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Hume, Walter Reginald (1873 - 1943)

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Inventor and Entrepreneur
Born: 29 November 1873  Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.  Died: 21 July 1943  Victoria, Australia.
Walter Reginald Hume, in conjunction with his brother in 1910, formed Humes' Patent Cement Iron Syndicate Ltd to develop Walter's revolutionary centrifugal process for the manufacture of concrete pipes which ultimately transformed the nature of pipe manufacture world wide.
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