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 167,859 pages of information and 247,161 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.

John Raymond Stuart Hawker

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John Raymond Stuart Hawker (c1893- )

1939 Hons.B.Sc.Eng. (London), A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.I.Pet.T. Governing Director, Simmons and Hawker, Ltd., Southdown Works, Point Pleasant, Wandsworth, S.W.18. Private Address: 34 Ernle Road, Wimbledon, S.W.20. Age: 46. Career: City and Guilds Coll.; Drawing Office, Vickers, Ltd.; Works, Aston Construction Co., Ltd. Commission in R.E.'s (France); Wounded and transferred to War Office Contracts (Sheffield Branch). 1918, Jessop & Sons, Ltd., Sheffield, Metallurgical Laboratory; 1919, Simmons & Hawker, as Partner, becoming Governing Director in 1933. Held patent for some years for Spring Loaded Cocks.

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