Walter Fred Dormer
1887 Born in Bradfield[1], son James Dormer, a surveyor, and his wife Ellen[2]
Educated at Tilehurst Secondary School, and Pangbourne College
1902-4 Reading University College
1902-3 Articled pupil to the Borough Engineer, Faversham
1903-6 Apprenticed at Reading Foundry and Engineering Works
1907 Clerk of Works at Tilehurst Water works then Assistant manager.
1912 Assistant at Alvord and Burdick, consulting engineers, Chicago
1913 Supervisot, Studebaker Corporation
1914 Oatlands Park Motor Co, Weybridge
1915 Conversion of machinery for shell making
1916 Lieutenant Royal Engineers; served in Mesopotamia and India
1919 Engineer George Clare and Co, London. Director of Sparklet Engineering Co, of Morris Russell and Co, Morris Russell (Scotland), Clarkson Engineering Co
1920 Proposed for membership of I Mech E but he was not eligible for full membership with exam. qualifications.
1920 of Enfield when he became a director of Fisher and Ludlow (1920)[3]
1920 An engineer, of Enfield when he joined the united Empire Lodge[4]
1966 Died in Haslemere[5]
See Also
Sources of Information
- Mechanical Engineer records