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 167,391 pages of information and 246,940 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.

Joshua Bigwood and Son

From Graces Guide
1946.

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1952
October 1952.
1955.
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of Wednesfield Road, Wolverhampton

1874 Company founded.

c. 1936 Joshua Bigwood and Son Ltd took over the works of Rees Roturbo Manufacturing Co Ltd which had gone out of business.

1937 Public company.

1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers

WWII Manufactured parts for the De Havilland Mosquito

1961 Iron founders, engineers and manufacturers of steel works' plant. [1]

1965 Acquired by B. and S. Massey and Sons.[2]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. Wolverhampton Express and Star - 30 October 1965
  • Mosquito by C. Martin Sharp and Michael J. F. Bowyer. Published by Crecy Books in 1995. ISBN 0-947554-41-6