Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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1827 President, Institution of Electrical Engineers
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[[Category: Deaths 1940-1949]]
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[[Category: Institution of Electrical Engineers]]

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1949.

Sir Archibald Page (1875-1949) M.I.E.E.

Apprenticeship at Broad Street Engineering Works, Alloa.

Further training with Mavor and Coulson, Glasgow.

1899 Joined Corporation Electricity Department, Glasgow, ultimately becoming Deputy City Electrical Engineer.

1917 Became associated with the affairs of the Clyde Valley Electrical Company.

Member of Council Institution of Electrical Engineers and Chairman of the Scottish Territorial Centre of the Institution, Session 1917-8.

1919 Appointed General Manager of the company.

1920 Appointed one of H.M. Electricity Commissioners.

1827 President, Institution of Electrical Engineers


1949 Obituary [1]

"...Archibald Page was born in 1875 at Alloa, where he attended Dollar Academy and was later apprenticed, from 1893 to 1898, to R. G. Abercrombie and Co. After serving his apprenticeship he studied at the Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh, and the Royal Technical College, Glasgow..." [More]


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