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 167,639 pages of information and 247,064 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.

W. H. Botsford and Co

From Graces Guide

1933 Owned the Sussex Electricity Supply Co Ltd. Sold the Sussex company to the Southern Areas Electric Corporation, thereby acquiring almost half of the shares in the Southern Corporation[1].

1935 Also held a controlling interest in Power Management Ltd[2]

1936 Acquired shares in Switchgear and Cowans

1948 The electricity supply companies were nationalized.


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times 18 May 1933
  2. The Times 21 September 1935