1884 – July 16, 1954) was an American engineer, President of The Trundle Engineering Company of Cleveland, Ohio,[1] inventor and business theorist, known as recipient of the 1937 Taylor Key,[2] one of the highest awards of the Society for Advancement of Management.
[3] After attending grammar and high schools in his native state, in 1902 at the age of 18, he moved to Cleveland, where he started his career in the industry.
[4] In the 1920s he founded the Trundle Engineering Company of Cleveland, where he served as president.
Over the years he put several patents on his name, wrote several articles on business topics, and edited the 1948 volume Managerial control of business published by Wiley.
Trundle was awarded the Taylor Key in 1937 by the Society for Advancement of Management.