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 162,349 pages of information and 244,505 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.

Robert Willsher Weekes

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Robert Willsher Weekes (1867- )

Address was of Maxwell House, Arundel-street, Strand, WC2.

1911 Living at 50 Hayes Road, Bromley, Kent: Robert Willsher Weekes (age 44 born Tunbridge Wells), Consulting Electrical Engineer. With his wife Helen Christina Weekes (age 45 born MacDuff) and their three children; Joycelyn Willsher Weekes (age 13 born Chardlow); Richard Willsher Weekes (age 10 born Chardlow); and Alan Willsher Weekes (age 5 born Bromley). Also his BIL John Brown (age 49 born Banff), Gold Mining Engineer.[1]

1922 Wh.Sc.Assoc, M., Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E., A.C.G.I., Cons. Engr., specialising in power, lighting and heating equipments for factories, coal economy, electric steel furnaces, etc.; b. 1867; s. of R. W. Weekes. Training: City and Guilds of London Tech. Coll. 1st. Wh.Sc., 1891. Address: Maxwell House, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C.2.

1925 Mr R. W. Weekes, for reasons of health decided to dispose of his consulting engineering practice to Mr W. J. Hudson, who had been chief assistant since 1919, and who continued the practice under the style and title of Weekes and Hudson at the above address. Mr Weekes went on to specialise in arbitration work in technical cases. [2]

1926 He moved his offices from Maxwell House, Arundel-Street, Strand, W.C.2. to Clutha House, 10, Prince's-Street, Westminster, S.W.I.[3]

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