John Edward Lister
John Edward Lister (1880- )
1922 Captain (late R.A.O.C.), Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.I.Mech.E., Wh.Ex., Mechanical Engineer (Locomotive, Gasworks Plant and Machinery, Fans and Mechanical Draught), Littleholme, 56, St. George's Road, Golders Green, London, N.W.I I; b. 1880; s. of John K. Lister, Sheffield; m. 1909, Dorothy M. Piggott, d. of A. E. Piggott, Manchester. Ed. Royal Grammar School, Sheffield; Technical Department. University of Sheffield (then University College, Sheffield); Engineering Department, University of Leeds. Pupil, Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Department, G.N. Railway, Doncaster. Draughtsman, Assistant to Managing Director, Assistant General Manager, and Engineer and London Representative with W. J. Jenkins and Co., Ltd., Retford, gasworks and constructional engineers and ironfounders, 1904-17; Assistant Engineer, Sturtevant Engineering Co., Ltd., London, 1919. Chief Works: Coal and coke breaking, screening, elevating and conveying machinery; retort charging and discharging machinery; centrifugal fans and washers, and general gasworks plant. Honorary Secretary, Yorkshire Association of Students, Institution of Civil Engineers, 1904-5 Member of Technical Education Committee, Retford, 1913-4; Member of Employers' Panel, Lincoln District (under National Insurance Scheme), 1914. Author of papers on "Compound Locomotives" (Millar Prize paper, the Institution of Civil Engineers), 1904; "Modern Coal and Coke Handling Plants" (Nursey Premium paper, Society of Engineers), 1916. War Services.—Metropolitan Special Constabulary, Constable, February, 1915, to December, 1916; Sergeant, December, 1916, to June, 1917. Commissioned as Inspector of Ordnance Machinery, 3rd Class, and Lieutenant, Army Ordnance Department (now Royal Army Ordnance Corps), July 2, 1917. In charge of Ordnance Mobile Workshops, repairing in the field, guns, carriages and technical vehicles, France and Flanders, December, 1917, to July, 1919. Promoted Captain and Inspector of Ordnance Machinery, 2nd Class, December 19, 1918.