Co.; Chief Engr., Sterling Telephone & Elec. Co., Ltd.; London Manager, Gent & Co., Ltd.; Chief Radio Engr., C. A. Vandervell & Co., Ltd.; Military Service, Capt., R.E.; Senr. Instructor, R.E. Sch. of Elec. Lighting, Gosport. Author of "Telephone Erection and Maintenance," "Electric Bells and Signalling Apparatus."

WHITE, H. T. A.M.Inst.C.E. Private Address: Great Close, Ampfield, Romsey, Hants. Age: 69. Career: Univ. Coll. Sch., London; Univ. Coll. (Senr. Gilchrist Scholar); Tech. Coll., Hanover; pupil, Handyside & Co., Ltd., Derby; subsequently Erection Manager, and finally Works Manager, 1890-1913; Engr. to British Eng. Co. of Russia and Siberia, 1914-23.

WHITE, Joseph Walwyn. J.P. Partner, Richard White & Sons, Railway Eng. Works, Ditton Road, Widnes, Lancs. Private Address: Newlands, Weld Road, Birkdale, Southport. Career: Owen's Coll., Manchester; whole career since with R. White & Sons, Widnes.

WHITE, L. Scott. M.Inst.C.E., M.I. Struct.E. Chartered Civil Engr. (Consultant), Buckingham House, 1 Catherine Place, Westminster, S.W.1. Private Address: 36 Croham Valley Road, S. Croydon. Career: Canadian Pacific Rly, 1912-14; Lord Strathcona's Horse, Royal Canadians, 1915-16; Lieut., R.E., 1916-19; Redpath, Brown & Co., Ltd., 1921-36.

WHITE, M. C. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.S. Eng. Asst., New Works Dept., Clyde Navigation Trust, Glasgow. Private Address: 68 Killermont Road, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire. Born: 1904. Career: Edinburgh Univ., 1922-25; 1925-35, Asst. Engr. for Pauling & Co., Ltd., on various contracts, including: Benguella Rly., Kilindini Harbour, B.E.A., Beira Harbour, P.E.A., and the John North Power Station, Swansea; 1935-36, Agent, T. J. Moran & Co., Ltd., Ireland; with C.N.T. from 1936.

WHITE, N. B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. Eng. Asst., Plymouth Corpn. Private Address: 11 Lands Park, Plymstock, near Plymouth. Age: 31. Career: Bradford Gramm. Sch.; Bradford Tech. Coll.; Eng. Asst., Bradford, 1928-31, Leicester, 1931-37, Plymouth from 1937.

WHITE, O. M. B.A., A.M.I.E.E. Local Manager, The Leicestershire and Warwickshire Elect. Power Co. Private Address: Sketchley Hall, Hinckley, Leics. Age: 36.

WHITE, Thomas Edward Stephen. B.Sc. (Eng.) Lond., A. K.0., A.M. Inst. C.E., A.M.Inst.W.E. Asst. Engr., Wakefield Corpn. Waterworks, Wakefield. Private Address: 24 St. John's Grove, Wakefield. Age: 33. Career: King's Coll., London; Derwent Valley Water Board; Doncaster Area Drainage Commission; John S. Metcalf Co., Ltd., Montreal, on works for Harbour Commissioners of Montreal and Canadian Pacific Rly.; Wakefield Corpn, on construction of Ryburn Dam; City of Londonderry, on construction of Altnaheglish Dam, Banagher Water Scheme.

WHITE, William Albert. M.I.Mar.E., A.M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.N.A., F.Inst. Pet.T., F.R.S.A. Chairman and Managing Director, White's Marine Eng. Co., Ltd., Hebburn-on-Tyne, Co. Durham. Private Address: Adderstone, Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Inventor of White Patent Oil-Burning System and White Patent Combined Steam Engine, etc. Founder, Washington Engine Works, New York, in 1910, and White Patent Oil-Burning Co., Ltd. (now White's Marine Eng. Co., Ltd.) in 1920.

WHITE, W. F. A.M.I.E.E. With Alliance Elect. Co., Ltd., Lloyds Bank Chambers, 2 Henrietta Street, W C.2.

WHITEHEAD, G. E. A.M.I.E.E. Managing Director, Whitehead Switchgear and Inventions, Ltd., Cardiff and Treforest. Private Address: 38 Rhiwbina Hill, Cardiff. Inventor and Patentee of internal isolation system, oil pressure circuit breaker, etc., for elect. switchgear.

WHITEHEAD, Herbert Cecil. M.Inst. C.E., F.R.San. I. Chief Engr., Birmingham, Tame and Rea Dist. Drainage Board, Rookery Park, Erdington, Birmingham. Private Address: The Manor, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire.

WHITEHEAD, R. C. B.Sc.(Hons.), A.M.Inst.C.E. Asst. Engr., Birmingham Water Dept. Private Address: The Manor, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. Age: 26. Educ.: Birmingham Univ. Present appointment since 1934. Miller prizeman, Inst.C.E.

WHITEHEAD, S. M.A.(Oxon.), Ph.D. (Lond.), A.M.I.E.E., F.Inst.P., F.Phys. Soc. Tech. Asst., Elect. Research Assocn., 15 Savoy Street, London, W.C.2, and E.R.A. Labs., Wadsworth Road, Greenford, Middx. Private Address: 129 Cheam Common Road, Worcester Park, Surrey. Age: 36. Educ.: Sir Walter St. John's Sch.; Jesus Coll., Oxford; Research at Clarendon Lab., Oxford, and Queen Mary Coll. Author of "Dielectric Phenomena" (Benn, 3 vols.).

WHITEHEAD, W. S. B.Sc.(lst Cl. Hons.), A.M.Inst.C.E. Acting Res. Engr., Wirrall Electrification, L.M.S. Rly. Private Address: 2 Marshlands Road, Wallasey. Cheshire. Age: 27. Educ.: King Edward's Gramm. Sch., Birmingham; Berkhamsted Sch.; Univ. Coll., London. Pupilage, L.M.S. Rly.

WHITEHORN, H. K. B.Sc.(Lond.), M.I.E.E., M.I.A.E. Elect. Engr. and Manager, Rose Street Foundry and Eng. Co., Ltd. (and A.I. Welding), Rose Street, Inverness. Private Address: 36 Fairfield Road, Inverness. Age: 50. Career: Northampton (Poly.) Eng. Coll., London; Apprent., British Westinghouse Elect. and Mfg. Co., Ltd.; Elect. Engr. Designer, Submersible Motors, Ltd., Southall, 10 years; Tilling-Stevens Motors, Ltd., Maidstone, 11 years; Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Scotswood, 3 years; Rose Street Foundry Co. and A.T. Welding, 4 years.

WHITEHOUSE, James. M.Sc., M.Inst. C.E., M.I.NI.M., NI.I.Min.E. Managing Director of Mining Companies. Business Address: Selection Trust Building, Mason's Avenue, London, E.C.2. Private Address: 84 Fitzjohn's Avenue, London, N.W.3. Age: 55. Career: Birmingham Univ.; Gen. Manager, Village Deep Mines, Ltd.; Cons. Engr., Central Mining Investmt. Corpn. Author of numerous papers on Mining problems.

WHITEHOUSE, William Henry. A.M. Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.E.E. With Ministry of Labour, Training Dept. Career: Pupil, Belliss & Morcom, Ltd., Birmingham; Birmingham Univ.; Asst. Loco. Supt., Newport Docks and Rly. Co.; Gtn. Manager, The Heatly Gresham Eng. Co., Ltd., Letchworth, Herts.

WHITELEY, C. S. A.M.I.E.E. Switchgear Engr., English Elect. Co., Stafford. Private Address: "Ash Lea", Castle Bank, Stafford. Age: 30. Career: Queen Elizabeth's Gramm. Sch., Kirkby Lonsdale; Bradford Tech. Coll.; Apprent., Bradford Corp. Elect. Dept., and Metropolitan-Vickers.

WHITELEY, J. H. F.I.C. Chief Metallurgist, Consett Iron Co., Ltd. Private Address: 11 Consett Park Terrace, Castleside, Consett. Career: Middlesbrough High School; South Durham Steel and Iron Co.

WHITE-PARSONS, G. D. A.M. Inst.C.E. Chief Asst. Engr., Overhead Design Dept., Callender's Cable and Construction Co., Ltd., Hamilton House, London, W.C.2. Private Address: 58d Longridge Road, Earl's Court, S.W.5. Age: 37. Career: Graduate A.C.S.E., Canterbury Coll., N.Z.; Eng. Asst., Lyttelton (N.Z.) Harbour Board, 192325; Res. Engr., Tolaga Bay (N.Z.) Harbour Construction, 1926-29; Eng. Asst., Piccadilly Tube Rly. Ext., 1930-31; Asst. Engr., West's Rotinoff Piling & Constr. Co.; Partner Designer with A. M. Hamilton, of Heavy Duty Bridges (adopted by W.O.), and Aeroplane Hangars for Air Ministry.

WHITESIDE, H. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Engr., C.E.B., Trafalgar Buildings, 1 Charing Cross, S.W.1. Private Address: 67 Craddocks Avenue, Ashtead, Surrey. Age: 35. Career: Brighton, Hove and Sussex Gramm. Sch.; Brighton Tech. Coll.; trained, Lancs. Dynamo & Motor Co„ Ltd., and Metropolitan E.S. Co.; Asst. Mains Engr., Metro. E.S. Co.; Senr. Control Engr., S.E.E. Dist., C.E.B.

WHITING, H. G. A.M.I.E.E. Senr. Maintenance Engr., B.B.C. Television Station, Alexandra Palace, N.10. Age: 37. Career: Student, Western Elect. Co., Ltd., 1921; in Labs. of Standard Telephones, and International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. as design and installation Radio Engr. until 1932. Joined B.B.C. in 1932.

WHITING, William R. G. M.B.E., M.A., M. Inst.C. E., M.I.N. A., M.N.E.C. Inst. Managing Director, White Fox Instrument Co., Ltd., Hebburn-on-Tyne; Director, T. Mitchison, Ltd., Gateshead. Private Address: 30 Victoria Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Formerly Gen. Manager to Sir W. S. Armstrong Whitworth & Co (Shipbuilders), Ltd., Newcastle. Member of Council, I.N.A.; former Vice-Pres., N.E.C.Inst. Chairman of Scholarships and Educ. Committee, N.E.C.Inst. Books: "The Newcastle Galley of 1295" (Trans. Arch. Ael., 1936), etc.

WHITMORE, G. A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Works Manager, Central London Elect. Accessories, Ltd., Maiden Lane, London. Career: Sudbury Gramm. Sch;. Faraday House; served during 1918 as Wireless Officer, H.M. Transports; subsequently with Marconi Co.; 1931, Tech. Asst., Brompton and Kensington E.S. Co.; 1938, present appointment.

WHITNEY, W. A.M.I.E.E. Deputy Mains Engr., West Ham Corp. Private Address: 137 Osborne Road, Forest Gate, E.7.

WHITTAKER, J. E. A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Distribution Supt., Corp. Elect. Works, Millburn Street, Aberdeen. Educ.: Bradford Tech. Coll.; formerly Asst. Substations Supt., Bradford Corp. Elect. Dept.

WHITTAKER, J. R. M.Sc.(Tech.), Ph.D., A.M. I.Mech.E., A.M.Inst.C.E. Asst. Lecturer in Mech. Eng., Coll. of Tech., Sackville Street, Manchester. Age: 35.

WHITTAKER, B. W. F. A.M.I.E.E., M.I.Struct.E., A.I.Mech.E. Chartered Elect. Engr., Whittaker Bros., Ltd., 191 Wolverhampton Street, Dudley.

WHITTINGHAM, Cyril. A.M.I.Mar.E. Chief Designer, "Dynaflex" Dept. (antivibration devices), The Manganese Bronze and Brass Co., Ltd., Caxton House, Tothill Street, London, S.W.1. Private Address: 99 Princes Gardens, London, W.3. Age: 34. Career: Halifax Tech. Coll.; Apprent., The Campbell Gas Engine Co., Ltd., Halifax; Vickers Petters, Ipswich, Design Draughtsman; Petters Ltd., Yeovil, Draughtsman, and later Vibration Specialist and Calculator.

WHITTLE, N. E. A.M.I.E.E. Elect. Engr., U.D. Eng. Co., Ltd., Abbey Works, Cumberland Avenue, Park Royal. Private Address: Mote House, Courtlands Avenue, Mill Hill, N.W.7. Age: 36. Career: City of London Sch., 1912-19; B.T.H. Co., Ltd., at Rugby; Apprent., 1920-27; Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd., Layout and Devel.. 1927-28; United Dairies, Ltd., and U.D. Eng. Co., Ltd., 1928-38.

WHITTOME, P. W. A.C.G.I., A.M. I.E.E. Engr., Contract Dept., British Insulated Cables, Ltd., Prescot, Lancs. Private Address: Eastmoor House, Doddington, March, Cambs. Age: 32. Career: Malvern Coll.; City and Guilds; British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Apprent., 3 years; Northampton Elect. Light and Power Co., Mains Asst., 21; years.

