Walter arnold biography
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Walter Arnold and the World’s First Ever Speeding Ticket
January 28th, 1896 must have started out as an ordinary day for the police constable responsible for Paddock Wood, Kent. As he pushed his bicycle through the quiet streets, he probably had ingenting more on his mind than wondering whether today was the day he’d be able to say “You’re nicked, son” to that rogue of a poacher.
While proceeding in an orderly mode through the village, the peace of the constable’s regular beat was suddenly and rudely shattered. He wasn’t to know that what was happening was also an event of national, and, ultimately, international significance.
Belting past the bobby at a scary 8mph, a motorist by the name of Walter Arnold was about to enter the record books in a burst of exhaust fumes and a flurry of legal activity. Not only was he clearly breaking the speed limit for one of these infernal machines, which was 2mph, but also, and even more damningly, he had no man with a red flag preceding
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Grace's Guide To British Industrial History
Walter Arnold (c1857-1916)
1891 Living at Bartley Mill, Frant, Sussex: William Arnold (age 72 born West Hoathley), Miller and Farmer - Employer - Widower. With his two sons Walter Arnold (age 34 born Wadhurst), Corn Merchant - Employer, and George Arnold (age 31 born Wadhurst), Corn Merchant - Employer. Also his niece Mildred Mann (age 12 born Sevenoaks. Two servants.[1]
Proprietor of a milling and general engineering business in Paddock Wood, near Tunbridge Wells. This was William Arnold and Sons founded by his father William Arnold and Walter now owned the business in partnership with Henry Hewetson. They commenced trading as the Arnold Motor Carriage Co in Mark Lane, London.
Became the first concessionaire for Benz cars with Henry Hewetson they commencing in 1894.
1896 Summoned for using a horseless carriage at Paddock Wood and fined. Described as a traction-engine proprietor of East Peckham. [2][3 • German sculptor and politician Walter Arnold (27 August 1909 – 11 July 1979) was a German stonemason and sculptor. Between 1957 and 1964 he was the president of the Association of Visual Artists (DDRA / Verband Bildender Künstler) in East Germany.[1] Walter Arnold was the son of a LeipzigStonemason.[2] He trained between 1924 and 1928 in wood carving and stone sculpture.[2] Between 1928 and 1932 he studied the shapes of sculptures and ceramics beneath Alfred Thiele at the School of Craftsmanship at Leipzig. After finishing his studies he worked as an assistant to Thiele until 1933, after which he worked as a freelance artist, supporting himself with contract work, including grave stone business and stonework renovation jobs. He was a soldier during the war, ending up in a prison campjust outsideBad Kreuznach.[2] Returning home to Leipzig, in November 1946 he joined what
Walter Arnold (German sculptor)
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