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1884 Born in Coventry, son of Edward Samuel Brett
1901 Mechanical draughtsman[1]
1923 Mr Bernard Brett was managing director of Bretts Patent Lift Company and of Powell Brett.
He accepted the invitation to join the board of Brett's Stamping Co which was the pioneer firm of the industry, founded by his father some thirty years ago.[2]
Sometime in the 1920s it seems likely that he changed his name to Bernard Powell-Brett
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