WHITWORTH, H. M.I.E.E. Private Address: 64 Britannia Buildings, Fenwick Street, Liverpool, 2.

WHYATT, Henry G. M.Inst.C.E., F.R. San. I. Private Address: 73 Welholme Avenue, Gt. Grimsby. Age: 78. Career: Engr.'s Dept., Lancs. and Yorks. Rly., 1881-88; Dep. Boro. Engr., Salford, 1888-1900; Boro. Engr., Gt. Grimsby, 1900-38. Author of "Streets, Roads and Pavements" (Pitman), "Sewers and Sewerage" (Pitman), etc.

WHYMAN, L. F. B.Sc.Tech., A.M.I.E.E. Cooker Designer, General Electric Co., Ltd., Magnet Works, Birmingham. Private Address: 100 Hodge Hill Common, Ward End, Birmingham, 8. Age: 35. Career: Manchester Coll. of Tech.; Draughtsman, Automatic Telephone Mfg. Co., Ltd., Domestic Appliance Works.

WHYSALL, Frank Henry. M.I.E.E. City Elect. Engr. and Gen. Manager, Belfast Corp., East Bridge Street, Belfast. Private Address: 80 Malone Road, Belfast. Career: Boro. Collegiate Sch.; Mechanics' Inst., Rotherham; Sheffield Sch. of Tech. Training, Mid land Iron Co., Ltd., Rotherham; Sheffield Electric Light and Power Co.; Charge Engr., Sheffield and Manchester; Res. Engr., City Power Stations, Manchester; Boro. Elect. Engr., Greenock. Received I.E.E. Ayrton Premium 1913.

WHYTE, Jardine B. J.P., M.I.Mech.E. Consulting Engr.; Director, Jardine Whyte & Co., Ltd., 11 Dartmouth Street, Westminster, S.W.1. Private Address: 48 Duke Street, St. James, London, S.W.1.

WIDNALL, F. B.Sc. (Eng.), A.M.I.E.E. Design Engr., B.T.H. Co., Ltd., Rugby. Private Address: "Greengates", Westfield Road, Rugby. Age: 31. Ed.: Xaverian Coll., Sussex; Rugby Coll. of Tech. and Arts; Apprent., B.T.H. Co., Ltd.; thereafter in Research Lab,, and later Home Appliance section.

WIGGLESWORTH, Frank. M.I. Mech.E. Managing Director, F. Wigglesworth & Co., Ltd., Clutch Works, Shipley. Private Address: Clarence Drive, Menston-in-Wharfedale. Career: Tech. training at Bradford Tech. Coll., Eng. Dept., assisting the late Professor Charnock and taking over some of his classes in the last year of studentship; Greenwood & Batley, Ltd., D.O., for about three years; Chief Draughtsman, Scott Bros., of Halifax, Machine Tool Makers; Draughtsman in the putting down of the plant at the Elmore Copper Co.; designing machine tools for the mfr. of 75-ton guns for the Turkish Arsenal; Chief Draughtsman, Crofts & Perkins, for ten years, during which period works grew from 60 to 300 men; 1903, commenced own business; built new works in 1913-14, and now employs about 300 hands for the mfr. of power-transmission machinery. Assisted Professor Charnock with his book, "Power Transmission".

WIGHT, John T. M.I.Mech.E., M.I. Mar.E., F.R.S.E. Man. Director, MacTaggart, Scott & Co., Ltd., Station Ironworks, Loanhead, Midlothian. Private Address: Calderwood Villa, Lasswade, Midlothian. Age: 55. Career: HeriotWatt Coll. (Dipl. in Mech. Eng., Medalist (Hons.) Machine Design, etc., Medalist and prizeman, Mech. Eng. (Hons.), C. & G.); Apprent., and later Chief Draughtsman, MacTaggart, Scott & Co.; Asst. Prof., Mech. Eng., HeriotWatt Coll.; Head of Eng. Dept., Woolwich Polytechnic; Gen. Manager and Sec., Hydraulic Gears, Ltd.; Gen. Manager, MacTaggart, Scott & Co. Author of "Elementary Graphic Statistics", etc.

WIGNER, F. H. A.M.I.E.E. Overhead Engr., London Passenger Transport Board, 55 Broadway, S.W.1.

WIKELEY, J. B. M.Eng., A.M. Inst.C.E., M.Inst.M. & Cy.E. Engr. and Surveyor, Town Hall, Chesterfield. Age: 36. Career: Univ. of Sheffield, 1919-22; Asst. Engr., Warwick and Birmingham Canal Co.; Eng. Asst., City of Sheffield, and Boro. of Pontefract; Deputy Engr., later Engr: and Surveyor, Foleshill R.D.C.; Engr. and Surveyor, Grimsby R.D.C.

WILCOX, Walter Maitland. B.Sc. (Eng.) (London), M.I.E.E. Head of Elect. Eng. Dept., Tech. Coll., Huddersfield. Private Address: 88 New North Road, Huddersfield. Career: Finsbury Tech. Coll. (City and Guilds); Apprent., British Westinghouse Co.; teaching staff of Northampton Polytechnic Inst.; Assessor to West Riding of Yorks. Educn. Committee in Elect. Eng.

WILD, D. F. M.I.Mech.E., F.C.W.A. Industrial Engr. and Cost Consultant, 229 Bingley Road, Shipley, Yorks.

WILD, E. E. B.Sc.Tech., A.M.I.E.E. Lecturer, Newton Heath Tech. Sch., Manchester. Private Address: 41 Burnside Drive, Kingsway, Burnage, Manchester, 19. Age: 34. Career: Manchester Cent. High Sch.; Manchester Univ. (Faculty of Tech.), 1921-24; 1924-36, Transformer Designer and High Voltage Engr., Ferranti, Ltd., Hollinwood; 1936, present appointment; 1924-36, part-time Lecturer and Demonstrator at Coll. of Tech., Manchester.

WILD, George Frederick. M.Inst. M. & Cy.E., M. R.San. I. Engr. and Surveyor, Littleborough U.D.C., Council Offices, Littleborough, Lancs.

WILDE, S. F. B.E., A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Elect. Engr., County of London Elect. Supply Co., Ltd., Barking Power Station, Essex. Private Address: 25 Ranelagh Gardens, Ilford, Essex.; Age: 32. Career: Univ. of N.Z. Hydro-electric Dept. of P.W.D., of N.Z., 1927-28; Johnson & Phillips, 1929-31; Kennedy & Donkin 1931-33; County of London E.S. Co., 1934 to present.

WILDEBLOOD, H. S. M.Inst.C.E. Private Address: Highlands Cottage, Comptons Lane, Horsham, Sussex. Age: 74. Career: Coopers Hill Royal Indian Eng. Coll.; P.W.D., India; R.A.F.; Vickers Aircraft; G.E.C.

WILDSMITH, A. C. A.M.Inst.C.E. Asst. Dist. Engr., Manchester Corpn. Waterworks, Town Hall, Manchester. Born: 1907. Training and subsequent experience with Manchester Waterworks; 1930-31, Asst. to Res. Engr., Haweswater; 1931-33, Asst. on Design, Longdendale; 1933-34, i.-c., new Tate process — reconditioning; 1934-date, design and lay-out of pumping stations.

WILKES, J. H. H. B.Sc., A.C.G.I., A.M. Inst.C.E., A.M.I.Struct. E., A.M.T.P.I. Chief Asst. Cty. Surveyor, Norfolk C.C., County Surveyor's Office, Stracey Road, Norwich. Age: 34. Career: Westminster Sch., 1918-21; City and Guilds, 1921-25; Asst., Trollope & Coils, Ltd., 1925-27; Eng. Asst., Sir E. Owen Williams, K.B.E.. 1927-29; Senr. Eng. Asst., Northamptonshire C.C., 1929-31, and Chief Eng. Asst., 1931-37.

WILKINS, J. K. A.M.Inst.C.E. Asst. Civil Engr., Air Ministry Works Directorate. Private Address: 179 Chester Road, Kidderminster. Age: 26. Career: Newport High Sch.; Cardiff Univ. (Sir Edward Nicholl Post-Grad. Scholarship); G.W. Rly., 1931-37, principally on Permanent Way design; since 1937, Northern Area. construction of Aerodromes and Storage Depots.

WILKINSON, A. B. A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I. Min. E, A.M. Assocn.Min.E. E. Estimating Engr., W. T. Glover & Co., Ltd., Trafford Park, Manchester. Private Address: 313 Holden Road, Leigh, Lancs. Age: 34. Career: 'Charley Sec. Sch.; Leigh Gramm Sch.; Leigh Tech. Coll.; Wigan Mining Coll.; 8 years, West Leigh Colly. Co.; 10 years to date with W. T. Glover & Co. First class certificate Colliery Manager; Gold medalist, Leigh Tech. Coll.; Lecturer in Eng. subjects, Leigh Mun. Coll. (Evening).

WILKINSON, C. G. E. A.S.T.C., A.M.I.E. E. Elect. Eng. Designer, Elect. Supply Dept., Liverpool. Private Address: 36 Lancaster Avenue, Crosby, Liverpool, 23. Age: 34. Career: Leeds Boys' Modern Sch.; Sunderland Tech. Coll.; 1926-35, Messrs. Merz & McLellan; 1935-38, East Anglian Elect. Supply Co., Ltd.; 1938, Liverpool Corpn.

WILKINSON, E. R. M.I.E.E. Commercial Manager, The Central Elect. Board, Trafalgar Buildings, Charing Cross, S.W.1. Age: 40. Career Tech. Coll., Preston; trained at Dick Kerr works of English Elect. Co., Ltd.; subsequently on steam turbine and power station design and operation; 1924-28, with Merz & McLellan, Cons. Engrs.; 1928 to present time, C.E.B.

WILKINSON, Frank. M.Inst.C.E., M. I.Mech. E., M.Inst.Mun. & Cy.E. (Past-Pres.). Consulting Engr., Partner with H. C. Platts, B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.I. Struct.E., 68 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. Private Address: Green Croft, Kewferry Drive, Northwood, Middx. Late Borough Engr. of Willesden. Books: "Bituminous Emulsions for Roads" (Wilkinson & Forty), "Swimming Bath Water Purification" (Wilkinson & Forty).

WILKINSON, George. M.I.E.E. (Life Member), M.I.Mech.E., Past-Pres. of the Incorporated Municipal Elect. Assocn. Private Address: Beech Mount, Otley Road, Harrogate, Yorks. Retired, but devotes some spare time to research work.

WILKINSON, George Shakespeare. M.I.Mech.E., F.R.Ae.S., M.I.A.E., M.S. A.E. Chief Engr. and Director, D. Napier & Son, Ltd., 211 The Vale, Acton. Private Address: Marden Ash, Hillcrest Road, Ealing, W.5. Age: 52. Educ.: Ipswich Tech. Sch.; Birmingham Univ.; Apprent., E. R. & F. Turner, Ltd., Ipswich.

WILKINSON, H. C. Wh.Sch., A.C.G.I., D.I.C., A.M.I.E.E. Teacher of Eng. and Elect. Eng. Subjects at Acton Tech. Coll. Private Address: 29 Pendle Road, Streatham Park, S.W.16. Age: 44. Career: Portsmouth Sec. Sch.; Portsmouth Dockyard Sch.; Imperial Coll. of Sc., S. Kensington; trained as Elect. Eng. Portsmouth Dockyard; Asst. Engr.; Kincaid, Waller, Manville & Dawson, Consulting Engrs.

WILKINSON, J. R. B.Sc.Tech. (Hons.), A.M.C.T., M.I.E.E. London Manager, Ferguson, Pailin, Ltd., Bush House (West Wing), Aldwych, W.C.2.

WILKINSON, J. W. A.M.I.E.E., M.A.Min.E.E., etc. Tech. Director, Wilkinson Eng. Co., and several other firms. Private Address: 38 Cedar Road, Sutton, Surrey.

WILKINSON, L. St. G. M.C., M.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.Inst.M. & Cy.E., (Council), F.R.San.I., F.I.S.E. Borough Engr. and Surveyor, County Borough of Wallasey, Town Hall, Wallasey. Age: 52. Career: Hulme Gramm. Sch., Oldham; Victoria Univ., Manchester; 1907-09, Eng. Asst., Luton; 1909-12, Asst. Water Engr., Oldham; 1912-19, Eng. Asst., Huddersfield; 1919-23, Borough and Water Engr., Crewe; 1923 to date, Borough Engr. and Surveyor, Wallasey. Past-Pres., Crewe Eng. Soc.; Past-Chm., Manchester and Dist. Local Assoc. of Inst.C.E.

WILKINSON, Samuel Walter. M.I. Mech.E. Owner and Manager of S. W. Wilkinson & Co., Engrs., Western Road, Leicester. Private Address: Crowland, Birstall, near Leicester. Career: Pupil with Gimson & Co., Leicester; founded and built up present business; invented numerous machines for the chemical industry, etc.

WILKINSON, W. F. A.M.Inst.C.E. Private Address: Hurstbourne Priors, Whitchurch, Hants. Age: 74. Whole career as Mining Eng.; now retired.

