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'''1933 Obituary <ref> [[1933 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries]] </ref> | '''1933 Obituary <ref> [[1933 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries]] </ref> | ||
WALTER CARTER was a director of [[J. and J. Saville and Co|Messrs. J. and J. Saville and Company]] of the Triumph Steel Works, Sheffield, with whom he had been connected for twenty-five years. He was also sales manager for the company in Great Britain. He had previously held appointments for about ten years with Messrs. [[Armstrong Whitworth|Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Company]] at Openshaw, where he gained considerable experience of tool design and high-speed steels. | |||
He spent nearly a year in America demonstrating these steels, and he was also the author of several papers on the subject and a frequent contributor to discussions on tool steels at the Institution. | |||
Mr. Carter was born at Hulme, Manchester, in 1874, and from 1891 to 1897 received his technical education at the Royal Technical College, Salford, where he later became a lecturer on machine drawing and design. He commenced his apprenticeship in 1888 with [[John Cameron|Messrs. John Cameron]], of Salford, with whom he remained until 1899. | |||
Mr. Carter had been an Associate Member of the Institution since 1906. His death occurred on 19th November 1932. | |||
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Revision as of 17:13, 1 June 2015
Walter Carter (1874-1933)
1933 Obituary [1]
WALTER CARTER was a director of Messrs. J. and J. Saville and Company of the Triumph Steel Works, Sheffield, with whom he had been connected for twenty-five years. He was also sales manager for the company in Great Britain. He had previously held appointments for about ten years with Messrs. Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Company at Openshaw, where he gained considerable experience of tool design and high-speed steels.
He spent nearly a year in America demonstrating these steels, and he was also the author of several papers on the subject and a frequent contributor to discussions on tool steels at the Institution.
Mr. Carter was born at Hulme, Manchester, in 1874, and from 1891 to 1897 received his technical education at the Royal Technical College, Salford, where he later became a lecturer on machine drawing and design. He commenced his apprenticeship in 1888 with Messrs. John Cameron, of Salford, with whom he remained until 1899.
Mr. Carter had been an Associate Member of the Institution since 1906. His death occurred on 19th November 1932.