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Charles
Richard Fox Engelbach, * Kensington, London 20. 5.1876,
+ Quarry
Farm, Northfield, Birmingham 19. 2.
1943,
Automobilbauer, Arbeitsdirektor bei der Austin Motor
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"A
combination of biographies (including an article by his granddaughter
Flora Starr Wallis) says he went to school in Southport. At age 16,
given 1000 pounds by his godfather, he startet in the Royal Arsenal at
Woolwich and then served a 3-year apprenticeship with Armstrong,
Whitworth in Newcastle-on-Tyne, eventually becoming an assistant
manager for their Light Ornance Department at their Newcastle Works,
afterwards being given charge of their shell and fuse works at
Scotswood. He was offered but declined a professional singing career
with d'Oyley Carte Opera Company. In 1900 Armstrong became involved in
making the Rootes and Venables paraffin-engined car; he became general
manager of their motor department which built the Wilson-Pilcher cars
(1904 - 06), and then the long line of Armstrong-Whitworths up to 1914.
He was one of the first to perceive the relevance of American
production methods, but the directors turned down his proposal to
mass-produce cars at 6000 a year. In 1914 he was called up to the RNVR
as Lieutenant Commander but was then requested to take over the 4.7
howitzer dept. of the Coventry Ordnance Works; he was awarded an OBE
(Order of the British Empire) for this. In 1921 he was appointed as
Board member and works director at the Austin Motor Company's major
Longbridge Works by the banks, dissatisfied with Herbert Austin as
administrator. He remained there till 1937, when his eyesight failed so
that he had to be guided around the factory, and he was forced to
retire. It is alleged that after his resignation, the men on the
production line wrote on the walls at Longbridge: "Oh Lord, give us
Engel Back!" In the 1930s, he also served on the Ministry committee
responsible for shadow factory production (aircraft engines). A
Freemason, a patron of the Boy Scouts, a strong supporter of the
British
Legion; recreations golf and yachting. He left 110,733 pounds gross.
He was
described as "a small, stout man with twinkling eyes behind spectacles
with incredibly thick lenses. His personality was much larger than his
stature; he was a renowned and witty after-dinner speaker, and would
talk about engineering principles in a way guaranteed to make even an
un-mechanically minded person laugh." According to the family, he
joined Wolsey post WWI but refused their pressure on him to change his
name because of post-war anti-German feeling. Reginald and Patrick
Engelbach spent a week with him every summer before WWII, while his
wife Florence would go to Le Touquet."
(Michael
Shenstone:
The
Engelbachs of Alsace, Ottawa 1998) |
(Robert J. Wyatt, in:
David J. Jeremy, Dictionary
of business biography: a biographical dictionary of business
leaders active in Britain in the period 1860-1980, Band 2, Butterworths, 1984)
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