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 167,649 pages of information and 247,065 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.

Hunter and Co

From Graces Guide

of East Down Works, Lewisham.

1896 Offered the service of charging storage batteries for autocars.

1897 March. W. Hunter withdrew from the partnership with J.B. Hunter and S.H. Hunter, engineers and millwrights, under the style of Hunter and English, and from the iron and brass founders, East London Foundry, Bromley, East London, under the style of Hunter and Co[1]

1897 July. Letter concerning a new engine for automobiles that they have tested and are about to produce.[2]

1898 June. Hunter motor fitted in a balloon ascent from Alexandra Palace on Whit Monday by M. Gaudron.[3]

By 1900 was an "automotor vehicle" manufacturer.


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