Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsEngineersHistoryClarence Meggs was born in Melbourne in 1887. He joined the Victorian Railways as an apprentice and attended the Working Men's College. During the first World War he transferred to the Commonwealth Railways as an engineer on the Transcontinental Railway then being built from Point Augusta to Kalgoorlie. In 1919 Meggs moved to Hobart as design engineer for Elecrolytic Zinc Compnay of Australia at Risdon. In 1928 E.Z. Co. sent Meggs to Rosebery on the west coast to supervise the construction of a flotation plant. In 1932 he left Tasmania and went to Western Australia to supervise the construction of a flotation plant for Wiluna Gold Mines. Meggs went to Traralgon in 1937 to supervise the construction of the pilot plant for Australian Paper Manufacturer's new paper mill at Maryvale. In 1941 Meggs moved to Melbourne and was appointed head of the Imperial Chemical Industry's drawing office. He retired from I.C.I. in 1953 at the age of 66 and took an easier job with Mindrill in Preston where he remained until 1962. Meggs died in 1976.
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