Paul Benford Elwell, electrical engineer, early 20th century.
Paul Benford Elwell, electrical engineer, early 20th century. Paul B Elwell (1853-18 ) ran a nail-making company, the Patent Tip and Horseshoe Company, in Commercial Road in the 1870s. Then, in 1882 he went into partnership with Thomas Parker to form the first electrical manufacturing business in the Midlands. In 1883, the company designed, built, and installed dynamos and electric lighting for the Trafalgar Collieries in the Forest of Dean. This was the first underground electrical installation in the country, if not in the world, and in the 1880s the company became one of Britain's foremost electrical engineering companies supplying electrical installations in leading companies throughout the UK. In 1887 Paul Bedford Elwell left the company and went to Paris to prepare plans for the Paris underground electric railway. He was later responsible for the electrification of the Sydney tramways and died there on 10th September, 1899, aged only 46.
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Location: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, West Midlands,England, UK
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