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 167,701 pages of information and 247,103 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Reliance Manufacturing Co (of Manchester)

From Graces Guide

The Reliance Manufacturing Company, of 19 Milton Street, Lower Broughton, Manchester, maker of radiators for many types of vehicle.

1907 Introduced a radiator of light weight and large cooling area, the cooling surface of which is made of corrugated flat tubes. The tubes are made without solder or other filling medium in the vertical joints.

1922 Directors: Frederick Foy, Colin Mather, Junr. Products: Radiators for pleasure, commercial and agricultural vehicles, aero and stationary engines air and gas compressors, also pressed metal work.

1937 Colin Mather, governing director of the company, legally changed his name to Colin Watwills[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 19 March 1937