REMINISCENCES

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth lettered gilt at the spine pp xiv, 238. Frontis and 5 illus. Three interesting b/w photographs of Colonel Crompton loosely inserted - one a postcard photo of him aged about 70 with a note on the back 'REC with his calculating machine. Please return to Miss Powell Leyburn Hall Yorkshire' .the other on stiff card shows Compton in army uniform age about 60 another larger photo showing Colonel Crompton in middle age at the wheel of an early four wheel motor car. Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton (1845 Ð 1940) was an English electrical engineer, industrialist and inventor. He was a pioneer of electric lighting and public electricity supply systems. The company he formed, Crompton & Co., was one of the world's first large-scale manufacturers of electrical equipment. He was also an early campaigner for an international standard for electrical systems. Htechnical Commission and twice president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He was a fellow of the Royal Society[1] and a founder member of the Royal Automobile Club. and a keen and early motorist. The statement on the front of the rare dust jacket also notes he was a friend of the late emperor of Austria and the Crown Prince Rudolph who was himself at the Emperor's request at Meyerling within a few hours of the tragedy. who commanded the Electrical Engineers in the Boer war , a pioneer motorist and authority on road engineering. Crompton right in the book that he is convinced that the crown prince and his wife were murdered at Meyerling. Interestingly, in Germany, he describes incident where circa 1890 he protected Jews from the abuse of German officers (fist fights are described) he seems to have been decidedly progressive in his views. R.E. Crompton Reminiscences Constable 1928 Original publisher's green cloth lettered gilt at the spine pp xiv, 238. Frontis and 5 illus Sound clean about very good company with slight modelling to green cloth in very good rapper chip that spine ends and with some slight creasing and minor wear. Front cover with statement about Crompton in good order.…