Henry Browne and Son
of Station Works, Wakering Road, Barking, Essex. Telephone: Rippleway 4054. Cables: "Sestrel, Barking". London Office: 71 Leadenhall Street, EC3. (1947)
See Henry Browne
Business commenced in Brightlingsea
1929 Henry Brown died; presumably his son Frank became managing director. Business moved to Barking
1937 Aeronautical instrument makers. "Sestrel" Compasses. [1]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
1945 Frank George Browne (sic), of Barking, and Henry Browne and Son, patented improvements in compasses and card thereof
1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Nautical Instruments, Compasses, Clocks, Binoculars, Telescopes, Thermometers, Sounding Apparatus, Aircraft Instruments, Signalling Equipment, Meteorological Instruments, Barographs, Thermographs, Aneroid Barometers, Sextants, Yacht Equipment, Navigational Instruction Equipment. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. E.1799) [2]
1947 Advertised "Sestrel" meteorological instruments[3]
1950 Frank George Browne (sic), of Barking, and Henry Browne and Son, patented improvements in dial mountings for barometers and other instruments.
1956 Patented improvements in mariners' compasses
1964 Patented binnacle
1977 Henry Browne and Son supplied Sestrel navigation equipment for the Round-the-World yacht race[4]
1993 Company was sold to John Lilley and Gillie and SIRS Navigation
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1947 British Industries Fair p47
- ↑ The Times Oct. 1, 1947
- ↑ The Times, Aug. 27, 1977