Robert Legg
From Graces Guide
of City Engine Works, Eagle Wharf Road, London, N1.
Manufacturer of tobacco machinery and domestic appliances.
1853 Robert Legg invented a continuously fed tobacco cutting machine[1]
1900 The business was incorporated as a limited company
1960 Acquired by American Machine and Foundry Co renamed AMF Legg.
By 1961 specialised in machinery for preliminary leaf processing and the processing and manufacture of cigarette and pipe tobacco.
1965 Works moved to Andover.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Monopolies Commission report 1961