Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Adams and Co (of London)

From Graces Guide

William John Adams M.I.Mech.E. continued in business at 35 Queen Victoria St, London, after his partnership with Percival Everitt ended.

1891 Adams and Co, of 35 Queen Victoria St, London, had developed a stamped-steel axle box for railway wagons which were more durable than the conventional cast iron axle boxes. Manufactured by the Stamped Steel Axlebox Co, at the Orchard Place works, Black-wall[1]


N.B. Adams’s other business interest, the Vacuum Brake Co was of 32 Queen Victoria St, London in 1898

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