2017 – present | Adam Shailes
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2016 – 2017 | David O’Connor
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2012 – 2016 | Suzie Betlem
Miracle Inc., interior designer
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2008 – 2012 | Peter Hughes
Photoview, Brook Road South, Brentford
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2004 – 2008 | Tim Luckett ECS Ltd, accountants, 156 Windmill Road, Brentford |
2000 – 2004 | Brian D Sawyer Colorite Ltd, 169 Boston Road, Hanwell |
1996 – 2000 | Mrs J P (Jennifer) Corbin Heidelberg Graphic Equipment Ltd – Druckmaschinen AG, 69 High Street, Brentford. Printing machine distributors |
1992 – 1996 | Roger L T Jones, Manager at SmithKlineBeecham, Great West Road, Brentford. |
1989 – 1992 | C W (Bill) Palmer, (Industrial Blowers?) At his election he was described by the B & C Times as ‘a river man whose links with the waterway system stretch back to the last century’.1990 / 91 Trade directory – copy held at Chiswick Library |
1987 – 1989 | K S Solomons, K Solomons & Sons |
1984 – 1987 | Paul D Kyle, C Eng., F.I.Mar.E, Managing Director of Wilson & Kyle Limited, Catherine Wheel Yard, High Street, Brentford. Mechanical and Electrical Engineers. |
1982 – 1984 | Brian Wilson, Alfa Laval, Great West Road, Brentford. |
1979 – 1982 | V G (Vic) Arnold, Arnold’s Sports, 212 High Street, Brentford |
1978 – 1979 | G G Prince |
1977 – 1978 | Stanley E Goddard, P Goddard & Sons Limited, 225 High Street, Brentford. House furnishers and Removals.
This is his second term as President. |
1975 – 1977 | R A Mathewson |
1973 – 1975 | Douglas Garrett, Director of C W Garrett & Son, Architects, Engineers & Surveyors, 46 Windmill Road for 5 years, previously worked for the Road Research Laboratory. Aged 30 at his election he was the youngest President for 34 years. |
1973 | E (Ted) H Welsh, Manager of the Resources Planning Department, Gillette Industries, Great West Road, Isleworth. |
1970 – 1972 | Sidney A Atkins, Manufacturing executive, Trico Folberth Limited, Great West Road, Brentford (site of the new HQ for Glaxo) |
1969 – 1970 | G R Johnston, Solicitor with P H Berry & Co and Chamber’s honorary solicitor. |
1968 – 1969 | R D Culverwell |
1967 – 1968 | Richard Leslie Avery – Local and County Councillor 1940s, Mayor 1955/6, Alderman 1961. Received a rare citation in 1986 from Margaret Thatcher for services to the Conservative Party. Served for 40 years on Brentford & Chiswick Council and Hounslow Council and was working for Permutit in Hounslow when he retired in 1985.
1968 – Trade Directory – copy held at Chiswick Library |
1966 – 1967 | Reginald Victor Musk, Works Director of Brentford Soap Co., Ferry Lane, Brentford. At 37 was the youngest President at the time. |
1965 – 1966 | Peter Blackmore |
1964 – 1965 | W R Leslie Nickels, Managing Director of a ‘Brentford printing firm’. |
1963 – 1964 | E J Crook |
1962 – 1963 | L Frank Martin, Managing Director, Martins Limited, Lion Way, Brentford. Wholesale tobacco and confectionery distributors. |
1961 – 1962 | H M Whitcombe, Director of R P Pulli & Co Limited, Great West Road, Brentford. Scientific & Electrical Instrument Manufacturers |
1959 – 1961 | Stanley E Goddard, P Goddard & Sons Limited, 225 High Street, Brentford. House furnishers and Removals. |
1957 – 1959 | A K Boswell FCIS |
1955 – 1957 | W E D Cole
1957 – Suggested that a guide book was needed for Brentford and Chiswick. 1956 – Membership
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1953 – 1955 | H G Potter, Jantzen Knitting Mills Limited, Great West Road, Brentford. |
1952 – 1953 | Harold Tymms, Manager of Barclays Bank in Brentford and Chiswick. He had served 43 years in banking at his retirement in 1961. He planned on calling his retirement home in Dorset, ‘Brentwick’. |
1950 – 1952 | Felix G Varcoe, M.I.P.M., (County Councillor), Personnel Manager at Sperry Gyroscope, Great West Road, Brentford.
1951 – 1971: The Blue Book. Classified guide to Business and Trade in Brentford and Chiswick. Copies of all years in Chiswick Library. The 1950 trade directory was prepared by Secretary, Mr C A Elkins. The previous one had been published in 1935. 1927 April 1950 – Industrial Exhibition for Brentford & Chiswick held in Carville Hall Park North. Catalogues in Chiswick Library. Admission was 6d. 1950 – Membership = 160 |
1948 – 1950 | T Whittaker, Thompson & Norris Manufacturing Co Limited, Great West Road, Brentford. Corrugated Box Manufacturers |
1946 – 1948 | Len G Sherwood, Manager of the Thames Steam Tug and Lighterage Co, Northumberland Wharf. Later he became Treasurer of the Chamber. |
1943 – 1946 | R F C Crowther, Jantzen Knitting Mills Limited, Great West Road, Brentford. Swim suit and sportswear manufacturers |
1940 – 1943 | Sam Garratt, Esq., Managing Director of Brentford Printing and Publishing Co., Albany Works, High Street, Brentford |
1937 – 1940 | Cyril J Scott, Managing Director, Smith’s Crisps, Great West Road, Brentford. He had joined the company as a sales representative in 1928 and had been a director from the 1930s. He retired in 1965. |
1936 – 1937 | W K Meyers, (WKM Jnr was posted as missing in the Far East December 1941 – we think this is this person. WKM Snr., F.A.I., MI Struct E. |
1934 – 1936 | A E Wiseman Esq |
1933 – 1934 | A P Ledsham, Esq., M.P.S., F.S.M.C., Chemist, 116 High Street, Brentford |
1932 – 1933 | Arthur Herbert Charlton, Esq., JP, County Councillor, Alderman, Mayor 1951 and Freeman of the Borough 1954. Chairman and Managing Director of Brentford Soap Co, Brent Works |
1931 – 1932 | James Clements, Esq., Clements Knowling & Co Limited, Ferry Wharf and Goat Wharf, Lighterman and Transport Contractors. Charter Mayor of Brentford and Chiswick 1932. |
1920 – 1931 | Colonel W Grant Morden, Founder President, held this officer for 10 years or more. His ‘military dictatorship’ certainly produced an enduring addition to the Chamber of Commerce Movement. |