Percy Roy Angus
Percy Roy Angus (1893-1961)
1961 Obituary [1]
Mr P. R. Angus, who died in July this year, was a well-known member of the New Zealand Advisory Committee of the Institution. He became an Associate Member in 1921 and gave great service to the Institution over the years.
Mr Angus was educated at Invercargill High School and in 1910 he joined New Zealand Railways as an engineering cadet. He trained at Wellington and Addington, and during his apprenticeship he attended Canterbury University College. In 1915 he became a draughtsman in the Chief Mechanical Engineer's office at Wellington.
During the 1914-18 war he served with the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force and in 1919, on his return to New Zealand, he was appointed Assistant Locomotive Engineer, Auckland. He then worked successively in Greymouth, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch as Locomotive Engineer before setting out, in 1925, on a world tour to study railway mechanical engineering problems. In the following year, he was appointed Assistant Chief Mechanical Engineer at Wellington and in 1933 he became Locomotive Superintendent. He became Chief Mechanical Engineer in 1941 and retired in 1950.
Mr Angus was instrumental in the development of New Zealand Railways to its present capacity. He was a first-rate designer: the heavy `K' class locomotives used on main trunk ....[more]