William Glanville
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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 an
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
Clement Hindley
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Sir Clement Daniel Maggs Hindley was a British civil engineer. Hindley spent much of his life working in Bengal for the East Indian Railway Company eventually becoming their general manager. He also s
William Glanville
…should be the responsibility of the RRL. Glanville sought to make the Road Research Board more independent of the MOT and successfully proposed Sir Clement Hindley as chair in 1943, though he died in May 1944. Also in 1943 he proposed that the RRL meet monthly with representatives from the Ministry of War Transport…
Hindley in 1929