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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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A. West and Partners

From Graces Guide
1935.
1945
April 1947.
November 1947.
April 1949.
June 1949.
1949. Umo.
July 1949.
1950 Advert from Model Engineer.
January 1952.
Sept 1953.

of 91 to 98 York Street, Westminster, London, SW. (1914)

of 36 Broadway, London, SW1. Telephone: Whitehall 5677 (5 lines). Cables: "Westanpar, Sowest, London". (1947)

1888 Company established.

1914 Drawing office stationers and manufacturers of mathematical and surveying instruments, engineers' photo papers etc. Specialities: photo papers for export, specially prepared sensitized papers and cloth for engineers, machine-mounted drawing papers. [1]

1920 Partners were C. Hanrott, H. C. Hanrott and A. A. Lovegrove (Limited Partner).

1940 March. Registered as a private company: A. West and Partners Limited - To carry on the business of manufacturers and preparers of paper for photographic printing, manufacturers of and dealers in drawing office materials, photographic, electrical, surveying and aeronautical apparatus, etc. From Flight Magazine of 11 April, 1940. [2]

1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Drawing Office and Surveying Equipment, "Uno" Pen Stencils and Inks for Lettering, Drawings and Plans. Planifer Materials, Experts in Photocopying and Map Mounting. Producers of the "Rectophot" Rapid Reproducer. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. E.1787) [3]

1965 Patent - Stencilling pens. [4]

1968 Patent - Stencilling pens. [5]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  2. [1] Flightglobal / Archive
  3. 1947 British Industries Fair p295
  4. [2] Wikipatents
  5. [3] Wikipatents