Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,499 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Arthur Collinson Nesfield

From Graces Guide

c.1881 Born in India, son of an Indian educational officer

1911 A mechanical engineer, employer, in motor car trade, living in Ealing with his parents[1]

1919 A. C. Nesfield was awarded £500 by the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors which recognised that he had originated ideas that related to "tanks" but did not find any evidence that these ideas were communicated to those involved in developing tanks although he had prepared a specification; he and Mr Macfie were each awarded £500[2]

1954 Died in Ealing[3]


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Sources of Information

  1. 1911 census
  2. The Times, Nov 28, 1919
  3. BMD