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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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.

Huntley, Boorne and Stevens

From Graces Guide
November 1968. Lamiplate.

of Woodley, Reading

1832 Business established by Joseph Huntley, Junior as maker of tins for biscuits and also ironmongers.

1902 Public company.

1918 Company made private.

1961 Tin box manufacturers, plain and printed, light engineering products, plastic coated tin plate, aluminium and magnesium. 715 employees.[1]

1967 Listed as a subsidiary of Associated Biscuit Manufacturers.[2]

1968 Prefinished sheet metals (Vinyl to metal) [3]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. The Times, April 28, 1967
  3. The Engineer of 19th July 1968 p102