James Edward Southcombe
James Edward Southcombe (1885-1951)
1951 Obituary [1]
We have learned with regret of the recent death of Mr. J. E. Southcombe, a director of Germ Lubricants Ltd. Mr. Southcombe, who was sixty-six, graduated at Liverpool University in 1907.
During the First World War, he collaborated with the late Mr. Henry Wells in an investigation of the properties of "fatty oils" and their use as compounding agents with mineral oils for lubrication.
Mr. Southcombe joined the board of Henry Wells Oil Company, Ltd. (later renamed Germ Lubricants, Ltd.), in 1929, and since then had taken a prominent part in that firm's development, not only on the technical side, but also on the administrative.
He was a Fellow of the Institute of Petroleum and the author of "The Chemistry of the Oil Industry" and "Lubricating Oil Tests and their Significance."