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 165,039 pages of information and 246,458 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.

Auto Machinery Co

From Graces Guide
1893. Ball-Turning Machine.
1893. Ball-Turning Shop.
June 1898.
1899.
February 1901.
1902.
January 1902.
September 1902.
July 1910.
December 1910.
January 1912.
1913.
November 1926.
February 1929.
December 1934.
1938.
1940.
1940.
1945
1961.

of Read Street, Coventry.

1886 Company founded by William Hillman and George Sumner.

1887 Auto Machinery Co Ltd launched[1].

1891 Became public company

1893 Hillman's ball-bearing making machinery was first made in Coventry by Auto Machinery Co [2].

1896 Manufacturer of balls and nuts for cycles [3]. Production of 80,000 balls a day; supplied many cycle manufacturers[4].

1961 Manufacturers of bolts, nuts and studs


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Sources of Information

  1. The Morning Post, 21 February 1887
  2. 'The City of Coventry: Crafts and industries: Modern industry and trade', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 8: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick (1969), pp. 162-189 [1]
  3. Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire, 1896
  4. 'The City of Coventry: Crafts and industries: Modern industry and trade', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 8: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick (1969), pp. 162-189 [2]