Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,694 pages of information and 247,077 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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Cecil Charles John French (1926-2016)
Educated at Newport School, near Saffron Walden in Essex, and the University of London's King's College
Studied at Columbia University, New York, USA. He also carried out research into combustion in the petrol engine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spent some time studying production methods at the John Deere Tractor Plant at Waterloo, Iowa.
1952 Joined Ricardo Consulting Engineers
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