Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 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.
H & J Bell of Glasgow
c.1877 Brothers John and Henry Bell, and James Coleman, of Glasgow succeeded in developing an "open cycle" refrigeration system for use on board ships/
1883 Bell-Coleman plant exhibited at the International Fisheries Exhibition[1].
Built refrigeration plant for ships (patented Bell-Coleman refrigeration plant).
1888 Fitted plant to the Strathleven
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