Thomas Sims Bentley
Thomas Sims Bentley (1868-1926)
1926 Obituary [1]
THOMAS SIMS BENTLEY was a native of Lancaster, where he was born in 1868, but spent most of his life further south.
Educated at Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, in 1884 he entered the locomotive works of the Great Western Railway Co. at Worcester, subsequently passing on to the Company's works at Wolverhampton.
He went to Coventry in the early days of the cycle boom, joining the Rudge Co., and later working with the Enfield Co. at Redditch, and as works foreman for the Eadie Fittings Co.
In 1898 he entered the London offices of [Charles Churchill and Sons|Messrs. Charles Churchill and Sons]], with whom he remained as their machine tool representative until his death on 31st December 1926.
Mr. Bentley became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1900.