Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Consulting Engineer, 2, Chantry House, Eccleston Street, Eaton Square, Westminster, London, S.W.1.
 
Career:
* 1905-20, Partner in consulting firm of [[James E. Sayers and Caldwell]], Electrical Engineers, Glasgow.
* War service with Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, R.E., and War Office; later at the Admiralty as deputy Asst. Director of Materials and Supt. of Welding and Labour Saving; also visited America for service with United States Shipping Board and War Dept., at Washington.
* 1917-18 Responsible for early applications of electric welded construction, including a cross-Channel barge, and
* 1919-21 several factory buildings.
* 1919 Awarded Telford Premium, Inst.C.E.
* 1922 Paris Premium, I.E.E.
* 1930-37 retained by the [[Quasi-Arc Co|Quasi-Arc Co., Ltd.]], to extend the development of electric welding to steel construction.
* 1931 Inspected welded undertakings throughout the British Empire, and
* 1936 in the U.S.A
* Chairman, Motor Mutual Insurance Co., Ltd.;
* Director, [[Union Welding Co|Union Welding Co., Ltd.]], H.G.M. Trust and Mount Magnet Gold Mines, Ltd.;
* Chairman, [[Alloy Welding Processes|Alloy Welding Processes, Ltd.]], until amalgamated with [[Murex, Ltd.]], in 1930.
* Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights;
 
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