Stobie Piel
Stobie may refer to: * Stobie pole, a kind of power pole common in South Australia * Adam Stobie, Scottish prisoner in the 17th century * James Stobie, 18th century factor to John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl * William Stobie William "Billy" Stobie (1950 – 12 December 2001) was an Ulster Defence Association (UDA) quartermaster and RUC Special Branch informer''Cory Collusion Inquiry Report: Patrick Finucane'' 1 April 2004 who was involved in the shootings of student ...

Stobie Pole
A Stobie pole is a power line pole made of two steel joists held apart by a slab of concrete. It was invented by Adelaide Electric Supply Company engineer James Cyril Stobie (1895–1953). Stobie used readily available materials due to the shortage of suitably long, strong, straight and termite-resistant timber in South Australia. History In July 1924 the patent application for the pole design was submitted in both English and French, and accepted in November 1925. Stobie described his invention as"an improved pole adopted to be used for very many purposes, but particularly for carrying electric cables, telegraph wires... tconsists of two flanged beams of iron or steel, preferably rolled steel joist of 'H' or of channel sections, placed one beside the other with their flanges inward and preferably at a very slight angle one with the other and held together by means of tie bolts, the space between them being filled with cement concrete."Rob Linn, ''ETSA – The Story of Elec ...
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Adam Stobie
The ''St. Michael of Scarborough'' was a ship of the Atlantic that was set to transport Scottish prisoners to the Thames, so that they could be transported by Ralph Williamson to Plantations of America and was mastered in 1678 by Edward Johnston. Williamson was likely headed for West Indies in 1679, but due to the longer than expected journey from Leith to the Thames, when he arrived, Williamson was nowhere to be found. It is of some belief that the voyage never took place, and is said that the majority of the prisoners were released and made their way back to Scotland, and some were rearrested at a later date. The majority of covenanters Covenanters ( gd, Cùmhnantaich) were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs. The name is derived from ''Covenan ... who were to be aboard the ship were confined in Glasgow and then moved to the Edinburgh Tol ...
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James Stobie
James Stobie (date of birth and death unknown) was the factor to John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl's in the late 17 hundreds. He is best known for designing the layout of Perthshire villages on the bequest of the 4th Duke of Atholl. In 1784 he designed the village of Stanley and in 1786 he designed the layout of Pitcairngreen Pitcairngreen (pronounced 'Pit-cairn Green') is a hamlet in the Scottish council area of Perth and Kinross which is more or less adjoined to the much larger village of Almondbank. It lies northwest of Perth. As its name would suggest, two feat .... References People from Perth and Kinross People associated with Perth and Kinross {{Scotland-bio-stub ...
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