CAPTAIN ECKERSLEY IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Star, Issue 21138, 25 June 1932, Page 4

CAPTAIN ECKERSLEY IN AUSTRALIA

There is a probability that Captain Eckersley, M.1.E.E., E.1.U.E., now on a visit to Australia, will be invited by the Commonwealth Government to report on the Australian National network of broadcast stations. Captain Kckcrsley was connected with broadcasting during its infancy, when lie acted as chief engineer to the British Broadcasting Corporation, as it was then called. Ho joined up with the corporation in 1923, and continued with it until 1929, helping to pilot it through many of its early vicissitudes. Captain Eckersley saw service in Egypt during the Great War, and also served in Salonika and France. He worked at the wireless experimental establishment, Royal Air Force, for four years, and later was in control of the experimental section of the designs department of Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company, which was responsible for the late Dame Nellie Melba’s initial broadcast.

On severing his connection with the 8.8. C., Captain Eckersley joined the staff of a gramophone company, and in addition acted as consulting engineer to various companies and organisations. He was elected a member of the Union International do Badio Diffusion, and has always kept his finger on the throbbing pulse of radio.