Henry Rudolph Zetterstrom
Henry Rudolph Zetterstrom (1883-1946)
1947 Obituary [1]
"HENRY RUDOLPH ZETTERSTROM, who was born of Swedish parents in Russia on 1st June 1883, received his technical education at the Claimers Technical Institute in Gothenburg, where he qualified as a chartered engineer in 1906. On the completion of a year's apprenticeship with Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Ltd., of Newcastle upon Tyne, he obtained further training in the shipbuilding industry at Kiel and Gothenburg. After five years' experience as chief draughtsman to Messrs. Nobel Brothers at Baku he went into business on his own account as a tug boat owner at Kronstadt. In 1916 he joined the S.K.F. organization, and began an association which was only terminated by his death on the 27th November 1946.
During the first three years of his service with that firm he acted as technical adviser in Russia and later took the same position in Belgium, France and other countries on the Continent. He entered upon his final appointment as technical manager at Luton in 1924. Mr. Zetterstrom had been a Member of the Institution since 1935."
1946 Obituary.[2]
Henry Rudolf Zetterstrom, elected a Member in 1934, was born in Astrachan (Russia) of Swedish parents in 1883. He was educated first at Baku and then at Stockholm. His technical education was received at the State Secondary School, Gothenburg, and Chalneerspl Technical Institution, passing out as a chartered engineer in 1906.
He came to England in 1906 to obtain further technical experience and spent two years in the works of R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne. From there he went to Howaldtswerke, 5 Kiel, Germany, for a year and then joined Goteborgs Nya Verkstad sakliebolag, Gothenburg, whom he left a year later (1909) to join Nobel Bros, at Baku, where he remained for five years as a technical engineer. In 1914 he commenced his own business as a shipowner in Kronstadt (Russia) and in 1916 represented S.K.F. in Russia; in Belgium and France in 1921-22; in Austria and Czechoslovakia 1 in 1923.
In 1924 he became Technical Manager at the Skefko Ball Bearing Co, Ltd., Luton, a position which he held until his death in his office on Wednesday, 27th November, 1946, in his 64th year.