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Wybert Firth

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Wybert Firth ( -1939) of the Consett Iron Co


1939 Obituary.[1]

WYBERT FIRTH, of Selby Lodge, Consett, Co. Durham, died on May 17, 1939, at the age of fifty-eight. He was born at Rotherham and received his education at Rotherham Grammar School and Sheffield University; he then served his time as an engineer in the Midlands. He next stayed for two years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he gained further experience, after which he took a post at Wellington, Shropshire, where he remained for five years. After serving a similar period as an engineer at Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, he joined the Consett Iron Co., Ltd., as chief engineer in 1917 ; three years later he became works manager of the firm, and the big reconstruction scheme at the works in 1926 was carried out under his direction.

Mr. Firth joined the Iron and Steel Institute in 1918.


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Sources of Information

  1. 1939 Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute