Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,713 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.
David Henry Colt Fry, engineer
1918 Born son of Cecil Roderick Fry (1890-1952), last family chairman of Fry's, the chocolate firm, and his wife Olave (nee Anderson)[1]
1938 Designed the Freikaserwagen, which set the initial speed record at the Prescott Hill Climb[2]
1949 The Freikaserwagen broke the record at Shelsley Walsh
1967 Died in Gloucestershire[3]
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