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- TitleGodfrey George Bayley MIEE papers
- ReferenceUK0108 NAEST 300
- Date1919-1948
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- Scope and Content3 photograph albums of Godfrey's work in Malaya with British Insulating Cables, in Rawalpindi and some personal photographs; 5 certificates including Associate Membership to the IEE and Junior Institution of Engineers and Faraday House diploma; file of correspondence relating to employment, file of menus and company ephemera whilst working overseas, 2 card backed photographs, 3 loose photographs, 3 photocopied pages from The Electrical Review 1930.
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- Admin. history/BiographyGodfrey George Bayley was born 7 January 1901. From September 1919 to September 1920 employed as a pupil at Cole, Marchent & Morley Ltd, Bradford, Prospect Works, in the foundry, machine, fitting and erecting works department. He was a Junior Mains Engineer at the Lancashire Electric Power Company, Manchester, in 1924 but he joined as a pupil during the fourth year of his training at Faraday House School. He was a student at Faraday House Electrical Engineering College from September 1918 to August 1922. From October 1924 to 1933 Mr Bayley was employed with the British Insulated Cables Ltd. He was sent on foreign service in November 1927. From 5 February 1934 to 12 March 1935 he served in the Rawalpindi Electric Power Company Ltd as Head Electrical Engineer. From 1 September 1938 he was appointed as District Mains Engineer, Croydon Area. In 1941 he was employed by McLellan and Partners as Assistant Clerk of Works at the Royal Ordinance Factories. Mr Bayley worked in Malaya and India in the late 1920s -1930s then later in London and South Wales. He left engineering to buy a hill farm in North Wales in 1948 and retired to Criccieth then emigrated to Melbourne Australia in his 70s and died in 1996. To read more about the life and work of Mr Godfrey Bayley please see the IET Archives blog: https://ietarchivesblog.org/2024/10/31/godfrey-george-bayley-the-life-of-an-electrical-engineer-at-home-and-abroad/
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