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 162,259 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.

Carriage and Wheel Works Co

From Graces Guide

coach and carriage builders, of George Street, Gloucester

1864 Company established as The Gloucester Carriage and Wheel Works.

1897 The Gloucester Carriage and Wheel Works, Longacre Buildings; proprietor the Wagon Co Ltd[1].

1909 Entrusted with safe keeping of the Royal Carriage.

1914 Coach and motor body builders. Specialities: high-class carriages and all types of road vehicles, motor bodies, farm vehicles. Suppliers of the State Coaches for the High Sheriffs of Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Monmouth etc. [2]

1930 Acquired by the Gloster Coach and Sheet Metal Co subsidiary of H. H. Martyn of Cheltenham

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Sources of Information

  1. Kelly's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1897
  2. 1914 Whitakers Red Book