Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,645 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Dennis William Ginns

From Graces Guide
1966.

Dennis William Ginns (1912-2003) engineering director of ICI's plastics division.

1935 'The outstanding success of a past student of the College during the year was that of D. W. Ginns, who obtained a first-class honours degree at Cambridge University. He had served an apprenticeship at Messrs. Alfred Herbert, Ltd., and won the Whitworth Scholarship examination, taking an award valued at £125 for three years. The Education Committee had granted Ginns a Major Technical Scholarship which had enabled him to go to Cambridge.'[1]

1966 Elected to the Council of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Coventry Herald - Friday 20 December 1935
  2. The Engineer 1966/07/01