Hugh Vychan Wynne Roberts

Hugh Vychan Wynne Roberts (c1884-1933), director and sales manager of the GEC

1933 Died. '...Mr. Roberts. who has lived in Ealing for a number of years, was born in North Wales on September 12. 1883, and was educated at St. Edmund's School, Canterbury. He joined the General Electric Co. in January, 1901, and in November, 1909, he was appointed manager of the Engineering Supplies and Ventilation Department. Nine years later he was promoted to the position of sales manager and in 1929 he was appointed a director of the company, a position be held up to the time of his death. Apart from the General Electric Company, his services to the electrical industry had been widespread. He was prominently associated with the work of the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association, the British Electrical Development Association. the Electrical Association for Women, and other electrical organisations, and during the last year of his life lie was very active in connection with the formation of the Architects' Building Centre. Mr. Roberts was a man of amazing capacity for work, end during his thirty-two years in the electrical industry he used his great powers of observation and assimilation to the full, with the result that his knowledge of the industry, and particularly of trading conditions was encyclopaedic...' He lives a widow and five children.

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