George Summersell Haydon
George Summersell Haydon (c1886-1930)
1930 Obituary [1]
GERALD SUMMERSELL HAYDON died suddenly on 2nd November 1930 at the age of 44, thus cutting short a varied and promising career.
He was apprenticed at the works of Messrs. Belliss and Morcom and afterwards was employed as an improver by the Electric Construction Company of Wolverhampton.
After further experience with the British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company at Manchester he was appointed engineer and metallurgist to the Tanquah Mining and Exploration Company on the Gold Coast, for whom he supervised the erection and maintenance of plant in connexion with the cyanide works.
Returning to England he was appointed assistant mechanical and electrical engineer to Messrs. Cory Brothers. Later he became chief mechanical and electrical engineer to the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company of Canada.
In 1914 he resigned this appointment to commence private practice as a consulting engineer, and was retained as consulting engineer for the ore mines and quarries department of the company. For some time during the War he was special munitions representative of the Allegheny Steel Company of Pittsburg in their negotiations with the Allied Governments.
Later he became resident engineer and power house superintendent of the joint power scheme of the Buenos Ayres Western and Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railways.
In 1918 Mr. Haydon resumed private practice, this time in the Argentine, and later spent two years in Portugal as engineer and representative of the Sociedad Espanola de Construcciones. A further year was spent in the service of Sir William Arrol and Company of Glasgow and Mr. Haydon subsequently spent two periods in West Africa, being concerned on one occasion with the Enugu workshops and power station contract.
When the Nottingham Corporation decided to erect North Wilford Power Station, he was selected by the consulting engineers to supervise the whole of the construction, and on the completion of the station his services were retained by the Corporation while various extensions were made to the plant.
He became an Associate Member of the Institution in 1912.