Consulting engineering firm. Bruce and his brother Colin joined their father's firm in 1919 and 1923. John Wolfe Barry was already a partner. Bruce was knighted after WW2 and on the father's death in 1925 the firm was renamed. Since the war it has primarily been involved in marine projects, such as the UK's first container terminal at Tilbury. Now part of Beckett Rankine.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners
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Marylebone Flyover
Marylebone Flyover Opened by Mr Desmond Plummer TD, JP, leader of the Greater...
Other Subjects
Alliott Verdon Roe
Aircraft designer and manufacturer. Born Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe at Patricroft, Manchester. He was inspired by the Wright brothers to devote himself to powered flight. In 1907 he built a biplane a...
3 memorials
Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale
Electrical engineer and social reformer promoting family planning and eugenics. Born in Paris. As an engineer, he invented the phase-shifting transformer, and was co-founder of the Institute of Phy...
1 memorial
Lieutenant Colonel John By
Founder of Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers. Born Lambeth and baptised in the church of St. Mary-at-Lambeth, August 10, 1779. After a distinguished career ...
1 memorial
Sir John Wolfe-Barry
Civil Engineer. Born London, son of the architect Sir Charles Barry. His firm specialised in railways, bridges and docks. Built the Circle Line and, following the death of Horace Jones, Tower Bridg...
4 memorials
John Alfred Prestwich
Inventor and designer of engines. Born Kensington.  He worked with Sebastian de Ferranti and the cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene to produce cameras, mutoscopes, cutting and perforation machine...
1 memorial
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