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Extract of letter from Messrs Gregory Eyles & Waring to Crown Agents dated 19th January 1904
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2. Mr Thomas Luff Perkins Assoc M. Inst.C.E., Graduate of the Association of Municipal and County Engineers who holds also the Testamur of the Sanitary Institute, of 4 Linzee Road, Priory Road, Hornsey, appears to us to be the best qualified of the candidates and we thus recommend him to you for the appointment.
3. Mr Perkins is 35 years of age, is married but has no family. He was articled to a firm of Surveyors in Bristol, he then spent some time as a Junior Assistant in a Quantity Surveyor's Office, he was then engaged for some time with a firm of Contractors at Bristol of which his father was a Partner, he subsequently proceeded to New York where he worked under various Engineers on Cable Tramways, Sewerage &c. On returning to England he was selected in January 1892 from a large number of candidates, as one of the Assistants to Mr T.H. Yabbicom M. Inst.C.E., City Engineer of Bristol, while there he was engaged on extensive works in the construction of new, and reconstruction of old Sewers, the building of River Walls and Quays, as well as the formation of New Streets, and the repaving and repairs of many miles of others including wood paving, granite setts and macadam, generally having under his immediate direction 350 and sometimes as many as 600 men. In April 1899 he left Bristol and took up his present appointment as Divisional Surveyor