WILKINSON, Willie H. F.C.S., A.M.I.Chem.E., A.I.M.N., F.R.S.A., M.I. & S.I. Chemist, British Ropes, Ltd., 15 Bath Street, Edinburgh. Private Address: 14 Hillview Road Corstorphine, Edinburgh.

WILLCOX, J. Edward. M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.M. & C.E., M.Inst. Water Engrs., F.R.S.I., M.Inst. Sewage Purification. Private practice as Consulting Engr.; Partner, Willcox, Raikes & Marshall, Stock Exchange Bldgs., 33 Gt. Charles Street, Birmingham, and 15 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. Private Address; 27 Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston. Career: Pupil, Ashmead, Bristol; Res. Engr., Stratford-on-Avon Water and Sewage Disposal Works; Res. Engr., Sutton Coldfield, Erdington and N. Malvern Sewerage Works. Since 1890 in private practice as Cons. Engr.; has carried out many schemes of water supply, sewerage and sewage disposal for Public Authorities; engages in Parliamentary work, M. of H. Inquiries, Arbitrations, etc. Is a Director, S. Staffs. Waterworks Co., and The Birmingham Crematorium, Ltd.

WILLET, A. W. M.Inst.C.E. Consulting Civil Engr., Norwich Union Chambers, Congreve Street, Birmingham. Career: Pupil of the late Mr. John Willet; Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; Res. Engr., New Works, L. & N.W. Rly.; Chief Engr., Birmingham Canal Navigation, till retirement, 1923.

WILLIAMS, A. M.I.E.E. Tech. Representative, Hackbridge Elect. Construction Co., Ltd., Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. Private Address: 16 Messaline Avenue, Acton, W.3.

WILLIAMS, C. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., A.M. I. R.E. Tech. Asst., Grade 1, R.A.F. Establishment, South Farnborough, Hants. Age: 31. Career: Radio Communications Engr., Cardiff Tech. Coll., 192530; 6 years apprent., McWhirter & Sons, Engrs., Cardiff, 1923-29; 2 years, The B.T.H. Co., Ltd., Rugby, 1930-32; 2 years, Mazda Radio Valve Works, Brimsdown, 1932-34; 4 years, R.A.F., Farnborough. Member of Inst. of Electronics.

WILLIAMS, Charles. M.I.Mech.E., Past Vice-Pres., C.E.Mar.S.; Past Vice-Pres., I.Mar.E. Consulting Engr. and Marine Surveyor, Partner, Williams & Whitelaw, Consulting Engrs., 4 Dock Chambers, Cardiff. Private Address: Kynance, 19 Wordsworth Avenue, Cardiff. Career: Premium Apprent., Cox & Co., Engrs., Falmouth; sea experience until Ex. First Board of Trade Certificate obtained. Res. Engr. (Bristol Water Works), Blagdon Reservoir and Pumping Station, 10f years; Marine Supt., Cardiff Hall Line, 2i years; Surveyor, Ministry of Shipping, at Vancouver, 2i years; 1920 to present date, private practice as Consulting Engr. and Marine Surveyor.

WILLIAMS, Major Charles Edward. C.B.E., M.I.Mech.E. Mech. Engr., United Steel Companies, Ltd., 8 Grosvenor Gardens, Victoria, S.W.1. Career: Asst. Works Manager, Vulcan Loco. Works, Newton-leWillows, and Robert Stephenson, Darlington; Chief Inspecting Engr., Crown Agents for the Colonies. PastPres., Inst.Loco.E.

WILLIAMS, C. V. A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.M. & Cty.E. Div. Road Surveyor, Denbighshire C.C. Private Address: Cilgwyn, Ruthin, Denbighshire. Age:. 33. Educ.: Liverpool Univ.; formerly Highway Surveyor to Wrexham R.D.C.

WILLIAMS, D. E. B.Sc. (Tech.), A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.M. & Cy. E. Asst. Surveyor, E. Cheshire Regional Planning Committee: Private Address: 19 Greek Street, Stockport. Age: 31. Career: Manchester Gramm. Sch.; Manchester Univ.; Eng. Asst., Stockport Corpn., 1928-31; Tech. Asst., E. Ches. Regl. Planning Committee, 1931-33; Eng. Asst., Southport Corpn., 1933-35; 1935, present appointment.

WILLIAMS, Denzil George. A.M.I. Mech.E., A.M.I.Mar.E. Chief Draughtsman, Engine Dept., Brush E.E. Co., Ltd. Private Address: 143 Park Road, Loughborough. Age: 41. Career: Swansea Gramm. Sch.; Univ. Coll., Nottingham; Apprent., Broom & Wade, High Wycombe, 192023. War service with R.F.A. in France, etc., 1915-19; Designer, Crossley Premier Engines, Ltd., 1923-27 Personal Asst. to Chief Draughtsman, Petters, Ltd., 1927-38; Chief Draughtsman, 1938.

WILLIAMS, Sir Evan Owen. K.B.E., B.Sc.(Eng. Lond., 1st Class), M.Inst. C.E., A.I.N.A., A.F.R.Ae.Soc. In Private Practice, 5 St. George's Road, S.W.1. Private Address: 12 Charles Street, W.1. Age: 48.

WILLIAMS, F. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Engr.-in-Charge, North Region, British Broadcasting Corpn., Manchester. Private Address: "Kobenzl," Park Road, Bramhall, Stockport. Age: 38. Career: Birmingham Univ.; trained, British Thomson Houston Co., Ltd.; Joined B.B.C., 1925.

WILLIAMS, F. H. B.Sc.Tech., M.I.E.E., A.M.Inst.C.E. Manager, The Galloway Water Power Co., Tongland Power Station, Kirkcudbright, Scotland.

WILLIAMS, F. J. Gregson. Associate of Cooper's Hill, M.Inst.C.E. Eng. Inspector, Ministry of Health, Whitehall, S.W. Private Address: Fircroft, Cookham Dean, Berks. Career: 1906-15, P.W.D., India; 191519, in R.E. on active service in France; 1919-21, Chief Asst. Designs, Crown Agent for Colonies.

WILLIAMS, Frederick H. B.Sc. (Tech.), M.I.E.E., Assoc.M.Inst. C. E. Manager, The Galloway Water Power Co., Tongland Power Station, Kirkcudbright, Scotland. Private Address: Ashton Tongland, Kirkcudbright. Past-Chairman, N.E. Centre, I.E.E.

WILLIAMS, George Bransby. M.Inst. C.E., M. I.Mech.E., M. Cons. E., M.I.E. (Ind.), F.R.G.S., F.R.San.I., F.R.Met. Soc., F.I.S.E. Consulting Engr. (Williams, Temple & Bartholomew), 28 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., and 7 Old Court House Street, Calcutta. Private Address: Killay House, Cooden, Bexhillon-Sea. Career: Educ.: Clifton; articled pupil, James Mansergh, F.R.S., P.P.Inst.C.E.; Asst. Resident Engr., Birmingham Waterworks; Resident Engr., Whitby Waterworks; Consulting Sanitary Engr., Crown Agents for Colonies; Chief Engr., Public Health Dept., Government of Bengal. J.P. (Glamorgan); late Major, R.E. (T.F.); served South African War as Railway Staff Officer. Books: "The Flow of Water," "Storage Reservoirs," "Elementary Sanitary Engineering," "Sewage Disposal in India and the East."

WILLIAMS, H. B.Sc.(Tech.), A.M.I. E.E. Manager of Power Plant Dept., Henry Simon, Ltd., Cheadle Heath, Stockport. Private Address: "Inglebank," Barkers Lane, Sale, Cheshire. Specialist in Elect. Equipment of Flour Mills and Granaries.

WILLIAMS, Hal. M.Inst.R.A., M.I. Mech.E., M.I.E.E., M.I.Struct.E. Principal of Hal Williams & Co., Engr.-Architects, Consulting Engrs., 43 Bedford Square, W.C.1. Born: New Zealand. Educ.: Christ's Coll., Christchurch; trained professionally in England; practising since 1900. Specialities: The design of factories and commercial buildings; refrigeration in all its applications. Professional adviser to New Zealand Government and several corporations and public bodies, and to numerous commercial firms. Books: "Mechanical Refrigeration" and numerous pamphlets and lectures.

WILLIAMS, H. C. B.A., A.M.Inst.C.E. Deputy City Engr., Liverpool. Private Address: 10 Derwent Square, Stonycroft, Liverpool. Age: 59. Career: Liverpool Coll.; Worcester Coll., Oxford; pupil, the late J. A. Brodie, M.Inst.C.E., City Engr., Liverpool; Asst. Engr., Liverpool Corp., 1905-30, and Dep. City Engr., 1930-38; Asst. to Mr. Brodie on Commsn., advising on planning of New Delhi, 1912; war service, R.E., 1914-19, retired as Major; present position since 1930.

WILLIAMS, H. G. M.P., M.Eng., M.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E. Exec. Director (since 1934), Incorpd. Assocn. of Electric Power Cos., Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.I. Private Address: 80 Ashley Gardens, S.W.1. Age: 54. Career: 1911-28, Sec. Machine Tool Trades Assocn.; 1928-29, Parliamentary Sec. B.O.T.; 1929-34, Sec. Empire Economic C'tee; during war, R.A.O.C., and Sec. (unpaid), Machine Tool Dept., M. of M. M.P. for Reading, 1924-29, and for S. Croydon since 1932. Author of "Politics and Economics," "Through Tariffs to Prosperity," etc.

WILLIAMS, H. G. M.I.Mech.E. M.I.A.E. Senr. Partner, Williams & James, Chequers Bridge, Gloucester. Private Address: 148 Tuffley Avenue, Gloucester. Career: Apprent. Aveling & Porter, Ltd., Rochester. Later on staff of Edison & Swan, Ltd.; Sturtevant Eng. Co., Ltd.; Enfield Small Arms Factory; John I. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd. etc.; Past-President, Gloucestershire Eng. Society.

WILLIAMS, Harris Gregory. O.B.E. Private Address: 6 Windsor Crescent, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2. Career: 1884-89, Student of Naval Construction in H.M.S. Marlborough, Portsmouth, and R.N.E. Coll., Keyham; 1889-92, Probationary Asst. Constructor, R.N. Coll., Greenwich; 1892-1912, Member of Royal Corps of Naval Constructors; 1912-25, Local Director of Armstrong-Whitworth & Co., Ltd., at first as Supt. of Submarine Boat Design and Construction Dept., finally as General Manager of Naval and Commercial Shipbuilding yards.

WILLIAMS, J. A.M.I.E.E. Tech. Engr. (Chief), Central Electricity Board, South-East and East England Dists., Aldwych House, Aldwych, W.C.2. Private Address: "Hazeldene," 25 Downsway, Sanderstead, Croydon, Surrey. Age: 57. Career: Univ. Coll., Aberystwyth; Liverpool Univ.; Apprent., Metropolitan-Vickers Co.; English Elec. Co., Stafford, Test Bed, 9 months; Yorkshire Elec. Power Co., Asst. Operation Engr., and later Supt., Testing Dept. (total, 8 years); Salford Corpn., Tech. Asst. to City Elec. Engr., 10 years; present post for the past 10 years.

WILLIAMS, J. H. M.I.E.E., M.Inst. C.E., M.A.I.E.E. Deputy Chief Elect. Engr., Manchester Corpn. Elec. Dept., Town Hall, Manchester.

WILLIAMS, J. N. M.I.Mech.E., F.C.S. Asst. General Manager, Works Manager, Airscrew Co., Ltd., Weybridge, Surrey. Private Address: 50 Alfriston Road, London, S.W.11.

WILLIAMS, N. S. A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.I.Struct.E. Deputy Res. Engr., H.M.O.W., Brackla Hill, Bridgend, Glam. Private Address: "Penshurst," Victoria Avenue, Porthcawl, Glam. Age: 34. Career: Roan Sch., Greenwich; L.C.C. Sch. of Eng.; Regent St. Polytechnic; pupil, late J. R. Sharman; Eng. Asst. C.E. in C. Dept., Admiralty; Chief Constr. Engr., John Knox & Dyke, Eng. and Bldg. Contractors; Asst. to R. Travers Morgan, M.Inst.C.E.; Res. Engr. for Univ. of London, on new buildings at Bloomsbury; Res. Engr. for Mouchel & Partners.

WILLIAMS, Rees J. A.M.Inst.C.E., P.A.S.I., M.Inst.M. & Cy.E., M.R. San.I., Registered Architect. Borough Engr. and Surveyor, Town Hall, Tottenham, N.15. Age: 42. Career: 1912-14, pupil, Sir Chas. T. Ruthen, F.R.I.B.A., Swansea; War service, R.H.A. and R.F.A., France, Egypt and Palestine (despatches); 1918-20, T.P.Asst., Swansea; 1920-22, Asst. Engr., Newport, I.O.W.; 1922-24, Housing Asst., Gillingham; 1924-35, Deputy Engr. and Surveyor, Battersea; 1935-38, Borough Engr. and Surveyor, Poplar; present appointment, October, 1938.

