Thomas Walter Falconer Brown

Thomas Walter Falconer Brown (1901-1995) of Pametrada

Born the son of William Falconer Brown, a Doctor.

1933 Married (1) at Belper to Pauline Woodruff Mason and had one son

c.1949 Married (2) to Lucy mason Dickie and had one son

1957 Bio Note. 'Thomas Walter Falconer Brown, a 57-year-old research director at Pametrada Research Station, Wallsend, who lives at Wylam has been awarded the C.B.E. in the Birthday Honours. Born in Lanarkshire and educated at Glasgow University he graduated BSc. engineering and DSc. During his stay in Glasgow he was awarded the Associateship of the Royal Technical College of Glasgow for research on diesel supercharging and disc friction in steam turbines. A scholarship in 1928 enabled him to carry on research work on oil engines. In 1927 he won the Robert Blair Fellowship award and went to Harvard University, America, where he carried on research work on high-speed oil engines. Following this he was awarded an M.Sc. engineering degree in 1928. After a period as an assistant manager at Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow. where he had previously been an apprentice, Dr. Brown spent a year in Switzerland on marine oil engine design and then became technical manager for R. W. Hawthorn Leslie Ltd. a firm of Tyneside shipbuilders, where he was responsible for features in the design of naval vessels. When the Pametrada research station opened at Wallsend in 1944 Dr. Brown was appointed to his present post as research director. He served from 1924 until 1937 with the RNVR, retiring as as Lieutenant-Commander. He is a representative on the Joint Nuclear Marine Propulsion Panel, a member of King's College Research Committee and external examiner in engineering degrees. In addition to these positions he is chairman of the Rutherford College Mechanical Engineering Advisory Committee and a member of the Ministry of Supply Gas Turbine Development Committee.'

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