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Description: | Artist: Wyon, Allan Gairdner, artist - British medallist, 1882-1962; Date(s): before 1926; Classification(s): medal, Lanchester Medal, medals, prize, Britain, A.G.Wyon; Acquisition: given by Watson, Philip Charles, 2005-01-31 [CM.19-2005]
Description: The Institution of Automobile Engineers was established in 1906, with the earliest work on cars burgeoning around it. One of the most notable contributors to this field was Frederick William Lanchester, whose innovations in engine and automobile technology represent even today an under-recognised contribution of immense importance, although his most enduring contributions were nonetheless perhaps in the field of aeronautics to which he slowly gravitated. One way in which his significance is still recognised is by the award of the Crompton-Lanchester Medal by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, into which the Institution of Automobile Engineers was absorbed in 1947. Today this medal is awarded to the winner of one of four other prizes administered from the same funds, but the award goes back to Lanchester himself, who established it with the Automobile Engineers, to be awarded annually for outstanding contributions in motor engineering. The original medal was designed by Allan Gairdner Wyon, and this piece is a bronze proof from his workshop. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Allan Gairdner Lanchester Medal medal Wyon | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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