Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Willie Emmott

From Graces Guide

c.1881 Born[1]

Possibly: 1883 Baptised in Shelley, Emmanuel, Yorkshire, son of Lavinia Emmott[2]

1911 Willie Emmott 30, clerk in the leather trade, living in Lincoln in the house of his step-father, George Henry Toone 54, brass and iron worker, and his mother Lavinia Toone 57[3]


1912 Married Nellie Beatrice Bingham in Lambeth[4]. Willie was a belting manufacturer but there was no record of his father.[5]

1913 Birth of son John B. Emmott in Lincoln[6]

1920 Founded Automotive Products Co with others

1920-32 Named on around 20 patents on driving belts, hydraulics, etc

1930 Boughton, Emmott and Brock with Austin Cuthbert Burdon gained a patent for hydraulic brakes for aeroplanes; Boughton, Emmott and Brock gained another patent for fluid pressure braking systems which they assigned to the Automotive Products Co.

1935 Willie Emmott, engineer, and John B. Emmott, no occupation, travelled to the USA and back[7]

1939 Willie, Nellie Beatrice and John Bingham Emmott were living in Ealing[8]

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Sources of Information

  1. Marriage record
  2. Parish records
  3. 1911 census
  4. BMD
  5. Parish record
  6. BMD
  7. Arrivals records
  8. Electoral register