{{Short description|English electrical engineer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} '''Frank Ayton''' (10 January 1873, Hexham – 24 January 1956) was an English electrical engineer. He was a pioneer of electric vehicles. He was a founder of the Electrical Vehicle Committee of Great Britain, later the Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain. He edited the journal ''Electric Vehicle''.<ref name="GG">{{cite web |title=Frank Ayton - Graces Guide |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Frank_Ayton |website=www.gracesguide.co.uk |publisher=Graces Guide |accessdate=23 January 2020}}</ref>
Frank was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and attended the Imperial Service College in Windsor.<ref name="GG"/> He then studied at Finsbury Technical College before working for Siemens Brothers in Woolwich.<ref name="AWG">{{cite journal |last1=Wilson Clegg |first1=Alfred |title=Obituary:Frank Ayton |journal=Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers |date=1956 |volume=2 |issue=21, September 1956 |doi=10.1049/jiee-3.1956.0248 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5323614 |accessdate=26 January 2020|url-access=subscription }}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> He worked on the Waterloo and City Line<ref name="AWG"/> before being taken on by Alexander Kennedy to work on various power station and electric traction projects.<ref name="GG"/>
Ayton was a member of the Institute of Transport.<ref name="The Sphere">{{cite journal |title=The Sphere of the Electric Vehicle|journal=The Commercial Motor|date=1925 |issue=12 May 1925 |pages=9–10 |url=http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/12th-may-1925/9/the-sphere-of-the-electric-vehicle}}</ref>
Ayton was a managing director of Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies.<ref name="The Sphere"/>
==Works== * "[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/j.2050-0416.1920.tb02440.x Electric Vehicles for Brewery Service]", ''Journal of the Institute of Brewing'', Vol. 26 No. 3 March 1920 pp 113–133 * "[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1243/PIME_PROC_1926_111_008_02 Applications of Engineering to Agriculture]", ''Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers'', Volume: 111 issue: 1, June 1926, page(s): 683-720 * [http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/30th-october-1928/45/the-electric-trolley-bus "The Electric Trolley Bus"], ''The Commercial Motor'', 30 October 1928 pp.45-6
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