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.

Alexander Black and Co

From Graces Guide

of The Cellardyke Oil skin Factory, 33 to 39, James Street, Cellardyke, Fifeshire.

Makers of Canvas Buoys

1914 Established in 1882 by Alexander Black, J.P., the present principal. Premises: Cover ,144 feet long by 140 feet. Staff: Thirty. Specialities: Inventors and Patentees of the Canvas Fishing Net Buoy and Keep-me-Dry Petticoat Trousers. Makers of Oilskins, Sou'-westers, Lines, Barked and Tarred Mending Twines,, &c. Award: First-class Diploma and Gold Medal Parisian Inventors' Academy, Paris, 1892, for the Patent Canvas Fishing Net Buoys.

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