Asa Binns

[1] Binns afterwards undertook a three-year engineering pupillage with the Leeds hydraulic pump maker Tannett, Walker & Company and the Bradford engine maker Cole, Marchent, and Morley Ltd.[1][2] During his pupillage he was awarded a Whitworth scholarship.

[1] After qualifying Binns was employed as a draughtsman by the Ipswich agricultural machinery manufacturer Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies and the North Eastern Railway's Hull dockyard.

[1] Binns was appointed a major in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, a volunteer unit providing advice to the British Army, on 25 July 1925 and later rose to lieutenant-colonel.

[5][1] He served on numerous ICE committees and was inaugural chairman of the Maritime and Waterways Engineering Division, founded in 1944.

[1][6] Binns was elected president of the ICE on 4 June 1946 but died before the session started in November that year.