WILLIAMS, T. H. A.M.Inst.C.E., NI.Inst.Gas.E. Engr. and Manager, Gas Works, L.M. & S. Rly., Wistaston Road, Crewe. Age: 52. Career: King Henry VIII Gramm. Sch., Abergavenny; Coll. of Tech., Manchester; Apprent. Locomotive Works, Crewe; Foreman, Testing Dept., Erecting Shop, Millwright's Dept.; Asst. Gas Works Manager; Gas Works Manager since 1920 at Crewe. Pres. Manchester Junr. Gas Assocn., 1933-34.

WILLIAMS, William Ellis. B.Sc., M.I. & S.I. Head of Dept. of Applied Electricity, Univ. Coll., Bangor, N. Wales. Educ.: Univ. Coll., Bangor; Univ. of Glasgow; Univ. of Munich (Germany). Fellow of Univ. of Wales.

WILLIAMS, William Thomas. O.B.E., B.Sc. (Eng.) (London), Wh.Ex., M.I. Mech.E., M.I.N.A., M.I.Mar.E. Engr. Surveyor-in-Chief, Board of Trade, Great George Street, S.W.1. Private Address: 47 Melville Road, S.W.13. Career: 1902-09, Marine Engr.. N. Zealand Shipping Co.; 1910, Engr. and Ship Surveyor, B.O.T.

WILLIAMS-ELLIS, Capt. Martyn Ivor. J.P., D.L., A.M.I.M.E., A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.Mech.E., M.I. South African E. Consulting Engr. and General Manager, J. W. Greaves & Sons, Ltd. Private Address: Plas Weunydd, Blaenau Festiniog, N. Wales. Age: 53. Career: Oundle Sch.; Apprent. Lionel Robinson & Co., and Sandycroft Foundry, Ltd.; Engr. to Buxton Lime Firms; General Manager and Engr., Sandycroft, Ltd., South Africa; Private practice.

WILLIAMSON, Alexander. B.Sc., M.Inst.C.E. Private Address: "Cairns," Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire. Educ.: Greenock Collegiate Sch. and Glasgow Univ. Managing Director of William Beardmore & Co., Ltd.; Master of the Cutlers' Company of Hallamshire, 1934-35.

WILLIAMSON, D. B. B.Sc., A.R.T.C., A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Manager, Sunvic Controls, Ltd., 1 Kingsway, W.C.2. Private Address: Wentworth, Woodside Avenue, Walton-on-Thames.

WILLIAMSON, E. A.M.I.E.E. Private Address: Linhill, Oxlea Road, Torquay. Age: 73. Career: Educ. in Germany and Macclesfield Gramm. Sch.; joined the National Telephone Co. in 1881; Electrician in several towns during early development; on transfer of Co. to the P.O. was appointed Dist. Manager, Glasgow; retired in 1924.

WILLIAMSON, Edward. M.I.Mech.E. Private Address: 16 Edenhurst Avenue, Hurlingham, London, S.W.6. Age: 78. For more than 30 years was London Manager, Manlove, Alliott & Co., Ltd., of London and Nottingham. Retired in 1936.

WILLIAMSON, Frank E. M.I.H.V.E., M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S.A., C.E. Sole Partner, Williamson & Co., Drinking Fountain Makers, 37 Nethergate, Dundee. Private Address: 13 Coupar Street, Dundee. Age: 58. Career: St. Andrews -Univ.; Scottish Manager, Matthews & Yates, Ltd., Swinton. Patents for Drinking Fountains, Taps and Water Regulators.

WILLIAMSON, Wing-Comdr. G. W. O.B.E., M.C., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech. E., M.I.E.E. London Manager, David Brown & Sons (Hudd.) Ltd., Bush House, London, W.C.2. Private Address: Arden, 20 Arterberry Road, Wimbledon, S.W.20. Career: Asst. Branch Manager, Siemens Bros., Bombay, 1912; Lt.-Col., War Office, and Air Ministry, 1917-18, in charge of aero-engine supply; Chief Engr. Officer in R.A.F. Commands and Depots, 1920-30; Asst. Director of Research and Design of Instruments, Air Ministry, till 1935; Gen. Manager, Reid & Sigrist, Ltd., 1935-38. Author of many technical articles; also short stories of flying.

WILLIAMSON, J. B.Sc., A.M.Inst. C.E., A.M.T.P.I. Deputy County Surveyor, East Riding of Yorkshire C.C., County Hall, Beverley, East Yorks. Age: 38. Career: Glasgow Univ.; M.O.T.; Staffs C.C.; Salop C.C.

WILLIAMSON, James. M.Inst.C.E. Chief Engr. and Director, Sir William Arrol & Co., Ltd., 85 Dunn Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow. Private Address: "Hillcrest," Milngavie, Dumbartonshire. Age: 57. Career: Royal Tech. Coll., Glasgow, and Glasgow Univ.; Chief Asst., Formans & McCall, C.E., Glasgow; Asst. Engr., Cleveland Bridge & Eng. Co.; Sectional Engr., Gretna Munitions Factory, with S. Pearson & Son, Ltd.; Chief Engr., Sir Alex. Gibb & Partners; Consulting Engr., Westminster; Chief Engr. and Director, Sir Wm. Arrol & Co., Ltd., Glasgow. Author of "Surveying and Field Work" (revised 1938), Constable.

WILLIAMSON, Richard. M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.I. & S., M.I.N.A., M.I.Mar.E., Managing Director, Shipbuilder, R. Williamson & Son, Ltd. and North West Shipping Co., Workington, Cumberland. Career: 1880, took over the shipbuilding yard at Workington; 1884, took on the addition of shipowning; has been connected with these ever since. Life Member, Inst. C.E., I.Mech.E., and I. & S.I.

WILLIS, Colonel Sir George H. Kt., C. I.E., M.V.O., M.I.Mech.E M.I.E. (Ind.). Director of various companies. Private Address: Bushland, Thibet Road, Sandhurst, Berks. Career: Service with R.E., 1895-1932, retired with rank of Colonel; 1915-26, Master of the Indian Mint; 1926-34, Master of Security Printing, India. PastPresident, Inst.E. (India); Life Member, I. Mech.E.; Chairman, Southern Branch, I. Mech. E.

WILLIS, Col. Richard F. C.B., M.I. E.E., R.I.B.A., Radio Soc. of Gt. Britain, British Inst. of Radiology. Address: 22 Campden House Chambers,. Campden Hill, London, W.8. Born: 1875. Career: Ed. Cheltenham Coll.; 2nd-Lieut., R.M.L.I., 1894; Chief Ordnance Officer, Barbados, 1901-5; i/c., Cleethorpes Wireless Station, 1908-12; Wireless Station, Gibraltar, 1912-19; and Ireland, 1921-22; retired 1923.

WILLOTT, Roland Lancaster. Capt., R.E.(T.), B.Sc.(Eng.), G.I.Mech.E., M.I. & S.I. Asst. Chief Engr., John Summers & Sons, Ltd., Hawarden Bridge Steelworks, Shotton, Chester. Private A ddress: Stafford House, Hawarden, Chester. Age: 26. Career: Wellington Sch.; Univ. of Wales; Apprent., Metropolitan Vickers; Sales Engr., General Eng. and Mech. Sales Dept., M.V.E. Co. Past-Chairman, N. Western Branch (Grad.) I.Mech.E.

WILLOX, W. A. A.C.G.I., A.M.Inst. C.E., A.M.Inst.T. Editor of "The Rly. Magazine" and Assoc. Editor of "The Rly. Gazette", 33 Tothill Street, London, S.W.1. Private Address: 24 Chelsea Gardens; S.W.1. Age: 47. Career: With Metropolitan Rly., 1912-14, on new construction; R.E. during the war; Greek Dept. of Reconstruction, 1919-21; L.B. & S.C. Rly. (later Southern Rly.), Engr.'s Dept., 1921-31; subsequently .as above.

WILLS, F. P. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.Ae.E., A.Am.I.E.E. Engr. Designer of Aircraft Instruments, Smith's Aircraft Instruments. Private Address: 13 Cricklewood Broadway, London, N.W.2. Age: 44. Career: 'Gresham's Sch., Holt, Norfolk, 1909-12; Univ. Coll., London, 1912-14 and 191920; 1920-26, B.T.H. Co.; 1926-32, G.E.C., Schenectady, U.S.A. Wireless Officer in R.A.F. during war.

WILLS, L. G. B.Sc., A.C.G.I., A.M. Inst.C.E. Director and Engr., Hoist & Co., Ltd., 1 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. Private Address: 22 Tamar Street, Kennington Cross, S.E.11. Age: 37. Career: Highgate Sch.; City and Guilds; Asst., F. Bolton, Cons. Engr., hydro-electric power devel.; K. Hall & Co., Re-inforced Concrete Engrs.; Hoist & Co.

WILLS, W. H. A.M.I.E.E. Mains Constructional Engr., North Wales Power Co., Ltd., Rhostyllen, Wrexham. Age: 34. Career: Liverpool Central Tech. Coll.; Apprent., Birkenhead Corpn. Elect. Dept.; Tech. Asst., Worcester Elect. Dept.; Constructional Engr., G. V. Twiss & Partners, Cons. Engrs., carrying on with appointment for the North Wales Power Co., when G. V. Twiss & Partners dissolved.

WILLSON, L. F. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M. I.E.E. Telephone Engr., Siemens Bros. & Co., Ltd., Woolwich, S.E.18. Private Address: 25 Ellesmere Gardens, Ilford, Essex. Age: 38. Grad. of Queen Mary's Coll., London.

WILMAN, C. W. M.I.E.E., A.R.P.S. Private Address: 7 Grange Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham. Author of "A Manual of Automatic Telephony", 'Automatic Telephony", etc.

WILMAN, W. E. A.C.G.I., A.M.I.E.E. 'Senn. Asst. Mains Engr., Hackney Elect. Dept., Hackney, London. Private Address: "Oakdene", Ashurst Road, Cockfosters, Middx. Age: 37. Career: Tech. Educ., City and Guilds.

WILMOT, H. F. B.A., B.A..I., A.M. Inst.C.E. Chief Engr., Sir Murdoch MacDonald & Partners, 72 Victoria Street, S.W.1. Private Address: Little Wotton, Slade Oak Lane, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. Age: 49. Career: Trinity Coll., Dublin (first Senr. Moderatorships in Maths. and Phil.). Served in Great War with 7th Leinsters and R.E.'s, 1914-19; Lecturer in Civil Eng., Eng. Sch., Gizeh, Cairo, 1919-27; with present firm since 1927.

WILMOTH, Victor James. B.A. (Cantab.) (Natural Sc.). Editor, "Civil Eng.", 6 Tower Hill, London, E.C.3. Private Address: 13 Springfield Road, St. John's Wood, London, N.W.8. Career: Educ.: Westminster Sch. and Trinity Coll., Cambridge. Spent seven years in Burma with British Burmah Petroleum Co., Ltd.; then joined "Civil Eng." as Asst. Editor; later Editor.

WILSON, Alexander Hall. B.Sc., M.I.N.A. Chairman and Managing Director, Hall, Russell & Co., Ltd., York Place, Aberdeen. Private Address: 2 Albyn Terrace, Aberdeen. Age: 61. Educ.: Robert Gordon's Coll. and Univ. of Aberdeen.

WILSON, Andrew. O.B.E., D.L., J.P., M.Inst.C.E., F.R.S.E. Consulting Engr., 51 Queen Street, Edinburgh. Private Address: 13 Ravelston Garden, Edinburgh. Age: 61. Career: Royal High Sch.; Heriot Watt Coll.; Edinburgh Univ.; Senr. Partner, Carter & Wilson, Cons. Engrs. Major, R.E., during war. Large practice as Expert Witness before Parliamentary Committees, Courts, etc. Arbiter in many Arbitrations.

WILSON, A. S. A.M.I.E.E. Dist. Manager, The British National Electrics, Ltd. 5 Great Chapel Street, Oxford Street, W.1.

WILSON, Charles Arthur. Capt. R.E. (Spec. Res.) Retired. M.Inst.C.E. F.R.S.A. Engr.-in-Chief, Grand Union Canal Co., Port of London Bdg., E.C.3. Private Address: 10 Garden Close, Watford, Herts. Age: 47. Career: Royal Tech. Coll., Glasgow; Caledonian Rly Co., Engr.'s Office, Glasgow (trainee); London Elect Rly. Co.; L. & N.E. Rly. Co.; Warwick Canals on formation of G.U.; Dist. Engr., Birmingham. War service, 4 years R.E.

WILSON, D. O.B.E., A.M.I.E.E., F.Inst. F. Private Address: St. Cuthberga, Wimborne, Dorset. Career: Five years with Thomas Parker, Eng. Works, Dundee; Supt. of "Bankside" Works, City of London Elect. Lighting Co., 1892-1904; Head of Testing Dept. and Gen. Sales Manager, Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd.; Gen. Sales Manager, Interl. Combustion, Ltd.; Tech. Adviser to Coal Controller.

