Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,754 pages of information and 247,134 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.
of 72 Wellington Street, Sheffield
1760s Alfred Ridge & Sons were established suppliers of wood boring tools to the Royal Navy.
1932 Alfred Ridge and Sons was bought by John J. Jewitt.[1]
1936 The company was put into voluntary liquidation; W L Ridge was chairman[2]
WWII Supplied mine detectors for the D-Day landings.
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