Tribute from Alan Hartley-Smith
I understand David's email address is being monitored so I would like to express my sadness in using it for this occasion to contact his family. Over the years David and I have conducted a varied, interesting and stimulating correspondence to record the history of the company we both regarded as our work-life alma mater, which was so ignominiously treated in its final days, to at least ensure it is not forgotten. I had wondered the reason for an apparent pause in the flow of messages but did not suspect illness - I sent an e-card to him for Christmas. It is a fact of our lives that our numbers are inevitably reducing so each loss is keenly felt.
Tribute from Mike Plant
What a shock. David can only have been 78, or at most, nudging 79. One of the most striking of my" intake in 1957--tall, handsome in a way, and aristocratic in his manner and manners. A charming stammer and a ready wit, what memories flood back. The Oldfellows Group, started and run by him, I'm sure has grown to a much larger and detailed record than he originally envisaged! How appropriate that HIS group should itself be a living memory of him and of those of us fortunate enough to have been present during his time in the Company.
Sadly, but with a smile too, Mike
Tribute from John Brown
I was extremely sad to learn of the death of David Samways, who I got to know through my longest Marconi friend, Martyn Clarke. As you know of course, David had been compiling his wiki on Marconi Communications. He needed to know the story of how Marconi had entered the Space Communications market and Martyn immediately gave him my name. Incidentally, long before I knew anything about MOGS, I wrote for David about my time at Baddow; in Radar Division; and Space Communications. He passed the first two accounts to Alan H-S as he knew the two of you were gathering together, all the radar side of things; he added my space communication account on to his wiki, where it now resides. We then regularly exchanged our respective accounts of our time in Yorkshire.
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