Austin Hopkinson
Austin Hopkinson MP, of Austin Hopkinson and Co
1879 Born in Manchester
1898-9 Apprentice at Salford Iron Works, Mather and Platt
1900 South Africa - service as a lieutenant
1901 Returned to Mather and Platt, finally working on coal cutting machinery
1905 Went into business on his own account developing machinery for use in coal cutting.
1905 Associate member I Mech E
1911 Manufacturer of mining machinery[1]
1918 Elected MP for Mossley; there are several portraits of him in the National Portrait Gallery from 1918 onwards[2]
1921 His engineering works were at Hyde[3]
1929 The employees of Mr. Austin Hopkinson, Independent candidate for the Mossley Division Lancashire, and M.P. since 1918, yesterday decided to pay the whole of his election expenses.[4]
1932 Flying certificate[5]
1935 Letter of Good Wishes from Mr Baldwin: Mr Austin Hopkinson , who is standing again as an Independent National for Mossley , Lancashire , and who has been threatened with Unionist opposition , has received a letter from Mr Stanley Baldwin...[6]
1936 "... escaped with cuts when a monoplane he was flying on Saturday.. " crashed in France. [7]
1941 Chairman of Austin Hopkinson and Co., Ltd., Audenshaw, near Manchester[8]
1962 Died in Westminster[9]
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Engineer 1943
- Mechanical engineer records