Charles Akroyd-Stuart

AKROYD STUART, Charles Henry, (1873-1941) MIMechE, MIEAust

After arriving in Western Australia from England in 1897 with a knowledge of the heavy oil engines designed by his brother Herbert, Charles worked for J. Barre Johnston & Company, for whom he installed an electric light system at Yallingup Caves in 1903. While a partner of F. Saunders (q.v.) in Saunders and Stuart between 1905 and 1920, he applied for Commonwealth Patent 9833 ‘Improved method of making pipe joints’ 1907.

The partners were agents for Robey steam engines and boilers in 1905, for Crossley gas engines in 1907, and for Ackroyd Power Company’s down draft producer gas plants in 1914-1917, and they supplied a motor locomotive to the Government Railway in 1913. Akroyd Stuart gave evidence to the WA Royal Commission on the Collie Coalfield in 1905 and to the Commonwealth Royal Commission on Customs and Excise in 1905 and to the Commonwealth Enquiry into Tariffs on Iron and Steel in 1916.

He was a member of the WA Institution of Engineers in 1913, and a foundation member of the Institution of Engineers Australia in 1919.

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References:
MBEJ 17/1/1903 p12; 27/4/1907 ply: 4/1/1913 p. 19.
RRC Collie Coalfield V&P WA 1905, 3
Royal Commission on Customs, Excise and Tariffs, Division VI, Metals and Machinery CA PP 1905 (58) v. p. l. Comm Eng Aug1914, p. 65.
WAPD 1910 p. 903, 1915 p. 1025. Interstate Commission …Tariff … Iron and Steel CA PP 1916 (333)
WAPD 1925, p. 693. Obit PIME 146, 1941, p. 41.
Comm Eng 1/1/1941, p. 179.
QUWA 1959, 9(3) p. 56.