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 162,256 pages of information and 244,497 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.

Horace Albert Miles

From Graces Guide

1899 Born in Waterlooville Hants[1]

1915 Entered Portsmouth Dockyard as electrical fitter apprentice

1917 Transferred to shipwrights apprentice

Approximately 10 months service at the Admiralty Experiment Works as well as attending college.

1919-20 Portsmouth Technical College

1920 Joined Royal Naval College, Greenwich taking the course for Assitant Const....

1923 Graduate member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, at Royal Naval College, Greenwich[2]

1928 With Basil B. Henderson formed the Hendy Aircraft Company[3].

1929 Patent by Winfred Stanley Henderson and Basil Balfour Henderson trading as Hendy Aircraft Co and Horace Albert Miles, all of Shoreham Aerodrome, Shoreham-by-Sea, on improvements in construction of aeroplane wings or tailplanes.

1936 Horace Albert Miles lived in Thornbury, Bristol[4]

1939 Horace A Miles, aeroplane designer, (b 12 Aug 1899) lived in Portsmouth with Lucy L Miles (b Jun 1899)[5]

1952 Died in Havant[6]


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Sources of Information

  1. Mechanical engineer records
  2. Mechanical engineer records
  3. Flight, 25 November 1995, [1]
  4. Electoral register
  5. 1939 register
  6. national probate calendar