Peto and Radford
of 50 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1. Accumulator factory at Ashtead, Surrey.
1889 Business founded by William Peto
1892 Cathcart, Peto and Radford exhibited at Crystal Palace exhibition
1895 Peto & Radford advertising pocket and portable accumulators, small accumulator plates, electric jewellery (scarf pins, hair ornaments, fancy dress effects, etc.) [1]
By 1904, Greville Works, Ashtead, had been taken over by Peto and Radford for the manufacture of electrical accumulators which they had been doing in Crampshaw Lane. They also occupied Victoria Works and were known as P & R Storage Battery Co.
1906 the repair department was at Ashtead (see advert)
After World War I the business moved to Dagenham.
1918 Pritchetts and Gold acquired the Peto and Radford accumulator business.
1920 Smiths supplied automotive batteries under its own trade name; it obtained these from Peto and Radford; this arrangement continued for 10 years[2]
1937 Accumulator manufacturers. Dagenite Batteries. [3]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Dynamo Electric Machinery' by Silvanus P. Thomson, 5th edition, Spon, 1895
- ↑ Competition Commission [1]
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- Motor Cycling and Motoring 1902/12/03