James Donald (2)
1868-73 Apprentice in the engine works of Messrs Tennants of Leith and Messrs Blackwood and Gordon of Port Glasgow
1874-5: 1.5 years as shop draughtsman with J. and J. Thomson, Glasgow
1876: 1 year as draughtsman with J. McF. Gray of Board of Trade
1877-8 Superintended the erection of marine engine work at the Smithfield works on the Isle of Dogs
1878-80: 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.
1880-3 Works Manager at Cornac Iron Works
1883-8 Managing partner 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. Afterwards Donald and Co, Bombay
1888-9 in charge of Engineering branch of John Fleming and Co, merchants, Bombay
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
WWI Second lieutenant RFC
1918 Re-elected to I Mech E; consultant with Pulsometer Engineering Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- Mechanical Engineer records