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 165,122 pages of information and 246,492 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.

British Motor Trading Corporation

From Graces Guide
1919. Glasgow Tractor.
1920. Motor Oil.
1920. Glasgow Tractor.
1920. Swift.
1920. Bean 11.9.
January 1920.
June 1923.

1919 Share offering. Directors: Charles Haffenden Dodd (Solicitor), Jonathan Edward Hodgkin (Consulting Engineer), William Rees Jeffreys, Albert Edward Newton, Brigadier-General Francis Conway-Jenkins, Hubert John Whitcomb.[1]

1919 Harper Bean was formed as a public company to bring together a number of interests in car manufacturing, including 50 percent of the shares in British Motor Trading Corporation which would act as the sales outlet for the cars[2].

1923 Concessionaires for the Mathis light car and Swift Motor Co.


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Sources of Information

  1. Light Car and Cyclecar: 1919/05/10
  2. The Times, 1 December 1919