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Born in London,
England in 1927. Only child of Harold
and
Clarice Lawrence of
Ilford. Essex. Married to Marsha
McCurley
- an American. Lives in small university town in
South Carolina. Has two daughters by previous
marriage, Anne-Marie an ex-teacher living in the UK
and Barbara a mechanical designer living in the
USA. Still considers Brighton UK to be home town.
Education:
Chelmsford Tech. College - Nat. Cert. in Mech.
Engineering. Also attended Watford and Twickenham
Tech. Colleges.
Occupation:
1943 - 1946 Draughtsman - Permutit Co. Water
Treatment Engrs. London
1946 - 1948 Draughtsman - Davy, Paxman & Co.
Colchester
1948 - 1975 Draughtsman/R&D Engr./Process
Engr./Project Engineer J.Lyons
& Co,
London
1975 - 1986 - Freelance Draughting & Project
business. UK & USA
1986 - 2002 - Pres. of David Lawrence Projects,
Inc.
2002 - Retired
Career
highlights:
With
J.Lyons & Co
London. - Patent
holder of food manufacturing machine designs.
Process, R&D and Commissioning Engr. for
Harvest Pie Plants in London and Glasgow employing
the above machine.
For Nucor Steel
- Prepared designs and was commissioning consultant
for Intersteel Tech. Inc. of the
first continuous steel melting plant in the
world
at Nucor Steel, Darlington, South Carolina,
USA
Interests:
Aeromodelling
Model Railways,
Pen
& Ink Drawing,
Meccano
& other model construction
systems,
Other
activities:
Designed for British Rail (Southern)
their
network
map.
Edited and published media
magazine
for 19 years
Started a railway e-group
on the internet
Wrote step-by-step drawing course web
site
Published collection of pen & ink portraits
'Faces
of the old Millennium'
Web site index at Dolphin
Designs,
a joint activity with wife
Marsha.
e-mail
contact
Ancestors
and some
more
photos
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