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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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.

A. B. C. Rankin

From Graces Guide

Alexander Bryce Calder Rankin (c1923-1963)



1963 Obituary[1]

"WE regret to record the death on December 4, of MR. A. B. C. RANKIN, deputy chief engineer at Smiths Industrial Division, Hillington, and head of the Ultrasonic Department. Mr. Rankin, who was aged forty, was educated at Hamilton Academy and the Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow, and completed his metallurgical training with Colvilles Ltd., Motherwell. He joined Henry Hughes and Son (later Smiths) in 1945 as one of a small team working on ultrasonic flaw detection techniques, and made a substantial contribution to the growth of ultrasonic technology. Mr. Rankin was a member of several professional institutions and the author of many papers on ultrasonics."


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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1963 Jul-Dec