Thomas Ivo Fowle
Thomas Ivo Fowle (1916- )
1973 Bio Note [1]
T. I. Fowle BSc (Eng), Fellow, was first apprenticed as an engine fitter at HM Dockyard, Chatham, in 1932. He studied at the Dockyard School and later at City and Guilds, where he gained first-class honours in Mechanical Engineering.
After a year with Armstrong Siddeley he became technical assistant and later shop manager for MoS, supervising the erection and maintenance of plant and machinery. This was followed by brief spells as lecturer at Birmingham Central Technical College and at Quakers Yard Mining and Technical Institute. He was also Resident Engineer at the Hirwain Trading Estate.
In 1947 he joined Shell International Petroleum Co where he is concerned with the lubrication requirements of industrial machinery and the development and testing of special lubricants. He is on the Institution's Tribology (formerly Lubrication and Wear) Group of which he was Chairman in 1972.