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By the outbreak of World War I, he was an authority on technological problems relating to lubrication, and the company went public in about 1920, relocating from
Millwall to Hammersmith. By the time he died in 1945, Duckhams had assumed a dominant position for the supply of lubricants and corrosion
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in 1914 heightened the focus on mechanical efficiency, and the
Duckham company was already established as the highest authority on technological problems in matters of lubrication. The company went public (c. 1920) soon after the war finished, and relocated from Millwall to
133:-born mechanical and civil engineer, Frederic Eliot Duckham (1841 - died 13 January 1918 in Blackheath), who had patented improvements in governors for marine engines and invented a 'Hydrostatic Weighing Machine'. His mother was Maud Mary McDougall (1849-1921), sister of
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He married Violet Ethel
Narraway in 1902, and they had five children, all born in Greenwich: Alec Narraway Duckham (born c. 1904); Millicent A. M. Duckham (c. 1905); Joan Ethel Duckham (c. 1906); Jack Eliot Duckham (c. 1908); and Ruth Edith Duckham (born 1918).
261:, by 1967, it was regarded as the largest independent lubricating oil company in the UK and the third largest supplier of engine oil to motorists, producing the first multigrade oil for motorists. To cope with demand, a new manufacturing plant was opened in
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personnel killed in service. Vanbrugh Castle was later sold after the number of pupils declined; sale proceeds were used to educate RAF children, with funds later (1997) transferred to a charitable trust, the
Alexander Duckham Memorial Schools Trust.
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By the time, Alexander
Duckham died in 1945 (being succeeded as company chairman by his son Jack), Duckhams had assumed a dominant position in supply of lubricants and corrosion inhibitors to the motor industry and other markets. Behind
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suitable as a base for the preparation of lubricants, establishing a private company, Trinidad
Central Oilfields, in 1911. The discovery and development of such lubricants was timely, coinciding with the evolution of
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in 1899, and gradually assembled a team of engineers and chemists to whom he could delegate research work, freeing him to focus on lubricant production. Early customers included car dealer and racing driver
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109:. The son of an engineer, after university he specialised in lubrication, working briefly for Fleming's Oil Company before founding his own company, Alexander Duckham & Co, in Millwall in 1899.
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inhibitors to the motor industry in
Britain and other markets. A new manufacturing plant was opened in Staffordshire in 1968, and soon thereafter the company was taken over by
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who called weekly at
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Duckham to focus on sourcing raw materials for lubricants. From 1905 he helped pioneer the development of the
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for some years from 1896, close to the Duckham family home in Dartmouth Grove, Blackheath) to specialise in the study of
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marking the place where Blériot landed in 1909 to complete the first flight across the
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in a heavier-than-air aircraft, and 25 years later hosted a dinner at London's
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and businessman, best known for the development of machine
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in 1968, shortly before the company was acquired by
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The Duckham's Story: A Century of Fighting Friction
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537:"History of Trinidad's Oil"
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246:World War I
226:Savoy Hotel
190:Lord Fisher
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