High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir William Henry Glanville CB CBE (1 February 1900 – 30 June 1976) was a British civil engineer. During WWII he and the Road Research Laboratory were involved in important war work, developing temporary runways, beach analysis, and tank and aircraft design. He also worked on the explosives calculations and scale models used to develop the bouncing bombs used in the Dam Busters Raid.