George Ernest Lygo
George Ernest Lygo ( -1936)
1936 Obituary [1]
GEORGE ERNEST LYGO had been in business as a consulting engineer since 1926. He devised the first successful suction gas plant to utilize sawdust as fuel, and was a pioneer in the application of semi-water gas plants.
He was born at Great Oakley, near Kettering, and received his technical education privately.
From 1890 to 1896 he served as an indentured apprentice in the engineering works of Messrs. O. Robinson and Company, of Kettering, after which he became works foreman to Messrs. Dixon and Fish, manufacturers of gas engines and pumping plant.
He joined Messrs. Salmon Whitfield and Company as outside manager in 1903, and was appointed London representative in 1906. Three years later he became general manager, and occupied this position until 1916, when he joined the Royal Air Force. Until 1919 he was chiefly concerned with plant for the production and subsequent compression of hydrogen gas.
After the War he represented Messrs. Bilbie, Hobson and Company, and Messrs. Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., and later went to Mitylene in an advisory capacity for a Greek engineering firm. He was also concerned with the export of machinery to the Gold Coast.
Latterly he lived at Sidcup, where his death occurred on 12th February 1936, in his sixty-first year. He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1919.