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Monica Maurice's family firm is still going, nearly 100 years after she began engineering career.
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Helen Monica Maurice was an industrialist and Managing Director and Chairman of the Wolf Safety Lamp Company, Sheffield, and the first, and for 40 years the only, woman member of the Association of Mining Electrical Engineers. She was known as “the Lady of the Lamp” in the coal fields of Yorkshire.
Monica Maurice's family firm is still going, nearly 100 years after she began engineering career.
Monica Maurice's family firm is still going, nearly 100 years after she began engineering career.