Walter "Gus" John Dinnie Annand (21 August 1920 – 26 August 2002) was a Scottish aeronautical research engineer, academic and author.

Biography

Annand was born 21 August 1920 in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was the younger brother of the painter and film-maker Louise Gibson Annand (MacFarquhar) and like his sister was educated at the Hamilton Academy school, where their father was English principal. Graduating in 1940 from the University of Glasgow, with first class honours in mechanical engineering.The Independent, obituary 16 September 2002
Retrieved 25 October 2010 After graduation, in the first year of World War II, Annand began his career engaged in aircraft performance analysis at the government research facility at Boscombe Park. In 1947 he took up a post with Rolls-Royce becoming, before his 30th birthday, head of the section, involved with military research. Subsequently, he transferred to the Rolls-Royce motor-car division at

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, where he was the assistant chief development officer. In 1960 Annand took up the post of lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manchester, becoming senior lecturer within three years, and reader in 1968. Author of numerous research papers during and since World War II, in 1966 Annand wrote the textbook, ''The Mechanics of Machines'', and in 1974, with G E Rowe, he published ''Gas Flow in the Internal Combustion Engine.''National Library of Australia - book, ''Gas Flow in the Internal Combustion Engine'', published G T Fowlis 1974; Annand and Rowe
Retrieved 25 October 2010 Annand was awarded a

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in 1972. In the same year he was sponsored by the British Council, as visiting professor in engineering at the

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, at Ankara, Turkey. In 1973 he was seconded to head University of Manchester new Pollution Research Unit, returning to the Mechanical Engineering department in 1978. Annand retired from the University of Manchester in 1987 as reader in mechanical engineering. He married Margot Carter, and together they had two daughters. He was a keen

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and

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. He died at

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, Staffordshire, on 26 August 2002.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Annand, Walter 1920 births 2002 deaths People educated at Hamilton Academy Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester 20th-century Scottish engineers Scottish aerospace engineers People from Uddingston