Glen Arthur Taylor
Glen Arthur Taylor (c1880-1935) of Taylor and Sons
1935 Obituary [1]
GLEN ARTHUR TAYLOR was managing director of Messrs. Taylor and Sons, Ltd., Briton Ferry, Glam., mechanical engineers and specialists in plant for the production of tinplate and sheet metal. He was associated with the firm for the whole of his career.
After receiving his technical education at Swansea Technical School, he entered the workshops of Messrs. Taylor, Struve, Eaton and Price, as the firm was then styled, and served a six years' apprenticeship, terminating in 1904. He then became in succession draughtsman, head draughtsman, and, in 1910, works manager. In that year he was also made a director of the firm.
During the War Mr. Taylor organized the works for a weekly production of 5,000 high-explosive 18-pounder shells. He was responsible for the complete designing and equipping of the firm's tinplate works, and he also undertook marine repair work.
He had a wide range of interests in addition to engineering. He was Honorary Curator of Ancient Monuments for Wales, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In recognition of his antiquarian services to Wales, the University of Wales conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts.
Mr. Taylor was elected a Member of the Institution in 1924.
His death occurred at Neath on 14th November 1935, in his fifty-sixth year.