b'30 Member News July 2021ObituariesDr David Dick OBE PhD DIC History. He published several books about the history and BA (Hons) MLitt CEng FIET development of Edinburgh followed by editing A Scottish March 1929January 2021 Electrical Enlightenment (2000) for the then Institution Obituary provided by the Chair of the Southof Electrical Engineers. He East Scotland Afternoon Meetings and Eventsgraduated BA Hons (2003) committee, Angus Annan CEng MIET. at the Open University, MLitt (2006) at the University of Engineer - Teacher -in 1960 as the head of theDundee and took a PhD at new department of electricalEdinburgh Napier University in Administrator - Manengineering at Coatbridge2013 in his eighty-fifth year.of LettersCollege, he went on toBetween 1960 and 1987, he become the Vice Principal ofserved on various committees David Dick has died aged 92.Napier College of Science andas Chair including the Scottish Leaving school aged 14, histechnology and aged onlyCouncil for Technical EducationDr David Dick OBE PhD DIC BA (Hons) career took him from practicalthirty-five, he was the youngestand the Scottish BusinessMLitt CEng FIETengineering with the NorthVice Principal in Scotland.Education Council. As a FellowIET Volunteer Core Values of Scotland Hydro Board,Subsequently he becameof the IET he was active inAward in the category of to teaching to educationalPrincipal of the newly builtIET affairs and in 2007 heExcellence at the age of 90.management and to successStevenson College in Edinburgh. joined the membership of the as a writer. In 1954 he obtainedcommittee of the South EastHe was a man of deep his first academic post as aHe was appointed OBE inScotland Retired Memberslearning and wide experience lecturer in electrical engineering1983 and he then retiredSection of the IET.He becameand he will be very much in Dundee College of Sciencein 1988 to take up writing,its Chair in 2009 and hemissed by his wide circle of and Technology. Appointedspecialising in Biographicalreceived the Internationalcolleagues and friends.David Rollin CEng FIETroles in development/productivity engineering and production management, 14 August 194421 January 2021 prior to returning to BREL HQ in Derby as New Products Manager in 1982.Obituary provided by his son, James Rollin. In 1985, David was appointed Project David Rollin CEng FIET passed away on 21 January 2021,Director for the InterCity 225 high-speed train project (for which he won the aged 76, of complications from Covid-19. Sir Henry Royce Foundation Memorial Chartered Engineer David Rollin was abecoming a Fellow of the IET in 1985. DavidAward for technical excellence for well-known senior executive in the UKwas also a longstanding Fellow of theInterCity), subsequently becoming and international rail industry, where heIMechE and a Eur Ing (European Engineer). Director of Projects at InterCity in 1991, worked for more than 50 years. He was abased at the InterCity HQ in London.longstanding member of the IET since hisHis railway career began in 1960, with anIn 1994, during UK rail privatisation, student days at University in the 1960s,engineering apprenticeship at HorwichDavid instigated a management buyout Works. As a British Rail (BR) sponsored(MBO) of the Fleet Engineering function student, David subsequently completedof InterCity in Derby, completing the a BSc in Electrical Engineering atMBO in March 1996. The company Salford University, graduating in 1968.became Interfleet Technology, a David joined British Rail Engineeringmulti-disciplinary railway consultancy Limited (BREL) in 1969 as a Project Engineer at Doncaster Works, becomingspecialising in engineering, technology a Chartered Engineer in 1971.and strategic business advisory services. From 1971 to 1974 David worked as aStarting with 100 staff at a single office Commercial Manager at the BREL HQ,location in Derby, Interfleet subsequently prior to becoming Production/Projectexpanded internationally across 9 countries, Manager for the Advanced Passenger Trainemploying some 600 people around the (APT) tilting-train project in 1974, based atworld, prior to being sold to SNC-Lavalin Derby Works. Subsequently he relocatedin October 2011. David subsequently David Rollin CEng FIET back to Doncaster in 1979, undertakingretired from the rail industry in 2013.'