OBITUARY
MR E. T. SPIDY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 8. Mr E. T. L. Spidy, Superintendent cf the New Zealand Government Railways Workshops and Controller of Munitions, died in Wellington this morning. Born at Brighton, England, in 1887, Mr Spidy began life as an apprentice with the London-Brighton Railway Company. In 1909 he went to Canada and entered the production and piecework department of the Can-adian-Pacific Railwav Company at Montreal, rising to the position of workshops engineer in 1912, when he was stationed at Winnipeg. In 1917, Mr Spidy became production engineer for Canada for the Ingersoll Rand Company, and two years later was back in the service of the Canadian Pacific Railway as production engineer. c °ming to New Zealand in 1921, he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Railway Workshops, and subsequently to the post of superintendent. After the outbreak of the war he was appointed munitions con--1930 he became a member of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers. Mr Spidy wrote many technical articles on production and management.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21958, 9 May 1941, Page 3
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171OBITUARY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21958, 9 May 1941, Page 3
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