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 167,647 pages of information and 247,064 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.

John Scott Lillie

From Graces Guide

Mechanical engineer.

1847 Patented " an endless railway formed of wooden planks, or wrought iron plates hinged together, so as to turn freely over the drums, and circulate around the bearing wheels of the carriage which travels there on." [1]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1917/08/10