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 167,694 pages of information and 247,077 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.

Leonard Carl Perkin

From Graces Guide

1887 Born in Leeds, son of John Perkin

1906 Assistant resident engineer, Leeds Corporation Water Works department

1909 Joined Perkin and Co

1911 Described as civil engineer working in machine tool manufacturing.[1]

c.1912 Became works manager of Perkin and Co

c.1919 Became Managing director and Works Manager of Perkin and Co

1934 Member of I Mech E

1939 Leonard C Perkin, Chartered Mechanical Engineer, lived in Leeds with Gertrude Perkin and John K Perkin[2]

1962 Died in Leeds

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Sources of Information

  1. 1911 census
  2. 1939 register