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Alfred Harold Whiteley

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Alfred Harold Whiteley (c1894-1967)

Born the son of Alfred Whiteley, a machinist at a woollen mill.

1939 Residing at 19 Alexandra Avenue, Mansfield, Managing Director of Radio and Electrical manufacturing. With Dorothy.[1]

1967 Died. 'Mr Alfred H. Whiteley of Greenways, High Oakham-road, Mansfield has died in St George’s Hospital London after an operation. He was 73 He was governing director of the Whiteley Electrical Radio Company a firm which he founded in 1926 with a capital of £350. The business now has two large factories in the town and a staff 500. Mr Whiteley was also head of two Sheffield companies Marrison and Catherall and Ross and Company (Foundry).'[2]


1967 Obituary [3]



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Sources of Information

  1. 1939 Register
  2. Nottingham Guardian - Thursday 25 May 1967
  3. The Engineer 1967 Jan-Jun: Index