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 167,673 pages of information and 247,074 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.

Walter Fred Dormer

From Graces Guide

1887 Born in Bradfield[1], son James Dormer, a surveyor, and his wife Ellen[2]

Educated at Tilehurst Secondary School, and Pangbourne College

1902-4 Reading University College

1902-3 Articled pupil to the Borough Engineer, Faversham

1903-6 Apprenticed at Reading Foundry and Engineering Works

1907 Clerk of Works at Tilehurst Water works then Assistant manager.

1912 Assistant at Alvord and Burdick, consulting engineers, Chicago

1913 Supervisot, Studebaker Corporation

1914 Oatlands Park Motor Co, Weybridge

1915 Conversion of machinery for shell making

1916 Lieutenant Royal Engineers; served in Mesopotamia and India

1919 Engineer George Clare and Co, London. Director of Sparklet Engineering Co, of Morris Russell and Co, Morris Russell (Scotland), Clarkson Engineering Co

1920 Proposed for membership of I Mech E but he was not eligible for full membership with exam. qualifications.

1920 of Enfield when he became a director of Fisher and Ludlow (1920)[3]

1920 An engineer, of Enfield when he joined the united Empire Lodge[4]

1966 Died in Haslemere[5]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. BMD
  2. 1891 census
  3. The Times Aug 17, 1920
  4. Freemason Membership Registers
  5. National Probate Calendar
  • Mechanical Engineer records