Talk Tuesday 13th December 2016 – The Thameslink Project – Electrical Challenges M Sigrist MSc, BSc(Hons), CEng, MIET Principal Design Engineer, Thameslink Programme, Network Rail. The Thameslink Programme (TLP) has…
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Tuesday 8th November 2016 – Cooch Memorial lecture ‘Volk’s Electric Railway – the Past and the Future’. Peter Williams, Volk’s Electric Railway Association Peter’s talk covered the history of the…
Talk – Tuesday 11th October 2016 – ‘Mac McCairns – a Real Boys Own Hero’. Mr. Dudley Hooley Mac McCairns, DFC**, MM, Croix de Guerre James Atterby McCairns was born…
Talk – Tuesday 20th September 2016 ‘Modern UK Tramways’ Ian Wetherall RCEA In principle the description is intended to cover those tramways constructed post 1960 and will therefore exclude pre-war…
Visit to Borde Hill Garden on 7th July 2016 A total of 19 members and guests joined the visit to Borde Hill Garden on Thursday 7th July. We were given…
Visit to Thames Barrier and Tower Bridge on 14th June 2016 On the 14th June 6 intrepid members joined this trip in an event organised in conjunction with the retired…
Visit to the Foulkes-Halbard Collection on 10th May 2016 Karl Foulkes-Halbard welcomed us to the Collection and started by showing us round Filching Manor – strictly a twin solar Wealden…
Talk – Tuesday 8th March 2016, ‘An Engineer in Model Engineering’ Ray Parsons Ray gave his talk at short notice to fill a gap created because an external speaker had…
Talk – Tuesday 9th February 2016, ‘Vehicle Emission Matters’ Ivan Farrow Reducing vehicle emissions has exercised the brains of vehicle and test engineers since the late 60’s. During this period…
Talk – Tuesday 12th January 2016, ‘Syphons Made in Sussex’ David Jones This talk was a combination of the background to this largely unknown Eastbourne soda water syphon manufacturer and…