# Frank Ayton

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{{Short description|English electrical engineer}}
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'''Frank Ayton''' (10 January 1873, [Hexham](/source/Hexham) – 24 January 1956) was an [English](/source/English_people) [electrical engineer](/source/electrical_engineer). He was a pioneer of [electric vehicles](/source/electric_vehicles). He was a founder of the Electrical Vehicle Committee of Great Britain, later the [Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain](/source/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](/source/Hexham), [Northumberland](/source/Northumberland), and attended the [Imperial Service College](/source/Imperial_Service_College) in [Windsor](/source/Windsor%2C_Berkshire).<ref name="GG"/> He then studied at [Finsbury Technical College](/source/Finsbury_Technical_College) before working for [Siemens Brothers](/source/Siemens) in [Woolwich](/source/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](/source/Waterloo_and_City_Line)<ref name="AWG"/> before being taken on by [Alexander Kennedy](/source/Alexander_Kennedy) to work on various [power station](/source/power_station) and [electric traction](/source/electric_traction) projects.<ref name="GG"/>

Ayton was a member of the [Institute of Transport](/source/Chartered_Institute_of_Logistics_and_Transport).<ref name="The Sphere">{{cite journal |title=The Sphere of the Electric Vehicle|journal=[The Commercial Motor](/source/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](/source/Ransomes%2C_Sims_%26_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](/source/Institute_of_Brewing_and_Distilling)'', 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](/source/The_Commercial_Motor)'', 30 October 1928 pp.45-6

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