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1951 Directory for the British Glass Industry: Suppliers T

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Note: This is a sub-section of 1951 Directory for the British Glass Industry

TAYLOR (S.), FRITH & CO. LTD. Head Office and Works: DOVE HOLES, NR. BUXTON. T. A., "Buxton 306". T.N., Buxton 306 and 837. Postal Address: DOVE HOLES, VIA STOCKPORT. Established 1905.
High calcium limestone, crushed or ground; high calcium Buxton lime.
Trade Name: Peak.
Managing Director: F. Frith.

TAYLOR, TAYLOR & HOBSON LTD. For Address, etc., see Section B.
Precision machine tools; engineers' measuring instruments.

TECHNICAL DRAWINGS (GREAT BRITAIN) LTD. Head Office: 6 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.1. T.N., CHAncery 5448/9. Works: 274 YORK WAY, LONDON, N.7. T.N., NORth 1668/9. Established 1945.
Design and manufacture of: glassworking machinery; moulds; special-purpose machinery; conveyors; general drawing office facilities.
Directors: D. T. Poste; J. Hulme (Secretary).
See Advertisement, page 38.

TECNAPHOT LTD., EAST UNION STREET, RUGBY. T.N., Rugby 4145. Established 1938.
Industrial thermometers and spirit-levels of all types.
Managing Director and Secretary: P. Lake.

TEISEN (TH.), C.E. Offices and Stores: ECKERSALL ROAD, KING'S NORTON, BIRMINGHAM 30. T.A ., "Tete, Birmingham". T.N., KINg's Norton 2284/6 (3 lines). Continental Branch: FOURS TEISEN, PARIS. Represented in SCANDINAVIA, INDIA and SOUTH AMERICA. Established 1923.
Contractor, patentee and designer of tank furnaces, pot furnaces, lehrs, pot arches and all other glassworks furnaces for firing with producer gas, town and coke oven gas or oil; recuperators, glassworks refractories and machinery; gas producers; oil burners, regulators and valves for furnaces; mixing plant; Teisen patent hexagonal recuperators; glassworks refractories and special cements; automatic batch feeders and all other glassworks plant; complete glassworks planned and built in all parts of the world.
See Advertisements, facing inside front cover and page 2.

TELEGRAPH CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE CO. LTD. Head Office: 22 OLD BROAD STREET, LONDON, E.C.2. T.A., "Moorings, Green, London". T.N., GREenwich 3291. Works: TELCON WORKS, GREENWICH, LONDON, S.E.10. Established 1864.
A range of alloys suitable for sealing to various glasses.
Trade Names: Telcoseal I, III, V and VI.
Directors: Lord Colgrain; Lord Riverdale; Major H. Denison-Pender; J. Innes; J. N. Dean; W. F. Randall; W. Glass; B. H. Musgrave.

TENNANT (C.), SONS & CO. LTD. Head Office: 4 COPTHALL AVENUE, LONDON, E.C.2. T.A., "Tennants, Stock, London". T.N., MONarch 7741 (10 lines). Works: LOCH ALINE SILICA SAND MINE, LOCH ALINE, MORVEN, ARGYLL; GLENCONNER WORKS, HILLINGTON, GLASGOW, S.W.2. T.A., "Tennant, Glasgow". T.N., HALfway 1781. Agents: UNION OXIDE & CHEMICAL Co. LTD., PLANTATION HOUSE, FENCHURCH STREET, LONDON, E.C.3. T.A., "Unichem, Fen, London". T.N., MANsion House 8021/4 (4 lines).
Loch Aline silica sand; Loch Aline silica flour, and other products.

TENNANT (CHARLES) & CO. LTD. Head Office and Works: GLENCONNER WORKS, NORTH HILLINGTON, GLASGOW, S.W.2. T.A., "Tennant, Glasgow". T.N., HALfway 1781/4 (4 lines). Works: LOCH ALINE, MORVEN, ARGYLL. T.A., "Tennant, Loch Aline, Argyll". T.N., Morven 207. London Office: C. TENNANT, SONS & CO. LTD., 4 COPTHALL AVENUE, E.C.2. T.A., "Tennants, Stock, London". T.N., MONarch 7741 (10 lines). Established 1797.
Loch Aline silica sand; Loch Aline silica flour (120-200 mesh); alumina; arsenic; borax and boric acid; felspar; bichromate of potash; potash carbonate; fluorspar; sodium silicate; sodium sulphate; sulphur; quartz; whiting.
Directors: Sir W. Alexander, K.B.E.; J. Vaughan Russell; Major J. Alexander, M.C.

