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MR. ASA BINNS, the retiring president of the Institution, was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, in 1873, and was educated at the Grammar School, Keighley, and at the University of Leeds. His workshop training was obtained at the works of Messrs. Tannett Walker and Company, Leeds, and Messrs. Cole, Marchent, and Morley, Ltd., Bradford. After a period as draughtsman in Ipswich with Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, he joined the staff of the Hull docks of the then North Eastern Railway in 1898, thus beginning an association with dock work which has since been continuous. A few years were spent with the Admiralty Works Department, and in 1906 Mr. Binns was appointed to the London and India Docks Company, and remained with the Company's successor, the Port of London Authority, until his retirement from the post of chief engineer in 1938, when he was retained as consultant. He is now consultant to Messrs. Rendel, Palmer, and Tritton, consulting engineers. He has been a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers since 1902. He contributed a paper on “Recent Developments in the Mechanical Equipment of the Port of London Authority” (Proc., 122, 575; 1932) which was presented in May 1932 at the spring meeting of the Institution in London. Mr. Binns became a Whitworth exhibitioner in 1896.
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Presidency of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Nature 147, 262 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147262a0
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