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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Archibald Septimus Knox

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Archibald Septimus Knox (1887- )

1922 Assoc.M.Inst. C.E., Civil Engineer, Cawnpore, United Provinces, India. T. A.: "Knox, Cawnpore." b. 1887; s. of James Knox, Nuneaton, and Elizabeth Florence Knox; In. Ellen Muriel Barber. Ed. Nuneaton Grammar School; Oundle School. Articled pupil with Willcox and Raikes, Consulting Engineers, Westminster and Birmingham. Engineering Assistant to Willcox & Raikes; Chief Assistant to T. J. Moss Flower, Consulting Engineer, Westminster and Bristol. 194-8— Assistant Sanitary Engineer, Public Works Department, United Provinces, India. 1918-20—Executive Engineer, Well Borings Division, United Provinces, India; Executive Engineer, 3rd Sanitary Division, United Provinces. 1920—Manager, Ford & MacDonald, Engineers and Contractors, Cawnpore, India. Chief Works: Preparation of Cawnpore Drainage Scheme, £210,000; construction of part of Cawnpore Drainage Scheme, L4,oco; Jhansi Water Supply Scheme, £100,000; Cawnpore Sewage Farm Schemes, £36,000; Cawnpore Water Supply Extensions, L35,000; Lucknow Sewage Farm Scheme, L6,500; Allahabad Sewage Farm Scheme, £7,coo; construction of Tube Wells for the Shahjahanpur and Bareilly and Cawnpore cantonments; preparation of Ghazi uddin Hyder Canal Scheme, Lucknow, L6o,coo. Member of United Provinces Priority Committee. Member of Cawnpore Club.

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