Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,711 pages of information and 247,105 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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1852 Born in Belfast, son of James Combe (of Belfast)
1869-75 Apprentice in works of Combe and Barbour, engineers and machine makers
1873 Supervised the erection of large machines at exhibition in Vienna
1876 Managing partner of the firm Combe, Barbour and Combe
1888 Proposed to join I Mech E as member[1]
1896 of Combe, Barbour and Combe
1917 Died in Lurgan[2]
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