RAILWAY'S LOSS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 107, 8 May 1941, Page 6

RAILWAY'S LOSS

DEATH OF OFFICIAL

MUNITIONS CONTROLLER

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. The death has occurred of " Mr. Edgar Thomas Spidy, superintendent of the Hutt railway workshops and Controller of Munitions. Mr. Spidy, who had been superintendent of the workshops since 1925, was born in Brighton, England, 54 years ago. He received his primary education at Petone, and his secondary education at York Place, Higher Grammar School. Brighton. He studied engineering at the Brighton Technical College, and was later apprenticed to the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. In 1009 he went to Canada and entered the production and piecework department at Montreal. Three years later ho was made shops manager of the C.P.R. at Winnipeg.

In 1917 Mr. Spidy became production engineer for the Canadian Ingersoll-Rand Company, and two years later was given a similar post with the C.P.R. a't'Montreal. In 1921 Mr. Spidy .was appointed assistant superintendent of the Dominion Engineering Works at Montreal, and in 1924 production engineer of the New Zealand Railways.