Candy, Charles William Albert Augustus (1894 - 1981)

Summary

Charles Candy CE FIEAust was a notable Victorian consulting civil and hydraulic engineer who specialised in town water, sewerage and drainage schemes from the 1930s to the 1960s. He formed a partnership with A K Sambell in the 1920s, then with Scott & Furphy from 1939 to 1950, before forming his own consulting engineering practice C. W. Candy and Partners in 1959. He is associated with the design of works for many Victorian town water supplies and later their Sewerage schemes.

He was also very active within the engineering profession, and served as Secretary of the Melbourne Division of the Institution of Engineers Australia, and as its national President in 1954-55.

Details

Associated works:
* 1913 Concrete Arch Dam, for Orbost Water Supply;
* 1920 Lakes Entrance Water Supply;
* 1924 - 1926 Consulting engineer, Shire of Traralgon;
* 1925 Subdivisions in Ringwood CA 8-13, 21-26;
* 1927 Phillip Island Holidays Development Pty Ltd. [Sambell, Candy];
* 1929 Portland water supply (bored water supply);
* 1929 Consulting engineer, Shire of Tungamah;
* 1957 Pipeline Bridge, Traralgon Water Works Trust;
* 1968 Cobram Sewerage Authority;
* 1968 Beechworth Sewerage Authority;
* 1968 Mansfield Sewerage Authority.

Chronology

c. 1912 - 1915

Career position - Served articles [under Munz and Munz, Land Surveyors, civil engineers, water supply engineers] LS, CE, WS

c. 1913 - c. 1939

Career position - Engineer, Sambell and Candy, Consulting engineers

c. 1915 - c. 1918

Career position - Surveyor, rising to Chief Surveyor, Melbourne Harbour Trust

1916

Military service - Applied to enlist, rejected, probably on medical grounds

c. 1918

Career event - Member (MIMEV), Institution of Municipal Engineers of Victoria

c. 1918 - 1926

Career position - Engineer, surveyor, Sambell consulting engineers

c. 1919

Career event - Granted Certificate of Qualification as Municipal Surveyor (CE), Local Government Act 1903 VIC

1926

Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia (Transferred from Institution of Municipal Engineers of Victoria)

1928 -

Career position - Consuting engineer, Shire of Phillip Island

1939 - 1950

Career position - Engineer, Candy Scott & Furphy, sewerage engineers

1942

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

1942 - 1947

Career position - Member of Council, representative of Melbourne Division, Institution of Engineers Australia

1944

Career position - Honorary Secretary of Council, Institution of Engineers Australia

1948

Career position - Honorary Secretary, Melbourne Division, Institution of Engineers Australia

1954 - 1955

Career position - President of Council, Institution of Engineers Australia

1959 -

Career position - Senior Partner, C. W. Candy and Partners [Consulting engineers, Melbourne]

1968

Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Members were designated Fellows on this date.]

Related entries

Published resources

Edited Books

• Alexander, Joseph A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1950 (Melbourne: Colorgravure Publications, 1950). Page 143. Details

Journal Articles

• Candy, C. W., 'Presidential Address', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 27 (1955), 95. Details

Newspaper Articles

• 'Death Notice: Candy, Charles William', The Age (1982), 19. Details

Resources

• CA 2001, Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office, 'NAA: MT1486/1, CANDY/CHARLES WILLIAM', MT1486/1 Applications to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=6533577. Details

See also

• Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details