GBR "Bob" Feilden (1917-2004

[Edwin King]

The engineer and former director general of the BSI, Bob Feilden, died in
Gloucester on 1 May aged 87.

WHO'S WHO entry:-

FEILDEN, Geoffrey Bertram Robert, CBE 1966; MA Cantab; FRS 1959; Founder
Reng 1976, FIMechE, Hon FIStructE; Hon FIQA; CBIM; Hon MIED; Principal
Consultant, Feilden Associates since 1981.

b 20 Feb 1917, s of Robert Humphrey Feilden MC and Olive Feilden (Nee
Binyon); m 1st, Elizabeth Ann Gorton,; one son, two daughters; 2nd,
Elizabeth Diana Angier (Nee Lloyd). Educated at Bedford School; King's
College, Cambridge (Scholar).

Career: Lever Bros & Unilever Ltd, 1939-40; Power Jets Ltd 1940-46; Ruston &
Hornsby Ltd, 1946-59; Chief Engineer, Turbine Dept, 1949; Engineering Dir,
1954; Managing Director, Hawker Siddeley Brush Turbines Ltd and Director of
Hawker Siddelely Industries Ltd, 1959-61; Group Technical Director,
Davy-Ashmore Ltd, 1961-68; Deputy Director General, British Standards
Institution, 1968-70, Director General 1970-81. Director, Averys Ltd,
1974-79; Plint & Partners Ltd, 1982-.

Member: Commitees and sub-committees of Aeronautical Research Council,
1961-65; Design Council (Formerly CoID), 1966-78 (Deputy Chairman, 1977-78);
Central Advisory Council for Sscience and Technology, 1970-71; Vis Committee
to RCA, 1968-84 (Chairman, 1977-84); Research Development & Engineering
Committee , Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland, 1983-86;
Chairman, UK Panale for CODATA (formerly British National Committee on Data
for Science & Technology), 1988- (UK Delegate to CODATA, 1989-); President
European Committee for Standardisation, 1977-79; Member Royal society
Delegation: to USSR, 1965; Latin American, 1968; People's Republic of China,
1975; Leader, BSI Delegation to People's Republic of China, 1980. Technical
Advisor to Govt of India, 1968. DSIR Visitor to Prod Engineering Research
Association of Great Britain, 1957-65 and to Machine Tool Industry Research
Association, 1961-65. Member Council: Royal Society (a Vice-President,
1967-69); ImechE, 1955-61, 1969-80; University of Surrey, 1977-78. Trustees:
Maurice Lubbock Memorial Fund, 1973-; Smallpiece Trust, 1981-88. Senior
Fellow, RCA, 1986. Hon Dtech, Loughborough, 1970; Hon Dsc, Queen's
University Belfast, 1971. MacRobert Award for innivation (joint winner),
1983; Hodgson Prize, RaeS, 1994.

Publications: Gas Turbine Principles and Practice (contributor), 1955; First
Bulleid memorial Lecture (Notingham University), 1959; Report, Engineering
Design, 1963 (Chairman of Committee); numerous papers and articles on
enginering subjects.

Recreations: sailing, skiing, driving kitchen and garden machines.