Membership is open to engineers of all disciplines
Captain – Andrew Kibler Hon. Golf Secretary – Steve Stacey This year the event was at Wetherby Golf Club. The weather, golf course and catering were all excellent. The event was attended by Alan Braime, who is the great grandson of the presenter of the Braime Rose Bowl Trophy, which was donated in 1936. 51 teed off in the … Continue reading “2013 Golf Tournament – Results”
Golf Report – July 2013 (Photos – After the Report…) The 2013 Golf Tournament was held on Thursday 4th July at Wetherby Golf Club. Fifty-seven golfers, the largest group ever, enjoyed a superb summer’s day of golf rounded off by an excellent dinner and prize giving in the clubhouse. Steve Stacey had bravely stepped in to organise the event … Continue reading “2013 Golf Tournament Report and Pictures”
After a sunny start to the week the evening of Thursday 20th June turned out to be cold and drizzly. But this didn’t put off the members and their guests who turned out for a gentle walk around Yeadon Tarn to be followed by a good old Yorkshire supper of Fish and Chips at ‘Murgatroyds’. After the walk during which … Continue reading “Summer Solstice Walk and Supper Report and Photos…”
Visit to Constar International – 23rd May 2013 Based in Sherburn-in-Elmet this was quite a trek for most of us but turned out to be one worth making. We were well greeted by Allison (Human Resources Manager) and taken upstairs to their meeting room. Allison gave us a company overview before handing over to Will, the company’s Project Manager, who … Continue reading “Report on the recent visit to Constar International….”
The website now has a new feature which members should find useful to keep up with the latest news and developments. You can now subscribe, using your email address, and be notified by email of the latest posts to the website as soon as they appear. This will be useful when further details about visits and lectures become available or … Continue reading “Subscribe and be Notified !”
Here are some photographs from the dinner held on Friday 22nd April 2013. It was held at ‘Leeds Seventeen’ in Alwoodley, Leeds. The guest speaker was Pete Finlay, Senior Flight Engineer on Concorde who gave an illustrated talk entitled ‘Concorde: The End of a Dream’. Top table guests included the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Ann Castle, accompanied by her … Continue reading “147th Anniversary Dinner – April 2013”
We were very fortunate that James Paskell stepped in at short notice to give us a lecture on developments in Pneumatics over the last fifteen to twenty years. James is a well travelled engineer, working for Thorite of Bradford. He began his lecture by giving us some background history. The first records of pneumatics tell of the use of animal … Continue reading “Lecture Report…. Thursday 28th March 2013”
The President, Jaswinder S. Shergill, requested that we give some publicity to a very worthy cause. Our friend from The Welding Institute, Dr. Richard Johnson, supports ‘Lifelites’, a charity which provides equipment for terminally ill children. It gives them the opportunity to use a computer or play a computer game and bring a little joy into their lives. Richard was … Continue reading “Lifelites – A Charity for Children with Life Limiting Illnesses.”
