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 167,704 pages of information and 247,104 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.

Olaf P. Clements

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Olaf P. Clements (c1850-1907)

O. P. Clements worked with R. E. B. Crompton to design a new series of screw threads, finer than the Whitworth standard threads, for automotive and electrical applications.

1901 Member of the committee formed by the Cycle Engineers' Institute to recommend on standardisation of screw threads used in cycle construction[1]


1907 Obituary [2]

OLAF P. CLEMENTS died in January 1907 at his residence in Birmingham, at the age of fifty-seven. He was originally engaged with the firm of William Bown & Sons, of Summer Lane, Birmingham, but for the last sixteen years held the position of chief engineer in the cycle department of the Birmingham Small Arms Company, Limited, Small Heath.

He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1904.


1907 Obituary [3]



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