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Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners

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Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners

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.

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