Edwin John Eustace Everett
Edwin John Eustace Everitt (1886-1937)
1886 Born in Portsmouth
1902-7 Apprenticed at Swindon Works of GWR
1908 Student at City and Guilds Central Technical College
1937 Obituary [1]
EDWIN JOHN EUSTACE EVERETT was senior partner of Messrs. Everett and Harle, inspecting engineers in England and on the Continent, where he had represented principally the South African Government as inspecting engineer. Mr. Everett was born at Portsmouth, and at the age of 16 he entered the Great Western Railway works at Swindon, where he served a five years' apprenticeship. He then took an advanced course in railway engineering at the City and Guilds Engineering College, South Kensington. From 1909 to 1911 he was engaged as a draughtsman to various firms, and then became inspecting engineer to Mr. J. Byron Dolphin, in Liege, Belgium, and was engaged in the inspection of railway material. He also acted as British vice-consul in that town. When the War broke out, he was made assistant inspector of munitions to the British Government, first at Birmingham and later in South Wales. He acted as inspecting engineer to some of the chief London consulting engineers, for whom he carried out many important contracts in the South Wales district. Mr. Everett was elected to Associate Membership of the Institution in 1909 and was transferred to Membership in 1912. His death occurred at Dinas Powys, Glam, on 1st May 1937, in his fifty-first year.
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- Mechanical Engineer Records