Julius-Leonard Fox Vogel died at Sandy, Bedfordshire, after a short illness, on August 30th, 1943, at the age of 70.
He was the youngest son of the late Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G., sometime Prime Minister of New Zealand, and was educated at Charterhouse. His early training was in electrical engineering, and he served a two years’ apprenticeship with the Gulcher Electrical Engineering Company from 1892 to 1894, when he also attended classes at the Finsbury Technical College.
In 1895 he was appointed assistant manager to the Chemical and Electrolytic Syndicate, Ltd., under the late Dr. O.J. Steinhart (O.J. Stannard), and in 1898 entered into partnership with Dr. Steinhart. Under the style of Steinhart & Vogel (later Steinhart, Vogel & Cloud), consulting metallurgists and chemists, the firm practised until 1907. The partnership was then dissolved, and Mr. Vogel continued to practise as a partner in Arthur Reiner & Co., Ltd. In 1914, he was commissioned by High Speed Steel Alloys, Ltd., to design a factory for the production of tungsten at Widnes, and was appointed general manager of the company, a position which he still held at the time of his death, being responsible for the technical and business activities of this well-known producer of tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, and ferro-alloys.
Mr. Vogel, who was a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and the author of several works on special steels, was elected an Associate of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy in 1900, and transferred to Membership in 1903.
Vol 53, Trans IMM 1943-4, pp.440-1
