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 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 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.

London Brick Company and Forders

From Graces Guide
April 1935. Phorpres.
August 1935.

Ground clay is fed automatically to presses, which mould the bricks at high pressure between heated dies; pressure is applied in four steps, each progressively stronger than the last - which gave rise to the company's trade mark "Phorpres."

1923 Formed from the merger of the London Brick Co and B. J. Forder and Son.[1]

1936 Company name changed to London Brick Co.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, March 16, 1937