Arthur Hartley left the corps after the war and spent five years as a consulting engineer before he joined the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
19 Facts About Arthur Hartley
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Arthur Hartley retired from Anglo-Iranian in 1951 and was elected president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
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Arthur Hartley was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1959, but died three months into his tenure.
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Arthur Hartley was born at Springbank, Hull on 7 January 1889 to George Thomas Arthur Hartley, a surgeon, and his wife Elizabeth Briggs.
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Arthur Hartley was educated at Hymers College and Hull Municipal Technical College before attending the City and Guilds College, the engineering department of Imperial College London.
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Arthur Hartley graduated with a third class honours bachelor's degree in engineering in 1910.
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Arthur Hartley ended the war with the rank of major.
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Arthur Hartley was responsible for the Air Board's development of George Constantinescu's interrupter gear which allowed a machine gun to be fired through the propeller blades of an aircraft without danger of damage.
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Arthur Hartley transferred to the Royal Air Force on its establishment as a separate service.
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Arthur Hartley was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 10 October 1919 in recognition of his war work.
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Arthur Hartley became assistant manager of the supply department later the same year and from 1932 to 1934 he was seconded to the Iraq Petroleum Company, on his return being appointed chief engineer.
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From 1942 Arthur Hartley worked with the Petroleum Warfare Department and was appointed as its technical director.
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Arthur Hartley developed the pipes used in Operation Pluto, a series of twenty-one undersea pipes used to transport oil from Britain to continental Europe to support the Liberation of Europe.
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Arthur Hartley received an appointment as Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1944.
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Arthur Hartley was awarded the United States Medal of Freedom in 1946.
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Arthur Hartley was elected president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1951 and was an honorary fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute.
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Arthur Hartley was made an honorary fellow of Imperial College London in 1953.
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Arthur Hartley was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1959.
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Arthur Hartley married Dorothy Elizabeth Wallace, the daughter of a Shanghai-based marine engineer, in 1920 and had two sons.