WILSON, David Lumsden. B.Sc., Whitworth Scholar. Chief Engr. and Works Supt., General Refractories, Ltd., Genefax House, Sheffield, 10. Private Address: Endchile Crescent, Sheffield, 10. Age: 38. Career: Apprent., H.M. Dockyard, Rosyth, Fairfield Shipbuilding Co. and Burntisland Shipbuilding Co.; Glasgow Univ.; Engr., Harrisons & Crosfield, Ltd., in Travancore, S. India, 1924-34; Chief Engr., General Refractories, 1934, also Local Director and Works Supt; Director, Meltham Silica Firebrick Co., Ltd., and Mech. Equipments, Ltd.

WILSON, G. A. M.Eng., A.M.Inst.C.E. Civil Engr., C.E. in C.'s Dept., Admiralty, S.W.1. Age: 32. Career: Wrekin Coll.; Liverpool Univ.; in Persia with Anglo Iranian Oil Co.; 1931, Bridge Section, Min. of Trans.; Asst. Civil Engr., Admiralty; on return from work on Admiralty graving dock, Singapore, appointed Civil Engr. Chas. Hawkesley Prizeman, Inst.C.E.

WILSON, G. H. B.Sc.(Eng.) London, A.M.I.E.E. Elect. Engr., G.E.C. Research Labs., Wembley. Private Address: 46 Lawns Court, Wembley Park, Middx. Born: 1901. Career: Hornsey County Sch.; Finsbury Tech. Coll.; 1 year commercial post in London; with G.E.C. Research Labs. since 1922; now associated with Illumination Section. Jt. author "Theory and Design of Illuminating Eng. Equipment" (Chapman & Hall).

WILSON, H. M.I.E.E. Chief Elect. Engr., Electricity Works, Ashford, Kent. Age: 53. Career: 1894-1901, Wreights Sch., Faversham; 1901-03, Finsbury Tech. Coll.; 1904, London United Elect. Tramways; 1904-06, Ipswich Corpn.; 1906-21, Maidstone Corpn; 1921-24, Croydon; 1924, Paisley.

WILSON, Henry. B.Sc., Whit.Sch., A.I.Mar.E., Lloyd's Reg. Scholarship. Aircraft Technician, Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd., Whitley Aerodrome, Coventry. Private Address: 20 Annandale Street, Edinburgh, 7. Age: 29. Career: Heriot Watt Coll., 1930-32; Armstrong Coll., 1932-34; Apprent., Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, 1924-30; Asst. Lecturer, Coventry Tech. Coll., 1936.

WILSON, J. K. C. A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.I.Struct.E., P.A.S.I. Surveyor, H.M. Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland, York Buildings, Queen Street, Edinburgh.

WILSON, J. R. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., A.M. I.Mech.E. Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour, Govt. of Northern Ireland. Private Address: 88 Stranmillis Road, Belfast. Age: 38. Career: Royal Sch., Dungannon, Co. Tyrone; Queen's Univ., Belfast; Municipal Coll. of Tech., Belfast; Apprent., Workman Clark & Co., Ltd.; Junr. Engr., Harbour Power Station, Belfast Corpn. Elect. Dept.

WILSON, K. E. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M. I.E.E. Inspector, Construction Section, Engr.-in-Chief's Office, G.P.O., Alder House, London, E.C.1. Private Address: 178 Regents Park Road, London, N.3. Age: 35. Career: Strand Sch.; Univ. Coll., London; Engr., Posts and Telegraph, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, 1928-32; Engr.-in-Chief's Office, G.P.O., London, 1933 to date.

WILSON, Maurice FitzGerald. T.D., M.Inst.C.E., M.Cons.E. Senr. Partner in firm of Coode, Wilson, Mitchell & Vaughan-Lee, Consulting Engrs. (Harbours, Docks and Rivers), 9 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.1. Private Address: 11 The Grove, The Boltons, London, S.W.10. Career: Articled to Sir John Coode, K.C.M.G., in 1881; Asst. Engr. to Lucas & Aird, Tilbury Docks; Bodmin and Wadebridge Rly.; Res. Engr., St. Ives Harbour Works; Southampton Docks extensions under W. R. Galbraith for L. & S.W. Rly.; Marine Surveys, Dover, and elsewhere; 1896, Supt. Engr., Admiralty Harbour, Dover; 1906, Partner in firm of Coode, Son & Matthews. Many years Member, B.E.S.A. and B.S.I. (Chairman, 192833); Vice-Pres., Inst.C.E.

WILSON, R. A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M. Inst.W.E. Asst. Engr., Cty. Engr.'s Office, Ayr C.C., County Buildings, Ayr. Private Address: 32 Mannering Road, Shawlands, Glasgow, S.1. Age: 28. Educ.: Shawlands Academy; Glasgow Royal Tech. Coll.; trained, Warren & Partners, C.C.E., Glasgow, 1927-31, and Asst., 1931-35; Asst. Engr., Ayr C.C., since 1935.

WILSON, R. J. W. A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.I.Gas E. Mech. Engr., Tottenham and Dist. Gas Co., London. Private Address: Elmlea, Willoughby Lane, Tottenham, N.17. Age: 51.

WILSON, R. W. B.Sc.(lst Cl. Hons.), Wh.Sch., A.C.G.I., D.I.C., A.M.I.E.E. Vice-Principal, Blackpool Tech. Coll., Blackpool. Private Address: 200 Devonshire Road North, Blackpool. Age: 33. Career: 1921-25, Apprent., H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth; 192528, City and Guilds; 1928-35, Lecturer in Elect. Eng., Loughborough Coll. 1935-36, Head of Eng. Dept., Cheltenham Tech. Coll.; 1936, present appointment.

WILSON, T. U. M.B.E., A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.M. & Cy.E. Dep. County Surveyor, Lanarkshire C.C., County Offices, Hamilton. Private Address: The Knowe, Strathaven, Lanarkshire. Age: 35. Career: Eng. experience with Air Ministry, civil and mech. engrs., and public works contractors, 1918-26; thereafter, with Lanarkshire C.C. Lieut.-Col., R.A. (T.A.), cmdg. 54 Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artil. (T.A.).

WILSON, William. D.Sc., B.Eng., M.I.E.E., M.Am.I.E.E. Head of Switchgear Development Dept., General Elect. Co., Ltd., Witton, Birmingham. Private Address: Ventnor, 330 Boldmere Road, Erdington, Birmingham. Career: Christ's Coll.; Canterbury Univ. Coll., Christchurch, N.Z. Lecturer in Elect. Eng., Auckland Univ. Coll., seven years. After various elect., marine and land billets, joined G.E.C. in 1917. Chairman, South-Midland Centre, I.E.E., 1927-28; Chairman, B.E.A.M.A. Switchgear Tech. Committee, five years; Chairman, Motor Control Tech. Committee, five years; Chairman, various B.S.I. Committees; Chairman, Motor Control Committee, Electric Research Assocn. Books: "Small Electric Generating Sets" (Benn); "Electric Control Gear" (Oxford Univ. Press); "Calculation and Design of Elect. Apparatus" (Pitman); author of "Industrial Electrification" Section in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", etc.

WILSON, W. A. A.M.I.E.E. Retired. Private Address: Sandy Lodge, Friars Cliff, Christchurch, Hants. Age: 70. Career: George Watson's Coll.; St. Oswald's Sch., Cullercoats; training, Paterson & Cooper, and Finsbury Tech. Coll.; various installations for Paterson & Cooper; Asst. to Chief Engr., City of London Elect. Lighting Co.; in 1901 appointed Supt. of cable laying in Contract Dept. of British Insulated Wire Co., Ltd. (later British Insulated and Helsby Cables, Ltd.), and eventually Sales and Publicity Manager, retiring in 1928.

WILSON, W. D. A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.M. & Cy.E. Divisional Surveyor, Aberdeen C.C., 25 Union Terrace, Aberdeen. Age: 44. Career: Aberdeen Gramm. Sch.; Robert Gordon's Coll.; Apprent., Jenkins & Marr, C.E. and Archts.; served 4i years R.E.,finally Capt.; Cty. Surveyor, Orkney C.C., 1922-26; Divinl. Surveyor, Mar. Div., Cty. of Aberdeen.

WILSON, W. D. A.M.I.E.E. Elect. Engr. and Contractor, 9 Booth Street, Bradford. Age: 53. Career: Bradford Tech. Coll.; training, 1901-10, British Westinghouse Co., Ltd.; 1910, commercial business on own account.

WILSON, W. Proctor. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.C.G.I., M.I.E.E. Research Engr., British Broadcasting Corpn., Portland Place, London, W. Private Address: St. James Lodge, 6 The Avenue, Beckenham, Kent. Age: 36.

WILSON, W. S. M.I.E.E. With Johnson & Phillips, Ltd., 1 Eldon Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

WIMPERIS, Harry E. C.B., C.B.E., M.A., Wh.Sch., Acting Advisor in aeronautical research to Commonwealth of Australia, 1937. Born: 1876. Career: Ed. Gonville and Caius Coll.; Imperial Coll. of Sc. (Tyndall Prizeman); 4 yrs. in engg. works; engg. staff of Crown Agents for Colonies, 1901-14; service in R.N.A.S., and R.A.F., and A.M. Lab., 1915-25; Director of Sc. Research, Air Ministry, 1925-37; Member, Aeronautical Research C'tee.; Pres., Royal Aero. Soc.; Wilbur Wright Lecturer, 1932.

WIMSHURST, James E. M.I.Mar.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.N.A., Consulting Engineer and Naval Architect. Business Address: 101 Leadenhall Street, London, E.C.3. Private Address: 103 Mycenae Road, Blackheath, Kent. Career: Apprent., Maudslay, Sons & Field, Lambeth; Engr. in various vessels of Thomas Wilson & Co., Hull, and the China Mutual Steam Navigation Co., London; Supt. Engr. of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. from 1902 to 1915, in Southampton; Consulting Engr. and Naval Architect in London from 1915 to date.

WINCH, Gordon Thomas. A.M.I.E.E., F.Inst.P. Research Engr.Physicist at G.E.C. Research Laboratories, North Wembley, Middx. Private Address: 15 Parkfield Avenue, East Sheen, S.W.14.

WINDER, R. F. A.M.I.E.E. Res. Engr., The Northmet E.P.S. Co. Private Address: 34 Hertford Road, Hoddesdon, Herts. Age: 39. Career: King's Sch., Canterbury; Faraday House; W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Ltd.; The North Metropolitan Elect. Power Supply Co.

WINDRED, G. A.M.I.E.E. Elect Engr., Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd., Brentford, Middx. Private Address: 64 Park House Gardens, Twickenham, Middx. Career: London Univ., 1920-24; Elect. Designer, Igranic Elect. Co., Ltd., Bedford, 1924-35; Lecturer in Elect. Eng., Bedford Tech. Inst. Author of numerous articles and papers in British and foreign tech. journals.

WINDROSS, F. E. A.M.I.E.E. Sales Representative, Christy Bros. & Co., Ltd., Chelmsford, Essex. Private Address: 64 Lady Lane, Chelmsford, Essex. Career: Fourteen years General Electric Co., including 5 years apprent.; 14 years, Crompton, Parkinson, Ltd., in Contracts and Sales Depts.

WINGFIELD, Charles Humphrey. M. Inst.C. E., M.I.Mech.E. Private Address: 7 Ormidale Terrace, Edinburgh. Career: Chief Mech. Engr., John I. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd.; Chief Engr., Willans & Robinson, Ltd.; Draughtsman, Simpsons, Pimlico; Consulting Engr.; Tech. Witness. Past-Pres., Rugby Eng. Soc.; Member of Inst. C.E. Committee on Strength of Materials. Author of many contributions to I.N.A., Inst.C.E., I.Mech.E., etc., and to the tech. Press. Editor of Inst. C.E. paper on "Method of Testing Engines and Boilers".

WINSTANLEY, Edwin Victor. B.Sc. (Tech.), M.I.Mech.E. Condenser Engr., The Metropolitan-Vickers Elect. Co., Ltd., Trafford Park, Manchester. Private Address: Coniston, Cecil Avenue, Ashton-on-Mersey, Ches. Career: Educ.: The Coll. of Technology, Manchester; Apprent., Mech. Engr., Metropolitan-Vickers, and in their employ ever since.

WINSTANLEY, H. Murray. M.I.E.E., M.Cons.E. Partner, Handcock & Dykes, 11 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, S.W.1. Private Address: Tyler's Green, Cuckfield, Sussex. Career: Private training; pupilage with. Strode & Co.; Elect. Dept., G.C. Rly.7 Shift Engr. and in charge of public lighting, Croydon Corpn.; elect. installations in Canada; British Electric Transformer Co., experimenting with, and designing, automatic switchgear; track and overhead construction of tramway extensions at Dover; Inspection Dept., Drake & Gorham, Ltd.; elect. and mech. equipment of copper mines, including power stations, in Chile; in charge of foreign agencies and Branch Manager, Veritys, Ltd.; Partner, Wilkinson & Partners; advising on industrial development of Native States in India consulting for factory elect. installations, etc.

WITHEFORD, A. A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.I.Mech. E., A.M.I.Struct.E. Roads and Bridges Engr., City Engr.'s Dept., Sheffield. Private Address: 31 Glentilt Road, Carterknowle, Sheffield, 7. Age: 36. Career: Sheffield Univ., 1918-27 (Associateship in Eng., Baker Prize Winner); Training, Thos. Firth, and John Brown, Ltd., Sheffield; Asst. Works Engr., 1929-36.

