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Robert Greenwood Tarran (1892 20 September 1955)〔England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1955. "TARRAN Robert Greenwood of The Wolds Beverley High-road Kingston-upon-Hull died 20 September 1955 Probate York 9 December to Alice Tarran widow. Effects £9605 13s. 3d."〕〔 of Kingston upon Hull was a civil engineering contractor and managing director of Tarran Industries, Ltd.〔 – undated clipping shown during 'How We Won the war'〕 He was an elected member of Hull City Council and served as Sheriff of Hull and as its chief Air Raid Warden during the war. He also organised the evacuation of civilians from Hull.〔 His popularity in the city was considerable.〔 In August 1941, he officially welcomed the King and Queen to the City.〔 In December 1947, he was convicted of making and publishing a false statement in the company's 1943 balance sheet, and sentenced to nine months hard labour.〔 The conviction was quashed on appeal〔 four months later. Before the success of his appeal he founded another business in Scotland but he still spent time in Hull, and died there on 20 September 1955.〔 Tarran held a number of patents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Greenwood Tarran )〕 == Tarran Industries == Tarran created his company from scratch, and it eventually employed 10,000 people.〔 Working under contract to the Ministry of Defence, the company also constructed airfields and coastal defences,〔 in addition to its civil contracts. The company designed and made prefabricated houses during World War II,〔 almost 20,000 of which were erected during the latter years of, and immediately after, the war〔 under the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Greenwood Tarran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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