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 247,064 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. O. Rooper and Robins

From Graces Guide

1899 dissolution of the Partnership between Walter Osmond Rooper and Alban George Robins, carrying on business as Electrical Engineers, at Victoria-road, Stafford in the county of Stafford, and Newgate-street, Chester, in the county of Chester, under the style or firm of Messrs. W. O. Rooper and Robins. Walter Osmond Rooper continued to trade from the same premises.[1]

1900 The Epstein Electric Accumulator Syndicate granted W. O. Rooper and Robins, electrical engineers of Stafford, sole licence to make and sell Epstein accumulator plates and storage batteries. W. O. Rooper and Robins manufactured the plates by Mr Epstein's original process with the assistance of many of his staff at their new works at Stafford.[2]

1901 Epstein storage batteries.

See Also

Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 10 Nov, 1899
  2. The Engineer 1900/03/30 p 343.