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'''Robert Alexander Baron Schutzmann von Schutzmansdorff''' (6 May 1924 – 19 January 2015)<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> was an [[Austria]]n-born British [[inventor]] and television presenter. He was known as '''Bob Symes''', and sometimes credited-as '''Robert Symes-Shutzmann''' or '''Bob Symes-Shutzmann'''.<ref name="Times1">{{cite news|title=Television and Radio, Model World|date=15 July 1987|work=The Times|page=23}}</ref>
'''Robert Alexander Schutzmann'''<ref name="Korotin">[https://books.google.com/books?id=O5pVDAAAQBAJ&dq=herbert+von+Schutzmann+wien&pg=PA350 Ilse Korotin: ''biografiA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen.''] Band 1, Böhlau Verlag Wie u.a. 2016, {{ISBN|978-3-205-79590-2}}, S.&nbsp;350.</ref> (6 May 1924 – 19 January 2015)<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> was an [[Austrians|Austrian]] [[inventor]] and television presenter. He was also known as '''Bob Symes''', and sometimes credited-as '''Robert Symes-Shutzmann''' or '''Bob Symes-Shutzmann'''.<ref name="Times1">{{cite news|title=Television and Radio, Model World|date=15 July 1987|work=The Times|page=23}}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
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Symes, who came from a Jewish family, was the son of Dr. Herbert Schutzmann, a [[lawyer]] and ardent [[Zionist]], and his mother was writer Lola Blonder.<ref name="Korotin"/> Educated at a [[Realgymnasium]], [[Vienna]] and the Institut auf dem Rosenberg in [[St Gallen]], [[Switzerland]],<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> during holidays he would return to the family estate where he developed a private [[narrow gauge railway]] that transported timber.<ref name=GuardObit/>

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Descended from an Austrian [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocratic]] family with a title that dated back to 1407,<ref name=TelgObit/> he was the son of Dr Herbert and Lolabeth Schutzmann von Schutzmannsdorff, a [[lawyer]] and ardent [[Zionist]], and his mother was writer Lolabeth Zipser.<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> Educated at the [[Realgymnasium]], [[Vienna]] and the Institut auf dem Rosenberg in [[St Gallen]], [[Switzerland]],<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> during holidays he would return to the family estate where he developed a private [[narrow gauge railway]] that transported timber.<ref name=GuardObit/>


==Career==
==Career==

===Royal Navy===
===Royal Navy===

After the death of his father in 1937,<ref name=GuardObit/> and the annexation of Austria by [[Nazi Germany]] in March 1938 via the [[Anschluss]], his mother led Symes and his younger sister to [[Trieste]] and onwards to the Jewish-section of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> Whilst his mother and sister travelled onwards to the [[United States]], Symes contacted a former British diplomat in Vienna, a family friend who was once stationed in [[Cairo]].<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/>
After the death of his father in 1937,<ref name=GuardObit/> and the annexation of Austria by [[Nazi Germany]] in March 1938 via the [[Anschluss]], his mother led Symes and his younger sister to [[Trieste]] and onwards to the Jewish-section of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> Whilst his mother and sister travelled onwards to the [[United States]], Symes contacted a former British diplomat in Vienna, a family friend who was once stationed in [[Cairo]].<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/>


After gaining the required letter of recommendation, due to his ability to speak German, French, Arabic and English, Symes was commissioned as a Lieutenant into the [[Royal Navy]], operating [[Motor Torpedo Boat]]s (MTBs) in the [[Mediterranean]].<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> Quickly rising to command his own boat, he broke anti-torpedo measures in a raid on [[Tripoli]].<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> After rising to the rank of [[Lieutenant Commander]], he took part in protecting the landings that led to the liberation of [[Crete]].<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/>
After gaining the required letter of recommendation, due to his ability to speak German, French, Arabic and English, Symes was commissioned as a Lieutenant into the [[Royal Navy]], operating [[Motor Torpedo Boat]]s (MTBs) in the [[Mediterranean]] while based in [[Alexandria]].<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> Quickly rising to command his own boat, he broke anti-torpedo measures in a raid on [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]].<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> After rising to the rank of [[Lieutenant Commander]], he took part in protecting the landings that led to the liberation of [[Crete]].<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/>


