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DR. HAROLD HARTLEY, technical director and managing director of Radiation, Ltd., has been elected president of the British Cast Iron Research Association. Dr. Hartley entered the University of Manchester in 1904, where he studied under Profs. Dixon, Perkin and Bone. Afterwards he travelled in Norway and Canada, collating data on the cost of power production for electro-chemical industries. On returning to Britain in 19C9 he was elected to a gas research fellowship at the University of Leeds. In 1912 he was appointed to the staff of the Richmond Gas Stove Co. at Warrington to build up a research section. He was especially concerned in the development of furnaces both for non-ferrous metal melting and for heat-treatment processes generally. With the formation of the Radiation Group in 1919, Dr. Hartley was appointed chief chemist and head of the Research Department. In 1925 the new central research laboratories were inaugurated in London and there followed a period of activity which has led to marked developments in gas- and coke-burning apparatus. In 1937 additional new and enlarged laboratories were opened in Birmingham, and in 1939 the central research organisation was transferred to the Midlands. Shortly afterwards Dr. Hartley was appointed to the board of Radiation, Ltd., as technical director, and he became a joint managing director in 1944. Dr. Hartley has been associated for many years with the British Cast Iron Research Association, becoming chairman of the Research Committee in 1936 and chairman of the Council in 1938.
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British Cast Iron Research Association: Dr. Harold Hartley. Nature 157, 17 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157017a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157017a0