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 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 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.

William Lawrence Turner

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William Lawrence Turner (1884-1950) of British Thermit Co

1922 Metallurgist; Governing Director, The British Thermit Co., Ltd., Liverpool; b. 1884; s. of William Turner. Ed. Eton Coll. Training: Faraday House, London. 1st Prizeman. With American Vanadium Co., Pittsburgh, 19o7-9; since 1910, engaged in development and manufacture in Great Britain of rare metals and ferro-alloys of same, principally by the "Thermit " process; Patentee of several improvements in the technology of the above process. Club: Junior Carlton. Address: Purley, Caldy, Cheshire.

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