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 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 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.

F. R. Bloor

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Major F. R. Bloor (1885- )

1922 Major, M.B.E., M.C., Mechanical Engineer, Sir C. R. McGrigor, Bart., and Co., 39, Panton Street, Haymarket, London, S.W.; b. 1885. Ed. Secondary School, Royal Dockyard School, Royal College of Science and University of London (East London College), Whitworth Exhibition (1906), A.M. I.Mech.E. , 1914. goo-6 — Apprenticeship, Royal Dockyard, Chatham (Engineering Department). Six months as Draughtsman. 1906-8 —Royal College of Science. 1908-9—East London College, University of London. 1910-2— Experimental Engineering, London and Birmingham. 1912-4—Designing Automatic Machinery for Cadbury Brothers, Ltd., Bournville, Birmingham. 1915-20 —Inspector of Ordnance Machinery; Major and Inspector of Ordnance Machinery First Class, since September, 1918. War Services.—Commissioned February, 1915; French front, August, 1915; Macedonia, November, 1915, to December, 1918; South Russia, December, 1918, to June, 1920; Constantinople, August, 1920, and at present time. Mentioned in dispatches, 1917. Member of Order of British Empire, 1918; Military Cross, January, 1919; Serbian Order of White Eagle, Fourth Class, September, 1919.

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