Eur. Ing. Michael Anthony
Pinder BSc.(hons), CEng, FIMechE, FRINA, FHovS.
Engineer, Inventor,
Entrepreneur, Management Consultant, Historian, Futurist and Humanist.
Founder: Square
Zero - The Worldwide Campaign for
Temporal and Spatial Reform.
Website: www.worldwidesystem.co.uk Email:
wwctsr@hotmail.co.uk
Author: The
Worldwide System - Time, Space and
Life on Earth
A brief history of chronologies, calendars, clocks, rules, weights and
measures.
A comprehensive global-digital-decimal measurement system.
A management system based on full-time-job-sharing-as-the-norm.
A government system based on free votes and electronic referendums.
Publisher: New Generation Publishing.
Website: www.newgeneration-publishing.com
He was born in Wimbledon in 1940 and attended Guildford
Technical School and College.
He was awarded an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering by The City
University in 1962.
He became a design and construction engineer, following a student
apprenticeship, with Esso.
He helped to design the UK oil pipeline network and devised the
bifurcated flow system.
He constructed many petroleum storage and distribution facilities
throughout the UK.
He became a specialist in lubricating oil refining, blending and
packaging.
He designed and installed automatic fire fighting systems at many road
loading facilities.
He invented an aircushion system that relocated many storage tanks of up
to 1,000 tonnes.
He designed and built an inflatable hovercraft called
Pinkushion in a spare bedroom.
He was a founder member of The Hoverclub of GB Ltd. and won some of its
competitions.
He formed Pindair Ltd. in 1972 and built a range of inflatable and
rigid/inflatable hovercraft.
He sold these to seventy countries for a wide variety of amphibious
applications.
He licensed his designs to three other companies and is still working on
new designs.
He is a qualified navigator who has hovered and sailed in many parts of
the globe.
He is a vice-president of The Hovercraft Society and a founder of The
Hovercraft Museum Trust.
He was the technical sales managerof Hovair Systems Ltd (industrial aircushion solutions)
He was a management consultant to several aerospace, marine and
engineering companies.
He was a senior lecturer in computer aided engineering at Bournemouth
University.
He researched drones and pneumatic transport at Southampton University.
He studied Maritime Heritage and Museums at Portsmouth University.
His spare-time activities have
included:
President of The Associated Wizards of the South (local magic circle).
President of Locks Heath Rotary Club (twice).
Commodore of International Fellowship of Yachting Rotarians (Solent
Fleet).
Member of International Fellowship of Caravanning Rotarians.
Member of Caravan and Motorhome Club and
Camping and Caravanning Club.
Member of Royal Yachting Association and Warsash Sailing Club.
Member of English Heritage and The National Trust.
Member of The Southampton Ancient Egypt Society.
Member of The British Humanist Association and The National Secular
Society.
He has visited over ninety countries and has given many talks about his
ideas.
He lives with his wife near the River Hamble and has two grown-up
children.
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