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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Walker Brothers (Walsall)

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of Staffordshire Galvanizing Works, Walsall; of 135 Upper Thames St., E.C.4.

1865 Company established.

1896 Incorporated as a Limited Company.

1896 On the completion of his practical training, Joseph Griffin Walker was quickly given responsibility as he was appointed in the same year chief engineer with the charge of the design and execution of the entire constructional work of the company.

1896/7 Directory: Advertiser. More detail. [1]

1914 Galvanized Iron Manufacturers. Constructional engineers, roofs, bridges and iron buildings, galvanized, corrugated and plain sheets, wire netting, tanks, buckets, baths etc. Employees 530. [2]

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