Person
Taylor, Frederick Leslie Charles (1919 - 2004)
AM
- Born
- 8 November 1919
Manly, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 9 February 2004
Doncaster, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Engineer
Summary
Frederick Taylor BSc AM was First Assistant Director-General, Engineering Works Division, Postmaster-General's Department, Canberra and the engineer involved in the Black Mountain Tower in Canberra. From 1975 until 1980 he was the General manager of the engineering department of Telecom. In the mid 1960s he worked on the planning, design and operational features of a major PMG project involving the reconstruction of over 1000 miles of aerial trunk route between Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie, which used a number of constructional techniques not previously used in Australia.
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Chronology
- Education - Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne
- c. 1938 - 1940
- Career position - Cadet engineer, Postmaster-General's Department
- 1940 - 1945
- Military service - Second World War. Lieutenant, Signals Lines of Communication (PMG) [Serving within Australia]
- c. 1958 - c. 1960
- Career position - Liaison Engineer, Postmaster-General's Department, Office of the Australian High Commissioner, London
- 1959
- Career event - Australian delegate, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Conference, Geneva
- 1960s
- Career position - Project engineer, Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie aerial trunk telecommunication project
- c. 1970 - c. 1973
- Career position - Assistant Director-General, Engineering Works Division, Postmaster-General's Department, Canberra
- c. 1973 - 1974
- Career position - First Assistant Director-General, Engineering Works Division, Postmaster-General's Department, Canberra
- 1974 - 1975
- Career position - Director of Post and Telegraphs, Postmaster-General's Department, New South Wales
- 1975 - 1980
- Career position - General manager, Engineering Department, Telecom Australia, Melbourne
- 1980
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - For Public Service
- c. 1980
- Life event - Retired from Telecom Australia
- 1980 - c. 1990
- Career position - Director, Nippon Electric Company (NEC), Melbourne
- 1990 - 1997
- Career position - Director, NEC Business solutions Ltd
- 2004
- Life event - Cremated, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Victoria
Published resources
Edited Books
- Draper, W.J. ed., Who's who in Australia 1983 (Melbourne, Victoria: Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1983), 960 pp. p.831. Details
Journal Articles
- Taylor, F. L. C.; Huston, J. A.; and Sayer, G. E. J., 'Telecommunication facilities between W.A. and the Eastern states', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 37 (9) (1965), 219-231. Details
Resources
- CA 2002, 2 Echelon, Army Headquarters; CA 46, Department of Defence [III], Central Office, 'NAA: B884, V56877', B884 Citizen Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=6276365. Details
- 'Taylor, F. L. C.', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477086. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_t.html. Details
Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 15 March 2023
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