Harry Brooks Toy

Harry Brooks Toy ( -1940)

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1940 Obituary.

HARRY BROOKS TOY, well known in industrial circles on Tees-side, died at his residence. The Ridge, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, on February 26,1940. A native of West Bromwich, he was trained as a mechanical engineer at the Birmingham works of Messrs. Tangyes, Ltd.; from there he went to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Ltd., Middlesbrough, and later to Messrs. Thomas Perry & Son, Ltd., Bilston, where he was employed as head draughtsman and assistant manager. He was then appointed managing director of Messrs. C. Akrill & Co., Ltd., West Bromwich, which position he held for five years. In 1907 he returned to Tees-side and founded the British Chilled Roll and Engineering Co., Ltd., at Haverton Hill. He remained chairman and managing director of his company until his retirement, a few years ago. He was also a director of Messrs. H. E. Woolley, Ltd., and of Messrs. Wrights Chilled and Grain Roll Co., Ltd.

Mr. Toy was a Past-President of the Tees-side Chamber of Commerce, of the Staffordshire Iron and Steel Institute, of the Cleveland Technical and Scientific Institute, and of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers; during his Presidency of the last-named body, in 1924, he was an Honorary Member of Council of the Iron and Steel Institute as the representative of the local society. He represented the Institute on the British Standards Institution Sub-Committee on Cast Iron.

Mr. Toy was a warm supporter of The Iron and Steel Institute, and was a familiar figure at the meetings; he had been a Member for nearly fifty years, for his election took place in 1892.

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