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London Electric Firm

From Graces Guide
Searchlight at Old Battery at The Needles. IOW.
Searchlight at Old Battery at The Needles. IOW. (Detail).
August 1912.
Nov 1919.
1938.
30th December 1938.
May 1939. Carbon Arc Searchlights
22nd March 1941.
1945
1957.

The London Electric Firm of George Street, Croydon (1909); of Brighton Road, Croydon (1938).

1904 Company established.

1914 Electrical and mechanical engineers. Specialities: lamp lowering gear, supporting sockets or safety suspension locks, lowering gear for lamps on swan-neck poles, wall brackets, street suspensions, harp-shaped carriers, lamps on ceilings etc., self-sustaining winches, flexible wire rope, guards for wire rope, guide pulleys, wall brackets etc. [1]

1927 Advert for winches, wire ropes, reduction gears etc. [2]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  2. ↑ Mechanical World Year Book 1927. Published by Emmott and Co of Manchester. Advert p155
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