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 167,647 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.

Times Publishing Co

From Graces Guide

The Times Publishing Co Ltd, of Printing House Square, London, publisher of The Times

1908 Lord Northcliffe, proprietor of the Daily Mail, acquired The Times. The Times Publishing Company Ltd. was formed in 1908 with Arthur Walter as Chairman.

1909 the company was announcing its dividends - presumably as a public company[1]

1953 19 Printing House Square, London, E.C.4. — A Complete Mobile Printing Unit Equipped With Wireless, Linotypes, Stereo, Moulding and Casting Plant, Rotary Press, Powered By Mobile Diesels, To Produce A Newspaper.

1962 Acquired C. Townsend Hook and Co

1967 Acquired by T. P. C. Holdings Ltd[2]. The Thomson Organisation then owned both The Times and the Sunday Times[3]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Jan. 18, 1909
  2. The Times Feb. 7, 1967
  3. The Times June 1, 1967