Ray Whittorn

Raymond Harold Whittorn, CBE (4 October 1911 – 10 August 1995) was an Australian politician.

[1] He worked as a cables superintended for the Olympic Tyre and Rubber Company before its cables division was spun out as Olympic Cables Ltd, after which he became factory manager and then from 1949 general manager.

[2] In 1953, he became sales manager at Johns Hydraulics Ltd.[3] In 1960, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in a by-election for the Melbourne seat of Balaclava caused by the resignation of Percy Joske; Whittorn represented the Liberal Party.

[1][4] Whittorn was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1972 Birthday Honours.

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