===Broadcasting===
===Broadcasting===
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After leaving the Royal Navy, he became the Dutch airline [[KLM]]'s press officer in London.<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/>

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After leaving the Royal Navy, he became the airline [[KLM]]’s press officer in London.<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/>


In 1953 he joined the BBC's Overseas Service for Germany based in [[Broadcasting House]], London, where his ability to speak various languages quickly established his career.<ref name=GuardObit/> After two years as head of broadcasting at the BBC's Eastern Region Colonial Office in [[Nigeria]] from 1956, he returned as a producer and broadcast manager to London.<ref name=GuardObit/>
In 1953 he joined the BBC's Overseas Service for Germany based in [[Broadcasting House]], London, where his ability to speak various languages quickly established his career.<ref name=GuardObit/> After two years as head of broadcasting at the BBC's Eastern Region Colonial Office in [[Nigeria]] from 1956, he returned as a producer and broadcast manager to London.<ref name=GuardObit/>
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His interest in engineering and technology resulted in his joining the ''[[Tomorrow's World]]'' presentation team, alongside [[Raymond Baxter]].<ref name="BBC News 2002">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/rob_on_the_road/2051295.stm|title=Fast track to the Scottish Borders|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=18 June 2002|accessdate=20 January 2015}}</ref> Over the following 30 years Symes became a familiar face to [[United Kingdom|British]] TV audiences across a number of engineering, technology and [[railway]] related productions, including ''[[Model World]]'' (in 1975) which was dedicated to the [[hobby]] of [[Physical model|modelling]],<ref name="Times1"/> and then co-presented with [[Mary-Jean Hasler]] ''[[Making Tracks (TV programme)|Making Tracks]]'' a series dedicated to little-known rail lines and networks worldwide, and which specialised in steam operations.
His interest in engineering and technology resulted in his joining the ''[[Tomorrow's World]]'' presentation team, alongside [[Raymond Baxter]].<ref name="BBC News 2002">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/rob_on_the_road/2051295.stm|title=Fast track to the Scottish Borders|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=18 June 2002|accessdate=20 January 2015}}</ref> Over the following 30 years Symes became a familiar face to [[United Kingdom|British]] TV audiences across a number of engineering, technology and [[railway]] related productions, including ''[[Model World]]'' (in 1975) which was dedicated to the [[hobby]] of [[Physical model|modelling]],<ref name="Times1"/> and then co-presented with [[Mary-Jean Hasler]] ''[[Making Tracks (TV programme)|Making Tracks]]'' a series dedicated to little-known rail lines and networks worldwide, and which specialised in steam operations.


In 1982 he presented the BBC [[Horizon (UK TV series)|''Horizon'']] programme; "The Mysterious Mr. Tesla" about the electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla]].
In 1982 he presented the BBC [[Horizon (UK TV series)|''Horizon'']] programme; "The Mysterious Mr. Tesla" about the electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla]].


Environmental techniques that Symes had developed for environmental living resulted in the 1990s series ''The House that Bob Built'', in which a "green" dwelling was constructed at [[Milton Keynes]].<ref name=TelgObit/>
Environmental techniques that Symes had developed for environmental living resulted in the 1990s series ''The House that Bob Built'', in which a "green" dwelling was constructed at [[Milton Keynes]].<ref name=TelgObit/>
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==Other interests==
==Other interests==

Until its closure on Easter Monday 2014, he was patron of 'Hospital Radio Lion' based at the [[Royal Surrey County Hospital]] in [[Guildford]].
Until its closure on Easter Monday 2014, he was patron of 'Hospital Radio Lion' based at the [[Royal Surrey County Hospital]] in [[Guildford]].


