Henry Thomas CORFIELD ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

Birth registered in the quarter ending December 1877.
District: Wolverhampton
Volume: 6b
Page: 524

Henry Corfield worked at the Electric Construction Company (ECC) in Bushbury, Wolverhampton.
ECC was incorporated on 7th June 1889. The company produced almost every conceivable piece of electrical equipment. Some of the company’s products were alternators, dynamos, motors, accumulators, ammeters, voltmeters, duplex dynamos, transformers, resistance frames, magnetic transformer switches, switchgear, knife switches, continuous current rotary transformers, battery charging transformers, electrical switchboards, high voltage switches, voltmeter switches, arc lamps, and gas tight motors for electric pumps and electric cranes. The company also produced a 52 passenger tramcar for the Bournemouth Tram Depot, a 9h.p. narrow-gauge electric locomotive, an alternator for Manchester Square Station, a 34 passenger accumulator tram for Birmingham Tramways, 15h.p. tramcar motors for the South Staffs Tram Co. and electric colliery locomotives.
(Wolverhampton History & Heritage Society)

  Notes:

• Occupation: Electrical works storekeeper.: ECC, Bushbury, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. ¹

• Residence: 93 Bismark Road, (now Jeffcock Road), Wolverhampton. ¹

Henry married Harriet WALTON, daughter of Joseph WALTON and Martha, on 14 Nov 1908 in Wolverhampton Registry Office.¹ (Harriet WALTON was born in 1888 ¹.)