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Kathleen Mary Cook
Kathleen Mary Cook (25 August 1910–1971) was a mechanical engineer who was president of the Women's Engineering Society from 1955–1956. Her father, P. V. Cook, who was also a mechanical engineer, worked with the earliest aeroplane engines. Early life and education Kathleen Mary Cook was born in Wembley on 25 August 1910. She educated at La Convent of the Sainte Union des Sacres Coeurs in North London and in Paris. In 1928 she became an apprentice at Hercule Engineering Company, London, her father's company, where she stayed for 7 years, completing her apprenticeship in 1933. Career During the Second World War, Cook and three of her brothers developed and ran a factory in Northholt, where they developed gun breech mechanisms and spare parts for aircraft. As a result of a government requested reorganisation, which Cook played a significant role in, production increased tenfold in four months. Cook remained in this role until the end of the war in 1945 In 1942 Cook beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wembley
Wembley () is a large suburbIn British English, "suburb" often refers to the secondary urban centres of a city. Wembley is not a suburb in the American sense, i.e. a single-family residential area outside of the city itself. in north-west London, England, northwest of Charing Cross. It includes the neighbourhoods of Alperton, North Wembley, Preston, London, Preston, Sudbury, London, Sudbury, Tokyngton and Wembley Park. The population was 102,856 in 2011. Wembley was for over 800 years part of the Civil parish, parish of Harrow on the Hill#History, Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex. Its heart, Wembley Green, was surrounded by agricultural manorialism, manors and their hamlets. The small, narrow, Wembley High Street is a conservation area (United Kingdom), conservation area. The railways of the London & Birmingham Railway reached Wembley in the mid-19th century, when the place gained its first church. Slightly south-west of the old core, the main station was originally called Sudbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
