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The Frank Perkins story. Frank Perkins, the man whose name is found today on some of the finest diesel engines all over the world, was born in Peterborough, UK, on February 26, 1889, the son and grandson of agricultural engineers. Francis Arthur Perkins, better known as Frank, went to Rugby School but left with health problems after one year ...
Francis Arthur Perkins (20 February 1889 – 15 October 1967) was a British engineer, businessman, creator of the Perkins Diesel Engine, and founder of Perkins Engines.
Frank Arthur Perkins (1889-1967), founder of Perkins a manufacturer of diesel engines. Francis Arthur (Frank) Perkins, was born in Peterborough on 26 February 1889 the son of J. E. S. Perkins. His father and grandfather were engineers; the family firm, Barford and Perkins, manufactured agricultural machinery and road rollers.
1889: This day saw the birth of Francis (Frank) Arthur Perkins at Clifton Villa, Park Road, Peterborough. His name resonates still throughout twenty-first-century Peterborough - remembered and recognised as the founder and driving force of the company known throughout the world today as Perkins Engines.
Thomas and Frances had a grandson , Francis Arthur Perkins (Frank), who was born in 1889 in Peterborough. He was educated at Rugby School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and ran a farm in Hertfordshire briefly before returning to the family firm of Barford and Perkins in Peterborough.
Jun 26, 2014 · The story of Perkins begins primarily with two men; one famous – to Peterboroughians at least – the other less so, but still just as vital to the company’s early success. Francis Arthur Perkins was born in 1889 in Peterborough, while Charles Wallace Chapman’s birth was in Lancaster in1897.
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Feb 23, 2010 · An investigative reporter, Kirstin Downey has uncovered France Perkins’s extraordinary strengths in shaping and securing the central domestic accomplishments of the New Dealers. Despite continuing impediments, Perkins, a social worker, successfully broke into a man’s world and was a major player for all twelve years of FDR’s administration.
