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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

Alder and Mackay

From Graces Guide
1854. Gas meter. Exhibit at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
1904 gas meter at Quarry Bank Mill
Gas meter.
December 1910.
February 1914.
August 1930.
1933.
1940.
1950.

of New Grange Works, Edinburgh, Scotland. Telephone: Edinburgh 61151. Telegraphic Address: "Alder, Edinburgh"

1850 Company established.

1914 Manufacturers of gas meters, including coin-in-the-slot meters. Employees 450. [1]

1922 Patent - Improvements in and relating to coin-freed prepayment and price-changing mechanism.

1929 Patent - Improvements in and relating to wet gas meters.

1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Latest designs Ordinary and Prepayment Dry Gas Meters. Demonstration and Test Meters. Standard Test Holder and Meter Testing Apparatus to Board of Trade Specifications. (Stand No. Ca. 403) [2]

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