Taylor, Frederick Leslie Charles (1919 - 2004)

Summary

Frederick Taylor BSc AM was First Assistant Director-General, Engineering Works Division, Postmaster-General's Department, Canberra and the engineer involved in the Black Mountain Tower in Canberra. From 1975 until 1980 he was the General manager of the engineering department of Telecom. In the mid 1960s he worked on the planning, design and operational features of a major PMG project involving the reconstruction of over 1000 miles of aerial trunk route between Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie, which used a number of constructional techniques not previously used in Australia.

Details

Chronology

Education - Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne

c. 1938 - 1940

Career position - Cadet engineer, Postmaster-General's Department

1940 - 1945

Military service - Second World War. Lieutenant, Signals Lines of Communication (PMG) [Serving within Australia]

c. 1958 - c. 1960

Career position - Liaison Engineer, Postmaster-General's Department, Office of the Australian High Commissioner, London

1959

Career event - Australian delegate, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Conference, Geneva

1960s

Career position - Project engineer, Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie aerial trunk telecommunication project

c. 1970 - c. 1973

Career position - Assistant Director-General, Engineering Works Division, Postmaster-General's Department, Canberra

c. 1973 - 1974

Career position - First Assistant Director-General, Engineering Works Division, Postmaster-General's Department, Canberra

1974 - 1975

Career position - Director of Post and Telegraphs, Postmaster-General's Department, New South Wales

1975 - 1980

Career position - General manager, Engineering Department, Telecom Australia, Melbourne

1980

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - For Public Service

c. 1980

Life event - Retired from Telecom Australia

1980 - c. 1990

Career position - Director, Nippon Electric Company (NEC), Melbourne

1990 - 1997

Career position - Director, NEC Business solutions Ltd

2004

Life event - Cremated, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Victoria

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Taylor, F. L. C.; Huston, J. A.; and Sayer, G. E. J., 'Telecommunication facilities between W.A. and the Eastern states', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 37 (9) (1965), 219-231. Details

Resources

• CA 2002, 2 Echelon, Army Headquarters; CA 46, Department of Defence [III], Central Office, 'NAA: B884, V56877', B884 Citizen Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=6276365. Details
• 'Taylor, F. L. C.', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477086. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_t.html. Details
• Draper, W.J. ed., Who's who in Australia 1983 (Melbourne, Victoria: Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1983), 960 pp. p.831. Details