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1969: Dr Donald Frederick Galloway
Dr Donald Frederick Galloway (1913-1997)
84th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Galloway was born in Birmingham, England in 1913.
He was educated at Birmingham Central Technical College and at Cambridge University. He was awarded a first class honours degree from London University, and later a PhD for research on the machining of light alloys.
He served a five-year apprenticeship with the Birmingham Small Arms Company, partly in the machine tool and cutting tool factories, and partly in the development department for motorcycles and cars. He was particularly interested in single and multi-spindle automatic machines. He later joined the Dunlop Rubber Company, where he was engaged on the design and layout of the mass production plant at Fort Dunlop.
After returning from a research tour of American in 1939, he was appointed Assistant Director of the Research Department of the Institution of Production Engineers at Loughborough College. He was then appointed Director.
In 1946 he was involved in the formation of the Production Engineering Research Association of Great Britain, and was its first Director. He was also one of the four founder members of CIRP (International Institution for Production Engineering Research), and was President in 1959-1960.
He was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1969.
He died in 1997.
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