Harricks, Dudley Francis John (1880 - 1960)

Summary

Dudley Harricks, MIEAust MIMechE, was Engineer-in-Chief of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Queensland from 1918 until he retired in 1939, having joined the company in 1905. He was responsible for all the mechanical, electrical and marine engineering in the company's mills in New South Wales, Queensland and Fiji, their large workshops at Pyrmont, Sydney, as well as their fleet of ships.

He was a driving force in the engineering profession, as President of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, and its amalgamation with other foundation societies to establish the Institution of Engineers Australia in 1919, and he served as a foundation Councillor from 1919 to 1938, and its President in 1929. His distinguished service was recognised when he was awarded the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal in 1937.

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Chronology

1896 - 1901

Education - Maryborough Technical School, Queensland

1896 - 1901

Career position - Apprenticed to Walkers Ltd, Maryborough, Queensland

1901 - 1905

Career position - Draughtsman, Colonial Sugar Refining Company

1905 - 1917

Career position - Chief Draughtsman, Colonial Sugar Refining Company [design, ordering and inspection of new construction for 13 mills and 5 refineries]

1906

Career event - Member, Engineering Association of New South Wales

1916 - 1919

Career position - President, Engineering Association of New South Wales

1917 - 1918

Career position - Engineer, Colonial Sugar Refinering Company

1918 - 1939

Career position - Engineer-in-Chief, Marine Superintending Engineer, Colonial Sugar Refining Company

1919

Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1919 - 1938

Career position - Foundation Councillor, Institution of Engineers Australia

1920

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1923

Career event - Member (MIMechE), Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

1929

Career position - President, Institution of Engineers Australia

1937

Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award in Engineering. Institution of Engineers Australia

1939

Life event - Retired

Related entries

Archival resources

CSR Library

• Dudley Francis John Harricks - Records, 1905 - 1945; CSR Library. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Corbett, Arthur, 'Harricks, Dudley Francis John (1880-1960)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 208-209. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090206b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Engineers and the future', Commonwealth Engineer, 7 (4) (1919), 112-114. Details
• 'The driving force : Dudley Francis John Harricks [Diamond Jubilee feature article]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 51 (20) (1979), 56. Details
• 'First members of institution [Diamond Jubilee feature article]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 51 (20) (1979), 69. 'Registered member number 3'. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'Steam condensers, and their application in sugar factories. (Discussion)', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 27 (1912), 113-123, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4112. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'Steam condensers, and their application in sugar factories', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 27 (1912), 65-95, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4109. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'Steam condensers, and their application in sugar factories. (Discussion)', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 27 (1912), 96-99, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4110. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'Steam condensers, and their application in sugar factories. (Discussion)', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 27 (1912), 100-106, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4111. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'A note on marine propulsion in 1914. (Discussion)', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 30 (1915), 22-38, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4288. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'A note on marine propulsion in 1914', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 30 (1915), 9-21, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4287. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'Presidential address', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 32 (1917), 213-248, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4352. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'Presidential address. (Errata)', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 32 (1917), insert after p248, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4353. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'Presidential address', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 33 (1918), 253-287, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4385. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'An Australian Institute of Engineers - Its potentialities', Commonwealth Engineer, 6 (4) (1918), 128-133. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'Presidential address', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 34 (1919), 125-152, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4505. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'The Institution', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1 (1929), 11-. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'Affairs are moving', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1 (1929), 8-. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'Presidential address', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2 (1930), 81-. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., 'The Institution - Discussion', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2 (1930), 212-. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., and Clayton, R., 'The manufacture of small artillery shells', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 30 (1915), 133-172, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4295. Details
• Harricks, D. F. J., and Clayton, R., 'The manufacture of small artillery shells. (Discussion)', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 30 (1915), 173-180, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/4296. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Tenth Annual Report [1929]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2 (1930), 123-127. 'Standards Association of Australia - Institution of Engineers Australia to be represented on the Council by: Sir Henry Barraclough, Mr R J Boyd, Sir George Julius, Mr D F J Harricks, Mr A J Gibson, and Senator J D Millen', p.124. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Eighteenth Annual Report [1937]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 10 (1938), 182-. 'Prizes - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal (1937 award), to Mr D F J Harricks, MIEAust, Sydney Division', p.184. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Council Meeting 13th December 1937 [72nd meetng of Council]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 10 (1938), 15-18. 1937 award of the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal be made to Mr D F J Harricks, MIEAust, Engineer-in-Chief, Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., Sydney'. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536926. Details
• 'Harricks, Dudley Francis John (1880-1960)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469499. Details

See also

• Smith, James Alexander, 'Letter to the Editor', Commonwealth Engineer, 6 (5) (1918), 159. Details