THE LEEDS ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS
Minutes of the Council Meeting held at 7.30pm on Thursday 6th September 2018 at Headingley Golf Club Leeds.
1. Attendance. J. Aldersley – President in the chair with I. Scholes, J. Bentley, J. Shergill, G. Roper, A. Rogers, G. Toulson, A. Kibler, S. Stacey, K. Hegarty, R. Town, M. Murray and H. Kingswell.
2. Apologies for absence. I. Blakeley.
3. Minutes of the Previous Meeting, dated 10th May 2018 were approved & signed.
4. Matters Arising. None.
5. Treasurers Report. Mr. Kibler reported the following transactions :-
Credits
6th June 18 – Craftsman Tools – Golf £100.00
8th June 18 – Subscriptions £45.00
25th June 18 – M.A. Ford – Golf £424.00
3rd July 18 – TLIP – Golf £168.00
15th July 18 – Steve Stacey – Golf Balance £386.00
18th July 18 – Golf Fees £208.00
30th July 18 – Braime Pressings – Golf Sponsor £250.00
6th August 18 – ?? £100.00
Debits
29th May 18 – Frank Smith – Lecture Expenses £70.00
22nd June 18 – Solstice Walk Dinner £196.15
8th July 18 – Golf Dinner £684.00
8th July 18 – Golf Fees £892.00
18th August 18 – Church Lunch – Paid by AK £128.18
6. Correspondence. Mr. Murray reported that ‘M.A. Ford’ have become a corporate member of the association.
7. Membership. Mr. Aldersley advised that he had received an application to join the association from Vas Dziombak who works for ‘BHP Iron Ore’ in Australia. Mr. Dziombak graduated from Manchester in Mechanical Engineering. Members confirmed his membership with a show of hands.
8. Annual Church Service. Nothing to report.
9. Current Programme. Mr. Toulson read out the confirmed calendar of events and advised that the programme was partly complete except for three events still being investigated. Mr. Shergill reported that a visit to a Turbo Charger plant in October could not be confirmed. Mr. Murray said he might be able to fill that date with a visit, but due to a lack of response it was looking doubtful. Mr. Toulson asked Mr. Aldersley if he could ask Paul Beaumont if he would be willing to give another talk on that date. Mr. Beaumont had said previously that he had another ‘Jowett’ lecture available and would be pleased to come back again. Mr. Bentley said he would contact Noel Coates hopefully to confirm a lecture on railways for 23rd May 2019. Mr. Toulson reported that after two emails and three telephone calls he had been unable so far to contact anyone who would be able to make a decision regarding a visit in February 2019 to Allied Glass in Leeds. Mr. Toulson intends to pursue this potential visit until an answer is received. Mr. Hegarty said that due to the difficulty in arranging visits he would be pleased to have lectures in place of visits. Mr. Rogers advised that he had booked the REA Meeting Hall for all dates on the calendar. Mr. Town advised that houses had been built on spare land next to the Meeting Hall and that this may make parking at the venue more difficult in future.
10. Next Session. Covered in the previous item.
11. Student Award Scheme. Mr. Aldersley asked if he should pursue arranging an award with ‘Appris’ in Bradford. This was agreed. Mr. Roper advised that he was currently working in a company involved in the manufacture of model engines. He had come across a young engineer from Manchester who was working alongside him and who was studying Mechanical Engineering. He wondered whether it might be considered for the association to sponsor such a student. Mr. Hegarty commented that considering he is from Manchester, he might not be suitable for association membership long term. Mr. Aldersley asked if ‘Appris’ should be continued to be offered corporate membership. This was agreed. He said he would contact Dean at ‘Appris’ in order to maintain a relationship. Mr. Toulson asked if anyone had knowledge of the training centre currently operating from the premises of Braime Pressings in Hunslet. Mr. Murray said that Nick Crowther a former colleague of his from ‘Meltog’ was involved in the training group.
12. Website. Mr. Toulson advised that he would soon be updating the website with events and some posts for members to read at the start of the new session. He requested a DVD of photographs of the Golf Dinner and Mr. Shergill said he would send a disk in the post. Mr. Toulson advised that he was still working on an article about an old Leeds company, Scriven Tools, from which there were association members in the past. Mr. Roper had some considerable knowledge of the company and offered to provide some information for the article at a later date.
13. Golf. Mr. Stacey advised that he had forwarded a copy of the Golf Tournament Report to Mr. Toulson, who said he would post this on the website along with photographs. Mr. Stacey reported that the accounts for the tournament had balanced to zero and that he still held an excess of £114.56 to carry over for the following year. He advised that Cobble Hall in Leeds was the proposed venue for the 2019 Golf Tournament.
14. Annual Dinner. Nothing to report.
Any other Business. Mr. Aldersley mentioned an acquaintance who was involved in the online video platform ‘You Tube’ who might be able to post video footage of our events, at no cost to the association. He asked Mr. Kingswell if his ‘Drone Footage’ might be one example of video that could be posted to the site. Further investigations will be made.
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