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Appointed European Director of The United Shoe Machinery Company, a significant U.S. company. Clark's terms of reference were to "Buy or Bust everybody in the shoe machinery business in Europe". Byron accomplished this mission and retired to London in 1920<ref>A résumé of the history of Plessey, compiled by Hugh Culverhouse</ref>. | Appointed European Director of The United Shoe Machinery Company, a significant U.S. company. Clark's terms of reference were to "Buy or Bust everybody in the shoe machinery business in Europe". Byron accomplished this mission and retired to London in 1920<ref>A résumé of the history of Plessey, compiled by Hugh Culverhouse</ref>. | ||
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Byron George Clark
- 1863 estimated date of birth
Appointed European Director of The United Shoe Machinery Company, a significant U.S. company. Clark's terms of reference were to "Buy or Bust everybody in the shoe machinery business in Europe". Byron accomplished this mission and retired to London in 1920[1].
- 1918 Held shares in British Electro-Chemists. Chairman of the Hubert Eyelet Company[2].
- 1919 Purchased 640 shares in Plessey Co[3].
- 1921 Living at Netherhall Park Mansions, Hampstead[4].
- 1921 Introduced his son, Allen George Clark, to William Oscar Heyne, couraging Heyne to "make an engineer" out of Allen Clark.
- 1922 Founded The British Radiophone Co with Watsham and McCullum (the latter worked for Marconi Co).
- 1923 Helped raise funds for Plessey's move to new premises at Ilford.
- 1925 Chairman of Plessey Co
- 1927 Handed over chairmanship of Plessey to Henry Morgan
- 1946 Died, aged 83, at Birchfield, Middle Green, Langley, Bucks. [5]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ A résumé of the history of Plessey, compiled by Hugh Culverhouse
- ↑ A résumé of the history of Plessey, compiled by Hugh Culverhouse
- ↑ A résumé of the history of Plessey, compiled by Hugh Culverhouse
- ↑ A résumé of the history of Plessey, compiled by Hugh Culverhouse
- ↑ The Times, Saturday, Jun 01, 1946