Adrian Walter Francis Ashfield

ASHFIELD Adrian Walter Francis Age 85, of Havertown PA, on June 9th 2019. Beloved husband of 30 years to Shelley Ashfield (nee Ping). Loving father of Helen Elizabeth Ashfield and the late Kenrick Pengelley Ashfield. Cherished brother of John Etienne Ashfield (J.E.), and the late Dr. Richard Pengelley Ashfield. Precious son of the late Florence Elfreda (nee Pengelley) and Archibald Richard William Ashfield. Relatives and friends are invited to his Visitation on Saturday, June 15th, from 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM, at The D’Anjolell Memorial Home of Broomall, 2811 West Chester Pike, Broomall PA 19008. Life Celebration to follow 12:00 PM in the Main Chapel of the Memorial Home. Inurnment Tuesday, June 18th, 11:00 am at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, 601 W Main St, Millville, NJ 08332. In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory to one’s Charity of Choice would be appreciated.OBITUARYAdrian Walter Francis Ashfield1933 ~ 2019Adrian Ashfield, VP of Engineering for Wheaton Industries in the 1980s, has died at the age of 85. He designed and built the Millville, NJ glass tableware plant in 8 months, helping contractors visualize the job with scale engineering models.His career began at RAE Farnborough, then Decca Research Labs in England where in 1960 he designed the Type 4000 120 inch/second computer tape transport, which still holds the worlds’ record for fastest braking system. He also invented the basic idea of a card combining the key and user’s identity in February 1962, and was granted UK Patent 959,713 for “Access Controller” assigned to WS Atkins & Partners: the key history of the ATM. He was invited by Anchor Hocking to emigrate to the US in 1978 by way of Canada, where he headed engineering for Domglas from 1969.Ashfield Associates consulted in the glass industry and provided surveys and studies for OECD and the World Bank after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He advised in USA and around the world, in Jordan, Russia, Malaysia, Jamaica, Trinidad, Poland and Czech Republic. In later years, he wrote for technical journals and forums on furnace design, cleaning up Nuclear Waste at Hanford, digital photography, ink-jet printing and LENR.Memorial Service on Saturday, June 15th, at the Danjolell Memorial Home of Broomall, 2811 West Chester Pike, Broomall, PA 19008. Inurnment June 18th at Mount Peace Cemetery, Millville, NJ.