MAN WHO LIVED ON WORK

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 77, 10 March 1931, Page 3

MAN WHO LIVED ON WORK

DIES AT NINETY-FOUR. Mr William Winterborne, the veteran engineer, Inventor of the bicycle freewheel, and the oldest guardian to relinquish office when the boards were abolished last April, died at Isleworth, England, recently, aged 94. He sold the free-wheel invention for £2O. Mr Winterborne made the patterns for the first three steam fire engines constructed. He used to say when asked concerning his good health, "Work, hard work, my boy. Up in the morning and at it The youngsters of today don't know what it is to work. . "In my younger days, when I lived at Stockwell Green, I walked daily to Marble Arch, where I was working, and then at 5.30 p.m. I walked back At'Bß he was still at work in his forge, and he "had a rump-steak on his birthday.