ROLLS ROYCE ENGINEER FOR LINCOLN

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30739, 1 May 1965, Page 10

ROLLS ROYCE ENGINEER FOR LINCOLN

A 34-year-old development engineer in the aero engine division of Rolls Royce, Ltd., at Derby in England has been

appointed to the post of principal research officer in the new Agricultural Engineering Institute at Lincoln. He is Mr E. M. Watson, a married man with two young children. Mr Watson hopes to come to New Zealand about the end of the year.

Born in Horsforth in Yorkshire, Mr Watson was educated at the Leeds Modern School and Leeds University where he gained a degree in mechanical engineering, with first-class honours, in 1952.

As soon as he had completed his degree he joined Rolls Royce and has since worked on the development of engines for aircraft including the Hunter, Comet, Boeing 707 and B.A.C. 11l and he is at present development engineer on the engine for the Buccaneer.

As a development engineer Mr Watson’s job has been to take engines at the initial design stage and develop them into commercially acceptable units to meet operators’ requirements. His work at Lincoln in the Agricultural Engineering Institute is expected to be fundamentally similar. When he visited New Zealand recently Mr Watson said that the present troubles in the aircraft industry in Britain had not affected Rolls Royce. Ip fact as a result of orders placed, including a large British Government order for the American Phantom aircraft, which was

to be fitted with Rolls Royce engines, the company was currently expanding its labour force. Asked why he wished to come to New Zealand, Mr Watson said that New Zealanders he had met in Britain had been friendly people and the impressions of New Zealand that he had gained from them had been borne out by his first impressions of the country—a very attractive country to live and work in.