Catalogue description Merz, Charles Hesterman (1874-1940) MICE, VPIEE

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Details of IMS 334
Reference: IMS 334
Title: Merz, Charles Hesterman (1874-1940) MICE, VPIEE
Description:

Autobiographical notes. A career memoir by C.H.Merz, consulting engineer and partner in the Merz-McLellan Company of Gateshead.

 

Chapter 1. Early days.

 

Chapter 2. Apprenticeship and early training.

 

Chapter 3. Cork and the North East coast.

 

Chapter 4 Extension of area of supply of North East coast.

 

Chapter 5. London.

 

Chapter 6. Work for the British Government.

 

Chapter 7. Foreign work.

 

The volume follows Merz's work on electrical power supply. The author refers to many well-known contemporaries met during the course of his career. A preliminary word reads: 'these notes were written for my own family in 1934...'. The flyleaf is inscribed 'Ann'.

 

Volume, 234x200mm., 90pp.

 

Copy typescript, quarter bound in brown leather.
Date: 1936
Held by: Institution of Mechanical Engineers Archive, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Custodial history:

Gift, W.Hacking, 21 May 1998

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