Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Harry Albert Lawless Hepper

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Sir (Major) Harry Albert Lawless Hepper (1870-1935), Royal Engineers

1870 Born the eldest son of Col. Albert James Hepper ( -1915) and his wife Sophie Henrietta Lees

1897 Married Kathleen Florence Keelan

Invented 'Heppers Key Electric Key Transmitter' while a signal Engineer on the North Western Railway of India to replace key interlocking by hand

1910 Deputy-Agent of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway

He eventually became the General Manager of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.

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