John Allen (b.1857)
John Allen (c1857-1934), of Oxford Steam Plough Co and John Allen and Sons (Oxford)
1857 Born at Down, Ireland
1881 Engineer & Manager Of Steam Machinery, lodging in Dorchester, Dorset.[1]
1885 Married Elizabeth House Jekyll Sampson
1887 A manager for Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Co, John Allen, was brought to Oxford from the Dorchester works (of Eddison Steam Rolling Co).
1891 Birth of son George William Graham Allen
1895 Birth of son James John Cullimore Allen
1897 John Allen bought the company for which he was manager; he concentrated the business on steam road-rolling rather than cultivation, which was a more lucrative business.
1904 ALLEN, John, The Elms, Iffley, Oxford. Cars: 10-h.p. Daimler, 16-h.p. de Dietrich. Has driven 30,000 miles. Hobby: Mechanics. Is proprietor of the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Co., and was for four years Chairman of the National Traction-engine Owners' Association. His eldest son, who is now thirteen, has driven the Daimler car since he was eleven-and-a-half years old. Clubs: Constitutional, Oxford Automobile, A.C.G. B. & I. (Founder member). [2]
1910 "George Hartley, engineer, of Oxford, Charles Ellis, engineer, Maidstone, and John Allen, engineer, the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Co., gave evidence as to the construction of the engine. The Bench dismissed the case. ..."[3]
1921 John Allen 64, Governing Director, Oxford Steam Plough Co, of Cowley, lived in Iffley with George William Graham Allen 30, Managing Director Agricultural Engineer, James John Cullimore Allen 25, Managing Director Agricultural Engineer, Phoebe Elizabeth Allen 27[4]
1934 Died in Bournemouth[5]