The Construction of Dry Docks to World War I: The Evidence of The Engineer

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• Nicholas George Gedye, 1874–1947, was a civil engineer who would have been 25 years old when he wrote the articles. He was or was very shortly to be the Chief Engineer of the Tyne Improve-ment Commissioners. Having served in World War 1 as a Lt Colonel in the Royal Engineers and having been awarded an OBE, he became Chief Engineer for docks, harbours and waterways at the Ministry of Transport. Amongst many appointments later in his career he was the Govern-ment representative on PIANC. He was recognised as an authority on coast protection, harbours and breakwaters, sea and river outfalls for sewerage and land drainage, tidal and marine surveys, piling and foundation work and was often called to serve as an arbitrator on these and similar matters. From Obituary, The Engineer, 23 May 1947, p. 452.
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