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 167,663 pages of information and 247,074 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.

Frederick Seymour Whalley

From Graces Guide

Frederick Seymour Whalley (c1885-1958), managing director of the Vulcan Foundry and chairman Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns

1939 M.C., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Loco.E. Managing Director, Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Newton-le-Willows, Lancs. Private Address: Mere House, Newton-le-Willows, Lancs. Career: Indian State Rlys. (Loco. Dept.), 1910-23; during the War, 1914-19, served in E. Africa as Major, R.E. (twice mentioned in despatches and awarded M.C.); 1923, appointed Gen. Manager, Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., and subsequently Managing Director. Was Pres., Manchester Dist. Eng. Employers' Assocn., 1931-33.


1958 [1]

We record with regret the death of Mr. Frederick Seymour Whalley, which occurred at Marlow on November 17.

Mr. Whalley, who was seventy-three, was a past-president of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers, and was for some years managing director of The Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., and chairman of Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, Ltd.


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