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 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 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.

Albert John Woodgate Hancock

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Albert John Woodgate Hancock (1882-1959), sometimes Albert "Joey" Hancock

1891 Living at Ivanhoe House, London Road, Leicester (age 9 born at Kingston-upon-Thames). In the house of his father Ebenezer Hancock (age 41 born Sturry, Kent), Draper and his mother Harriet (age 40) plus sibling, grandmother and servants. [1]

1901 A boarder at 104 London Road, Lowestoft (age 19 born Kingston-upon-Thames), Mechanical Engineers Pupil. [2]

Draughtsman at Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Co

1905 Joined Herbert Austin when he formed Austin.[3]

1911 Living at Letchworth Road, Leicester: Ebenezer Hancock (age 61 born Sturrey, Kent), Draper. With his wife Harriet Hancock (age 60 born Margate) and their three children; Albert Hancock (age 29 born Kingston), Motor Car Draughtsman; Winifred Hancock (age 27 born Norbiton), Teacher; and Enid Hancock (age 20 born Leicester). One visitor. One servant.[4]

1912 With Harry Ferguson and W. Watson drove for the Vauxhall team in the French Grand Prix.

1919-41 Austin chief designer

1935-36 President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

1959 Q1. Died at Bromsgrove aged 77

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Sources of Information

  1. 1891 Census
  2. 1901 Census
  3. The Austin 1905-1952 by R. J. Wyatt. Published 1981. ISBN: 0 7153 7948 8
  4. 1911 Census