C.M. PERSONALITIES MR. HENRY RUPERT HOOD BARRS is, at she
11th August 1931, Page 35
11th August 1931
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— C.M. PERSONALITIES MR. HENRY RUPERT HOOD BARRS is, at she
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comparatively early age of 40, chairman and managing director of Carrimore Six Wheelers, Ltd., G. Scammell and Nephew, Ltd., and the Mann Steam and Motor Wagon Co., Ltd. fie was educated at Dulwich College, and followed this by a training in electrical engineering with the Eastern Telegraph Co., Ltd. In 1914 he was made a captain in the R.A.S.C., when he mobilized and took command of the first company of a large number of commandeered Foden steam wagons supplied by his company, G. Scammell and Nephew, Ltd., to the order of the War Office for specially urgent artillery duty with the B.B.F. Mr. Hood Bctrrs has been well known in she commercial-vehicle world for many years and has sat as a member of various committees of the S.M.M. and T.