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1933-34: Charles Richard Fox Engelbach
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1943 Obituary: Engelbach O.B.E., was a director of the Austin Motor Company, Ltd., a position he retained for fully twenty years. He received his technical education at Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne, from 1894 to 1899, and during the same period served his apprenticeship with Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Company. He remained with that firm until 1914 and during his fourteen years' association with it filled the positions of assistant manager in the light ordnance department, manager of the shell and fuse shops at Scotswood, and finally general manager of the motor car works. On being mobilized in 1914 for service with his unit in the R.N.V.R. he was seconded to Coventry Ordnance Works as manager of the howitzer department. From 1918 to 1921 he was general manager of Messrs. Pittevil and Company, of London. In the following year he accepted the appointment of works director of the Austin Motor Company, where he had charge of 20,000 employees. He resigned this position in 1938 but retained his seat on the Board with the additional duties of consulting engineer. Mr. Engelbach, whose death occurred at Birmingham on 19th February 1943, in his sixty-seventh year, was elected a Member of the Institution in 1938. He was also past-president of the Institution of Automobile Engineers. |
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