ENGINEERING CLUB

Evening Star, Issue 22249, 29 January 1936, Page 16

ENGINEERING CLUB

MRS- MOLLISOK PRESIDENT The role of president of a club of 40 important women engineers, • which, according to a new London magazine, is Mrs Amy Mollison’s latest interest, should come naturally to one who knows so much about the practical side of machinery. Without such expert knowledge her life might frequently have been endangered on any of her long flights, so she can justly claim to be one of the world’s leading woman engineers. It is interesting to know who some of the others are. The wife of Major Douglas, of Douglas Credit fame, has achieved distinction by becoming the director of her own shipbuilding yard near Southampton. She deals with sail, steam, and motor boats «p to 200 tons. She is also a keen yachtswoman, and has won several cups in her sailing dinghy. Then there is Miss Monica Maurice, who is the manageress ,of a Sheffield firm dealing in mine equipment. For four years she has been responsible for the planning and operation of lamps at collieries in every large coalfield in England. Miss Verena Holmes is a very talented woman engineer with an imposing string of letters after her name and several important inventions to her credit. She is qualified as a mechanical, metallurgical, locomotive, and marine engineer. The Holmes poppet valve gear used in Diesel engines is one of her inventions. Another is incorporated in all modern locomotives. Her chief job is to test inventors’ ideas for their practicability. Miss Kathleen Cook began from the lowest ranks in her father’s large engineering works before she took charge of the estimating for the whole business. It is not surprising to learn that when they wished to hold a conference recently none of these busy women could spare more than a week-end away from their jobs. So they turnd it into a kind of house party, and all stayed for the two days at Crosby Hall, Chelsea, the headquarters in London of the International Federation of University Women, where they managed to discuss a long agenda. At the eu r 1 ( 'f it all their president, Mrs Mollison, arranged a round of aerial visits to flying clubs near London for them.