Bamford, Joseph Cyril (1916–2001), engineer and businessman, was born on 21 June 1916 at The Parks, New Road, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, the son of Cyril Joseph Bamford, agricultural engineer, and his wife, Dolores Alice, née Turner. His family controlled and managed a long-established farm machinery business. The company, which manufactured balers and other equipment, had been started by his great-great-grandfather in 1812. He was brought up a Roman Catholic. After education at ...
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Bamford, Joseph Cyril (1916–2001), engineer and businessman
Geoffrey Owen
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Bamford, Joseph Cyril (1916–2001)
Maker: Lucinda Douglas-Menzies
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Joseph Cyril Bamford (1916–2001) by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies, 1989 © Lucinda Douglas-Menzies; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
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Cooper, John Newton (1923–2000), racing car engineer
Richard A. Storey
Cooper, John Newton (1923–2000), racing car engineer, was born at 49 Fassett Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, on 17 July 1923, the son of Charles Newton Cooper (1893–1964), motor engineer, and Violet Elsie (née Paul). Educated at Surbiton county school, he left at fifteen to become apprenticed to one of his father's toolmaking companies. He moved on to another company specializing in naval equipment, then spent the Second World War as an aircraft instrument maker, serving in the ...
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Engelbach, Charles Richard Fox (1876–1943), motor engineer
Martin Adeney
Engelbach, Charles Richard Fox (1876–1943), motor engineer, was born on 20 May 1876 in Kensington, London, son of Lewis William Engelbach, a clerk in the War Office, and his wife, Jessie Bryan. He left Sandringham School at Southport, Lancashire, when he was sixteen and was apprenticed at the great armaments manufacturer ...
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Hansom, Joseph Aloysius (1803–1882), architect and inventor of the safety cab
G. C. Boase
revised by Denis Evinson
Hansom, Joseph Aloysius (1803–1882), architect and inventor of the safety cab, was born in York on 26 October 1803, the second of the nine children of Henry Joseph Francis Hansom (bap. 1778, d. 1854), joiner and builder, and his wife, Sarah Simpson (...
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Healey, Donald Mitchell (1898–1988), car designer and rally driver
Anne Pimlott Baker
Healey, Donald Mitchell (1898–1988), car designer and rally driver, was born on 3 July 1898 in Woodbine Cottage, Perranporth, on the north coast of Cornwall, the elder of the two sons of John Frederick Healey, who ran the village shop, and his wife, ...
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Hickman, Ronald Price [Ron] (1932–2011), inventor and engineer
Tom Donnelly
Hickman, Ronald Price [Ron] (1932–2011), inventor and engineer, was born on 21 October 1932 in Greytown, Natal, South Africa, one of five children of Cyril Price Hickman (1899–1958), accountant, and his wife, Hélène Albertina de Villiers, née Neethling (1900–1957), who had been a schoolteacher before her marriage. He attended ...
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Johnston, George (1855–1945), engineer
Michael S. Moss
Johnston, George (1855–1945), engineer, was born at West Linton, Peebleshire, on 3 August 1855, the third child of James Aitchison Johnston, the United Presbyterian minister of West Linton, and his wife, Janet, née Fulton. His mother came from Glasgow and in 1861 his father accepted the call to be minister of the congregation at ...
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Lawson, Henry John (1852–1925), bicycle designer and company promoter
Richard A. Storey
Lawson, Henry John (1852–1925), bicycle designer and company promoter, was born at 1 Nevills Court in the City of London on 23 February 1852, the son of Thomas Lawson, brass turner and Calvinistic Methodist minister, and his wife, Ann Lucy, née Kent. Little is known about ...
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Lord, Leonard Percy [Len], Baron Lambury (1896–1967), engineer and motor vehicle manufacturer
Gillian Bardsley
Lord, Leonard Percy [Len], Baron Lambury (1896–1967), engineer and motor vehicle manufacturer, was born at the Public Baths, Priory Street, Coventry, on 15 November 1896, the youngest of the two children of William Lord (1867–1911) and his wife, Emma, née Swain (1863–1938). His father originally followed the trade of carpenter but at the time of ...
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Lord, Leonard Percy, Baron Lambury (1896–1967)
Maker: Maurice Frederick Codner
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Leonard Percy Lord, Baron Lambury (1896–1967) by Maurice Frederick Codner, 1951 © The Maurice Codner Estate; British Motor Industry Heritage Trust
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Macmillan, Kirkpatrick (bap. 1812, d. 1878), inventor of the pedal bicycle
Ronald M. Birse
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Macmillan, Kirkpatrick (bap. 1812, d. 1878), inventor of the pedal bicycle, was born in the parish of Keir near Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, and baptized on 18 September 1812. He was the fifth son (the eldest of whom died aged thirteen) of Robert Macmillan, blacksmith at ...
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Murray, Thomas Blackwood (1871–1929), engineer
Michael S. Moss
Murray, Thomas Blackwood (1871–1929), engineer, was born at Heaviside, Biggar, Lanarkshire, on 22 April 1871, the son of John Lamb Murray and his wife, Jane, née Findlay. His father was an autodidact architect and engineer who acted as factor to estates in the area, and whose interests included designing and installing electric generation and water-power plant. The young boy revelled in his father's engineering pursuits and became skilled at repairing clocks. After being sent to ...
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Norton, James Lansdowne (1869–1925), motorcycle designer and manufacturer
Andrew Lambert
Norton, James Lansdowne (1869–1925), motorcycle designer and manufacturer, was born at 37 Spon Terrace, Aston, Birmingham, on 8 January 1869, the son of James Norton, a journeyman cabinet-maker, and his wife, Elizabeth Chinn. The family were members of the Salvation Army, in which ...
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Pedersen, Mikael (1855–1929), engineer and designer of bicycles
David E. Evans
Pedersen, Mikael (1855–1929), engineer and designer of bicycles, was born on 25 October 1855 at Marbjerg, near Roskilde in Denmark, the eldest of six children of Peder Hansen, farmer, and his wife, Karen Mathiasdatter. His parents were both Danish.
Pedersen was known in ...
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Pullinger [married name Martin], Dorothée Aurélie Marianne (1894–1986), automobile engineer and businesswoman
Georgine Clarsen
Pullinger [married name Martin], Dorothée Aurélie Marianne (1894–1986), automobile engineer and businesswoman, was born on 13 January 1894 at St Aubin-sur-Scie, Seine Inférieure, France, the eldest of the eleven children of Thomas Charles Pullinger (1867–1945), engineer, and his wife, Aurélie Berenice, née...
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Railton, Reid Antony (1895–1977), motor engineer
Gillian Bardsley
Railton, Reid Antony (1895–1977), motor engineer, was born on 24 June 1895 at Cherry Tree House, Alderley Edge, in the Cheshire stockbroker belt, the son of Charles Withington Railton (1856–1937), stock and share broker, whose family had followed that profession for several generations, and his wife, ...
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Royce, Sir (Frederick) Henry, baronet (1863–1933), engineer and motor car designer
David J. Jeremy
Royce, Sir (Frederick) Henry, baronet (1863–1933), engineer and motor car designer, was born on 27 March 1863 at Alwalton, near Peterborough, youngest of the two boys and three girls of James Royce (1830–1872), flour miller, and his wife, Mary (d. 1904), third daughter of ...
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