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 164,573 pages of information and 246,142 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.

Gulcher Electric Light and Power Co

From Graces Guide
June 1888. Dynamo.

of Battersea Foundry, London

Early 1880s the managing director, William Charles Mountain, designed installations for the City of Wellington, New Zealand.

1886 Alfred Inigo Suckling-Baron went to New Zealand for the company

1891 Sent Robert Thorburn Turnbull to New Zealand for 12 months to manage a power station

1892 The electrification of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, providing a permanent lighting system, was still operating well, many years after installation.


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