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 164,993 pages of information and 246,457 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Peter Dewar

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Peter Dewar (1886-1923)


1923/24 Obituary [1]

Peter Dewar was born in 1886, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy. He served an apprenticeship in general engineering with Thomas Struthers, of Lanark, and subsequently became outside erector with Hunter and Jack, mining and electrical engineers. Subsequently, after a short time as salesman with Albion, he went out to Madras as manager of the Dunlop Rubber Co there.

He died in Madras in May, 1923, at the age of 36.

He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution of Automobile Engineers in 1914.



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