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A couple of the horses at the back are a bit camera shy too. I love how photos of the public in this period attract such attention from the people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Gorman_Coach_Builders#Glass_negat... Have a look at the O'Gorman Coach Builders page on Wikipedia - it mentions flickr and the NLI In April 1922 and April 1934, high quality 'Glass negative' photographs, were taken by A H Poole & Co. In 2012, some were placed on the internet by the National Library of Ireland (NLI).[5] They are of vehicles being built at Prior Park garage and the shop front in Parnell Street. They include a picture of J.F.O'Gorman, the directors, workers, the factory premises, Prior Park house and various machinery in the workshop. These photographs are also on Flickr and have created a renewed interest in the business operation.[6][7][8]

Conor1970 I've noticed a weird phenomenon that early tram and omnibus passengers seemed camera shy also. It turns up in a lot of our photos, though of course not all of them come to mind now that I need to remember them to show you, but along the lines of this one!

HI T2 this registration is out of the normal format for Ireland? Tipperary South Riding CC: HI then GI HI 1 to HI 9999 (Dec 1903 - Sep 1954).

DannyM8 All publicity is good publicity! Would imagine that was Desktop 123 who did a lot of work and contributed a ton of information on the O'Gorman family and their operation? I'd be delighted that any photos we post here create "renewed interest" in all sorts of places, people, dogs...

Inez Milholland Boissevain: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inez_Milholland She's also in this photo from that day: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/7753232100/

Sen. James O'Gorman [D-NY, 1911-1917], "" I will not vote for this or any other woman suffrage amendment," said Senator James A. O'Gorman to the big delegation of women representing the Women's Congressional Union which visited him by appointment in his office yesterday afternoon to ask support for the Bristow-Mondell bill to submit an amendment to the Federal Constitution to give women the right to vote." New York Times, May 1, 1915 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E3D9123FE233A... An aside: "O'Gorman was the last U.S. Senator elected by a State Legislature, and from 1914 on they have been elected by general ballot on the state ticket." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Aloysius_O'Gorman

Thanks to both of you for your research. What a character he must have been. We'll add the date and other information to this photo and the other one from the same day.

My research leads me to think that the woman to the left of Sen. O'Gorman is Mrs. William L. Colt, and the woman on is right is Mrs. Boissevain. The Bain captioners must have switched them. They got the names correct is this image: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/7753232100/ We'll make the correction to the record the next time we update.

That makes sense to me. The woman with the veil doesn't look like any other images of Inez Milholland, anyway.

Mervyn Joseph Pius O'Gorman. He was the son of Edmund A O'Gorman of Harrogate. Mervyn was born in Ireland, then educated at Downside before going to University College Dublin, and from there in 1891 to the City and Guilds Central Institution in London to study Electrical Engineering He worked extensively in the electrical cabling industry - on projects with the Fowler Waring Cabling Company in Ostend, Grenoble and Paris as well as on the installation of electrical supplies in Britain. He was recruited into the 'aircraft' industry when on the Board of the glass manufacturers Pilkingtons, by R B Haldane, the Secretary of State for War, and appointed Superintendent of the Royal Balloon Factory at Farnborough in 1909 where airships were being constructed. Before the outbreak of war, from 1909-1913, under Mervyn O'Gorman's superintendence serious 'heavier than air' experimentation to develop 'military aircraft' was conducted - and, amongst other pioneering engineers, he brought Geoffrey de Haviland to the factory. Aircraft were designed in two broad types - 'pushers' with rear mounted propellors (FE 1), and 'tractors' with forward mounted propellors (SE 1 and BE1). In 1913, O'Gorman was made a Commander of the Order of the Bath, CB. In 1915 the catastrophic losses of ponderous and frequently unarmed British BE2c aircraft on the Western Front, outperformed and outflown by German Fokker Eindecker E1, resulted in a Parliamentary enquiry. What became known as The Air Enquiry published its findings in June 1916 and Mervyn O'Gorman, a man of principle, resigned from the Royal Aircraft Factory. He continued to act as a consultant engineer to the Director-General of Military Aviation for the rest of the war. In 1919 Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O'Gorman held his commission in the Royal Flying Corps. After the war O'Gorman was Chairman of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Chairman of the Air Accident Investigation Committee, and of the Civil Air Transport Committee. He also worked with the League of Nations Air Transportation Committee. A keen automobile enthusiast, as Vice-Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club he proposed a handbook of motoring rules which was later adopted by the government and first published in 1931 as The Highway Code. Mervyn O'Gorman was also interested in the development of colour photography. He died on 16th March 1958 at his home at 21 Embankment Gardens, Chelsea, London, aged 76.

Hello Just thought I'd let you know that one of our curators, Colin Harding, has selected this photograph as his February Flickr Favourite on our blog. - Emma

National Probate Calendar shows that he died on 16th March 1958 at 21 Embankment Gardens, Chelsea. Estate valued at £163,224. The 1911 census shows him at this address aged 39 and described as Superintendent HM Balloon Factory & Consulting Engineer. He had been married for 13 years to Frances Catherine O'Gorman (aged 57) and they had no children. National Probate Calendar shows his wife's name as Florence Catharine. She predeceased him in 1931.

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