===Engineering and inventing===
===Engineering and inventing===

Symes created inventions in metal engineering, and held patents in [[plumbing]]. He was also instrumental in setting up the [[Institute of Patentees and Inventors]] in 1989, which he chaired twice, and then launched National Invent-A-Thing Week in 1992.<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/>
Symes created inventions in metal engineering, and held patents in [[plumbing]]. He was also instrumental in setting up the [[Institute of Patentees and Inventors]] in 1989, which he chaired twice, and then launched National Invent-A-Thing Week in 1992.<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/>


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===Railways===
===Railways===
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His lifelong interest in railways included helping to set up private railways in [[Switzerland]] and across the United Kingdom. He established the Border Union Railway Company in 1969, to restore, maintain and introduce new services along the recently abandoned [[Waverley Line]] between [[Edinburgh]] and [[Carlisle]].<ref name="BBC News 2002"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Business Diary|date=28 August 1969|work=The Times|page=19}}</ref>


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His interest in model railways included a {{convert|300|m}} long [[Gauge 1]] railway in his garden at Honeysuckle Bottom, near [[East Horsley]], [[Surrey]],<ref name=TelgObit/> followed by a 10{{frac|1|4}} railway.<ref name=TelgObit/> His family opened the railway every year to raise funds for the BBC's ''[[Children in Need]]'', where visitors could take tea and cake and also see his collection of vintage tractors.<ref name=TelgObit/> Symes was also the president of a [[Guildford]]-based model railway circle called Astolat MRC.
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His lifelong interest in railways included helping to set up private railways in [[Switzerland]] and across the United Kingdom. He established The Border Union Railway Company in 1969, to restore, maintain and introduce new services along the recently abandoned [[Waverley Line]] between [[Edinburgh]] and [[Carlisle, Cumbria|Carlisle]].<ref name="BBC News 2002"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Business Diary|date=28 August 1969|work=The Times|page=19}}</ref>

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His interest in model railways included a {{convert|300|m}} long [[Gauge 1]] railway in his garden at Honeysuckle Bottom, near [[East Horsley]], [[Surrey]],<ref name=TelgObit/> followed by a 10¼ railway.<ref name=TelgObit/> His family opened the railway every year to raise funds for the BBC's ''[[Children In Need]]'', where visitors could take tea and cake and also see his collection of vintage tractors.<ref name=TelgObit/> Symes was also the president of a [[Guildford]]-based model railway circle called Astolat MRC.


===Politics===
===Politics===
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Symes twice stood unsuccessfully for [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] in [[Mid Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)|Mid Sussex]] as a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] candidate in [[February 1974 United Kingdom general election|February]] and [[October 1974 United Kingdom general election|October]] 1974.<ref>UK General Election results: [http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74a/i19.htm February 1974] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150127050535/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74a/i19.htm |date=27 January 2015 }}. [http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74b/i19.htm October 1974] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508153714/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74b/i19.htm |date=8 May 2015 }}. www.politicsresources.net. Retrieved 20 January 2015.</ref> He was later selected by the Conservatives as a European parliamentary candidate.<ref name=TelgObit/>

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Symes twice stood unsuccessfully for [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] in [[Mid Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)|Mid Sussex]] as a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] candidate in [[United Kingdom general election, February 1974|February]] and [[United Kingdom general election, October 1974|October]] 1974.<ref>UK General Election results: [http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74a/i19.htm February 1974]. [http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74b/i19.htm October 1974]. www.politicsresources.net. Retrieved 20 January 2015.</ref> He was later selected by the Conservatives as a European parliamentary candidate.<ref name=TelgObit/>


==Awards==
==Awards==
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Symes held the [[Special Constabulary Long Service Medal]] as a [[Special constable|Special Constable]].<ref name=TelgObit/> He was made a companion of the [[Royal Aeronautical Society]], and awarded the [[Knight's Cross]] (first class) by the President of Austria, in recognition of his work in promoting Anglo-Austrian relations.<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/>

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Symes held a long-service medal as a [[Special constable|Special Constable]].<ref name=TelgObit/> He was made a companion of the [[Royal Aeronautical Society]], and awarded the [[Knight's Cross|Knight’s Cross]] (first class) by the President of Austria, in recognition of his work in promoting Anglo-Austrian relations.<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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In 1947, he visited the BBC to seek out Monica Chapman, who produced the military request programme ''Forces Prom'' to thank her for playing the choices that he had submitted. Chapman's mother gave to Symes her own ticket to a [[Beethoven]] concert that she was to attend that evening with her daughter, who subsequently married Bob six weeks later.<ref name=GuardObit/> The couple agreed on the surname ''Symes'' for their married life together. Monica later became Producer of the [[BBC Radio 4]] programmes ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' and ''[[Your Concert Choice]]'', and the couple had a daughter Roberta.


