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 167,650 pages of information and 247,065 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.

Thomson-Knox Co

From Graces Guide


1913 Thomson-Knox Co., sewing machine merchants and dealers, London, Manchester, and Glasgow.[1]

1920 Business transfer. 'The Business of Engineers carried on by Mr. William Taylor Thomson and Mr. Niels Madsen under the Firm name of THOMSON-KNOX COMPANY at thirty-six Charlotte Lane, Glasgow, was, at the eighteenth day of October nineteen hundred and twenty, transferred to Mr. David Cherry Paterson, Engineer, residing at six Ruthven Street, Billhead, Glasgow, and Mr. Albert Harry Hughes, Secretary, residing at forty-six Woodlands Road, Glasgow, who will carry on the same under the same name for their own behoof. ...'[2]

1921 The Paterson Hughes Engineering Co Limited, of 36 Charlotte Lane, Glasgow, was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £4,000, to take over the business of the Thomson-Knox Co, engineers, at that address.[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Liverpool Daily Post - Saturday 03 May 1913
  2. Edinburgh Gazette Publication date:9 November 1920 Issue:13649 Page:2428
  3. The Scotsman 12 March 1921