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 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Sunbeam Lamp Co

From Graces Guide

Maker of carbon filament lamps, of Gateshead

1887 Company formed by William Clarke, A. H. Chapman and Charles Algernon Parsons; located at Park House on the Clarke Chapman site

1895 The company was inactive in lamp manufacture until 1895 when a major expansion took place[1]

1897 Claimed to be the only British maker of incandescent lamps outside London; also X-ray photographic tubes[2]

John Wigham Edmundson was managing director [3]

1912 Company liquidated

1926 Park House closed


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The History of N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken: Volume 2, By A. Heerding
  2. The Engineer
  3. 1901 and 1911 census
  • History of Clarke Chapman [1]