WITHERS, A. S. A.M.I.E.E., M.Inst. B.E. Elect. Clerk of Works, Enfield, Edmonton and Potters Bar Jt. Hospital Board, Winchmore Hill. Age: 43. Career: Bradford Gramm. Sch.; training, Phoenix Dynamo Co., Ltd., Bradford, and 1916-19, Chief Electrician; 191922 Senior Tester, English Electric Co., Bradford; 1922-38, Elect. Engr., M. Oldroyd & Sons, Ltd., Dewsbury.

WITHERS, B. B.Sc. (Eng.), A.M.I.E.E. Transformer Engr., B.T.H. Co., Ltd., Rugby. Private Address: 62 Fisher Avenue, Hillmorton Paddox, Rugby. Career: Taunton's Sch., Southampton, 1910-17; Univ. Coll., Southampton, 1917-20; Apprent., B.T.H., 1920-23; Transformer Eng. Dept., 1923 to present.

WITTS, A. T. A.M.I.E.E. Engr., Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., London. Private Address: 43 Meadowside Road, Cheam, Surrey. Age: 39. Author of "Thermionic Valves in Modern Radio Receivers", "Television Cyclopaedia", "The Superheterodyne Receiver", etc.

WIX, Francis Robin. Special Tech. Committees of the B.S.I., and of The British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Assoc.; Assoc. Inst. Loco.E; M Inst. Met. Director, The Phosphor Bronze Co., Ltd., 54, St. Thomas Street, Borough, London, S.E. Private Address: "Meads", Cornwall Road, Cheam, Surrey. Age: 55. Training: Works Manager of the Phosphor Bronze Co., Ltd., previously 10 years with the Tandem Smelting Syndicate.

WOLF, H. A.M.Inst.C.E. Civil Engr., Supt. Civil Engr.'s Office, Devonport. Age: 38. Career: Wellingborough Sch., 1910-17; War service, 1917-19; Manchester Univ., 1919-22; served with L.M.S. Rly., L.P.T.B., L.C.C., Admiralty, and with Contractors. Author of "Civil Eng. under Roman Empire".

WOLF, W. A. L. B.Sc.(Hons.), A.M.Inst.C.E. Mines and Quarry Manager, Irchester Ironstone Co., and Wensley Lime Co., Cargo Fleet Works, Middlesbro'. Private Address: Warkton Lane, Barton Seagrave, Kettering. Age: 40. Career: Wellingboro' Sch., 1908-15; Manchester Univ., 1915-16 and 1919-21; War service, 1916-18; Engr. and Surveyor, Islip Furnaces, 1921-31; Quarries Manager, Islip Ironstone and Limestone Quarries, Stewarts & Lloyds, Ltd., 1931-38; present appointment, 1938.

WOLSELEY-LEWIS, F. T. A.C.G.I., A.M. Inst. C. E. Private Address: Glendale, Hornyold Road, Malvern. Age: 66. Career: Cheltenham Coll.; City and Guilds; Apprent., Cochran & Co., Annan; Fitter, Scott's, Ltd.; sea-going Engr., Ocean s.s. Co.; Draughtsman to various firms, including Hawthorn, Leslie. & Co., Babcock & Wilcox, Davidson & Co., Belfast, Hy. Simon & Co., etc., etc.; at one time Eng. Estimator, Hans Renold. Ltd. 1922-38 Tech. Tutor, Malvern Tech Sch. (evening), in Eng. Sc. and Drawing, Maths., etc.

WOLSTENHOLME, George Ethelbert. M.I.Mech.E., F.R.S.A., M.I. & S.I., Freeman of Cutlers' Co. of Hallamshire, Member of Council, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce. Local Director, Thos. Firth and John Brown, Ltd.; Director of The FirthBrearley Stainless Steel Co., Ltd., Atlas and Norfolk Works, Sheffield. Private Address: 9 Ranmore Crescent, Sheffield. Career: Ethic. privately, and Sheffield Univ. Coll.; indentured apprent. to eng.; one time Managing Director of Vosper's, Portsmouth; pioneer in the practical and commercial uses of Firth Stainless Steel. Author of two "Chairman" addresses, 1934-35: "A Survey of Eng. and Metallurgical Progress"; "The Choice of Steels for Particular Purposes".

WOOD, B. M.A., A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Engr., Merz & McLellan, 32 Victoria Street, S.W.1. Private Address: 16 Park House Gardens, East Ickenham. Age: 33. Career: Bingley Gramm. Sch., Yorks.; Emmanuel Coll., Cambridge; Apprent., English Electric, Stafford; Dundee Corpn. Station, Asst. Shift Engr.; British Brown Boveri, London, in charge of Elect. Contracts.

WOOD, C. E. O. M.Inst.C.E., F.R.G.S. Chief Engr., Fighter Command, R.A.F. Private Address: "Woodstock", Old Church Lane, Stanmore, Middx. Age: 46. Career: Dorman, Long & Co., Middlesbrough, 1914; Territorial Army, 1911-14; Regular Army (R.E.), 1915-20, (France, Belgium, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Arabia); Air Ministry, 1920 to date (Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, 1920-24; Singapore, Malaya, Hong Kong and Sarawak, 1927-37). Pres., Eng. Assocn. of Malaya, 1937: Vice-Chairman, Malayan Assocn. of Inst.C.E., 1937.

WOOD, F. M.Inst.C.E. Consulting Engr., Thornleigh, Moorland Road, Poulton-le-Fylde. Age: 69. Educ.: Univ. Coll., Liverpool; Royal Univ., Dublin. Late Borough Engr., Blackpool and Fulham. Large experience in Modern Road Construction, Sea Defence Works, Sewerage, and Municipal Works generally. Author of "Modern Road Construction" "'Practical Sanitary Engineering".

WOOD, Gavin John. M.I.Mar.E. Temp. appointed Supt. Engr., The Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd., St. Helen's Court, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C.3. Private Address: 20 Radley Road, Wallasey, Cheshire. Age: 45. Career: Liverpool Tech. Sch. and Coll. of Eng.; one year training, C. & S. Wilson, Liverpool, Elect. Engrs., and 5 years, H. & C. Grayson, Marine Engrs., Bootle; Marine Engr., The Leyland Line, R. P. Houston, J. Chadwicks, and Branch Line, all of Liverpool. For the last 15 years has served with The AngloSaxon Petroleum Co.

WOOD, Harold Carrington. M.I.Mech. E., M.I. & S.I. General Sales Manager, The Wellman, Smith Owen Eng. Corpn., Ltd., Victoria Station House, London, S.W.1. Private Address: 5 Lancaster Gate, London, W.2. Specialist in construction of machinery for steelworks, rolling mills and coke ovens.

WOOD, H. J. B.Sc.(Tech.), A.M.Inst. C.E., A.M.Inst.M. & Cy.E. Eng. Asst., City Engr.'s Dept., The Council House, Coventry. Age: 29. Career: Manchester Gramm. Sch.; Manchester Univ.; Boro. Surveyor's Office, Stockport, 1929-34, and Grimsby, 1934-36; Coventry since 1936.

WOOD, Capt. J. A. M.C., A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Engr., P.O. Eng. Dept., London Telecommunications Region, Room 3, 5 Cheapside, London, E.C.2.

WOOD, J. L. A.M.I.E.E., A.H.W.C. Change-over Engr., Finchley Corpn. Elect. Dept., Squires Lane, Finchley, N.3. Private Address: 2 Stanhope Court, East End Road, Finchley, N.3. Age: 32. Career: George Watson's Coll.; Heriot-Watt Coll., Edinburgh; Apprent., British Thomson Houston Co., Ltd.; Power Engr., B.T.H. Co.'s Cardiff Office, 1932-35; Asst. Elect. Engr. at St. Andrew's undertaking of The Electric Supply Corpn., Ltd., 1936-38.

WOOD, J. M. M.Inst.C.E., ALInst. M.E., F.S.A. Consulting Engr. (expert witness in connection with Water Supplies). Private Address: 11 Cavendish Mansions, Langham Street, London, W.1. Age: 78. Career: Univ. Coll., London; Engr. to the (former) New River Co., and later, Northern Dist., Met. Water Board; retired 1924; subsequently, extensive practice as Consultant in connection with water supplies, home and abroad; Cons. Engr. to numerous Municipal bodies and County Councils; expert Witness on Parliamentary Committees, both Houses and Law Courts. Author of several reports (Public) on Water Supplies; Director of several Water Companies.

WOOD, K. L. M.I.E.E. Engr.-in-Chief, Cable and Wireless, Ltd., Electra House, Victoria Embankment, W.C.2. Private Address: "Flotterton", 12 Addington Road, Sanderstead, Croydon. Age: 54. School: Christ's Hospital. Hon. Capt., R.E. (T.), London Elect. Engrs. Various Telegraphic Patents, etc.

WOOD, L. E. A.M.I.E.E. Managing Director, Airedale Elect. and Mfg. Co., Ltd. MactaWorks, Low Moor, Bradford. Age: 57. Elect. Engr. to: Frontino and Bolivia Gold Mining Co., Ltd.; Taquah and Abosso Mining and Exploration Co., Ltd.; Montreal Cottons, Valleyfield, P.Q., Canada. Author of "A Practical Treatise on ThreePhase Induction Motors" (two editions); contributor to English and American Tech. Journals; inventor.

WOOD, L. J. Cardew. A.C.G.I., B.Sc. (Eng.), A.M.Inst.C.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., Director, Bells' Asbestos and Eng., Ltd., Bestobell Works, Slough. Career: Dulwich Coll.; City and Guilds. R.F.C. during war. Eight years in India on Refrigeration, Water-Filtration, etc.

WOOD, W. E. A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst. M. & Cy.E., M.R.San.I. Surveyor and Water Engr., Stone U.D.C., Staffs. Age: 27. Career: Mill Hill Sch.; articled J. M. Gameson, Friern, Barnet U.D.C.; 1930-31, Junr. Engr. Asst., Slough; 1931-34, 3rd Asst., The Maidens of Coombe U.D.C.; 1934-37, Asst. Surveyor, Barnet U.D.C.; 1937-38, Surveyor and Water Engr., Thame U.D.C.

WOOD, W. G. C.S.I., A.M.Inst.C.E. Private Address: Sandridge, Grange Road, Camberley, Surrey. Age: 76. Career: Wellington Coll.; R.I. Eng. Coll., Cooper's Hill; United Provinces P.W.D., rising to Chief Engr., Buildings and Roads branch; later Principal, Thomason Civil Eng. Coll.

WOOD, W. J. H. M.I.E.E., M.I. Mech.E. Eng.-in-Chief, The County of London Elect. Supply Co., Ltd., 46/7 New Broad Street, E.C.2.

WOODCOCK, V. A.M.C.T., A.M.I.E.E. Elect. Engr., Manchester Corpn. Private Address: 19 Norley Drive, Sale, Cheshire. Age: 35. Career: Oswald Road Sch., Chorlton-c.-H.; Chorlton Cent. Sch.; Manchester Coll. of Tech.; Apprent., Metropolitan-Vickers; thereafter with Metro.-Vick., G.E.C., and Richard Thomas (London office); Manchester Corpn., 1938.

WOODFIELD, Charles Henry. M.I. Mech.E., M.I.Struct.E. Managing Director, Woodfield Hoisting and Mfg. Co., Ltd., Samudas Wharf, Millwall, London, E.14. Private Address: 8 Devonshire Mansions, London, W.1. Career: Educ.Newport Tech. Sch., Univ. Coll., Cardiff, and Univ. Coll., London. Iron and steel works of J. J. Cordes & Co., Newport. Production Manager, Eng. works at Cardiff, and Gen. Manager of works in London; then started new business at Millwall for mfr. of electric luffing cranes, hoisting machinery and pile-driving plants. Inventor of electric stacking machines, level luffing for cranes, friction clutches, centrifugal brakes, automatic lubricators, motor-driven cargo winches for ships, pumping plants for contractors' work. Director of Appleby & Co., Ltd., Crane Builders, London. Member of Local Employment Committee under Ministry of Labour; Member of Committee on Cranes, B.S.I. Book: "The Mechanical Handling of Goods".

WOODFORDE, R. F. M. A.M.I.E.E. Elect. Engr., Tate & Lyle (Sugar Refiners), Liverpool. Private Address: 59 Langdale Road, Liverpool. Age: 57. Career: King's Sch., Bruton, Som.; Univ. Coll., Bristol (1st Class Diplomas, Elect, and Mech. Eng.); 1899-1900, Student, Humpage, Jacques & Redowen, Mech. Engrs., Bristol; 1901-5, with Henry Tate & Sons, Geo. Lunt, Sons & Co., and British Acetylene Gas Co.; with Tate & Lyle since 1905.

WOODIWISS, W. A.M.I.E.E., E. P. E. A. Distribution Supt., Corpn. Elect. Dept., Perth. Career: 1922, Bradford Tech. Coll. Diploma; 1923, City and Guilds (1st Class Hons.); 2 years Student with Bradford Corpn. Elect. Dept.; 10 years Mains Asst., Dundee.

