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Donald F. Galloway
Pages 86-93

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From page 87...
... GALLOWAY 1 913-1 996 BY M EUGENE MERCHANT DONALD F GALLOWAY founder and retired director general of the Production Engineering Research Association of Great Britain, died on December 2l, 1996, at the age of eighty-three.
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From page 88...
... As a consequence of this conviction, together with his previously mentioned recognition of the serious need for a highly competent source of industry-oriented manufacturing research and development, in 1946 Don took the bold move of organizing and founding the now worldrenowned Production Engineering Research Association (PERA) of Great Britain, headquartered in Melton Mowray, United Kingdom.
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From page 89...
... This program evolved into the Production Engineering Advisory Service, which provided advice and assistance covering the whole spectrum of manufacturing activities. Over the years, the PERA laboratories carried out extensive and highly productive cooperative manufacturing research and development for a great variety of manufacturing companies, to solve their manufacturing problems.
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From page 90...
... "Production Engineering Research and Its Practical Applications in Britain." American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1956 (Calvin W Rice Lecture)
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From page 91...
... He also was a leader in developing a national plan for improving productivity in the United Kingdom, based on his earlier work. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, as a foreign associate, in 1984.
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From page 92...
... And when its annual General Assembly finally met for the first time in Britain, in 195S, he left no stone unturned to make it the most outstanding such meeting in that societ,v's~ history up to then. He unleashed the entire staff of PERA's Conference Division on it, ensuring impeccable operation of both the technical sessions and programs and the social events, including the social programs for the ladies.
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... We wandered through the gray stone house which rose above terraced gardens. We admired the farm buildings and even strolled a distance to observe the magnificent herd of cattle grazing in the meadows Belted Galloways, of course." Don and his wife, Toni, had one daughter, Toni Ann, who often attended the CIRP General Assemblies with them until she married.
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