Mr. A. H. Hall, C.B., C.B.E

Abstract

MR. ARTHUR HENRY HALL died at his home at Farnham, Surrey, on September 10, at the age of seventy-three. Mr Hall, the son of H. S. Hall, was born at Chifton in 1876 and was educated at Clifton and at Fifty Hall, Cambridge, where he took a first in the Mechanical Science Tripos. On leaving Cambridge in 1898, he entered the famous firm of cross-Channel shipbuilders, Messrs. W. Denny Bros., of Dumbarton, and left them in 1905 to join the Ordnance Department of the War Office. The fol lowing year he became assistant mechanical engineer at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and in 1914 he transferred to the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield. On the outbreak of the First World War he returned as assistant superintendent to Woolwich, where he remained until 1917. He joined the Admiralty staff in 1917 and for two years was director of torpedo and mine production. He was then lent to the Ministry of Munitions and later became controller of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and chemical disposals. v. In 1926 Mr. Hall joined the Air Ministry to take charge of airship construction work at Cardington, and two years later he followed the late Mr. Sydney Smith as chief superintendent of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, a position he held until his retirement at the age of sixty-five in 1941.