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Speedy deletion of Malcolm McNeill

A tag has been placed on Malcolm McNeill requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for musical topics.

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February 2009

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Speedy deletion of Cory-Wright, Silston

A tag has been placed on Cory-Wright, Silston, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

of Copyright Violation - Item at the end of the article states "The original version of this biography was published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Volume Four (1921-1940), 1998 © Crown Copyright 1998-2009. Published by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand. All rights reserved."

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. ttonyb1 (talk) 21:23, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Cory-Wright, Silston

To get a copy, you should contact the admin that deleted it. That was PMDrive1061. Good luck...ttonyb1 (talk) 15:33, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

• Yup, 'twas I.  :) Your e-mail doesn't seem to be active, so I'll paste it here for the time being. When you do recreate it, do so first name first, last name last. Thanks for asking. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:14, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I have amended substantially the article. The subject is my grandfather, and a prominent New Zealander, who was widely respected in New Zealand and also internationally. He was awarded valour medals in both WWI and for rescuing a person in water. He made considerable impact on NZ engineering.

Cory-Wright, Silston 1888 - 1976 Engineer, university lecturer, soldier, company director

Early life

Silston Cory-Wright was born at Sigglesthorne Hall, Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, on 22 September 1888, the son of George Henry Cory Wright and his wife, Ellen Green Wade. His mother taught him several foreign languages, including German. His father managed th efamily's estates, the income from which had been largely invested in Canada. Heavy losses in these investments in the 1890s influenced the family's decision to move abroad. After living in Norway, Jamaica and Morocco, they returned to live in England.

Early engineering career

In 1905, Cory-Wright moved to Zurich to undertake an engineering apprenticeship with engineering company, Escher Wyss and Company. During this time, he studied for the University of London matriculation examinations and climbed mountains on Sundays. When he had trained as a design draftsman, he spent two years at the University of Birmingham. In 1908, he gained a BSc in engineering from London University. He then supervised the installation and commissioning of Escher Wyss equipment at Kinlochleven power station for Britain's first aluminium smelter at Fort William, Scotland. By 1910, he had become an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London.

Hydro-electric engineering work

While Cory-Wright was in Zurich in 1910-11 designing turbines, a senior engineer with the New Zealand Public Works Department visited Switzerland, and Cory-Wright was asked to show him the Albula hydroelectric station, which supplied Zurich with electrical power. The station was similar to the one planned for Lake Coleridge in New Zealand, the first hydroelectric station to be built by the New Zealand Government.

In 1912, Cory-Wright accepted an appointment as a lecturer in the new associateship in engineering course at Auckland University College. Between 1913 and 1923, he negotiated the sale of the first six Lake Coleridge turbines, which were based on the Albula design. When the German-born Swiss engineers that had been contracted to install the turbines was interned by the New Zealand Army at the beginning of the First World War, Cory-Wright was asked to supervise the installation and maintenance of the initial three units.

First World War involvement

In November 1915, he joined the Corps of New Zealand Engineers, and in 1916 served in Egypt and France. Owing to his fluency in the German language, he was seconded in early 1917 as an intelligence officer to the New Zealand Division in France. By the end of the war, he had been promoted to the rank of captain and had won the Military Cross for frontline duties.

Formation of Cory-Wright and Salmon

In 1920, after a brief return to university lecturing, Cory-Wright joined Cedric Salmon, a fellow officer in the Engineers, in founding the engineering firm of Cory-Wright and Salmon. The business was based on the partners' contacts with such major British firms as Vickers Limited and the English Electric Company, but it also represented over 50 other large engineering concerns. It supplied a diversity of equipment, especially railways: electrical components for the Lyttelton-Christchurch line (1928), electric units for the Wellington-Johnsonville line (1938), and electric locomotives for the main trunk line beginning with Wellington-Paekakariki (1939-40).

Contracts were also obtained through Cory-Wright's interest in hydro development. On behalf of the firm he supervised Escher Wyss turbine installations at Lake Coleridge until 1923, and subsequently many hydroelectric units for English Electric. By the 1950s, he had been associated with every significant South Island power station and with several in the North Island. His experience was acknowledged overseas: in the 1930s he advised on remedial measures after a major hydraulic failure in Tasmania.

He was closely involved with the firm he cofounded until his death in 1976. After his retirement, Cory-Wright and Salmon, the company he helped to found, remained well known for its engineering work in prominent New Zealand project: in partnership with Swiss firm Habegger AG on the Wellington Cable Car, the Ohaaki power scheme north of Taupo, and the BAC Strikemaster fighter for the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Personal life and family

Cory-Wright was married in Auckland on 4 December 1924 to Jean Isobel MacLennan. From 1928 until his death, the couple lived in the historic crescent-shaped Wellington residence known as 'the Banana House', a former private hospital that housed a large grapevine in its conservatory. This residence was later to be used as a set for the historical 1970s drama The Governor, a biography of Governor George Grey.

In 1924, Cory-Wright was awarded the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand’s medal for rescuing a non-swimmer in the sea off Tairua, Coromandel Peninsula, after a fishing accident. He kept the man alive in the water for several hours before help could be summoned.

Cory-Wright died in Wellington on 3 March 1976, survived by two sons. Later some 20 boxes of memorabilia were presented to the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.

Sources

Stace, F. Nigel. 'Cory-Wright, Silston 1888 - 1976'. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 22 June 2007 URL: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz

Cory-Wright, S. 'The construction and commissioning of Lake Coleridge power scheme in 1914'. New Zealand Engineering 31, No 9 (15 Sept. 1976): 221--223

'A democracy that works…The story of Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd'. New Zealand Electrical Journal 22, No 4 (25 April 1949): 364--367

Obit. New Zealand Energy Journal 49, No 4 (25 April 1976): 62

Speedy deletion of File:Chloe reeves.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Chloe reeves.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section I4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image with an unknown source or an unknown copyright status which has been tagged as such for more than 7 days, and it still lacks the necessary information.

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Proposed deletion of Chloe Reeves

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bladeofgrass (talk) 22:17, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

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