Andrew H. Telfer
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Membership
1919-1920, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Member; Address: Viewfield, Uddingston, Lanarkshire.
Biographical Notes
Telfer, Andrew H. General Manager and Director, The Alloa Coal Co. Ltd. Educated at Uddingston Grammar School and Glasgow University. Trained as a mining engineer with McCreaths & Stevenson, Glasgow, and John Watson Ltd., Earnock Collieries, Hamilton. For several years Mining Agent for the Wilsons & Clyde Coal Company's Lanarkshire Collieries. Director of the Scottish Mine Owners' Defence & Mutual Insurance Association Ltd., and of the Alloa Glass Work Co. Ltd. Address: The Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., Alloa.
Source: 1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
Biographical Notes
Telfer, Andrew H. General Manager and Director, The Alloa Coal Co. Ltd. Educated at Uddingston Grammar School and Glasgow University. Trained as a mining engineer with McCreaths & Stevenson Glasgow, and John Watson Ltd., Earnock Collieries, Hamilton. For several years Mining Agent for the Wilsons & Clyde Coal Company's Lanarkshire Collieries. Director of the Scottish Mine Owners' Defence & Mutual Insurance Association Ltd., Stirlingshire Brickworks Ltd. and Firth Building Company Ltd. General Manager and Director of the Alloa Glass Work Co. Ltd. Director of New Cumnock Collieries Ltd. Director of Newmains Brickworks Ltd. Justice of the Peace for Clackmannanshire. Address: The Alloa Coal Co. Ltd., The Whins, Alloa.
Source: 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
- 1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- Transactions of the Institute of Mining Engineers, Volume LIX published in 1920
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