Percy Hutchinson Wilson
Percy Hutchinson Wilson ( -1954), deputy managing director of the Stanton Ironworks Co
1954 Obituary [1]
WE regret to have to record the death of Mr. Percy Hutchinson Wilson, M.I.Mech.E., deputy managing director of the Stanton Ironworks Company, Ltd., Nottingham, which occurred suddenly last Sunday, July 25th.
Mr. Wilson had taken a prominent part in the foundry industry in this country for forty years or so, and will be particularly well remembered for his work in connection with the principle of centrifugal casting, and for the design and introduction of the flexible pipe joint which bears his name.
Percy Wilson served his apprenticeship partly with Whessoe Foundry Company, at Darlington, and partly with Markham and Co., Ltd., at Chesterfield.
His earlier appointments included those of casting inspector for the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks at Widnes Foundry, and works superintendent of James Oakes and Co., Ltd., Alfreton.
He joined the Staveley Coal and Iron Company, Ltd., as works manager and engineer in 1911 and eight years later he resigned that position to become foundry general manager of the Stanton Ironworks Company, Ltd.
Mr. Wilson was appointed assistant managing director (technical) in 1940 and three years later became deputy managing director of the company. During the second world war he was largely responsible for the design, construction and operation of a plant for the mass production of steel bombs at the Erewash Foundry, and for his war service was awarded an O.B.E. in 1943.
For several years Mr. Wilson was actively associated with the work of the British Cast Iron Research Association. He was a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a past-president of the Institute of British Foundrymen, which he joined in 1928. The Institute's E. J. Fox Gold Medal was awarded to him in 1942 in recognition of his distinguished services to the foundry industry.