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Monica died in 1998.<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> In January 2007 he married Sheila Gunn, then Works Manager at [[Boston Lodge]], on the [[Ffestiniog Railway]]. Symes and his family moved from East Horsley, where he had spent many years, to Wales in August 2014. He died there of [[cancer]] on 19 January 2015.<ref name=GuardObit>{{cite web|author=Michael Rodd|author-link=Michael Rodd|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jan/30/bob-symes|title=Bob Symes obituary|website=[[The Guardian]]|date=30 January 2015}}</ref><ref name=TelgObit>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11379879/Bob-Symes-inventor-obituary.html|title=Bob Symes, inventor – obituary|website=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=30 January 2015}}</ref>
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In 1947 he visited the BBC to seek out Monica Chapman, who produced the military request programme ''Forces Prom'' to thank her for playing the choices that he had submitted. Chapman's mother gave to Symes her own ticket to a [[Beethoven]] concert that she was to attend that evening with her daughter, who subsequently married Bob six weeks later.<ref name=GuardObit/> The couple agreed on the surname ''Symes'' for their married life together. Monica later became Producer of the [[BBC Radio 4]] programmes ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' and ''[[Your Concert Choice]]'', and the couple had a daughter Roberta.

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Monica died in 1998.<ref name=GuardObit/><ref name=TelgObit/> In January 2007 he married Sheila Gunn, then Works Manager at [[Boston Lodge]], on the [[Ffestiniog Railway]]. Symes and his family moved from East Horsley, where he had spent many years, to Wales in August 2014. He died there of [[cancer]] on 19 January 2015.<ref name=GuardObit>{{cite web|author=[[Michael Rodd]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jan/30/bob-symes|title=Bob Symes obituary|website=[[The Guardian]]|date=30 January 2015}}</ref><ref name=TelgObit>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11379879/Bob-Symes-inventor-obituary.html|title=Bob Symes, inventor – obituary|website=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|date=30 January 2015}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/bobsymes Bob Symes' youtube channel]
*[https://www.youtube.com/bobsymes Bob Symes' youtube channel]
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*[http://www.g1mra.com Gauge 1 Model Railway Association]
*[Bob Symes' garden train set]
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*[http://www.g1mra.com Gauge 1 Website]


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Latest revision as of 23:08, 26 February 2024

Bob Symes
Bob Symes Vienna 2008
Born
Robert Alexander Schutzmann

(1924-05-06)6 May 1924
Vienna, Austria
Died19 January 2015(2015-01-19) (aged 90)
Wales, U.K.
Other namesRobert Symes-Shutzmann, Bob Symes-Shutzmann
Occupation(s)inventor and television presenter

Robert Alexander Schutzmann[1] (6 May 1924 – 19 January 2015)[2][3] was an Austrian inventor and television presenter. He was also known as Bob Symes, and sometimes credited-as Robert Symes-Shutzmann or Bob Symes-Shutzmann.[4]

Early life

[edit]

Symes, who came from a Jewish family, was the son of Dr. Herbert Schutzmann, a lawyer and ardent Zionist, and his mother was writer Lola Blonder.[1] Educated at a Realgymnasium, Vienna and the Institut auf dem Rosenberg in St Gallen, Switzerland,[2][3] during holidays he would return to the family estate where he developed a private narrow gauge railway that transported timber.[2]

Career

[edit]

Royal Navy

[edit]

After the death of his father in 1937,[2] and the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938 via the Anschluss, his mother led Symes and his younger sister to Trieste and onwards to the Jewish-section of Palestine.[2][3] Whilst his mother and sister travelled onwards to the United States, Symes contacted a former British diplomat in Vienna, a family friend who was once stationed in Cairo.[2][3]

After gaining the required letter of recommendation, due to his ability to speak German, French, Arabic and English, Symes was commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Royal Navy, operating Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) in the Mediterranean while based in Alexandria.[2][3] Quickly rising to command his own boat, he broke anti-torpedo measures in a raid on Tripoli.[2][3] After rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander, he took part in protecting the landings that led to the liberation of Crete.[2][3]

Broadcasting

[edit]

After leaving the Royal Navy, he became the Dutch airline KLM's press officer in London.[2][3]

In 1953 he joined the BBC's Overseas Service for Germany based in Broadcasting House, London, where his ability to speak various languages quickly established his career.[2] After two years as head of broadcasting at the BBC's Eastern Region Colonial Office in Nigeria from 1956, he returned as a producer and broadcast manager to London.[2]

His interest in engineering and technology resulted in his joining the Tomorrow's World presentation team, alongside Raymond Baxter.[5] Over the following 30 years Symes became a familiar face to British TV audiences across a number of engineering, technology and railway related productions, including Model World (in 1975) which was dedicated to the hobby of modelling,[4] and then co-presented with Mary-Jean Hasler Making Tracks a series dedicated to little-known rail lines and networks worldwide, and which specialised in steam operations.

