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AT a meeting of the general committee of the Trevithick Centenary Commemoration, held on May 31 at the Institution of Civil Engineers and presided over by Sir Murdoch Macdonald, the report of the Executive Committee appointed in October 1932 to make arrangements for the commemoration was presented by Mr. H. W. Dickinson, honorary secretary, and passed. The report showed that about £500 had been subscribed, and that the committee had been able to carry through the plans laid down. Memorial services were held in Westminster Abbey and Dartford Parish Church, a memorial lecture was delivered by Prof. C. E. Inglis, and memorial tablets have been erected at Merthyr Tydfil to mark the site of Trevithick's experiment of 1804, and at University College, London, to mark the experiment with the locomotive Catch-me-who-can in 1808. A sum of money had also been allocated to assist in the erection of a tablet at Trevithick's birthplace. The work of the committee had been greatly assisted by the hospitality of the Institution of Civil Engineers and by the generosity of Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., who had defrayed the cost of the publication of the memorial volume on Trevithick by Messrs. Dickinson and Titley. An interesting outcome of the celebration was that it had led the Institution of Civil Engineers to appoint a committee to make an annual visitation to Westminster Abbey to inspect the various memorials to engineers there.
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Trevithick Centenary Commemoration. Nature 133, 864 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133864c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133864c0