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    Neil Wyatt
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      My phone popped up this article written by a familiar name:

      electrifyingwomen.org/a-model-engineer-cherry-hill/

      Neil

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      Neil Wyatt
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        #455158
        Georgineer
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          @georgineer

          Thanks for that, Neil. I shall pass it on to my engineer daughter. We need far more women in engineering.

          George B.

          #455184
          Mick B1
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            @mickb1

            I've always liked Ruby Loftus.

            #455185
            Watford
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              @watford
              Posted by Neil Wyatt on 03/03/2020 10:15:25:

              My phone popped up this article written by a familiar name:

              electrifyingwomen.org/a-model-engineer-cherry-hill/

              Neil

              Thanks for the heads-up Neil.

              In the days of the 'Model Engineer Exhibition' of old, the first port of call was to the Competition Models to see the latest Cherry Hinds (later Hill) offering. Always magnificent, her models were generally to a scale smaller than the blokes and always looked as if a fairy had used her wand to make the original prototype shrink to fit the glass case!

              Last saw her at Brooklands, is there any news of her current welfare?

              Mike

              #455194
              KWIL
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                @kwil

                In the linked material there is a reference to Laura Annie Willson, founder of WES, the Womens Engineering Society.

                Laura Annie Willson, (nee Buckley) was the wife of George Henry Willson, founder and owner of the Willson Lathe Company of Ovenden, Halifax, which survived through WW2 and was eventually subsumed with others into the 600 Group.

                Laura was also a leading light in the Womens Social & Political Union along with Emmeline Pankhurst.

                The records of the early WES meetings etc are held in the library of the IET

                Edited By KWIL on 03/03/2020 17:11:30

                #455195
                Neil Wyatt
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                  @neilwyatt

                  Cherry is well as far as I know, I think I last saw her at Doncaster 2019.

                  Neil

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                  Former Member
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                    @formermember19781

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                    #455251
                    Watford
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                      @watford
                      Posted by Neil Wyatt on 03/03/2020 17:15:38:

                      Cherry is well as far as I know, I think I last saw her at Doncaster 2019.

                      Neil

                      Thank you, and very good.

                      M

                      #455268
                      Geoff Theasby
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                        @geofftheasby

                        You rang???

                        I spoke to Cherry by phone only a couple of weeks ago, she sounds her usual bright and cheerful self.

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