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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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.

Burdett

From Graces Guide

G. W. S. Burdett of Eastgate, Peterborough, were machine tool makers.

Established in Wentworth Street in 1923 by Mr. G. W. S. Burdett. 1931 purchased a factory in Eastgate. By 1958 there were two factories at Eastgate, No. 1 producing machine tools, specialising in slotting machines, and No. 2 undertaking engine refurbishment.[1]

1956 Advertising as IC engine reconditioners.[2]

1957 Started making surface grinders. Producing diecasting machines under licence from a US company.[3]

1966 'B. Elliott and Co bought G. W. S. Burdett, the Peterborough machine tool makers last November'[4]

1968 Elliott-Burdett Ltd advertising for skilled machinists.

Surface grinder brochures online here.

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Sources of Information

  1. Peterborough Advertiser - Friday 24 June 1955
  2. Peterborough Advertiser, 28 September 1956
  3. Peterborough Advertiser - Tuesday 25 June 1957
  4. Belfast Telegraph, 3 February 1966