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 167,639 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.

Penney and Porter

From Graces Guide
March 1946.
September 1947. Winnograder.

of City Iron Works, Lincoln; of Riverside Works, Lincoln

formerly Penney and Co and Porter and Co, general engineers, makers of gas holders and tanks, seed-dressing machinery, acetylene welding and lighting plants, disintegrators, boilers, oil engines, etc/

By 1919 the 2 companies had amalgamated

Maker of small gas production plants[1]

1921 Offering a range of vertical semi-diesel engines from 10 to 500 hp [2]

1932 Business acquired by Leonard Richard Grantham.[3]

1937 Mechanical and electrical engineers [4]

1968 Taken over by Lincoln Metal Industries.[5]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Historic England
  2. A-Z of British Stationary Engines by Patrick Knight. Published 1996. ISBN 1 873098 37 5
  3. Lincolnshire Echo - Monday 29 November 1937
  4. 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
  5. Lincolnshire Echo - Thursday 05 December 1968