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 167,645 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Thomas Prime and Son

From Graces Guide

Thomas Prime and Sons of Magneto Works, Northwood Street, Birmingham

of (Magneto Works,) Ryland-street, Birmingham (1891)

1825 Thomas Prime was a plater living in Staniforth Street, Birmingham, when his son Thomas was baptised.[1]

1844 Electrical generator made to the design of John Stephen Woolrich. (Exhibit at Birmingham Thinktank museum)

Successor to T. Prime and Sons

1891 Dissolution of the Partnership between Thomas Prime and Thomas Tertius Prime (b.1857), carrying on business as Silversmiths and Electro Platers, at Ryland-street, in the city of Birmingham; and at Charterhouse-street, in the city of London, under the style or firm of Thomas Prime and Son. Thomas Tertius Prime continued the said business on his own account.[2]

c.1902 Garrard Two-Speed Gear Co were at Magneto Works, Ryland Street.

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Sources of Information

  1. Parish records
  2. London Gazette 31 July 1891