John William Danielsen
Colonel John William Danielsen ( -1958), Managing Director of the Deritend Stamping Co
1959 Obituary [1]
Col. John William Danielsen, D.S.O., T.D., D.L., who served as Chairman of the Midland Branch in 1945 and 1946, had been Managing Director of the Deritend Stamping Co., Ltd., of Birmingham, since 1919, and before that from 1901 to 1915 Joint Managing Director, the intervening years having been spent on active service in France. His death occurred on 16th August 1958 as the result of a motoring accident.
He was educated at Edgbaston Preparatory School and at Wolverhampton Grammar School. From 1892 to 1896 he served his apprenticeship with a firm of general engineers in Birmingham and attended evening classes at Birmingham Technical School.
After a year in the drawing office of the B.S.A. Co., Small Heath, he became Draughtsman and Outside Superintendent with T. B. Barker and Co., Forward Gas Engine Works, Birmingham.
In 1899-1900 he was an. Assistant in the millwrighting department of R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Newcastle upon Tyne, and he then obtained a second class Board of Trade Certificate at sea before commencing his long association with the Deritend Stamping Co., Ltd., in 1901.
Col. Danielsen was elected a Member of this Institution in 1921.