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 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 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.

R. Hoe and Crabtree

From Graces Guide

of 109-112 Borough Road, London, SE1. Telephone: Euston 1947. Cables: Hoe, London"; and at Water Lane, Leeds.

1920 Private company, presumably formed from R. Hoe and Co and R. W. Crabtree and Sons

1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Rotary Web Newspaper and Magazine Presses Printing by Letterpress, Photogravure and Offset Processes, Stereotyping and Electrotyping Mechanism, Sheetfed Rotary Offset Presses and Lithographic Machinery, Book-binding Machinery, Sheetfed Letterpress Machines. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. B.1466). [1]

1950 Patent - Improvements in printing plates. [2]

1950 Patent - Improvements in clamping mechanism for printing plates. [3]

1961 Printing machine manufacturers and engineers. 2,000 employees. [4]



1920s-1950s Collection of ca.900 photographs of printing machinery, chiefly presses, made by R. Hoe and Co, R. Hoe and Crabtree Ltd, R. W. Crabtree and Sons Ltd. [5]


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Sources of Information

  1. 1947 British Industries Fair p137
  2. [1] Wikipatents
  3. [2] Wikipatents
  4. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  5. [3] National Archives: Accessions to Repositories