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William Langdon (1846-1933)

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William Langdon

1862-67 Apprenticed to James Watt and Co, Soho Foundry, Birmingham

1868 Passed into H.M. Bombay Marine

Spent 3 years in Bombay Royal Dockyard as engineer

1872 Appointed locomotive superintendent and stock manager of the Buctrow (?) Railway and Mineral Company

1874 Joined Edwin Punchard and Co, contractors, boring a tunnel for the Rio Tinto Mines (Spain)

1875 Appointed loco superintendent of the Rio Tinto Co

1877 Appointed also as chief mechanical engineer of the company when he was proposed for membership of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers


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