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.

Chain-Belt Engineering Co

From Graces Guide
October 1906. Automatic Coal Weighing Machine W. and T. Avery with Chain-Belt Engineering Co.
December 1910.
January 1911.
February 1913.
April 1913.

of Colombo Street, Derby

1876 Ewart (in USA) developed a cast link detachable chain which he patented widely[1]

1880 Company established by Francis Ley who licensed the chain from Ewart

1913 Makers of "Ley" chainbelt

1914 Specialities: conveyors, elevators and chains, modern appliances for handling any material in bulk or package. Employees 1,200. [2]

c1916 became Ewart Chainbelt Co


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Renold Chains: A History of the Company and the Rise of the Precision Chain ...By Basil Tripp
  2. 1914 Whitakers Red Book