Herman Oxlin
Herman Oxlin (1881-1930) of W. H. Allen, Sons and Co
1930 Obituary [1]
HERMAN OXLIN was associated with Messrs. W. H. Allen, Sons and Company of Bedford for very many years. He joined the firm in 1908 and was engineering director from 1920.
In 1924 he returned to his native country of Switzerland on account of his health but continued to act in a consultative capacity for the firm. He was primarily the designer of turbine centrifugal pumps, but his engineering knowledge was of a very high order and he was able to advise on difficult or highly technical points in connexion with steam-turbines and heavy-oil engines.
He was educated at Schaffhausen, Switzerland, where he was born in 1881, and at the University of Zurich.
In 1904 he was assistant to Professor Stodola and in 1905 he entered the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Company's works at Winterthur.
In the following year he came to England and was for fifteen months with the British Westinghouse Company at Manchester before joining Messrs. Allen in 1908.
Mr. Oxlin was a keen student of natural history and a gifted conversationalist.
He died on 28th November 1930 and had been a Member of the Institution since 1920.