WOODLAND, R. A.M.I.E.E. Transmission Engr., Laboratory of Automatic Telephone & Electric Co., Liverpool. Private Address: 2 Glenwyllin Road, Waterloo, Liverpool. Late Lieut., R.E. Age: 44. Career: Prior to war, Inspector of Telegraph Apparatus, Automatic Telephone Co.; 191417, Signal Officer, Western Command; 1917-20, i.c. Signals, Western area. 1920-32, Radio Engr., Cunard S.S; Co.; 1932-35, Radio Supt. and Designer, International Marine Radio Co.; 1935, present appointment. Inventor of the Fullerphone, Cryptophone, Automatic Morse Teacher, etc. Holder of 1st Class P.M.G. Cert. for Radio Tele. Responsible for ship to shore radio telephone installations on Berengaria and Aquitania.

WOODLEY, Donald S. M.I.H. & V.E., F.R.S.A. Director and Chief Engr., Keith Blackman Co., Ltd., 27 Farringdon Avenue, London, E.C.4. Private Address: The Ryepeck, Grange Gardens, Pinner, Middx. Career: Tech. educ.: London and Belfast; trained in works of Workman, Clark & Co., Belfast; subsequently with The Westinghouse Brake Co., and J. I. Thornycroft, of Southampton.

WOODLIFFE, V. A. F.C.I.I., A.M.I.E.E. Surveyor, Royal Insurance Co., Ltd., Lombard Street, E.C.3. Private Address: 12 Nightingale Road, Hampton, Middx. Age: 45. Career: Fire Insurance Lecturer, Insurance Inst of London.

WOODROW, F. H. B.Sc., A.M.Inst. C.E. Executive Engr., P.W.D., Nigeria. Private Address: 199 Ringinglow Road, Sheffield. Age: 33. Career: 1923-27, Univ. Coll., Nottingham; (Kitchener Scholar) President of Union, 1926; 1927-29, Asst. Engr., S.R., Southampton Docks (1851, Exhibition Bursary holder); 1929 to date, P.W.D., Nigeria.

WOODS, E. W. A.M.I.E.E., Mech. E. Engr.-in-Charge, Cables & Wireless, Ltd., Wireless Station, Carnarvon.

WOODS, F. A.M.I.E.E. Chief Engr., The Woking Elect. Supply Co., Ltd., Woking, Surrey. Private Address: Heather Copse, Kettlewell Hill, Woking, Surrey. Age: 50.

WOODS, R. A. A.M.I.E.E. General Manager, Reginald Woods, Manchester. Private Address: "Westholme," Temple Road, Sale, Cheshire. Age: 32. Career: Harrow; Regent St. Polytechnic; Park Royal Eng. Co., Ltd.; The British Elec. & Allied Mfrs' Assocn.; Ferguson Pailin, Ltd.

WOODS, R. A. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I.E.E. Tech. Asst. (Distribution), West Midlands J.E.A., Phoenix Buildings, Dudley Road, Wolverhampton. Age: 32. Career: Nottingham High Sch.; Univ. Coll., Nottingham; Tech. Asst. to Mains Supt., Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Elec. Power Co., Ilkeston.

WOODS, R. C. A.M.I.E.E., M.I.R.S.E. Engr., Research Dept., Ericsson Telephones, Ltd., Beeston, Notts. Private Address: "The Bungalow," Cavendish Place, Beeston, Nottingham. Age: 44. Career: Derby Sch.; Derby Tech. Coll.; Univ. Coll., Nottingham; Entered Midland Rly. Co., Engr's. (Elect.) Dept., Derby, under Training Scheme; held appointments as Lab. Asst. and Tech. Asst. successively; joined Research Staff of Ericsson Telephones in 1919.

WOODS, V. S. A.M.Inst.C.E. Private Address: Firlands, Grayshott, Hindhead, Surrey Chairman of Ransome & Manes Bearing Co., Ltd., Newark, Notts. Mayor of E. Retford, 1918-19 and 1919-20.

WOODWARD, C. H. A.M.I.E.E. Elect. and Public Lighting Engr., County Borough of Bournemouth. Private Address: "Keniston," Comber Road, Moordown, Bournemouth. Age: 59. Trained as Mfg. Chemist, followed subsequently by training as an Elect. Engr.

WOODWARD, E. E. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Lesturer (Elect. Eng. and Physics), North Western Polytechnic, N.W.5, and Borough Polytechnic, S.E.1. Private Address: 36 Heming Road, Edgware, Middx. Author of "Electricity and Magnetism for Schools" (Blackie).

WOOLDRIDGE, Frank Leslie. Assoc. M. Inst. C. E., M. Inst. M. & Cy. E. Borough Engr. and Surveyor, County Borough of Barrow-in-Furness, Town Hall, Barrow-in-Furness. Private Address: 6 Croslands Park Road, Barrowin-Furness. Age: 36. Career: Staffs. County Tech. Coll.; Articled Borough Engr. and Surveyor, Wolverhampton; Eng. Asst., Dudley; Eng. Asst., Asst. Dist. Surveyor, and Dist. Surveyor (Eastern Div.), Birmingham; Dep. Borough Engr. and Surveyor, Huddersfield.

WOOLLARD, Lloyd. M.A., M.I.N.A. (Council), Mem. Lond. Math. Soc. Asst. Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty, London, S.W.1. Private Address: 2 Laurel Road, Barnes, S.W.13. Age: 56. Training: R.N. Coll., Greenwich; Queen Mary Coll., London, and Thames Ironworks.

WOOLLEY, G. E. W. A.C.G.I., A.M. Inst.C.E. Manager, Bingley, Son & Follit, Ltd., Millbank Works, Chase Road, N.W.10. Private Address: The Studio, 19 St. Anne's Villas, W.11. Age: 34. Career: Christ's Hospital; City and Guilds; now concerned with the manufacture of Slate Vats and with the manufacture of Switchboard Panels in slate and in synthetic materials mainly containing asbestos.

WOOLMER, H. C. A.M.Inst.C.E., M. I. M. M. Director of Companies. Private Address: 39 Craven Road, W.2. Age: 67. Career: Sherborne Sch.; King's Coll., London; Mining experience in many parts of the world; 1906-17, General Manager of the Spassky Copper Mines, Ltd., Russia, closed down by the Revolution.

WOOLNOUGH, G. L. B.E., F.S.A. S.M., A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.E. Aust. Elect. Engr., Meter Dept., Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Trafford Park, Manchester, 17. Age: 30. Career: Educ.: Scotch Coll., South Australia; Adelaide Univ.; South Australian Sch. of Mines and Industries.

WOOLTORTON, F. L. D. B.Sc., A.IVI.lnst.C.E. Executive Engr., Buildings and Roads, P.W.D., Burma. Private Address: c/o Lloyds Bank, Ltd., Phayre Street, Rangoon, Burma. Age: 35. Career: Educ.: Bungay, Brentwood and East London Colls.; Ministry of Transport; Dr. Oscar Faber (4 years); Burma P.W.D. since March, 1929.

WORDLEY, W. A. A.M.I.E.E., M. Inst.F. Power Plant Engr., The Bradford Dyer's Assocn., Ltd., Bradford. Private Address: 83 Shipley Fields Road, Bradford. Age: 48.

WORGER, Douglas Fitzgerald. M.Inst. C.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.Brit.W.Wks.Ass. Private Address: "The Glen", Sutton Lane, Banstead, Surrey. Age: 82. Career: Pupil under Loco. Supt., L.B. & S.C. Rly.; Asst. Engr., S. & V.W.C.; Asst. Engr., Met. Water Board; Southern Dist. Engr., M.W.B., for 12 years, pensioned in 1918. For the last three years has given up all professional work.

WORLLEDGE, Col. J. P. G. 0.B.E., A.M.I.E.E. Private Address: Glenwilliam Castle, Ballingarry, Co. Limerick, Eire. Age: 50. Career: Wellington Coll.; R.M.A.; Sch. of Military Eng.; Christ's Coll., Cambridge; entered R.E. in 1907, transferred to Royal Signals on formation of that Corps in 1920; retired as Colonel in 1938, after holding for 4 years the appointment of Member of the R.E. and Signals Board of the War Office, in which he was responsible for the design and development of all communication equipment of the Army —wireless, telegraphy and telephony. During service, held appointments at Pekin, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq; commd. 1st Divl. Signals. In 1932, was Delegate-Plenipotentiary, Intl. Telecomtn. Conf., Madrid. War: In commd. Wireless Squad. of Cavalry Corps Signals, and 4th Divl. Signals; Asst. Director of Signals, 5th Army; Chief Instructor in Electricity, S.M.E., Chatham, while recovering from wounds; Instructor, and later Chief Signal Officer, British Military Mission to South Russia, 1919; 1920, Pres., Inter-Allied Commission of Control, Ottoman Telegraphs, and Chief Signal Officer, Allied Corps, Constantinople. Despatches, three times.

WORSSAM, Ralph. M.I.Mech.E. Managing Director, G. J. Worssam & Son, Ltd., Wenlock Road, N.1. Private Address: Little Dorothorpe, St. Albans. Age: 52. Educ.: Univ. Coll., London.

WORTHINGTON, William B. D.Sc., Lieut.-Col. R.E. (T. F.) (retd. ), M. Inst. C.E. Chartered Civil Engr. (retd.) Private Address: Highfield, Bushey Heath, Middx. Career: Articled to the late S. Barton Worthington, M.Inst.C.E.; 1875-76, with Blyth & Cunningham; 1876-83, Res. Engr., L. & N.W. Rly., New Works, South Lancs.; 1883-90, Dist. Engr. and Divisional Engr., L. & N.W. Rly.; 1890-97, Asst. Engr., L. & Y. Rly.; 1897-1905, Chief Engr., L. & Y. Rly.; 1905-17, Engr.-in-Chief, Midland Rly. Past-Pres., Inst.C.E., and Smeatonian Soc. of C.E.; Chairman, Eng. Jt. Council, 1922-23.

WRATE, W. A. A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.W. Elect. and Welding Engr., The Quasi Arc Co., Ltd., London. Private Address: 17 Salisbury Road, Carshalton, Surrey.

WRATHALL, E. T. A.C.G.I., A.M. I. E. E. Wireless Telegraph Engr., Marconi's Address: Torwood, Co., Ltd. Private Little Baddow Road, Little Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex. Age: 34. Career: Educ. at Polytechnic; City and Guilds Coll.; Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., Transmission Design; Marconi Co., engaged in development and installation of various radio and radio telephone works.

WREFORD, W. L. A.M.I.E.E. Director, Industrial Electroplant, Ltd., and Agent for Bulpitt & Sons, Ltd., Birmingham. 9 Billiter Square, London, E.C.3. Career: Exeter Sch.; Nottingham Univ. Coll.; Apprent., British Westinghouse Co., Ltd.; West Ham Corpn. Elect. Dept., Sales Dept.; R. H. & S. Rogers, Ltd., London, Factory Installation; Pooley & Austin, Broadway, Westminster, Sales Manager and Partner; now Director, Industrial Electroplant, Ltd.

WRIGHT, A. C. A.M.I.E.E. Generation Supt., Salford Corpn. Elect. Dept., Agecroft Power Station, Pendlebury, Manchester.

WRIGHT, Col. Sir Charles. Bt., K.B.E., M.I. & S.I. Chairman, Baidwins, Ltd. Private Address: 46 Cadogan Place, London, S.W.1.

WRIGHT, C. H. A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Engr., P.O. Engr.'s Dept. Private Address: 41 Dallinger Road, Lee, S.E.12. Age: 39. Silver Medalist (Telephony) C. & G.I.

WRIGHT, C. H. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Tech. Correspondent, Metropolitan Vickers, Elect. Co., Ltd., Manchester. Private Address: 3 Sidbury Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, 21.

WRIGHT, Charles H. A.M.I.E.E., M.I.E. & S. Tech. Manager, Kelvin, Bottomley & Baird, 18 Cambridge Street, Glasgow. Private Address: 65 Carmyle Avenue, Carmyle, Lanarkshire. Career: Finsbury Tech. Coll.; Apprent., Crompton & Co., and later test-room and experimental work and Manager, Instrument and Arc Lamp Depts.; 1912-16, experimental and Test Engr., National Steam Omnibus Co.; 1916, Elect. Manager, Kelvin, Bottomley & Baird. For some years official lecturer to pupils and apprentices, Crompton & Co., and lecturer, under C. & G. and Bd. of Educ., Chelmsford Evening Eng. Sch. (Elect. and Mech.).

WRIGHT, Charles Seymour. C.B., 0.B. E., M.C., M. A., Chevalier Legion d'Honneur. Director of Scientific Research, Admiralty, Whitehall, S. W.1. Private Address: Fredley Park, Mickleham, Surrey. Career: Toronto and Cambridge Univs. (Wollaston Student, 1851 Exhibition Scholar). 1908-10, research work at Cavendish Laboratory; 1910-13, Scientist Member of British Antarctic Expedition; 1914-18, Wireless 5th Corps R.E., O.C. Wireless, II Army R.E., and on General Staff (Intelligence); 1919-29, Dept. of Scientific Research and Experiment, Admiralty; 1929-34, Admiralty Research Laboratory; 1934, present appointment. Author of various Reports of scientific results, British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13.

