George Steinheil

Baron George J. Steinheil, Russian Army Engineer (1917)

1889 Born in Russia

1907-11 Glasgow University, B.Sc. in Mech. Eng. Summer jobs with various British companies.

1912-14 Russian Baltic Waggon Works, Riga

1914-7 Ludwig Nobel Ltd, Petrograd, engineer of the testing department for marine diesels

1917 Assistant Russian government inspector at Messrs Claytons and Messrs Rustons in Lincoln

1917 Joined I Mech E as Associate Member

1917-9 Manager, progress department, Clayton and Shuttleworth aircraft works

1919-20 Chief engineer of Libunion (?) Ltd, 123 Cannon Street, London; designed and supervised installation of flour mill in Finland.

1920 Chief draughtsman, oil engine department, Hamworthy Ltd, London

1922 General manager of London Office of Messrs Nobel Diesel Ltd; transferred to Member I Mech E.

1922 of Erith

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