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1940: Asa Binns
Asa Binns (1873-1946)
55th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Asa Binns was born in Keighley, England in 1873 and was educated at Keighley Grammar School and Leeds University. He was awarded a Whitworth exhibition in 1896.
Practical training followed at engineering works in Leeds and Bradford but it was an appointment to the civil engineering department of the Admiralty at the Hull docks of the North-Eastern Railway that was to set the path for the rest of his working life.
The training he received with the Admiralty led to an appointment with the London and India Docks Company, later the Port of London Authority. Through his talent and determination, he achieved the position of chief engineer in 1928 and stayed with the authority until his retirement in 1938.
His main interest was dock construction and he worked on the George V Dock at North Woolwich and the Royal Albert Dock.
He was President of the IMechE in 1940 and of the Institution of Engineers-in-Charge from 1936-1937.
He died in 1946.
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