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 167,716 pages of information and 247,105 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.

James William Bennett (1850-1909)

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Obituary 1909 [1]

. . . born at Great Grimsby in 1850, his father being a member of the well-known firm of Bennett and Sons of that place. He was educated at Nottingham, and in 1864 commenced an apprenticeship with Charles Sacre, chief engineer of the M. S. and L. Railway Company . . . in 1897 joined the firm of John Birch and Co, London, of which up to the time of his death he was a managing director . . . [more]



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