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 167,394 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.

Dudley Henry Noble

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Dudley Henry Noble (1892-1970)

Born at Islington the son of William Beveridge Noble, a parasol manufacturer, and his wife Emily Charlotte Irving

1934 Publicity Adviser, Humber, Hillman, Commer Companies and Rootes, Ltd. B. 31 October 1892, London. Ed.: Bruges, Belgium; City of London School. Car.: joined Rover Co., Coventry 1911 on motor cycle side; 1914, enlisted in R.A.S C. and served in France; 1919 re-joined Rover Co.; 1920, with Temple Press, Ltd.; 1923 re-joined Rover Co.; 1930, joined Humber Co., Ltd. Widower: 1 son.

1939 Residing at 25d Rosary Gardens, Kensington, Journalist, Specialist in Propaganda.[1]

1945 Founded the Automotive Press Digest

1959 Director, Automotive Press Bureau, Ltd., Publishers of The Automotive Press Digest; Director, Dudley Noble Publications, Publishers of Milestones; Motoring Correspondent, The Financial Times. The Director, Investor's Chronicle, and The Queen; Editor, Road International.

Worked in public relations for Rover and later motoring correspondent of the Financial Times, The Director and Tatler. Also editor of the IAM magazine Milestones.

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Sources of Information

  1. 1939 Register