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 164,591 pages of information and 246,144 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.

John Bellenden Alford

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John Bellenden Alford (c1906-1947)

c.1906 Born son of Robert Greenwood Alford


1949 Obituary [1]

"Lt. Colonel JOHN BELLENDEN ALFORD, R.A.S.C., was educated at Rugby School and the Regent Street Polytechnic, London. On the completion, in 1927, of four years' practical training in the shops and drawing office of Messrs. Alford and Alder, Ltd., engineers, London, he joined Messrs. Clayton Wagons, Ltd., of Lincoln, where for two years he was in charge of design and the drawing office.

He then returned to Messrs. Alford and Alder to take up the appointment of managing director, and as such was responsible for a fleet of commercial vehicles and the repair shops. On the outbreak of the 1939-45 war he was granted a commission in the R.A.S.C. and eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Lieut.-Col. Alford, whose death occurred on 18th November 1947, at the age of forty-one, was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1936."


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