4: Miss e.f. Bull

14/1/2019

Engineer of the Week No. 4
Today we remember a metallurgist:
Miss E.F. Bull BSc (Mrs Dunlop)
Miss Bull had her first taste of engineering whilst working at the Galloway Engineering Company in Tongland, in the south of Scotland during, or possibly just after, the First World War. This was the factory set up in1916 by Thomas Pullinger (Dorothee Pullinger's father) as an experiment in training women as engineers whilst they also did munitions manufacturing work. She went to the Glasgow Technical College in the early 1920s and by 1926 had obtained a BSc in metallurgy. This would have been ideal for her work in her father’s family firm Bull’s Metal and Melloid Company in Yoker, Glasgow. The firm made propellor and other castings from bronze, their own ‘Bull's metal’, melloid and other malleable bronze alloys. She married in about 1926 and we do not know if she continued to work for her father afterwards. The firm was still in business in the 1950 but by then had changed hands.

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Eric Flack

2/8/2019 10:50:04 pm

My grandfather was managing director of Bulls Metal. Mr Bull died in 1912. Mr Dunlop worked for the Hong Kong Power co. Mr & Mrs Dunlop plus two children were interned in the Stanley camp by the Japanese All survived/ Suffering badly from malnutrition on repatriation to Britain I meet them when they stayed in Drumchapel. Mr Dunlop secured a job in British Columbia and they moved to Canada. Any more info contact me

Dawn Bonfield

31/8/2019 04:01:12 pm

Thank you Mr Flack. Do you know the birth or death dates of Miss Bull at all please, as we don't seem to have these. Or any other details?
Many thanks.
Dawn

31/8/2019 05:54:12 pm

I can supply any information that you require. Mrs Dunlop is listed in the Stanley Camp list as a university lecturer.

31/8/2019 06:19:01 pm

Edith Frida Bull (nee Dunlop)
Date of birth 28th April 1900 at Erith Kent England.
Date of death April 14th 1986 at home Cowchin Lodge Duncan British Columbia Canada. Occupation: Housewife Informant Gillian Reid daughter. Any other information just email me

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