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 167,756 pages of information and 247,134 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.

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Apprentice for 5 years in the engine works of Messrs Tennants of Leith and Messrs Blackwood and Gordon of Port Glasgow

1.5 years as shop draughtsman with J. and J. Thomson, Glasgow

1 year as draughtsman with J. McF. Gray of Board of Trade

2 years superintending the execution of marine engine work at the Smithfield works on the Isle of Dogs

1.5 years superintending for Sheppard and Co Steamers of Bombay, at Glasgow and Bombay

1880 Joined I Mech E, of Cornac Iron Works, Bombay.

1885 of Donald Henesey and Cowper, Ripon Iron Works, Frero Road, Bombay; correspondence care of Messrs. Fleming Wilson and Co., 24, 25, 27 Rood Lane, Fenchurch Street, London, E.C.

1890 c/of J. Macfarlane Gray, St. Katharine Dock House, Tower Hill, London, E.

1896 of Barrow-in-Furness

1897 Resigned from I Mech E

1917 Re-elected to I Mech E

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