Samuel Haymes died in Sydney, Australia, on 30th April, 1962, at the age of 64.
He was born in Australia and educated at Melbourne High School and at Melbourne University, where he took a general engineering course between 1916 and 1918.
He worked for a period in Melbourne, from April, 1918, as a junior mechanical draughtsman with the Department of Works and Railways, and in the following year on tin and gold dredge and crushing plant design with Charles Ruwolt Pty., Ltd. He was chief draughtsman at Hadfields (Aust.), Ltd., Sydney, from 1923 to 1924 and then became chief draughtsman for Poole and Steel, Ltd., Sydney.
He joined Alluvial Tin (Malaya), Ltd., at Rawang and Malim Nawar, Malaya, in May, 1925, where he was chief draughtsman and assistant engineer responsible for the design, specification and erection of new dredges and modifications to existing plant.
Seven years later Mr. Haymes came to London to take up the position of assistant engineer, Anglo-Oriental Mining Corporation, Ltd., with whom he remained until the war years, having travelled to Malaya, Siam, Burma, India and West Africa in the course of his work.
During the war he held the appointment of deputy chief mechanical engineer of the Ordnance Factory Division in India under the Director-General of Munition Production. From 1946 to 1949 Mr. Haymes was manager of British Guiana Consolidated Goldfields, Ltd., giving up this position to join Axel Johnson and Co., Inc., as general manager of their mining operations at Baramita in the north-west district of British Guiana. He returned to England early in 1950 but left in the same year for Australia where he later held the position of engineer with Alluvial Mining Equipment, Pty., Ltd., Sydney.
Mr. Haymes was elected to Associate Membership of the Institution in 1936.
Vol. 19, Trans IMM 1963-64, p.47-48
