Edward Manville

Sir Edward Manville (formerly Mosely,[1] 27 September 1862, Paddington – 17 March 1933, London) M.Inst.E.E., was a British consulting electrical engineer, industrialist and politician.

He later joined the Westminster firm of Kincaid and Waller, and was responsible for many important undertakings, including the tram system of Buenos Aires, considered a model of its kind.

[4] Manville, a pioneer British of electro-technology, was a partner in a Westminster electrical engineering consultancy which advised on the electrification of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and Docker's Metropolitan Amalgamated Carriage and Wagon Company supplied the equipment.

[4] With backgrounds as electrical engineers, Martin and Manville often chose projects based on technical viability instead of commercial value.

[7] Lanchester was acquired with the intent to show a different image, but in the event their cars, like BSA's, became Daimlers wearing different names.

[13] His frequent questions and suggestions irritated Baird,[14] who altered the doorway to his laboratory to be too narrow for Manville to pass through without effort.

[15] Baird said he preferred to keep a distance from Manville's "booming voice" and just view him at the far end of the boardroom table "like a florid sunset seen through a cloud of cigar smoke".

Government and BBC having become important,[citation needed] Lord Ampthill, a former acting viceroy of India, was made chairman and Manville a director.