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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

Quickfit and Quartz

From Graces Guide

of " Quickfit" Works, Stone, Staffordshire.

Maker of ground glass laboratory glassware

1934 Company incorporated[1] as a diversification by Triplex to make laboratory glassware[2].

1953 With James A. Jobling and Co formed a private company Q. V. F. which, amongst other things, handled the marketing of glass pipeline made by James A. Jobling and Co[3]

1958 James A. Jobling and Co acquired the company from Triplex; Joblings had related interests in laboratory glassware and had been the sole supplier of raw materials to Quickfit [4]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Aug 28, 1961
  2. Competition Commission [1]
  3. The Times, Sep 25, 1958
  4. The Times, Sep 25, 1958