Edgar T. Westbury

Edgar T. Westbury was perhaps best known as a major contributor to the English recreational magazine Model Engineer.

As Artificer, he wrote a further 135 articles from 1936 to 1970, on a range of topics including basic workshop skills and techniques, and construction of a light vertical milling machine.

As Kinemette came a further 67 contributions from 1936 to 1959, on making optical equipment including slide and film projectors, and enlargers.

During World War Two, he developed a number of small petrol driven generators for use by the armed forces.

His aptitude, and the mechanical craftsman ethos he represented, was eulogised in the fictional character based on him in Nevil Shute's last novel, Trustee from the Toolroom.