Alfred William Tyree
Alfred William Tyree, known as William or Bill. was born in New Zealand in 1921 and in 1938 moved to Australia.
He studied at Sydney Technical College and gained a Diploma in Electrical Engineering.
In 1947 he set up a small electrical engineering business in Sydney and this grew into a very large and profitable enterprise building transformers.
For a detailed account of his life use this link:
Among many honours and awards William Tyree was a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia from whom, in 1985, he received the Peter Nicholl Russell Medal and in 2012 the Engineering Excellence Award.
William Tyree died in 2013.
To access an oral history interview with Alfred William Tyree please use this link:'
https://heritage.engineersaustralia.org.au/wiki/Oral_Histories_Sydney
