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 167,716 pages of information and 247,105 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.

J. Leslie Cloudsley

From Graces Guide

Captain J. Leslie Cloudsley

Chairman and Managing Director, The Cloudsley Eng. Co., Ltd., 13, Queen Anne's Gate, London, S.W.1.

Career:

  • Berkhampstead School.
  • Apprenticed, W. Parkinson and Co., Ltd., Engineers, Cottage Lane, City Road, E.C.
  • Articled 3 years, A. Dougall, M.Inst.C.E.
  • Appointed Engineer, Parkinson and Cowan, Ltd.
  • Joint Managing Director, Woodall Duckham and Duckham and Cloudsley Ltd.
  • 1914-18 Ordnance Mechanical Engineer.
  • 1918 seconded to R.A.F. and joined regular Army.
  • 1920-23 Captain Ordnance Mechanical Engineer.
  • 1924-31 Development Engineer, Lever Brothers.
  • 1931 to present time, on development of Friction Roller Transmission (Hayes and Cloudsley patents).

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