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Robert William Nicholas Danielson

From Graces Guide

Robert William Nicholas Danielson M.B.E. (1912- ), T.D., A.M.I.I.A.

1912 Born in Barnt Green

1926-30 Educated Oundle School

Studied engineering at Newcastle, Portsmouth and Birmingham Technical Colleges.

1930-32 Served apprenticeship with Hawthorne Leslie and Co., Ltd.,

1932-4 Drawing Office Wolseley Motors (1927) Ltd.,

Joined Deritend Stamping Co., Ltd.; Manager, Hot Brass Pressing Department 1935-37.

1937 joined William Smith Owen Co., Ltd., (Darlaston), first as junior Rate-fixer and finally as Joint Works Manager.

WWII Embodied with 48th (S.M.) Divisional Signals T.A. Became 145 Infantry Brigade Signals Officer, a position he held until capture by German army on May 30th at Cassel. P.O.W. for 5 years in Germany.

1945 rejoined Deritend as Works Director.

1953 Works Director, Deritend Stamping Co., Ltd., Birmingham, 9.

1963 Joined BSA to take up the appointment of managing director of the metal components division, which comprises BSA Sintered Components, BSA Metal Powders and BSA Precision Castings and the Idoson Motor Cylinder Co[1]

By 1969 Director of BSA Sintered Components Ltd

See Also

Sources of Information

  1. Birmingham Daily Post 06 September 1963