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 167,857 pages of information and 247,161 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.

Potter and Brumfield

From Graces Guide

Manufacturer of electrical relays. British subsidiary of AMF International.

1932 Founded by Elbert E. Potter and Richard M. Brumfield in Princeton, Indiana, USA.

1954 Acquired by American Machine and Foundry Co.

British subsidiary formed with factories at Oxford and Skelmersdale.

1973 Moved part of its relay production from Oxford to Whitstable, Kent.

1977 Closed its Skelmersdale factory.[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Liverpool Echo - 29 July 1977