Gertrude Lilian Entwisle
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Gertrude Lilian Entwisle was an electrical engineer. She was the first British woman to retire from a complete career in industry as a professional engineer; the first female engineer to work at Briti
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Dorothy Smith (engineer)
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Dorothy Smith was a British electrical engineer. She worked for the engineering firm Metropolitan-Vickers from 1916 to 1959, retiring after forty-three years at the company. She was the second woman t
Gertrude Lilian Entwisle
…the Introduction of Female Apprentices to these works is to be deplored.” She was joined in her opposition by Dorothy Garfitt, Anne Gillespie Shaw, and Dorothy Smith, fellow Metropolitan-Vickers employees and members of the Women's Engineering Society. The motion was lost by 78 votes to 61. Towards the end of her…
Smith in 1958
Metropolitan-Vickers Universal electric motor, c.1930. This engine was designed 11 years after Dorothy began working at the Trafford Park site of the engineering firm.