Dorothy Cridland

After leaving school, Cridland joined Leyland Motors as a junior technical assistant in the 1930s. During her early years at Leyland she studied a number of technical courses at various institutions, including the Kingston Technical College and the City of London College.^[1] She rose up through the company to become the Deputy Regional Manager for the Southern Region and left in 1955.^[1]

Between 1955 and 1963 she was a technical editor for the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.^[1]

Cridland joined the Women's Engineering Society (WES) in 1943, and became an associate member in 1948.^[3] Cridland was active in the Women's Engineering Society (WES) from the 1940s onwards, and was elected president in 1964, succeeding Cicely Thompson. Thompson returned to the role in 1965.^[4] Cridland later became an honorary member of WES in 1978.^[3]

Cridland was also one of the early women to be admitted to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, being elected an associate in 1951.^[1] Cridland was a Freewoman of the City of London.^[1]

Cridland died in Maidstone, Kent in 1987.^[1]