Description:William joined Richards Tiles in 1904, and moved to their new Tile Manufacturing Production department in that year. He became Chief Mechanical Engineer for the whole of the Richards Tiles Group, this included the Pinnox, Brownhills, Adderley Green and Armitage factories. He died in 1954 having completed 50 years service with the company.
Richards Tiles made heavy duty tiles for use in offices, factories, schools and hospitals, etc.