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 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 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.

Benjamin Mason and Son

From Graces Guide

of Birmingham

1859 Started with a small rolling mill in Wharf Street

WWI The firm was taken over by the Shaw family

1911 Rolling mills for copper alloy strip

2000 Producing precision rolled and sheared strip, rolled phosphor bronze, nickel silver, brass and gilding metal strip, leaded brass, leaded nickel silver strip. Have four continuous casting furnaces

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Sources of Information

  • Birmingham’s Industrial Heritage by Ray Shill. Published by Sutton Publishing 2002. ISBN 0-7509-2593-0