C. W. Giles
1954 Bio Note [1]
Mr. Giles is a principal scientific officer in the Traffic and Safety Division of the D.S.I.R. Road Research Laboratory and is concerned with work on the basic causes of slipperiness and the skid-resisting properties of road surfaces and tyres.
He was educated at Hele's School, Exeter, and the University College of the South West of England, and obtained a London University B.Sc. Special (Honours) Degree in Physics in 1938. He joined the staff of the Laboratory in 1939 and worked for a number of years on piezo-electric and wire strain-gauge techniques for the measurement of accelerations, pressure and forces and their application to wartime problems such as the effects of bomb explosions, recoil forces on gun mountings, and the mud crossing of track-laying vehicles.