Henry Rudolph Zetterstrom
Henry Rudolph Zetterstrom (1883-1946)
1947 Obituary [1]
"HENRY RUDOLPH ZETTERSTROM, who was born of Swedish parents in Russia on 1st June 1883, received his technical education at the Claimers Technical Institute in Gothenburg, where he qualified as a chartered engineer in 1906. On the completion of a year's apprenticeship with Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Ltd., of Newcastle upon Tyne, he obtained further training in the shipbuilding industry at Kiel and Gothenburg. After five years' experience as chief draughtsman to Messrs. Nobel Brothers at Baku he went into business on his own account as a tug boat owner at Kronstadt. In 1916 he joined the S.K.F. organization, and began an association which was only terminated by his death on the 27th November 1946.
During the first three years of his service with that firm he acted as technical adviser in Russia and later took the same position in Belgium, France and other countries on the Continent. He entered upon his final appointment as technical manager at Luton in 1924. Mr. Zetterstrom had been a Member of the Institution since 1935."