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 166,995 pages of information and 246,689 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.

Allbook and Hashfield

From Graces Guide

of London (1918)

Maker of specialised industrial sewing machinery (1965)

of Nottingham (1973)

1925 Advert for staff: Allbook & Hashfield, Ltd., 17, Crouch-fill, Finsbury-park, N.4.[1]

1940 Advert for CAPSTAN SETTER-OPERATORS; Air Ministry work-permanent. Allbook Hashfield, Ltd, Bury-strcet, Guildford.[2]

1945 Advert: Allbook and Hashfield Brosser Machine for sale or would exchange for Allbook & Hashfield Fur Machine[3]

1965 Acquired by Giltspur Investments[4]

1973 part of Giltspur Engineering Group; would be moved to the Nottingham premises of a new fellow subsidiary Matra-Matic[5]

1974 Industrial sewing machine order from China[6]

1980 Giltspur Investments was acquired by Unigate[7]

1986 Queens Award for Export to Giltspur Precision Industries, trading as Allbook and Hashfield[8]

1987 MBO of Allbook and Hashfield[9]


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Sources of Information

  1. London Daily Chronicle 11 February 1925
  2. Surrey Advertiser 07 February 1940
  3. Western Gazette 04 May 1945
  4. The Times Mar. 12, 1965
  5. The Times Sept. 27, 1973
  6. Wolverhampton Express and Star 11 April 1974
  7. The Times Dec. 5, 1980
  8. The Times Apr. 21, 1986
  9. The Times Sept. 15, 1987