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 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 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.

F. O'Brian and Co

From Graces Guide
Machine for winding barbed wire converted from a pillar drill.
August 1958

of Crown Engineering Works, Swadlincote, Burton-on-Trent

Made drilling machines with the brand name FOBCO.

1954 Advertising for staff.[1]

1986. Advertising.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 19 April 1954
  2. Staffordshire Sentinel - Monday 17 February 1986