William Fox (1856-1928)
William Fox (1856-1928)
1928 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM FOX was for thirty-five years mechanical engineer to the Manchester Ship Canal Company, during which much of his time was devoted to the building and reconstruction of dredgers, tugs, and other craft employed on the Canal.
He was apprenticed in 1870, at the age of fourteen, serving first with Messrs. Fox Brothers, and afterwards with Messrs. Dearden, Newsum and Dyson, both of Leeds.
He subsequently spent nine months as second-in-charge of the motive power department of the Royal Commission at the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1878.
In 1879 he was appointed in charge of the erecting department of Messrs. Galloways of Manchester, and spent four years superintending the erection of engines in various parts of Great Britain and the Continent. He was then appointed assistant works manager, and held this position until May 1890, when he joined the staff of the Manchester Ship Canal Company.
In 1886 he was in charge of the plant supplied by Messrs. Galloways for the motive power and lighting of the Colonial Exhibition held at the Crystal Palace in that year.
Mr. Fox became a Member of the Institution in 1901, and was also a Member of the Institution of Naval Architects.
He died on 10th October 1928, at St. Annes-on-Sea, in his seventy-third year.