Bernard Powell-Brett
Bernard Powell-Brett (c1884-1937) sometimes Bernard Brett
c.1884 Born, son of Edward Samuel Brett
1928 of Meriden, Coventry[1]
1936 JP in Coventry[2]
1937 Died
1937 Obituary.[3]
Bernard Powel-Brett, elected Associate in 1930, was educated at the University of Birmingham. He served an apprenticeship with John Hands and Sons, Iron Founders, Birmingham, and, for a time, was in the works of the Brett's Patent Lifter Co., Ltd. In 1904 he become personal assistant to his father, the late E. S. Brett, who was one of the founders of Brett's Stamping Works.
He succeeded his father as Chairman of Brett’s Stamping Works, was Chairman and General Manager of Brett's Patent Lifter Co., Ltd., and a Director of Messrs. John Hay and Sons, Sheffield.
He was a member of the Grand Council of the Federation of British Industries.
In 1931 he read a paper before the Institution on “ Modern Drop-forging Equipment and its Services to the Railway Engineer,” which was published in Journal 103.
He was a Justice of the Peace for Warwickshire, a member of the Meriden Rural District Council and ex-officio Chairman of the Hampton-in-Arden Parish Council.
He was born at Coventry in 1884, and died on July ist, 1937, at the age of 53.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1928 Kelly's Directory
- ↑ Kelly's Directory
- ↑ 1937 Institution of Locomotive Engineers: Index