Frederick Augustine Smith
Frederick Augustine Smith (1884-1951)
1884 Born
1897-1902 Apprentice with Sharples and Co, engineers of Manchester, working on power station equipment.
1902-1919 Worked for Metropolitan-Vickers Ltd, Manchester
Member of Institution of Water Engineers
1927 Associate member of I Mech E
1952 Obituary [1]
"FREDERICK AUGUSTINE SMITH, was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1927, and died on 25th December 1951 at the age of sixty-six.
He was educated at Manchester College of Technology and served an apprenticeship with Sharples and Company, Ltd., Manchester, from 1897 to 1902. For the next seventeen years he held in succession the positions of leading fitter, foreman and draughtsman and designer to the Westinghouse Company, Ltd., in the same city. After a brief period as leading mechanical draughtsman to Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., electrical and mechanical engineers, London, he took up an appointment as assistant manager to Ilkeston and Heanor Water Board, Derbyshire, in the service of which he remained for many years."
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Sources of Information
- Mechanical Engineer records