THE LATE MR. O. S. NICHOLS. - We regret to have to record the death on April 12th of Mr. Oretie Stanley Nichols, who was connected with the British Thompson-Houston Company for about thirty-three years, and was manager of the company's Birmingham district office at the time of his death. Mr. Nichols was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1892, and received his technical education at the Finsbury Technical College, London, While there he was offered a course in the B.T.H. testing department at Rugby. Following service in France with the R.F.A., he rejoined the B.T.H. company at Rugby in 1919, and worked for two years in the supply department. He then went to the Birmingham office as power representative and in 1925 he was appointed manager of the company's Middlesborough office. Five years later he became manager of the Liverpool office and in 1933 he was transferred to the Sheffield office, At the beginning of this year he succeeded Mr. Hughes-Caley as manager of the Birmingham office.
Source: The Engineer April 21, 1944, Page 318