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 167,390 pages of information and 246,895 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.

L. M. Van Moppes and Sons

From Graces Guide

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1946. From Machine Shop Magazine of August.
December 1947.
March 1948.
April 1948.
June 1948.
January 1952.
March 1952.
May 1952.
July 1952.
1962.
Sept 1962.
Dec 1962.
Sept 1963.

of Diatipt Works, North Circular Road, Cricklewood, London N.W.2. Also, of Basingstoke.

1947 Private company.

1955 Company made public.

1961 Merchants of industrial and common quality diamonds and manufacturers of diamond powder and diamond tools. [1]

1969 Acquired by Universal Grinding[2]

1972 Van Moppes received support for a project on a profile grinder from government programme for the machine tool industry [3]

1972 One of 2 companies in the Diamond Products Division of Universal Grinding[4]

Universal Grinding became Unicorn Industries

By 2000 was a Saint-Gobain company[5]


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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. The Times Dec. 12, 1969
  3. The Times, Mar 15, 1972
  4. The Times May 20, 1972
  5. The Times Apr. 26, 2000