Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,642 pages of information and 247,064 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.
of Stafford
1946 Private company.
1946 Henry Hope and Sons formed a joint venture with John Thompson Engineering called Doorframes Ltd to operate a plant ordered from USA before WW2[1].
1961 Manufacturers of metal door frames, lavatory cubicles and tropical doors.
By 1967 was a subsidiary of Crittall-Hope, with a minority interest held by John Thompson[2] which was then sold to Crittall-Hope.
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