Obituary

William Kenneth Detlor, Transmission Engineer, Western Area of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, died suddenly June 17, 1930. He became an Associate of the Institute in 1925. Mr. Detlor was born at Deseronto, Ontario, January 20, 1903; was a graduate of Queens University, 1922, with a degree of B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering, and with Mechanical Engineering in 1923. In 1920 he spent five months with the Canadian General Electric Company at Peterboro, winding and assembling transformers; from May to September 1922 he was associated with the Canadian Westinghouse Company at Hamilton, assembling and testing fans and general small motors; from October to November of the same year, as demonstrator in Electrical Engineering at Queen´s University at Kingston, Ontario. In May 1923 he joined the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, entering the Engineering Department as Assistant to the Transmission Engineer, advancing thereafter to Transmission Engineer, the position he held at the time of his death.