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of Automatic Works, Stafford Road, Waddon, Croydon
c.1929-1944 Cigarette vending machines
1929 Share issue.[1]
1930 January. Became a public company.[2]
Percy Stephen Harper was the M.D.
c.1939 Employed around 650 persons.[3]
1946 Moved the business to Horley
1946 Premises in Stafford Road acquired by Louis Newmark.[4]
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