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 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 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.

E. W. Bliss Co

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1893. Embossing Press at the 1893 Chicago International Exhibition.
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of Derby.

Presumably established as the British subsidiary of the E W Bliss Co of Brooklyn, N.Y., USA.

of 8 Pocock Street, Blackfriars Road, London, SE1. (1938) Also: Norwich Union Chambers, Congreve Street, Birmingham. Telephone: Waterloo 6151. Telegraphic Address: "Blissdon, Sedist, London"

1867 Company founded in the USA.

1937 British Industries Fair Advert for Power Presses, Automatic Feeds, Automatic Presses, Thread Rolling Machinery. (Engineering/Metals/Quarry, Roads and Mining/Transport Section - Stand No. D.519)

1940 Can making machinery.

1940 Private company.

1961 Manufacturers of power presses and canning machines. 460 employees.[1]

1981 Was part of Gulf and Western Industries.[2]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. The Engineer 1981/06/18
  • 1937 British Industries Fair Advert p602; and p336
  • Mechanical World Year Book 1940. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p79
  • AA. [1] Image courtesy of Aviation Ancestry