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| Mr Anthony Vickers, BSc (Eng) (Member), died suddenly on 1st July.
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| Mr Vickers started his engineering apprenticeship with Vickers, Erith, in 1920 and subsequently obtained an honours degree in mechanical engineering at the University of London. He left Vickers in 1930 to become a joint founder of Hydraulic Coupling and Engineering Co. Ltd (later Fluidrive Engineering).
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| Between 1950 and 1954 he served on the Grand Council of the Federation of British Industries. During this time he was keenly interested in education and he formed the Fluidrive Apprentice Scheme in 1953.
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| In 1962 he retired as an executive director of the Company and applied himself to the problems of technological advancement in industry. It was in 1968 that he read his wellknown paper on The Engineer and Society to the Institution.
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| He will be remembered for his deep concern with the socio-economic repercussions of technology and the training of young engineers. His death brings a sad loss to industry and to the Institution.
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| Mr Thomas A. Marshall, Jr (Companion), Managing Director of the American Society for Testing and Materials, died recently.
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| Mr Marshall graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1932, with a degree in aeronautical engineering. From 1932 until 1951, except for five years duty with the US Navy during the 1939-45 war, he was employed in the main office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
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| In 1951, Mr Marshall became executive Secretary of the Engineering Manpower Commission, which had just been formed by Engineers' Joint Council, and a year later' was appointed secretary of the EJC as well. From 1954 to 1960, he served on the staff of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, first as assistant secretary, then as senior assistant secretary. He joined the staff of the American Society for Testing and Materials in 1960.
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| He served as a member of the Panel on Engineering and Commodity Standards appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in 1963 to review the national standards programme in the US. He also participated in the revitalisation of the Pan American Standards Commission.
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| In addition to his membership of a number of engineering and scientific societies, Mr Marshall was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Standards Engineers Society and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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| Mr T. W. Clifford (Fellow), a former member of the East Midlands Branch Committee, died recently, aged 62.
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| Technical Director of Taylor, Taylor and Hobson Ltd, now Rank Precision Industries Ltd, Mr Clifford was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1941 and a Member in 1952. During recent years he served on a number of national committees concerned with technical development and standardisation. He was also keenly interested in the training of young engineers and was a member of the City and Guilds Instrument Making Technical Committee and of the Midlands University Liaison Panel of the Machine Tool Trades Association. He will be remembered with affection by his many friends and colleagues.
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| Professor C. A. Geneve (Fellow), who died on 20th June, spent twenty-five years at the academic institution that ultimately became Cairo University. As Professor of Mechanical Engineering there, his services included the equipment of new laboratories, the development of new courses, and the inspiration of more than a generation of students, some of whom reached responsible positions in the growing number of industrial establishments in Egypt.
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| He was the Chairman of the Institution's Egyptian Advisory Committee. Upon returning to London he became a valued servant of BSI.
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| His influence among colleagues and students was enormous. A well-liked and respected man, his death is a loss to the profession.
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| Mr F. E. Evans (Fellow), who joined the Institution in 1907, died earlier this year aged 90.
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| An expert on boilers and the most efficient ways of steam-raising using coal as the fuel, he lectured for the City and Guilds Institute after he retired until ill-health forced him to give it up at the age of 78.
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| Dr D. G. Sopwith, CBE (Fellow) died on 20th October .
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| Dr Sopwith received his practical training at the Manchester Dry Docks Co Ltd and, after graduating at the Manchester College of Technology, he entered the Engineering Division of the National Physical Laboratory, becoming its Superintendent in 1948. In 1950 he appointed Acting Director and, in 1951, he went to MERL (now the National Engineering Laboratory) as director. He retired in 1966 but remained at NEL as Special Advisor.
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| Elected a Graduate of the Institution in 1930, Dr Sopwith became an Associate Member in 1932, transferring to Member in 1948. He won the Institution's Thomas Lowe Gray Prize in 1934 and the Bernard Hall prize in 1948.
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| He served as Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Branch from 1965 until 1967, when he was elected Chairman. His services to the Institution included membership of the Publications and Library committee and its publications structure panel, of the Journal of Mechanical Engineering Sciences editorial panel, and of various design memoranda committees. He was a PastPresident of the Whitworth Society, a member of Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde.
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| One of the country's leading authorities in materials science research, his colleagues knew him as a warm, kindly man, although exceedingly shy. The profession has lost a fine man and a first-class engineer.
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| Mr E. W. Isaacs (Fellow) died recently, aged 63.
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| Mr Isaacs made his career with the Indian Railways, starting as an Assistant Officer in the Mechanical Engineering and Transportation Power Department in 1931 and eventually becoming a member of the Mechanical Engineering Railway Board.
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| He was President of the Indian Centre of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers from 1957 to 1963.
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| Mr A. J. Hirst (Member), Chief Technical Engineer of the Dunlop Company Polymer Engineering Division, died recently.
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| Mr Hirst served his apprenticeship with Austin Motor Company. During the 1939-45 war he was engaged on research into vibration with Rolls-Royce. He joined Dunlop Polymer Engineering (then Metalastik Ltd) in 1945.
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| An expert on vibration and the use of rubber in engineering, Mr Hirst was best known for his work on rubber suspension. He began work on the design of rubber springs for London Transport trains shortly after the war, and the spring systems he designed have been adopted by London Transport, the Stockholm Underground, the Paris Metro and other railway authorities for locomotives, carriages and wagons. He was also responsible for the development of rubber suspension systems for machinery and for road vehicles, including those used on Midland Red and Daimler Roadliner buses.
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| His many friends and colleagues will miss him greatly was
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| == See Also == | | == See Also == |
