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William Floyd Rabbidge

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William Floyd Rabbidge

1939 Newman Memorial Prize, 1900. Head of Design Dept. for Motorship and Submarine Machinery, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness. Private address: "Southfield," Ulverston, Lancs. Career: R.N.E. Coll., Devonport, 1895-1900; R.N. Coll., Greenwich, 1900-1903. Royal Navy (various ships), H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth, and Admiralty (E. in C. Dept.), all from 1895-1913; Joined Vickers, Ltd., 1913. Inventor of mean speed indicator for turbine vessels and of various oil engine details.


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