David Proudfoot (engineer)
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David Proudfoot (engineer)
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David Proudfoot was a New Zealand engineering contractor and company director in Dunedin. He was born in Musselburgh, or Gilmerton, Midlothian, Scotland, in about 1838 or 1841. He was a Dunedin landowner and contractor and was one of the promoters of the Dunedin Peninsula and Ocean Beach Railway. He owned the horse-drawn trams serving the suburbs of Dunedin and had a "virtual monopoly", until he sold them to the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramway Co. in 1883 for £55,000. He was the brother-in-law
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Engineering contractor, company director
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2024-02-15T20:47:58Z
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