1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Edgbaston Constituency – Biography of Bennett

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Edgbaston

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Peter Bennett, the head of one of the largest Birmingham manufacturing concerns, succeeded Mr. Neville Chamberlain as M.P. for the division in 1940. He is 70. He represented the British motor industry at the Imperial Conference at Ottawa in 1932; and in 1938 became a member of the panel of industrial advisers to the Prime Minister. During the war he was, first, Director-General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, and, later, Director of the Emergency Services Organization, Ministry of Aircraft Production, and Chairman of the Automatic Gun Board.

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