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Victory-Kidder Printing Machine Co

From Graces Guide

of Cliffords Inn, Fleet Street, London, EC4. Telephone: Holborn 6204. Cables: "Vickidder, Fleet, London"

1920 Lamson Paragon Supply Co acquired Victory Printing and Folding Machine Manufacturing Co

1935 E. G. Nixon, managing director of the Victory-Kidder Printing Machine Co, had invented a completely novel type of printing machine which the company had patented[1]

1937 Modern works in Birkenhead. Made specialised machinery for manufacture of Paragon check books, carbon copy books and forms, high speed magazine and newspaper printing presses, rotary presses, slitting machinery, guillotines, stereo and composing room plant. Became a subsidiary of the new Lamson Investments Ltd company[2]

1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Newspaper Presses, Special Purpose Rotaries, Stamp Printing Machines, Security Printing Presses, Ticket Printing Machines, Slitting Machines, Trojan Automatic Selfclamp Guillotines. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. B.1472) [3]

1967 Patents x 2 - Improvements in or relating to Guillotines. [4]

1971 Victory-Kidder was part of the Lamson Industries group; it was a maker of packaging printing machines and guillotines[5]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Mar. 21, 1935
  2. The Times Jan. 27, 1937
  3. 1947 British Industries Fair p286
  4. [1] [2] Wikipatents
  5. The Times Mar. 24, 1972