that specialised in sinking shafts for coal mines, and which had a series of contracts with the National Coal Board in South Wales. Initially the labour force was entirely German, working shifts of eight [...] like Schactbau Thyssen were no longer needed, and Arno Wolff transferred to employment with the National Coal Board from 1981.He worked at Cynheidre pit where he discovered a hundred-year old working where [...] ponies were still intact. He retired in 1988. An account of his life is retained at the Big Pit mining museum.

ury Portugal, Guilherme (originally William) Stephens developed the glass industry and gained a national monopoly, with his brother João Diogo (originally John James, 1747–1826). Stephens was born in Cornwall [...] Grande is still the leading centre for glassmaking in Portugal. The mansion Palácio Stephens is a museum of the glass industry.

his collection to the Ateneum museum in Helsinki. The development of the Gosta Serlachius Museum of Fine Arts was encouraged by his son R Erik Serlachius (1901-80). The museum was opened in 1945 at the family [...] manufacturers of forest products in Finland, as well as playing a leading role in the establishment of national organisations representing the interests of the industry. He was active in the White Army during [...] Gosta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation in 1972. A full-time curator was appointed in 1973, and the museum now attracts up to 30,000 visitors a year. The company passed through a succession of mergers in

Canal, but the project never materialised. Examples of his tools and models are displayed in the National Museum of Science & Technology, Stockholm, and at Falun.

recorded by the National Railway Museum and can be heard online at "Railwaystories". The Pegler family home the mid-eighteenth century Arncott House at Retford has housed the Bassetlaw Museum since 1986.

including explosives, glass, paper and property development. He took part in politics at regional and national levels, latterly as Senator for Vizcaya. He died unexpectedly of a stroke at the age of 45 in 1900 [...] made Marquis of Chávarri in 1914. A monument to him was put up in Portugalete in 1903 and the RIALIA museum shows material connected with his enterprises and those of his son, also called Victor Chávarri

forms of engineering, and he succeeded in managing a business of relatively modest size that crossed national frontiers. He was born in Milan, the elder son of Carlo Bugatti (1846-1940), designer of Art Nouveau [...] reckoned to be expensive on fuel, but remained in use until 1958. An example is preserved in the railway museum at Mulhouse. Bugatti’s factories were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War, and after the

and moderniser who managed enterprises in all sectors of Spanish industry. As president of the national institute of industry in the 1970s he led more than 200,000 employees. His family ran a hardware [...] career he was involved as an advisor or trustee in business development, education, training and museums. He argued for the importance of generalist technocratic leaders who brought together a range of

Bernard Ashley in 1949. Between 1945 and 1952 she worked as a secretary at the London office of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, and gained inspiration for her characteristic designs from an [...] an exhibition of traditional handicrafts organised by the Federation at the Victoria & Albert Museum. From 1953 she began to print her own silk screen designs on to scarves, napkins and tea towels which