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Major Andrew Alexander Ross, O.B.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., M.I.A.E., M. Iron and Steel Inst.; Principal Technical Officer (Engines), Directorate of Technical Development, Air Ministry; b. Devonport, 14 June, 1884. Joined | Major Andrew Alexander Ross, O.B.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., M.I.A.E., M. Iron and Steel Inst.; Principal Technical Officer (Engines), Directorate of Technical Development, Air Ministry; b. Devonport, 14 June, 1884. Joined Aeronautical Inspection Department April, 1914; to years as Assistant Chief Inspector of Engines. | ||
Described by [[George Purvis Bulman]] as 'scruffy-looking and lacking any kind of social grace. He had no paper qualifictions ...... But he came to the recently-formed AID after some years as Head Lecturer at the Northampton Polytechnic taking students for their London BSc course. How he must have loathed me coming in over his head, a callow youth of 22, and how he scared me with his apparently boundless and familiar technical knowledge! But after a few weeks we found ourselves en rapport and for the next thirty years he was to be my friend, philosopher and guide - a man of utter loyalty and incorruptibility. With a full knowledge, I regard Andrew Ross - in a way - as the man above all others who contributed most through his own character to British aero engine development throughout the piston age.'<ref>'An Account of Partnership - Industry, Government and the Aero Engine: The memoirs of George Purvis Bulman' edited and with a commentary by M. C. Neale, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, Historical Series No. 31, 2002. 376 pages</ref> | |||
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Major Andrew Alexander Ross, O.B.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., M.I.A.E., M. Iron and Steel Inst.; Principal Technical Officer (Engines), Directorate of Technical Development, Air Ministry; b. Devonport, 14 June, 1884. Joined Aeronautical Inspection Department April, 1914; to years as Assistant Chief Inspector of Engines.
Described by George Purvis Bulman as 'scruffy-looking and lacking any kind of social grace. He had no paper qualifictions ...... But he came to the recently-formed AID after some years as Head Lecturer at the Northampton Polytechnic taking students for their London BSc course. How he must have loathed me coming in over his head, a callow youth of 22, and how he scared me with his apparently boundless and familiar technical knowledge! But after a few weeks we found ourselves en rapport and for the next thirty years he was to be my friend, philosopher and guide - a man of utter loyalty and incorruptibility. With a full knowledge, I regard Andrew Ross - in a way - as the man above all others who contributed most through his own character to British aero engine development throughout the piston age.'[1]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 'An Account of Partnership - Industry, Government and the Aero Engine: The memoirs of George Purvis Bulman' edited and with a commentary by M. C. Neale, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, Historical Series No. 31, 2002. 376 pages