David Proudfoot (engineer)

David Proudfoot (1838 – 20 March 1891) was a New Zealand engineering contractor and company director in Dunedin.

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.

In 1883, he left Dunedin and died in Sydney on 20 March 1891, while undergoing surgery.

[7] His Waverley Cemetery burial record[3] and an inscription on his coffin said he was 49.

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