WRIGHT, Major Frederick George. J. P. (Wilts. ), M. I. Mech. E. Private Address: 52 Bath Road, Swindon, Wilts. Was Chief Asst. to Chief Mech. Engr., G.W. Rly. Co.; now retired.

WRIGHT, F. R. A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M. Inst. M. & Cy. E. Asst. to Divisional Road Engr., Ministry of Transport (Bedford). Private Address: 44 Bushmead Avenue, Bedford. Age: 31.

WRIGHT, Major F. T. M.B.E., M. I. E. E., M. I. Mech. E. Consulting Engr., Waveney Cottage, Hoxne, Diss, Norfolk. Age: 55. Career: South Western Polytechnic, London; Siemens Bros., Workshops; London Elect. Supply Corpn., Power Station; Underground Elect. Rly. Co., London; S.E. & C. Rly.; South Indian Rly. Co.; R.A.O.C.; Royal Siamese State Rlys.; Bombay, Baroda and Central India Rly., Chief Elect. Engr.

WRIGHT, G. M.I.Mech.E., M.I. Gas E., M. I. Brit. F., M. I.Weld. E. City Gas Engr. and Manager, City of Lincoln Corpn., Lincoln. Ex-City Sheriff; Past-Pres., Eastern Counties Gas Engrs. Assocn.; Past-Pres., Lincoln Eng. Soc.

WRIGHT, Gerald Ashley. M.C., M.Inst.W.E. Engr., River Dee Catchment Board, 45 Nicholas Street, Chester. Private Address: Anlaby, Lache Lane, Chester.

WRIGHT, G. T. A.M.I.E.E., M.I.E.I. Chief Asst. Elect. Engr., Office of the High Commissioner for India, India Store Dept., Belvedere Road, Lambeth, S.E.1. Private Address: 47 Bishopsthorpe Road, Sydenham, S.E.26. Age: 41.

WRIGHT, Harold Edward. Chief Metallurgist, Dorman, Long & Co., Ltd., Middlesbrough. Private Address: 65 The Avenue, Middlesbrough. Career: Chief Asst. Chemist, North-Eastern Steel Co., Ltd.; Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Manager, afterwards Works Manager, Sir B. Samuelson & Co., Ltd. Past-Pres. (two years), Cleveland Inst. of Engrs., Past-Pres., Cleveland Tech. Inst. Member of Iron and Steel Industrial Research Council, Blast Furnace Committee, Corrosion Committee, etc.

WRIGHT, H. H. M.I.E.E. Managing Director, Wright Elect. Motors (Hx.) Ltd., Century Works, Pellon Lane, Halifax. Private Address: "Fieldhead", Illingworth, Halifax. Age: 68. Career: Temple Grove Sch., East Sheen; Marlborough Coll.; Technische Hochschule, Zurich; Apprent., J. H. Holmes & Co., Ltd., and later on their erecting and office staff. Founded Wright Electric Motors in 1898.

WRIGHT, H. J. M.Eng., A.M.I.E.E., A. M. I. Mech. E. Engr. and Asst. Manager, Karachi Elect. Supply Corpn., Ltd., Karachi. Private Address: The Grey House, Clifton, Karachi, India. Career: Liverpool Univ.; British Thomson Houston Co., Ltd.; Johnson & Phillips, Ltd.; Dunoon and Dist. Elect. Supply Co., Ltd.; Dundee Corpn. Elect. Dept.

WRIGHT, H. J. A.M.I.E.E. Charge Engr., Ipswich Corpn. Power Station. Private Address: 78 Westholme Road, Ipswich. Age: 31. Career: Ipswich Mun. Secdy. Sch.; Ipswich Sch. of Eng.; Apprent., Ipswich Corpn. Elect. Supply Dept., and subsequently Sub-Station Attendant, Combustion Asst., Switchboard Attendant, Relief Charge Engr. and Charge Engr.

WRIGHT, Isaac Henry. M.Inst.Mech. E., M.Inst.Prodn.E. (Pres., B'ham Sectn.). Chief Designer, James Archdale & Co., Ltd., Manchester Works, Ledsam Street, Birmingham, 16. Private Address: 138 City Road, Birmingham, 16. Age: 64. Career: Keighley Tech. Inst.; Bradford Tech. Coll.; Hons. Med., Machine Constn., Hons. Med., C. & G. Inst. Mech. Eng.; Tech. Director, Smith & Coventry, Ltd., Manchester; Chief Designer, Ward, Haggas & Smith, Keighley; Chief Lecturer, Eng. Dept., Keighley Mun. Tech. Coll.

WRIGHT, Johnstone. M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E. Chief Engr., Central Elect. Board, Trafalgar Buildings, 1 Charing Cross, S.W.1. Private Address: The Hollies, Oatlands Close, Weybridge, Surrey. Career: 1903-05, British Elect. Plant Co., Alloa; 1905-06, Asst. Chief Engr., Oban; 1906-19, with Cleveland and Durham Co. as Constructional and Mech. Engr., and Engr. and Supt. of the nine power stations of the associated companies; 1919-20, Asst. Chief Engr. to Bradford Corpn., in 1920 becoming Deputy City Elect. Engr.; 1922-27, Chief Elect. Engr. and Gen. Manager, Belfast; 1927, joined the C.E.B. as Deputy Chief Engr., becoming Chief Engr. in 1933.

WRIGHT, J. R. A. A.M.I.Mech.E., M.I.L.E. Works Manager, Edwin Danks & Co. (Oldbury) Ltd., Oldbury Boiler Works, nr. Birmingham. Private Address: 44 Park Hill Road, Harborne, Birmingham. Age: 44. Late Chief Engr., La. S.E. de C., Babcock & Wilcox, Bilbao, Spain.

WRIGHT, K. B. B.Sc.(Eng.) Glas., A.M. Inst.C. E. Asst. Engr., David A. Donald, M.B.E., M.Inst.M. & Cy.E., etc., 248 W. George Street, Glasgow, C.2. Private Address: 15 Armadale St. Glasgow, E.1. Age: 51. Career: Ormonde House Sch., Dursley; Kelvinside Academy; Glasgow Univ.; trained, Crouch & Hogg, M.M. Inst. C. E., 1908-11; Asst. to Western Dist. Engr., Caledonian Rly.; Special Drainage Asst., Burgh Engr., Grangemouth; Asst. Burgh and Water Engr., Grangemouth, 1913-17, 1919-24; Lt., R.E. (Roads), 1917-19; Senr. Tech. Asst. to Chief Engr., Glasgow-Edinburgh Road Construction, 1924-34.

WRIGHT, Norman Lovell. M.I.Mar.E. Chief Engr., Royal Mail Lines, Ltd. Private Address: 31 Alteryn Road, Newport, Mon. Age: 54. Five years apprent., Messrs. Willoughby Bros., Marine Engrs., Plymouth.

WRIGHT, Robert Hector. M.I.N.A., R.C.N.C. Constructor, H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth.

WRIGHT, R. S. M.I.E.E. Chairman and Managing Director, Newton & Wright, Ltd., X-Ray Engrs., 68 Ballards Lane, Finchley, N.3. Pridate Address: "Runswick", Fitzalan Road, Church End, Finchley. Age: 62. Career: Tollington Park Coll.; King's Coll., London; engaged originally in optics—one of very first pioneers of X-ray work (late 1895) and has specialised in this ever since. Other interests: Social work among boys. Author of "Optical Projection" (Longman), etc.

WRIGHT, T. G. A.M.I.Mech. E., A.M.I.A.E., A.M.I.E.E. Director and Works Manager, Newton & Wright, Ltd., 68 Ballards Lane, Church End, Finchley, London, N.3. Age: 67. Instructor in Motor Car Eng. at the Merchant Venturers Tech. Coll., Bristol, about 1907.

WRIGHTSON, F. B. B.Sc.(Hons.), A.M.I.Chem.E., A.M.I.E.E. Engr., Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Huddersfield. Private Address: 58 Longley Road, Somerset Road, Huddersfield. Age: 40.

WRIGHTSON, William Percival. M.I. Mech.E. Eng. Agent and Merchant (engines, boilers, cotton driving-ropes and bandings, soot blowers for boilers, etc.). Private Address: Uphill, High Lane, near Stockport.

WYATT, B. B. B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Tech. Engr., Messrs. Richardson, Westgarth & Co., Ltd., Hartlepool Engine Works, Hartlepool. Educ.: King's Coll., Newcastle-on-Tyne.

WYATT, C. A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Engr., County of London Elec. Supply Co., Ltd. Private Address: 98 Christian Fields, Norbury, S.W.16.

WYATT, J. W. F.C.H., F.R.G.S., F.R.H.S., M.Inst.C.E., J.P. Private Address: c/o Mrs. Nicol, 14 Cavendish Square, London, W.1. Age: 80. Career: Educ. at Coopers Hill for Indian Eng. service; commenced professional work in Australia; in 1880 entered paper making industry; trained at Alex. Pirie & Sons; 5 years i.c. management and re-organisation, John Dickinson & Co.'s paper mills, Hertford; 15 years Managing Director, Pirie, Wyatt & Co.; 1905, visited the Levant to report on prospects of papermaking there; 3 years i.c. timber and slate quarry machinery work for Owen & Son, Carnarvon. During war, Organising Sec. for W. of England, M. of M., 2i years, and for 4 years with Ministry of Reconstruction in connection with formation of Whitley Councils. Received Telford Prem. for papers; contrib. "Paper-making" section to Encycl. Brit.

WYATT, M. M. A.M.I.E.E. Asst. Engr., London Electric Supply Corpn., Ltd., Engr's. Office, 25a Cockspur Street, S.W.1. Educ. at Charterhouse Sch. and Seafield Park Eng. Coll.

WYBORN, E. J. B.Sc.(Eng.), A.C.G.I., A.M.I.E.E. Chief Engr., E. K. Cole, Ltd., Ekco Works, Southend-on-Sea. Private Address: Roy View, Undercliff Gardens, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.

WYBROW, Capt. S. G. R.A.F., A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. Inspector, Aircraft Division, Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, Air Ministry. Private Address: "Compton," Carr Lane, Willerby, Hull, Yorks. Age: 50. Career: King's Coll., London; Trained as Motor Car Engr.; R.N.A.S., 1914-18; R.A.F., 1918-23, FlightLieut., R.A.F.; served Directorate Tech. Devel., Air Ministry. 1918-22; R.A.E., 1922-24; Directorate of Tech. Devel., Air Ministry, 1924-28; Directorate of Aeronautical Inspection, 1928 to date. Author of "Electrical and Wireless Equipment of Aircraft" (Pitman, 5/-).

WYLD, W. M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E. Private Address: 9 Dingwall Gardens, Golders Green, London, N.W.11. Age: 65. Career: Apprent. Mech. Eng., Firth Coll., Sheffield; Asst., Blackpool, and later Salford Elec. Works; Chief Elec. Engr., Patent Shaft Co., Wednesbury; Borough Elec. Engr. and Tramways Manager, Doncaster and Birkenhead; Chief Engr. and Manager, Hampstead Elec. Works; Sales Engr., Vickers Boiler Co.

WYNN, Osbert Esme Boyce. M.I. Mar.E., M. Inst.B.E. Director, Park Royal Laundry & Cleaning Works, Ltd., Acton, W.3. Private Address: c/o Barclays Bank, 186 High Street, Acton, W.3. Age: 37. Career: Whitchurch Gramm. Sch.; Holt Tech. Sch., Birkenhead; Apprent. Cammell, Laird & Co., Ltd., Birkenhead. Ten years at sea, Junr., up to 2nd Engr., with Eagle Oil & Shipping Co., Ltd.; Asst. and later Chief Engr., Arend Petroleum Maatschappij, in Aruba, D.W.I.

WYNNE, A. A. W. M.A., A.M.Inst. C.E. Engr., C. A. Parsons & Co., Ltd., Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Career: Charterhouse Sch.; Trinity Coll., Cambridge; Apprent. Willans & Robinson, Ltd., and Caird & Co., Greenock; Asst. Engr., Cambridge Elec. Supply Co.; Engr., C. A. Parsons & Co., Glasgow, and later, London.

WYNNE-EDWARDS, R. M. D.S.O., M.C., B.A., A.M. Inst.C.E., Assoc. M.Am.Soc.C.E. With John Mowlem & Co., Ltd., New Chingford Reservoir, Lea Valley Road, Chingford, E.4. Age: 41. Career: Leeds Gramm. Sch.; Christ Church, Oxford (2nd Class Hons. Eng.); served with Royal Welch Fus., 1914-18; engaged on various works in Canada from 1921 to 1934; with present firm since 1935.

WYTHES, F. V. A.M.I.E.E. General Manager, Interholm Electrical Insulators, Ltd., 31/2 Grosvenor Place, S.W.1, and Interholm Works. Fellingon-Tyne.

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