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 162,256 pages of information and 244,498 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.

Percy Vavasseur Appleby

From Graces Guide

Percy Vavasseur Appleby Assoc. M. Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., of Appleby Brothers, East Greenwich Works, London, S.E.

1864 Born in Greenwich, son of Charles James Appleby and Lucinda Appleby

1879-82 University Coll., London; Engineering Course under Prof. Alex. B. W. Kennedy

Telford Premium of Inst. of C. Engrs. for paper read before the Students on " Strength of Materials."

1890-1905 Director of Appleby Bros., Ltd., and Jessop and Appleby Brothers, Ltd.

1922 Mech. Engr., Director, I. H. Vavasseur and Co., Ltd., London, Ceylon and India

1939 Company director living in Coulsdon and Purley with his family[1]

1948 Died in Worthing[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1939 register
  2. BMD