Colin Edward Livingstone Tapley was a New Zealand actor in both American and British films. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest and moving to Hollywood. He acted in a number of films before moving to Britain during the Second World War as a flight controller with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Tapley as Dobbin in the Technicolor film Becky Sharp (1935)
Sir William Henry Glanville CB CBE FRS was a British civil engineer. During World War II he and the Road Research Laboratory were involved in important war work, developing temporary runways, beach analysis, and tank and aircraft design. He also worked on the explosives calculations and scale models used to develop the bouncing bombs used in the Dam Busters Raid.
The BRS facility at Garston
1:50 scale model of the Moehne Dam constructed at Garston to test the Operation Chastise explosives
The RRL's facility at Crowthorne, photographed in 1975