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 167,720 pages of information and 247,131 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 Watch Co

From Graces Guide

of Time Works, 214 Barr Street, Birmingham

in association with William Ehrhardt with Office at 17 Hatton Garden, London.

  • c1840 The company was established to manufacture watches by mass-production methods using machine tools designed by the Swiss craftsman P. F. Ingold.
  • 1922 Listed Exhibitor _ British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of English Lever Watches, Watch Cases and Gramophone Motors. (Stand No. E.44) [1]
  • The company failed owing to total opposition from the trade. [2]


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