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PHILIP, WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN #
- Born: 1863 Died: 1951
English engineer. William Littlejohn Philip joined the engineering firm of Spencer's of Melksham, Wiltshire, in the 1880s and - excepting the years 1922-1926 when he was engineering adviser to the South African government - remained with the company until his retirement in 1939, becaming in turn manager, engineering adviser and chairman. He was a world expert in the bulk-handling of grain and coal and designed silos in many parts of the world, including Ireland.(1)
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(1) For a biography of Philip see 'Engineering and railway works', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 4 (1959), pp. 183-219. (www.british-history.ac.uk).
2 work entries listed in chronological order for PHILIP, WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN #
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Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, GRAIN SILO |
Date: | 1934 |
Nature: | Multi-storey reinforced concrete grain silo. |
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Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009) , 59. |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SHANNON MILLS (RANKS, IRELAND, LTD) |
Date: | 1935 |
Nature: | Grain silos. |
Refs: |
IB 83, 16 Aug 1941, 392(illus.); Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 59. |