Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,859 pages of information and 247,161 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.
1920 Francis Henry Keast was born in Barrow-in-Furness[1]
WWII One of the 16 members of Frank Whittle's team at Power Jets (which he joined in 1942)
1946 With 3 "office colleagues" he left Power Jets to join the gas turbine division of the English Electric Co at Rugby to continue work on jet engines[2]
1996 Died in Canada
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