David Proudfoot

Name
David Proudfoot

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Background

(1838/39-1894).  Engineer and Contractor.  Little is known of his early life, but the family immigrated to Australia in 1852 and then David moved to Dunedin in the early 1860s.  In 1865 he took the contract for building the Dunedin Water Works and then built the Port Chalmers railway.  He then built large sections of the South Island Main Trunk line.  In 1879 he began running trams, giving Dunedin the country’s most advanced transport network.  His feats of engineering were extensive and in all manner of fields.

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Gender (if applicable)
Male

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