In 1982 he presented the BBC Horizon programme; "The Mysterious Mr. Tesla" about the electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.

Environmental techniques that Symes had developed for environmental living resulted in the 1990s series The House that Bob Built, in which a "green" dwelling was constructed at Milton Keynes.[3]

Symes was a familiar face with the German-speaking audiences, through his presentation of the Bahnorama railways films, based around German, Austrian, Swiss and occasionally re-dubbed British railway footage, produced by the Austrian-based SH-Production & Co KEG company which he co-founded.

Other interests

[edit]

Until its closure on Easter Monday 2014, he was patron of 'Hospital Radio Lion' based at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford.

Engineering and inventing

[edit]

Symes created inventions in metal engineering, and held patents in plumbing. He was also instrumental in setting up the Institute of Patentees and Inventors in 1989, which he chaired twice, and then launched National Invent-A-Thing Week in 1992.[2][3]

His books on the subject included: Powered Flight (1958); Crikey! It Works (1992); The Young Engineer’s Handbook (1993); and Eureka! The Book of Inventing (1994, with Robin Bootle).[3]

Railways

[edit]

His lifelong interest in railways included helping to set up private railways in Switzerland and across the United Kingdom. He established the Border Union Railway Company in 1969, to restore, maintain and introduce new services along the recently abandoned Waverley Line between Edinburgh and Carlisle.[5][6]

His interest in model railways included a 300 metres (980 ft) long Gauge 1 railway in his garden at Honeysuckle Bottom, near East Horsley, Surrey,[3] followed by a 101⁄4 railway.[3] His family opened the railway every year to raise funds for the BBC's Children in Need, where visitors could take tea and cake and also see his collection of vintage tractors.[3] Symes was also the president of a Guildford-based model railway circle called Astolat MRC.

Politics

[edit]

Symes twice stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in Mid Sussex as a Liberal candidate in February and October 1974.[7] He was later selected by the Conservatives as a European parliamentary candidate.[3]

Awards

[edit]

Symes held the Special Constabulary Long Service Medal as a Special Constable.[3] He was made a companion of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and awarded the Knight's Cross (first class) by the President of Austria, in recognition of his work in promoting Anglo-Austrian relations.[2][3]

Personal life

[edit]

In 1947, he visited the BBC to seek out Monica Chapman, who produced the military request programme Forces Prom to thank her for playing the choices that he had submitted. Chapman's mother gave to Symes her own ticket to a Beethoven concert that she was to attend that evening with her daughter, who subsequently married Bob six weeks later.[2] The couple agreed on the surname Symes for their married life together. Monica later became Producer of the BBC Radio 4 programmes Desert Island Discs and Your Concert Choice, and the couple had a daughter Roberta.

Monica died in 1998.[2][3] In January 2007 he married Sheila Gunn, then Works Manager at Boston Lodge, on the Ffestiniog Railway. Symes and his family moved from East Horsley, where he had spent many years, to Wales in August 2014. He died there of cancer on 19 January 2015.[2][3]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b Ilse Korotin: biografiA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen. Band 1, Böhlau Verlag Wie u.a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2, S. 350.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Michael Rodd (30 January 2015). "Bob Symes obituary". The Guardian.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Bob Symes, inventor – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. London. 30 January 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Television and Radio, Model World". The Times. 15 July 1987. p. 23.
  5. ^ a b "Fast track to the Scottish Borders". BBC News. 18 June 2002. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  6. ^ "Business Diary". The Times. 28 August 1969. p. 19.
  7. ^ UK General Election results: February 1974 Archived 27 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine. October 1974 Archived 8 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine. www.politicsresources.net. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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