Title
Papers of Raymond Arthur W Connor MIEE
Reference
UK0108 NAEST 160
Date
1926-circa 1995
Creator
Scope and Content
Received from the donor as loose papers and files. Materials span Connor's career and include a small amount of biographical material and correspondence. Copies of talks, lectures, articles and publications by Connor are included as well as slides of some of the images used in these. Albums of photographs record aspects of Connor's work at the Worcester Corporation and a later album shows electrical instruments from Connor's time at the Eastern Electricity Board.
A small collection of off prints and re-prints of material concerning electrical engineering are included as well as some technical diagrams, predominantly circuits.
A small number of papers and some correspondence record Connor's encouragement of young engineers at Felixstowe College for Girls.
Connor's particular interests as represented by this collection are power generation, electricity supply, and the phase earth loop.
Exent
3 boxes
Language
English.
Admin. history/Biography
In the early 1930's Connor worked for the Worcester Corporation, Electricity Department. At some point thereafter he left to work ‘at Battersea’ and by 1947 was at Luton Electricity Undertaking.
In 1948 Connor took up an appointment at the Eastern Electricity Board's headquarters, in the planning and development section of the Chief Engineer's Department, initially to be involved in the design and planning of sub-stations and protective equipment at head office level. He was Chairman of the Eastern Electricity Board by 1958. By 1961 he was assistant Chief Engineer (Technical) at EEB and he retired circa 1968.
Connor became an Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1937, and a Member in 1951. Following a change in the categorisation of classes in 1966, he was referred to as a Fellow of the IEE from that date onwards. Connor was nominated a member of the Engineering Advisory Council of Ipswich Civic College by the IEE and served on that Council until the college was re-organized as Suffolk College of Higher and Further Education, circa 1975. From 1975 onwards he was actively interested in the physics department of Felixstowe College for Girls and circa 1991 was appointed their Honorary Engineering Advisor, providing assistance with talks and demonstrations and arranging technical visits for the senior girls. He gifted most of his research equipment to the college.
Connor was married to his wife 'Bert' for over 60 years and played in an orchestra for over 25 years.
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Subject
Conditions governing access
Please refer to the IEE Archivist
Level of description
sub-fonds
Closed until
1995
