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FREDERICK WILLIAM SULLY was born on 30 May, 1901 and died 8 January, 1958

Educated at Enfield Technical School and later at Woolwich Polytechnic, he went on to study engineering from 1922 to 1924 at King’s College, University of London.

He trained under Mr. A. H. Humphries, M.I.C.E., the Superintendent of the Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich, and in 1924 began his professional career as an engineering assistant to Mr. C. H. Lobban, M.I.C.E., consulting engineer. For the next two years he was engaged on various aspects of reinforced concrete design and construction, including work for Victoria House, Kingsway, and the London School of Tropical Medicines.

In 1926 he became an Assistant Engineer on design and erection schemes in Bridge Department of Messrs. Dorman Long and Co. Ltd, where he was concerned with work on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In 1928 he designed piers and viaduct approaches for the Bangkok Memorial Bridge and in 1930 he was Assistant Engineer, later becoming Engineer for construction on site, for the Scotswood Bridge. Between 1932 and 1935 he was Assistant Engineer for the Nanking Pukow Train Ferry, he designed a 550-ton floating crane for the Stormstrom Bridge in Denmark, and he was as Assistant Engineer, and later, Engineer for construction on site, for the Birchenough Bridge, Southern Rhodesia.

In 1935 he left Doorman Long and became Assistant to Mr. W. Storey Wilson, M.I.C.E., Chief Engineer and Director of Holloway Bros. (London) Ltd, the contractors. Four years later he was appointed Senior Civil Engineer and, in 1943, Chief Engineer.

Mr. Sully possessed expert knowledge of structural engineering, especially of pneumatic caissons, steel bridges of all types, heavy bridge and other foundations, steel cofferdams, and piling. This knowledge was utilized on a number of major works, for which he was responsible for various aspects of design. They include the Chelsea Bridge reconstruction in 1935, the Wandsworth Bridge reconstruction 1936, the Bagdad bridges in 1937. He design the 200,000 GBP circulating-water system and other details for the Littlebrook Power Station 1938-1939, and later he worked on the viaducts for the Derwent Valley Water Board.

Mr. Sully was joint Author, with Mr. A.E. Reid, of two Papers 1, 2 presented to the Institution, winning a Telford Premium for each, and the joint Author of another 3, with Mr. W. Storey Wilson, for which he won a Crampton Prize. He collaborated on two more Papers 4, 5 with Mr. W. Storey Wilson and also contributed a Paper 6 to the Conference on Welded Structures, held at the Institution in 1953. Mr. Sully won a Charles Hawksley Prize in 1926 and he was a Whitworth Exhibitioner. Elected an Associate Member in 1927, he was transferred to the class of Members in 1940. He had been four times a member of the Works Construction Division Committee.

1 A. E. Reid and F. W. Sully, “The construction of the King Feisal Bridge and the King Ghazi Bridge over the River Tigris at Baghdad”. Works Construction Paper No. 4, Instn civ. Engrs, 1946

2 A. E. Reid and F. W. Sully, “The design and construction of the Baghdad railway and road bridge”. J. Instn civ. Engrs, vol. 36, p. 429 (Nov. 1951).

3 W. Storey Wilson and F. W. Sully, “The construction of the caisson forming the foundation to the circulating-water pump-house for the Uskmouth Generating Station”. Proc. Instn civ. Engrs, Pt 111, vol. 1, p. 151 (Dec. 1952).

4 W. Storey Wilson and F. W. Sully, “The traversing and side launching of heavy craft” (“The civil engineer in war,” vol2., p. 21 1). Instn civ. Engrs, 1948.