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Power House
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Bury
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United Kingdom

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Electrical Engineer and Rowe Hankins Co-Founder Roger Rowe Dies

Celebrations to mark 25 years in business by Rowe Hankins have been tinged with sadness following the death of one of the founding partners, Roger Rowe (77).

Roger trained at Brighton College, followed by service with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME). A practical engineer with problem solving skills he had a passion for all aspects of engineering product development.

After a spell in the nuclear industry, Roger joined the world renowned engineers Lintots where he ran the apprentice training programme. In a career move in the early 80’s Roger became a regional sales manager for Electromatch, a small electrical components distributor which is where Toni Hankins and he first met.

Roger and Toni Hankins established Rowe Hankins Components Limited in 1986. Initially a supplier of high integrity circuit breakers for the rail industry, the company has grown from just three people in a small industrial unit to a team of over 60 working on a dedicated site with design and development, manufacturing and warehousing facilities.

Roger designed and developed the first AC Earth Leakage Unit for the company. This continues to be manufactured and sold by the company and was the foundation on which manufacturing and re-manufacturing activity developed.

One of Roger’s last achievements before retiring in 1992 was to achieve BS5750, the fore runner to ISO 9001 quality certification, for the company. The company has built on this foundation to achieve the internationally recognised rail industry quality standard, IRIS, in 2010.

Toni Hankins commented, “Everyone who ever met Roger had respect for his common sense approach to every problem – he was a practical engineer. I greatly appreciated his experience and wise council at the time we started the business.”

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Peter O’Neill, Tel. +44 (0)161 765 3000 Fax. +44 (0)161 705 2900
E-mail: sales@rowehankins.com Web: www.rowehankins.com
Rowe Hankins Ltd, Power House, Parker Street, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 0RJ, UK

Press release issued: July 28, 2011

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Aged 77, Roger Rowe has died. His engineering legacy lives on in the rail safety products manufactured by Rowe Hankins.

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