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1955: Percy L Jones
Percy L. Jones (1886-1966)
70th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Jones was born in Penarth, Wales in 1886. He attended Taunton School and served his apprenticeship at the Locomotive Works of Rhymney Railway Company, near Cardiff. He then attended University College, Cardiff, and graduated with a BSc in Engineering three years later.
After graduation, he was appointed Assistant Lecturer at Liverpool University. Two years later he joined the technical staff of the Chief Mechanical Engineer of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company. With the outbreak of the First World War, he enlisted in the infantry, later commanding a battery of artillery in France and Flanders. He was awarded a Military Cross in 1916 and a Bar to the Military Cross in 1917.
On demobilization, he re-joined the staff at Metropolitan-Vickers. He remained there until 1923 when he joined Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson as Technical Manager of their Engineering Department at the Neptune Works. He later became General Manager, and then Managing Director of the Engineering Department.
Jones was also President of the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders.
He died in 1966.
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