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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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.

Robertson Incandescent Lamp Co

From Graces Guide

The Incandescent Lamp Co Ltd, of Brook Green, London

1893 The Company was established and incorporated in July by Hugo Hirst [1] and C. J. Robertson

By 1900 the works were producing 2 million lamps per year, of which half were "high voltage" lamps[2]

See Robertson Electric Lamps

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. History of GEC http://gechistory.org/index.php/people/hugo-hirst?start=3
  2. C J Robertson proposal to be a member of IEE