Strickland, Tom Percival (1875 - 1955)

Summary

Tom Strickland, BSc MSc MIEAust, was Chief Electrical Engineer of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, from the inception, planning and development of electrical trams in Melbourne in 1921, until he retired in 1938. Prior to that he was the Assistant Chief Electrical engineer, New South Wales Government railways and tramways. He played a lead role in the establishment of the Commonwealth Engineering Standards Association in 1922, and was a member of the Melbourne Town Planning Commission. During the Second World War he was a Commissioner of the State Electricty Commission of Victoria and a Member of the Board of Business Administation for the Defence Department.

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Chronology

1895

Career event - Member, Sydney University Engineering Society [later elected a Life member]

1897

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney

1897 - 1899

Award - 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship

1899

Education - Master of Science (MSc), McGill University, Montreal, Canada

c. 1900

Career event - Member (MCanSCE), Canadian Society of Civil Engineers

1902

Career event - Member, Electrical Association of New South Wales

1902 - Oct 1921

Career position - Assistant Chief Electrical engineer, Railways and Tramways, New South Wales [under O W C Brain]

1904

Career event - Associate Member (AAmIEE), American Institute of Electrical Engineers

1904 - 1905

Career position - President, Sydney University Engineering Society

1906

Career event - President, Electrical Association of New South Wales

1919

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

1920

Career position - Lecturer, University of Sydney [Series of post-graduate lectures on transmission line design]

1920

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

Oct 1921 - Aug 1938

Career position - Chief Electrical Engineer, Melbourne Metropolitan Tramways Board

1922 - 1932

Career position - Member of Council, Institution of Engineers Australia

1923 - c. 1929

Career position - Chairman, Sectional committee on railways and tramways, Australian Engineering Standards Association

1923 - 1930

Career position - Member, Melbourne Town Planning Commission

1938

Life event - Retired

1938 - 1942

Career position - Consulting engineer, Melbourne

Dec 1941 - Dec 1945

Career position - Part-time Commissioner, State Electricity Commission of Victoria

1943 - 1945

Career position - Member, Board of Business Administration, Commonwealth of Australia

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary [Sir John Kemp (1883-1955); Tom Percival Strickland (1875-1955)]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 27 (3) (1955), 70. Details
• Barraclough, S. H. E.; Strickland, T. P., 'Experimental investigation of the flow of water in uniform channels', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 31 (1897), 356-376, http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41845106. Details
• East, L. R. (editor), 'One hundred years of engineering in Victoria.', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (10) (1934), 353-420. 'Metropolitan and Provincial Tramways' pp.369-371. Details
• MacDonald, J. D., 'Strickland on Gould', Emu, 75 (4) (1975), 230-231. Details
• Strickland, T. P., 'The three phase generation, transmission and conversion system of the Sydney electric tramways', Journal and abstract of proceedings of the Sydney University Engineering Society, 9 (1904), 25-39, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/SUES/article/view/2046. Details
• Strickland, T. P., 'Presidential address. Sydney University Engineering Society', Journal and abstract of proceedings of the Sydney University Engineering Society, 10 (1905), 1-16, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/SUES/article/view/2057. Details
• Strickland, T. P., 'The flow of water through sharp-edged orifices', Journal and abstract of proceedings of the Sydney University Engineering Society, 11 (1906), 47-67, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/SUES/article/view/2097. Details
• Strickland, T. P., 'Presidential address. Electrical Association of New South Wales', Proceedings of the Electrical Association of New South Wales (1906-07), 7-18. Details
• Strickland, T. P., 'Notes on the earthing of the neutral in three-phase high-tension systems', Proceedings of the Electrical Association of New South Wales (1910-11), 17-33. Details
• Strickland, T. P., 'On the loss of head due to bends in pipes', Journal and abstract of proceedings of the Sydney University Engineering Society, 17 (1912), 23-47, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/SUES/article/view/2189. Details
• Strickland, T. P., 'The heating of cables in service', Proceedings of the Electrical Association of Australia, New South Wales Section, 1 (1914-15), 187-226. Details
• Strickland, T. P., 'Current rushes in transformers', Proceedings of the Electrical Association of Australia, New South Wales Section, 2 (1915-16), 39-43. Details

Resources

• 'Strickland, Tom Percival', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475031. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Strickland, Tom Percival', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001816p.htm. Details