The Mystery of Arnold Hall
In he chaired an Anglo-French Concorde design group then, in the costly wake of cancellation of three of Hawker's military aircraft projects and under growing political pressure for nationalisation of the aircraft industry, Hall broadened the base of the group so that aircraft and engines were no longer dominant.
I did what I could to protect them," Hall recalled. By the mids, when the Hawker Siddeley Group employed about 85, people, 50, were engaged in electrical and other forms of civil engineering. Hall, driven by the spirit of private enterprise and professional responsibility which he saw as essential to the creation of an effective industrial base, was vigorously and openly hostile to the government's nationalisation proposals.
When the axe fell in by a single vote in the Commons , Hall left the aircraft industry for good.
The Mystery of Arnold Hall
To some this was surprising, for he was very much one of CP Snow's "new men of industry" - men who, themselves technically expert, accelerated the decision-making process by downward diffusion to other experts in specific fields, and evolved a formula particularly suited to shaping high-technology projects.
Hall's decision to keep Hawker in the eventually highly successful A European Airbus project after the British government had pulled out emphasised his gifts and made the government look very slow-witted. Speculation that Hall would or could be appointed as supremo of the nationalised aircraft and shipbuilding industries was misplaced, for he was neither temperamentally nor politically acceptable. When appointed Businessman of the Year in for his "vision, courage and commercial discipline" in turning Hawker Siddeley into one of the world's most efficient industries, he said flatly that he wanted no part in any nationalisation programme.
When he later spoke of being "deeply saddened" by the enforced takeover of a third of his industrial group, he was perhaps making the understatement of the century. Hall retired in , but continued to keep in touch with his scientific specialities through the Royal Society fellow, and the Royal Aeronautical Society, of which he was president His flexibility and enormous breadth of grasp are revealed by the fact that not only was he a brilliant success in the very different worlds of academic research, government laboratory administration, high-tech management and industrial development, but he was also a Whitehall insider and adviser in whom Lord Zuckerman, as chief government scientist, declared great trust.
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Born in Liverpool to parents who had left school at 12, Arnold Hall grew up during the depression. Many of his older relatives were involved in maritime activities, but his father was an upholsterer and his mother a brilliant self-taught pianist. My interests were always in engineering and science," Hall recalled. His mathematical gifts and his potential in science and engineering emerged clearly at Alsop High School at Walton, then an all-boys school, to which he won a scholarship.
On a post-graduate fellowship he worked with Frank Whittle and carried out the compressor stress calculations for Whittle's jet engine, the first in the world to run April , now in the Science Museum in London. In , Hall joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment where, during the war, he led the teams that produced both the advanced bomb-sight and the gyro gun-sight which, from D-Day onward, more than doubled the kill rate of Allied fighter aircraft. All required fields must be filled out for us to be able to process your form. We help people distribute information and art spanning a wide range of subject matter while providing a safe, friendly, respectful, and serious site for all content creators.
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