It is our sad duty just a month after informing readers of the death of EIM's founder Chris Deith, to bring you news of the passing of the magazine's first editor - Stan Bray passed away peacefully at home on 18th June, aged 97. Admittedly Stan was not the editor of this magazine for long as after overseeing just four issues in 1980 he was poached to become associate editor of Model Engineer - no surprise as his reputation as a leading model engineer was already well established. He remained with the ME for very many years and had his own regular column, and also funded and edited sister magazine Model Engineer's Workshop - reputedly he believed it would only last "for a few specials" when launched in 1990 but the magazine is still going strong today. He also contributed regularly to Model Boats magazine. Stan made the most of his career which started as a machinist being paid the princely sum of 14 shillings a week. He wrote a number of books on model engineering subjects, covering areas ranging from clockmaking to making simple model steam engines, marine steam to machine shop techniques particularly lathe and milling work.
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