Addressograph
Addressograph Ltd., of Shoe Lane, London
of Grange Road, Willesden Green, London, N.W.10
British arm of a US company.
1901 Company founded
1902 British patent with J. S. Duncan "Improvements in and relating to Frames or Holders for Printing-plates for Addressing Machines and the like."
1902 Patent with Joseph Oswald Clement "Improvements in Printing Machines Intended more Particularly for Printing Circulars and Addresses. " Clement was a British subject, resident of London. He assigned the US patent to the Addressograph Co of Chicago.
1909 Exhibited a machine invented by the managing director A. Clement for the Prudential Assurance Co to prepare insurance notices - "the electric assurance addressograph".[1]
1910 Became private company - Addressograph (1910) Ltd
1913 Renamed Addressograph Ltd
1931 Acquired the International Multigraph Company (Britain) Ltd
1932 Name changed to Addressograph-Multigraph Ltd
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times Apr. 3, 1909
- Companies house filings