Who was the manager of the largest planned industrial estate in Europe in 1896?
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William Henry Gaunt William Henry Gaunt (born in Bradford, Yorkshire, 13 January 1874 – 31 October 1951) was an English transport engineer who began his working life developing and building gas-powered trams. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School before joining the Ashbury Company in Manchester as an apprentice. The works at Ashbury supplied the trams for Britain's first gas-powered tramway, the Blackpool, St Annes and Lytham tramway, operated by the British Gas Traction Company. Gaunt transferred to the tramway company in 1896, and then became manager of a similar gas-powered scheme at Trafford Park in 1896. Following the financial collapse of the Gas Traction Company in 1898 Gaunt was appointed manager of Trafford Park's gas and electric tramways, a position he held until 1905, when the operation of the electric line was taken over by the corporations of Manchester and Salford.
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Trafford Park Trafford Park is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, opposite Salford Quays on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, 3.4 mi west-southwest of Manchester city centre and 1.3 mi north of Stretford. Until the late 19th century, it was the ancestral home of the Trafford family, who sold it to financier Ernest Terah Hooley in 1896. Occupying an area of 4.7 mi2 , it was the first planned industrial estate in the world, and remains the largest in Europe.
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Friedrich Zollinger Friedrich Zollinger, also known as "Fritz Zollinger" (March 31, 1880 – April 19, 1945) was a German architect, engineer, buildings official and town planner.
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Ludwig von Bogdandy Ludwig von Bogdandy (born 10 February 1930 in Berlin, died 5 May 1996 in Linz) (Hungarian: "Bogdándy Lajos" ) was a German metallurgist and industrial executive. He was a leading researcher on iron and steel production, and served as CEO of Voestalpine, an international steel based technology and capital goods group based in Linz. He also served as the honorary Hungarian Consul-General in Linz.
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Automobiles Darracq France Automobiles Darracq France was a manufacturer of motor vehicles and aero engines in Suresnes, near Paris. The enterprise, known at first as A Darracq et Cie, was founded in 1896 by successful businessman Alexandre Darracq.
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Carl Friedrich von Siemens Carl Friedrich von Siemens (5 September 1872 in Berlin – 9 September 1941 in Heinendorf near Potsdam) was a German Entrepreneur and politician. A member of the Siemens family, he became associated with Siemens & Halske AG in 1899, his family company. He was responsible for the resurrection of the Siemens Group after the First World War. Before his death in 1941, he oversaw state railways for the Reichstag.
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Felix Pole Sir Felix John Clewett Pole (1 February 1877 – 15 January 1956) was a British railway manager and industrialist. He was general manager of the Great Western Railway (1921–29), before becoming executive chairman of Associated Electrical Industries, a post he held until 1945.
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Alexandre Martin Alexandre Martin (27 April 1815 – 28 May 1895), nicknamed Albert l'Ouvrier ("Albert the Worker"), was a French socialist statesman of the French Second Republic. He was the first member of the industrial working class to be in French government.
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Palais Strousberg The Palais Strousberg was a large city mansion built in Berlin, Germany for the railway magnate Bethel Henry Strousberg. It was designed by the architect August Orth and built between 1867–68 at No.70 Wilhelmstraße. The grandiose splendour of its accommodation and novel integration of the latest building technologies into the fabric of the building, ensured that Berliners would still find the Palais impressive decades after its construction, becoming "the" model of refined luxury in Berlin architecture.
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James Kemnal Sir James Herman Rosenthal Kemnal FRSE (16 August 1864 – 8 February 1927), born James Hermann Rosenthal (he changed his name in 1915), was an English engineer and industrialist.
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Nubar Gulbenkian Nubar Sarkis Gulbenkian (Armenian: Նուպար Սարգիս Կիւլպէնկեան ; 2 June 1896 – 10 January 1972) was an Armenian business magnate and socialite born in the Ottoman empire.
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Eduard Schulte Eduard Schulte ( 4 January 1891 in Düsseldorf – 6 January 1966 in Zürich) was a prominent German industrialist. He was one of the first to warn the Allies and tell the world of the Holocaust and systematic exterminations of Jews in Nazi Germany occupied Europe.
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Ivar Knudsen Ivar Peter Bagger Knudsen (1 April 1861 – 23 March 1920) was a Danish engineer. As the director of Burmeister & Wain (B&W), Knudsen led the development of the MS "Selandia" , the biggest, most advanced diesel-powered vessel of its time.
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Cremer &amp; Wolffenstein The Cremer & Wolffenstein architecture firm was founded in 1882 by Richard Wolffenstein (1846–1919) and Wilhelm Cremer (1854–1919) and existed up to the death of its two founders. During the so-called "Gründerzeit" in Berlin, the years of rapid industrial expansion in Germany at the end of the 19th century, they were a prolific firm in the various aspects of architecture. As one of the largest firms in Berlin at the turn of the century, they designed residential, commercial, transportation, government, and religious buildings. They built a number of synagogues, won second place in the 1882 competition to design the Reichstag, and were also involved in planning the Hochbahn overhead railway installation between Kreuzberg and Nollendorfplatz.
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Kelenföld Kelenföld (German: "Krenfeld" ) is a neighborhood in Budapest, Hungary. It belongs to Újbuda, and located in the southern part of Buda. The large Kelenföld housing estate was built between 1967 and 1983 from pre-fabricated concrete blocks. The older streets around Bocskai út were mainly built in the first half of the 20th century. The Kelenföld railway station is an important transport hub of Buda. Kelenföld Power Station, the largest electrical generation plant in the world after its construction in 1912, is now a tourist attraction and has received coverage in the English-speaking world in recent years thanks in part to its Art Deco control room.
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Géza Kertész Géza Kertész (18 November 1894 – 1945), also known as Kertész IV, was a Hungarian footballer and manager from Budapest. He is most noted for his career as a football manager in Italy at clubs such as Lazio, Roma and Atalanta.
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Julius Motteler Julius Motteler (18 June 1838 – 29 September 1907) was a pioneering German Socialist and Businessman.
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Villa Petrolea Villa Petrolea is a historical district located in the Keshla municipality of Baku, Azerbaijan. Built by the Petroleum Production Company Nobel Brothers (also known as Branobel) in 1882, it served to accommodate workers of the company. It currently functions as a museum of the Nobel brothers in addition to housing a number of offices and businesses.
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Jules Méline Félix Jules Méline (] ; 20 May 183821 December 1925) was a French statesman, prime minister from 1896 to 1898.
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Rudolf Prikryl Rudolf Prikryl (21 March 1896 – 13 June 1965) was the provisionally-instated mayor of Vienna from 13 April to 16 April 1945, and is remembered as the "three days' mayor" (German: "Drei-Tage-Bürgermeister" ).
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Rudolph Palumbo Rudolph Palumbo (27 March 1901 – 16 July 1987) was a British property developer who made his fortune redeveloping Second World War bombsites in London.
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Šipad Šipad is the largest Bosnian producer and manufacturer of wood and lumber products and furniture. The conglomerate was founded in 1892 by German industrialist Otto von Steinbeis in the Bosnian town of Drvar. The company was known as the "Bosnia Company" until 1893, when von Steinbeis expanded and renamed it. After the First World War, with the formation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it grew into one of the largest Bosnian industrial organizations. Between 1927 and 1937 Šipad exported 150,000 m2 of lumber annually.