Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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 Belmont Row, Birmingham
Machines for making gun cartridges
1868 Edward Jones designed and made the first successful machines for producing solid-drawn cartridge cases for rifles
Subsequently Ludlow and Co
The firm's business extended rapidly, and later on developed into the National Arms and Ammunition Co., with works at Sparkbrook for the manufacture of rifles, and at Holford for ammunition.
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