Alfred Palmer
Alfred Palmer (1857-1928)
1928 Obituary [1]
ALFRED PALMER was an apprentice at Crewe under F. W. Webb, at whose recommendation he was appointed works manager for Messrs. Emerson and Murgatroyd of Stockport, gas engineers.
He afterwards joined the Stockport Gas Engine Company, for whom he visited the Continent and America.
He subsequently commenced business on his own account in Sheffield, where he founded the Union Engineering Works. For a time he confined himself to gas engineering, but later he turned his attention to file-cutting and the manufacture of file-cutting machines. He introduced a method of diagonal cutting and took out several patents.
His death occurred on 30th November 1928. He was born at Peterborough in 1857, and became an Associate Member of the Institution in 1901.