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Thomas Earnshaw Calverley papers

UK0108 SC MSS 249

1937 to 2005

IET Member News obituary November 2013; "Dr Thomas Earnshaw Calverley; One of the UK's one-thousand most eminent engineers. IET Fellow Dr Thomas Calverley had an outstanding career with English Electric Stafford, serving as chief engineer of the Rectifier Division during which time he guided British Rail to the choice of electrifying their railways at 25kV AC, since the standard for railways all over the world. He had responsibility for the development of all electrical products made in the Stafford factories. He led English Electric into the development of High-Voltage DC Transmission, leading major projects for which he applied for and won one of the very first Queen's Awards for Industry. In 1970 he joined consulting engineers Preece Cardew & Rider as a partner and led projects of power stations, power transmission, railways and some of the largest HVDC Transmission schemes in the world, in Africa, Canada, Brazil, and South-East Asia. During this time, he jointly led a number of railway and mass-transit initiatives through a joint venture, Mott Hay-Preece Cardew. On his official retirement at 65, which coincided with the merger between Preece Cardew & Rider and Ewbank & Partners in 1983, he was honoured by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being one of the UK's 1,000 most eminent engineers. He continued for several years to be very active in the field of HVDC Transmission, chairing the international body of CIGRE, the Council on Large Electric Systems, for HVDC Links, and in 1994 at the age of 76 was awarded the highly prestigious Uno Lamm Award by the American IEEE. Tom died peacefully at his home in Rodmell, East Sussex, UK, at the age of 95."

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