The son of Annie and Edward Pilcher of Irish ancestry, living at 11 Tancred Road.
[2] He was educated at Wallasey in Cheshire then was apprenticed as a tram engineer at the Montreal Street Railway Company in Canada.
Returning to Britain he became General Manager and Chief Engineer of Aberdeen Corporation Tramways in 1906, aged only 24.
His proposers were Richard Stanfield, Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Francis Gibson Baily and Arthur Pillans Laurie.
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