THAMES BOARD MILLS LTD. Head Office: PURFLEET, ESSEX. T.A., "Boards, Telex, Purfleet". T.N., Rainham 123 ( 17 lines). Established 1903.
Paperboxboard for industrial purposes ; " Fiberite" packing cases of solid and Corrugated fibreboard.
Trade Names: Thames Board; Fiberite; Essex Board.

THERMAL SYNDICATE LTD. For Address, etc., see Section A.
Special high-temperature refractory products for small scale and experimental work in fused alumina and magnesia, mullite, zircon, etc.
See Advertisement, page 29.

THOMAS & STRACHAN, 28 CHAPEL STREET, LIVERPOOL 3. T.A., "Strachan, Liverpool" . T.N., CENtral 2756. Established 1867.
Felspar; silver sand; manganese; barium.
Proprietor: R. Ledger Thomas.

THORIUM LTD. Head Office: 10 PRINCES STREET, LONDON, S.W.1. T.A., "Monazite, Paris, London". T.N., ABBey 3833. Works: UPHALL ROAD, ILFORD, ESSEX; WATERLOO ROAD, WIDNES, LANCS. Established 1914.
Rare earth chemicals; " Cerirouge" for polishing glass; cerium, didymium, lanthanum and thorium products.
Trade Name: Cerirouge.
General Manager and Secretary: R. Bennett.

TILGHMAN'S PATENT SAND BLAST CO. LTD., BROADHEATH, NR. MANCHESTER. T.A., "Tilghman's, Altrincham". T.N., Altrincham 4242/7 (6 lines). London Offices: 17 GROSVENOR GARDENS, S.W.1. Established 1870.
Sandblast machinery; air compressors.
Trade Name: Tilghman's.
Directors: B. C. Tilghman; Miss M. Mathewson; R. T. Ankers; A. E. Ingham; J. E. Plant.

TINSLEY (INDUSTRIAL INSTRUMENTS) LTD., NORTH CIRCULAR ROAD, WEST TWYFORD, LONDON, N.W.10. T.A., "Tinsley, Elgar 6081". T.N., ELGar 6081. Established 1941.
High-speed temperature measurement instruments using immersion thermocouples; large dial indicators and recorders; high-speed radiation measurement instruments using optical pyrometers; automatic furnace control equipment; ink-recording polarographs for chemical analysis.
Managing Director: F. L. Steghart.
Secretary: H. Newhouse.

TOOTELL (HENRY). Head Office: "HIGH LEA", POOLFOOT LANE, LITTLE SINGLETON, BLACKPOOL. T.N., Poulton 628. Works: RIDGEFIELD STREET, FAILSWORTH, LANCS. T.N., Failsworth 2440. Established 1850.
Glasshouse pots; syphons; tank furnace requisites; best potclay rings and boots to customers' requirements.

TOWNSON & MERCER LTD., BEDDINGTON LANE, CROYDON. T.A., "Townson, Croydon". T.N., MITcham 1161. Established 1798.
Air and oxygen blowpipes; glass-manipulating tools; flask holders ; small air compressors; hot wire glass cutters.
Managing Director: R. Barrington Brock, M.B.E., B.Sc., F.R.I.C.
Secretary: A. Tatman.

TROTTER, HAINES & CORBETT LTD., BRETTELL LANE, STOURBRIDGE, WORCS. T.A., "Trotter, Stourbridge". T.N., Brierley Hill 7041.
Refractory products.
Managing Director: R. A. Pearson.
Secretary: T. W. Spare.

TYNE TRUCK & TROLLEY CO. LTD., FIRST AVENUE, TEAM VALLEY ESTATE, GATESHEAD-UPON-TYNE 11. T.A., "Tynetrucks, Gateshead-upon-Tyne". T.N., Low Fell 77104/5. Established 1940.
Hand and hydraulically operated lifting trucks; hand-operated stackers, trucks, trolleys, bart1ows, wheels and castors; baling-presses.
Trade Names: Weasel; Tyne Swan.
Directors: W. J. Casebourne; R. V. Casebourne; P. A. Guttsmann; J. Hutchinson.


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