Julius Leonard Fox Vogel
Julius Leonard Fox Vogel (c1873-1943) Metallurgist.
Born son of the Hon. Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G., Premier of and Agent General for New Zealand.
Educated at Charterhouse.
1894 Apprenticed to Gulcher Electrical Co., Ltd., Battersea, London; evening classes at Finsbury Technical College.
Assistant to Dr. O. J. Steinhart in Chemical and Electrolytic Syndicate, Ltd.
Partner in the firm of Steinhart and Vogel for 14 years; carrying out large scale investigations into new processes.
1911 Living at Matham Manor Lodge, Matham Road East Molesey, Surrey: Mary Vogel (age 62 born Longford, Tasmania), Widow. With her son Julius Vogel (age 38 born Wellingbton, new Zealand), Chemical and Metallurgical Engineer - Employer, and her daughter Phoebe Vogel (age 35 born Marylebone). One visitor. Two servants.[1]
1914 Appointed by a combination of High Speed Steel makers to design and erect a Tungsten factory and subsequently appointed General Manager in charge of the whole business.
WWI Specially exempt for manufacture of Tungsten metal required for munition manufacture
1920 At a meeting of the British Association regarding tungsten for the manufacture of high-speed steel. [2]
By 1922 M.I.E.E., M.Inst.M.M., Chem. and Elec. Engr., of High Speed Steel Alloys, Ltd., Widnes, Lancs.